Top 45 Legal Startup Investors in France in January 2025
A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Legal startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Legal companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Legal Startup Investors in France in January 2025
Investor | Legal France investments |
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Bpifrance | 4 |
Evolem Start | 2 |
Partech | 2 |
Otium Capital | 2 |
Sebastien Ricard | 1 |
Guilhem Dufaure de Lajarte | 1 |
Serena | 1 |
Olivier Heckmann | 1 |
Avolta Partners | 1 |
Renaud Sornin | 1 |
Newfund | 1 |
Antoine Fabre | 1 |
Aviva Group | 1 |
Innovacom | 1 |
Crédit Agricole | 1 |
OneRagtime | 1 |
Finovam Gestion | 1 |
Aurinvest | 1 |
Oleg Tscheltzoff | 1 |
CapHorn Invest | 1 |
EuraTechnologies | 1 |
Galion.exe | 1 |
Stefan Tietze | 1 |
Kai Hansen | 1 |
Isai | 1 |
J12 | 1 |
Holnest | 1 |
Jean Michel Benard | 1 |
Acequia Capital (AceCap) | 1 |
Cyril Vermeulen | 1 |
Financiere Saint James | 1 |
NextStage AM | 1 |
BNP Paribas Développement | 1 |
FJ Labs | 1 |
Xavier Niel | 1 |
Angelsquare | 1 |
ZEBOX Ventures | 1 |
Turenne Capital | 1 |
M Capital Partners | 1 |
Bynd Venture Capital | 1 |
C4 Ventures | 1 |
Pole Capital | 1 |
Better Angle | 1 |
Oussama Ammar | 1 |
Polytechnique Ventures | 1 |
Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Vibly — Vibly is a comprehensive management and communication platform designed to support higher education associations by enhancing organizational efficiency, increasing the visibility of student initiatives, and fostering a stronger sense of belonging within educational communities. Through its secure, closed network, Vibly ensures the protection ofprivate data while facilitating seamless interaction and collaboration among students, faculty, and associations.
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- NEBULA — NEBULA maps 3D macromolecule using dataset-free genAI and physics, enhancing drug target discovery, which forms the basis of all new drugs.
Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Oplit — Oplit is a production planning platform that provides software and support to help industrials boost operations profitability.
- Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- JOBO Interim — JOBO Interim is a staffing agency that recruits employees and provides employment through digital access.
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
- Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
- Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
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
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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.
Sébastien Ricard is the Co-Founder and CEO at LumApps and CEO & Owner of gPartner.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Financial Services, Document Management
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- MyFormality — MyFormality is a legal and financial procedural platform for entrepreneurs. It also offers services for accounting, legal advice, taxation, business management, real estate investment, company creation, disputes, unpaid debts, and more.
Guilhem Dufaure de Lajarte was founder and CEO at D2L Group.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Financial Services, Document Management
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- MyFormality — MyFormality is a legal and financial procedural platform for entrepreneurs. It also offers services for accounting, legal advice, taxation, business management, real estate investment, company creation, disputes, unpaid debts, and more.
Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management.
Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of itsportfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels.
Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- 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.
Olivier Heckmann - Board Member @ Oxent
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Legal, Legal Tech
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Captain Contrat — Captain Contrat supports the creators and leaders of TPE and PME in legal proceedings. The platform offers online and personalized formalities and legal documents based on the network of lawyers for an affordable price.For any business creator or entrepreneur, the production of legal documents is a necessary step to create a company, managebusiness relations, and protect a business against all types of risks. But there was no offer to carry out these procedures and obtain these legal documents simply while benefiting from strong protection and transparent prices. Through Captain Contrat, business creators and VSE and SME managers are accompanied on a daily basis and can benefit, in just a few clicks, from high-quality legal documents, re-read by a specialist lawyer in the sector in question.Captain Contrat was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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 is a publisher of innovative learning solutions for training purposes. Thanks to its expertise in instructional engineering and gamification, Serious Factory can help make your entire training programme genuinely effective: from acquiring knowledge (digital learning modules, Serious Games, blended learning and much more) anddeveloping and strengthening skills (practical work, behavioural simulator, etc.) to updating content and monitoring skills from day to day.
Renaud Sornin - CEO @ Attestation Légale
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Investment focus
- Legal, Financial Services, Document Management
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- MyFormality — MyFormality is a legal and financial procedural platform for entrepreneurs. It also offers services for accounting, legal advice, taxation, business management, real estate investment, company creation, disputes, unpaid debts, and more.
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Oplit — Oplit is a production planning platform that provides software and support to help industrials boost operations profitability.
- Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
- Raidium — Radiology augmented GPT to tackle the complexity of precision medicine
Antoine Fabre - Co-Founder & CEO @ Tomorro
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- Twenty (YC S23) — Experience the forefront of open-source CRM. Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, and community support. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
- H Company — Runner H is a state-of-the-art AI agent that will allow anyone to automate complex, cumbersome, multi-step tasks without repetitive and manual input.
