Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in France in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in France in November 2024
Investor | Cryptocurrency France investments |
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SGH CAPITAL | 6 |
Bpifrance | 6 |
XAnge | 6 |
Kima Ventures | 6 |
Sebastien Borget | 5 |
Julien Bouteloup | 4 |
SOSV | 4 |
BlueYard Capital | 4 |
Thomas France | 4 |
Eric Larchevêque | 4 |
Thibaud Elziere | 4 |
Pascal Gauthier | 3 |
Nicolas Louvet | 3 |
Semantic Ventures | 3 |
Tiny VC | 3 |
Fabric Ventures | 3 |
Cygni Capital | 3 |
Isai | 3 |
Frederic Montagnon | 3 |
Alven | 2 |
White Star Capital | 2 |
Alexis Bonillo | 2 |
Draper Dragon | 2 |
Orange DAO | 2 |
ConsenSys | 2 |
w3b.vc | 2 |
Declan Kelly | 2 |
SV Angel | 2 |
AA Sons | 2 |
Nicolas Bacca | 2 |
Headline | 2 |
Orrick Venture Fund | 2 |
Coinbase | 2 |
Shana Fisher | 2 |
Nicolas Steegmann | 2 |
Lemniscap | 2 |
NOIA Capital | 2 |
Sébastien Lucas | 2 |
Motier Ventures | 2 |
Axeleo Capital | 2 |
Newfund | 2 |
Bilal EL ALAMY | 2 |
Jean-Daniel Guyot | 2 |
Frst | 2 |
Visary Capital | 2 |
MOVE Capital | 2 |
Bonfire Ventures | 2 |
Antoine de Tavernost | 1 |
Marc Bhargava | 1 |
Michael Kong | 1 |
Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Archax — Archax is the next evolution in digital asset trading
- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.
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
- Vaxinano — Vaxinano is a biotechnology company specialized in preclinical and pharmaceutical development of human and veterinary vaccines and drug delivery systems. Vaxinano was created in 2016, building on 25 years of research and clinical trials on vaccines and the patented technology of Pr Didier Betbeder.
- Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
- Starfish Bioscience — STARFISH Bioscience focuses on the creation and development of microbiological solutions for agriculture and vineyards. Our objective is to regenerate soils by restoring their microbiomes, increasing sustainability and productivity while minimizing environmental impact. We are dedicated to improving humanity's well-being and preserving theearth by inventing technologies that address the future difficulties of global agriculture.
For 20 years, XAnge has been a key venture capital fund in Europe. With 70 startups in its portfolio, XAnge invests early in innovative tech companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Germany, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
- Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
- SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.
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
- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.
- Storio Energy — Storio Energy is an AI-powered energy efficiency technology platform that provides renewable energy.
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Closd — CLOSD is a legal transaction management platform created by former business lawyers. It brings together lawyers and parties in a safe space, facilitates and ensures document exchange, simplifies project organization and management with interactive check lists, automates signings and closures with electronic signatures in a secure interface toauthenticate the signatures, and creates archives on transactions once they are closed.
- Coinhouse — Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinhouse, consult our educational content or visit our physical space, Coinhouse Store. Invest in the future, today.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
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
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Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- Runes DEX — Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards.
- Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture).
Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in
-Dataiku (colead, Series A)
- FinalCad (lead, Series A)
- Lengow (lead, Series B)
- Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A),
- Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B)
- TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed)
- Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B)
- and 15+ other companies...
He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills:
- Entrepreneurship, company management, business development
- Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe
- Fund management and creation
- Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition)
- Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zeenea — Zeenea’s data catalog empowers your data-driven organization with a common language. It’s with a better understanding, easier access and effective communication around your data that your organization will become data-driven! For many, the process of acculturation to data is a question of common language.In light of this conviction, Zeeneacreated a data catalog. On an easy-to-access and intuitive platform, Zeenea connects all of your data sources by automatically importing and updating your data, into a central data repository. Our tool allows anyone - with the necessary capacities - to discover, understand and trust the enterprise’s data asset.Companies rely on Zeenea to meet the challenge of setting up effective data governance in a lean startup mode: to promote the use of data internally while limiting the risks!Our data catalog promotes the concept of data-fluency: Be Data Fluent!
- Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
- AssoConnect — AssoConnect is an online tools platform that meets all the needs of volunteers and community leaders. The complete management of an association is time consuming and tedious. Some tasks - accounting, membership management, payment tracking, grant applications - require hundreds of hours of work per year. Less time for associative projects.itrepresents the digital revolution applied to the voluntary sector. Through this platform, associations have more time to devote to projects and have a complete, simple and intuitive tool to carry out all their associative activities over the long term.
Semantic Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in open markets and networks.
It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- X10 — 10X experience for every trader
- Chainbound — Chainbound is a research and development organization building optimized infrastructure and networking tools for blockchains. We are hiring!
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
- Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- idOS — The idOS is an open-source, decentralized identity system empowering users with data security, self-sovereignty, and control in web3 applications.
- Loot Labs — Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles.
- Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
Investing in the future of trust (Blockchain, Privacy, AI)
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
- Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- Mercateam — Mercateam specializes in developing staff management software.
- Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.
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
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
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
- Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.
- Blueberry Protocol — Blueberry is an interface for interacting with the rest of DeFi with the ability to leverage and hedge by borrowing from an internal lending market.
COO & Co-founder @ Zenly
Retired Pole Vaulter
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- 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.
- 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.
We invest in the We Love Entreprenuers About Us Founded by Larry Li, Andy Tang, Bobby Chao, and Tim Draper in 2006, Draper Dragon is a cross-border venture fund that connects Silicon Valley and Asia. We have offices in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangalore. We look for early-stage companies that would...
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.
- Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
- United States, Singapore, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Kiki World — KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.
- Lumino — Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup whose mission is to enable the power of AI for every human.
- Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
AngelList Syndicate
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Quidli — Send tokens to those you work with directly in Discord, Slack, Telegram, GitHub and Farcaster as well as over email and to a web3 wallet.
- Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
- Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Reducto — Reducto is an API that provides high quality data ingestion for large language models (LLMs). It works with any vector database or embedding system. It can parse PDFs, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
- Highlight — Get instant answers about anything you've seen, heard or said.
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
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- HUG — Join our global creative community to showcase & sell your art, connect with others, and access creator-friendly grants and education.
- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Multiwave Technologies — More than 2/3 of humanity has no access to medical imaging Our mission is to make MRI available globally, through our ultra-low field mobile device.
Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
- Hylé — Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
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.
- Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
- Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform
Global law firm focused on serving the technology & innovation, energy & infrastructure, finance and life sciences & healthtech sectors providing transactional, litigation and regulatory solutions.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Services, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Topanga.io — We enable businesses and institutions to launch and manage reusable packaging programs.
- Priori — Priori is a legal talent platform for corporate counsel to find, hire and manage top lawyers without the costly infrastructure of a firm. Fast-growing enterprises and F500 companies leverage Priori's data-driven RFP process, national and international curated network of boutique firms and temp attorneys, and seamless end-to-end technology platform to manage a full-suite of outside counsel needs and reduce spending.
- Spice Finance — Finally, liquid jpegs.
Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own Bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts. Also, it provides a series of merchant payment processing systems and tools that support manyhighly-trafficked websites on the internet. Coinbase was launched in 2012 with a mission to create an open financial system for the world. It is operated from San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Karak — The universal network for verifiable finance.
- Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
- Delegate — Delegate focuses on increasing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management such as NFTs and ERC20 tokens.
