Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in France in February 2025
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 February 2025
Investor | EdTech France investments |
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Bpifrance | 15 |
Educapital | 13 |
Angelsquare | 8 |
Kima Ventures | 8 |
Brighteye Ventures | 6 |
Partech | 5 |
M Capital Partners | 5 |
Isai | 5 |
Elaia | 5 |
MAIF Avenir | 5 |
Ring Capital | 5 |
Karista | 4 |
GO CAPITAL | 4 |
Impact Partenaires | 4 |
Investessor | 4 |
INCO Ventures | 4 |
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet | 4 |
Finorpa | 4 |
Bpifrance Digital Venture | 3 |
Arkea Capital Investissement | 3 |
Thibaud Elziere | 3 |
ODYSSEE VENTURE | 3 |
Turenne Capital | 3 |
Banque des Territoires | 3 |
Evolem Start | 3 |
AQUITI Gestion | 3 |
Avolta Partners | 3 |
Thierry Petit | 3 |
Financiere Saint James | 3 |
FJ Labs | 3 |
WeLikeStartup | 3 |
Nord France Amorcage | 3 |
Citizen Capital | 3 |
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa | 3 |
BNP Paribas Développement | 3 |
Starquest Capital | 2 |
MAIF Impact | 2 |
Romain Afflelou | 2 |
IXO Private Equity | 2 |
Econocom | 2 |
Kurma Partners | 2 |
Martijn Tjho | 2 |
Ventech | 2 |
Nicolas Brusson | 2 |
Emertec | 2 |
Crédit Mutuel Innovation | 2 |
Mount Wilson Ventures | 2 |
Innovacom | 2 |
Michael Benabou | 2 |
Siparex Groupe | 2 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Swan — Use Swan's APIs to embed white-labeled banking features like accounts, cards, and IBANs into your workflows and UX.
- CROWN — CROWN is modernizing procurement negotiations through ethical eAuctions.
- Keey Aerogel — Home - Welcome to the homepage of KEEY Aerogel ! Discover our company, our products and our know-how in aerogels.
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.
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
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- 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 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.
- GROWL — Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.
- CROWN — CROWN is modernizing procurement negotiations through ethical eAuctions.
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.
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
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- Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
- Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
- Shippeo — A global leader, and European specialist, in supply chain visibility, giving companies instant access to predictive and real-time information for all their deliveries.
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.
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
- 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.
- OFFROAD — OFFROAD is a French company specializing in road maintenance and public space management.
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
- AQEMIA — Aqemia is an in silico drug discovery start-up, whose ambition is to discover rapidly more innovative therapeutic molecules with better chances of success.
- GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
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 …) !
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.
- OFFROAD — OFFROAD is a French company specializing in road maintenance and public space management.
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.
GO Capital is an independent management company and a major player in regional Seed and Venture Capital since 2003. With offices in Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Normandy, Centre-Val de Loire and the South of France, GO Capital contributes to the financing of responsible innovation in these regions. With a team of investors with complementarysectoral experience, we have a solid track-record in DeepTech. GO Capital has nearly 400 million euros under management, and mainly finances technology leaders in the digital and healthcare sectors and in the industry of the future.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Uptale — Uptale provides an enterprise solution that enhances employee learning through immersive experiences in 360° and virtual reality. The platform allows organizations to create, share, and analyze training modules without requiring technical expertise.
- AISPRID — AISPRID is a robotic company that manufactures autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.
- Lactips — Lactips produces water soluble and biodegradable thermoplastic pellets based on milk protein. Plastic transformation is realized through their secret industrial process. They are able to provide pellets fast and with high volume. Those pellets are used by clients as a raw material for thermoforming, films, or any kind of plastic applications. Theirfirst mission, correlated with their fundamental values, is to provide their industrial clients with new disruptive innovations to help them entering new markets.Their product will be a cleaner alternative to oil-based products, more efficient, and sustainable for consumers and the environment.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Primaa — Primaa develops AI-based software for automated and accurate histological diagnoses, improving a vital step in the detections of cancer and other pathologies.
- Firecell — Firecell enables industrial companies to deploy and operate their own Open RAN 5G Private Network solutions.