Our global corporate website for investors, shareholders, career hunters, the media and people interested in our social purpose.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Feroscan — Feroscan was set up in 2014 at the initiative of its four founders bringing together scientific and business skills. Feroscan specializes in the development of first-in-class personalized cytotoxics with a unique and innovative mode of action. The pipeline of the company focuses on intractable cancers; such as ovarian, triple negative breast andNSCL cancers. Feroscan’s business strategy is to test in parallel several preclinical programs on several orphan applications up to proof of concept, IND and early clinical stages. Feroscan is based on a strong IP strategy, cutting edge science and relies on a strong academic and industrial network worldwide to develop clinical applications of its research programs.
- Nattergal — Nattergal is a company with a mission to deliver nature recovery at scale, to provide vital benefits for society and sustainable financial returns.
- Wealthify — Wealthify is a new way for Britons to invest and grow their money. It’s effortless, transparent and affordable investing for everyone. With Wealthify, you don’t need to be a market expert or have any experience to put your money to work. They are a Cardiff-based Fintech company. Launching in early 2016.
Innovacom provides new technologies, hardware, and software products. They focus on the creation of financial and strategic value through support, networking, and the search for the best industrial partners for our startups in a context of open innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Samp — Samp accelerates modernization and de-risks contracts by connecting outdated drawings with current 3D reality captures of your facilities using our AI.
- Interactive Autonomous DYnamic Systems — Iadys designs robotic and AI solutions like the Jellyfishbot for environmental preservation and oil spill response.
- ION-X — Based on patented technology, our unique ionic liquid electrospray thrusters is the next big thing in small satellites propulsion.
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.
We are a venture capital platform that sources, finances and scales early-stage European start-ups. Our fully digitised investment process offers our exclusive community the freedom and flexibility to choose how they invest, on a deal-by-deal basis or via our funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
- MoSo — Zoom in on identity, zoom out on potential.
Finovam Gestion is an investment company approved by the AMF which takes minority stakes in innovative SMEs with high growth potential.The company, which manages €50M, invests in companies that have developed innovative offers in the following target sectors: Information and Communication Technology, Health and Biotechnologies, Agro-resources andEcotechnologies.Finovam Gestion has built solid relationships with the ecosystem of entrepreneurship (Industrials, Poles of Competitiveness, Incubators, Accelerators, Universities, and Research Centers) in all the sectors that we target in order to be able to source and do emerge the best companies.Among our investors (LPs), we can count BPI France, manufacturers (ADEO, LESAFFRE, TEREOS), banks (BNP Paribas, Caisse d´Epargne, Crédit Agricole) and the Haut de France and Grand-Est regions.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Medical Device
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Nijta — You have tons of speech data but handling it is a compliance minefield. Leverage the power of Nijta's AI-based voice anonymisation to use your data at scale without compromising privacy and confidentiality.
- Selvitys — Selvitys is a fully automated method for designing, delivering, and analyzing online surveys.
- BiblioOnDemand — BiblioOnDemand is a provider of digital library services that offer a diverse selection of ebooks and audiobooks.
Aurinvest is a venture capital fund it is managed and primarily funded by more than fifty entrepreneurs and business leaders, alongside with institutional investors. The company's goal is to invest in high growth companies or ventures which are on the edge of an exciting journey. It accompanies the founders in successfully carrying out theirplan. With this purpose, each holding is coached by two experienced professionals who stay in close contact with companies' management and who interface with Aurinvest's network.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Famoco — Famoco provides an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution with a range of secure, remotely managed Android devices. Famoco offers...
- PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides biosafety assays based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) for biologics quality testing. GMP biotesting for biopharmaceuticals. Learn more.
- Evercontact — Let Evercontact connect the dots in your life by turning your emails into an always-updated address book!
Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a globalvision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Indeez — Inclusive and sustainable insurance benefits
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
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€.
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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.
EuraTechnologies promotes economic and social development through the exchange of scientific research and technologies. It is founded upon a principle of “technopolis”- a place dedicated to creating a vibrant synergy among research, superior education and technology.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Software, Training
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Rewayz — Rewayz is operating a health platform connecting consumers with professional certified coaches and fun workshops and video exchanges.
- Safety Line — At the end of 2010, Pierre Jouniaux founded Safety Line and surrounded himself with professionals in air transport and air safety. This combination of competences allowed the company to identify opportunities for early developpement of technologies at the boundaries between Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.With strong national andinternational references Safety Line strengthens its expertise, based on its two main assets and founding pillars: aeronautical expertise and data processing, in order to become a leader in the area of « Big Data » for aviation data.Safety Line’s technical staff is composed of highly experienced professionals with varied and complementary skills. The team’s versatility is an asset when proposing innovative solutions for aviation safety management. Their team is comprised of statistic researchers whose work is focused on identifying weak signals based on recorded flight data and founders of Safety Line gained expertise at the BEA (Bureau d’Enquête et d’Analyse pour la Sécurité de l’Aviation Civile, the French agency responsible for investigation of civilian air crashes).
