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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in France

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Education startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Education Startup Investors in France

Investor	Education France investments
Educapital	13
Bpifrance	12
Angelsquare	8
Kima Ventures	7
MAIF Avenir	5
Elaia	5
M Capital Partners	5
Isai	5
Brighteye Ventures	5
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	4
Impact Partenaires	4
Karista	4
Partech	4
Citizen Capital	3
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa	3
BNP Paribas Développement	3
Investessor	3
Avolta Partners	3
Bpifrance Digital Venture	3
FJ Labs	3
Finorpa	3
Turenne Capital	3
Thierry Petit	3
Thibaud Elziere	3
ODYSSEE VENTURE	3
GO CAPITAL	3
WeLikeStartup	3
Arkea Capital Investissement	3
Xavier Niel	2
Michael Benabou	2
Jean-Romain Lhomme	2
Kurma Partners	2
Ventech	2
Banque des Territoires	2
Fabrice Grinda	2
Kerala Ventures	2
Breega	2
AQUITI Gestion	2
Breizh Up	2
Innovacom	2
Pierre Krings	2
IXO Private Equity	2
Omnes Capital	2
Sowefund	2
Emertec	2
Siparex Groupe	2
Axeleo Capital	2
Crédit Mutuel Innovation	2
Ring Capital	2
XAnge	2

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The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NOLEJ — NOLEJ is a decentralized skills platform powered by an AI engine, that automatically generates interactive courseware & global knowledge graph
HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
MerciApp — MerciApp is a spellchecker that helps people write faster and better in French. It is correcting stylistic, spelling, and grammar errors embedded in a secure and simple interface.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

HawkCell — A plug-and-play solution turning human MRI into the first animal-dedicated imaging enhanced with AI algorithms. A unique MRI solution.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
Docent — Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully-personalized experience for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary masterpieces.

AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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 — Hire Silicon Valley Caliber Developers | Remotebase

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

MAIF Avenir is a French VC firm investing in post-seed to series B startups founded by French entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Carbo — Leading Decarbonization Platform for ambitious SMB/SMEs in Europe. Define, track, realize, and optimize your environmental and sustainability goals with our go-to carbon accounting softwares.
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.
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 …) !

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

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.
Vibe — Advertise your brand on CTV & OTT content with Vibe's self-serve ad platform to target hundreds of channels & networks and reach millions of households.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Food and Beverage, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ellona — Ellona offers advanced solutions for odor control and air quality monitoring, providing customized industrial applications. Discover our innovative products and services.
Olino — Olino is the insurance for tomorrow's SME. A digital service, a turnkey solution tailored to VSBs and SMEs, meeting all insurance needs.
Therapixel — Therapixel is one of the leading French software companies specializing in artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
blackshark.ai — Blackshark.ai hi-frequency mapping provides cutting-edge geospatial AI and 3D visualization for object detection, training and simulation.

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!

Investment focus

Education, Software, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

UpHill — Clinical algorithms, medical events, scientific evidence and a simulation software in one place
Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
coachbetter — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
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 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.

Investment focus

Education, Digital Media, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

iRaiser — iRaiser is a SaaS vendor for nonprofits providing online fundraising solutions. iRaiser serves over 400 top organizations such as WWF, Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Unicef, the Salvation Army and the Louvre in 16 countries. Since 2012 iRaiser has helped organizations to raise over 480 million euro, making iRaiser the market leader for onlinefundraising in Europe. iRaiser has offices in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark and Belgium and is expanding all over Europe.
Rise Up — SaaS LXP Web/Mobile.
Open Digital Education — Open Digital Education develops a platform that provides digital services for education.

Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

constellr — Smart Farming and Climate Monitoring from Space. At constellr, we are using cutting-edge beyond-visual imaging technology to revolutionise the way we assess crucial aspects of our planet's health.
Look Up Space — Lookup space is the next global leader for space safety, security and sustainability
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
HD — HD is a healthcare and surgery marketplace, powering over 1,500+ healthcare providers including some of the biggest hospitals. HD connects patients to hospitals, clinics, operating rooms, and surgeons while offering healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries. To date, over 250,000 patients have benefited frommore accessible and affordable healthcare and surgeries through the company's platform.
MyRealTrip — MyRealTrip is leading tours&activities marketplace in South Korea. MyRealTrip is the best free travel platform in Korea where you can book flights, accommodations, tours & tickets, and special offers. Starting with guided tour service in 2012, it has been growing rapidly since it successfully launched air service in 2018. MyRealTrip isconstantly striving to provide travelers with a personalized experience and provide them with a more valuable experience.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Construction
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NOVO — Digital analysis, planning and financing of energy renovation for real estate.
Novo — Novo is to make it easier for everyone to take stock and plan energy-related renovations.And the work in the subsequent months clearly demonstrated that it can be done much faster and more digitally! The end product is NOVO
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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