ARKEA relies on human resources of the existing pole of investment capital
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, EdTech
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Uptale — Uptale provides an enterprise solution that enhances employee learning through immersive experiences in 360° and virtual reality. The platform allows organizations to create, share, and analyze training modules without requiring technical expertise.
- Beedeez — Reinvent your company's professional training with the Social Learning Platform.
- Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
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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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.
- Circle Safe — Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. The most effective way to prevent recurrence is to perform an interventional procedure: ablation. Most of these procedures are performed by Radiofrequency or by a more recent technique, the Cryoballoon. The latter has many advantages including speed and simplicity but has a complicationthat is specific to it: the risk of creating Diaphragmatic Paralysis. Circle Safe is developing a solution with the aim of permanently eliminating this complication.
- 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.
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.
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hoji — Hoji is a startup studio focused on driving the environmental transformation of manufacturers. It develops companies that provide innovative technological solutions and decision-making tools designed to help manufacturers reduce their ecological impact, modernize operations, and adapt their business models to address environmental, energy, andsocietal challenges.
- Kapsera — Kapsera bridges the gap between sustainability and productivity in agriculture, using cutting-edge, biosourced and biodegradable formulation technologies.Kapsera offers natural and innovative formulations for microbials based biofertilizers and biopesticides.
- Auxo — Auxo Dynamics assists businesses in transitioning to a more sustainable business strategy. The technological platform automates data collecting from information systems and provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports in accordance with requirements. Auxo Dynamics also allows stakeholders to share reports, facilitating access tolong-term financing.
Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Oplit — Oplit is a production planning platform that provides software and support to help industrials boost operations profitability.
- 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.
- JOBO Interim — JOBO Interim is a staffing agency that recruits employees and provides employment through digital access.
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.
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.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Côte d'Ivoire
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- 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.
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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- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
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- 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.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
- Baton Market — Small business owners & buyers, you're 10X more likely to close the deal with Baton Market than the competition. Get the modern, dedicated business brokerage experience you deserve.
- Berry Street — Nutrition therapy by registered dietitians covered by insurance.
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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- Software, Augmented Reality, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
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- 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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States
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- 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.
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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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States, Germany
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- 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.
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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- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France
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- 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).
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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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Germany, The Netherlands
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- Lactips — Lactips produces water soluble and biodegradable thermoplastic pellets based on milk protein. Plastic transformation is realized through their secret industrial process. They are able to provide pellets fast and with high volume. Those pellets are used by clients as a raw material for thermoforming, films, or any kind of plastic applications. Theirfirst mission, correlated with their fundamental values, is to provide their industrial clients with new disruptive innovations to help them entering new markets.Their product will be a cleaner alternative to oil-based products, more efficient, and sustainable for consumers and the environment.
- Bluefins — A whale-inspired propulsion system Our solution, developed in partnership with leading French research institute Ifremer, consists of an hydrofoil attached to the stern of the ship through a set of mechanical arms, and converts the pitching motion of the ship into thrust.
- CyGO Entrepreneurs — CyGO Entrepreneurs empowers European founders to create and scale world-class cybersecurity ventures globally.
High Tech, Low Carbon: crafting tomorrow, today. We finance innovation to make tomorrow happen today. Starquest is a Montefiore Company.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Singapore, The Netherlands
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- Hello Watt — Hello Watt is a digital enthusiasts and developers who help you reduce your energy bills while improving your comfort.
- Caeli Énergie — Caeli Énergie develops and manufactures next-generation air conditioners with great energy efficiency and a minimal carbon impact.
- TRYON Environnement — TRYON intervenes on several levels to meet the expectations of catering professionals and communities in terms of organic waste . With a passion for technology and ecology, our team of specialists is committed to providing robust and efficient solutions based on sustainable development, the circular economy and pedagogy.
MAIF Investissement Social et Solidaire finances projects that are innovative, committed, and civic. The MAIF group demonstrates its ambition to support its driving role with companies in the social and solidarity economy.
MAIF has supported the development of companies created to meet societal needs, and not simply to generate profits.
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- Retail, Children, Recycling
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France
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- vorteX-io — vorteX-io is a flood warning and forecasting system meant to monitor watercourses and reduce flood risk. It provides hydrology monitoring services with compact space-based altimeters intended to accurately measure the height of the sea surface, allowing users to get a continuous, real-time measurement of several hydrological parameters withcentimeter accuracy.
