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Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in France in December 2024

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Edtech startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in France in December 2024

Investor EdTech France investments
Bpifrance 14
Educapital 13
Angelsquare 8
Kima Ventures 8
Brighteye Ventures 6
Elaia 5
M Capital Partners 5
Partech 5
MAIF Avenir 5
Isai 5
Ring Capital 5
Investessor 4
Finorpa 4
Karista 4
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet 4
Impact Partenaires 4
Thierry Petit 3
INCO Ventures 3
FJ Labs 3
Arkea Capital Investissement 3
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa 3
WeLikeStartup 3
BNP Paribas Développement 3
ODYSSEE VENTURE 3
Turenne Capital 3
Bpifrance Digital Venture 3
AQUITI Gestion 3
Nord France Amorcage 3
Financiere Saint James 3
Thibaud Elziere 3
Citizen Capital 3
GO CAPITAL 3
Avolta Partners 3
Siparex Groupe 2
UI Investissement 2
Breega 2
Alto Invest 2
Sowefund 2
Kurma Partners 2
Omnes Capital 2
Jean-Romain Lhomme 2
SIDE Capital 2
XAnge 2
Thibaud Hug de Larauze 2
Fabrice Grinda 2
Pierre Krings 2
Xavier Niel 2
Val'Angels 2
Expanso Capital 2
Breizh Up 2
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Bpifrance VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 79 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
Educapital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.
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Investment focus
  • Education, E-Learning, EdTech
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • NOLEJ — NOLEJ is an EdTech company creating the framework that will drive education in the future!
  • Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.
  • Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Angelsquare VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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!
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 45 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Solteo — Solteo operates as a platform for photovoltaic installers.
  • Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
  • Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.
Brighteye Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!
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Investment focus
  • Education, Software, E-Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
  • Adam — Adam connects you with verified painters and decorators across whole Europe. Get an instant price estimate and book a painter for the next day already!
  • La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Elaia VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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.
M Capital Partners VC Fund · Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
  • QPLIX Wealth Management Software — QPLIX lets Family Offices, IFAs and Asset Managers consolidate all asset data and streamline controlling, reporting and accounting.
  • Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
MAIF Avenir VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
MAIF Avenir is a French VC firm investing in post-seed to series B startups founded by French entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.
  • Iceberg Data Lab — Iceberg Data Lab is a fintech firm that develops assessment tools and provides environmental data solutions to financial institutions.
  • Santé Académie — As a result of a lack of caregivers across the country, their tasks are evolving - doctors can be asked to practice a gynaecologist act, or a nurse to follow up on a patient under anticancer treatment. Meanwhile, medical knowledge is increasing all around the world - we estimate that 50% of it becomes useless after 7 years. Therefore how can weprovide continuous training to 2 million caregivers? Santé Académie rethinks Continuing Medical Education by offering educational videos with cinematographic quality accessible by web or mobile. Each course is divided into 5 to 15 min episodes to adequate caregivers' schedules. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, care assistants, and chiefs nurses, can access a catalogue of high-quality courses on clinical and regulatory themes customized to their daily practice. These courses are certified by the ANDPC and produced by the best experts from prestigious institutions. Our goal? To educate health professionals as well as their engagement, with the top-end knowledge directly accessible from their phone, to improve patient care from prevention to follow-up. A new experience already approved by more than 20 000 professional and health institutions (GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences, Service de Santé des Armées …) !
Isai VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Ring Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Ring Capital is an international investment ecosystem dedicated to impact investing. Its mission is to actively direct capital towards vital solutions tackling major social and environmental challenges, and purposefully help entrepreneurs and companies grow by fostering both impact and business performance.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • France, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • May — May is the mobile application month for parent and baby care services. They offer services for parents to chat about health. They provide services that include health, wellness, and fitness.
  • BLOK AFRICA — BLOK is an innovative construction technology platform that enhances and simplifies the B2B procurement process for construction materials. By providing a streamlined interface, it allows businesses in the construction industry to efficiently source, compare, and purchase certified products, ensuring they meet the necessary quality and safetystandards.
