Top 35 Email Startup Investors in France in October 2024
A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Email startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Email companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Email Startup Investors in France in October 2024
Investor | Email France investments |
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Hexa | 4 |
Alven | 2 |
Dave Morin | 1 |
UI Investissement | 1 |
Crédit Agricole | 1 |
David King | 1 |
SIDE Capital | 1 |
Entrepreneur Venture | 1 |
Hunter Walk | 1 |
Bpifrance | 1 |
Andreas Ehn | 1 |
Avolta Partners | 1 |
3T Capital | 1 |
XAnge | 1 |
General Catalyst | 1 |
Isai | 1 |
IT-Translation | 1 |
A Plus Finance | 1 |
Elliot Shmukler | 1 |
Prehype | 1 |
Adam Nash | 1 |
Bill Lee | 1 |
Naxicap Partners | 1 |
Cyril Moutran | 1 |
KREAXI | 1 |
Sowefund | 1 |
Bill Lee | 1 |
Thomas France | 1 |
Stephan Dietrich | 1 |
Gustaf Alstromer | 1 |
SaaS Partners | 1 |
Partech | 1 |
Kima Ventures | 1 |
Laurent Asscher | 1 |
Jeanine Heller | 1 |
eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
- Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
- Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
- Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
- Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
- Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS
Since 1967, the UI brand embodies a partnership with companies. Actor of the economy, UI has accompanied more than 120 SMEs over the last fifteen years, investing more than 550m € and giving substance to their development projects. Combining experience and corporate culture, UI has established itself as an involved and independent partner, able tocount on its shareholder leaders to favor, independently, the sustainable performance of the SMEs it accompanies.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
- Private Equity, Seed, Series A
- France, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- SURGAR — SURGAR provides a plug-and-play augmented reality software suite for computer-aided laparoscopic surgery.
- Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma is an allogeneic platform to generate immune therapy ambitioning to harness patient immune system & prevent cancer resistance over treatment.
- Quai des Notaires — Vente, succession, signez l'esprit tranquille. Sans rdv et gratuit ! Trouvez votre notaire en ligne.
Credit Agricole is a banking corporation with focuses on corporate and investment banking, retail banking, and savings management. Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, helpful bank serving 49 million customers, 7.4 million mutual shareholders, and 1.2 million shareholders. Crédit Agricole Group supports its customers in their plans and projectsin France and around the world, through its operations in all segments of the market including insurance, real estate, payment systems, asset management, leasing and factoring, consumer finance, and corporate and investment banking.
Crédit Agricole also stands out for its dynamic, innovative corporate social responsibility policy serving the economy. This policy is based on a pragmatic approach that permeates throughout the entire Group and engages all its employees. Its recent inclusion in the Vigeo-NYSE Euronext extra-financial indices is recognition of this engagement.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Quai des Notaires — Vente, succession, signez l'esprit tranquille. Sans rdv et gratuit ! Trouvez votre notaire en ligne.
- Technique Solaire — Technique Solaire specializes in the distribution of photovoltaic energy for individuals and businesses as corant from solar panels.
- Arkeon Energy Systems — Arkeon Energy Systems develops hermodynamic cycles and thermal stages to meet heating, air conditioning, and electricity needs.
David King is a Founder of Highlighter. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for Computer Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Mobile, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- dYdX — Trade Perpetuals on the most powerful open trading platform, backed by @a16z, @polychain, and @paradigm.
- TruStory — As more people see the likes of Bitcoin as a superior alternative to investments like precious metals, demand is at an all-time high. The Bitcoin Profit website makes it its mission to guide new and experienced investors along their journey.
- Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.
Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Yuccan Lead — Yuccan Lead is an app that generates highly qualified leads by building customers' own network of Ambassadors easily.
Entrepreneur Venture is a private equity firm based in Paris, France. The firm seeks to invest in the retail, SaaS, and e-commerce sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Marketing
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- France, United States, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
- Fairmoove — Fairmoove is a digital travel agency that promotes environmentally responsible tourism. Fairmoove is to ensure that tourists and local people have a satisfying and sustainable travel experience while minimizing the negative effects of travel and tourism on the environment and society.
- Mosh — MOSH is a mission-focused, family-run company to get you thinking more about your brain health! Try our MOSH bars formulated with superfoods & vital brain nutrients.
