Top 40 Beauty Startup Investors in France in December 2024
A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Beauty startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 40 Beauty Startup Investors in France in December 2024
Investor | Beauty France investments |
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Otium Capital | 3 |
Newfund | 2 |
Eutopia VC | 2 |
Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence | 1 |
Marc Simoncini | 1 |
Alven | 1 |
Crédit Coopératif | 1 |
Marseille Credit Company | 1 |
BNP Paribas | 1 |
Firstminute Capital | 1 |
Pertinence Invest | 1 |
Be Angels | 1 |
Etoile ID | 1 |
Seventure Partners | 1 |
Bertrand Jacquelot | 1 |
Daphni | 1 |
Denis Fayolle | 1 |
M Capital Partners | 1 |
Région Sud Investissement | 1 |
Pierre Antoine Dusoulier | 1 |
Thibaud Elziere | 1 |
Audacia Capital | 1 |
Prisma Media | 1 |
Xavier Niel | 1 |
Guillaume Gibault | 1 |
Julien Romanetto | 1 |
Raise Ventures | 1 |
Karot Capital | 1 |
Capitole Angels | 1 |
Frederic Montagnon | 1 |
Angelsquare | 1 |
ACG Management | 1 |
Banque Populaire Méditerranée | 1 |
Connect Pro | 1 |
Elaia | 1 |
A Plus Finance | 1 |
Serena | 1 |
Merieux Developpement | 1 |
Bpifrance | 1 |
Hexa | 1 |
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
- JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
- 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.
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, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
- Raidium — Radiology augmented GPT to tackle the complexity of precision medicine
- Arenametrix — Arenametrix is the first Customer Data Platform dedicated to entertainment.
Eutopia is a fund for consumer startups. We back founders who are rethinking the way we eat, shop, sleep and feel. We are backing 26 startups
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
- Bastille — Bastille is a brand of urban bicycles. The Astir brand is synonymous with folding bicycles. The primary quality constraint Bastille, a British designer, aims to create a folding motorcycle with standard wheels rather than the mini 16-inch wheels that are traditionally associated with folding bikes.
- Nous anti-gaspi — We anti-Gapsi is the network of anti-waste food stores. This grocery store project offers producers and manufacturers the opportunity to their downgraded and unsold products at a fair price. They are a qualitative environment, they market products excluded from the usual mass distribution circuits for small defects, physical defects, contract-datenot respected, and end of series. They offer consumers a new mode of consumption that gives priority to common sense and that is at the same time smart, qualitative, and eco-responsible. In their stores, they offer you to find, in a warm atmosphere, a complete choice of food products to save waste: fruits and vegetables, fresh and frozen products, groceries, and even a small bulk section.
Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence is a regional cooperative bank that offers a wide range of banking services.
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Investment focus
- CAD, 3D Technology, Machinery Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Lynxter — Lynxter is a 3D machine manufacturing firm that develops standard and customized models.
- DataFret — DataFret aids in the automation of goods invoicing processing. It is intended to improve relationships between shippers and carriers by making invoicing and management more fluid.
- Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.
Marc Simoncini is the CEO, Co-Founder and Owner of Jaina Capital. He previously worked at MEETIC as a Founder, Owner and Ex-CEO. Marc Simoncini attended E.S.I.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Software, Audio
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
- Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
- URBAN CUISINE — URBAN CUISINE develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.
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
- Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
- Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
- Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
Crédit Coopératif is a banking company that deals with diversified banking products and services for both organizations and businesses.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Beauty, Medical
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Private Equity
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Ecoat — Ecoat offers bio-based and performing solutions to help reduce the carbon footprint of your coatings and paints. Discover our products now!
- Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.
- Startin'blox — Startin'blox is a software company that specializes in creating web applications that can adapt to simple to complicated projects.
Marseille Credit Company is a notable local bank in France.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Organic, Wellness
- Debt Financing
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.
BNP Paribas provides banking, financing, investment, savings, and protection solutions. Their investment services include businesses that provide savings, investment, and protection services. They provide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Grenergy — Grenergy specializes in research and development and sales of energy-saving power management chips. The company was founded in August 2016 and is headquartered in Nanjing, China.
- La Doria — La Doria is a producer and sells tomato derivatives, ready sauces, preserved legumes, fruit juices, and beverage products. They offer products that include boiled legumes, baked beans, red kidney beans, carrots, ready-made soups and stews, and canned pasta in tomato sauce.
- Akaysha Energy — Discover innovative and sustainable renewable energy solutions with Akaysha Energy. Powering Australia's future with clean, reliable energy.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Lupa Pets — Lupa connects pet parents with pet service providers. Building the world’s first solution which integrates E2E, offering cutting-edge Practice Management Software, an online booking platform comprehensive of all service providers, and a market-leading Gen-AI vet assistant.