  • Orus Energy — Orus Energy leverages the power of AI to unlock potential of electrical flexibility in commercial buildings.
Investessor VC Fund · Boulogne-billancourt, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Augmented Reality
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Corneille — Corneille is an educational entertainment platform where parents can subscribe to a sizable and regularly updated library of interactive stories and games for their children between the ages of Three to eight. Users' child is encouraged to gradually learn about this enjoyment thanks to their application.
  • Showplace — Showplace is a B2B company that allows brands to sell their products directly to rental companies and provides concierge services for short-term rentals.
  • Cogntivie Engines — Cognitive Engines is a robotics integrator using AI and real-time vision to control industrial robot arms, adapting to product size changes, and using a hand gesture interface for easy operation, compatible with various robotics brands.
Finorpa VC Fund · Lens, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Construction, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Niryo — Niryo creates collaborative robots. We supply 6-axis robotic arms for the education and industrial markets.
  • SPART — SPART, your company's sport and health partner. Improve the cohesion and well-being of your teams through physical activity.
  • NeoCem — NeoCem creates, manufactures, and promotes a variety of low-carbon cements for the building industry. They have developed a novel procedure that permits the utilization of raw materials sourced from recovery sectors.
Karista VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • France, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Deemea — Deemea is a collaborative AI platform that connects and provides services for the analysis of medical data for physicians. It uses its expertise in clinical research, data science, and software development to help healthcare professionals.
  • 10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
  • Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
  • PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
  • Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
Impact Partenaires VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
IMPACT Partners is a socially oriented management company. They are looking at both financial performance and social performance by investing in companies developing a remarkable impact in terms of jobs in disadvantaged urban areas, of integration, and learning disabilities.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Digital Media, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • iRaiser — Elevate your charity fundraising with iRaiser's tailored solutions. Trusted by over 850 charities globally. Boost donations, engage supporters, and track success effortlessly. Unleash generosity today!
  • Rise Up — SaaS LXP Web/Mobile.
  • Open Digital Education — Open Digital Education develops a platform that provides digital services for education.
Thierry Petit Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
  • Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
  • La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
  • mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.
INCO Ventures VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
INCO Ventures is an AMF-licensed fund manager, specialised in venture capital and pioneer in impact investing. INCO Ventures manages or advises more than €500M of assets to invest in the most promising start-ups and companies that are shaping the new inclusive and sustainable economy, and advises funds on their investments or on impactmeasurement.
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Investment focus
  • Training, EdTech, Marketplace
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Guinea
Portfolio highlights
  • Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
  • Vulkam — Vulkam is an innovative microtechnology start up from the french research laboratories.
  • 50inTech — 50inTech for talented women to meet inclusive companies. Only companies committed to DE&I are featured on 50inTech for a secure job search.
FJ Labs VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 105 investments in the past 12 months
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
  • Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
  • JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
Arkea Capital Investissement VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
ARKEA relies on human resources of the existing pole of investment capital
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering, EdTech
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Beedeez — Reinvent your company's professional training with the Social Learning Platform.
  • Scutum Group — Scutum Group provides tailor-made safety and security services and solutions for governments and organizations of all sizes.
  • Children Worldwide Fashion — Children Worldwide Fashion is in high-end children's fashion and licensed luxury, partner of world-renowned brands for girls and boys.
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa VC Fund · Le Relecq-kerhuon, Bretagne, France
In 2002, the three federations of Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne (CMB), Crédit Mutuel du Sud-Ouest (CMSO) and Crédit Mutuel Massif Central (CMMC) and the twenty or so specialised subsidiaries formed a group that took the name Crédit Mutuel Arkéa. As a manufacturer and distributor, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa covers all areas of banking, insurance and finance.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Hemera — Hemera offers to support entrepreneurs who want to go far and change the world.