- TOOPI Organics — TOOPI Organics is specializing in using human urine for agriculture and industry
- BIBAK — BIBAK is an industrial technogy solution making reusable packaging services simplier.
Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)
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- Health Care, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Israel
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- Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Kubo Labs — Kubo Labs provides a suite of products to simplify your experience with Kubernetes.
The private equity fund focused on adding high value.IXO Private Equity is a private equity management company recognized, approved and authorized by the Financial Market Authorities (AMF) operating under the number GP03018.IXO Private Equity is the most important independent regional private equity General Partner in France.The companymanages French General Private Equity Investment Funds (known in France as F.C.P.R.), Local Private Equity Investment Fund (known in France as F.I.P.), and Private Equity Investment Funds for Innovation (F.C.P.I.) to meet the equity needs for the best companies in Western and Southern France.
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- Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
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- F-Reg — F-Reg autonomous and intelligent hydraulic valves are designed to regulate and control flow patterns in sanitation networks. F-Reg sells solutions for regulating flow in networks (rainwater or wastewater) that rely on a patented valve that smooths out peaks in wet weather. The F-Reg device is self-contained and does not require power.
- Indy — Indy offers end-to-end and advanced AI-powered accounting software. Indy is an accounting robot that aims to automate the accounting of freelancers and professionals. It is an accounting robot for the liberal professions. It automates the management of accounting, recovers bank entries to turn them into accounting lines, and sends tax returnsdirectly to an AGM.It was founded in 2016 as Georges by Côme Fouques, Pablo Larvor, Romain Koenig, and Adrien Plat to simplify independent accounting, which is certainly simple but repetitive and time-consuming.
- Farmitoo — Farmitoo is an online purchase of farm equipment directly from manufacturers.
Econocom is a European group that makes digital transformation happen for companies and public organisations. They help their clients get the most out of digital by focusing on users as the starting point for their digital transformation. Econocom, a service group present in 8 European countries, is a market leader in IT and telecom systemsmanagement for businesses.
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- Children, Education, Video Games
- Seed, Funding Round
- France
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- Magic Makers — Magic Makers is a business that offers workshops to children to teach them how to program video games. The company offers children ages 6 to 15 the opportunity to learn how to code, to learn how to create their own games, projects, and robots. They have developed a teaching method which allows children to learn about the code in a fun way.Createdin June 2014 by Claude Terosier, Magic Makers has already welcomed over 5,000 children in their weekly workshops, workshops, and events, in 6 centers and 15 partner locations in Paris and Bordeaux.
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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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Switzerland, Spain
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- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
- Hopia — Hopia is a scheduling solution that optimizes human and material resources for healthcare institutions. Hopia centralizes the management of doctors' and nurses' schedules and uses constrained optimization and prediction algorithms to propose the most optimal organization for all stakeholders.
Martijn Tjho is teh Co-Founder and CEO at BIYU.
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- Music, Education, Machine Learning
- Seed
- France
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- Jellynote — Jellynote is the go-to-destination for over 1 million aspiring musicians; a loyal community who enjoy sheets, tabs and chords, original video content and the opportunity to connect with one-another in the Jellynote universe.Jellynote has developed all of its proprietary technology in-house, delivering an intuitive AI-powered edtech platform toits fans. Jellynote sells premium subscriptions and generates revenue from ads.Jellynote offers over 400,000 songs that you can be played to learn through original artist video master classes, video tutorials, sheets, tabs, chords and instrument view for a wide range of instruments. The game mode provides instant feedback and social mode connects musicians share their tastes in music. The Jellynote universe demonstrates how music can connect people in a world that is getting more and more divided. Available on Smartphone and desktop.
On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, Germany, United States
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- Kor — Kor is a company that offers both a personalized check-up and the resulting action plan for achieving maximum health.
- Farmitoo — Farmitoo is an online purchase of farm equipment directly from manufacturers.
- Firecell — Firecell enables industrial companies to deploy and operate their own Open RAN 5G Private Network solutions.
Nicolas Brusson is the Co-Founder and CEO at BlaBlaCar. Nicolas Brusson attended The University of California, Berkeley.