- ClaimSorted — ClaimSorted is a modern claims TPA providing a 5-star claims experience while also reducing operational and indemnity costs through our industry-leading claims team and advanced automation
- Volare — Refining food industry side streams into sustainable protein, oil and fertilizers.
Pertinence Invest is an investment Firm that works with tech start ups.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, CRM
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- BIOMAE — BIOMAE provides biomonitoring tools to measure contamination and toxicity of aquatic environments. The company presents tools for measuring and monitoring the quality of aquatic environments from markers of effects on a pollutant invertebrate transplanted directly into the environment. The biomonitoring tools come from years of research, making itpossible to analyze the bioavailability of the contaminants and the degree of toxicity, directly in the medium. The company operates a methodological breakthrough to identify the issue of diagnosis for environmental quality monitoring.BIOMAE was founded on 2014 and is based in Gaillard, France.
- Skinjay — Skinjay presents you with an opportunity to combine a priceless moment of well-being with a daily ritual: SHOWERING.Thanks to a concept that offers an innovative and particularly effective method for diffusing essential oils into shower water, Skinjay helps you benefit from the positive effects of Aromatherapy and Aromachology directly on yourbody and through inhalation, all the while you enjoy an intense moment of well-being in the shower.Adopt Skinjay, install the Module in your shower very easily, and choose the essential oil shower capsules depending on your wishes and needs on the day.The Aromachology capsules from the ODYSSEY collection will stimulate your senses and take you on an intense emotional journey to the heart of your memories, while the Aromatherapy capsules from the MISSION collection.Will ease the minor ailments of your daily life thanks to the recognised beneficial qualities of essential oils.
- Mablink Bioscience — Mablink Bioscience is a biotechnology company specialized in the development of a new class of cancer drugs, called Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC).
Early stage Entrepreneurs Coaching and FinancingOne of Europe's leading Business Angels Networks. We connect innovative growth companies to equity finance and coaching by experienced angel investors.
The network is 250 members strong and has been assisting innovative entrepreneurs to find financing for more than 10 millions Euros in thelast 4 years.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Belgium, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Savics — Savics offers digital solutions for health actors to improve their data management, disease diagnostics and GeneXpert connectivity.
- DeftHedge — DeftHedge is an application addressed to business leaders, and CFOs facing volatility of foreign exchange market.
- NIUM — NIUM is a startup focused on personalized nutrition and gut microbiome research. NIUM created science-based solutions to transform nutrition research and product development.
Étoile ID is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital investments, buyins, and leveraged buyouts. It seeks to invest in all the industries. The firm prefers to invest in France. It invests between €0.5 million ($0.67 million) and €2.5 million ($3.34 million) in companies with enterprise values between €8 million ($9.17 million) and €80million ($91.73 million) and revenues up to €100 million ($131.41 million). The firm generally invests for a period between five years and seven years. It takes a minority stake, between 10% and 30% in its portfolio companies while making growth capital investments. The firm invests out of balance sheet. Étoile ID was founded in 1985 and is based in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Végétalement Provence — Végétalement Provence develops plant-based cosmetics for beauty professionals. With a lot of plants extracts and essential oils, the creations signed Vegétalement Provence are sup’organic: a new concept, beyond natural cosmetics and those certified.Végétalement Provence dedicates its expertise in advanced biotechnology to skincare becoming thefirst professional cosmetic brand recognized by an Innovation Award.
Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, and life sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with€ 660 million under management as of December 31, 2016. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
- Siit — Siit is a modern IT service management platform. Conversational, integrated and AI-powered service desk for IT and internal operation teams. Simplify internal operations today!
- Sequentia Biotech — Sequentia Biotech is a bioinformatics company that offers services for healthcare, pharma, agriculture, industry and environment.
Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
- Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
- Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity
Daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pruna AI — Pruna is the AI Optimization Engine - a frictionless solution to help you optimize and compress your ML models for efficient inference.
- Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
- JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.
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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 — Live unforgettable moments! Book among hundreds of the best outdoor activities on manawa.com. Best service and best prices guaranteed.
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.
Région Sud Investissement is an investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Nexess — Nexess SAS develops and sells security management solutions for nuclear and Seveso-type plants. It offers NexLink, a software platform for security and productivity; identification products, such as personal security badges, RFID tags, optical tags, high temperature RFID tags, touch based self service counters, mobile devices, rugged mobilesystems, NexLink display screens, and smart cabinets; smart camera systems that offers autonomous image analysis and real time data transmission; and RFID antenna systems, which allows objects detection and surveillance in harsh environments. The company offers its products for applications, such as hazardous products traceability, smart automatic secured cabinets to manage equipments, site localization equipments and operation securing, and hazardous zone access detection. Nexess SAS was founded in 2006 and is based in Mougins, France with an additional office in Paris, France.
