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Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in France in December 2024

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

Top 50 Impact Startup Investors in France in December 2024

Investor	Impact France investments
Bpifrance	33
Demeter Partners	20
Demeter	18
Aster	14
Paca Investissement	12
Starquest Capital	10
Banque des Territoires	9
MAIF Avenir	7
AFI Ventures	7
GO CAPITAL	7
Kima Ventures	7
Région Sud Investissement	6
BNP Paribas Développement	5
Elevation Capital Partners	5
Inventures SA	5
Sofimac Investment Managers	5
ETF Partners	5
Xerys	5
CapHorn Invest	4
Supernova Invest	4
Asterion Ventures	4
Epopée Gestion	4
WiSEED	4
SOSV	4
Noria Invest	4
Siparex Groupe	4
BNP Paribas Private Equity	4
A Plus Finance	4
Amundi Private Equity Funds	4
AQUITI Gestion	4
IRDI SORIDEC Gestion	4
Rhone-Alpes Creation	4
UI Investissement	4
Speedinvest	4
Otium Capital	4
BTP Capital Investissement	4
Raise Ventures	4
AA Sons	4
Daphni	4
Pays de la Loire Participations	3
Alter Equity 3P	3
Serena	3
BNP Paribas	3
Omnes Capital	3
Celeste Management	3
Karista	3
Sofilaro	3
ACG Management	3
Eiffel Investment Group	3
Better Angle	3

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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.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Biolevate — Accelerating Therapeutic Innovation: AI-Enhanced Workflow Automation
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

ICTYOS — Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic. It recycles fish skins from the culinary and catering industries.
Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the energy and ecological transition. They invest from 500 K€ to 30 M€ to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Germany, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

Nutriearth — Nutriearth is a biotech firm that develops nutritional ingredients for human and animal health.
Pony — Instant city bike hire
Sirfull Technology — Solutions SIRFULL pour le soudage, l'inspection et la maintenance | Welding cloud logiciel soudage | Linspec Cloud logiciel inspection

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
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.
LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.

Paca Investissement is specializes in investing in startups and developmental stages. The fund invests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GANGZ — Gangz is the first digital platform for talent recruitment: Models, hosts, extras and actors.
SailEazy — The SailEazy community offers all sailing enthusiasts the choice of freedom. A shared professional fleet, bases between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean ... discover a disruptive and innovative way of navigation. Throughout the year, 7 days / 7 and 24 hours a day, you can book and discover the high-performance sailboats of a professionalfleet, entirely managed by SailEazy. Subscriber, or punctual browser, autonomous or not, you have the choice. You freely determine your niche of reservation, without constraint time or duration, you choose your base of departure and your sailboat, according to your program (short exit, cruise, regatta, coastal, wide ...). Hourly pricing includes a 360 ° service keychain beyond the cost of the lease, including insurance, fuel, cleaning and equipment. Compulsive veiled, expert or contemplative, all members of the community have their way of navigating.
C4Diagnostics — C4Diagnostics developed a fast, reliable detection of microorganisms. Our Click-chemistry technology is at the core of our portfolio of diagnostic tests.

High Tech, Low Carbon: crafting tomorrow, today. We finance innovation to make tomorrow happen today. Starquest is a Montefiore Company.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, Singapore, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Cailabs — Cailabs is a French deep tech company, based in Rennes, which designs, produces and sells photonic solutions to fully exploit the industrial potential opened up by the shaping of light.Cailabs develops and produces a unique range of optical components based on its know-how and its patented technological innovations, in particular Multi-PlaneLight Conversion (MPLC).
Hello Watt — Hello Watt is a digital enthusiasts and developers who help you reduce your energy bills while improving your comfort.
Caeli Énergie — Caeli Énergie develops and manufactures next-generation air conditioners with great energy efficiency and a minimal carbon impact.

Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Movivolt — Movivolt is a company that offers professionals long-term electric car rentals. Movivolt specializes in 100% electric vehicles for long-term rental, offering all brands and types of electric vehicles (cars, utility vehicles, freight cycles, etc.) at the best possible price.
Neosilver — Neosilver is the platform that connects seniors with providers of collective, sports, and cultural activities.
AdEchoTech — The company was the first to market a robotic tele-ultrasound solution, expanding the capabilities currently offered in the field of teleradiology.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.
Iceberg Data Lab — Iceberg Data Lab is a fintech firm that develops assessment tools and provides environmental data solutions to financial institutions.
Santé Académie — As a result of a lack of caregivers across the country, their tasks are evolving - doctors can be asked to practice a gynaecologist act, or a nurse to follow up on a patient under anticancer treatment. Meanwhile, medical knowledge is increasing all around the world - we estimate that 50% of it becomes useless after 7 years. Therefore how can weprovide continuous training to 2 million caregivers? Santé Académie rethinks Continuing Medical Education by offering educational videos with cinematographic quality accessible by web or mobile. Each course is divided into 5 to 15 min episodes to adequate caregivers' schedules. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, care assistants, and chiefs nurses, can access a catalogue of high-quality courses on clinical and regulatory themes customized to their daily practice. These courses are certified by the ANDPC and produced by the best experts from prestigious institutions. Our goal? To educate health professionals as well as their engagement, with the top-end knowledge directly accessible from their phone, to improve patient care from prevention to follow-up. A new experience already approved by more than 20 000 professional and health institutions (GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences, Service de Santé des Armées …) !

Alliance For Impact (AFI) is a category-defining structure for impact companies combining equity-free acceleration with first-ticket seed funding.

Investment focus

Environmental Consulting, GreenTech, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Belgium, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
Highcast — Dans un contexte de transition énergétique et d’augmentation structurelle des prix, bien suivre et prévoir vos consommations en énergie devient un enjeu majeur. Chez Highcast, nous voulons relever ce défi autour de 3 axes : - Maîtriser et expliquer votre budget - Contribuer à la transition énergétique - Optimiser vos approvisionnements
Toasty — Our mission at Toasty is to make sustainable lifestyle accessible to everyone.

GO CAPITAL is a management company approved by the AMF and a member of AFIC. It is based in Rennes, and manages more than 130 million of assets by investing primarily in western France in innovative companies with high growth potential.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BIOPHTA — BIOPHTA has pioneered a new approach to eye care by creating a cutting-edge pharmaceutical platform that enables continuous drug delivery. Their non-invasive topical ocular inserts represent a significant advancement in the treatment of many ophthalmic disorders, providing superior long-term disease management.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
Dealt — Dealt - La solution servicielle qui transforme votre activité retail et e-commerce Montage, installation, configuration, entretien ou réparation… Dealt construit, implémente et gère votre offre de services en marque blanche, pour vous permettre de mieux accompagner vos clients et vous démarquer de la concurrence.Pour cela, Dealt met àdisposition des distributeurs une solution omnicanale complète, comprenant : - Les outils technologiques pour implémenter leur offre de services en marque blanche : plateforme de services, API, solution vendeur et back-office - Un catalogue de +300 services à tarifs négociés - Une communauté nationale de 10 000 professionnels certifiés - Un accompagnement total pour développer leur stratégie serviciellePassez d’un modèle de vendeur de produits à vendeur de solutions avec Dealt !Pourquoi adopter Dealt ? * +300 services disponibles * +10 000 Experts professionnels certifiés * +40 000 prestations réalisées * 4,86/5 de note moyenne * 94% de couverture nationaleCes enseignes nous font confiance : E.Leclerc, Mr. Bricolage, Botanic, Conforama, Monoprix, Casino, La Poste, Carmila…Dealt récompensé par l’écosystème retail français :- Lauréat des Trophées de l’Innovation E.Leclerc 2021, catégorie « Innovation Expérientielle »- Lauréat des Trophées 100% Retailtech LSA 2021, catégorie « Digitalisation du point de vente, expérience client et solution de paiement » - Elu start-up de l’année 2021 lors de l’événement « Connect Lille »Dealt est soutenu par le Groupe La Poste

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Solteo — Solteo operates as a platform for photovoltaic installers.
Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.