  • Yomoni — Yomoni is first online private banking-style service in France aiming to make wealth management available to everyone.The company aims to let all French retail investors benefit from cutting-edge portfolio management services and give them more choices for their long-term savings. Today most French people do not receive the kind of advice andinvestment opportunities offered by private bankers, who mainly target high-net-worth individuals. Yomoni’s revolutionary service will offer simplified asset management services to all types of retail investors, with competitive—and fully transparent—fees.
  • Younited — Younited Credit is leading instant credit provider for the e-economy in Europe, distributing its solutions through direct channels (its own websites) and indirect channels (financial institutions and merchants choosing Younited to engineer their loan solutions, online or in branches and point-of-sales).
WeLikeStartup VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
WeLikeStartup is a crowdfunding platform. WeLikeStartup brings startups their initial financing by the pre-sale or fundraising capital and provides investors to support entrepreneurship and job creation in France while providing services tailored to their security concerns and liquidity. Created by a recognized entrepreneurs and financeprofessionals team is WeLikeStartup Financial Investment Adviser, registered with ORIAS ( Unique Register of Insurance Intermediaries, Banking and Finance ), Member of the CNCIF ( National Chamber of Investment Advisers financial ) and Associate Partner of the first Business Angels network in France ( Investessor ).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Augmented Reality, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Proteme — Proteme is a food manufacturing firm that produces edible natural coating solutions for organically grown fruits and vegetables.
  • Dr Milou — Dr Milou, est un service qui propose de prendre soin de son animal de compagnie sans bouger de son domicile.
  • Showplace — Showplace is a B2B company that allows brands to sell their products directly to rental companies and provides concierge services for short-term rentals.
BNP Paribas Développement VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 9 investments in the past 12 months
BNP Paribas Développement is the investment arm of BNP Paribas that specializes in SME development. It specializes in second stage, mezzanine, bridge, acquisition, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, and privatizations transactions.The firm considers investments in manufacturing, service industries,medicine, electronics, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automations, industrial goods and services, transportation, consumer goods, commerce and distribution, buildings and public works, wholesale retail, biotechnology, telecommunications, and information technology sectors.BNP Paribas Développement was established in 1988 and is based in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • France, Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
  • Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
  • C12 Quantum Electronics — Explore C12's innovative quantum technology solutions using carbon nanotubes. Discover how our advancements in quantum computing are shaping the future of technology.
ODYSSEE VENTURE VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
ODYSSEE VENTURE is a private equity firm. The Company provides independent financial advisory services to management companies, family office, and major institutional networks. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Interstis — Interstis is a software tool that allows its users to collaborate with the team to share information, project tracking and communication.
  • Leader Print — LEADER PRINT GROUP is a company that specializes in large format digital printing. The company offers a range of printing services, including the production of visual solutions for communication purposes. The company's offerings are designed to meet the needs of various industries, with a focus on manufacturing. With a team of dedicatedprofessionals, LEADER PRINT GROUP is committed to providing innovative and tailored solutions to its clients, ensuring their printing needs are met with precision and efficiency.
  • eXplain — Explain provides market intelligence solutions to companies who do Business with Governments. Explain leverage proprietary technology to collect and analyze unique datasets to help companies identify and understand local events, local stakeholders, local opinions and local regulation.Previously known as Liegey Muller Pons, Explain developed aleading campaign targeting software used by more than a thousand campaigns across Europe, including the last two French winning presidential bids. Over the past two years, Explain has successfully diversified its portfolio of clients and now mostly works with private companies.
Turenne Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France : - Paris - Lyon - Marseilles - Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million. Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million. 32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement. Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à : - Paris - Lyon - Marseille - Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • France, Poland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sydev — Sydev is a publisher of management software and tariff databases for technical building trades in the construction industry.
  • Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
  • AlgoTherapeutix — AlgoTherapeutix is the operator of a biotechnology company designed to develop topical treatments for complex pain.
Bpifrance Digital Venture VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Bpifrance Digital Venture operates as a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cognyx — Cognyx is a platform that enables manufacturers to design complex hardware at software speed using AI and graph databases. It creates a "collaborative super-BOM" that connects legacy systems, allowing designers, manufacturers, and buyers to collaborate on a single BOM. Cognyx reduces time-to-market, improves design reliability, and buildsstructured data for AI.