- Neocase Software — Neocase is a provider of integrated HR and Finance service delivery solutions.We enable large and mid-size organizations to reduce costs, standardize processes and improve employee, customer and supplier relationships. This is typically achieved within shared service centers and global business services environments. Our software streamlinesservice delivery through advanced case management, powerful business process automation, a rich knowledge base, personalized self-service portals and deep analytics.Delivered in the cloud, leveraging its award-winning modern technology platform, Neocase integrates with core HR platforms like Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and other systems to leverage existing data.
Hunter Walk is a Partner at Homebrew. He holds a BA degree in History from Vassar and MBA from Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, France
Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
- Oderis — Oderis helps corporate and private equity clients with transaction advisory, business valuation, consulting and financial assistance.
- VELA — VELA is an innovative 100% wind-powered maritime transport. It has been working to address the climate emergency by providing a creative, sustainable, and socially responsible maritime transportation solution.
Andreas is working on a service that will connect people, time and places on the web. He also works as an independent consultant helping other startups with product strategy, technical infrastructure, scalability and recruiting as well as financial companies (venture capital and private equity) with technical due diligence and in other advisorroles.He was CTO at Spotify from the launch of the company in August 2006 until November 2009. Before that he worked at Stardoll as an engineer and project manager.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Prog.AI — Prog.AI helps to find developers based on their technical proficiency, libraries they have used, or even just the contributions they have made to GitHub projects.
- Red Flag — Red Flag develops an automated accounting, expenses, and invoicing platform for SMEs.
- Single Technologies — Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, with its long tradition in fiber optics, ultra-sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy and DNA sequencing, SINGLE’s ambition is to become the instigator of 3-D Sequencing.
Avolta Partners provides independent M&A and corporate finance advice to young, cutting-edge, and leading startups in Europe. They have a strong track record of M&A and Venture Capital deals such as TokTokTok, Qarnot Computing or Smartangels.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rediv — Patatam is the european's most trusted online shop for buying and selling like-new clothing for kids and babies. Parents can send their quality kids' clothing in a free pre-paid bag (the Patabag), earn cash up front for their clothing selected, and can shop the best brands for their kids at Patatam.com for up to 90% off retail. Based inthe south west of France, Patatam was launched in 2013 by Mariève Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Mathieu Bidart. The company is advised and backed by former Price Minister CEO and founder Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Frederic Mazzella and Francis Nappez (founders of BlaBlaCar) and several other investors.
- Minuit une — Minuit has developed a groundbreaking patented laser technology called IVL™ lighting (stand for Immersive & Versatile Laser lighting) which grabbed rapidly the attention of all related sectors (concert, event, TV production, clubbing).
- Serious Factory — Serious Factory revolutionizes traditional training by offering engaging and memorable e-learning modules. Discover simulations, interactive animations, Serious Games, video learning, and data visualization tools that allow you to measure and enhance your training results thanks to AI.
3T Capital is a venture capital fund, serving innovative companies within the Information Technology and Communication sector from their seed and early-stage phases.
3T Capital is funded by the European Investment Fund, BPI France, and its strategic partner, Institut Mines Telecom.
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Investment focus
- Software, Advertising, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- IKO System — IKO System is Europe’s leading predictive analytics platform for generating B2B leads and automating sales prospection.IKO builds an “ideal client” profile by analyzing the business environment of its clients with over 100,000 private and public sources of information (news, blogs, social networks, public websites, etc.). IKO System relies on adatabase of 160 million companies to offer a continuous flow of prospects that have the highest probability of becoming clients. Salespeople can then build automatic engagement scenarios to insure a steady quantity of new meetings.IKO System is dedicated to providing its users a process for acquiring clients in order for them to satisfy their growth objectives.
- Proximis — Proximis is the only digital unified commerce platform enabling brands and store chains to offer their customers an online buying experience like an in-store experience.
- SlimCut Media — SlimCut Media creates new premium advertising inventory for digital publishers. Our innovative video ad units are 100% viewable to guarantee brand engagement. In addition, we give our clients easy access to programmatic demand through partnerships with leading industry platforms.
For 20 years, XAnge has been a key venture capital fund in Europe. With 70 startups in its portfolio, XAnge invests early in innovative tech companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Germany, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
- Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
- SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Nurix AI — Nurix AI promotes data quality and integrity to provide accurate generative AI solutions.
