Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in France in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in B2b startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in B2b companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 B2B Startup Investors in France in October 2024
Investor | B2B France investments |
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Hexa | 11 |
Kima Ventures | 8 |
Global Founders Capital | 6 |
Axeleo Capital | 5 |
Financiere Saint James | 5 |
Thibaud Elziere | 5 |
Alven | 4 |
Angelsquare | 4 |
Index Ventures | 3 |
AA Sons | 3 |
M Capital Partners | 3 |
Kernel Investissements | 3 |
Didier Valet | 3 |
Super Capital | 3 |
LocalGlobe | 3 |
Rodolphe Ardant | 3 |
Bpifrance | 3 |
123Venture | 3 |
Lorimer Ventures | 3 |
Headline | 3 |
Breega | 3 |
Frenchfounders | 2 |
Otium Capital | 2 |
Omnes Capital | 2 |
NextStage | 2 |
Leap Ventures | 2 |
Steve Anavi | 2 |
Demeter Partners | 2 |
Ventech | 2 |
Laurent Asscher | 2 |
Crédit Agricole | 2 |
Christophe Chausson | 2 |
Newfund | 2 |
Hi Inov - Dentressangle | 2 |
Sofimac Investment Managers | 2 |
Motier Ventures | 2 |
Michael Benabou | 2 |
Nate Matherson | 2 |
Marc Menase | 2 |
Northzone | 2 |
Aster | 2 |
Aglaé Ventures | 2 |
Clement Benoit | 2 |
Bleu Capital | 2 |
Frederic Montagnon | 2 |
Partech | 2 |
Giorgio Riccò | 2 |
Thejo Kote | 1 |
Julien Lemoine | 1 |
Rapyd Ventures | 1 |
eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
- Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- nopillo — Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France.
- Willy anti-gaspi — Willy anti-gaspi is a waste-fighting e-commerce business.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
AXC is a European Venture Capital Fund, supported by a large community of tech entrepreneurs. We back startups from pre-seed / seed.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sopht — Sopht is an Environmental Services company that allows organizations to pilot their environmental impact and automate their decarbonation.Sopht provides a lever for optimizing and rationalizing the challenges of an IT department. The platform is built on a series of modules that reconstitutes the entire IT value chain of a company (multi-cloudmonitoring, management of IT assets, analysis of digital uses and services, etc.) thus allowing a vision and end-to-end management.Founded by Jérémie Veg, Julien Rouzé, Gautier Levert in 2021 and is located in Lyon and Paris.
- Tenacy — CEO
- Actionable — Actionable is a startup specialized in predictive analysis of customer satisfaction through artificial intelligence. With its innovative platform, it provides businesses with the ability to predict the satisfaction of their entire customer base on a daily basis. By employing an innovative method that analyzes data throughout the customer journey,Actionable identifies the key factors driving this satisfaction and enables tracking of key metrics in real-time through a comprehensive dashboard and widgets. Its goal is to transform the measurement of customer satisfaction into a continuous, precise, and actionable process.
Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Tomorro (ex Leeway) — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
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
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
- Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
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.
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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 — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
- Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
- Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
AA Sons focuses on raising venture capital for ambitious, fast-growing companies with a desire to 'make the world a better place' in retail, mobility, healthcare, care, fintech and broader tech sectors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
- HUG — Join our global creative community to showcase & sell your art, connect with others, and access creator-friendly grants and education.
- THE GO-TO — The Go-To is the destination for elevated gifting. Discover our curation of unique and bespoke gifts curated from designers and artisans all over the world. Shop personalised gifts for couples and so much more.
M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM.
A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth.
In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Fasst — Fasst is involved in the creation, distribution, consulting, and connection of unique digital insurance solutions for brokers and insurers.
- Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
- Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
Founded in 2008, Kernel Investissements is a Paris-based venture capital firm that funds enterprise software companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Salty — Salty is an aD2C producer of a furniture and decoration brand inspired by the world of surfing.
- Sora — We're cooking, stay tuned
- Reveal — Map Accounts & identify Qualified Leads for Free. Save valuable time & say goodbye to spreadsheets with instant account mapping allowing you to drive & measure revenue.
Didier Valet
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Luxembourg, Israel
Super Capital offers financing solutions and 360° support for early-stage startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, SaaS
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Kamae — Kamae is a security software development company that develops security awareness training software for cyber security.
- Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
- Bib Batteries — Bib extends the lifecycle of batteries from their first use in electric vehicles to their second life. Bib gives your batteries a new cost-effective life through repair, reuse, or recycling
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Userled — Userled is a no-code interface and AI-powered platform that automates the distribution of personalizing marketing experiences across all ad and email platforms, empowering revenue teams with person-level engagement insights without cookies. Customers can deploy multiple personalized campaigns across all their target platforms from email, Linkedin,Meta, and more.
