Top 50 Life Science VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in May 2025

Investor	Life Science France investments
Bpifrance	13
Kurma Partners	8
Omnes Capital	6
Seventure Partners	5
Paca Investissement	4
Idinvest Partners	4
Sofinnova Partners	4
AdBio partners	3
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund	3
Blue Horizon Corporation	3
Karista	3
Galia Gestion	3
XAnge	2
Kinled Holding	2
Eutopia VC	2
Beyond Impact	2
Heartcore Capital	2
Siparex Groupe	2
Horizons Ventures	2
Partech	2
Thia Ventures	2
Air Street Capital	2
Sofimac Investment Managers	2
Point Nine	2
Social Starts	2
AQUITI Gestion	2
Alexandria Venture Investments	2
IRDI SORIDEC Gestion	2
JDRF T1D Fund	2
Advent Life Sciences	2
WiSEED	2
Shire	1
Angels Santé	1
Foundation Fighting Blindness	1
ADI Nouvelle-Aquitaine	1
Agrinvest	1
Capitole Angels	1
Credit Agricole CIB	1
IRDI	1
Eternam	1
Meusinvest (Noshaq)	1
Florac	1
Banque Populaire Group	1
MIG Capital	1
CELESTE	1
AFI Ventures	1
Credit Mutuel	1
Polytechnique Ventures	1
Capital Grand Est	1
Roche Venture Fund	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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lprint — Lprint revolutionise the way PCBs are designed and manufactured, empowering hardware engineers and product development teams. Lprint is a 3D electronic printing system for PCBs, designed to manufacture complex, free-form printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single step, simplifying the prototyping, testing, and manufacturing process of electronics.
Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.

Kurma Partners is a management company based in Paris, specializing in the financing of innovation in healthcare and biotechnology, from pre-creation to development capital. Kurma Partners, which manages the Kurma Biofund I, II funds and the Kurma Diagnostics fund, is one of the main players in the financing of therapeutic and medical innovationsin Europe, particularly through links with many institutes. research and prestigious hospitals.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Switzerland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

DeepUll — DeepUll is a biotech company that focuses its activity on the development of a new diagnostic system for early-stage sepsis condition. DeepUll’s proposal is based on quickly identifying the pathogens and offering the antibiogram within a few hours on the one hand, and on using the data and learning about the patient’s immunological and functionalstatus on the other. The system allows doctors to predict the future appearance and evolution of sepsis within a short period of time and thus provide a suitable clinical response even before the symptoms arise.
Nuevocor — Nuevocor is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing gene therapy‑based treatments that have the potential to restore cardiac function in diseased hearts.
Avidicure — Avidicure is developing dual agonistic avidity-engineered multifunctional antibodies, AVC-Boosters, as monotherapy for treatment of cancer

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

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital and Life Sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with € 1 billion undermanagement as of December 31, 2023. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today: - Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition - Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity - Sports & Wellbeing - Blue Economy

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ekstere — Ekstere facilitates selling and purchasing verified-quality used bicycles at a reasonable price.
Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
Seaweed Concept — Seaweed Concept is a marine biotechnology company, that focuses on the innovative utilization of seaweed to provide high-quality ingredients to various industrial sectors

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.

Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
StarTower — StarTower is a resource company built specifically for fully decentralized physical infrastructure and shared interaction. Based on the exclusive RIP encryption technology, StarTower realizes the interactive sharing of multiple resources with zero loss on mobile devices, thereby providing efficient resource transmission for terminal facilities. Itprovides more efficient, secure and reliable solutions in the fields of Internet of Things, smart cities, industrial automation, healthcare, etc.
Stilla Technologies — Stilla Technologies is taking digital PCR to a whole new level with a unique 6-color target detection capability

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Latent Labs — Latent Labs is making biology programmable to transform health and sustainability for the benefit of all.We are a frontier AI lab building foundational models that capture the fundamentals of biology. We empower partners with breakthrough generative AI to gain unprecedented control over molecular biology, creating new antibodies, optimizingexisting enzymes, and advancing genetic engineering.Contact us to work with us today.
Signadori Bio — Signadori Bio is the next-generation cellular immunotherapy for cancer cure.This has culminated in the creation of a groundbreaking biotech venture in the cell and gene space that is set to advance innovative approaches in oncology.
Forth Therapeutics — Forth Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to advancing precision treatments for fibrosis.

