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Top 40 Art Startup Investors in France

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 40 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Art startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Art Startup Investors in France

Investor	Art France investments
Nicolas Julia	2
Frédéric Jousset	2
Thomas France	2
Luc Doublet	1
Ventech	1
Alven	1
Punk DAO	1
NextStage	1
Motier Ventures	1
Tané	1
PIA	1
Union Square Ventures	1
Fonds Ambition Amorçage Angels	1
FJ Labs	1
1kx	1
Daedalus Angel Syndicate	1
Denis Fayolle	1
Finovam Gestion	1
Turenne Capital	1
Artnova	1
KIMPA - Impact Investing	1
Educapital	1
Steven E. Spooner	1
WeLikeStartup	1
Guillaume Houzé	1
Ardian	1
Tezos Foundation	1
Everyrealm	1
Cygni Capital	1
Gabriel Jarrosson	1
Aglaé Ventures	1
Siparex Groupe	1
AXA Venture Partners	1
Premier Janvier Capital	1
Violette Taquet	1
Kima Ventures	1
Breega	1
Fabric Ventures	1
Chantal Baudron	1
Angelsquare	1

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Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Olivier Duha at Bain & Company, Frédéric co-founded Webhelp, which originally provided online support services for businesses and the general public, in June 2000. Rapid growth and innovation over the following years has resulted in the BPO provider and customer experience engineer that is Webhelp today.Frédéric graduated from HEC in 1992 andbegan his career in 1994 at L’Oréal. He handled marketing and familiarised himself with new product development, consumer brand management and advertising strategies. Paying close attention to new technologies, he decided to buy DIALOG, a software vendor, in 1998 and soon merged it with its competitor, IKOSOFT. He then joined Bain & Company in 1999 as part of the private equity practice, where he participated in several consulting assignments guiding the engagement strategy of major funding institutions.Frederic is a Knight of the Order of Merit and the Arts & Humanities, and Commander of Wissam Al-Aouite of the Kingdom of Morocco. Since October 2011, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Investment focus

Art, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Artsper — Artsper is a contemporary art marketplace where galleries selected across the World can sell their artworks. They work with hundreds of galleries, which enables us to promote more than 10 000 artworks proposed by 4 000 artists.
Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

Entrepreneur, Investor

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Woodoo — At Woodoo, we bring dead wood to life. We believe in a sustainable industrial future built on wood, using innovative, pioneering processes.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.

Luc Doublet

Investment focus

Art, Internet, Software
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Eunomart — Eunomart provides a simple solution to the challenges of the fight against money laundering. They develop an automated vigilance procedure tool intended to help analyze the legal risks to which art professionals are exposed.

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Treon — The foundation for massive IoT
Farmitoo — Farmitoo is an online purchase of farm equipment directly from manufacturers.
Firecell — Firecell enables industrial companies to deploy and operate their own Open RAN 5G Private Network solutions.

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

Punk DAO offers community stewardship of CryptoPunks, an iconic collectible. Punk DAO's mission is to support, collect, invest in, and interact with various artists and entrepreneurs in the crypto ecosystem.

Investment focus

Art, Blockchain, Social Network
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Sort — Easily integrate Ethereum data into your app!
fxhash — The open platform for artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art.
Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

NextStage is a private equity fund manager (venture capital funds (â€œFCPRâ€), local investment funds (â€œFIPâ€) and innovation investment funds (â€œFCPIâ€)) certified by the AutoritÃ:copyright: des MarchÃ:copyright:s Financiers. As committed investors, they provide private equity capital to support the growth of Champion SMEs in France andelsewhere in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series B, Post-IPO Equity
France, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

adopt' — Adopt' manufactures and distributes makeup, fragrances, and accessories for women.
Placeshaker — Placeshaker publishes and designs specialized project management software for renovation and rehabilitation sites.
Glass Partners Solutions — Glass Partners Solutions is distributes glass products to manufacturers and processors of glass products. It products, include monolithic glass, glass laminates, lacquered glass, mirrors, reflectors, anti-fire glass, glasses, radiation protection glass, printed glass, solar self-cleaning glass, tinted glass, anti-reflective, and Uglas. The companyalso offers low emissive glass, yelloe glass, and white shine glass.

Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.We are a value-added business angel. At scale.We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investmentthemes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, Creative Technologies and Cybersecurity.We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV, Citynove...) and across many industries.If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Adaptive — Every user interaction, advancing your use case. Test, serve, monitor, and iterate on your large language models in your cloud with Adaptive ML.

Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Art, Software
Seed, Funding Round
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fhenix — Powered by L2 FHE Rollups & FHE Coprocessors
fxhash — The open platform for artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art.
Kinto — Kinto is the first permissionless Ethereum Layer 2 network capable of supporting every modern financial institution and decentralized finance protocol.

PIA sells tickets for concerts, sporting contests, and other events.

Investment focus

Art, Internet
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
Hume AI — The AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion
Residua AI — A selective AI co-presence that you can summon into your digital world.

is a fund launched by the Investments for the Future Program (PIA) and managed by Bpifrance

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Art
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, India

Portfolio highlights

Gleamer — Gleamer develops an AI-powered software to enhance radiologists’ productivity.
Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
GitGuardian — GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mama — Hispanic super market with ready-to-eat food, frozen goods, and Venezuelan snacks at a great price. Delivered to your door across the US. From pantry to tropical fruits and homemade desserts, it's all in here!
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

FuzzLand — Fuzzland is a smart contract automated analysis solution provider. We help blockchain projects to find vulnerabilities and secure their smart contracts.
BuildBear Labs — Create Your Private Testnets and test Your dApps at scale.
Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.

Daedalus Angel Syndicate is a blockchain-focused angel collective.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

0G Labs — 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.
Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
Rho Protocol — Rho Protocol is a next-generation decentralized exchange for interest rate swaps, offering institutions a secure and transparent solution to harness the potential of interest rates in Web3

Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Angel, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
Adrenaline Hunter — Adrenaline Hunter offers an online marketplace that makes it super simple for users to search, compare and book adrenaline sports and unique adventure travel experiences around the world.

Finovam Gestion is an investment company approved by the AMF which takes minority stakes in innovative SMEs with high growth potential.The company, which manages €50M, invests in companies that have developed innovative offers in the following target sectors: Information and Communication Technology, Health and Biotechnologies, Agro-resources andEcotechnologies.Finovam Gestion has built solid relationships with the ecosystem of entrepreneurship (Industrials, Poles of Competitiveness, Incubators, Accelerators, Universities, and Research Centers) in all the sectors that we target in order to be able to source and do emerge the best companies.Among our investors (LPs), we can count BPI France, manufacturers (ADEO, LESAFFRE, TEREOS), banks (BNP Paribas, Caisse d´Epargne, Crédit Agricole) and the Haut de France and Grand-Est regions.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Medical Device
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Selvitys — Selvitys is a fully automated method for designing, delivering, and analyzing online surveys.
Charlie solutions — Charlie solutions offers the traceability system technologies to optimize their management system of the equipment.
Osiris agriculture — Osiris desires to make agriculture more sustainable while also assisting farmers in living more peacefully. The business is working on a robot that will assist farmers in growing potatoes, sugar beets, and field crops. This four-wheeled robot will be able to automate and improve functions such as watering, fertilizing, weeding, and crop protection.

Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France : - Paris - Lyon - Marseilles - Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million. Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million. 32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement. Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à : - Paris - Lyon - Marseille - Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
France, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
Ecodrop — Ecodrop is the solution for construction waste
PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides biosafety assays based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) for biologics quality testing. GMP biotesting for biopharmaceuticals. Learn more.

Artnova is a museum guides and art historians agency focusing on high-end, tailormade services for corporations and institutions.

