Top 17 Space startups in France

Updated: April 18, 2024 | Editor: Boris Maslennikov

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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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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: €27.5M
Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload.
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Funding: €24M
Preligens develops advanced defense geospatial monitoring solutions using geospatial data analysis and AI.
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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.
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Funding: €10M
Aldoria collects, processes, and uses space situational awareness data to safeguard important assets in space.
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Funding: €6.1M
ThrustMe provides intelligent fully-integrated space propulsion for next generation satellites and scientific instruments.
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Funding: €2.4M
Share My Space detects, tracks, catalogs, and predicts the collision risk of artificial satellites and space debris.
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Funding: €2.1M
Unistellar is an incredibly powerful and accurate backyard telescope.
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Funding: €2M
MIRATLAS SAS designs and manufactures instrumentation providing continuous and real-time atmospheric measurements.
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Funding: $2M
Gama is a space exploration and interplanetary transportation company.
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Lynred manufactures infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense, and commercial markets.
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ImaginEarth provides satellite images for communication and decoration purposes.
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Pontos offers an interactive software to receive sustainable predictions for fisheries value chain. These insights allow fishing companies to manage their operation and production in order to optimize cost and reduce risks.
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OneSpace Technologies is focused on humans-in-space and onto otherwirlds.
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