Paris-based startup building an AI media infrastructure platform that enriches product data for e-commerce marketplace listings.

Synaps was founded by Hugo Benloulou, Emilien Chauvet in 2025.

Who are Synaps's investors?

Synaps's investors include Entrepreneur First.

Where is Synaps headquartered?

Synaps is headquartered in Paris, FR.

Synaps

Entrepreneur First '25

Paris, FR · Founded 2025 · 1 known investors

gosynaps.com ↗

Synaps offers a media infrastructure platform for e-commerce merchants selling across online marketplaces. It uses AI to enrich product data and images, with the goal of simplifying the process of listing catalogs on new marketplaces.

Retail Tech

Founders & leadership

Synaps was founded in 2025 by Hugo Benloulou and Emilien Chauvet.

Hugo Benloulou inCEOHugo Benloulou brings a decade of e-commerce experience serving France's largest merchants, gained at Amazon and at the European marketplace unicorn ManoMano.

Emilien Chauvet inCTOEmilien Chauvet has worked in AI and data science for the past eight years at companies including C3.ai in agentic process automation, the search company Algolia, and the health insurer Alan.

Investors · 1

Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Synaps (gosynaps.com) is a Paris, France-based company founded in 2025 that provides a media infrastructure platform for e-commerce merchants who sell through online marketplaces. The platform applies AI to enrich product data and product images so that merchants can prepare and publish their catalogs on additional marketplaces with less manual work.

No public source material retrieved for this research supports additional detail about the company. The documents fetched today describe unrelated organizations that share the Synaps/Synapse name: a Vienna-based AI architecture design startup (synaps.app, founded 2023, founders Brendon Ahmeti, Agron Bajraktari and Kevin Cobaj), a KYC/KYB identity verification API provider (synaps.io), and Synapse, a US banking-as-a-service firm. These have been excluded as name twins, so no funding rounds, metrics, events, team, traction or competitor information can be reported for the Paris-based Synaps beyond the internally held facts.

▸Full profile — go-to-market, geography

Go-to-market

E-commerce merchants that list and sell products across online marketplaces.

Geography

The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

GitHub - synaps-io/synaps-go: Synaps API - Official Go SDK · GitHubgithub.com · web

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Synaps do?: Paris-based startup building an AI media infrastructure platform that enriches product data for e-commerce marketplace listings.
Who founded Synaps?: Synaps was founded by Hugo Benloulou, Emilien Chauvet in 2025.
Who are Synaps's investors?: Synaps's investors include Entrepreneur First.
Where is Synaps headquartered?: Synaps is headquartered in Paris, FR.