AdBio partners is a European Life Sciences Venture Capital firm dedicated to seeding healthcare’s step forward.We work with leading research institutions and well-established technology transfer offices, with a strong network of scientific and medical partners, exploring new territories to source breakthrough medical discoveries and driveinventive Life Sciences start-ups to success.We embrace European Life Sciences’ dynamic of innovation. Europe harbors a vibrant environment for medical and scientific investigation, with some of the most leading-edge academic and research centers. AdBio partners seizes the opportunity to highlight their undervalued research programs and assets and participate in structuring Europe’s biotechnology ecosystem.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Spain, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Cephagenix — Cephagenix focuses on identifying and developing new, effective migraine therapies.
Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a global, clinical-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking treatments to rejuvenate vision in the aging eye.
Augustine Therapeutics — Augustine Therapeutics is developing selective, safe and efficacious HDAC6 inhibitors designed for treatment of neuromuscular, neurodegenerative and cardiometabolic diseases. Discover our pipeline poised for clinical impact.

The Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund is the strategic venture fund of the Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Nuevocor — Nuevocor is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing gene therapy‑based treatments that have the potential to restore cardiac function in diseased hearts.
Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.
Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Blue Horizon is accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system that delivers outstanding returns for the planet and people.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.
foodforecast — AI supported solution to reduce food waste.

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.

Galia Gestion is a private equity and venture capital firm. GALIA Gestion is a “management company” approved by the AMF, with majority shareholder Alliance Entreprendre.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wizaly — Wizaly's ambition is to help advertisers understand the impact of their online & offline marketing channels across all conversions, helping clients improve the ROI of their marketing budgets by up to 30%.The Wizaly platform applies its algorithmic attribution technology to provide a holistic and unbiased vision of campaigns performancestogether with actionable optimization recommendations.
Agenium — Agenium offers career perspectives in an international and tech environment. They offer this through the specific expertise of their business units. They offer solutions to the business and of the defense, industry, and space sectors.
Germitec SAS — Germitec is a world leader in UV-C high-level disinfection. Fast, safe, chemical-free, one-button UV-C high-level disinfection for ultrasound probes.

XAnge is a Franco-German team of venture capital investors that manages €450 million and invests in digital, deeptech, and impact startups.It is the innovation brand of the Siparex group, a major player in French private equity. XAnge is a key European investor in early-stage startups and is looking for game-changing startups and entrepreneurswho rock the code[s].The Paris, Ile-de-France-located company was founded in 2004.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.
Request Finance — A suite of financial tools to make your life easier - crypto organizations & freelancers use Request for invoices, expenses, payroll or accounting.

Kinled was founded in 1980 to retain the investment assets of the Aisher family.In 1990, the investment focus shifted to a portfolio of early stage investments applying Kinled’s company development experience alongside the endurance and passion of family owned investments together with the strategic focus of venture capitalists.Since then,Kinled has taken 8 companies to public markets and many more to successful trade sales at significant multiples.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Xapien — Xapien delivers automated insight reports on companies and individuals in minutes, so you can make informed business decisions quickly and with confidence.
OneTrust — OneTrust is a provider of privacy management and marketing compliance technology that helps organizations comply with global regulations. It automates privacy impact assessments and data inventory mapping, enforces risk remediation actions, and triggers recurring audits for continuous compliance monitoring across customer, employee, and vendor datatransfers. Its web-based software can be accessed on any device and provides a single place for a private office to collaborate with business groups, vendors, and trusted advisors managing privacy risks. The result is the ability to demonstrate privacy by design and ongoing compliance with policies, data privacy laws (GDPR, BCR, Privacy Shield), and other privacy frameworks (HITECH, ISO, GAPP, APEC).The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Connect Earth — Connect Earth is an environmental data company that builds the infrastructure for climate-conscious products by aggregating and standardising environmental data and making it available through developer-first toolkits. The core product is an API solution that calculates the carbon impact of spend-based financial transactions of consumers and companies.

Eutopia is a fund for consumer startups. We back founders who are rethinking the way we eat, shop, sleep and feel. We are backing 26 startups

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Belgium, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
Bastille — Bastille is a brand of urban bicycles. The Astir brand is synonymous with folding bicycles. The primary quality constraint Bastille, a British designer, aims to create a folding motorcycle with standard wheels rather than the mini 16-inch wheels that are traditionally associated with folding bikes.
SPRiNG Collective — SPRiNG is a consumer goods company that offers clean and efficient laundry and cleaning products, delivered in a 100% plastic-free box and directly in the mailbox. The company is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France by Philippe Cantet, Laure Favre, and Ben Guerville in 2017.

