Top 50 Education Startup Investors in France (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Bpifrance
VC Fund
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17 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $713k–$35M |
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Educapital
VC Fund
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12 | France, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $1.9M–$16M |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$16M |
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Angelsquare
VC Fund
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8 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $400k–$5.5M |
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Brighteye Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, France, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, Software, E-Learning | $549k–$20M |
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Ring Capital
VC Fund
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6 | France, Spain, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Retail | $1.6M–$24M |
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INCO Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | France, Guinea | Seed, Series A | Health Care, EdTech, Wellness | $1.7M–$5.8M |
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Partech
VC Fund
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5 | United States, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $1.1M–$55M |
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Isai
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $878k–$50M |
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Better Angle
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $500k–$8.7M |
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MAIF Avenir
VC Fund
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5 | France, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, Internet, SaaS | $1.1M–$13M |
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Elaia
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.1M–$50M |
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M Capital Partners
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$7.7M |
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Investessor
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Apps | $263k–$1.1M |
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Karista
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $713k–$43M |
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GO CAPITAL
VC Fund
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4 | France, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $516k–$13M |
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Impact Partenaires
VC Fund
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4 | France | Series A, Series B | Education, Internet, Software | $2.3M–$5.5M |
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BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund
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4 | France, Germany, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $2M–$25M |
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Thibaud Hug de Larauze
Angel
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3 | France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, CRM, EdTech | $1.1M–$27M |
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SIDE Capital
VC Fund
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3 | France, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, SaaS | $494k–$6.6M |
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Arkea Capital Investissement
VC Fund
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3 | France, Italy, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Series B | Manufacturing, EdTech, Software | $5.5M–$50M |
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Crédit Mutuel Arkéa
VC Fund
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3 | France | Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Finance, FinTech | $439k–$9.5M |
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Finorpa
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, Software, Industrial | $219k–$25M |
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WeLikeStartup
VC Fund
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3 | France | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Food and Beverage, Internet | $66k–$1.8M |
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Financiere Saint James
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Internet | $1M–$27M |
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Founders Future
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1M–$25M |
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Turenne Capital
VC Fund
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3 | France, Poland, Germany | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Biotechnology, Medical | $2.8M–$22M |
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Eurazeo
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Germany | Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $2.7M–$120M |
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Evolem Start
VC Fund
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3 | France, Italy, Senegal | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.1M–$21M |
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Seventure Partners
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $3.1M–$65M |
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Citizen Capital
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Software, Construction | $1.5M–$29M |
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Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
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3 | France, Israel | Seed, Series A | Retail, Internet, E-Commerce | $511k–$57M |
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Thierry Petit
Angel
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3 | France, Côte d'Ivoire | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Software, Fashion | $361k–$22M |
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Michael Benabou
Angel
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3 | France, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B | $549k–$57M |
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MAIF Impact
VC Fund
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3 | France | Series A, Seed | Retail, Children, Education | $589k–$12M |
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ODYSSEE VENTURE
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $1.6M–$11M |
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Banque des Territoires
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1.4M–$31M |
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Bpifrance Digital Venture
VC Fund
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3 | France, India | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, SaaS, Software | $439k–$24M |
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Kurma Partners
VC Fund
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3 | France, Switzerland, Spain | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $2.3M–$95M |
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Avolta Partners
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Advertising | $549k–$16M |
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Thibaud Elziere
Angel
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3 | France, United States, Belgium | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $395k–$16M |
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Omnes Capital
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, Belgium | Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | |
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Pierre Krings
Angel
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2 | France | Seed, Series A | Rental, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Xavier Niel
Angel
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2 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Le Studio VC
VC Fund
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2 | France, Italy, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | |
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Pleiade Venture
VC Fund
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2 | France, Belgium, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Jean-Romain Lhomme
Angel
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2 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Angel, Seed | Real Estate, Software, Apps | $786k–$57M |
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Expanso Capital
VC Fund
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2 | France | Seed, Series A | Software, Solar, Lighting | $300k–$2.9M |
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Emertec
VC Fund
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2 | France, Canada, United States | Series A, Series B | Energy, Software, Electronics | $1.4M–$15M |
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XAnge
VC Fund
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2 | France, Germany, Belgium | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$60M |
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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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1072
- Round size: Seed $713k–$6.9M; Series A $2.6M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
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.