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
- Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.
A graduate of École Polytechnique and Columbia University, Rodolphe Ardant created his first company straight out of university. In 2013, he sold Wozaik, a digital advertising startup, to Solocal and took up the role of COO at Drivy before getting back to the entrepreneurial roots with eFounders. In 2016, he founded Spendesk, the first all-in-oneplatform to help manage the entire business spending process in one place and free people from the hassle of spending at work.
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Credit
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
- Oderis — Oderis helps corporate and private equity clients with transaction advisory, business valuation, consulting and financial assistance.
- VELA — VELA is an innovative 100% wind-powered maritime transport. It has been working to address the climate emergency by providing a creative, sustainable, and socially responsible maritime transportation solution.
123 Venture offers funds of funds to both institutional investors as well as individual investors. 123Venture has successfully built a network of leading private equity managers in France and Europe.
123Venture also invests directly in companies, typically alongside other private equity fund managers (co-investments) with whom they have made fundinvestments.
If you are an institutionnal investor, you can have access to our know how through our funds of funds or through managed accounts. 123Venture’s dedicated programs can be tailored to meet a broad range of client-defined objectives.
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Investment focus
- Software, Computer, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, Spain, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- SeniorAdom — Founded in November 2012, SeniorAdom offers new remote assistance technology. SeniorAdom’s next-generation technology automatically detects falls and sudden illness using a smart system of detectors (no cameras) connected to a central device. This central device is easy to install and use. It can simply be plugged into a power socket (no need foran internet connection because it has an embedded GSM mobile phone card). No special training is required. In addition to falls and sudden illness, SeniorAdom’s solution can also report any unusual patterns in the life of a dependent person by sending a text or email to their carer. Each carer has a personalised and secure space from which they can monitor the well-being of the person living in their own home. SeniorAdom has genuinely disrupted the remote assistance space, which had barely advanced in 35 years. It provides comfort and peace of mind to both carers and service users.
- Snowleader — Votre boutique en ligne (qui sent bon le reblochon) spécialiste des sports d’hiver, outdoor et street.
- SnapEvent — SnapEvent is a mobile application that enables its users to follow conference trends and event planning tips. It was launched in 2014 by Edgars Vecozolins and Zigmars Rozentals and is based in Riga.
Our mission is to find and catalyze the success of founders with big ideas, who envision a radically different future and have a plan to make it a reality
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Spain, France
Portfolio highlights
- Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
- Airship — Elevate your HVAC sales process with Airship, the all-in-one proposal and sales software designed for technicians. Our point-of-sale solution simplifies proposal creation, integrates seamlessly with FSM systems like ServiceTitan and Housecall Pro, and enhances customer conversions through effective
- Airship — Elevate your HVAC sales process with Airship, the all-in-one proposal and sales software designed for technicians. Our point-of-sale solution simplifies proposal creation, integrates seamlessly with FSM systems like ServiceTitan and Housecall Pro, and enhances customer conversions through effective
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
- Zive — All your company's knowledge, universally accessible to all employees.
- Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Entalpic — Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery platform for sustainable industries aiming to optimize carbon-intensive sectors.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
FrenchFounders provides its members with a networking platform for premium business profiles.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flitter — Flitter is a neo-insurance company that provides pay-per-mile insurance and connected technology.
- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- French Bloom — French Bloom is a retail store that provides alcohol-free wines.
In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- e-peas — Ready to make your device energy autonomous with our state-of-art energy harvesting solutions? Phone: (+32) 10 77 12 30, sales@e-peas.com
- Caats — Caats describes customized meals and their advantages for cat health. They offer answers for a variety of issues, including optimum weight, kidney hydration, strengthened immune system, silky coat, protection of the intestinal flora, and others. They provide monthly from 14.90€.
- Comet Software — Comet Software is a business software publishing company that helps businesses achieve autonomy and independence.
Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
- Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
- Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
NextStage is a private equity fund manager (venture capital funds (“FCPRâ€), local investment funds (“FIPâ€) and innovation investment funds (“FCPIâ€)) 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.
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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.
Global tech from MENA
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dogdrop — The very best dog daycare: Flexible, convenient, and quality you can trust.
- Xolo — Xolo is an all-for-solos business engine that provides local and global solutions for business formation, VAT-compliant invoicing, accounting, tax reporting, business expenses and more.
- Keyang Semiconductor — Keyang is mainly engaged in the design, R&D, manufacture, packaging, and testing of semiconductor TSV package integrated circuit products.
Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
- Maltivor —
- Naïo Technologies — Naio Technologies develops and markets machines for agriculture and viticulture. It features electric tools for weeding, hoeing, and harvesting that help farmers collect and harvest their products. The company specializes in agriculture, AI, robotics, and Agtech. Naio Technologies was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Midi-Pyrenees, France.