Beyond Impact is your trusted Managed Service Provider (MSP), delivering tailored IT solutions like managed IT services, cybersecurity, cloud computing, IT help desk support, and data backup. Our expert team aligns your IT with business goals, providing proactive monitoring and network security. Contact us today to streamline your IT operations for a secure, agile, and future-ready business. Beyond Impact: Empowering your IT success.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, News, Seafood
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
Nowadays — The Nowadays nugget is made with just 7 simple, plant-based ingredients.
SEAFOOD REBOOT — Seafood Reboot's ambition is to promote worldwide best-in-class Fish substitutes from micro-algae for natural, healthy, sustainable food and to preserve marine wildlife.

Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Denmark, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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
Ekoscan Integrity — Ekoscan Integrity is an innovative solution for the integrity and sustainability of industrial products through the implementation of innovative technology.

Investing in the deep science and technology that can propel humanity towards a radically better future.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Notpla — We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
Owlstone Medical — Owlstone Medical has developed a breathalyzer for disease. With a focus on non-invasive diagnostics for cancer, inflammatory disease, and infectious disease, the company aims to save 100,000 lives and $1.5B in healthcare costs.The company’s Breath Biopsy® platform has introduced a new diagnostic modality making it possible to discover novelnon-invasive biomarkers in breath using a platform with the potential to transition to point-of-care. The award-winning ReCIVA Breath Sampler ensures a reliable collection of breath samples. The volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the breath are analyzed using proven microchip chemical sensor technology (FAIMS) to detect biomarkers of disease.The Breath Biopsy platform can be used in clinical diagnostics and precision medicine with applications in cancer and a wide range of other medical conditions. Highly sensitive and selective, these tests allow for early diagnosis when treatments are more effective and more lives can be saved.Owlstone Medical is currently developing tests for lung and colorectal cancer, two of the most common cancer killers worldwide, and for asthma stratification by the therapeutic response. The company also Breath Biopsy products and services to academic, clinical, and pharma partners who want to develop breath-based diagnostics for their own applications.
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .

WE ARE AN EARLY-STAGE INVESTOR IN ONE OF THE MOST DYNAMIC AND ESSENTIAL FIELDS OF CURRENT HUMAN ENDEAVOR WE BRING ROBUST INVESTOR MUSCLE TO EARLY-STAGE VENTURES INVESTOR A specialized and focused investor Resources Powerful industry, substance and business resources Experience Wide networks and longstanding experience Team Yet, adaptability and speed of a lean, self-financed team

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

EvodiaBio — Mirroring nature with pioneering bioscience for natural flavors
Protealis — Sustainable plant proteins for Europe
Switch Bioworks — Switch Bioworks engineers symbiotic microbes to produce sustainable nitrogen fertilizer under the control of precise genetic circuits.

Air Street Capital invests in AI-first companies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Fern Labs — Deploying agents at the scale of real world problems
Odyssey — We're pioneering world models, the next frontier of artificial intelligence.

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.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.

Social Starts is a $60M+ venture capital partnership with a uniquely data-driven approach to investing in moment-of-inception and Series A financing rounds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
Mae Health — Mae is a maternal health platform that connects expectant mothers with critical resources to drive positive pregnancy outcomes.
Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.

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, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Speeral — Speeral is a technological solution for user to access second-hand market and products.
Aquassay — Aquassay assists you with improving the industrial and environmental performance of all your water usage (supply, production, discharge).
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.

Alexandria Venture Investments is a venture capital firm that develops work in real estate technology, and healthcare sectors. The company's strategic venture capital platform is Alexandria Venture Investments. Since its inception in 1996, the company has invested in disruptive life science, agrifood tech, and technology companies that aredeveloping transformative new modalities and platforms to meaningfully improve human health.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Remedy Plan Therapeutics — Remedy Plan is a biotechnology company developing the first drugs that halt tumor growth and disrupt the cancer stem cells that cause metastasis.
Hoofprint Biome — Hoofprint Biome, developing probiotics for to increase feed digestibility and decreasing methane in cattle
HAYA Therapeutics — Pioneering next-generation therapies for fibrotic diseases. Learn more about our approach here.

