Editor’s Note
This selection of 2025’s Growth Champions, compiled with Statista, highlights 15 companies—from HRS to O’Barbershop—that are capitalizing on key global trends. Their success is largely fueled by the accelerating shifts toward sustainable development, artificial intelligence, and a growing focus on health and well-being.
From hydrogen refueling station specialist HRS to grooming service O’Barbershop, and including low-carbon pioneers like Jifmar or Idex, the champions in our ranking, produced in partnership with Statista, are particularly riding the wave of sustainable development, AI, health, and well-being.
A sign of the times, many of the 2025 growth champions are notably driven by the rise of renewable energies, new environmental standards, and artificial intelligence. In health, marketing, or mobility, these issues occupy the entrepreneurial space. But customer satisfaction, responsiveness, transparency, and proximity also make the difference. A closer look at fifteen standout champions.
Rank: 16
CAGR: +140%
Forty-seven million euros!
exclaims Hassen Rachedi, the founder of Hydrogen Refueling Solutions. Within a year, the installed base of the only 100% specialist in hydrogen refueling stations from design to maintenance will more than double, to 67 units. And recurring maintenance revenues are increasing thanks to the market’s shift towards units with a capacity exceeding 1 million tonnes, favored by European regulation. A positive trend even if this will
HRS remains confident. In the first half of the year, its gross revenue showed growth of 16% to nearly 15 million euros. At the helm of the world’s largest station factory, the SME continues its internationalization in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, where a subsidiary has just been created, with the firm hope of benefiting from the mega infrastructure investment plan.
Rank: 25
CAGR: +107%
A faster, more efficient, and cheaper trustee. That’s the promise of Raphaël di Meglio, the CEO of Matera, a startup founded in 2017, which now claims fourth place in the French market, with over 10,000 condominiums, compared to 60,000 for the number one, Foncia. After starting as a platform helping co-owners manage their buildings themselves (task automation, access to experts…), the Parisian company finally launched a trustee service a year ago.
defends the co-founder. Already diversified into rental management, the startup has been present in Germany since 2021 and is now considering expansion into Belgium, Italy, and Spain.
Rank: 54
CAGR: +72.5%
Its founder, François Garaude, fell in love with raw emeralds during a stay in Brazil in 1980. Since then, this hunter and supplier of stones for the great jewelers of Place Vendôme, an architect by training, has developed into the production of precious and semi-precious stones. After traveling through Brazil, Colombia, Thailand, and India… in search of natural stones, he created his own jewelry brand with his daughter, Jeanne. In 2019, the House of Garaude made stone traceability its priority, committing to more sustainable and responsible sourcing and allowing its customers to visualize all stages of transformation and delivery. Since 2023, it has been issuing its own traceability certificates. A way to address the flaws of a sector regularly criticized for the lack of transparency in its supply chain.
Rank: 74
CAGR: +59.7%
A digital pioneer in short-term car rental, Toosla has developed its own digital platform since 2016. In December 2024, the young company announced Toulouse as its sixth covered city, after Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, and Lille. Its goal is to remove all barriers to short-term rental through its agency-free model and a wide offering of low-emission vehicles, a simplified and secure procedure accessible on smartphones and tablets. Toosla charges a commission on rentals (around 20%), handles marketing to generate traffic (10% of revenue at cruising speed), and also offers a concierge service (vehicle delivery and pickup at the address of your choice). It aims for 60% revenue growth over the next three years and an adjusted EBITDA of over 25% by 2027, with revenue per vehicle significantly above the industry average. The company founded by Eric Poncin, and led by Panayotis Staïcos since July 2023, has already doubled its fleet to 1,200 vehicles in 2023, with four partners: BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, and Tesla.
Rank: 110
CAGR: +43%
Wood, nothing but wood. A true pioneer in the field of sustainable construction, this company from eastern France, founded by François Duchaine, a former sawmill director…