AWS and NVIDIA are bringing seven AI startups to the VivaTech 2026 Startup Village in Paris, spotlighting production-ready artificial intelligence (AI) tools across predictive analytics, voice AI, robotics, web search for agents, decision intelligence, and industrial knowledge sharing.
TL;DR
- AWS and NVIDIA selected seven AI startups for VivaTech 2026 in Paris.
- The startups will exhibit from June 17 to 20, 2026.
- The group uses AWS cloud infrastructure and NVIDIA accelerated computing in production.
- Together, the companies represent around 470 employees and more than $150 million in recent cumulative funding.
- Use cases span predictive AI, voice intelligence, robotics, AI agents, and industrial knowledge management.
AWS And NVIDIA Spotlight Production-Ready AI Startups At VivaTech 2026
AWS and NVIDIA are using VivaTech 2026 to make one thing clear: Europe’s AI startup scene is no longer just experimenting.
Amazon Web Services revealed seven startups that will join the AWS and NVIDIA Startup Village in Paris from June 17 to 20, 2026. The selected companies, mostly founded in France and Europe, were chosen for innovations that are already built for real-world deployment, not just lab demos.
The lineup covers a wide stretch of artificial intelligence, including predictive AI for tabular data, ultra-low latency voice models, speaker intelligence, decision intelligence, physical AI, web search infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, and industrial expertise-sharing platforms.
All seven startups rely on AWS cloud infrastructure and NVIDIA accelerated computing to train, deploy, and serve AI models in production. Collectively, they represent about 470 employees and more than $150 million in recent cumulative funding.
For AWS, the selection reflects a larger gap in Europe’s AI adoption curve.
“In 2025, 4.4 million European companies adopted AI for the first time. Yet only 22% use it in a transformative way. These seven startups demonstrate that it is possible to move beyond experimentation: they deploy production use cases, on real data, with measurable business impact. This is exactly what Europe needs to turn its potential into results,” said Sasha Rubel, AI Policy Lead for EMEA at AWS.
Seven AI Startups Bringing Real-World Demos To VivaTech 2026
The selected startups include Neuralk AI, Gradium, pyannoteAI, Aily Labs, Physicl, Seltz AI, and Ask for the Moon, each bringing a different angle to enterprise AI adoption.
Neuralk AI, founded in France in 2023, is focused on predictive AI. Its enterprise-grade Tabular Foundation Model, Seldon, is designed to help companies run predictions across datasets in minutes. At VivaTech 2026, the startup will showcase how Seldon can be deployed inside customer AWS environments for predictive use cases.
Gradium, founded in France in 2025 and spun out of the Kyutai research lab, is working on voice AI that feels faster and more natural. Founded by experts from Google DeepMind, Meta FAIR, Google Brain, and Jane Street, the startup builds ultra-low latency audio language models using AWS as its default inference infrastructure, running on G7e instances equipped with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs.
pyannoteAI, founded in France in 2024, brings speaker intelligence to the mix. Built on 12 years of CNRS research, the startup identifies who is speaking, when, and how in real time. With more than one billion downloads on HuggingFace, pyannoteAI will run live demos showing how its production-grade streaming diarization model can support voice agents, transcription services, and regulated industries.
Aily Labs, founded in Switzerland in 2020, is taking AI into executive decision-making. Its Decision Intelligence platform helps Fortune 500 leaders, including at Sanofi, make operational decisions using AI. Running on NVIDIA L4 and L40 GPUs deployed on AWS G6 infrastructure, the company says its platform delivers up to 99% predictive accuracy at scale. At VivaTech 2026, Aily Labs will demonstrate its Decision Intelligence “Super Agent” across supply chain and finance, covering real-time risk predictions, what-if scenarios, and automated decisions.
Physicl, founded in early 2026 in France and spun out of Nfinite, is targeting physical AI and robotics. The company generates 3D training data that robots need to learn how to interact with the real world. Its simulation environments are optimized for NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Lab, and built using Amazon Deadline Cloud, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS observability tools.
Seltz AI, founded in Italy in 2025 and based in the US, is rebuilding web search infrastructure for AI agents. Its Web Knowledge API v1 provides structured, contextualized web content optimized for real-time AI reasoning, using a proprietary crawler and combined lexical, semantic, and graph indexes.
Ask for the Moon, founded in France in 2018, focuses on industrial knowledge sharing. Its “cogenerative” AI platform helps companies such as EDF, Orano, and Eiffage capture and share critical employee expertise under the control of subject-matter experts. At VivaTech, it will showcase its French sovereign AI expertise-sharing platform.
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Why AWS And NVIDIA’s VivaTech Startup Village Matters For Europe’s AI Push
The Startup Village arrives as European companies are under pressure to turn AI interest into measurable output. The selected startups show how AI is moving into workflows where speed, reliability, infrastructure, and industry context matter just as much as model capability.
NVIDIA echoed that point, tying the showcase to Europe’s broader digital competitiveness.
“Across Europe, startups are playing a pivotal role in advancing the next wave of AI-driven innovation and competitiveness. Moving from experimentation to real-world impact requires more than technology alone; it depends on access to resilient infrastructure, trusted partners, and a supportive ecosystem. At VivaTech’s Startup Village, NVIDIA and AWS are highlighting how European founders are turning cutting-edge AI into deployable solutions, helping to strengthen the region’s startup community and broader digital economy,” said Tobias Halloran, EMEAI Director of Startups at NVIDIA.