Région Sud Investissement is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Nexess — Nexess SAS develops and sells security management solutions for nuclear and Seveso-type plants. It offers NexLink, a software platform for security and productivity; identification products, such as personal security badges, RFID tags, optical tags, high temperature RFID tags, touch based self service counters, mobile devices, rugged mobilesystems, NexLink display screens, and smart cabinets; smart camera systems that offers autonomous image analysis and real time data transmission; and RFID antenna systems, which allows objects detection and surveillance in harsh environments. The company offers its products for applications, such as hazardous products traceability, smart automatic secured cabinets to manage equipments, site localization equipments and operation securing, and hazardous zone access detection. Nexess SAS was founded in 2006 and is based in Mougins, France with an additional office in Paris, France.
Trust-Place — Trust-Place allows brands to authenticate the item with a digital certificate of ownership.
Acwa Robotics — Acwa Robotics is a company that develops amphibious autonomous devices to manage clean water infrastructures globally.

BNP Paribas Développement is the investment arm of BNP Paribas that specializes in SME development. It specializes in second stage, mezzanine, bridge, acquisition, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, and privatizations transactions.The firm considers investments in manufacturing, service industries,medicine, electronics, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automations, industrial goods and services, transportation, consumer goods, commerce and distribution, buildings and public works, wholesale retail, biotechnology, telecommunications, and information technology sectors.BNP Paribas Développement was established in 1988 and is based in Paris, France.

Investment focus

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

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.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
C12 Quantum Electronics — Explore C12's innovative quantum technology solutions using carbon nanotubes. Discover how our advancements in quantum computing are shaping the future of technology.

The management company of the Inter Invest Group.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Audion — Founded in 2018, Audion is an adtech company that develops proprietary technology to automate, customize and measure digital audio advertising. Our products are used by leading medias and podcasters on behalf of the world’s most iconic brands.
IMPACT Plus — IMPACT Plus offers technology-driven carbon footprint optimization services of digital campaign to various brands and advertising companies.
Smart Tribune — Smart-platform is a turnkey solution that allows a company / association / e-merchant to establish a conversational space directly with its user community. Present on the entire site of a company / association / e-merchant Smart Platform will enable to gather opinions, suggestions, problems, praise, and exploit them toimprove service, reduce cost of its customer service and increase its conversion rate. In the trend of Social CRM, Smart -tribune is based on a simple and intuitive interface for its users and allows great mastery thanks to an advertiser perspective administration interface. An effective way to better know your community, your customers in order to better the satisfy.

Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses.The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II.Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs.Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
myskillcamp — Myskillcamp is a digital learning platform and educational design support service. Myskillcamp supports their customers in the digital transformation of their company and the launch of their Digital Learning project. From the audit of needs to the design of engaging educational devices, through a pilot phase, they make a point of honor to adapt thedigital to the specificities of each and give it meaning.With their online platform, businesses can manage their learner communities and connect all their partners in one place. Their tool also allows businesses to structure training spaces by skills, trades, brands within camps. In parallel, businesses can create educational content from scratch, select a map in their marketplace, or plan sessions in-class. Businesses can organize the distribution of their training to a single learner or to a whole group.
Octave — A sustainable, cost-effective and reliable energy storage system with second-life batteries from electric vehicles.

Acteur incontournable du capital risque de proximité, SOFIMAC PARTNERS accompagne depuis maintenant plus de 30 ans les PME régionales dans le financement de leur développement à moyen / long terme. Répondant à la problématique de sous capitalisation des PME françaises, SOFIMAC PARTNERS intervient en fonds propres aux côtés des chefsd’entreprises quelle que soit leur problématique : Création, Développement, Transmission. Gérant 200 M€ d’actifs au travers de 16 fonds (FCPR, FCPI, SCR, FIP,…), notre groupe réalise ses investissements sur une grande variété de secteurs, couvrant aussi bien les activités traditionnelles que technologiques (chimie verte, éolien, chaudronnerie aéronautique, e-commerce, édition de logiciel, médecine nucléaire etc…)

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Italy, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Ultrawatt — Ultrawatt is a mission-driven startup to improve urban architecture while making a beneficial social and environmental effect.
Mob-Energy — Mob-Energy is a privately held company specializing in the development of mobile and innovative charging solutions. It designs autonomous charging robots capable of moving energy where it is needed, optimizing the site's existing infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Snowleader — Votre boutique en ligne (qui sent bon le reblochon) spécialiste des sports d’hiver, outdoor et street.

