Top 20 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in December 2024
A list of 20 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Esports startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in December 2024
Investor | eSports France investments |
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Alven | 4 |
V13 Invest | 2 |
Pareto Holdings | 2 |
Angelsquare | 2 |
KB Partners | 2 |
Super Capital VC | 1 |
Id4 ventures | 1 |
Turenne Capital | 1 |
Global Founders Capital | 1 |
Flat6Labs | 1 |
Entrepreneur Venture | 1 |
AXiomatic | 1 |
Investessor | 1 |
Motier Ventures | 1 |
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT) | 1 |
PixCapital | 1 |
Native Capital | 1 |
Pinou Capital | 1 |
M Capital Partners | 1 |
Societe Generale | 1 |
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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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
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- Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
- Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
- Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
V13 Invest is a VC fund from FDJ – the second-largest Lottery in Europe – that is currently managed by Serena.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Sports, eSports
- Seed, Series A
- France, United States
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- Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
- Jam.gg — Piepacker is a free cloud gaming platform to hangout and plays premium retro games with your friends online. Piepacker combines the video with a series of licensed popular retro-style games that friends can easily play together. It is simpler than organizing a discordant group but more interactive than just streaming. So far, the platform has seenlong sessions and participation. It was selected by TechCrunch in their top 12 favorite startups of the YC20 batch.
- Pandascore — Stop worrying about collecting data and computing odds. Start building your esports project. PandaScore API provides everything you need from live scores to live odds through a wide selection of matches, leagues and tournaments for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, Overwatch.
Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
- Omen AI — Harness the power of Ai and proprietary sensing to prevent equipment failures.
- Quiet — Quiet powers app success through expert publishing, strategic acquisitions, and innovative development. Join us in creating the next generation of market-leading mobile applications.
Since its launch in 2016, Angelsquare has supported more than 500 startups from all sectors in their Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & Series B fundraising.
From the implementation of the operation to the final negotiations, we have developed unique expertise that we put at the service of entrepreneurs to advise them throughout their fundraisingoperation and help them convince the right investors. : Business Angels, Family Offices, investment funds…
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Switzerland
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- Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
- Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
- Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!
We invest in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Rypplzz — Through Interlife™, our mission is to advance humanity by spatially engineering the flow of the environment to create optimal efficiency. Interlife™ enables unique location-based experiences and transforms physical spaces into smart environments with precise geolocation and enhanced connectivity. The evolving use and omnipresence of connecteddevices and the increasing demand for experiential content, including mixed reality, are resulting in an exponentially increasing need for Interlife™ and its applications.Rypplzz partners with investors who like to back companies creating breakthrough proprietary tech and are on a mission to build a more sustainable world.
- Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
- Tixologi — Tixologi’s blockchain-based ticketing software is putting event organizers in control of their own ticketing experience.
Super Capital 1 in January 2021 with 100+ international investors to provide finance and support to high potential startups. They invest €25k to €100k per startup and do 1 to 2 investments per month in France, Europe and in the US.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, India, Guinea
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- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- 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.
- KalPay — KalPay is the largest Shariah Compliant Buy Now Pay Later in Pakistan, giving our customers easy access to credit and allowing them to purchase products in 3 monthly installments. We have a portfolio of hundreds of brands spread across multiple segments!
Id4 is an asset manager, designed for family offices and private investors, committed to unearth valuable and outstanding tech opportunities in Europe
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- France, United Kingdom, Belgium
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- ThinkSono — ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology.
- Le Fourgon — Le Fourgon provides contained drinks for home delivery. They offer milk, water, beer, wine, fruit juice, and sodas. They allow customers to have their drinks delivered free of charge during the day.
- Northbound — We are building the dynamic decision engine that translates real-time data into operational excellence & stakeholder transparency. All at the intersection of warehouse and transport logistics.
Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France :
- Paris
- Lyon
- Marseilles
- Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million.
Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million.
32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement.
Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à :
- Paris
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, Poland, Germany
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- Sydev — Sydev is a publisher of management software and tariff databases for technical building trades in the construction industry.
- Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
- AlgoTherapeutix — AlgoTherapeutix is the operator of a biotechnology company designed to develop topical treatments for complex pain.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
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- Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
- Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.
- Zofa — Zofa provides integrated solutions that promote long-term change while improving productivity and patient care and enabling fast delivery of medical products.
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, E-Commerce
- 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 — HRIS, Digitization, Service Delivery, Case Management, Knowledge Management, Business Processes, Document Management, Business Intelligence
AXiomatic powers unforgettable esports experiences through sports and entertainment expertise. Its mission is to build a portfolio of dynamic company holdings in the esports and video gaming industry. Through strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions, the team connects esports groups with valuable resources including venues,technologies, media content, distribution partners, and investment capital.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Software, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Pandascore — Stop worrying about collecting data and computing odds. Start building your esports project. PandaScore API provides everything you need from live scores to live odds through a wide selection of matches, leagues and tournaments for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, Overwatch.