- Igyxos — Igyxos Biotherapeutics is harnessing breakthrough science in monoclonal antibodies to pioneer novel therapeutics that aim to transform the treatment of infertility in men and women.
- Astraveus — Designing and building closed, automated, bioprocessing systems for the production of cell and gene therapies.
The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.3M; Series A $4.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $55M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
- Wecandoo — Wecandoo supports Craftsmanship by organizing manual workshops where craftspeople and individuals meet around a passion and the practice of a know-how.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 544
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $584k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoora —
- Avocode — Centralize design collaboration, developer hand-off, version control, screen flows, & feedback in one tool. Sign up free today. Work with Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma designs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $400k–$2M; Series A $2.1M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
- Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
- Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!
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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- Industry: Education, Software, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $549k–$1.6M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $111M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- 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 !!
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Tech for Good VC investing in Series A and Series B
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Spain, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.8M; Series A $7.7M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $59M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Hiboo — Hiboo is data infrastructure platform that helps you collect, control, and visualise your equipment data.
- WeeFin — WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. Their solutions are ESG connect, hub expertise, and ESG advisory.
- Soil Capital Belgium — Discover Europe's first certified, multi-national carbon farming programme that rewards regenerative agriculture.
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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- Industry: Health Care, EdTech, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Guinea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5.8M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Resoil — Resoil finances the agricultural carbon sinks through carbon credits certified by the Low Carbon Label.
- Axomove — Axomove is an e-health app that specializes in video physical exercises.
- Mindday — Mindday is reinventing mental well-being by combining human support, digital programs and science to provide immediate and personalized support to anyone.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 525
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$30M; Series B $9M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
- Privitar — Informatica is an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets.
- Jaspersoft — Enterprise reporting platform for delivering pixel perfect reports. Build custom reports and dashboards in minutes.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $878k–$8M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $5.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $196M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- FinFrog — FinFrog accompagne les particuliers dans la gestion de leur budget en leur proposant des micro-prêts faciles d’accès. FinFrog propose un crédit 100% sur mobile avec une demande de prêt qui ne prend pas plus de 5 minutes. FinFrog encourage un recours responsable à l’emprunt, avec des critères d'octroi stricts et adaptés aux changements de lasociété. Retrouvez-nous sur https://www.finfrog.fr et sur https://www.finfrog.blog
- Pricemoov — Pricemoov is a global provider of next-generation price management and optimization solutions that help companies power digital commerce, adapt to market dynamics, and empower sales teams. Featuring powerful data science, end-to-end automation, and an intuitive user experience, the cloud-native Pricemoov platform enables B2B and B2C businesses to unlock their revenue potential with intelligent pricing.
- Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.
We back the companies of tomorrow before it's obvious. Strategic venture capital firm committed to building lasting partnerships with exceptional founders.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $500k–$8.7M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rentr — Rentr gives next-gen property management solutions.
- Beavr — Automate your ESG compliance and streamline your CSR operations. Meet your stakeholders' expectation in days not months.
- Nepsis — Nepsis enables businesses to adopt solar and clean energy solutions with zero upfront cost through smart financing and leasing solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.3M; Series A $4.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
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 …) !
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 214
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.9M; Series A $2.2M–$26M; Series B $4.2M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Elevo — Elevo is a Paris-based performance management platform.
- 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.
- Traefik Labs — Cloud-native, GitOps-driven API runtime solutions for demanding DevOps and Platform Engineers with diverse use-cases, environments, and deployment models.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.2M; Series A $3.3M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
- MilkStraw AI — Saving companies up to 75% on AWS
- The Sanctuary Group — The Sanctuary Group provides aqua-cycling, indoor cycling, boxing bootcamp, yoga, dance cardio, HIIT workouts, and kids’ swim classes.