Investment focus

Art
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

KIMPA - Impact Family Office aims to deploy the capital of its clients towards investment that offers a positive environmental and social impact on our planet.

Investment focus

Retail, Food and Beverage, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
France, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!
WeDressFair — WeDressFair is a select-store of beautiful brands that place the respect of workers and the environment at the center.
Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.

The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NOLEJ — NOLEJ is a decentralized skills platform powered by an AI engine, that automatically generates interactive courseware & global knowledge graph
HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
MerciApp — MerciApp is a spellchecker that helps people write faster and better in French. It is correcting stylistic, spelling, and grammar errors embedded in a secure and simple interface.

With over 23 years in the high-tech and telecommunications sector, Steve Spooner brings a wealth of experience in corporate finance and strategic business planning to Mitel®. As Chief Financial Officer, Steve is responsible for global financial operations and investor relations for Mitel. Prior to Mitel, Steve was Chief Executive Officer ofprivately-held Stream Intelligent Networks Corp. During his time as CEO, Steve led the company to substantial growth during a recessed telecom market, through focused activities in investor relations, corporate strategy and development, strategic alliances and marketing. Steve also brings a tech-savvy understanding of finance and corporate strategy from his time as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CrossKeys Systems Corporation. Steve led the strategic implementation of private financing, acquisitions, and divestitures for the company. In December of 1997, Steve successfully spearheaded CrossKey's Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ and TSE. In addition, Steve brings extensive experience in financial governance from senior positions at SHL Systemhouse Inc.,Wang Canada Ltd., Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd., and Arthur Anderson & Co. Steve is a seasoned industry speaker having spoken at a variety of venues on topics ranging from Metropolitan Networks to Entrepeneurship. Steve sits on numerous strategic advisory boards and is an active board member of the Canadian Wireless Telecom Association (CWTA) as well as a former chairman of CWTA's fixed wireless committee.

Investment focus

Art, Internet, Software
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Eunomart — Eunomart provides a simple solution to the challenges of the fight against money laundering. They develop an automated vigilance procedure tool intended to help analyze the legal risks to which art professionals are exposed.

WeLikeStartup is a crowdfunding platform. WeLikeStartup brings startups their initial financing by the pre-sale or fundraising capital and provides investors to support entrepreneurship and job creation in France while providing services tailored to their security concerns and liquidity. Created by a recognized entrepreneurs and financeprofessionals team is WeLikeStartup Financial Investment Adviser, registered with ORIAS ( Unique Register of Insurance Intermediaries, Banking and Finance ), Member of the CNCIF ( National Chamber of Investment Advisers financial ) and Associate Partner of the first Business Angels network in France ( Investessor ).

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

CiviTime — CiviTime provides innovative and customizable gaming solutions that help improve employee engagement through the pride of belonging.
Dr Milou — Dr Milou, est un service qui propose de prendre soin de son animal de compagnie sans bouger de son domicile.
Sensivic — Designed and manufactured in France, SENSIVIC smart audio detection systems add meaning to your security. Our solutions automatically detect and alert you in real time as soon as an abnormal sound or suspicious noise occurs.

Guillaume Houzé Directeur de l’Image et de la Communication, Membre du Directoire chez Groupe Galeries Lafayette

Investment focus

Art, Web Apps, Communities
Seed, Angel
Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

Reforestum — Reforestum is the platform that allows everyone to see and understand the Voluntary Carbon Markets with full transparency and to manage and disclose organisations' offset portfolios with confidence.
LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

We are an employee controlled company managing and/or advising more than $125 bn of assets. Our mission is to generate sustainable, long-term returns for our clients, alongside positive social impact that benefits all our stakeholders and society at large.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
France, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

My Pie — My Pie makes meals and natural lunch breaks.
Mon Véto — Mon Véto is a generic veterinary clinic chain. It is a cutting-edge, well-equipped veterinary clinic.
Heathrow Airport Holdings — Heathrow is the UK’s only hub airport. Around 70 million people pass through our terminals every year. 190,000 every day flying in and out of 90 different countries. They serve 86 airlines including the national carriers British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. Right in the heart of the business world. A huge part of the UK economy, on the doorstep ofLondon one of the world’s most vibrant cities.

