Top 21 Space startups in France

Mar 09, 2025 | By Boris Maslennikov

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Funding: €34.2M
Preligens develops advanced defense geospatial monitoring solutions using geospatial data analysis and AI.
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Funding: €44.1M
HyPrSpace is a french aerospace startup developing a new kind of hybrid rocket engines : the kind that actually works.
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Funding: €13M
ION-X is the developer of a technology that provides the most efficient propulsion for small spacecraft.
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Funding: €112.5M
Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload.
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Funding: $75.4M
Exotrail is an end-to-end space mobility operator. Our mission is to enable small satellites to move in space, optimise their deployment, increase their service performance, and reduce space pollution.
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Funding: $50M
E-Space is bridging Earth & space with the most sustainable LEO space system, delivering real-time, anywhere comms, IoT & Smart-IoT services
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Safran is an international technology group with divisions in aerospace, defense, and security.
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Funding: €37.9M
Latitude, formerly known as Venture Orbital Systems, is a space technology company that offers launch solution for smallsats
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Funding: €30M
CLS Groupe is a worldwide company and pioneer provider of monitoring and surveillance solutions.
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Funding: €14M
Look Up Space provide space safety and security data & services of unprecedented quality, with a sovereign and secure sensor network.
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com