Investessor is:animated by a team of volunteer practitioners of the company: business leaders, former leaders, experts , accountants, consultants, etc.,convinced that success is the product of individual and collective skills, partners with other angel networks or associations of unsecured loans,supported by several government agenciesand businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $329k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $263k–$406k
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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.
Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $713k–$6.6M; Series A $1.2M–$18M; Series B $2.5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
- Physikron — Physikron is a developer of mass spectrometry technologies used to improve the performance of tandem spectrometry. Its technologies offer proteomic analysis and dramatically improves the number of peptides and proteins identified during an LC/MS/MS acquisition that enable researchers to research in an enhanced way.
- Look Up Space — Lookup space is the next global leader for space safety, security and sustainability
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $516k–$5.5M; Series A $2.1M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Episto — Episto helps you collect ultra-authentic insights from your targets, anywhere in the world, simply and instantly
- AISPRID — AISPRID is a robotic company that manufactures autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.
- NeoXperiences — NeoXperiences develops technological solutions that bring audiences together around fun and interactive experiences.
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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- Industry: Education, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $3.8M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DESKi — HeartFocus is an AI-powered heart exam software for ultrasound and can be used with any hand-held probe, cart or ultrasound system. The product is available as an APP or SDK and is appropriate for clinics, health systems and learning institutions
- Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
- DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.
Thibaud Hug de Larauze is the Co-founder & CEO at Back Market.
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- Industry: Information Technology, CRM, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.7M; Series A $4.4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
- wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.
- 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.
Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $494k–$1.6M; Series A $1.8M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nopillo — Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France.
- Seelab.ai — Seelab.ai is a generative AI solution that helps marketing & creative teams creating branded visual content
- Klara — Klara develops a solution that is both helpful and tailored to each employee. There is a forum for promoting HR development methods. The solution allows to simplify and personalize the experience of employees for talent management, training programs, managerial ceremonies, or even visibility on the career path of your personnel.
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Browse database — It's Free!ARKEA relies on human resources of the existing pole of investment capital
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- Industry: Manufacturing, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: France, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Series B $5.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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…).
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $439k–$5.5M; Series A $3.5M–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hemera — Hemera offers to support entrepreneurs who want to go far and change the world.
- Intact — Intact is an industrial and technology business focused on generating low-carbon ingredients derived from regenerative agriculture, such as vegetarian proteins derived from legumes or a neutral alcohol derived from legumes.
- LaBienveillanceFinancière — RegTech, Fintech, Insurtech, wealth management, wealth planning, estate planning In an increasingly complex world, every family needs the type of wealth planning, estate planning, and wealth management advice up to now exclusively reserved for very high-net worth individuals. LaBienveillanceFinancière (LBF) provides professional wealth managementadvisers with an “augmented wealth advisory” platform that enables them to meet this need. LBF’s algorithms automate the production (data collection, analysis, calculations, solutions, reporting) of wealth management solutions personalized for each of its clients' customer. LBF's clients are banks’ financial advisers, insurance brokers, and wealth management adviser networks. The company has already conquered 3 institutional networks. LBF helps them provide higher quality, certified, global (tax, civil law, financial) wealth management advice in no time.
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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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Industrial
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $219k–$1.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2004
Portfolio highlights
- SPART — SPART, your company's sport and health partner. Improve the cohesion and well-being of your teams through physical activity.
- Extensee — Extensee is a French company that specializes in providing comprehensive drone solutions tailored for civil, industrial, and governmental applications. Their offerings include drones (UAVs) and sensors, airworthiness management, maintenance services, logistics support, expert personnel deployment, and supply of spare parts. This enables clients toeffectively implement drone-based operations across various sectors, ensuring operational readiness and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Beyond Green — Beyond Green is an agri-food group specializing in agricultural transition and sustainable food.