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tomorrow — Tomorrow combines mobile banking with sustainability. Open your sustainable account in minutes & start protecting the climate right away.
Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.

Xery is a portfolio management Company specializing in Venture Capital - Biotech, Medtech, Cleantech, Technology

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Consumer Electronics, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Biolog-id — Biolog-id is a designer-integrator which has specialized for the last thirty years in electronic identification and mobile data processing. It develops complete solutions for identification and traceability in life science.The mastering of the communication protocols, including those linked to the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), and thecapacity to develop interface programs, allowing the company to answer to any specific demands is the solution in whichever environment is worked on. About seventy international patents protect the discoveries developed by Biolog-id.
Skytech — Skytech provides innovative solutions and unique recovery services for plastics for the benefit of manufacturers. Skytech gives plastics a second life. It has developed TRIBLAST, an innovative and patented process for recycling polymers based on triboelectricity. It contributes to the development of the circular economy.
Advanced BioDesign — Overcoming tumour resistance

CapHorn Invest is an independent Venture Capital Firm launched in 2010. The company invests in B2B digital companies. CapHorn Invest currently manages 180 million euros across two funds and has a portfolio of more than 20 companies. They invest in B2B startups that drive digital transformation. They mainly focus on Series A & B in roundsranging from 2 to 20M€.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.

we believe that top scientists and ambitious entrepreneurs can build a world where cutting-edge technologies shape the next generation of industry leaders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

UroMems — The device is developing an active implantable medical device based on the cutting edge technologyl in the field of embedded systems and micro-technologies for the development of its products.
Micropep Technologies — Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact.The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.
SEEDERAL Technologies — Seederal Technologies produces electric tractor.

Asterion Ventures is dedicated to pre-seed and seed for impact and climate tech startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Darwin — Darwin says the foundations of our societies are inherently connected to nature.Solving the environmental crisis is crucial, as economic and social advances are unsustainable without ecological balance.
Orus Energy — Orus Energy leverages the power of AI to unlock potential of electrical flexibility in commercial buildings.
Ramdam Social — Ramdam Social is a social mission company that helps people by providing great local products. Every purchase at Ramdam results in a direct gift to an organization that assists individuals in need.

Epopée Gestion is an investment firm that supports SME transitions, innovation and digital solutions, local real estate and mobility firms.

Investment focus

Last Mile Transportation, Information Technology, Consulting
Funding Round, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Keysom — Keysom is a French startup expert in the architecture of processor cores based on the RISC-V ISA. Keysom offers ad EDA tool to automatically build unique custom processors from the application code.
Qovoltis — Qovoltis specializes in the renewable energy sector, providing smart charging solutions for electric vehicles. Their product is a smart charger with real-time power demand adaptability, designed to connect with all vehicles compatible with the ISO 15118 standard. The company also offers a mobile application that allows users to authenticatethemselves and manage their charging remotely. In addition to individual users, Qovoltis provides innovative charging station solutions for real estate projects, enhancing asset value.
Pony — Instant city bike hire

Wiseed is a crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest in SMEs and enterprises. The platform offers investments for startups, real-estate firms, social innovation and renewable energy projects, and agriculture firms. It was founded in 2008 by Nicolas Seres and Thomas Merquiol and is based in Toulouse.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
France

Portfolio highlights

Leasi — Leasi delivers a forward-thinking rental and resource management system for companies that engage in internal or external distribution of machinery. This is achieved through an ecosystem that emphasizes the excessive use of data and datasharing, with a focus on user experience. Our goal is to create a simpler, more streamlined, and more efficientworkday for industry players by leveraging the power of data and collaboration within the ecosystem to ultimately reduce emissions, increase efficiency and enhance profitability.
Vaxinano — Vaxinano is a biotechnology company specialized in preclinical and pharmaceutical development of human and veterinary vaccines and drug delivery systems. Vaxinano was created in 2016, building on 25 years of research and clinical trials on vaccines and the patented technology of Pr Didier Betbeder.
BiPER Therapeutics — BiPER Therapeutics : First-In-Class Therapeutics to Treat Cancer. Biotech company founded in 2021 to develop and commercialize novel therapeutics.