- Permettez-moi de construire — Permettez-moi de construire is a facilitation service for individuals who want to build or renovate their houses.
Galion.exe invests in seed rounds and provide tools like guides, benchmarks, database, and open-source documents.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability
- Seed, Series A
- France
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!
- Raidium — Radiology augmented GPT to tackle the complexity of precision medicine
- Generare — Harness the ingenuity of nature to transform small molecule discovery
Stefan Tietze is a founder of gebraucht.de.
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Investment focus
- Software, Service Industry, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- FINDIQ — FINDIQ is a young company based in the heart of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe industrial zone. We have developed a novel strategy as a software producer to intelligently integrate knowledge management and help solutions for machine service. FINDIQ develops its service solution with the industry, whether for machine makers, operators, or service providers.
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Lumiform — Lumiform is the deskless worker OS that helps businesses digitize and automate workflows for frontline teams.
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
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, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ondorse — Ondorse provides a business identity solution that unifies third-party data, compliance, and fraud APIs into a single platform. Their platform allows users to evaluate and verify their new and existing vendors, customers, and compliance application programming interfaces in a single space, enabling clients to reduce manual reviews and verifycustomers.
- DataDome — Detect and mitigate bot & online fraud attacks with unparalleled accuracy and zero compromise. Deploy in minutes. No impact on User Experience.
- Pricemoov — Unlock your revenue potential with intelligent pricing. Manage and optimize your prices across channels with ease, and at scale.
J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Germany, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Ayora — Transform your firm's realisation and lockup by giving your fee earners P&L management superpowers
- Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
- DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models
Holnest is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- LetXbe — Letxbe is a algorithms and user-friendly platform enable non-technical business owners to control and engage with AI.
- Onafis — Onafis is a company that provides digital solutions for tracking each stage of winemaking in real time on wines, beers, and spirits, adaptable to different types of containers.
- 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
Jean Michel Benard - Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer @ ITS Group
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Investment focus
- Legal, Financial Services, Document Management
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- MyFormality — MyFormality is a legal and financial procedural platform for entrepreneurs. It also offers services for accounting, legal advice, taxation, business management, real estate investment, company creation, disputes, unpaid debts, and more.
We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
- Legion Health — Legion Health is building the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual mental health offerings.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Cyril Vermeulen is a French web entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded the auFeminin.com Group, #1 women property online worldwide and was in charge of Business Development until the company was acquired by German media group Axel Springer. He was also in charge of SmartAdServer, the auFeminin adserving subsidiary, a european leader ofthe adserving technologies.Cyril has invested in a large number of start-ups in Europe and the US.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Homepilot — We revolutionize residential property management through the use of technology.
- Symaps.io — Location intelligence platform. Decision-making tool for distribution network management and expansion. Catchment area, traffic & geomarketing data. Get a demo.
- Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
- 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.
NextStage AM is a multi-strategy private equity platform investing in innovative and growth-driven mid-market companies.
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- Legal, Agriculture, Marine Transportation
- Funding Round, Private Equity
- France
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- FAGUO — Bienvenue sur le site officiel de FAGUO. Retrouvez notre histoire, nos plantations et nos collections de chaussures, bagagerie et accessoires. Livraison gratuite en France,
- Javelot — Javelot is committed to supporting their teams, their members, and their customers in the daily management of their storage of agricultural raw materials.
- Aventa — AVENTA empowers the Marine Energy market with the sharpest skills to help design a bluer future. As a leader in providing Engineering & Consultancy
BNP Paribas Développement is the investment arm of BNP Paribas that specializes in SME development. It specializes in second stage, mezzanine, bridge, acquisition, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, and privatizations transactions.The firm considers investments in manufacturing, service industries,medicine, electronics, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automations, industrial goods and services, transportation, consumer goods, commerce and distribution, buildings and public works, wholesale retail, biotechnology, telecommunications, and information technology sectors.BNP Paribas Développement was established in 1988 and is based in Paris, France.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Germany, The Netherlands
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- 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.
- Lactips — Lactips produces water soluble and biodegradable thermoplastic pellets based on milk protein. Plastic transformation is realized through their secret industrial process. They are able to provide pellets fast and with high volume. Those pellets are used by clients as a raw material for thermoforming, films, or any kind of plastic applications. Theirfirst mission, correlated with their fundamental values, is to provide their industrial clients with new disruptive innovations to help them entering new markets.Their product will be a cleaner alternative to oil-based products, more efficient, and sustainable for consumers and the environment.
- Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
- Wurthy — Get instant access to low cost credit using your accounts receivable, so you can keep your business running smoothly.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Cube — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
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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- 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!
ZEBOX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in promising entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries, including logistics, supply chain, mobility, space, and media.
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- SaaS, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
- Fullwhere — Fullwhere is an information technology company that provides AI Solutions
- Aloen — Aloen offers live AI training for agents, analyzing 100% of calls, and enhancing personalized AI models. solutions provided by Aleon are Automation & training, Every interaction counts, GDPR: Regulatory compliance, Committed teams: Retain your talents,
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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- 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.
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
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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- Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
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- Fasst — Fasst is involved in the creation, distribution, consulting, and connection of unique digital insurance solutions for brokers and insurers.
- Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
- Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Portugal, Spain, United States
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- Last.app — Last is a comprehensive restaurant software solution. Thanks to the use of new technologies, our platform offers unique solutions in the market, always with the aim of simplifying and optimizing the tasks of the team of any type of restaurant.
- QUIXOTIC — QUIXOTIC 360 is a one-of-its-kind, SaaS solution for energy retailers and renewable energy communities. It includes automations, regulatory frameworks, triggers and alerts, industry-specific integrations, etc. We automate business processes and integrate platforms to streamline our customers operations.
- Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
C4 Ventures is a leading venture investor in Europe founded by Pascal Cagni. Based in London and Paris, we typically invest in startups based in Europe and later stage startups seeking to expand into European markets.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- VoltR — VoltR is a manufacturing company specializes in restoring lithium batteries.
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- Essor — Transforming online businesses into global brands people love.
Pole Capital est une société d’investissement spécialisée dans la prise de participations à long-terme dans des startups non-cotées.Nous accompagnons des dirigeants désireux d’accélérer leur développement, en intervenant à la fois comme partenaire financier et comme consultant opérationnel.Notre objectif est de générer durablement de lacroissance pour nos investisseurs, les entreprises et les dirigeants que nous conseillons.
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- Payments, Artificial Intelligence, LGBT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
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- Pledg — Pledg provides instant financing solutions on e-commerce and in-store sites. Thanks to Pledg, merchants increase their conversion rates, average basket and brand loyalty. Private and professional buyers buy straight away and pay later or in instalments; the merchant, meanwhile, is paid upon ordering.Pledg's solutions are omnichannel, veryeasy to integrate and have an exceptional acceptance rate thanks to a unique scoring algorithm: - Shared payment: buy as a group - Instalment payment: obtain a payment facility in 2x to 12x instalments without any risk to the merchant - Deferred payment: customers try their items at home without advancing any money and pay 15, 30 or 45 days later for the items they keepPledg has already conquered >100 large accounts, many of which have +€1 billion turnover.
- 1Check — 1Check solution digitizes business processes related to the hotel industry to optimize the quality of service for its customers.
- SESAMm — SESAMm is the leading provider of natural language processing and machine learning solutions and analytics for Investment firms and corporations.
We are an early stage investor founded by experienced entrepreneurs. We invest in founders as early as possible.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Oussama has always been an Entrepreneur — he got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour throughthe social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based), Oussama is trying to scale this by founding TheFamily, an accelerator for early-stage startups that supports them from [0] to [1] through education & unfair advantages. He is also a lecturer on Entrepreneurship at Sciences Po Paris. Oussama is a Lebanese-born French citizen, he grew up in Africa and France, worked in Paris, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo and San Francisco, making him a true global citizen.
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- Legal, EdTech, Software
- Angel
- France
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- Hypios — Hypios combines intelligent crowdsourcing, competency discovery technology, and human outreach to deliver an optimal open problem-solving service. “Seekers” post R&D problems to the network and select a deadline and a price for the successful “Solver.” Hypios, which draws from a network of over 950,000 experts across the world, has been solvingR&D problems for global companies since 2008.
Polytechnique Ventures support entrepreneurs from the School's ecosystem.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom
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- Airthium — Airthium builds a new kind of energy storage system, that stores electricity as heat - reversibly - and in the form of ammonia.The system relies on a high-temperature heat pump/heat engine to heat molten salt to 540°C ( 1000°F), and then convert the heat back into electricity, with a 70% roundtrip efficiency.Airthium's units can beused to store and deliver solar and wind energy, starting at 100 kW and up to GW scale (Utility).Moreover, an ammonia generation unit and an external ammonia burner can be added to the system, to provide uninterruptible power, or go off-grid, even after several days of bad weather (no sun/wind).
- PACT — PACT designs Elegant materials produced in tune with the planet earth. It create revolutionary, sustainable biomaterials using the earth's resources, including collagen, herbal extracts, oils, and minerals.
- Descartes & Mauss — The first AI-powered SaaS Platform automating the Strategic Planning process.
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