Shana Fisher is the Managing Partner of HLVP, a NY Based venture fund focused on early stage investments. From December 2003 to June 2010, Ms. Fisher served as IAC's Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Mergers and Acquisitions, and prior to that as the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for IAC. Previously, Ms. Fisherserved as Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance for Allen & Company, LLC. In this capacity she led principle investments and advised publicly traded technology firms, private telecommunications firms and media companies. Prior to Allen & Company, LLC., Ms. Fisher was a program manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Fisher received her B.A. from Hampshire College with a triple major in Sculpture, Philosophy and Linguistics and attended the Master of Arts program at New York University's ITP.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
- Glean — Fast data exploration for data teams and everyone else. Empower your whole team to answer questions without SQL and start making better decisions faster.
- Hashboard — Explore fast, intuitive Business Intelligence with Hashboard. Define metrics on your data warehouse and collaborate for deeper insights. Ideal for data teams seeking seamless, code-based workflows.
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- AniML — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
- Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
- Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain startups.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- Hyve — Hyve is a high-throughput data availability solution designed for high-performance decentralized applications and networks.
- Nitro Labs — Termina is a powerful platform designed to streamline the deployment of Solana blocks through an integrated engine for the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)
NOIA Capital is an actively managed alternative asset manager pursuing excellence in digital assets and blockchain technology investments.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Jersey, Belgium
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- Izix — Izix is the smart management software of office parking and mobility. Designed to optimize your parking assets and offer a flexible parking experience.
- Kelp DAO — Restake your ETH with Kelp, one of the largest Liquid Restaking Protocols built on EigenLayer, to maximize your staking and restaking rewards
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
Sébastien Lucas
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- Internet, IaaS, Cloud Storage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- France
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- Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
- GitGuardian — GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes.
- Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.
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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- autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
- Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.
- Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- 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.
- Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security is a Cybersecurity Solution
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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
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- 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.
- Greenscope — ESG reporting & CSR diagnosis | EU Taxonomy & CSRD/SFDR reporting | Carbon & biodiversity footprint calculator
- Ramify — Ramify est une plateforme qui vous permet d'investir simplement dans tous les produits financiers. Simulez gratuitement votre portefeuille en ETF, private equity et SCPI.
Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- France
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- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.
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- Blockchain, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
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- Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
- Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Frst is a seed-stage VC firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Luxembourg
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- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Helical — Helical is an intermediary platform that offers bioinformaticians free access to the technologies from AI and biological computation.
- Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
Visary Capital is an early stage fund investing in teams building infrastructure, protocols, and applications for the next generation digital economy.Investment areas include crypto assets, distributed systems, financial services, data analytics, machine learning, healthcare, media, remote work, and more. Partnering closely with companies andopen-source communities enabling freedom, inclusiveness, education, and major societal efficiencies through technology.
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, France, Singapore
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- Boost — The future of commerce is everywhere.
- Azteco — For every bit of life
- Lit Protocol — Lit is a key management network for decentralized signing and encryption. Create apps and wallets that use secrets without single points of failure.
MOVE Capital is a NEAR ecosystem native investment vehicle that exists to support founders and developers launching products on top of NEAR Protocol.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
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- Quidli — Send tokens to those you work with directly in Discord, Slack, Telegram, GitHub and Farcaster as well as over email and to a web3 wallet.
- Tonic — Tonic is building a permissionless decentralized protocol for fast and seamless trading of any asset on NEAR and Aurora. The platform will enable developers building on NEAR’s Layer 1 solution to integrate trading functionality into their applications.
Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
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- Supio — Supio is a dependable and precise AI that assists attorneys in obtaining the vital information they require to secure greater settlements for their customers.An engaging AI chatbot to help clients receive the care they require by identifying undiagnosed or untreated symptoms.
- Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel
- ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.
Directeur Général France
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- Blockchain, Web Design, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- France
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- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Interested in early stage opportunities to back transformational teams/companies.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
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- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Together — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
Michael Kong
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- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- France, Singapore
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- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
- Request Finance — A suite of financial tools to make your life easier - crypto organizations & freelancers use Request for invoices, expenses, payroll or accounting.
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