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🇫🇷 France

Startup funding in France

99 programmes, 16 with a published amount. EU-level programmes are open to you too — see the EU page.

Also worth checking: the business support schemes in our benefits dataset for France — SME and self-employment programmes aimed at sole traders and very small firms rather than at funded startups.

Auto-fill is available here. API Recherche d'entreprises / SIRENE (INSEE) — Open, no key. Returns the tranche d'effectif rather than an exact headcount — a band, and must be shown as one.

Start-up Social Contribution Exemption

Tax credits

Aide aux createurs et repreneurs d'entreprise (ACRE)

Open continuously

URSSAF

Amount not published — Partial exemption from social contributions during the first year of activity; value depends on the founder's income.

Diag Eco-Flux

Credits and in-kind

Status not published

ADEME et Bpifrance

Amount not published — Subsidised 12-month consultancy to cut energy, water, waste and raw-material costs; ADEME covers a large share of the consultant f

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