Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
French Technology Reporter at Sifted
Paris-based French tech reporter for @Siftedeu. Previously @ZDNet and @WiredUK. Views my own Tips and stories: [email protected] // Signal +33 6 31 99 74 65
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2 days ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Genesis Robotics, the AI and robotics company cofounded by ex-Mistral employee Theophile Gervet, has closed an $85m round just six months after launching, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Sifted previously reported Gervet and cofounder Zhou Xian, who recently graduated with a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in the US, were seeking funding for the company.
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2 days ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Spendesk, the Paris-based scaleup that provides a spending management platform for enterprises, broke even for the first time in Q1 2025 and is on track to remain profitable throughout the rest of the year. It comes after a tough period for the French unicorn, which included mass layoffs and a change of governance. Last year former BCG partner Axel Demazy stepped in as CEO of the company, replacing cofounder Rodolphe Ardant, who kept a strategic advisory role.
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3 days ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Mike Benchimol has stepped down as chief operating officer (COO) of Paris-based AI agents startup H Company two weeks after the company’s cofounder and CEO Charles Kantor was replaced by former Palantir exec Gautier Cloix. “After an intense and hectic year, I took the decision to step away from H Company,” Benchimol wrote in a LinkedIn post.
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3 days ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Pascal Gauthier, the CEO of French crypto unicorn Ledger, meets me wearing a typical suit-and-white-trainers combo and thick square glasses, extends his ring-adorned fingers and, shaking my hand, gives me a ‘welcome’ nod and smile. Our interview has been squeezed in between meetings, panel discussions and media interventions at France’s flagship tech event VivaTech in Paris. “It’s a pretty busy week for me,” Gauthier says.
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Last week H Company, the Paris-based startup building AI agents, announced cofounder and CEO Charles Kantor had been replaced by former Palantir exec Gautier Cloix. It leaves former DeepMind scientist Laurent Sifre as the last of H’s five original cofounders still operational at the company after DeepMind alumni Karl Tuyls, Daan Wierstra and Julien Perolat left in August last year citing “operational differences”.
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