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  France

  Investors in France find a safe haven in real assets in Q1

  May 21, 2026

  Fundraising for the infrastructure-heavy investment class accounted for two-thirds of all private capital raised in the country.

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  France

  France PE hits lowest activity since 2021 as caution rises

  April 29, 2026

  Investors turn to add-on deals for risk management.

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  AI

  Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs secures $1B+ in bet on world models

  March 10, 2026

  The round is Europe’s largest seed deal to date and values the startup at $3.5B.

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  Europe

  Who is gaining share as US investors pile into Europe?

  February 13, 2026

  American participation took up almost 20% of the continent’s total deal count last year.

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  France

  Political uncertainty and elevated debt slow down French PE activity

  January 27, 2026

  Although inflation eased, corporate stress intensified last year, with business bankruptcies hitting record levels amid higher interest rates.

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  Defense Tech

  French defense tech startup Harmattan AI hits unicorn status with $200M Series B

  January 12, 2026

  VC interest in the sector is expected to accelerate this year as historic government spending increases drive return potential.

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  Europe

  Hot or not: Where European VC funding grew in 2025

  December 24, 2025

  While dealmaking has picked up overall, activity has slowed down in some of the continent’s biggest economies.

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  France

  Private market investors still see long-term opportunity in French instability

  November 12, 2025

  Short-term political turbulence is failing to deter interest in the country.

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  Direct Lending

  Cautious optimism at IPEM Paris as Europe’s lenders bemoan evasive M&A

  October 3, 2025

  Market participants at the Paris event agreed that while the valuation gap between buyers and sellers has narrowed, it has still not closed sufficiently to deliver an M&A revival.

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  Distressed & Defaults

  Green shoots emerge in troubled European care-home sector

  September 24, 2025

  Staffing levels and occupancy rates in the European retirement and nursing home sector are normalizing, allowing some operators to start deleveraging.

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  France

  France suffers worst quarter for VC dealmaking in 5 years

  April 30, 2025

  Only €1.4 billion was invested in French startups in the first three months of 2025—a 36.4% drop from the same period last year.

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  Top Investor

  Meet the 10 busiest dealmakers for Europe’s early-stage startups

  March 12, 2024

  These are the 10 most active investors in European early-stage startups, according to PitchBook data.

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  AI

  Microsoft backs OpenAI rival Mistral AI

  February 26, 2024

  Microsoft is partnering with Mistral AI, a French rival to OpenAI.

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  France

  Mapping France’s muted VC ecosystem

  January 7, 2024

  France’s 2023 VC dealmaking closed significantly below 2022’s levels, but the country still fared better than many of its peers.

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  France

  France’s Verkor bags €850M as VCs charge into battery startups

  September 13, 2023

  Battery developer Verkor has secured an €850 million Series C as France seeks to compete with China on the production of cleaner batteries.

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  Infrastructure

  Foreign investment in European PE stalls

  June 19, 2023

  Non-European investment in Europe has declined this year, particularly in total value, due to a mix of global and localized issues

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  France

  5 charts: French private equity thrives despite Europe’s stall

  June 7, 2023

  Even as the rest of the European PE market has experienced a slow start to 2023, Frances deal flow and exit activity has demonstrated resilience.

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  France

  5 charts: Signs of recovery for French VC are Q1 bright spot in Europe

  May 31, 2023

  Check out these five trends illustrating how France’s venture dealmaking, exits and fundraising performed in Q1 2023.

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