Probabl raises €13M to advance open-source tools for trustworthy enterprise AI

The Paris-based French AI company Probabl has secured €13 million in seed funding, led by Serena and Capital Fund Management and with participation from Mozilla Ventures and Bpifrance. The funding will be used to scale the company's open-source framework for transparent, explainable, and compliant machine learning systems.

Probabl was founded in 2023 by 14 founding members, including CEO Yann Lechelle, CTO Camille Troillard, COO François Goupil, and Chief ML Officer Guillaume Lemaître, as well as Inria researchers Gaël Varoquaux and Olivier Grisel. The company was created to address the growing need for AI systems that organisations can trust and audit. Central to their work is the development of scikit-learn and related open-source tools to provide enterprises with platforms such as Skore and Skolar, ensuring that AI models behave consistently, fairly and in compliance with regulations such as the EU AI Act.

Operating at the intersection of data ethics, regulatory compliance, and technical innovation, the company offers bias detection, model monitoring, algorithmic fairness audits, and governance solutions for sectors where transparency matters, such as finance, healthcare, and public policy. Probabl's approach combines open-source collaboration with enterprise-grade reliability tools to help companies demonstrate that their AI systems are lawful, explainable and reproducible.

The new funding will enable Probabl to expand its professional services team, strengthen its partnerships with research institutions such as Inria, and accelerate the development of compliance tools to help European organisations navigate the AI Act's requirements for algorithmic transparency and accountability.

Sources: Probabl, Crunchbase

Founders: Yann Lechelle, Camille Troillard, François Goupil, Guillaume Lemaître, Gaël Varoquaux, Olivier Grisel, Nicolas Hug, Thomas Fan, Loïc Estève, Mathieu Blondel, Alexandre Gramfort, Jérémie du Boisberranger