  • Firecell — Firecell enables industrial companies to deploy and operate their own Open RAN 5G Private Network solutions.
  • Planity — Planity, a platform that allows you to book an appointment with a professional in the beauty sector in a few clicks and quickly find a hair salon, beauty institute, barber near you
AQUITI Gestion VC Fund · Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Floated in 1998, thanks to the local authority "Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine" and the "Caisse des dépôts", our venture, growth and LBO funds (Aquitaine Amorçage, ACI, Aqui-Invest) now benefit from the support of public and private influential shareholders and sponsors.Up to now, AQUITI GESTION has invested in more than 200operations contributing to the creation and development of about 150 companies and thousands of jobs.Currently, ACI and Aqui-Invest manage a portfolio gathering 50 companies which revenues scale from 0 € (early stage) to 30 M€.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dionymer — dionymer creates endless opportunities for a multitude of industries. Replacing petrochemical polymers with a circular and biodegradable alternative.
  • Materrup — Materrup produces low-carbon earth concrete for construction and urban development. Materrup construction solutions meet the requirements of future RE2020 regulations and the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of the construction industry.
  • ALOGIA Groupe — ALOGIA Groupe offers preventive health responses to senior people at home through care management and innovative services.
Nord France Amorcage VC Fund · Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nord France Amorçage is a regional co-investment fund, exclusively supported by the Hauts-de-France Region. This seed fund has been involved since 2013 in financing innovative businesses that create jobs and add value to the region. In 6 years, NFA has more than 50 participants spread across the region.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • NeoCem — NeoCem creates, manufactures, and promotes a variety of low-carbon cements for the building industry. They have developed a novel procedure that permits the utilization of raw materials sourced from recovery sectors.
  • 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.
  • Energo — Energo, combines cold plasma with catalysis to produce molecules of interest for the decarbonization of industry, such green hydrogen, biofuels, or synthetic methane from CO2, biogas, and ammonia.
Financiere Saint James VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
  • Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.
Thibaud Elziere Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
  • Candix — Get set up in 3 minutes. It's free and confidential.
  • Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Citizen Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Citizen Capital is a leading French private equity fund dedicated to using an impact-driven investment approach to deliver both financial and social returns for investors and society at-large. Citizen Capital manages €60 million and provides growth capital to high growth small or medium companies (€1 to 50 million sales) with a strong socialpurpose targeting :- Inclusion : adress the needs of underserved populations (silver economy, health, education, Bottom of the Pyramid...)- Social mobility : enable excluded people to access employment and cross social barriers (job creation in underserved areas, integration of disabled or low-educated workers...)- Sustainable production and consumption : change consumption habits and give access to sustainable goods and services (local production and short distribution channels, environment-driven technologies...)- Social Innovation : introduce new organisation models with tangible positive impact upon employees and partners (employee shareholding schemes, collaborative management...)Our goal is to build wealth for all stakeholders in our portfolio companies. In addition to capital we offer a combination of strategic, financial, operational guidance to the companies in which we invest, as well as a pro-active support in building and driving impact strategy – Citizen Capital has implemented a methodology combining social impact and ESG approach. Citizen Capital has signed the Principles for Responsible Investment (United Nations, PRI) and is a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
  • NOVO — Digital analysis, planning and financing of energy renovation for real estate.
  • CardioParc — CardioParc is a network of cardiology institutions that aims to redefine cardiology consulting by reorganizing it around the notion of delegation of tasks.
GO CAPITAL VC Fund · Rennes, Bretagne, France · 5 investments in the past 12 months
GO CAPITAL is a management company approved by the AMF and a member of AFIC. It is based in Rennes, and manages more than 130 million of assets by investing primarily in western France in innovative companies with high growth potential.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • France, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • BIOPHTA — BIOPHTA has pioneered a new approach to eye care by creating a cutting-edge pharmaceutical platform that enables continuous drug delivery. Their non-invasive topical ocular inserts represent a significant advancement in the treatment of many ophthalmic disorders, providing superior long-term disease management.
  • Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
  • Dealt — Dealt - La solution servicielle qui transforme votre activité retail et e-commerce
Montage, installation, configuration, entretien ou réparation… Dealt construit, implémente et gère votre offre de services en marque blanche, pour vous permettre de mieux accompagner vos clients et vous démarquer de la concurrence.Pour cela, Dealt met àdisposition des distributeurs une solution omnicanale complète, comprenant : - Les outils technologiques pour implémenter leur offre de services en marque blanche : plateforme de services, API, solution vendeur et back-office - Un catalogue de +300 services à tarifs négociés - Une communauté nationale de 10 000 professionnels certifiés - Un accompagnement total pour développer leur stratégie serviciellePassez d’un modèle de vendeur de produits à vendeur de solutions avec Dealt !Pourquoi adopter Dealt ? * +300 services disponibles * +10 000 Experts professionnels certifiés * +40 000 prestations réalisées * 4,86/5 de note moyenne * 94% de couverture nationaleCes enseignes nous font confiance : E.Leclerc, Mr. Bricolage, Botanic, Conforama, Monoprix, Casino, La Poste, Carmila…Dealt récompensé par l’écosystème retail français :- Lauréat des Trophées de l’Innovation E.Leclerc 2021, catégorie « Innovation Expérientielle »- Lauréat des Trophées 100% Retailtech LSA 2021, catégorie « Digitalisation du point de vente, expérience client et solution de paiement » - Elu start-up de l’année 2021 lors de l’événement « Connect Lille »Dealt est soutenu par le Groupe La Poste
Avolta Partners VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Avolta Partners provides independent M&A and corporate finance advice to young, cutting-edge, and leading startups in Europe. They have a strong track record of M&A and Venture Capital deals such as TokTokTok, Qarnot Computing or Smartangels.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rediv — Patatam is the european's most trusted online shop for buying and selling like-new clothing for kids and babies. Parents can send their quality kids' clothing in a free pre-paid bag (the Patabag), earn cash up front for their clothing selected, and can shop the best brands for their kids at Patatam.com for up to 90% off retail. Based inthe south west of France, Patatam was launched in 2013 by Mariève Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Mathieu Bidart. The company is advised and backed by former Price Minister CEO and founder Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Frederic Mazzella and Francis Nappez (founders of BlaBlaCar) and several other investors.
  • Minuit une — Minuit has developed a groundbreaking patented laser technology called IVL™ lighting (stand for Immersive & Versatile Laser lighting) which grabbed rapidly the attention of all related sectors (concert, event, TV production, clubbing).
  • Serious Factory — Serious Factory is a publisher of innovative learning solutions for training purposes. Thanks to its expertise in instructional engineering and gamification, Serious Factory can help make your entire training programme genuinely effective: from acquiring knowledge (digital learning modules, Serious Games, blended learning and much more) anddeveloping and strengthening skills (practical work, behavioural simulator, etc.) to updating content and monitoring skills from day to day.
Siparex Groupe VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon.It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of theindependent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
  • NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
  • Monet Associes — Monet + Associes is a public relations agency.
UI Investissement VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Since 1967, the UI brand embodies a partnership with companies. Actor of the economy, UI has accompanied more than 120 SMEs over the last fifteen years, investing more than 550m € and giving substance to their development projects. Combining experience and corporate culture, UI has established itself as an involved and independent partner, able tocount on its shareholder leaders to favor, independently, the sustainable performance of the SMEs it accompanies.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
  • Private Equity, Series A, Seed
  • France, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Ultrawatt — Ultrawatt is a mission-driven startup to improve urban architecture while making a beneficial social and environmental effect.
  • AdEchoTech — The company was the first to market a robotic tele-ultrasound solution, expanding the capabilities currently offered in the field of teleradiology.
