Software from France: 269 vendors in 85 categories.

French open-source collaborative intrusion prevention system

open-source

French cybersecurity division by Atos with digital security services

French cybersecurity company for network detection and response (NDR)

French risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) platform, actively funded (2026).

French EDR provider certified by ANSSI

French email security (anti-phishing/anti-spam), hosted in France on HDS-certified infrastructure.

French threat intelligence platform; self-host.

open-source

French SOC platform with threat intelligence and automated response

French cybersecurity company for network and endpoint security

owner in Netherlands

French Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution by Systancia, part of the cyberelements platform.

French XDR platform for automated threat detection and response

French cybersecurity platform by Thales for threat intelligence and SOC

French security incident response platform, formerly open source; proprietary tiered licensing (StrangeBee Community/Gold/Platinum/MSSP) since TheHive 5 (2021), with the GitHub source archived in Dec 2025 and no longer publicly available.

French cloud platform by Atos for hybrid and sovereign cloud solutions

French "trusted cloud" joint venture between Orange and Capgemini, running Microsoft Azure/365 in French data centers kept separate from global Azure infrastructure.

Cloud Temple is a French sovereign cloud provider, a subsidiary of Dragonfly (formerly Intrinsec), which is 76% owned by French IT services group Neurones. All infrastructure and operations are France-based. Cloud Temple holds SecNumCloud qualification from ANSSI.

French cloud provider with dedicated servers and VPS in own data centres

French sovereign cloud provider

French cloud provider with SecNumCloud-kwalificatie

European cloud provider offering IaaS with data centres across the EU

French 'trusted cloud' majority-owned by Thales, SecNumCloud-certified and an EC Cloud III awardee (2026). Technically based on Google Cloud — legally ring-fenced, not technology-sovereign.

French cloud provider focused on developer-friendly European infrastructure

French end-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite with documents, sheets, and presentations

open-source

French open-source digital-workplace platform (Paris, founded 2003) with document management and collaboration spaces, 100,000+ public-sector users.

open-source

French non-profit association (Lyon, founded 2001) operating a free, open-source collaborative text-and-spreadsheet suite as an alternative to Google/Microsoft.

open-source

French sovereign office platform (Rennes, 20+ years active) from the France 2030 programme, 400,000+ users, data hosted in France.

French team knowledge base and documentation tool.

French 100% collaboration platform (Montpellier, founded 2004) with collaborative text, spreadsheet and presentation tools (OfficeNow), hosted on OVHcloud France.

Open-source wiki-based groupware with built-in office and collaboration features

open-source

Franco-German public cultural streaming platform

French premium TV and streaming platform

French video sharing platform as an alternative to YouTube with European wortels

French public streaming platform with free French programmes and films

M6+ is the French streaming platform of Groupe M6, launched on 14 May 2024 to replace 6play. Controlled by RTL Group (≈48% stake), which is in turn majority-owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (DE, ≈76% of RTL Group). Hosted in the EU; content and data governed by French law.

owner in Germany

Federated video hosting; hostable in EU

open-source

French streaming platform by public broadcasters

Advanced multi-platform CAD/CAM/CAE software for product design and engineering

French (Velizy-Villacoublay) PLM/collaboration platform, part of Dassault Systemes' 3DEXPERIENCE suite

French 2D/3D CAD, structural-analysis and BIM software (Bièvres, founded 1986) for architecture and construction.

Open-source EDA suite for schematic capture and PCB layout, supported by CERN

open-source

Open-source simulation platform for structural mechanics and thermal analysis by EDF

open-source

3D CAD design software for mechanical engineering and product development

French PaaS provider with automatic scaling and EU-hosted infrastructure

French multi-cloud PaaS platform (Paris) supporting deployment to AWS, GCP and Azure, with Git-based CI/CD.

EU PaaS/DevOps platform.

French PaaS with EU-only hosting and SecNumCloud certification

French managed PaaS for databases, monitoring and open-source tools

French PaaS by the Platform.sh team with Git-driven deployments, hosted in EU and US regions

French open-source CRM module as part of the Axelor ERP platform

open-source

French CRM platform (formerly Sendinblue) with sales pipeline and marketing. Majority-owned since late 2025 by Oakley Capital (UK) and General Atlantic (US).