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

Noria is a Franco-Belgian family investment company, based in Eurométropole Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai.As a long-term investor, Noria participates in the capital of companies at different stages of development: innovative start-ups as established companies, sustainable energy production projects or media content projects! These differentparticipations are all firmly in keeping with this perspective of contributing to a global ecology, in three specific areas:- The eco-energies, with a dominant towards the wind. - Alternating employment. - Publishing and the media.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

NewHeat — NewHeat owns and operates solar heat plants. It engages in financing, engineering, procurement, construction, and operation of solar heat plants that transform solar radiation into heat. It uses solar thermal collectors to transfer solar energy to water, steam, or thermal oil.
Geosophy — Geosophy develops real estate assets and manages energy usage by assuring a local supply for thermal comfort. Geosophy was founded in 2018 and is located in Paris, France.
Elements — Elements is a producer and supplier of green electricity.

Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon.It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of theindependent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
Monet Associes — Monet + Associes is a public relations agency.

BNP Paribas Private Equity brings together the third party private equity teams of BNP Paribas Investment Partners. As of September 2008, this activity has EUR 817 million of assets under management, spread out over five different types of vehicles: funds of funds and investment management mandates, innovation funds (FCPI), local investment funds(FIP ISF), unlisted small cap funds and feeder funds.The asset management activities are supported by:- A strategy and development arm dedicated to the creation of new activities both in and outside France using BNPP IP's global network.- A comprehensive fund administration service.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Credem Banca — Scopri i servizi bancari, finanziari e assicurativi di Credem Banca per persone, famiglie e imprese. Credem, Wellbanking People.
Santexpat.fr — Santexpat is a health insurance platform for French expatriates in more than 200 countries. It allows users to analyze more than 100 health insurance solutions and subscribe to them directly. The company also offers teleconsultations with French-speaking doctors 24/7. Santexpat was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.
Pollen Robotics — Pollen Robotics is a startup building open source interactive robots based on artificial intelligence. Join the community and find out more about Reachy.

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 â‚¬220m, A Plus Finance invests between â‚¬1 million and â‚¬4 million per project.per

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.

Amundi Private Equity Funds, an Amundi asset management subsidiary, specialises in private equity and unlisted infrastructure investments. Combining a wealth of expertise in all aspects of asset management built up over more than 10 years, Amundi provides both institutional and individual investors with a wide spectrum of investmentopportunities, ranging from direct fund investments in unlisted French and foreign companies to dedicated mandates and funds-of-funds for multi-management private equity and infrastructure investments. With more than 60 professionals based in Paris, Bucharest, Cairo, Casablanca, Tunis and Warsaw, Amundi Private Equity Funds assists companies at all stages of their development, the key objective being to offer fund subscribers yields in line with the best in the industry. At 31 December 2009, French and international subscribers had committed more than â‚¬3.7 billion to Amundi Private Equity Funds, making it a leading private equity player. The company owes its solid foundations to its positioning as part of a leading third-party asset management group of companies and to its membership of two international banking groups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
France, India, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Deenova — Deenova is the undisputed leading supplier of integrated robotics and automation solutions. It provides closed-loop drug and medical device traceability in the healthcare sector. They provide services for healthcare professionals. Their pharmacy automation solution is unit-dose repackaging and complete software interoperability and their managementsolutions provide maximum synergy by bringing together hardware, software, and human resources.
Airtel — Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands. Airtel has a GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the countryof operation.Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the "airtel" brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold certification. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore.
Les Opticiens Mobiles — Les Opticiens Mobiles is the first national network of opticians trained to intervene everywhere : at home, at work or in nursing homes or residences for elderly, both for working people and for fragile, isolated people.Covering the whole territory, the health professionals come to visit you with all the equipment needed. Based on an ethic chart,they offer services and products tailored to all : all types of glasses (eyeglasses, sunglasses, safety googles, contact lenses, hearing protection) with fixed prices, reimbursed by social welfare.

