Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has impacted several businesses across the world causing economic turmoil. France is one of the countries that has been hit by the COVID-19 crisis and the GDP slumped to -13.8% in the Q2 of this year as compared to -5.9% in Q1. Relatively, this is also much lower than the GDP recorded in Q2 last year.
Paris tech startups hiring now
Gradually, as the world started recovering from the onslaught of the pandemic, several tech startups in France have started hiring as they swing back to action. Moving along the same lines, a study by Station F, a Paris-based startup campus reported that 48% of the global startups have hired new employees since March this year, amidst the pandemic crisis. Furthermore, 78% of the global startups are in plans to hire new employees by the end of this year.
On that optimistic note, we have listed some leading Paris-based tech startups that are hiring right now. If you are looking for a new job in Paris, then you can check out this list or share it with your friends.
Aircall
Founder/s: Jonathan Anguelov, Olivier Pailhès, Pierre-Baptiste Béchu, Thibaud Elziere, Xavier Durand
Founded year: 2014
Funding: €96M
Paris-based Aircall is a cloud-based voice platform that helps businesses and teams to connect globally. The company intends to make voice conversations more valuable and boasts a simple set up and simple integrations with Slack, Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce, and more. Currently, Aircall is used by over 5000 businesses across 84 countries and serves major clients such as Spareroom, Glovo, and Natwest. Aircell is hiring right now and you can apply for open positions from here.
Aqemia
Founder/s:  Maximilien Levesque, Emmanuelle Rolland
Founded year: 2019
Funding: €1.6M (with Elaia Partners and business angels)
Aqemia is an in silico drug discovery startup, whose ambition is to discover rapidly more innovative therapeutic molecules with better chances of success. How? Just like an AI can learn to play chess, Aqemia’s generative AI learns to invent relevant compounds thanks to unique Statistical Mechanics algorithms predicting drug-target affinity among other properties. The startup is a spin-off of the École Normale Supérieure Paris leveraging disruptive algorithms based on 8 years of research. You can apply for open positions at the company from here.
Ambler
Founder/s: Julien Delean, Mehdi Ben Abroug, Nicolas Dumont, Thomas Bournac
Founded year: 2018
Funding: €7.6M
Ambler is an intermediation platform that connects health care prescribers to ambulance companies. It was launched as a service to manage inter-hospital patient transfers via an online platform, which has been reformed to return inter-hospital transfer expenses to the hospital budget. Since its debut, Ambler’s solution has already convinced more than 200 public and private hospitals and 500 transport companies to go digital. This startup is hiring more employees to expand its team and you can check out the vacancies here.
Sorare
Founder/s: Nicolas Julia
Founded year: 2018
Funding: €4.2M
Sorare is a global fantasy football game where managers can trade official digital collectibles, manage their teams, and compete every weekend to earn prizes. The company works on a mission to make crypto fun and accessible to all through fantasy football and intends to become the go-to game to increase the enjoyment of live football. Sorare is hiring right now and you can apply for vacant positions from here.
Strapi
Founder/s: Aurélien Georget, Jim Laurie, Pierre Burgy
Founded year: 2016
Funding: €12.7M
Strapi is an open-source headless content management system (CMS). Through application programming interfaces (APIs), Strapi enables companies to efficiently manage the distribution of this content from a single source and personalise the message so that it is more suited to each channel. This French startup provides developers the freedom to integrate their favourite tools while minimising development and hosting costs. Click here to check out open positions at Strapi and apply for a job.
Akur8
Founder/s: Samuel Falmagne
Founded year: 2018
Total Funding: €8.1M
Paris-based Akur8 is one of the fast-growing insurtech startups that operates with the objective to bring about a revolution in insurance pricing activities with its unique AI algorithms The company offers AI-powered pricing automation and optimisation for insurance carriers. Akur8 also developed a unique cloud-based SaaS platform, which lets insurers build risk models that are 10 times faster than the manual process. This startup is hiring currently and you can check out the open positions here.
Shippeo
Founder/s: Brice Hua, Frederic Jouenne, Jean-Bastien Dussart, Jerome Burtin, Lucien Besse, Pierre Khoury, Thibaut Morlot
Founded year: 2014
Funding: €32M
Shippeo is an AI-based platform, which aggregates data from hundreds of sources in real-time to calculate the estimated time of delivery arrival with an accuracy of 98%. Since its inception, this startup has successfully scaled its operations and services over 50 large customers including Schneider Electric, Carrefour, Eckes-Granini and Leroy Merlin, across 40 countries. Now, Shippeo is hiring fresh talent and you can check out the company’s job postings here.
Lydia
Founder/s: Antoine Porte, Cyril Chiche
Founded year: 2011
Funding: €64.3M
Lydia, a fast-growing Paris-based mobile payment company is one of the leading and successful B2C fintech startups in the country. It is a mobile payment app, which is meant for young users to enjoy a plethora of financial services via a single intuitive platform. This fintech startup works with the vision to drive the cashless revolution in Europe. Right now, Lydia is hiring and if you are interested to work here, check out Lydia’s vacancies here.
ViiBE
Founder/s: Marc Prempain
Founded year: 2017
Funding: €1.2M
ViiBE is a provider of web technology of remote assistance designed for technical support and after-sales services. The startup helps industrial technical support services and after-sales services operate the best remote diagnosis, reduce experts’ displacements, optimise first contact resolution rates, and improve customer satisfaction via an amazing remote augmented video-assistance experience. Check out for open positions at ViiBE by clicking here.
Kushim
Founder/s: Alexandre Crenn, Clément Aglietta, Josselin Le Bail, Nicolas Rabrenovic, Victor Espinet
Founded year: 2017
Funding: €300k
Kushim is a cloud-based platform of investment management and performance tracking for Venture Capital. It works with the mission to improve the flow of information and bring transparency to the investment industry. In addition to improving the performance of investment funds it also focuses on accelerating the growth of each company. Right now, Kushim is looking forward to expanding its team and you can check out for vacancies over here.
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