Future 40: Meet the 40 best-performing teams of 2026

€1.2 billion. That's how much Future 40 companies have raised across eight editions, and today we're adding 40 more names to the list - bringing the total number of companies to 320.

Every November since 2019, we share our favorite news of the year: the STATION F Future 40, our pick of the most promising and best-performing startups on campus. Past picks include Fintecture, Tomorro, Spore.bio, WhiteLab Genomics, Biolevate, Qevlar AI and Syntetica, and both Hugging Face and Mistral AI have acquired Future 40 companies (Mistral actually acquired 2!).

How this year's 40 made the cut

So who joins the club in 2026? Out of over 1,000 startups on campus this year, the Future 40 sit in the top 4%. We picked them on strong metrics, real traction and meaningful milestones, with no funding cap.

And they're off to a flying start. Together they've already raised €110 million, with Arlequin AI (€28 million), CURA ($10 million), Cleavr (€8 million) and Lemrock (€7 million) among the funded teams. Most are at pre-seed and seed (31), 2 are at Series A, and 5 are bootstrapped. They also represent a variety of campus programs, including F/AI, CentraleSupélec, Microsoft, TotalEnergies, Entrepreneur First, HEC and more.

Three things this cohort tells us

When we looked closer at the 98 founders behind these companies, three stories jumped out.

More repeat founders (75%!)

Start with experience. 30 of the 40 startups (75%) have at least one repeat founder, and 15 have a founder who has already sold a company. Romain Mazeries at Weflayr co-founded Mangopay. Sid Kouider at Noïa Labs founded NextMind, which Snap acquired. François-Guillaume de Lichtervelde at Timper sold Greenomy to Position Green in 2025.

For us, this is what a maturing ecosystem looks like: founders who've already won are coming back to build again, and they're choosing to do it here.

AI is getting physical, and sovereign

That experience is going into some seriously ambitious problems. Bleu Robotics, Allude, AICE and SYNRA are bringing AI to factories, the seabed and critical infrastructure, while Stellar and Prior Foundry are building sovereign connectivity and AI for government. We're convinced a big chunk of the next wave of European tech gets built right here.

One of our most international and strongest batches yet!

One of our favorite things about this cohort is just how international it is. Our 98 founders hold 24 nationalities, and 30% come from outside France, from Germany and Italy to South Korea, Japan and Morocco. The cohort also counts at least 10 PhDs and 6 YC companies.

Meet the Future 40 2026

• AICE: AICE builds swarms of fast, low-cost subsea drones for fleet and critical-infrastructure defense.
• AIM Intelligence: Ensuring generative AI is secure, aligned, and controllable.
• Allude: Allude builds the infrastructure that makes AI agents and robots operable in factories.
• Alouette AI: Agentic AI for Industrial Engineering, requiring sovereigned 100% verified Digital Blueprints.
• Arlequin AI: Arlequin is an AI native deeptech platform designed to support high stakes decisions
• Bending words: Helping high school students get good grades
• BioSky: Satellite-AI grid intelligence for the world’s power sectors
• Bleu Robotics: Bleu Robotics develops AI model for industrial humanoid robots
• Blynt AI: We fix the last mile of speech recognition through fine-grained model customization
• Cleavr: Cleavr is the first AI coworker that collects your cash autonomously.
• Coach: The AI coach for in-person sales reps
• Coforix: We build the data infrastructure hospitals need to use AI in clinical care.
• CURA: Decarbonizing cement with retrofit-ready electrochemical pre-calcination carbon capture technology.
• Deepeye Medical: We empower doctors to see more, in less time when planning therapy for EU’s #1 cause of blindness
• Ethylowheel: ETHYLOWHEEL develops contact-based alcohol detection technology to prevent drunk driving.
• ExtraJool: ExtraJool cuts industrial electricity bills by converting waste heat into on-site power.
• GetMint: GetMint turns AI search into a growth channel: track AI answers, publish content, run ChatGPT ads.
• Invertix: Applied AI for Energy Infrastructure
• Kuli: Kuli gives brand marketers insight and 20× execution capacity to win in social & creator marketing.
• Lemrock: Lemrock builds the infrastructure for agentic commerce
• Lineshift AI: AI-powered software that automates complex workflows for modern businesses.
• Marble: The first generative learning world for kids aged 6-12.
• Noïa Labs: In stealth. 
• Norma: Pioneering Supercapacitive Carbon Capture: harnessing energy storage to cut capture energy and costs
• NuMind: The Frontier AI for Document Extraction
• Oguste: AI-native legal due diligence for real estate transactions
• Onbox: In stealth.
• Ooak data: We build RL env from real world company data
• Prior Foundry: Prior Foundry is building AI infrastructure for government decision-making.
• RainPath: RainPath reinvents tissue diagnosis with optics and AI: cancer diagnosed faster, at lower cost.
• Revox: Revox deploys phone AI agents that turn your leads into revenue.
• Shiplog: Shiplog grows revenue from existing customers with agentic customer intelligence.
• Smalk: The AI Search Ad Network connecting brands to thousands of AI-trusted media publishers.
• Stellar: The control layer over all telecom networks for resilient and sovereign connectivity
• SYNRA: SYNRA turns a camera into a full-field vibration sensor for infrastructure & machine diagnostics.
• Timper: The AI operating partner for real estate development
• Topograph: Topograph is a worldwide corporate data provider, connected to official sources in real-time
• Weflayr: Weflayr is the Margin Optimization Layer for SaaS Plarform
• Youngr Labs: AI virtual cell lab for age-related diseases and longevity
• ZKAI Labs: The intelligence layer for programmable money

A record year for the whole campus: over €2 billion raised in 2026

The Future 40 sit inside an even bigger story. STATION F companies raised a record €2 billion in 2026, beating the record set in 2025, and the year still has two months to go! Alumni rounds like Multiverse Computing (€500 million) and Alan (€480 million) helped get us there.

Investors only: get intros through the Future 40 platform

Investors, this one's for you: we're presenting all 40 companies at an online demo day. You can request introductions to every Future 40 company, from all eight editions, at future40.stationf.co. Many top funds are already using the platform to get in touch instantly.

To the 2026 Future 40: congratulations, we're so proud of you!