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

FEEDAE — Feedae uses AI-augmented dialog analysis to boost sales and customer service teams' performance.
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 — Develops RISC V based processor architectures that are automatically built from the application source code and dynamically reconfigurable.

The JDRF T1D Fund (www.t1dfund.org) is a venture philanthropy fund exclusively devoted to finding and funding the best early-stage T1D commercial opportunities to accelerate the delivery of treatments, preventions, and cures to patients. It was created to solve a critical funding gap in the T1D drug and device development pipeline. Throughpartnerships with private capital, including venture capital, pharma and foundations, the T1D Fund anticipates that it will be able to attract substantially more private investment to the T1D field than occurs today. The T1D Fund will initially focus on artificial pancreas systems, metabolic control, beta cell replacement, prevention, and beta cell restoration therapies, with an exclusive priority on the best commercial opportunities. The T1D Fund will reinvest any realized gains into new investments to further its mission.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

vTv Therapeutics — vTv Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery and development of human therapeutics to fill unmet medical needs. Its mission is to utilize its innovative technology to rapidly translate the functional modulation of human proteins into safe and effective medicines.vTv Therapeutics has a pipeline of small molecule clinicaland pre-clinical drug candidates for the treatment of a wide range of human diseases including central nervous system disorders, metabolic disorders, inflammation, and cancer. The company has built its product candidate portfolio through internal discovery and is advancing its product candidates through in-house research and development efforts. The quality and breadth of vTv's product candidate pipeline, platform technology, scientific team, and strategic collaborations have enabled it to become a fully integrated pharmaceutical company.The company's commitment to drug discovery is reflected in its medical solutions and the many exciting potential new treatment options in its pipeline. The company's major R&D activities have focused on central nervous system disorders, metabolic disorders, inflammation and oncology.vTv Therapeutics is advancing several proprietary drug candidates. The company's lead candidate, azeliragon (aka TTP488), is a novel, orally bioavailable small molecule compound that is being developed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease, azeliragon showed a statistically significant difference of more than 3 points in ADAS-cog at 18 months compared to placebo.Azeliragon has been granted Fast Track Designation and agreement on its Phase 3 protocol has been reached with FDA via a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA). The Phase 3 study in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease was initiated in April 2015 with a clear path forward to registration with the aim to demonstrate disease modification.vTv Therapeutics is also prosecuting the clinical development of TTP399, a novel functionally liver-selective Glucokinase Activator ("GKA") for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. In a Phase 2a study, TTP399 normalized patients' HbA1c without inducing hypoglycemia, after only six weeks of treatment. A six-month Phase 2 study is ongoing.
Eledon Pharmaceuticals — Eledon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company using its expertise in targeting the CD40L pathway to develop potential treatments for people undergoing organ or cellular transplantation, and for people with autoimmune and neurodegenerative disease.
Cour Pharmaceuticals Development — COUR Pharmaceuticals is developing first-in-class therapies designed to reprogram the immune system to achieve antigen-specific tolerance...

Advent Life Sciences is a venture team investing in life sciences businesses. The team consists of 11 professionals with extensive scientific, medical and operational experience, and a long-standing track record of entrepreneurial and investment success across the UK, Europe and the US. The Firm invests in a range of sectors within life sciences,principally in new drug discovery, enabling technologies, and med tech. Realizations in the last three years include Algeta, Avila, CN Creative, EUSA, Micromet. Current investments include Acutus, Biocartis, Cellnovo, f2G, NeRRe,

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

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Argá Medtech — Novel Sine Wave Technology Promises Significant Advantages Over Existing Pulsed Field Cardiac Ablation Systems
Curve Therapeutics — Curve has developed an innovative screening platform that is transforming the discovery of first-in-class therapeutics. The platform allows functional screening of diverse, genetically encoded Microcycle™ libraries against a broad range of disease-associated targets that are present in their native conformation inside a mammalian cell. Curve isdeploying this platform to build a pipeline of novel cancer drugs.
Relief Cardiovascular — Relief Cardiovascular is an inQB8 medical technologies portfolio company developing a revolutionary smart implant to decongest heart failure patients.

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

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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.
Aéronde — The Aéronde is an innovative electric airship with a toroidal shape (giant donut) of 15 meters in diameter, designed to offer a silent, energy-efficient flight with very low environmental impact. Inflated with approximately 400 m³ of helium, it can carry up to two people and equipment, with a payload of 200 kg .
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.