On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
- Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
- Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
Previously, I was also Investor in several industry-defining companies, notably Themis (sold to Mercury Systems), Ixia (sold to Keysight), Webedia (sold to Fimalac), Centellax (sold to Microsemi), CacheIQ (sold to NetApp), Anametrix (sold to Enlighten), KitLocate (sold to Yandex), Tekelec (sold to Siris Capital Group), LibertySurf (IPO),Aufeminin.com (IPO), Freever (sold to Buongiorno), Sidetrade (IPO), EmailVision (IPO) and Instranet (sold to SFDC).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, B2B
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Adikteev — Adikteev is the leading app re-engagement platform for performance-driven marketers, consistently ranked in the top 5 of the Appsflyer Performance Index. Adikteev helps the world’s top-spending gaming app publishers increase retention, reacquire churned users and drive incremental revenue thanks to made-to-measure re-engagement strategies,creatives and algorithms. Adikteev serves customers anywhere in the world through 3 offices in the US & EMEA.
- NeoReach — Seamlessly search, manage, and track user-generated content campaigns.
- Spendesk — Spendesk is smart to spend management software designed for both finance teams and employees. With flexible payments, approvals, automated receipt capture, and real-time spend insights, finance can decentralize operational spending across the business without any loss of control or visibility. Employees benefit from streamlined expense and invoicemanagement through the Spendesk website and app.Their tool helps companies save time on spend management. They empower finance teams with visibility across the entire spending process and wow employees with a streamlined experience for all spending at work.The company was established in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.
Credit Agricole is a banking corporation with focuses on corporate and investment banking, retail banking, and savings management. Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, helpful bank serving 49 million customers, 7.4 million mutual shareholders, and 1.2 million shareholders. Crédit Agricole Group supports its customers in their plans and projectsin France and around the world, through its operations in all segments of the market including insurance, real estate, payment systems, asset management, leasing and factoring, consumer finance, and corporate and investment banking.
Crédit Agricole also stands out for its dynamic, innovative corporate social responsibility policy serving the economy. This policy is based on a pragmatic approach that permeates throughout the entire Group and engages all its employees. Its recent inclusion in the Vigeo-NYSE Euronext extra-financial indices is recognition of this engagement.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Quai des Notaires — Vente, succession, signez l'esprit tranquille. Sans rdv et gratuit ! Trouvez votre notaire en ligne.
- Technique Solaire — Technique Solaire specializes in the distribution of photovoltaic energy for individuals and businesses as corant from solar panels.
- Arkeon Energy Systems — Arkeon Energy Systems develops hermodynamic cycles and thermal stages to meet heating, air conditioning, and electricity needs.
Christophe Chausson is the partner of Chausson Finance. He previously worked at iBanFirst as an Investor. Christophe Chausson attended the Paris Dauphine University - PSL.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Delpha — Delpha is an AI-driven data quality solution that uses intelligent AI Agents to ensure accurate, reliable customer data, helping businesses improve operational efficiency and boost revenue performance.
- Fabriq — Fabriq is a SaaS startup whose mission is to improve the daily operational efficiency of shop floor teams. About 1 in 6 jobs today is in the manufacturing sector today and a vast majority of factories have to take their performance tracking tools digital. By providing a intuitive and collaborative app on which shop floor workers can rely on, Fabriqdelivers efficiency gains of 2% to 3% by allowing users to solve operational issues faster, make information flow freely and leverage operational data to augment daily decision making.
- DataHawk Technologies — DataHawk software platform provides eCommerce analytics tools for sellers and vendors to increase sales, optimize margins, gain insights, and boost productivity.
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- nopillo — Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France.
- Touch Sensity — Touch Sensity is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of IoT and sensors.
- Infinite Orbits — Infinite Orbits is a company with a vision to provide reliable, turnkey in - orbit services to satellite operators all over the world.
Hi inov is a regulated Venture capital management company dedicated to early stage investment in B2B digital start-ups. We have €165M under management. They are 7 investors based in Paris, Lyon and Munich and also have an operating team.Hi Inov supports young and innovative digital BtoB companies from their very beginnings, and stimulates theirlong-term growth to help them become tomorrow’s leading companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- France, Germany, Belgium
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- Kenjo — All-in-one human resources (HR) software created for SMEs that need to optimise their processes. Click to find out more!
- Dipeeo — Dipeeo, a BtoB SaaS automation platform, combines GDPR expertise with a BPO platform to manage clients' compliance, it simplifies GDPR compliance, offering personalized support, strengthening businesses and boosting confidence.
- ANOZR WAY — Human risk management platform for monitoring, alerting and recommending remediation of employee and manager vulnerabilities.