French open-source ERP/CRM.

open-source

Paris-based AI-driven CRM for teams with EU hosting.

French all-in-one CRM with sales pipeline, invoicing and marketing

owner in Italy

French open-source modern CRM built for customisation

open-source

French open-source kanban project management

open-source

open-source desktopprojectmanagementtool as an alternative to Microsoft Project

open-source

French open-source ALM platform with agile, kanban and waterfall

open-source

Self-host knowledge base/wiki.

open-source

French project management and collaboration platform with document management

French enterprise wiki; self-host.

open-source

French social network (Paris) promoting authentic sharing via unfiltered daily photo notifications.

LumApps is a French intranet/employee-experience platform (SaaS). Since July 2024 it is majority-owned by Bridgepoint Group plc, a private-equity firm headquartered in London, UK (GB). LumApps' founders and Eurazeo Growth retain minority stakes. Data centres remain in the EU, but ultimate control rests outside the EU/EEA.

owner in United Kingdom

Decentralised platform for events and groups by Framasoft

open-source

Federated blog engine based on ActivityPub

open-source

French enterprise collaboration and social intranet platform from Paris

French professional network (smaller footprint)

French AI platform for building internal AI assistants with LLM integration

open-source

French NLP platform for structured text analysis and extraction

French enterprise GenAI offerings.

French generative AI company building open and commercial LLMs

open-source

French AI photo editing for product photography and background removal

End-to-end encrypted collaboration (FR/EU).

open-source

Open-source project management and team collaboration platform (self-hosted only — vendor-hosted cloud service shut down in 2026 due to funding; huly.io hosted service discontinued)

open-source

Open-source VoIP and real-time communications platform (voice, video, encrypted messaging) developed by Belledonne Communications, headquartered in Grenoble, France since 2010; actively maintained (SDK 5.5).

open-source

French secured video conferencing platform with end-to-end encryption

Open-source collaboration platform by LINAGORA (chat, files, tasks, calendar, video); absorbed Cozy Cloud in 2025.

open-source

French product information management (PIM) platform for e-commerce product data

open-source

French API-first marketplace builder with a no-code interface and Stripe Connect/Mangopay integration.

French platform for product feed optimisation and e-commerce automation

French marketplace platform for setting up and managing online marketplaces

French open-source e-commerce platform powering hundreds of thousands of online stores worldwide

owner in Poland · open-source

French qualified trust service provider (Ivry-sur-Seine, since 2016), owned by Le Groupe La Poste.

Netheos is a product brand of Namirial S.p.A., an Italian digital-trust software company headquartered in Senigallia. Namirial acquired Netheos SAS (Montpellier, FR) in November 2021; the French legal entity subsequently rebranded to Namirial France. Since Q2 2025, Namirial's controlling shareholder is Bain Capital (US), making the ultimate parent a US-controlled entity.

owner in United States

French privacy-first e-signature platform with zero-knowledge cryptography, documents encrypted during signing.

Universign is a French electronic signature and trust services platform, now operating under the Signaturit Group which is majority-owned by Bain Capital-backed Namirial SpA (Italy). Despite US ultimate parent ownership, services and data processing remain EU-based.

owner in United States

French SaaS-platform for elektronische signatures with eIDAS-compliance

French HR/payroll platform.

owner in United States

French HR platform for leave, expenses and time tracking

French cloud payroll and HR solution for medium-sized companies

French platform for payroll and HR management in the EU

French payroll processing and HR software with comprehensive social regulations

owner in United States

French; owned by China's Huaxin; switches, Wi-Fi and network management (OmniVista) for enterprises.

owner in China

French software (Forsk, Blagnac near Toulouse) for radio planning and optimisation of 2G–5G mobile networks, used by hundreds of operators.

French; DDI platform (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) with DNS security; owned by US private-equity firm Francisco Partners since 2026.

owner in United States

French (publicly listed); enterprise routers and SD-WAN appliances under the OneAccess brand.

French; on-prem next-gen firewalls (SNS range) for network security, ANSSI-certified.

