# Top 40 Beauty VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in June 2026

## Otium Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

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

## Eutopia VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

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

## Région Sud Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

Région Sud Investissement is an investment Firm.

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Banque Populaire Méditerranée
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Beauty, Organic, Chemical

Banque Populaire Méditerranée is a regional mutual bank that offers online banking, business, asset management and property financing.

## Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: CAD, Beauty, Energy

Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence is a regional cooperative bank that offers a wide range of banking services.

## Marseille Credit Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marseille-en-beauvaisis, Picardie, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Beauty, Organic, Wellness

Marseille Credit Company is a notable local bank in France.

## Mérieux Equity Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Mérieux Equity Partners (“MxEP”) is a management company dedicated to venture, growth and LBO investments in the healthcare and nutrition sectors. MxEP actively supports entrepreneurs and industrial companies with differentiated products and services, by providing privileged access to its expertise and international network. MxEP
currently managesmore than €600m AUM and has recently launched a new vehicle MP3 of €350m dedicated to growth/LBO.

## Campus Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Environmental Consulting, SaaS, Solar

Campus Fund provides finance and support to student entrepreneurs.

## Angelsquare
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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…

## Raise Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Raise Ventures is a Venture Capital structure dedicated to innovative startups in France and Europe.

## ACG Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Smalt Capital anciennement ACG Management, est un acteur majeur depuis plus de 20 ans

## Be Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Louvain-la-neuve, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

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.

## Pertinence Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Villeurbanne, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, CRM

Pertinence Invest is an investment Firm that works with tech start ups.

## Crédit Coopératif
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nanterre, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Focus: Biotechnology, Beauty, Medical

Crédit Coopératif is a banking company that deals with diversified banking products and services for both organizations and businesses.

## Etoile ID
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics

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.

## Seventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital 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 € 1 billion undermanagement as of December 31, 2023. 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.The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today:
- Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition
- Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity
- Sports & Wellbeing
- Blue Economy

## Prisma Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gennevilliers, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Delivery, Cosmetics

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.

## Audacia Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Beauty, Rental, Fashion

Audacia Capital is a Dubai based focused investment bank with a primary focus on private equity.

## Capitole Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing

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.

## Karot Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Manufacturing, Cosmetics

Karot Capital : Investissements Early Stage dans l'Innovation, pour des entrepreneurs ambitieux et sans filtre sectoriel.

## Smalt Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Beauty, Organic

Smalt Capital anciennement ACG Management, est un acteur majeur depuis plus de 20 ans

## Showroomprive
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: La Plaine-saint-denis, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1

Showroomprive claims to have the No. 2 spot in European private sales sites after Vente Privee, with 3 million members and 75 millions euros of revenue in 2009. Showroomprive came about when French entrepreneur and Internet media specialist Thierry Petit joined with David Dayan, an entrepreneur in the stock clearance and private offline salesprofession with Showroom30.

## Hartwood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bruyelle, Hainaut, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Financial Services

Hartwood is a multi-specialist consulting group, accelerating the growth of its companies.

## Daphni
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.

## M Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage

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.

## BNP Paribas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software

BNP Paribas provides banking, financing, investment, savings, and protection solutions. The Group's three operational divisions are mobilized to support each type of clientele in their growth and development projects including corporate and institutional banking, commercial, personal banking, investment and protection services. The companyprovide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations.

## Conegliano Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Video, Beauty, Mobile

Conegliano Venture is a New York-based venture capital firm that serves customers in the United States.

## Hexa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.

## Grenoble Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps

Grenoble Angels is a network of investors that is focused on seed- and early-stage venture investments in the sectors of biotechnology, software, task management, and more.

Grenoble Angels was founded in 2005 and is based in Grenoble, France.

## Ternel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Growing with direction

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

## ODYSSEE VENTURE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics

ODYSSEE VENTURE is a French Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France. The company has raised over 600M€.

## Firstminute Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

## Alven
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Independent early-stage VC firm for 25 years

## Newfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Elaia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

## Connect Pro
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics

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.

## A Plus Finance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications

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

## Serena
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management.
Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of itsportfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels.
Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.

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