Takeda is a global, research and development-driven pharmaceutical company committed to bringing better health and a brighter future to patients by translating science into life-changing medicines.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Biopharma
Series C, Series B, Series A
United States, France, Belgium

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Naurex — Naurex Inc. is a clinical-stage company developing novel therapies for depression and other CNS disorders based on a new mechanism of action for modulating the N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor (NMDAR). Using these discoveries, Naurex researchers have generated novel chemical drug classes known as glycine-site functional partial agonists (GFPAs),which modulate the receptor in a different way than existing NMDAR agents. The company's drug development programs based on its GFPA NMDAR modulators include the first-generation molecule, GLYX-13, the second-generation NRX-1050 small molecule series and additional compounds from Naurex's platform of novel NMDAR modulators.
Rani Therapeutics — Rani is a clinical stage biotherapeutics company advancing technologies to enable the development of orally administered biologics, which we believe will have the potential to transform medicine and improve patient outcomes. We have developed the RaniPill capsule, which is our novel, proprietary and patented platform technology, intended to replacesubcutaneous or IV injection of biologics with oral dosing. The RaniPill capsule is an orally ingestible pill approximately the size of a “000” capsule (or similar to the size of a standard fish oil or calcium pill) that is designed to automatically administer a precise therapeutic dose of medication upon deployment in the small intestine. To date, we have successfully conducted several preclinical and clinical studies to evaluate safety, tolerability and bioavailability using the RaniPill capsule. Our development efforts have enabled us to construct an extensive intellectual property portfolio that we believe provides us a competitive advantage.
Promethera Biosciences — PrometheraÂ® Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company, spin-off of the UniversitÃ© Catholique de Louvain, that develops innovative treatments based on allogeneic adult stem cell technology.PrometheraÂ® Biosciences' mission is to discover, develop and commercialize cell therapy products to treat liver diseases in an innovative way usingallogenic progenitor cells from healthy human livers.PrometheraÂ® Biosciences develops two products based on a newly discovered and patented progenitor cell type: the human Adult Liver-Derived Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell (hALDMSC):

Angels Santé is a networking site for investors and companies in the health sector.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
France, India, United States

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Abcely — Abcely is a biotech firm that is working on a novel anti-cancer medication.
SeaBeLife — SeaBeLife is a biotechnology company that develops a range of drug candidates intended to block regulated necrosis (or regulated cell death of cells), from a family of patented molecules.
MB Therapeutics — MB Therapeutics is a pharmaceutical firm that provides patient-centric solutions for developing and producing tailored medicines.

The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration, Usher syndrome and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases. The Foundation is a beacon of hope for those affected by these blinding diseases. Join the fight and help us accelerate our mission.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France

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SparingVision — We are a genomic medicines company leading a step shift in how ocular diseases are treated. We are going beyond single gene correction therapies to deliver new treatments as quickly as possible to patients affected by Inherited Retinal Diseases (IRDs), regardless of genetic cause.
Atsena Therapeutics — Atsena is a clinical-stage gene therapy company, focused on bringing the life-changing power of genetic medicine to reverse or prevent blindness.
Nacuity Pharmaceuticals — Advancing a promising treatment for retinitis pigmentosa

ADI Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a non-profit organization that renders fundraising, strategy, innovation management, and support services.

Investment focus

Life Science, Biotechnology, Waste Management
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Dionymer — dionymer creates endless opportunities for a multitude of industries. Replacing petrochemical polymers with a circular and biodegradable alternative.
Midipile Mobility — Midipile Mobility is a B2B subscription-based turnkey service for logistics professionals. They target middle mile and last mile deliveries.Their service is built on a new type of vehicle: 4 wheels, closed body, solar, 45 km/h (28 mph). It includes fleet management tools (SaaS), insurance, maintenance and assistance. Midipile is a low-carbonalternative to delivery trucks independent from the grid thanks to free solar energy and battery swapping solution.Their services offers the guarantee of better profitability combined with a unique user experience and a controlled and quantified carbon footprint.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

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Famoco — Famoco provides an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution with a range of secure, remotely managed Android devices. Famoco offers...
PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides a pioneering next generation sequencing (NGS) approach to biologics characterization and release testing
Evercontact — Let Evercontact connect the dots in your life by turning your emails into an always-updated address book!