French payment platform for instalment payment and buy-now-pay-later

French payment terminal and payment processing company, part of Worldline

French payment institution providing payment solutions for marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms

French payment platform for instalment payment without credit card

French payment and transactional services company and one of Europe's largest payment processors

Paris/Berlin-based platform (Locus Solus SAS) for autonomous office agents, specialising in IT incident response and SRE/cloud operations tasks for hybrid cloud/on-premise environments.

French sovereign AI workspace platform (Paris) bundling 15+ integrated applications for productivity and content generation. Data is hosted exclusively on servers in Paris (via Scaleway), with no data used for model training and no personal data stored outside France.

Paris-based platform for building and managing AI agents with enterprise integrations

French AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes conversations.

French consent management platform from Lille focused on user-friendly cookie banners

French consent and preference management platform (CMP), listed on Euronext Growth

owner in United States

Privacy-by-design CMP focused on the advertising market, allowing publishers to block third-party data extraction right at the network edge. French company (Paris, founded 2012), IAB-registered, serving 7,800+ websites.

Open-source cookie consent library, recommended for years by the French privacy regulator CNIL. Supports hundreds of scripts out of the box. Created by Amauri Champeaux, an independent developer in Béziers, France.

open-source

French platform (Lyon) for data catalog and data governance, founded 2015.

French pioneer in data exchange and data marketplaces, aligned with the European data strategy and the EU Data Act. Active since 2015 (Lyon).

Data observability and governance platform combining data quality monitoring, cataloging, and end-to-end lineage.

French (Paris) metadata and data catalog platform; owned by HCLSoftware (parent HCLTech, India) since September 2024.

owner in India

French cash flow management platform for SMEs with real-time forecasts

French ERP/finance/HR platform.

owner in United States

French financial management platform combining accounting, invoicing and banking

French platform for business expense management with virtual cards and approval flows

French A/B testing and experimentation platform with CNIL certification and EU-only data processing.

French open-source (MIT) AI-native feature-flag and A/B-testing platform, founded 2021.

open-source

Paris-based web and feature experimentation platform with CNIL certification and EU-only hosting.

French feature-flag, A/B-testing and release-management platform with EU data storage (GDPR), founded 2022.

Encrypted forms and surveys within CryptPad

open-source

French privacy-friendly forms (association)

open-source

Open-source form builder as an alternative to Typeform

open-source

Open-source conversational forms builder with visual flow editor

open-source

French platform for online doctor appointments and telemedicine

French platform for healthcare interoperability and data exchange

French platform for medical messaging and document exchange

French platform for pharmacy management systems and health technology

French cloud platform with integrated identity management

French open-source SSO/IDP.

open-source

French privileged access management (PAM) solution by Systancia, part of the cyberelements platform.

European privileged access management (PAM) solution

French open-source ITSM platform with CMDB and incident management

open-source

French ITSM platform.

French ITSM/asset OSS.

open-source

Self-host ITSM/CMDB (EU-hostable).

open-source

French open-source IT monitoring platform for hybrid infrastructures

open-source

French uptime, cron and browser monitoring with status pages.

French (Artigues-près-Bordeaux) open-source (AGPLv3) monitoring framework, Nagios-plugin compatible but with a distributed, message-bus architecture for large-scale network and systems monitoring.

open-source

French simple uptime monitoring with pay-as-you-go pricing.

French (Lyon) document-process and source-to-pay platform; taken private in Jan 2025 by Bridgepoint (UK) and General Atlantic (US)

French meal-voucher and employee-benefits platform (formerly Sodexo Benefits & Rewards).

Integrated spend management platform combining corporate cards, approvals, expenses, and accounting automation.

French source-to-pay platform (Paris/Munich), part of the French Econocom group since 2015

French AI-powered writing assistant for correction and style improvement

Free open-source text and source code editor for Windows with syntax highlighting and plugins.

open-source

French translation, grammar and writing platform (Neuilly-sur-Seine) with 80M+ monthly users.

French grammar and spelling checker (Montpellier) for 40+ languages.

French AI code assistant with IDE plugins for VS Code and JetBrains, powered by Codestral

open-source

Open-source terminal coding agent by Mistral, powered by Devstral, alternative to Claude Code

open-source

French AI lab building foundation models and autonomous coding assistants for software engineering.