We believe that Tezos will drive social, political and economic innovation on a global scale.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Series A
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Wert — Making purchasing of NFTs seamless and not requiring users to have crypto.
fxhash — The open platform for artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art.
GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.

Everyrealm is an immersive media company, specializing in technology and infrastructure that drives social, community-driven gaming experiences and platforms.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

fxhash — The open platform for artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art.
AnotherBall — AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain.
Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

Investing in the future of trust (Blockchain, Privacy, AI)

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
Informal Systems — Informal Systems offer research and development at the intersection of formal verification and distributed systems.

Gabriel Jarrosson created his first website at 13, then sold his first startup at 25. Serial entrepreneur and investor in more than 100 startups with 15 exits, he has since founded Leonis Investissement, a private club that offers its members the opportunity to invest in fast-growing startups in Silicon Valley that they would not have access toalone. He has invested more than $30M through this club. He is the creator of the YouTube channel "Leonis Investissement", the most followed in France on this theme. Since 2023, he has also manages Lobster Capital, a $10M investment fund that invests in Silicon Valley startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, India

Portfolio highlights

54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
Apprente — Learn New Stuff Every Day
Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.
Shimmer — Weekly guided support circles to learn the skills you need to combat stress and anxiety. Evidence-based curriculum developed by doctors, therapists, and peers
Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!

Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon.It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of theindependent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
Monet Associes — Monet + Associes is a public relations agency.

AVP invests in enterprise software, fintech/insurtech, digital health, and consumer tech, as well as other relevant technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qloo — Qloo is the cultural AI. Qloo has developed cutting-edge machine learning processes and AI algorithms to predict taste for any target audience and map relationships within and between cultural domains, including: Music, Film, TV, Dining, Nightlife, Fashion, Books, Travel and Tech.Qloo has mapped more than a quarter-trillion culturalcorrelations, and makes this intelligence readily available to individuals, developers, and leading brands. Qloo's cultural AI is currently powering personalization and informing key decisions for market leaders in tech, financial services, entertainment, automotive, fashion, CPG and hospitality. Qloo is headquartered and lovingly built in NYC.
Radius Agent — A nationwide real estate network with endless possibilities.
CryptoNext Security — CryptoNext is a spin-off from Inria Paris and Sorbonne University. The quantum computer disruption is an opportunity, a source of progress for many fields, but also a serious threat to the security of electronic communications. A large-scale quantum computer will break the cryptography that permits to secure Internet. Their vision is that quantumcomputers is a risk that we cannot ignore.

Premier Janvier Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Art
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

Violette Taquet

Investment focus

Art, Internet, Software
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Eunomart — Eunomart provides a simple solution to the challenges of the fight against money laundering. They develop an automated vigilance procedure tool intended to help analyze the legal risks to which art professionals are exposed.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qobra — Qobra is the next generation Sales Compensation Software designed for sales, operations, finance & HR fast-growing teams.
Cook-e — Cook-e's robotic kitchen automatically prepares warm dishes such as bowls, pastas, woks, from fresh ingredients. Recipes can be entered in the software controlling the robot. The robot can cook up to 100 dishes/hour.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BLNG — BLNG is a Generative AI company providing design software and data products for the jewelry industry.
Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
Superfluid Finance — Streaming salaries and rewards for DAOs and crypto-natives.

Chantal Baudron is the CEO of Chantal Baudron SAS.

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Kleep — Kleep is a software that analyzes customers' body shapes and recommends the right size for products.
OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers
Alegria.tech — Alegria.tech is a nocode agency for start-ups, SMEs and large accounts.

AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
Remotebase — Hire Silicon Valley Caliber Developers | Remotebase

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