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October 10, 2025

How to get a job at H Company: ‘It’s so competitive right now’

France’s buzzy agentic AI startup is fast growing its team of forward deployed engineers

Since raising a record-setting $220m seed round over a year ago, it’s been a wild ride for Paris-based startup H Company.

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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