French information-governance, digital-archiving and records-management platform, owned by Kyocera.

owner in Japan

Nuxeo is a French open-source content management platform acquired by Hyland Software (Westlake, Ohio, USA) in April 2021. The product continues to operate under its own brand but is fully owned by a US parent company, removing the eu-strict sovereignty classification.

owner in United States · open-source

French open-core (AGPL v3) self-hosted ECM platform, owned by Wire (Berlin).

owner in Germany · open-source

French ethical and ecological email service that invests 15-30% of revenue in European environmental projects, with GDPR-compliant hosting in the Paris region (Scaleway, green energy). Not to be confused with the Czech email-marketing platform Ecomail.cz.

French email hosting gekoppeld to domeinregistratie

owner in Netherlands

French business and personal email service by Mail Object SA (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés), with full data residency on French soil.

Dassault subsidiary providing enterprise search, data discovery and the CloudView search engine platform.

French open-source enterprise search solution built on Apache Solr, maintained by France Labs; self-hosted deployment.

open-source

French AI enterprise-search and analytics platform with RAG capabilities; runs on Microsoft Azure in Western Europe/France or on-premises. Owned by the equally French ChapsVision since 2024.

French platform (Paris) for B2B sustainability ratings across environment, labor, ethics and procurement.

French carbon-accounting suite for SMEs and enterprises.

Paris-based carbon and ESG data platform for CSRD, SBTi and scope 3.

French-European operator of satellite-imagery and Earth-observation constellations (Pléiades, SPOT, TerraSAR-X), part of Airbus SE.

French digital transformation and consulting group (1,000+ employees, hubs in Lyon, Paris, Rennes, Brest, Lille) offering GIS/geomatics consulting and implementation, including marine geomatics; acquired by Talan group in 2024, a French-headquartered (Paris) consulting group, so no foreign-parent flag applies.

French SME (Paris/Lyon, founded 2009) specializing in open-source geospatial infrastructure: core contributor to QGIS, QGIS Server, PostGIS and 3D geospatial tools (SFCGAL, point-cloud visualization). OSGeo member providing consulting, development and support services on open-source GIS stacks.

open-source

French cloud telephony platform from Paris with integrations for helpdesk and CRM

French customer service platform with live chat, chatbot and shared inbox

French omnichannel customer-service platform (Paris) with AI functionality (easiAI).

French electronic-document-management specialist developing Open-Capture, a 100% open-source (GPL v3) document-capture and IDP solution.

open-source

French legal management platform for corporate legal departments

French AI platform for contract management with automatic clause detection

French open-source low-code platform for enterprise mobile and web applications

open-source

French open-source enterprise-grade low-code platform for heavy backoffice applications with complex data models, in production at customers including Airbus since 2018.

open-source

No-code/low-code front-end builder with an office in Paris, France; ~19 employees, supports code export.

French map platform with customisable styles and geocoding API

French navigation and route-planning platform, owned by Michelin.

French EU-focused maps and location API platform (Montpellier) with GDPR-compliant data residency.

French marketing-automation and email platform (Paris, formerly Sendinblue). Majority-owned since late 2025 by a PE consortium of Oakley Capital (UK) and General Atlantic (US); Bpifrance and Bridgepoint remain minority shareholders.

Mailjet is a French transactional and marketing email platform (Pathwire). Since December 7 2021 it has been fully owned by Sinch AB (Stockholm, Sweden, SE), a publicly listed Swedish communications company (Nasdaq Stockholm: SINCH). Mailjet's HQ remains in France; Sinch is an EU (SE) ultimate parent, so eu_classification is unaffected.

owner in Sweden

French AI-first CRM and marketing platform, strong in retail and loyalty.

French music streaming service with European roots

Federated open-source music streaming; self-hostable

open-source

French hi-res music streaming and download platform

Open-source note-taking app with synchronisation via Nextcloud

open-source

French encrypted collaborative editing platform

open-source

French open-source note-taking app with sync and encryption

open-source

French standalone password manager with vault and secure sharing.