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.
Maskott — Focusing on Education, Training and Museography, Maskott was founded in 2004 by teachers with a proven experience in education and ICT training at all levels. Maskott provides efficient and universal digital pedagogical solutions (hardware/software/service), designed to match the educational community’s ecosystem. The company specializesat Educational Technology targeted from primary school to university level.Being pioneer in educational technology research, Maskott has received numerous honors and awards in the field of serious games and learning management systems. Having a global perspective on both classroom design, educational software and hardware, Maskott aims at providing educational institutions with innovative classrooms that combine the latest technological advances with a culture of innovation and creativity.
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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pandobac — Pandobac, comes to offer a response to packaging waste generated by the transport of fresh produce. In the Paris region, around 300,000 boxes of polystyrene, cardboard, wood and plastic are thrown away every day. They are used to transport food goods from the Rungis market to merchants. Pandobac is a complete eco-delivery solution for wholesalersand producers. It includes the provision of sustainable transport bins and a support service to ensure their long-term reuse. This solution fits directly into the current delivery cycle, replacing disposable packaging with durable bins and taking advantage of delivery trucks returning empty of their tour.
ANOZR WAY — Human risk management platform for monitoring, alerting and recommending remediation of employee and manager vulnerabilities.
GREENERWAVE — We shape electromagnetic wavesHaving its roots in deep wave physics, Greenerwave develops revolutionary solutions to solve connectivity and mobility toughest challenges.

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Investment focus

Software, Internet, Augmented Reality
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

GANGZ — Gangz is the first digital platform for talent recruitment: Models, hosts, extras and actors.
Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
Dreamtim Blooming — Dreamtim Blooming revolutionizing women's intimate health with patented menstrual panties and new sports-health 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.

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.

Bpifrance Digital Venture operates as a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

HUVY — L'IA pour la dermatologie
Getkey — Getkey is a technology platform that develops optimization algorithms for managing distribution costs and selling more at a lower cost.
Firecell — Firecell enables industrial companies to deploy and operate their own Open RAN 5G Private Network solutions.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mama — Hispanic super market with ready-to-eat food, frozen goods, and Venezuelan snacks at a great price. Delivered to your door across the US. From pantry to tropical fruits and homemade desserts, it's all in here!
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo is a deeptech company designing and assembling collaborative robots. We focus deliver affordable and intuitive 6 axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial market. Discover our latest technologies through NED2 robot and an entire ecosystem to discover robotics, AI, industry 4.0 and more
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
France, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
Ecodrop — Ecodrop is the solution for construction waste
PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides biosafety assays based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) for biologics quality testing. GMP biotesting for biopharmaceuticals. Learn more.

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

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.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Genevos — Genevos specializes in integrating hydrogen and fuel cell systems in the maritime industry.
Biosency — BIOSENCY is a medical device company focused on developing smart healthcare solutions. Our first product, a connected PPG sensor system using smart data is a monitoring and prevention solution dedicated to respiratory insufficiency. Our company is based in Rennes, France. We work closely with doctors and researchers to bring to the medicalcommunity the best possible tools to help patients.
Sweetch Energy — Sweetch Energy is created to leverage most recent academic discoveries in nanotechnologies and materials in the blue osmotic energy field and combined them with the efficiency of the private sector.

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 ).

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

CiviTime — CiviTime provides innovative and customizable gaming solutions that help improve employee engagement through the pride of belonging.
Dr Milou — Dr Milou, est un service qui propose de prendre soin de son animal de compagnie sans bouger de son domicile.
Sensivic — Designed and manufactured in France, SENSIVIC smart audio detection systems add meaning to your security. Our solutions automatically detect and alert you in real time as soon as an abnormal sound or suspicious noise occurs.

ARKEA relies on human resources of the existing pole of investment capital

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Private Equity, 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.
Glass Partners Solutions — Glass Partners Solutions is distributes glass products to manufacturers and processors of glass products. It products, include monolithic glass, glass laminates, lacquered glass, mirrors, reflectors, anti-fire glass, glasses, radiation protection glass, printed glass, solar self-cleaning glass, tinted glass, anti-reflective, and Uglas. The companyalso offers low emissive glass, yelloe glass, and white shine glass.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cure51 — Cure51 mission is to create a database of cancer survivors to leverage their exceptional biological features and find new drugs to cure Cancer.
VizBlock — Blockchain Analytics made simple
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.