- Rippl Care — Dementia care for seniors, ready when you are
- Future Trash — Future Trash is an interdisciplinary game development company.
Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- Mercateam — Mercateam specializes in developing staff management software.
- Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.
IT-Translation: investor and co-founder of digital technology start-ups developed from research
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Accelad — AccelaD is the company behind Raphton™, an innovative software assistant for electronic design. Raphton™ enables hardware designers to work 10 times faster and improve the performance of their designs, bringing a breakthrough in competitiveness and creating new opportunities for electronics manufacturers.
- AntsRoute — AntsRoute is a cloud-based route planning & optimization software developed by the French startup Antsway in 2015. The solutions help professionals to create optimal delivery, pick-up and multi-stop routes. The routing software makes it easier to smartly schedule appointments, optimize daily routes, automate dispatch to drivers, track theirprogress in real-time and keep customers updated with SMS alerts. The best software to increase stops per route, cut down transport costs and planning time.
- Therapixel — Therapixel is one of the leading French software companies specializing in artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.
A Plus Finance, which is headquartered in Paris (France), is an independent trust company specialising in the management of Common Investment Fundsfor Innovation (FCPI) and Proximity Investment Funds (FIP). A Plus Finance is involved in all innovative sectors, particularly in the IT, media and security fields.The A Plus Finance team includesfinanciers and entrepreneurs, thus providing companies with both an awareness of the daily constraints of management and a long-term perspective on the development of their business. Managing funds amounting to nearly €220m, A Plus Finance invests between €1 million and €4 million per project.per
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uzaje — Uzaje offers solutions that enable food service professionals and food manufacturers to eliminate packaging and consumption waste through container cleaning and change management.
- Anotherway — Anotherway assists everyone in their transition to a healthier and more responsible lifestyle by developing ecological alternatives with a positive impact, with the goal of banning single-use plastic and lowering the carbon footprint. Its solutions encompass all aspects of home life (hygiene, cooking, and maintenance) and are designed to bepractical, simple, and cost-effective.
- Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.
Elliot Shmukler is the VP of Product & Growth at Welathfront.Elliot is the VP of Product and Growth, is an accomplished Silicon Valley “growth hacker,” having led the strategy and execution behind LinkedIn’s growth from 20M to more than 200M members.He joined Wealthfront from LinkedIn, where, as Sr. Director of Product Management, he alsooversaw much of the consumer product experience, including Profile, Search, Endorsements and People You May Know. Previous to LinkedIn, Elliot held Technical and Leadership roles at eBay, About.com, Sombasa Media and Microsoft.Elliot holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.He holds a BA magna cum laude in Computer Science from Harvard University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Email, Events
- Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
Prehype is venture development firm HQ in NYC with offices in London, Copenhagen and Sydney, Detroit.Prehype is a venture development firm, building new businesses in partnership with the world’s finest corporations and VCs. They run workshops for companies like Diageo, NewsCorp, Mondelez, LEGO, and Verizon, in which they identify problems ormissed opportunities and resolve them through their startup/early-stage approach. Some of their very successful ventures are Bark & Co (barkbox), basno.com, and Managed By Q.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Mobile, Freelance
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Dollaride — Connecting commuter van drivers with passengers on their daily route.
- Proper — Proper offers a platform to help property owners‚ and their tenants, manage their property. Proper develops an intelligent platform that automatically performs the operational tasks associated with the rental of residential and commercial leases, garages and parking lots, etc. It was founded in 2017 and based in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark.
- Launcher — Launcher is developing the world’s most efficient rocket to deliver small satellites to orbit.
Adam Nash is the Co-Founder and CEO at Daffy. He attended Stanford University and Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Cache — Holding on to individual stocks that make up a large percentage of your portfolio? Cache gives you access to the same advanced investing products used by the ultra-wealthy to manage concentrated wealth.
- Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
- Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.
Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
- Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
- Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.
Naxicap Partners is a financial partner responsible, active and present along with its holdings. Their concept of partnership is to provide their participants and their managers substantial support in periods of expansion as in times of difficulty, with lines of action to be effective and practical.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Software, Retail
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MYRE — With 17 years of professional experience, Deborah (founder) has devised a tailor-made tool adapted to the new challenges of an industry still waiting to be modernized, allowing real estate players to focus on tasks with high added value. MYRE help Asset Managers in taking the control of their datas (financials, legal,...) in the asset lifecycle.We provide Financials analysis and modeling capabilities, advanced dataroom, Debt management, Real Estate Master data management in an inclusive way with all the stakeholders (PM, brokers, bank, ...)MYRE is based on twofold expertise of both technology and real estate business needs.