- Nifty Games — Nifty Games is reimagining innovative, authentic and competitive game experiences for the massive global audience of passionate sports fans, from casual gamers to seasoned aficionados. We develop and publish quick-session, head-to-head games for mobile devices, in partnership with the world’s largest sports licenses and backed by a contingent ofthe industry’s most powerful investors.
- Mobalytics — The all-in-one gaming companion that analyzes your performance and gives you insights to level up your game.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
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- GANGZ — Gangz is the first digital platform for talent recruitment: Models, hosts, extras and actors.
- Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
- Dreamtim Blooming — Dreamtim Blooming revolutionizing women's intimate health with patented menstrual panties and new sports-health services
Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.We are a value-added business angel. At scale.We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investmentthemes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, Creative Technologies and Cybersecurity.We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV, Citynove...) and across many industries.If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
- Pruna AI — Pruna is the AI Optimization Engine - a frictionless solution to help you optimize and compress your ML models for efficient inference.
The Foundation for Technology Innovation gives financial assistance to creative and technological projects at various phases of development. FIT funds projects in energy and the environment, information and digital technology, life sciences and health, precision industries, and nutrition and agriculture.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Switzerland, France
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- Aspivix — ASPIVIX is developing a new generation of medical devices that make gynecological procedures gentler and safer for women and gynecologists. The first device, CAREVIX, is designed to prevent cervix bleeding using a suction technology to replace traumatic tenaculum (forceps).
- Xemperia — Xemperia provides diagnostic solutions that helps to detect breast cancer and early diagnosis of relapses.
- Ex Nunc Intelligence — Ex Nunc Intelligence provides professionals with thorough summaries of legal information, credible responses to legal issues, and automated legal document preparation features.
PixCapital is an early-stage venture capital fund entirely focused on gaming.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- India
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- iion — iion the only unified game advertising platform that unites brands and game publishers. Engage gamers, monetize effectively, and unlock infinite opportunities across gaming environments.
- VaultN — VaultN’s smart distribution platform enables direct, secure and on-demand game key and entitlement transactions.Build on state-of-the-art technology, VaultN automates all aspect of games distribution, including realtime reporting, catalog sync, automation of prices and promotions for publishers, developers, distributors and retailers. VaultN isoffering its services for pay-per-use pricing. There is no minimum contract duration, no setup fee, no subscription costs.
- Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.
Native Capital specialized in early-stage funding of start-ups in the blockchain industry.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Blockchain, Web Development
- Seed
- France
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- Icon.X World — IconX World, the future of Esport Racing, brings the compete-and-Earn concept to GAMES through the ICNX token. We are already live on Assetto Corsa.
Pinou Capital is the investment fund for AdopteUnMec specialized in entertainment and fintech.
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Investment focus
- Sports, eSports
- Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- GamersOrigin — GamersOrigin is a club bringing together 24 professional players around 6 different licenses and having achieved many successes with 292 podiums to its credit since its creation. The club then established itself on various essential games like Overwatch, League of Legends or even on Fortnite in 2018.
M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM.
A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth.
In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Food and Beverage, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
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- Ellona — Ellona develops environmental intelligence solutions-based devices for outdoor and indoor spaces. Its solutions help decision-makers improve their environments through the use of sensors capable of analyzing and monitoring both air quality and nuisances.
- Olino — Olino is the insurance for tomorrow's SME. A digital service, a turnkey solution tailored to VSBs and SMEs, meeting all insurance needs.
- Therapixel — Therapixel is one of the leading French software companies specializing in artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.
Societe Generale is one of the European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the positive transformations of the world.Active inthe real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale employs over 149,000 members of staff in 67 countries and supports on a daily basis 31 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world. The Group offers a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions to secure transactions, protect and manage assets and savings, and help its clients finance their projects. Societe Generale seeks to protect them in both their day-to-day life and their professional activities, offering the innovative services and solutions they require. The Group’s mission is to empower each and everyone who wants to have a positive impact on the future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Energy, Manufacturing
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
- France, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eden AI — Eden AI meets your business needs with a unified AI API and powerful Workflow builder, enabling efficient deployment of AI models!
- STX Group — Founded in 2005, STX Group provides access to renewable energy, biofuels, energy efficiency and carbon markets. We're hiring!
- Godavari Biorefineries — Godavari Biorefineries is a biorefining company producing sugar, other foods, biofuels, chemicals, power, compost, waxes, and related products, using sugarcane as the primary feedstock. Their aim is to engage in research and innovate by continuously making new products and entering new markets in order to derive the maximum value from ourfeedstock. Their research areas include sustainable farming, transformation of biomass (chemical, mechanical and biological), product development, and process optimization. Founded in 1939, they have been pioneers in the growing, processing, and utilization of biomass to make a wide variety of products.
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