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May 14, 2025

PayFit cofounder raises €16m seed for new defence tech startup

Florian Fournier spent a decade growing PayFit into a billion-dollar business. Now he’s launching a startup in defence

Almost ten years after launching PayFit to automate small companies’ HR processes and turning the company into a billion-dollar business, cofounder Florian Fournier has set his heart on a new project in a radically different field — defence tech.

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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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