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- Software, Information Technology, Rental
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United Kingdom, Sweden
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- Noala — Play interactive exercises and have weekly video calls with your own speech and language professional to overcome your communication
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Riff — No Slack overload. No Zoom fatigue. Fewer meetings. We're on a mission to revolutionise how we work together. Book a demo.
EMERTEC’s experienced investment team has developed proven track record and has been able to develop close ties with major industrial players, many of them also being investors in their funds.These close ties are extremely valuable as to understand medium and long-term requirements of major order placers and high-level commercial opportunities.This brings visibility and confidence for entrepreneurs as well as for its investors.Their objective is to create value by turning ground-breaking technological innovations into commercial and financial successful companies.
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- Biotechnology, Energy, Software
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, Canada, United States
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- Ynsect — We are the world leader in insect ingredient production for animals, people, and plants. Our goal? To make the way we eat more nutritious and sustainable.
- eLichens — eLichens is a sensor tech company that takes sensor technology to the next level. Its mission is to empower people, companies, and government agencies to improve air quality, both indoor and outdoor.
- Osmia — Osmia SAS provides crop pollination services to improve yield and quality of agricultural production. Osmia intervenes in the context of specific problems on entomophilous or anemophilic pollination. Methodological approach and experience enables the company to find relevant solutions. It offers pollination studies and services for pre-base, baseor multiplication seeds. It also offers simple and efficient pollination services for arboriculture and optimize the yields and the quality of the productions of fruit trees.Osmia SAS was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in France.
Crédit Mutuel Innovation is the evergreen venture capital entity of Crédit Mutuel Equity (€3.5 billion in capital). We invest €1-20M in life science, digital and deeptech companies from seed to growth stages.We help bold and ambitious entrepreneurs to develop their strong growth potential with our worldwide enterprise ecosystem (our 350+portfolio companies, our abroad subsidiaries, 150+ largest global corporates and the best-in-class experts). Because it takes more than 5 years to build a Unicorn, we invest our own equity and ensure durable partnerships with visionary leaders.Today, the 350 companies in which we have invested generate a cumulative annual turnover of €50bn and create more than 250,000 jobs.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Canada
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- UroMems — The device is developing an active implantable medical device based on the cutting edge technologyl in the field of embedded systems and micro-technologies for the development of its products.
- Biomemory — Biomemory creates DNA Drives for large corporates and administrations.
- 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
MWV invests in early-stage startups solving well-defined problems in large markets with solutions built on a foundation of intellectual property and proven science.
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- Manufacturing, Chemical, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Sweden
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- SweGaN — SweGaN's vision is to be a world leading supplier of nitride based HEMT structures. By integrating SweGaN´s technology into every single epitaxial wafer they deliver, they believe that your devices will fulfill all demands required in next generation's high power and high frequency devices.SweGaN's founders all come fromLinköping University and have more than 50 man-years experience in growth and characterization of GaN and SiC materials.SweGaN is in a highly expansive phase and they are always looking for skilled and very focused individuals with large experience in the field. If you are interested in working in a challenging and dynamic atmosphere please send us an e-mail.
- Thiozen — Thiozen develops novel hydrogen gas production technology designed to reduce greenhouse gases. It uses a new chemical process that converts hydrogen sulfide to hydrogen gas, thereby enabling clients to avoid both the carbon emissions inherent to hydrogen production from natural gas and the high costs associated with hydrogen production fromelectrolysis.The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Belmont, Massachusetts.
- dRISK — Testing and training Autonomous Vehicles to make AVs safe in the modern world. We retrain Autonomous Vehicles to respond to high risk events and beyond.
Innovacom provides new technologies, hardware, and software products. They focus on the creation of financial and strategic value through support, networking, and the search for the best industrial partners for our startups in a context of open innovation.
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- Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Canada
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- Niryo — Niryo creates collaborative robots. We providing intuitive 6-axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial markets.
- Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
- Elixir Aircraft — Elixir Aircraft is an aerospace company that provides aircraft, component manufacturing, and training services.
President at Financiere Saint James.
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- Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- France, Spain
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- Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
- ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
- Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.
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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- Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States, Italy
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- 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.
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