  • Quai des Notaires — Vente, succession, signez l'esprit tranquille. Sans rdv et gratuit ! Trouvez votre notaire en ligne.
Breega VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • InSpek — Next-generation chemical monitoring systems using Raman-on-a-chip integrated photonic sensors.
  • Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
  • Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values ​​and wish to invest in their development.
Alto Invest VC Fund · Versailles, Ile-de-France, France
ALTO INVEST was founded by partners Antoine Valdes and Jean-François Paumelle, who have worked together since 1994 for one of Europe's largest financial institutions. Their team has managed several portfolios on behalf of institutional and private clients, and made more than 50 private equity investments in Europe, North America and Asia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Convertible Note
  • France, Martinique, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Unow — Unow delivers tutored training programs on project management, soft skills and business skills. With a portfolio of 50+ training programs and a network of 100+ field experts, our goal is to improve team collaboration and productivity. Unow is headquartered in Paris, France.
  • Karos — Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies.
  • Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.
Sowefund VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Sowefund is a investment platform in supporting innovative companies in their search for financing.
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Investment focus
  • Environmental Consulting, Retail, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Abelio — Abelio offers a complete solution for daily crop monitoring. This device, accessible at lower cost, allows farmers to anticipate various agricultural issues (diseases, weeds, pests, etc.) and to optimize the use of water, phytosanitary products and fertilizers. Controlling resources, reducing the environmental impact and the health of producers andconsumers are all challenges taken up by the Abelio solution. By reconciling societal and agricultural issues (yields, time savings, etc.), Abelio promotes the transition to sustainable agriculture.
  • Futura gaia — Futura gaïa is a food production company.
  • TechnoCarbon — France-based startup TechnoCarbon Technologies France ("TCTF") proposes high-performance, low-carbon-footprint CarbonFibreStone™ (for short, CFS™), a new composite material that will revolutionize architecture and industry by replacing concrete, steel, and aluminum--materials that cause intensive air pollution and natural resourcedepletion. CFS relies on a patented, high-performance, low-carbon-footprint technology generating a new family of materials to replace aluminum, wood, steel & concrete in major applications from construction and infrastructure to aerospace & defense, luxury, furniture & HiFi audio.
Kurma Partners VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Kurma Partners is a management company based in Paris, specializing in the financing of innovation in healthcare and biotechnology, from pre-creation to development capital. Kurma Partners, which manages the Kurma Biofund I, II funds and the Kurma Diagnostics fund, is one of the main players in the financing of therapeutic and medical innovationsin Europe, particularly through links with many institutes. research and prestigious hospitals.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • France, Switzerland, Spain
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
  • PanTera — PanTera wants to bring a new hope to cancer patients by enabling the widespread use of radiopharmaceuticals for personalised treatment of tumors
Omnes Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
  • DiogenX — We incorporated DiogenX with the objective to provide new therapeutic solutions for diabetic patients. With Patrick Collombat and the team, we are focused on developing a first-in-class regenerative treatment for type 1 diabetes. Benjamin Charles CEO See the team News See more Our Work OUR APPROACH ABOUT DIABETES
  • Quandela — Quandela is an expert in the fabrication of performing devices for the research in quantum photonics and quantum information. They fabricate unique solid-state sources of quantum light. These sources bring a new revolution in quantum technologies based on light.The company's single-photon source device combines photonics and semiconductorquantum dots for quantum communication, computation and sensing and permits to collect the emitted single-photons with exceptional efficiency at high rates, enabling researchers to strongly reduce the charge noise decoherence and assist in the emission of identical photons with fidelity close to unity, an essential requirement for the development of the most advanced quantum applications.
Jean-Romain Lhomme Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Jean-Romain Lhomme - Investor / Chairman @ Comet Meetings
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Software, Apps
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Upflex — Work Flexibility Starts Here
  • 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.