- Dog Chef — Dog Chef is an exhibit supplier of homemade and natural food for dogs across the region.
- Witco — Witco is an app that centralizes all the services that power a great work experience. We provide flexible workplaces & coliving solutions.
Cyril Moutran - Cofounder - Product & Strategy @ feedly
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Investment focus
- Internet, Mobile, TV
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Skyways — A new form of transportation is here.
- Chefclub — Chefclub is a cooking channel that shows food videos on television and the Internet. The company is a multicultural team of talent from all around the world, with a passion for cooking. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.
- Sourced Craft Cocktails — Sourced elevates the bar experience to meet the significant moments of our lives when we gather together. Whether in-person or virtual, in your home or office, Sourced delivers customized craft cocktail kits and curated cocktail experiences.
Kreaxi is a management company specializing for over 30 years in investing in the capital of innovative and technological startups with high potential.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Italy, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- QiOVA — QiOVA offers the services in the development of dynamic laser beam shaping solution. Their ambition is to develop a sustainable and mutually profitable business with its customers through unremitting innovation and cooperation.
- B2eBike — B2ebike provides comprehensive electric bicycle fleet (VAE) solutions for businesses and communities. The best strategy to convert to a soft form of transportation.
- Diamfab — Diamond semiconductor - DIAMFAB - Our project aims to manufacture a sustainable carbon-based diamond semiconductor !
Sowefund is a investment platform in supporting innovative companies in their search for financing.
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Investment focus
- Environmental Consulting, Retail, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Abelio — Abelio offers a complete solution for daily crop monitoring. This device, accessible at lower cost, allows farmers to anticipate various agricultural issues (diseases, weeds, pests, etc.) and to optimize the use of water, phytosanitary products and fertilizers. Controlling resources, reducing the environmental impact and the health of producers andconsumers are all challenges taken up by the Abelio solution. By reconciling societal and agricultural issues (yields, time savings, etc.), Abelio promotes the transition to sustainable agriculture.
- Futura gaia — Futura gaïa is a food production company.
- TechnoCarbon — France-based startup TechnoCarbon Technologies France ("TCTF") proposes high-performance, low-carbon-footprint CarbonFibreStone™ (for short, CFS™), a new composite material that will revolutionize architecture and industry by replacing concrete, steel, and aluminum--materials that cause intensive air pollution and natural resourcedepletion. CFS relies on a patented, high-performance, low-carbon-footprint technology generating a new family of materials to replace aluminum, wood, steel & concrete in major applications from construction and infrastructure to aerospace & defense, luxury, furniture & HiFi audio.
Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
- Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
- Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
- Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
Stephan Dietrich is a serial entrepreneur and investor with a 25 year experience in the high tech industry and an exceptional track record growing and scaling start-ups all the way to successful exits. Sold Neolane to Adobe Systems for $600M.
Co-Founder of Neolane in 2001, Stephan was responsible for driving Neolane’s corporate vision,international business development and its high growth in North America. In 2013, with $60MM revenues and 400 employees, Neolane was acquired for a 10x multiple on revenue. Since the acquisition of Neolane, Stephane was instrumental in defining a new Marketing & Experience Cloud category, combining the best of the Neolane DNA with the strengths of Adobe resulting in a 40%+ CAGR over 4 years and an undisputed worldwide leadership position for the Adobe Campaign business. Prior to Neolane, Stephan was Founder and CEO of CubicSoft and also Co-Founder and VP of AGDS, acquired by Peregrine Systems, now HP.Stephan is a recognized thought leader and a Digital Marketing expert. He is regularly interviewed in high-level publications and has spoken at several major worldwide marketing & entrepreneurship events.Stephan lives in Boston, he holds a Master of Science degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris and earned his Master in Business Administration from the College des Ingenieurs.
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Investment focus
- Security, Software, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Akeneo — Akeneo PIM is an intuitive platform that simplifies product information management, enabling business to implement a PX strategy and PXM practices that increase productivity and efficiency.
