Chronicles of a Small Industrialist Dreaming of Reenchanting France – Episode 3
The French biotech industry is booming: exits, funding rounds, and a revolution in motion!
This week, two announcements that hit like thunder in the Deeptech ecosystem:
STILLA joins BIO-RAD for $275M! After years of innovation and resilience, the French gem of digital PCR is going global. What a pride to have supported this journey with MGA MedTech, witnessing the birth of the Nio+, developed and industrialized in France, and now conquering laboratories worldwide. Bravo to Rémi Dangla and the entire team—you are making history!
SPORE.BIO raises $23M to revolutionize bacterial detection! Amine Raji and his team are advancing at lightning speed with their breakthrough technology. AI and photonics combined to analyze in just minutes what normally takes days… A game changer for the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries!
And I love their mindset: in their offices, there’s a photo of Leicester City’s 2016 team, a football squad expected to fight for survival but ended up… winning the English Premier League. Everyone thought it was impossible—until they did it. Just like French deeptechs.
And this is just the beginning. In Spore.Bio’s labs, algorithms are learning every day to detect faster and more precisely. At MGA MedTech, we are proud to have designed and manufactured their instruments. Because failing to develop and industrialize in France means risking seeing our innovation slip away…
Pasteur and Koch laid the foundations of microbiology in the 19th century, but what about since then? Today, AI is completely reshuffling the deck. In a few years, Petri dishes will be seen as relics… and it is in France that this revolution is being written.
Industrial deeptechs are here. They are moving forward. They are winning.
And we’re not stopping here.
Supporting and industrializing our deeptechs in France means building our technological sovereignty.
Who’s ready to take on the challenge?
Vive La French Fab!
Vive Territoires d’Industrie!
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