President at Financiere Saint James.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jean-Romain Lhomme - Investor / Chairman @ Comet Meetings

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Poppins — Mila merges music, technology, and neuroscience to reshape therapy into a musical experience. We create musical games for children based on neurologic music therapy methods. These games are designed to address learning dissabilities like dyslexia, providing a digital treatment at home and helping identify these conditions. Behind these games, weleverage data science and new technologies to interpret learning, language, and motor performance into a cognitive score. Our goal is to improve the process for patients receiving treatment and to reaching the vast undiagnosed majority.
Shorla Pharma — Shorla Pharma is an Irish specialty pharmaceutical company. It is growing portfolio brings accessible, affordable and life-saving treatments to patients, delivering a major contribution to patient care and providing a significant clinical impact.
Vico Therapeutics — Vico Therapeutics is a developer of ribonucleic acid (RNA) modulating therapies for rare neurological disorders. The company discovers, develops, and delivers therapies for CNS disorders. Its initial focus is on SCA which is a subgroup of hereditary ataxia, HD which is a neurodegenerative disorder, and RTT-a neurodevelopmental disorder primarilyaffecting girls that enable clients with providing therapy for it.Vico Therapeutics was founded in 2019 by Luc Dochez, Josh Mandel-Brehm, Judith van Deutekom, and Gail Mandel and it is headquartered in Leiden, The Netherlands.

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
Resortecs — Resortecs is an award-winning start-up that develops heat-dissolvable stitching threads and thermal disassembly systems that make textile recycling easy.

Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Worldia — Worldia is an online travel agency.
Sekoia.io — SEKOIA.IO provides cyber teams with a SOC solution that can respond to security incidents, regardless of the attack surface.
Label Emmaüs — Label Emmaüs is an online marketplace for solidarity.

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.

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.

French VC fund insanely focused on bringing massive strategic and operational support to its entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Lokki — Lokki is a software tool for equipment rental companies.
Skillup — Skillup has designed the new @Tripadvisor for professional trainings hosting over 20k trainings and 50k reviews. It aims at helping HR services to find the adequate trainig for employees.
Napta — PickYourSkills is a SaaS solution helping companies to find the best match between their projects and their employees.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qobra — Qobra is the next generation Sales Compensation Software designed for sales, operations, finance & HR fast-growing teams.
Cook-e — Cook-e's robotic kitchen automatically prepares warm dishes such as bowls, pastas, woks, from fresh ingredients. Recipes can be entered in the software controlling the robot. The robot can cook up to 100 dishes/hour.
Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

Acteur incontournable du capital-investissement en Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dionymer — Dionymer is putting money into the circular economy by creating a method that uses microorganisms to convert industrial organic waste into biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHA, polymers.
Pony — Instant city bike hire
ALOGIA Groupe — ALOGIA Groupe offers preventive health responses to senior people at home through care management and innovative services.

Breizh Up

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, AgTech, Cyber Security
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

ANOZR WAY — Human risk management platform for monitoring, alerting and recommending remediation of employee and manager vulnerabilities.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
Check & Visit — In Brittany, in Rennes Check & Visit was born from the desire to help the owners of the whole world to realize the conditions of their apartment. In France each year, there are over 3,400,000 inventories made. For the 2,500,000 owners, which they are part of it is not always easy to make the inventory of his apartment. Whether due to lack ofavailability, legal knowledge, or the reliability of paper status reports. The inventory quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task that any owner would like to do without.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo is a deeptech company designing and assembling collaborative robots. We focus deliver affordable and intuitive 6 axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial market. Discover our latest technologies through NED2 robot and an entire ecosystem to discover robotics, AI, industry 4.0 and more
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 — You can now fly with unmatched safety at unbeatable cost. The best of general aviation. Discover the safety, savings and versatility of the Elixir aircraft.

Pierre Krings is the founder of Price Minister.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.

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.

Sowefund is a investment platform in supporting innovative companies in their search for financing.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

AXC is a European Venture Capital Fund, supported by a large community of tech entrepreneurs. We back startups from pre-seed / seed.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Zygon — Automate the control of all the SaaS applications used by your team. From app inventory to upgrading your authentication methods, our automations give you a much needed relief in controlling SaaS sprawl.
Kestra Technologies — Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines.
Mob-Energy — Mob-Energy is a privately held company specializing in the development of mobile and innovative charging solutions. It designs autonomous charging robots capable of moving energy where it is needed, optimizing the site's existing infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.
HarfangLab — HarfangLab develops a hunting software to boost detection and neutralization of cyberattacks against companies endpoints. They plug their platform to third-party cybersecurity solutions to enhance visibility on your system. Their specialists have led many operations of defensive and offensive cyberwarfare for ANSSI (the French National Agency forthe Security of Information Systems), the French ministry of Defense and major cybersecurity companies.
Latitude — Venture Orbital Systems provides a tailor-made service for NanoSat & CubeSat operators.

Ring Capital is an investment ecosystem that combines business performance with sustainability by pulling in responsibly minded entrepreneurs and empowering them to thrive.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

WeeFin — WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. Their solutions are ESG connect, hub expertise, and ESG advisory.
Yespark — Trouvez le meilleur parking dans votre ville et abonnez-vous en quelques clics avec Yespark.
Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .

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.

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.

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