Analysis

January 3, 2022

Predictions for French tech in 2022

What’s going to happen in the French tech ecosystem in 2022? We asked some big brains to find out. 


Chris O’Brien

6 min read

Sorare cofounders Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort

The French tech ecosystem took a giant leap forward in 2021, but could 2022 be the year the country gets its first tech decacorn?

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Chris O’Brien

Chris O’Brien is a writer for Sifted. He covers French tech, and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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