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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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $329k–$1.8M; Angel $123k–$176k; Pre-Seed $66k–$406k
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artifeel — Established in January 2021, ARTIFEEL is a Fast-Growing French developer and manufacturer of Check'in, the first disruptive smart security product that recognizes all door events.The Check'in Box embeds systems to detect and dissuade potential intrusions and sends remote alerts through the newly standardized LTE-M network without anysingle user interaction to Monitoring Stations and/or Smartphones. It is fully autonomous: battery powered, no need for additional gateways, sirens, and even Wi-Fi or electricity, making it a cost-effective solution for currently unsecured and isolated sites markets. Its ‘always-on’ configuration eliminates false alarms, ideal when paired with a Central Monitoring Station subscription. The All-in-one design makes him very simple to use and avoid unnecessary installation time and costs.
- SeaBeLife — SeaBeLife is a biotechnology company that develops a range of drug candidates intended to block regulated necrosis (or regulated cell death of cells), from a family of patented molecules.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$4.4M; Series A $4.6M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- Cleo Labs — Cleo Labs develops regulatory intelligence and product compliance software that enables companies to manage complex legal requirements across multiple international markets. The company provides an AI-powered platform that identifies applicable regulations for products, mapping obligations related to safety standards, labeling, certifications, andimport requirements across jurisdictions. Its system automates pre-launch compliance workflows by generating regulatory checklists for each product and target market, allowing teams to understand requirements before entering new regions. It also offers continuous monitoring capabilities that track regulatory updates in real time and alert users when changes affect their products or operations. The platform integrates data from thousands of regulatory sources and authorities, applying AI models to analyze legal texts and assess compliance risks for specific product and market combinations. It includes features such as risk scoring, jurisdiction mapping, and automated due diligence checks for supply chains, enabling structured evaluation of compliance exposure.
- Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Marc Menasé, Founders Future is a transatlantic tech investment platform supporting a new generation of AI-first entrepreneurs driving major transformations. Backed by entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the platform manages nearly $400 million and ranks among the most activeearly-stage players in Europe.As part of its expansion into the United States, Founders Future strengthened its shareholder base in 2025 with long-term partners such as MACSF, the Dassault family, and the CMA CGM Group. With over 120 investments, Founders Future is actively supporting companies like Databricks, Perplexity, Function Health, Waterdrop, Veesion, Riot, Conduktor and Raidium.Its strategy focuses on high-impact sectors - AI, fintech, SaaS, and healthcare - with a clear ambition: to empower the most ambitious entrepreneurs in scaling breakthrough technologies on a global scale.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $6.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Audion — Advertisers and publishers deliver measurable performance over the entire audio ecosystem with Audion adtech solutions.
- Petwealth — Petwealth, under their direction, is in the forefront of AI-powered pet diagnostics, providing earlier, wiser health insights.
- Bon Vivant — Discover Verley's innovative precision fermentation technology for sustainable, nutritious, and delicious dairy proteins. Join us in driving the environmental transition of the dairy industry.
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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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: France, Poland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$22M; Private Equity $3.3M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- Germitec SAS — Germitec is a world leader in UV-C high-level disinfection. Fast, safe, chemical-free, one-button UV-C high-level disinfection for ultrasound probes.
- AlgoTherapeutix — AlgoTherapeutix is the operator of a biotechnology company designed to develop topical treatments for complex pain.
Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in SMEs and manages a diversified portfolio of assets.With its expertise in private equity, real estate, and private debt, the group supports companies of all sizes in their development commitment through the commitment of its 235 professionals. It provides companies with thenecessary investments needed to realize their growth potential.The firm was founded in 1969 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 276
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$16M; Series B $18M–$120M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Back Market — Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics. The company brings refurbished electronic devices and appliances to customers in 13 countries (including the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, and more recently, Portugal, Japan, Finland, and Ireland). It employs ateam of 480 employees and counting across its 4 offices located in New York, Berlin, Paris, and Bordeaux.Launched in 2014 by Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute, Back Market is headquartered in Paris, France.
- Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
- Etix Everywhere — Provide Data Center services and connectivity to improve your presence and efficiency! Your partner for collocation is Etix Everywhere!
