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June 11, 2025

EV charging startup Electra tops Sifted 100: France and southern Europe

Launching today, the latest Sifted 100: France and southern Europe ranks the region’s fastest growing startups

Éanna Kelly

4 min read

Paris-based Electra, a company that installs charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs), has topped the newly launched Sifted 100: France and southern Europe 2025 Leaderboard — a ranking of the 100 startups with the strongest revenue growth in the region over the past three financial years.

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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