The Digital Health Landscape in France

This blog is part of Speedinvest’s data-driven blog series Digital Health in Europe: A Data-Driven Blog Series by Speedinvest. While we previously outlined our methodology and our full analysis of 600+ Digital Health startups founded in Europe in the last decade, this blog post aims to shed light more specifically on the French Digital Health landscape.

In our previous blog article that took a macro perspective on Europe, we highlighted the fact that France is the second-largest single national market in Europe in terms of the number of Digital Health startups founded between 2010 and 2020.

The aim of this blog post is neither to be exhaustive nor to rank startups, but rather to describe the main characteristics of the French Digital Health ecosystem. We used the categories described in our methodology blog and adapted them to France wherever we felt this was a better fit.

Screening & Diagnostics

One of the strongest fields in French Digital Health is software for screening and diagnostics, which falls into two large buckets.

Enabling Tech

This category includes companies that give health providers horizontal tools they need to facilitate communication, data exchange and efficiency gains. French startups have focused on three broad areas:

Patient Engagement

Patient engagement solutions connect providers with patients to increase convenience, access and continuity of care.

Generalist Telemedicine

SaaS for Life Science

Software for biotech and life sciences is a huge sub-vertical in Digital Health, and France has produced a number of strong startups in this space.

Digital Therapeutics

Digital therapeutics, or DTx, are clinical tools to help patients manage their own care, with minimal or no professional support, across a range of therapy areas.

Family Health

This category includes companies that provide solutions that aim to make it easier and quicker for parents to access healthcare, whether it is designed for their own health or for their children. French startups have focused on three broad areas:

Workplace Health

This category includes companies that provide data and insights to employers, as well as those who provide services directly to employees.

Consumer Health

Elderly Care

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