Acteur incontournable du capital risque de proximité, SOFIMAC PARTNERS accompagne depuis maintenant plus de 30 ans les PME régionales dans le financement de leur développement à moyen / long terme. Répondant à la problématique de sous capitalisation des PME françaises, SOFIMAC PARTNERS intervient en fonds propres aux côtés des chefsd’entreprises quelle que soit leur problématique : Création, Développement, Transmission. Gérant 200 M€ d’actifs au travers de 16 fonds (FCPR, FCPI, SCR, FIP,…), notre groupe réalise ses investissements sur une grande variété de secteurs, couvrant aussi bien les activités traditionnelles que technologiques (chimie verte, éolien, chaudronnerie aéronautique, e-commerce, édition de logiciel, médecine nucléaire etc…)
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, Austria
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- Blue Valet — Blue Valet is a provider of valet parking-parking at airports and train stations.
- Mob-Energy — Mob-Energy is a privately held company specializing in the development of mobile and innovative charging solutions. It designs autonomous charging robots capable of moving energy where it is needed, optimizing the site's existing infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
- Snowleader — Votre boutique en ligne (qui sent bon le reblochon) spécialiste des sports d’hiver, outdoor et street.
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.
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- Information Technology, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.
President at Financiere Saint James.
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- Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- France, Spain
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- Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
- ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
- Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.
Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Dropezy — A daily needs platform that uses a network of dark stores to guarantee deliveries in under 20 minutes.
- Unify AI — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
- ParadeDB — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
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- Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
- Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
- Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.
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- Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
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- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
- Flink Food — Flink is a developer of an online platform used to offer and deliver multi-category grocery products. Its application offers a wide selection of convenience items like fresh herbs, fruits, bread, essentials, and home supplies among others that enable people to get necessaries delivered to the door within ten minutes while saving transit costs.Thecompany was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).
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- Software, Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- EyeLights — EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple,uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding.The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
- LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Canada
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- New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
- Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.
- 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!
Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse
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- Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
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- AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
- Cocunat — Cocunat is a natural and 100% toxic free cosmetics brand.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
We're a multi-stage, transatlantic investment fund helping founders create category-defining companies that will shape up the consumer experiences of tomorrow.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, France
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- Malou — Malou offers food marketing and digital marketing solutions for restaurants. The company also offers content management, restaurant marketing, reputation management, presence management, and SEO solutions.
- Nova Carbon — High-performance sustainable carbon fiber composites
- mediarithmics — A sustainable and privacy-first next-Gen Data Platform to deliver advanced use cases for leading retail, media and broadcast players. We also provide you with the most advanced solutions for a cookieless and compliant future.
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
- Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.
Giorgio Riccò - Head of Sales and Tech @ Carlo Riccò & F.lli
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- FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- France
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- Swan — Use Swan's APIs to embed white-labeled banking features like accounts, cards, and IBANs into your workflows and UX.
- Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
- Arcadium — eSports players coaching platform
Thejo Kote is the Founder and CEO of Airbase. He previously worked at TiE as a Board Member, TiE Silicon Valley. Thejo Kote attended UC Berkeley School of Information.
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, France
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- Rillet — Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analyticscapabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reporting all embedded within one platform.
- TeamOhana — TeamOhana unifies people, processes, and data into one single source of truth so you can execute your headcount plan on time and within budget.
- Aleph — Aleph helps top finance teams work with their data in real time. Businesses can automate financial models and streamline budgeting and forecasting with the fastest-to-implement FP&A platform. Aleph eliminates the need to export data from multiple sources by syncing spreadsheet models with data from 150+ integrations, and allows teams tointeract with their data in no-code dashboards.From annual budgeting to ad hoc reporting, scale your financial processes faster with better data without expanding your team. See why over 90% of people who start a trial with Aleph become customers!
Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder of Algolia, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder at Algolia SAS and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine defined the technology strategy of MASA Group (an international software editor of simulation software) and led the development of strategic R&Dproducts in indexing and natural languages processing at Exalead (Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) and Thales Group. He has extensive experience in architecture design and implementation from his leading work in Exalead and Thales.
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- Software, Developer Tools, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States
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- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Carbonx — We help organizations by de-risking the procurement of high-quality & permanent carbon removal credits to maximize overall climate impact.
- Inboxbooster — Inboxbooster fixes your email in spam. It starts with a free inbox placement test, then we analyze your email including your content.
Rapyd Ventures is the fintech venture capital arm of Rapyd. We invests in companies building the next generation of financial tools, infrastructure and applications.
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- Payments, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- Singapore, United States, India
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- Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
- firmly.ai — Make every moment shoppable.
- Decentro — Decentro provides banking and payment APIs that make it possible to quickly construct fintech solutions like banking, payment cards, neobanking, and collections and payout services.
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