Floated in 1998, thanks to the local authority "Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine" and the "Caisse des dépôts", our venture, growth and LBO funds (Aquitaine Amorçage, ACI, Aqui-Invest) now benefit from the support of public and private influential shareholders and sponsors.Up to now, AQUITI GESTION has invested in more than 200operations contributing to the creation and development of about 150 companies and thousands of jobs.Currently, ACI and Aqui-Invest manage a portfolio gathering 50 companies which revenues scale from 0 € (early stage) to 30 M€.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dionymer — dionymer creates endless opportunities for a multitude of industries. Replacing petrochemical polymers with a circular and biodegradable alternative.
Materrup — Materrup produces low-carbon earth concrete for construction and urban development. Materrup construction solutions meet the requirements of future RE2020 regulations and the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of the construction industry.
ALOGIA Groupe — ALOGIA Groupe offers preventive health responses to senior people at home through care management and innovative services.

IRDI SORIDEC Gestion is a portfolio management company that supports startups, SMEs, and ETIs in the greater South-West of France with equity capital at all stages of development.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Brazil, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

IsyBuy — IsyBuy is a smartphone application that allows to find restaurants and bars that have your way, consult the menu, place order, and still pay your bill directly from your cell phone, with just one click. It's the fastest, easiest, and safest way to borrow and pay. They will never have to wait to be served by a waiter, let alone beg to receivethe account or the card machine.
Keysom — Keysom is a French startup expert in the architecture of processor cores based on the RISC-V ISA. Keysom offers ad EDA tool to automatically build unique custom processors from the application code.
Materrup — Materrup produces low-carbon earth concrete for construction and urban development. Materrup construction solutions meet the requirements of future RE2020 regulations and the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of the construction industry.

Rhone-Alpes Creation is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in software and biotechnology.

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Quotelo — Quotelo creates an automatization system for hoteliers to regain commercial independence in the hospitality industry and digitizes group-event-seminar reservations. The company's platform centralizes all requests and reservations for groups, events, and seminars for any type of establishment by adding a graphical chatbot to each hotel'swebsite and collecting MICE and group requests from customers automatically generating commercial proposals and reserving the rooms, restaurants, activities, and nights requested, allowing hotels to book seminars, meetings, or even events online and improve productivity, responsiveness, image, and predictability.
CentrExpert — CentrExpert provides global safety solutions for training, material audit transformation of standard industrial equipment to make it usable in areas with certification and after-sales service. The company is committed to converting machines and equipment, enabling it to be used in explosive atmospheres, more commonly known as ATEX zones.CentrExpert was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Chasse-sur-rhône, France.
APIX Analytics — APIX Analytics is a nano-silicon based chemical analysis for industrial, environmental, and security applications. The company focuses on the development of miniaturized multigas analyzers systems based on integration on silicon of analytical chains such as sampling, injection of gases, separation of complex gas mixtures to improve specificity anddetection, identification, and quantification of each mixture compound.APIX Analytics was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
Private Equity, Series A, Seed
France, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Ultrawatt — Ultrawatt is a mission-driven startup to improve urban architecture while making a beneficial social and environmental effect.
AdEchoTech — The company was the first to market a robotic tele-ultrasound solution, expanding the capabilities currently offered in the field of teleradiology.
Quai des Notaires — Vente, succession, signez l'esprit tranquille. Sans rdv et gratuit ! Trouvez votre notaire en ligne.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
Caats — Caats describes customized meals and their advantages for cat health. They offer answers for a variety of issues, including optimum weight, kidney hydration, strengthened immune system, silky coat, protection of the intestinal flora, and others. They provide monthly from 14.90€.
Comet Software — Comet Software is a business software publishing company that helps businesses achieve autonomy and independence.

BTP Capital Investissement, partenaire financier pour le BTP. Solutions sur mesure pour soutenir la croissance des entreprises du secteur.