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Italy, Senegal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M; Series A $3.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fungu'it — A new generation of flavor ingredients for healthy, sustainable, and accessible food.
- Kimialys — Kimialys provides a patented and disruptive surface chemistry for biosensors, enabling the development of innovative rapid diagnostic assays.
- Sirius NeoSight — Sirius NeoSight is a biotech and pharmaceutical company that detects subclinical neo-cancers and provide treatment for it.
Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital and Life Sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with € 1 billion undermanagement as of December 31, 2023. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today: - Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition - Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity - Sports & Wellbeing - Blue Economy
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Series A $3.1M–$24M; Series B $3.3M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Sentryc — Protect your brand and your products from counterfeiters with Sentryc. We monitor over 120 marketplaces for you and remove potential counterfeits.
- Flexvelop — Flexvelop combines financial technology with circular economy to add innovative values to the core function of equipment funding.Local vendors and online-shops integrate Flexvelop as a seamless embedded payment option. Business customers are now able to #flex new equipment per click right at the point of sale. Insurance is already covered, andour customers have now the weekly option, to buy- or return their equipment, easily. This enables a new world of worry-free and flexible business growth.We #flex business equipment from €300 up to €20.000 per item; e.g. coffee-machines, laptops, gym- or dental-equipment,... anything you need for your business.NEXT GENERATION PAYMENTS + Technological Innovation: fully automatic embedded payment option + Economical Innovation: optionality (rent/buy/return) + insurance included + Ecological Innovation: sustainability (contributing to a circular economy) = Enabling worry-free flexible business developmentForget renting. Forget leasing. Grow smart - flex it!
- Vertero — Axial Therapeutics is a biotechnology company fundamentally changing the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders by harnessing groundbreaking science in the microbiome-gut-brain axis.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Construction
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.3M; Series A $2.2M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Hiboo — Hiboo is data infrastructure platform that helps you collect, control, and visualise your equipment data.
- Didask —
- 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
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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- Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $511k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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!
- Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.
Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: France, Côte d'Ivoire
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $361k–$7.4M; Series A $1.1M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
President at Financiere Saint James.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $549k–$7.1M; Angel $560k–$15M; Series A $2.7M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lemrock —
- Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
- ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
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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- Industry: Retail, Children, Education
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $589k–$7.7M; Series A $3.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Didask —
- Heliup — Heliup is a company that creates and manufactures solar systems for huge building roofs for commercial and industrial buildings.
- Les Nouvelles Fermes — Les Nouvelles Fermes is a producer of fruits, vegetables to be made locally without chemical treatment, with taste. The company defends and develops new, ultra-local, sustainable, and inclusive agriculture, enabling clients to the crossroad between market gardening, agro-industry, and startups.
ODYSSEE VENTURE is a French Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France. The company has raised over 600M€.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$11M; Private Equity $2.2M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
- Terratis — Terratis is a French company that uses the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to reduce the populations of tiger mosquitoes and agricultural pests. Their mission is to diminish harmful insect populations effectively on a large scale using a scientific, innovative, ecological, and efficient approach.
- BrightHeart — BrightHeart develops an AI-based platform for fetal ultrasound analysis to improve detection of congenital heart defects.
Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.8M; Series A $3.7M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Worldia — Worldia is an online travel agency.
- AdEchoTech — The company was the first to market a robotic tele-ultrasound solution, expanding the capabilities currently offered in the field of teleradiology.
Bpifrance Digital Venture operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Health Care, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $439k–$1.9M; Series A $3.1M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Firecell — Firecell is a Telecommunications Industry.