Capitole Angels is to create this association was born from the experience of many of its founders in the field of start-ups including the following observations. Need a structure enabling them to meet investors / promoters of the project. Plethora of potential investors hampered by the lack of an open structure. A region rich in technology,its universities, laboratories and therefore the bearer of innovation.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, 3D Technology
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
France

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Hoope — Hoope offers crunchy mueslis, spreads, and biscuits rich in nutrients, all organic, without palm oil, additives.
Deepbloo — DeepBloo is a Sales and Market Intelligence platform. We provide : + 5.8 millions tenders and market information Worldwide and + 300 000 tenders in France
Sensivic — Designed and manufactured in France, SENSIVIC smart audio detection systems add meaning to your security. Our solutions automatically detect and alert you in real time as soon as an abnormal sound or suspicious noise occurs.

Crédit Agricole CIB specialises in the businesses of capital markets and investment and corporate banking.

Investment focus

Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt
France, United States, United Kingdom

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CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
NEOM — THE LINE: THE FUTURE OF URBAN LIVING
Tipico Group — Tipico is the market provider of sports betting in Germany, with a strong position across other European markets as well. The company operates an innovative, digital multichannel offering with leading online and mobile portals, as well as more than 1,000 betting shops. As a premium brand, Tipico is able to offer a large range of bets whilecontinuing to uphold the highest standards in customer service and consumer protection. Tipico currently has more than 5,000 employees and operates in five countries.

IRDI Gestion aims to participate in the economic growth and job creation in their regions. For this, their teams create a real partnership with the companies they accompany, based on a relationship of trust and proximity.IRDI Gestion currently manages €150 million and has financial tools able to accompany the Southwest SMEs in the creationphase, development or transmission, with intervention tickets from equity € 100000 to € 5000000.Precursor of regional investment capital of the Southwest, with a presence of over 35 years, the IRDI Group consists of 3 SCR:- IRDI, created in 1981 to foster industrial growth companies based in the South West of France- MPcroissance, created in 1996 to assist small businesses in Midi-Pyrénées- IRDInov, created in 2012 under the leadership of the National Seed Fund (under the PIA) to fund the initiation of innovative companiesIn 2015, the management company IRDI Gestion, approved by the AMF, was formed to structure the group and bring new development projects.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France

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REEV — REEV motorizes medical orthoses to help millions of people affected by gait disorders to walk, stand, sit and climb stairs with greater ease every day.
Starfish Bioscience — STARFISH Bioscience focuses on the creation and development of microbiological solutions for agriculture and vineyards. Our objective is to regenerate soils by restoring their microbiomes, increasing sustainability and productivity while minimizing environmental impact. We are dedicated to improving humanity's well-being and preserving theearth by inventing technologies that address the future difficulties of global agriculture.
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.

Eternam engages in business throughout the commercial real estate value chain, including investments in residential plots, club deals, SCPI allocation guidance, and real estate investment funds. They are specialists in club negotiations, capital invested in real estate, and the structuring of company real estate operations. Along with propertyadvisory services, they provide real estate investment and property management services.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Clinical Trials
Series A
France

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DocCity — DocCity LifeSciences creates and provides outstanding spaces to house cutting-edge healthcare businesses. DocCity provides clinicians with state-of-the-art, fully furnished health spaces with roomy, well-lit, and digitally equipped consultation rooms and reception areas.

Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, France, Germany

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TrustUp — TrustUp is the home contractors platform, connects homeowners with verified quality home improvement.
Veoware — More coverage, shorter revisit time. Increasing target collection frequency through modular next-gen actuator technology.
Le Fourgon — Le Fourgon provides contained drinks for home delivery. They offer milk, water, beer, wine, fruit juice, and sodas. They allow customers to have their drinks delivered free of charge during the day.

Florac is a mid-market investment firm that invests and supports management teams with defensible market-leading positions.It invests in single amounts in equity and quasi-equity with a flexible exit horizon alongside founders, managers, and strategic partners in companies with strong development potential and managed by excellent managementteams. The firm is wholly-owned by the Meyer family and investing only funds of the family.Léopold Meyer headquartered the firm in Paris, Ile-de-France in 2009.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Clinical Trials
Series A
France

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DocCity — DocCity LifeSciences creates and provides outstanding spaces to house cutting-edge healthcare businesses. DocCity provides clinicians with state-of-the-art, fully furnished health spaces with roomy, well-lit, and digitally equipped consultation rooms and reception areas.