Investment focus

Construction, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TEAMOTY — Teamoty is the ultimate tool for construction professionals that prevents from project drifting and increases performance and profits. Teamoty is a Cloud based Schedule Management Platform for the Construction Industry to be handled by Non-Tech savvy users, on field. It allows for a unique time/location management of internal & externalresources, down-drilling tasks to micro-tasks, providing a superior accuracy of project statement during the full construction process, from Building design to running. Teamoty is run from any web browser and Tablets.
Tracktor — Tracktor is a rental platform for construction workers, enabling them to rent out or borrow construction equipment in a few clicks.
Urban Canopee — Urban Canopee designs and manufactures green infrastructures in urban areas.

Raise Ventures is a Venture Capital structure dedicated to innovative startups in France and Europe.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, GreenTech
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.

AA Sons focuses on raising venture capital for ambitious, fast-growing companies with a desire to 'make the world a better place' in retail, mobility, healthcare, care, fintech and broader tech sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

HUG — Join our global creative community to showcase & sell your art, connect with others, and access creator-friendly grants and education.
Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
Multiwave Technologies — More than 2/3 of humanity has no access to medical imaging Our mission is to make MRI available globally, through our ultra-low field mobile device.

Daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

apiday — Gain control of your ESG data, easily comply with requests from stakeholders and unlock new opportunities with the apiday SaaS platform.
NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight

Pays de la Loire Participations provides finance innovation, productivity and development, especially in a banking context that is increasingly constrained by standards and regulations.The Pays de la Loire region has created the "Pays de la Loire Participations" co-investment fund (PLP) intended for small and medium-sized companieswishing to strengthen their equity. By investing alongside private professional investors, it facilitates risk taking and helps anchor long-term skills on the territory and promotes job creation and wealth.With 14 million euros in capital (20 million in the long term), entirely contributed by the Region, the "Pays de la Loire Participations" fund co-invested an average of around 2.5 million euros annually. average of € 180 K per company. Its intervention as a co-investor is crucial because it allows the VSE / SME beneficiaries to obtain from private financiers and banks, 4 times the funds contributed by Pays de la Loire participations.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

VoltR — VoltR is a manufacturing company specializes in restoring lithium batteries.
factoryz — Factoryz brings its technology and its expertise to businesses and territoires for the implementation of their resource reuse, sharing, mutualizing and pooling platform.
D-ICE Engineering — D-ICE provides the most advanced navigation systems, ECDIS, DP, Weather Routing and Simulation Software for smart and green operations

Alter Equity 3P specializes in growth capital and buyout investments.

Investment focus

Fashion, Energy, Management Information Systems
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Wealthcome — Wealthcome has created a technological ecosystem for all players involved in wealth management, private management, and personal finance management. Our objective is straightforward: to make all phases of asset monitoring, analysis, and optimization accessible, simple, enjoyable, and exact.
Elum Energy — Elum Energy is an energy and automation company that supplies efficient monitoring and control solutions for solar energy systems.
Circle Sportswear — Circle Sportswear is a Circular & Sustainable Premium Sportswear DNVB

Serena invests in bold ventures and provides them with an unrivaled level of expertise and operational resources. In ten years, the firm has already contributed to the emergence of many success stories (Aramisauto - Acquired by PSA, The Fork - acquired by TripAdvisor, Cheerz -acquired by Cewe), and has currently 40 handpicked startups in itsportfolio such as Dataiku, Evaneos, Malt, iBanFirst, CybelAngel, or Lifen.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.

BNP Paribas provides banking, financing, investment, savings, and protection solutions. Their investment services include businesses that provide savings, investment, and protection services. They provide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
La Doria — La Doria is a producer and sells tomato derivatives, ready sauces, preserved legumes, fruit juices, and beverage products. They offer products that include boiled legumes, baked beans, red kidney beans, carrots, ready-made soups and stews, and canned pasta in tomato sauce.
Metron — Actively Reduce Your Energy Consumptions and Costs with the METRON EMOS Solution and Lower the Carbon Impact of Your Organisation.

Omnes VC is the Venture Capital arm of Omnes Capital, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation with €4.8 billion in assets under management and a 20 year + experience in: venture capital, buyout & growth capital, private debt, renewable energy, co-investment, secondary funds of funds. Omnes Capital is fullyindependent.With 65 business sales including 14 IPOs carried out in 16 years, Omnes VC is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both Technology and Healthcare sectors. Omnes VC has supported 120 companies and has invested more than €500M in businesses such as Scality, Novaled, BioVex, arGEN-X, Pixium, Blablacar.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

Celeste Management is a Swiss family office.