Stateless password generator that calculates passwords without storage

open-source

French open-source password management for teams with role-based access

open-source

Open-source compositing software for visual effects and motion graphics

open-source

French photo cataloguing and library-management software by CYME SAS (Toulouse), with local processing and optional team features. Independent EU company, no known non-EU controlling investor.

Open-source video editor for GNOME with an intuitive interface

open-source

French (Paris) AI-driven planning and EPM platform, founded in 2019

French enterprise finance-and-HR suite (CPM/EPM, HCM, payroll, talent management), active since 1988 with over 2,000 customers, mostly European mid-market.

Independent French (Aimargues) cloud-native accounts-payable automation and financial-KPI platform, with AI-driven invoice processing and support for European e-invoicing standards (PEPPOL, Factur-X), active since 2010.

French (Paris); backup and data migration software (Tina, Miria, Lina).

French cloud provider offering S3-compatible object storage and backup services in EU data centres

French cloud provider offering object storage, block storage, and backup from EU data centres

100% open-source (GPLv3) low-code test automation platform for Web, iOS, Android and API testing; based in Willems, France, active as MVP since 2011/production since 2013.

open-source

French open-source load testing tool for web applications with Scala/Java DSL

open-source

French open-source test management tool for organizing and tracking test activities

open-source

French transactional email platform (Pathwire), owned by Sweden's Sinch AB since Dec 2021.

owner in Sweden

French cloud transactional email service with API and SMTP relay

French transactional email delivery service

French domein- and hosting provider with strong reputatie in the area of privacy and ethiek

owner in Netherlands

Largest European hosting provider with wide range of web hosting services

French cloud and VPS provider.

French open-source platform for AI testing, red-teaming and guardrails.

open-source

3B-parameter policy-adaptive safety classifier released by Mistral AI (France) under Apache 2.0 as open weights, for on-device content moderation. Mistral AI is a real company, so not a controlling-company-free project despite the open licence.

open-source

French API management and integration platform for enterprise environments

French open-source (Apache 2.0) API gateway by CAB Ingénierie connecting legacy/SOAP APIs and AI agents via MCP, deployable on-premise for full EU sovereignty (DORA/NIS2/GDPR).

open-source

French open-source BPM and low-code platform for process automation

owner in Belgium · open-source

Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows, built by Paris-headquartered Kestra Technologies (legally registered in La Madeleine, near Lille, France). Released under Apache 2.0, it lets teams declaratively define and run batch and event-driven workflows (YAML-based) with 1600+ plugins, and is used by large enterprises. The company raised a EUR 21M Series A in March 2026 to expand the orchestration platform. Actively maintained: v1.3.26 shipped June 30, 2026, with 27k+ GitHub stars and continuous commit activity.

open-source

French (Meyreuil) dashboard and BI platform, active since 2006, independently owned.

French data storytelling and analytics platform

French enterprise bot detection with the DataDome Slider (a CAPTCHA alternative) and machine learning processing 5+ trillion signals daily.

Widely-used, open-source web-rendering library (Symfony bundle) that generates inline image captchas on your own application server. Created by Grégoire Passault (Bordeaux, France); no controlling company.

open-source

Personal cloud and data management platform originally developed by Cozy Cloud SAS (FR); acquired by Linagora (FR) via court-supervised cession plan in February 2025 and integrated into the Twake Workplace suite from May 2025. Open-source (AGPL), hosted in France.

open-source

Privacy-focused cloud storage linked to the /e/OS ecosystem

open-source

French open-source polymorphic CMS built on Symfony and Doctrine, maintained by Rezo Zero (Strasbourg, France). Legacy v1.x (MIT licensed) is EOL/security-only, but development actively continues in the v2 monorepo (core-bundle-dev-app) with CI activity confirmed as recently as July 2026, so the product is alive under a new architecture.

open-source

French headless CMS; self-hostable

open-source

French GDPR expert (Strasbourg, since 2007) with software and external DPO services, 160+ employees.

French GDPR specialist for processing records, DPIAs and data-subject rights.

French (Paris) real-time customer data platform, part of a broader AI-Ready Data Platform with tag manager and ad optimisation; positions itself as 'Europe's Leading AI-Ready Data Platform'.

