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Top 19 Women owned startups based in France

RevenueBase identified 173 women owned startups headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 851 professional contacts across them, including 113 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers women owned startups headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
173Companies
851Contacts tracked
113Verified emails
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The 19 largest women owned startups based in France

Ranked by team size
Top 19 of 173 women owned startups based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to women owned startups: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-50101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“On rêve de l'avènement d'un entrepreneuriat féministe, et on agit tous les jours pour que ça se concrétise!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
2Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 2026n/a74 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Femmes des Territoires, c’est un réseau collaboratif d’entraide basé sur l’authenticité et le partage de compétences et d’expériences.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5048 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Créée en 2012 par Orange, en partenariat avec les ministères de l’Éducation nationale et de l’Enseignement supérieur, Capital Filles a pour mission de donner aux jeunes femmes…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4Indirect evidenceRouen, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 2026n/a35 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Léa Lassarat, 1ère femme présidente d'une CCI en Normandie de 2016 à 2021, et chef d’entreprises, a proposé en 2017 à 20 dirigeantes du territoire de la rejoindre pour créer le…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5Indirect evidenceAix-en-provence, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 2026n/a33 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Les Premières Sud appartient au premier réseau d'incubateurs qui mobilise l'immense potentiel économique des femmes entrepreneurs pour innover et créer de la valeur, des emplois…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Link’Elles est un écosystème bienveillant sur l’entrepreneuriat féminin.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7Indirect evidenceRennes, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5017 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“L’association Entreprendre Au Féminin Bretagne accompagne les parcours professionnels des femmes en les aidant à développer leurs compétences entrepreneuriales.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
8Indirect evidenceToulouse, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Les Premières Occitanie est un incubateur qui accompagne les femmes entrepreneures innovantes dans la réalisation de leur projet.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1011 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Where women build their tech careers with tech industry expert.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10Partial evidenceLille, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-109 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Parce que notre économie ne peut pas se passer de l’entrepreneuriat féminin, et parce que chaque entrepreneuse mérite les mêmes chances qu’un homologue masculin, Little Big Women…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-109 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Our mission is to mobilize the entrepreneurial ecosystem to promote and accelerate the entrepreneurial journey of women who have suffered from violence by giving them the tools…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Notre association est née d’une ambition forte : être acteur du changement pour une société plus inclusive, où femmes et hommes disposent des mêmes opportunités.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13Indirect evidenceBordeaux, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bienvenue chez Profession’L | Les événements qui révèlent le potentiel des femmes pour les aider à tracer le parcours professionnel qui leur ressemble Les dates de nos prochains…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-104 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are on a mission to help get 1M early stage women entrepreneurs funded by 2030 and help close the funding gender gap, through access to capital, customers and community.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-503 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Founded by Martine Liautaud in 2009, the Women Initiative Foundation encourages the promotion of women in the business world as well as in the economy in general, and aims to…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16Indirect evidenceLille, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PowHer Studio est un écosystème dédiée à l’empowerment des femmes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Business Women in Paris est un réseau et média exclusif dédié aux femmes entrepreneures et dirigeantes, un espace conçu pour échanger, partager ses expériences et accélérer sa…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Agency specialized in accelerating the growth of women-founded and women-led businesses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19Indirect evidenceOrléans, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Promouvoir la culture entrepreneuriale au féminin, accompagner les femmes, oser les initiatives, soutenir l’égalité professionnelle homme-femme.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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Women owned startups based in France at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026
13.3%Verified-email coverage
4.9Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
26.6%Largest-city concentration · Paris
Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
122
11-50
44
51-200
1
201-500
2
1,001-5,000
1
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 173 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among women owned startups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “women owned startups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names women owned startups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among women owned startups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 113 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Women owned startups by metro

  • Women owned startups in Paris46

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names women owned startups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many women owned startups are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 173 women owned startups headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Empow'her, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most women owned startups?

Paris leads with 46 headquartered companies, followed by Bordeaux (7) and Lyon (7).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 113 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 173 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.