- Scintil Photonics — SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic IC with wafer-level lasers integration.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, Switzerland, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$13M; Series A $3.8M–$95M; Series B $8.8M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
- Vico Therapeutics — Pioneering RNA-based science to target the root cause of rare genetic neurological diseases VO659: The first clinical candidate directly targeting the CAG repea
- Synendos Therapeutics — Synendos Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that aims to develop breakthrough safe and effective therapies for unmet needs in neuropsychiatric disorders through modulation of a new drug target in the endocannabinoid system that enables restoration of natural functioning of the brain.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $549k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $713k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $395k–$3.2M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
- Veeton — Veeton is an all-in-one AI platform to create, manage, and scale stunning, photorealistic fashion visuals. Perfect for brands, e-commerce, and creative teams looking to streamline photoshoots, cut costs, and launch collections faster.
Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 155
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Pierre Krings is the founder of Price Minister.
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- Industry: Rental, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jam — Jam uses AI and process optimization to assist students in their daily lives.
- Tracktor — Tracktor is a rental platform for construction workers, enabling them to rent out or borrow construction equipment in a few clicks.
- Renovation Man — Renovation Man is a provider of services intended to revolutionize the world of renovation work.
Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
- Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
- Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.
Le Studio invests in disruptive European early-stage start-ups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FairMoney — Digital banking and Instant Loans in Nigeria providing collateral-free personal loans, a bank account with free bank transfers, and zero convenience fee on b...
- Proportunity — Proportunity is a technology-driven mortgage lender. The company pushes the edge on real estate data-driven investment insights. It uses machine learning to accurately forecast house prices and up-and-coming areas, providing loans to buyers looking to purchase homes in forecasted high-growing areas.Vadim Toader and Stefan Boronea startedProportunity in 2016, which is headquartered in London, England.
- Foxintelligence — Discover key insights into digital purchasing trends with NielsenIQ. Enhance your strategy with our data. Explore now!
Pleiade Venture is a French Ventrue Capital Company. It supports innovative companies from all sectors, except biotech.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Belgium, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- RIVRS — RIVRS creates high quality UGC games on all trending sandbox platforms.
- Sensefuel — Sensefuel is a software publisher dedicated to the retail industry and in particular e-commerce. Its innovative e-commerce search engine is based on algorithms specifically designed for online sales. It helps e-merchants of all sizes to give their visitors a new search experience through personalized results.
- Climbing District — Climbing District is a social club and coworking space between batignolles, canal saint-martin, buttes-chaumont, and saint-lazare where beginners or experienced climbers practise climbing in bouldering rooms.
Jean-Romain Lhomme - Investor / Chairman @ Comet Meetings
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Angel, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Angel $786k–$15M; Series A $2.6M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Upflex — Work Flexibility Starts Here
- Shadow — Experience the power of cloud gaming with Shadow.tech. Dive into a world where high-performance gaming is accessible on any device. Enjoy features such as 4K resolution, VR compatibility, and seamless gameplay without the need for expensive hardware. Explore our comprehensive game store and start your ultimate gaming journey today
- 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.
Expansion Capital Group is that valued partner for expansion capital solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Solar, Lighting
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $658k–$2.9M; Series A $300k–$800k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flovea — FLOVEA performs a constant technological watch on its core business and is committed to creating innovative technologies through partnerships with research centers and laboratories.
- Dronisos - drone shows — Dronisos are pioneers in performance drone entertainment. Specialists in indoor and outdoor drone light shows. Custom design your show or pick from our catalogue.
- Sunbooster — Sunbooster provides design, installation, consulting, engineering, maintenance and services related to solar energy products.
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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- Industry: Energy, Software, Electronics
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$6.8M; Series B $5.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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.
XAnge is a Franco-German team of venture capital investors that manages €450 million and invests in digital, deeptech, and impact startups.It is the innovation brand of the Siparex group, a major player in French private equity. XAnge is a key European investor in early-stage startups and is looking for game-changing startups and entrepreneurswho rock the code[s].The Paris, Ile-de-France-located company was founded in 2004.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, Germany, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 213
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $234M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
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- Dattak — Dattak offers cyber insurance solutions based on cybersecurity technologies. Their cybersecurity tools allow us to assess a company's level of cybersecurity without complex questionnaires. They provide their policyholders with a variety of cybersecurity tools to help them prevent and defend against cyberattacks.
- Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
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