- CybelAngel — CybelAngel is the world's leading platform for external attack surface management (EASM). Defend yourself against cyberattacks.
- Vade Secure — Vade is a global leader in predictive email defense, protecting 1 billion inboxes worldwide. AI-based email security for Microsoft 365.
Gustaf Alstromer is a partner at Y Combinator. Before joining Y Combinator he spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
- Pina Earth — Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners
- Ellipsis — Automated code reviews and bug fixes. Software engineers are more productive with Ellipsis, a developer tool that catches bugs, answers questions, and generates working, tested code.
SaaS Lab is a vehicle dedicated to manage assets for the long term by sharing knowledge via a large network of entrepreneurs & experts.
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- SaaS, Email, Software
- Funding Round, Series A
- France
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- Evina — Pioneering MNOs, merchants and payment gateways all over the world use Evina to fend off fraud and conquer new markets.
- Quable — Drive your Product Data and Accelerate your Sales with Quable. Discover the new PIM & DAM platform that revolutionizes the product experience
- Julie Desk — AI Based personal assistant.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
- 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.
- Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- 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.
- Willy anti-gaspi — Willy anti-gaspi is a waste-fighting e-commerce business.
Previously, I was also Investor in several industry-defining companies, notably Themis (sold to Mercury Systems), Ixia (sold to Keysight), Webedia (sold to Fimalac), Centellax (sold to Microsemi), CacheIQ (sold to NetApp), Anametrix (sold to Enlighten), KitLocate (sold to Yandex), Tekelec (sold to Siris Capital Group), LibertySurf (IPO),Aufeminin.com (IPO), Freever (sold to Buongiorno), Sidetrade (IPO), EmailVision (IPO) and Instranet (sold to SFDC).
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- Software, SaaS, B2B
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
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- Adikteev — Adikteev is the leading app re-engagement platform for performance-driven marketers, consistently ranked in the top 5 of the Appsflyer Performance Index. Adikteev helps the world’s top-spending gaming app publishers increase retention, reacquire churned users and drive incremental revenue thanks to made-to-measure re-engagement strategies,creatives and algorithms. Adikteev serves customers anywhere in the world through 3 offices in the US & EMEA.
- NeoReach — Seamlessly search, manage, and track user-generated content campaigns.
- Spendesk — Spendesk is smart to spend management software designed for both finance teams and employees. With flexible payments, approvals, automated receipt capture, and real-time spend insights, finance can decentralize operational spending across the business without any loss of control or visibility. Employees benefit from streamlined expense and invoicemanagement through the Spendesk website and app.Their tool helps companies save time on spend management. They empower finance teams with visibility across the entire spending process and wow employees with a streamlined experience for all spending at work.The company was established in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.
A forward thinking entrepreneur, marketing and brand strategist with an appetite to disrupt, create and reinvent products and experiences that transform industries, engage consumers, and enable positive change.
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- Mobile, Internet, CRM
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France
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- Zeel — Zeel delivers Massage On Demand:registered: - top-quality massages from licensed, vetted massage therapists to homes, hotels, workplaces, and events in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. With Zeel, customers enjoy a massage in the comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy of the place and time of their choosing, 7 days a week, 365days a year, with start times as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Services by app for iPhone or Android . Our first service offering is Massage On Demand:registered:. Zeel has been offering Massage On Demand since December 2012, launching the app on April 2, 2013. Massage On Demand:registered: is disrupting the $15B US and $80B global massage market.The Zeel app allows customers to get massage at their home, hotel, workplace or event in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. They choose between a soothing Swedish and invigorating deep tissue massage. Customers pay a set price (including tax & tip), charged to their credit card on file. All therapists are fully vetted in person, licensed in their state of practice, insured (minimum of $1M), background-checked and trained by the Zeel team to reach the highest levels of customer service and experience. In September 2013, Zeel launched Massage Zeelot, the first-ever same-day, on-demand massage subscription service. Customers receive at least one in-home, on-demand Zeel Massage per month at a preferred rate, along with a free professional-grade massage table, theirs to keep.
- Sunrise — Sunrise is a free calendar app. Designed with love, Sunrise is a new experience that will make your life easier. Available on Android, iPhone, iPad & Web.
- Triplemint — The Agency represents a global portfolio of luxury real estate including, homes for sale and rent, new development, leasing, commercial and resort properties.
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