Investment focus

Medical, Medical Device, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Series C
France, Switzerland, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Adionics — Adionics provides advances ionic solutions such as lithium and iodide extraction, and salts separation.
DomoHealth — Join us in revolutionizing patient care using the power of AI-assisted digital health platform and safety solutions. Enhancing digital health with the best platform, application and devices for the direct benefits of patients and healthcare professionals.
Ascendance Flight Technologies — Sustainable flight solutions for today & tomorrow... because cleaner aviation can't wait. With Ascendance, Fly quieter, cleaner, further.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Deemea — Deemea is a collaborative AI platform that connects and provides services for the analysis of medical data for physicians. It uses its expertise in clinical research, data science, and software development to help healthcare professionals.
10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.

Sofilaro is an investment arm of Crédit Agricole S.A. specializing in late venture, mature, growth capital, buyouts, and middle market investments.

Investment focus

Health Care, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

SCOP3 — SCOP3 is a platform that gives new life to professional equipment. SCOP3 was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Montpellier, France.
Elements — Elements is a producer and supplier of green electricity.
Drone Geofencing — Drone Geofencing creates applications for remotely piloted aircraft as well as a system for remotely monitoring a fleet of drones from a command center. Drone Geofencing collaborates closely with many research teams from the CNRS and CIRA, as well as manufacturers of professional drones and several significant clients.

Smalt Capital anciennement ACG Management, est un acteur majeur depuis plus de 20 ans

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Madagascar

Portfolio highlights

Kamp'n — Partenaire de croissance Facebook Ads & Google Ads
Little Cigogne — Little Cigogne is reinvents the shopping experience for children.
My Coach Football — My Coach Football allows you to manage and organize the daily operations of your football team, day after day, season after season. Designed to answer amateur and professional coaches’ needs, the platform centralizes all of your squad’s information and allows to gain time and efficiency. In a single click, you can manage players and their personalinformation, the preparation of training and games, but also individual and collective statistics. Season after season, you keep all those data and hence enjoy an optimum tracking of your team’s progression.

Eiffel Investment Group is a portfolio manager with €4 billion assets under management*. Eiffel’s investor base consists of large institutional investors (insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, banks, large family offices, public investors) as well as individual investors via retail distribution channels. Backed by the Impala groupfounded by entrepreneur Jacques Veyrat, Eiffel Investment Group leverages its strong corporate expertise particularly in the field of energy transition, but also in the health, agri-food, and information & communication technology sectors.Eiffel finances companies and their assets through four main strategies: private debt, private equity, energy transition infrastructure, and listed equities and credit. Eiffel Investment Group’s mission is to invest for a sustainable world. Its investment strategies aim to generate not only a strong financial performance but also positive and measurable social and environmental impacts. The Eiffel Investment Group has brought together a team of around 80 talented professionals based mainly in France (Paris) but also in The Netherlands (Amsterdam) and in the USA (New York).* early 2022, including uncalled commitments.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
France, Israel, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

IsyBuy — IsyBuy is a smartphone application that allows to find restaurants and bars that have your way, consult the menu, place order, and still pay your bill directly from your cell phone, with just one click. It's the fastest, easiest, and safest way to borrow and pay. They will never have to wait to be served by a waiter, let alone beg to receivethe account or the card machine.
PL-SUN — PL-SUN is a holding company of UAB Atsinaujinančios Energetikos Investicijos (AEI).
HysetCo — HysetCo is a pioneering hydrogen mobility start-up that helps its clients shift to zero-emission transportation. It has created an integrated mobility solution to aid in the system-wide transition to hydrogen. In addition to offering easy access to its network of hydrogen distribution stations, it provides customers with a complete turnkey solutionthat includes all vehicle-related services, from procurement to maintenance, repair, insurance, and training.

We are an early stage investor founded by experienced entrepreneurs. We invest in founders as early as possible.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Generare — Harness the ingenuity of nature to transform small molecule discovery
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.

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