Here is the list of top startups by Université Grenoble Alpes Alumni
1. SnappCar
Online P2P platform providing car rental services. The platform connects car owners and rider to share cars. Car owners can list their car for rent and connect with prospective customers. Users can search, compare, and book car rentals.
Key facts about SnappCar
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Utrecht (Netherlands)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $22.1M
- Investors: Q8, Tango and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Sep 27, 2019, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 67/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 2 of 21 Competitors
2. cozycozy.com
Cozycozy is an online metasearch platform for accommodations. Enables users to discover & compare vacation rentals/holiday homes & hotel prices from multiple online travel agencies & travel websites by providing travel details. The platform then redirects users to the corresponding service providers' website to complete the bookings
Key facts about cozycozy.com

3. Uptale
Uptale is the Reality-Based Workforce Readiness platform. The company helps enterprises prepare employees and frontline teams for real environments, situations, and tasks by capturing real work, transforming it into realistic practice, and measuring progress toward readiness. Uptale enables organizations to create, deploy, and measure Reality-Based Training Programs through three complementary formats: 360° Experiences: Familiarize employees with real workplaces, recognize equipment, identify hazards, and prepare for operational situations. AI Roleplay: Practice realistic conversations, decisions, and challenging interactions through repeatable scenarios with personalized feedback. POV Training: Transfer expert knowledge by demonstrating procedures, operational sequences, and practical skills from a first-person perspective. The platform combines AI-powered authoring, training deployment, readiness analytics, and LMS and enterprise integrations. Organizations can independently create training programs through Uptale's Self-Service Platform or use its Managed Service for expert support. Training is accessible on VR headsets, computers, tablets, and smartphones, allowing enterprises to scale workforce preparation across teams, sites, and locations without requiring dedicated VR hardware for every learner. Uptale supports employee onboarding, safety preparedness, operational training, knowledge transfer, and faster Time-to-Readiness across industries including manufacturing, rail and transit, energy, healthcare, and higher education. Rather than replacing existing learning management systems, Uptale complements them with a Reality-Based Practice & Readiness layer that connects training to real operational requirements. Since 2017, Uptale has served more than 500 organizations and delivered over 2 million Reality-Based Learning sessions worldwide. Uptale captures real work, turns it into realistic practice, and proves people are ready.
Key facts about Uptale
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $11.1M
- Investors: Inveready, GO CAPITAL and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 12, 2024, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 52/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 10 of 936 Competitors
Ryax provides streaming data analytics platform. The SaaS-platform allows users to stream data in real-time from various sources, process data, manage data exploration and analyze data to capture actionable insights from the data. It enables users to build algorithms and models using AI, deep learning and image recognition solutions. It can be integrated with Alibaba Cloud, Cloudflare, Akamai, Edge and AWS. Clients include Atos, IT-Translation, Sogilis, Orange and Kipers Industries.
Key facts about Ryax Technologies
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Lyon (France)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $1.48M
- Investors: IT-Translation, http://banquepopulaire.frl and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jan 01, 2021, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 49/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 36 of 561 Competitors
Provider of a diagnostic test based on circulating tumor cells. The company offers a VTX-1 liquid biopsy system that automates the isolation and collection of CTCs from blood samples. The CTCs are released from reservoirs and are collected downstream for further assays.
Key facts about Vortex Biosciences
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Menlo Park (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $4.08M
- Investors: EMV Capital and NetScientific
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jun 22, 2023, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 47/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 52 of 635 Competitors
