Equity financings by French start-ups and scale ups have reached record levels in the past few years, both in volume and value. We thought that it would be interesting to review the publicly available corporate documents on a selection of the most successful amongst them, to see what lessons we could learn objectively about “what’s market”.
We selected the 2022 edition of the French Tech Next 40 as our sample. These include French companies which have qualified as unicorns or have undertaken fund raisings of an amount in excess of EUR 100 million in the past three years.
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