  • Comet Meetings — Comet offers new generation meeting venues that stimulate productivity, creativity and well-being. In central Paris. At a faire price. Because meetings are way too often associated with the idea of a loss of time, fairly fast turning into collective social-network-checking sessions, in -most of the time- gloomy locations, they introduce Comet. Theyat Comet offer companies wishing to gather their teams for a one-day meeting, the first locations aiming at stimulating productivity, creativity and well-being, thought all the way from physical space to customer experience. And because they think that this luxury of having great meetings should not be granted to only a minority of companies, they offer this experience at a very fair price. Because they all deserve it.
SIDE Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Seelab.ai — Seelab.ai is a generative AI solution that helps marketing & creative teams creating branded visual content
  • Klara — Klara develops a solution that is both helpful and tailored to each employee. There is a forum for promoting HR development methods. The solution allows to simplify and personalize the experience of employees for talent management, training programs, managerial ceremonies, or even visibility on the career path of your personnel.
  • Yuccan Lead — Yuccan Lead is an app that generates highly qualified leads by building customers' own network of Ambassadors easily.
XAnge VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
  • elba — elba is the ultimate experience to secure your team in their daily work.
  • Smart Tribune — Smart-platform is a turnkey solution that allows a company / association / e-merchant to establish a conversational space directly with its user community. Present on the entire site of a company / association / e-merchant Smart Platform will enable to gather opinions, suggestions, problems, praise, and exploit them toimprove service, reduce cost of its customer service and increase its conversion rate. In the trend of Social CRM, Smart -tribune is based on a simple and intuitive interface for its users and allows great mastery thanks to an advertiser perspective administration interface. An effective way to better know your community, your customers in order to better the satisfy.
Thibaud Hug de Larauze Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Thibaud Hug de Larauze is the Co-founder & CEO at Back Market.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, CRM, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France
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.
  • La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
  • Sidely — Sidely is the CRM/SFA that supports brands and agencies that distribute to supermarkets, CHR, GSS and RHD. Boost your sales. Increase your market share.
Fabrice Grinda Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPless. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
  • PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
  • Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
Pierre Krings Angel
Pierre Krings is the founder of Price Minister.
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Investment focus
  • Rental, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Jam — Jam uses AI and process optimization to assist students in their daily lives.
  • Tracktor — Tracktor is a rental platform for construction workers, enabling them to rent out or borrow construction equipment in a few clicks.
  • Renovation Man — Renovation Man is a provider of services intended to revolutionize the world of renovation work.
Xavier Niel Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Val'Angels VC Fund · Ivry-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France
VAL'Angels is a non-profit organization that brings together Business Angels in the area of Paris, in France. Throughout our network, investors have access to innovative projects.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Training, B2B
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • uTip — Private Social Network for personalities, models, influencers and content creators where your photo and video content bring you money every month thanks to your fans subscription
  • CERBAIR — CERBAIR designs reliable, flexible and affordable counter drone solutions to protect the near airspace of any sensitive site
  • Beekast — Boost participation, idea generation, and more, with our all-in-one interactive meeting platform. 50+ features to make your meetings more engaging.
Expanso Capital VC Fund · Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
Expansion Capital Group is that valued partner for expansion capital solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Lighting, Solar
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Flovea — Prefabricated Heating and Sanitary Plumbing - Innovative solutions that allows time saving on site, high quality products and sustainability of the plumbing instalaltions.
  • Dronisos - drone shows — Dronisos are pioneers in performance drone entertainment. Specialists in indoor and outdoor drone light shows. Custom design your show or pick from our catalogue.
  • Sunbooster — Sunbooster provides design, installation, consulting, engineering, maintenance and services related to solar energy products.
Breizh Up VC Fund · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Breizh Up
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Investment focus
  • Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • 52 Hertz — 52 Hertz has developed the Talkie-Divy, an underwater communications device that enhances safety, fun, and enjoyment in scuba diving, incorporating technologies directly adaptable to scuba diving regulators, while also considering environmental issues.
  • ANOZR WAY — Human risk management platform for monitoring, alerting and recommending remediation of employee and manager vulnerabilities.
  • SEEDERAL Technologies — Seederal Technologies produces electric tractor.
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