French (Paris) real-time customer data platform for marketing personalisation and cookieless audience monetisation; EU data centres.

French RAW photo editor with AI-powered noise reduction

French 2D vector-animation software (Metz) for digital hand-drawn animation and studios.

French (Paris); open source configuration and compliance automation for cloud, hybrid and on-premises infrastructure.

open-source

French code quality platform; self-host.

open-source

French next-generation open-source DAM (Paris, GPL3) with an API-first architecture, from Alchemy SARL.

open-source

French DAM platform from Paris for marketing asset management at large brands

Open-source DNS proxy with support for encrypted DNS protocols

open-source

Free, non-commercial DNS resolver by French nonprofit ISP FDN, operating since 1992.

French domain registrar with hosting and email services

owner in Netherlands

Domain registration service by France's OVHcloud, with EU data centres.

French collaborative learning platform (Paris) for creating and sharing corporate training.

French learning experience platform with blended learning and social learning

Open-source email server in Docker with webmail, anti-spam and antivirus protection

open-source

Lightweight open-source CalDAV and CardDAV server (calendar and contacts, GPLv3), ideal for decoupling from Google/Apple cloud sync. Originated at French web consultancy Kozea; no controlling company in the classic sense, community-maintained.

open-source

French (Paris) internal developer platform with integrated FinOps and GreenOps modules; selected for the European Commission's EUR180M sovereign cloud framework (2026).

French (Toulouse) multi-cloud FinOps platform for cost visibility, allocation and optimisation across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle and Scaleway.

French neobank for companies and self-employed with accounting- and expense management

French digital banking app (Paris, Lydia Solutions) with an ACPR licence, personal accounts with interest, budget sub-accounts and AI tools.

French peer-to-peer communication platform without a central server

open-source

French ANSSI-certified encrypted messenger

open-source

French search engine that donates advertising revenue to social projects

French search engine hosted in Europe

French (Lesquin); SaaS supply-chain software vendor (WMS, TMS, EDI) for collaborative logistics.

French (Grenoble); modular warehouse management platform from Hardis Group, a top-three European WMS vendor.

French machine-translation pioneer (1968), now owned by ChapsVision.

Website translation solution that integrates with any CMS for multilingual sites

French open-source virtualisation platform based on Xen, alternative to VMware

open-source

French web-based management platform for XCP-ng and XenServer virtualisation

open-source

French digital-experience analytics platform, owner of Heap and Hotjar.

Programmable web browser focused on power users and productivity

open-source

Modern open-source edge router and HTTP reverse proxy, designed to expose dynamic microservice architectures. Developed by Traefik Labs SAS (Lyon, France).

open-source

Data integration and data quality platform, now part of Qlik (Thoma Bravo / US). Acquired by Qlik in May 2023; open-source edition (Talend Open Studio) discontinued January 31, 2024. Enterprise cloud product only.

owner in United States

Open-core search engine: the Community Edition is MIT-licensed and free to use, but the Enterprise Edition (sharding, advanced observability, analytics) has been under BUSL 1.1 since v1.19 (August 2025), requiring a commercial agreement for production use.

Media4Display digital signage software for retail and business communication

French LPWAN platform (Paris) managing 35,000+ LoRaWAN gateways globally.

Community-driven Linux distribution originating from Mandriva

open-source

TSplus is a privately held French remote-access and application-delivery vendor headquartered in Lyon, France, founded 2007. It offers Remote Access, Remote Support, Advanced Security and Server Monitoring products, positioned as a cost-effective alternative to Citrix/TeamViewer, with hybrid one-time-purchase or subscription licensing. No evidence of foreign majority ownership found; remains an independently operated French company as of 2026.

French SaaS platform for online appointment scheduling, booking, and customer engagement, offering calendar sync (Microsoft 365/Google Workspace), light CRM, and enterprise-grade third-party integrations.

French independent SMS API (Saint-Laurent-du-Var) with a RESTful interface.

French enterprise tag management system

Open-source unified communications platform built on Asterisk

open-source

French visual-collaboration platform from Rennes with an infinite whiteboard and interactive tools; owned by US-based Wrike since 2025.

owner in United States