- Trust-Place — Trust-Place allows brands to authenticate the item with a digital certificate of ownership.
- Acwa Robotics — Acwa Robotics is a company that develops amphibious autonomous devices to manage clean water infrastructures globally.
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the CEO of iBanFirst. He previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Bastion — Bastion is a cloud-based cyber security platform that is built to scale with security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs.
- Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.
- FREELAND FOR CORPORATES — Corporate Online Schoo
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
Portfolio highlights
Audacia Capital is a Dubai based focused investment bank with a primary focus on private equity.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Rental, Fashion
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Ekar — Ekar is a convenient and flexible pay-as-you-drive hourly and daily car rental service. With Ekar, users can search, book, and unlock cars safely and securely for personal driving use, through a smartphone app and installed technology in rental cars. Ekar was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- Niftify — Niftify is a platform where users can create, sell, buy, and swap NFTs.
- Universal Beauty Group — Nous déployons nos savoirs en matière de création de produits à forte valeur ajoutée autour de la beauté & santé du corps, des cheveux, de la peau et de l’âme... Ancrés en Provence, nous concevons, créons, et distribuons une gamme alternative complète dont le concept global se place sous l'égide du végétal, de l'innovation de laqualité et de l’efficacité et du développement durable. Nos marques : Végétalement Provence, leader français de la cosmétique végétale à destination des professionnels de la beauté, Delabre & Faraco, accessoires beauté innovants et de qualité et Kusunoki, ciseaux pour les coiffeurs.
Prisma Media was founded in 1978 under the leadership of Axel Ganz, sent to Paris by the German publisher Gruner + Jahr, to launch a French version of GEO. In March 1979 GEO 1 launch Prisma signed arrives on newsstands. Adapted from its German counterpart, the success was immediate; two months after its launch, the monthly already has more than100,000 subscribers. With a portfolio of 26 titles and over twenty websites, the group is present in the main segments of the mainstream press magazine (female, kitchen, TV, celebrities, discovery, economy. Sales leadership, added to the power of its digital media brands, Prisma Digital ensures optimum potential audience Bimedia print-web of nearly 35 million people each month, or 70% of the population.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Delivery, Cosmetics
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Agua Blanca — Agua Blanca is a brand that wants to challenge the norm - of products, and thus of the quality of daily life - by providing the desire and the tools to do things differently, selection of hygiene and cleaning products.
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- 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.
Guillaume Gibault - Founder @ Le slip Francais
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Mindday — Mindday is reinventing mental well-being by combining human support, digital programs and science to provide immediate and personalized support to anyone.
- Respire — Respire is an e-commerce company of natural and vegan cosmetic products.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
- MeltingSpot — One platform to broadcast your lives, initiate discussions, gather your content, manage your audiences and much more. Get MeltingSpot for free.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Raise Ventures is a Venture Capital structure dedicated to innovative startups in France and Europe.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, GreenTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- France, Germany, United Kingdom
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.
- 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.
- NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
Karot Capital : Investissements Early Stage dans l'Innovation, pour des entrepreneurs ambitieux et sans filtre sectoriel.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Robotics, Industrial Automation
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- ISYBOT — ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST .
- ISYBOT — ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST .
Capitole Angels is to create this association was born from the experience of many of its founders in the field of start-ups including the following observations. Need a structure enabling them to meet investors / promoters of the project. Plethora of potential investors hampered by the lack of an open structure. A region rich in technology,its universities, laboratories and therefore the bearer of innovation.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, 3D Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Hoope — Hoope offers crunchy mueslis, spreads, and biscuits rich in nutrients, all organic, without palm oil, additives.
- Deepbloo — DeepBloo is a Sales and Market Intelligence platform. We provide : + 5.8 millions tenders and market information Worldwide and + 300 000 tenders in France
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Since its launch in 2016, Angelsquare has supported more than 500 startups from all sectors in their Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & Series B fundraising.
From the implementation of the operation to the final negotiations, we have developed unique expertise that we put at the service of entrepreneurs to advise them throughout their fundraisingoperation and help them convince the right investors. : Business Angels, Family Offices, investment funds…
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- 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!
