Squair (Damien Gorse and Louis le Roy) advised Arlequin AI and its founders in the context of its fundraising for an amount of 4.4 million euros.
Founded in 2024 by Hugo Micheron and Antoine Jardin, Arlequinai is a French start-up specialized in artificial intelligence applied to data operations. It is developing a sovereign data operation platform, based on the latest generation of unsupervised AI models. It processes and structures massive volumes of complex and multilingual data with unparalleled speed, offering decision-makers certified, unbiased and immediately usable analyses.
The funding round was led by Vsquared Ventures, the largest European fund dedicated to early-stage deeptech, with the participation of funds 10x Founders (Germany), Kima Ventures (France), Better Angle (France) as well as several French private investors, as well as several French private investors, including David Meneret (Mill Hill Capital), including David Meneret (Mill Hill Capital), Arthur Dénouveaux, Éric Le Maire and two former managers of Meta, Julien Codorniou and Julien Lesaicherou Re.
This fundraiser aims to accelerate Arlequin AI's mission: to offer a sovereign response to an information space that has become strategic and increasingly saturated. The funds raised will in fact allow the company to double its R&D workforce, to accelerate on-site integrations and to extend its presence on a European and international scale.