The billionaire most often associated with French tech has got to be Xavier Niel. The owner of telecoms giant Iliad — the parent company of Free, a major internet provider in France — appears in a lot of hot deals thanks to his investment firm Kima Ventures, which has backed HR-tech Payfit to healthtech unicorn Alan, and more recently buzzy AI startups Mistral and Poolside.
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