Smalt Capital anciennement ACG Management, est un acteur majeur depuis plus de 20 ans
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, Madagascar
Portfolio highlights
- Kamp'n — Partenaire de croissance Facebook Ads & Google Ads
- Little Cigogne — Little Cigogne is reinvents the shopping experience for children.
- My Coach Football — My Coach Football allows you to manage and organize the daily operations of your football team, day after day, season after season. Designed to answer amateur and professional coaches’ needs, the platform centralizes all of your squad’s information and allows to gain time and efficiency. In a single click, you can manage players and their personalinformation, the preparation of training and games, but also individual and collective statistics. Season after season, you keep all those data and hence enjoy an optimum tracking of your team’s progression.
Banque Populaire Méditerranée is a regional mutual bank that offers online banking, business, asset management and property financing.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Organic, Chemical
- Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Ecoat — Ecoat offers bio-based and performing solutions to help reduce the carbon footprint of your coatings and paints. Discover our products now!
- Anotherway — Anotherway assists everyone in their transition to a healthier and more responsible lifestyle by developing ecological alternatives with a positive impact, with the goal of banning single-use plastic and lowering the carbon footprint. Its solutions encompass all aspects of home life (hygiene, cooking, and maintenance) and are designed to bepractical, simple, and cost-effective.
- Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.
Connect Pro creates value by structuring, strengthening, and revitalizing the regional and local economic fabric, through deep and lasting involvement with SMEs.
It was founded in 2007 and is based in Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Végétalement Provence — Végétalement Provence develops plant-based cosmetics for beauty professionals. With a lot of plants extracts and essential oils, the creations signed Vegétalement Provence are sup’organic: a new concept, beyond natural cosmetics and those certified.Végétalement Provence dedicates its expertise in advanced biotechnology to skincare becoming thefirst professional cosmetic brand recognized by an Innovation Award.
Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Spain
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.
- SURGAR — SURGAR provides a plug-and-play augmented reality software suite for computer-aided laparoscopic surgery.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
A Plus Finance, which is headquartered in Paris (France), is an independent trust company specialising in the management of Common Investment Fundsfor Innovation (FCPI) and Proximity Investment Funds (FIP). A Plus Finance is involved in all innovative sectors, particularly in the IT, media and security fields.The A Plus Finance team includesfinanciers and entrepreneurs, thus providing companies with both an awareness of the daily constraints of management and a long-term perspective on the development of their business. Managing funds amounting to nearly €220m, A Plus Finance invests between €1 million and €4 million per project.per
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- Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, United States
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- Uzaje — Uzaje offers solutions that enable food service professionals and food manufacturers to eliminate packaging and consumption waste through container cleaning and change management.
- Anotherway — Anotherway assists everyone in their transition to a healthier and more responsible lifestyle by developing ecological alternatives with a positive impact, with the goal of banning single-use plastic and lowering the carbon footprint. Its solutions encompass all aspects of home life (hygiene, cooking, and maintenance) and are designed to bepractical, simple, and cost-effective.
- Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.
Serena invests in bold ventures and provides them with an unrivaled level of expertise and operational resources.
In ten years, the firm has already contributed to the emergence of many success stories (Aramisauto - Acquired by PSA, The Fork - acquired by TripAdvisor, Cheerz -acquired by Cewe), and has currently 40 handpicked startups in itsportfolio such as Dataiku, Evaneos, Malt, iBanFirst, CybelAngel, or Lifen.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Switzerland
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- Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
- Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
- Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.
Mérieux Développement is specialized in Growth and Venture capital transactions in the healthcare and nutrition sectors. We support companies with products or services offering true differentiation and capacity to create substantial value over the long term. Our investment team, based in Europe and North America, brings its expertise andinternational network to help entrepreneurs disrupt and grasp substantial market opportunities. Mérieux Développement is an affiliate of Institut Mérieux, which employs approximately 17,000 employees worldwide, with consolidated revenues exceeding 2.5 billion Euros in 2017.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Series C, Series B
- France, United States, Belgium
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- SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.
- TISSIUM — TISSIUM is creating the future of tissue reconstruction. Learn more about our novel solutions based on our proprietary platform of biomorphic programmable polymers.
- Amyl Therapeutics — Amyl Therapeutics is a preclinical stage biotechnology company. Amyl Therapeutics uses a novel mechanism to bind to the amyloid fold of toxic protein aggregates of various types, including antibody light chain (AL) or transthyretin (TTR) aggregates, which accumulate in peripheral organs to cause systemic amyloidosis diseases, but also amyloid-β(Aβ), Tau, and α-synuclein aggregates, which accumulate in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
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- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Biolevate — Accelerating Therapeutic Innovation: AI-Enhanced Workflow Automation
- Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Canada
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- 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.
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