Banque Populaire Group provides banking and credit services for individuals, international and corporate.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France

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ATAWEY — Founded in 2012 by Jean-Michel Amaré and Pierre-Jean Bonnefond, ATAWEY designs and manufactures turnkey autonomous energy solutions for isolated sites. The entrepreneurs and their teams use mature, tried and tested French technologies to offer you an innovative, reliable and sustainable product. They build on their expertise to give you more than asimple response: a solution that adapts to your uses.The teams are well aware of the importance and the challenges of a source of energy on isolated sites, ATAWEY guarantees you support and a tailor-made service. They take full responsibility for the management of each project for optimal adaptability and reliability, economic relevance with a fast return on investment, all with the greatest respect for the environment.
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.
Meccellis Biotech — Meccellis Biotech is a manufacturer of tissue and cell and biomaterials.

Zusammen gestalten wir die Unternehmen von morgen.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, France, Austria

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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.
SciRhom — SciRhom GmbH is a biotech company that translates science into the preclinical and early clinical development of novel biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of life-threatening autoimmune diseases. Based on longstanding academic research and a well-established network of experts, SciRhom was founded in 2016 through a collaboration between academicand industry scientists with profound experience in antibody development.
Innatera — Innatera is a Dutch nanotech company and an offspring of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

CELESTE operates as an Internet provider for different companies. The company offers a range of solutions which covers Internet access, MPLS interconnection and fiber optics, IP telephony or ecological data center hosting. CELESTE was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Champs-sur-marne, Ile-de-France.

Investment focus

Health Care, Life Science, Clinical Trials
Series A
France

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DocCity — DocCity LifeSciences creates and provides outstanding spaces to house cutting-edge healthcare businesses. DocCity provides clinicians with state-of-the-art, fully furnished health spaces with roomy, well-lit, and digitally equipped consultation rooms and reception areas.

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

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Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
Moonwatt — Moonwatt solves problems of the energy transition through innovative energy products hardware and software.
Nova Carbon — High-performance sustainable carbon fiber composites

Credit Mutuel is a French investment bank specialized in early stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Hipli — Hipli is a reusable, eco-friendly packaging solution that offers a sustainable alternative to plastic packaging for e-commerce businesses.
Vinidaily — Vinidaily is the application that helps you choose the wine 100% adapted to your tastes and the occasion, in your favorite supermarket and soon everywhere else.
Agrilife Studio — Agrilife Studio is a startup studio focuses on agriculture and environment.

Polytechnique Ventures support entrepreneurs from the School's ecosystem.

Investment focus

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.

Capital Grand Est is a private equity firm that focuses on supporting businesses. Capital Grand Est was founded in 2012 and was headquartered in Schiltigheim, France.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France

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Exeliom — Exeliom is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company tackling the use of commensal bacteria as drugs. Their mission is to harness the therapeutic potential of gut microbiota to enable people to lead longer and healthier lives. They are committed to developing the next generation of probiotics: innovative microbial therapies.Exeliom develops anew class of medicines called Live Biotherapeutics based on their growing understanding of the central role of the microbiota in the immune system.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Dijon, France.
Keey Aerogel — Home - Welcome to the homepage of KEEY Aerogel ! Discover our company, our products and our know-how in aerogels.
Sirfull Technology — Solutions SIRFULL pour le soudage, l'inspection et la maintenance | Welding cloud logiciel soudage | Linspec Cloud logiciel inspection

The Roche Venture Fund is the name given to the corporate venture fund of the healthcare company Roche. Roche has allocated CHF 500 million to invest in and develop commercially successful innovative life science companies. Roche has been investing in early stage companies as part of collaborations since the early-1990s and independent ofcollaborations since 2002. All equity investments made by Roche in biotech and diagnostics companies (including collaboration investments) are negotiated and managed by the Roche Venture Fund. In the past 20 years, the Roche Venture Fund has invested in over 60 companies globally. Currently, Roche Venture Fund has a portfolio of around 30 companies located in 10 countries across Europe, North America and the Pacific Region. The fund is an evergreen fund with CHF 500 million available of which approximately 40% is currently invested.The Roche Venture Fund is a committed long-term stable investor with sufficient money reserved in their fund for follow-on financing rounds. As part of a multinational healthcare company, the Roche Venture Fund has access to considerable expertise both internally and externally. We co-invest with leading venture funds, including other corporate venture funds, on a regular basis.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

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DiogenX — Welcome to DiogenX. Explore our pioneering research and innovative therapies aimed at transforming diabetes treatment
Mironid — Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of www.mironid.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas