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Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in France in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Machine learning startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Machine Learning Startup Investors in France in July 2025

Investor	Machine Learning France investments
Bpifrance	21
Elaia	12
Alven	12
Kima Ventures	11
Serena	11
Partech	9
360 Capital	7
Hi Inov - Dentressangle	7
Bertrand Diard	7
Aglaé Ventures	7
XAnge	6
CapHorn Invest	6
Financiere Saint James	5
Eurazeo	5
Idinvest Partners	4
Angelsquare	4
Xavier Niel	4
Global Founders Capital	4
Isai	4
Investisseurs privés	4
42CAP	4
IT-Translation	3
Cathay Innovation	3
Région Sud Investissement	3
Dominique Vidal	3
Kerala Ventures	3
Otium Capital	3
Nick Gatfield	3
Chris Schagen	3
Newfund	3
Techmind	3
Franck Le Ouay	3
Google	3
Cyril Vermeulen	3
Omnes Capital	3
Jean Charles Samuelian	3
Fly Ventures	3
Promus Ventures	3
Charles Gorintin	3
Cathay Innovation	3
Guillaume Lestrade	3
Renaud Visage	2
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	2
M Capital Partners	2
Metaplanet	2
Finorpa	2
White Star Capital	2
Lunar Ventures	2
AAPS AVOCATS	2
Alto Invest	2

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Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
DejaBlue — The unified electrification offering for smarter, greener businesses.

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.
Moments Lab — Newsbridge is a cloud platform for Media & Sports Rights-Holders. Index your content with AI. Build & Monetize your Media Asset Collections.
Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Filics — A scalable transport solution for standardized load carriers with a minimum energy footprint
Skynopy — Skynopy offers an end-to-end connectivity solution for satellite operators to communicate with their satellites in Low-Earth Orbit.
Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Relief — Relief is an AI assistant application for generating improved financial quotes.
Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.
One Biosciences — One Biosciences unlocks routine analysis of tumor heterogeneity through AI-powered single-cell technologies, transforming precision medicine.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pelico — Pelico is a data management platform that assists operational teams in achieving predictable results. It empowers factory teams to build resilient operations to manage daily volatility and deliver products on time, at cost. Its factory operations management system enables teams to continuously anticipate parts shortages, act fast with AI-assistedrecommendations, and collaborate across teams on the implementation of corrective actions.
Emmi AI — Emmi AI thinks that the nexus of physics and artificial intelligence represents the next frontier in industrial engineering. The world of large-scale engineering and manufacturing is ripe for transformation, yet today's innovation processes are hindered by slow, costly simulations and prohibitive computational requirements.
roofline — Our software allows you to efficiently deploy any AI model from any framework on diverse target hardware. Achieve optimal performance and simplify your AI deployment process with Roofline.

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

Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Makersite — AI, data and apps for procurement, product design and expert teams to make faster sustainable product and supply chain decisions, at scale.

As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.
Via Sana — Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices.

Hi inov is a regulated Venture capital management company dedicated to early stage investment in B2B digital start-ups. We have €165M under management. They are 7 investors based in Paris, Lyon and Munich and also have an operating team.Hi Inov supports young and innovative digital BtoB companies from their very beginnings, and stimulates theirlong-term growth to help them become tomorrow’s leading companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dipeeo — Dipeeo, a BtoB SaaS automation platform, combines GDPR expertise with a BPO platform to manage clients' compliance, it simplifies GDPR compliance, offering personalized support, strengthening businesses and boosting confidence.
Kaiko Systems — Kaiko Systems empowers shipping companies to make smarter, safer, and more collaborative operational and safety decisions through advanced data analysis and intelligent decision support.
Trace For Good — Indispensable collaborative software empowering forward-looking enterprises to know their products and suppliers better.

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
Lobster Protocol — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CAST AI — Cast AI cuts AWS, Azure, and GCP costs, secures Kubernetes applications, and boosts DevOps efficiency. Try it now!
HeyLibby — HeyLibby is the AI sales assistant and best kept secret for small business owners to engage, qualify, and convert leads.
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.

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

Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
Ensweet — Ensweet is a telemedicine platform intended to offer telerehabilitation services to patients. They offer equipment so that everyone can exercise whenever possible, enabling patients to have accessible rehabilitation.
Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Spain

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.
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.

Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in SMEs and manages a diversified portfolio of assets.With its expertise in private equity, real estate, and private debt, the group supports companies of all sizes in their development commitment through the commitment of its 235 professionals. It provides companies with thenecessary investments needed to realize their growth potential.The firm was founded in 1969 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kohort — How many users will your mobile game acquire, and how much more will they pour into your virtual economy? Try Ramp to find out.
Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.

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

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…

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
Mobile Club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.

Investisseurs privés is a private investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Tollys — Tollys is a biopharmaceutical company focused on innate immunity, particularly on the biology and modulation of the TLR3 receptor. The company is advancing TL-532, a new cancer immunotherapy to treat various types of cancer. TL-532 is a structurally defined double-stranded RNA, produced synthetically and highly specific to the TLR3 receptor.
Clone (ex Not So Dark) — Not So Dark offers a food delivery industry solution that creates exclusively online brands.
LE DRIVE TOUT NU — LE DRIVE TOUT NU is a startup of Consumers services Buyer aid.

We are peers amongst entrepreneurs helping the brave to build game-changing companies, just like we have done ourselves.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, France, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

askEarth — We are your experts in satellite imagery (Earth Observation) and large language models (LLMs)
Impulso — Impulso is a cloud-based SaaS solution that helps fashion brands and retailers optimise sell-through and reduce overproduction.
Waypoint AI — Waypoint AI triages, deflects, routes, and does postmortems. before they become into crises.

IT-Translation: investor and co-founder of digital technology start-ups developed from research

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Accelad — AccelaD is the company behind Raphton™, an innovative software assistant for electronic design. Raphton™ enables hardware designers to work 10 times faster and improve the performance of their designs, bringing a breakthrough in competitiveness and creating new opportunities for electronics manufacturers.
AntsRoute — AntsRoute is a cloud-based route planning & optimization software developed by the French startup Antsway in 2015. The solutions help professionals to create optimal delivery, pick-up and multi-stop routes. The routing software makes it easier to smartly schedule appointments, optimize daily routes, automate dispatch to drivers, track theirprogress in real-time and keep customers updated with SMS alerts. The best software to increase stops per route, cut down transport costs and planning time.
Therapixel — Therapixel is one of the leading French software companies specializing in artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.

Cathay Innovation is a multistage venture capital firm affiliated with Cathay Capital, investing in founders building transformative businesses across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Its platform connects founders with investors and its ecosystem of leading Fortune 500 corporations to help startups scale and transformindustries with consumer-to-enterprise and AI solutions in commerce, fintech, digital health, and mobility/energy. Cathay Innovation now manages over €2.5B AUM with offices in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, San Francisco, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Singapore and has invested in over 150 startups, including Chime, Pinduoduo (NASDAQ: PDD), Glovo, Wallbox (NYSE: WBX), Owkin, Ledger, ZenBusiness, Alma, Descartes Underwriting, and more.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

Nabla — Nabla is the leading ambient AI assistant, reducing practitioner burn-out and improving patient care.
Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.

Région Sud Investissement is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Interactive Autonomous DYnamic Systems — Iadys designs robotic and AI solutions like the Jellyfishbot for environmental preservation and oil spill response.
HEXANA — HEXANA is an energy platform that combines flexible sodium-cooled fast neutron reactors with a thermal management system.
Circle Safe — Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. The most effective way to prevent recurrence is to perform an interventional procedure: ablation. Most of these procedures are performed by Radiofrequency or by a more recent technique, the Cryoballoon. The latter has many advantages including speed and simplicity but has a complicationthat is specific to it: the risk of creating Diaphragmatic Paralysis. Circle Safe is developing a solution with the aim of permanently eliminating this complication.

Dominique Vidal is a Venture Partner at Index Ventures.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
Leavy.co — Leavy.co allows for anyone to live wherever they like, no matter how much they make, even for a day. Covid has turned our idea of work and travel upside down. It’s now all about mobility, for a generation who cannot afford it. The platform pays cash to all members willing to share their homes with the community or care for others.
Gens de Confiance — It is not enough to offer a wide range of products and services, you have to ensure that everyone is reliable. GensDeConfiance fights against online scams and build trust via a super-secured classifieds ad board. Our classifieds are only accessible to people who are endorsed by at least three other members. And if we have to remove someone, wealso remove all his referrers accounts! Therefore, not only we ensure that just the more reliable people can join, but every member is accountable at any time then.

French VC fund insanely focused on bringing massive strategic and operational support to its entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lokki — Lokki is a software tool for equipment rental companies.
Skillup — Skillup has designed the new @Tripadvisor for professional trainings hosting over 20k trainings and 50k reviews. It aims at helping HR services to find the adequate trainig for employees.
Napta — PickYourSkills is a SaaS solution helping companies to find the best match between their projects and their employees.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
comet — Comet is a platform created in September 2016 that seamlessly matches the best hard-skill Freelancers to top companies.These experts want to work as Freelancers and companies won’t survive without them. Their goal is to satisfy both sides: relevant and prompt skills for companies, security and inspiring projects for Freelancers.They screen andevaluate the best tech and data talents to build an interactive community. We're developing a smart product, powered by strong algorithms, to enhance their user experiences.

Nick Gatfield - Co-Founder @ Synchronized

Investment focus

Internet, TV, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Iceland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Karhoo — Karhoo, the first fully-integrated global booking platform for regulated Taxis and PHVs, is funded by RCI Bank and Services (Groupe Renault). It was reborn and remoulded from the assets of a previous business that learnt the hard way that competing against Uber, Didi and Lyft required a radically different and more collaborative approach tomobility. Now Karhoo remains an independent business contributing to Groupe Renault’s sustainable mobility‑as‑a‑service strategy, which covers connected, autonomous, shared, electric vehicles part of multimodal transport.
Overtune — With Overtune you can easily make your own music. Record with voice effects and make videos.
Synchronized — Synchronized.tv | Maximize the value of your video content in a digital world

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
Growblocks — Driving revenue growth is complicated. Teams need to collaborate, work with data and keep everyone on track in order to succeed.Growblocks strives to apply our winning formula to the B2B Scale-Up community helping our customers reach their revenue growth dreams - faster.We believe that when enough brains are applied, every problem is solvableand our team of brains is world class.Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.
PyxiScience — AI-enhanced adaptive math learning platform for students and teachers in higher and secondary education.
Oria Bioscience — Oria Bioscience purifies organelles (lysosomes, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum) for Drug Discovery and other health applications. Oria provides high qulity organelles compatible with drug screening platforms in Europe, US and Asia, thanks to a high throughput microfluidics technology.

Venture Capital investors

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Raidium — Radiology augmented GPT to tackle the complexity of precision medicine
Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
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.

Franck Le Ouay is a French engineer and entrepreneur. In 2005, he co-founded Criteo in Paris, which became one of the global leaders in digital advertising. Today Criteo is listed on Nasdaq, has over 2000 employees worldwide and generates over €1B in annual revenue. Criteo is a big data powerhouse with billions of user events tracked and analyzedevery day.In 2015, Franck co-founded Honestica, a company dedicated to accelerate the digital revolution of Healthcare.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Banking
Seed, Series A, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

Sancare — Sancare enables hospitals to better treat their patients at a lower cost through artificial intelligence.
Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
Riminder — HrFlow.ai is an API-first company and the leading AI-powered HR data automation platform. The company helps +1000 customers (HR software vendors, staffing agencies, large employers, and headhunting firms) to thrive in a high-volume and high-frequency labor market.

Google is a technology company that offers a search engine, that enables users to find information from various online sources, along with services such as email through Gmail, cloud storage via Google Drive, and productivity tools including Google Docs and Google Sheets; it also provides advertising solutions through Google Ads, video sharing viaYouTube, and mobile operating systems with Android, while continuously developing innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Infin8t — Infin8t.tech provides state-of-the-art AI-powered customer support infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Create, deploy, and manage intelligent chatbots trained on your specific content for personalized and efficient customer interactions that scale with your business needs.
QuEra Computing — QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers to date to tackle useful but classically intractable problems.
Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.

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.

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 — 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.

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.

Jean-Charles Samuelian is the Co-founder and CEO of Alan. He attended Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Twenty (YC S23) — Building a better Salesforce, powered by the Open Source community.
Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
YOUTH — Full health check-up in less than 2 minutes!

Fly is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems. We invest from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Cakewalk — Cakewalk enables IT & Security teams to monitor all SaaS apps used by their employees, run compliant access flows, securely on- and offboard people, and be IT audit-ready.
Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally

Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ALL.SPACE — One Device. All Networks. No Compromise. The world’s first smart terminal delivers total communications convergence.ALL.SPACE, formerly Isotropic Systems, has developed the 5th generation smart terminal, capable of linking with all satellites, all networks, in all orbits, all at once. Our ground-breaking software-defined service enablementplatform integrates intelligent routing, edge computing and on-demand services to deliver unprecedented network resilience and application performance. Whether you're on land, sea or air, we ensure that you stay connected.Our S2000 range is customisable across a range of sizes, Tx/Rx ratios, aperture combinations and scan ranges with up to 8,100 unique configurable options. Our modular architecture allows you to pick the exact terminal configuration to meet your requirements.
Capra Robotics — Our Mobile Robot Platform is a versatile solution optimized for outdoor use in any terrain. Read more about how the CAPRA can work for you.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

Charles Gorintin the Co-Founder and CTO of alan. He previously worked at Twitter as a Data Scientist. Charles Gorintin attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Argil — Generate social media videos in 2 minutes with your AI Avatar
Twin — Agentic AI, made actionable.
Neuralk-AI — The first AI embedding models specialized for structured data representation.

A Global Venture Capital Platform Connecting Innovators Everywhere

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

Nabla — Nabla is the leading ambient AI assistant, reducing practitioner burn-out and improving patient care.
Abacum — Our FP&A software automates data integration, eases collaboration & drives rapid insights into your financial health. See why Typeform, Ebury & Cabify trust us.
Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.

Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Cryptr — DEFAULT : Get features like SSO to convert more B2B customers, regardless of their auth provider. Just a few lines of code to start working with enterprise clients.
Abyssale — Abyssale is a banner creation platform enabling you to generate stunning social media & online advertising for your brand.
Klub — Klub operates as a private wealth and private services platform.

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies: - Sqreen (exited to Datadog) - Meero ($290M in funding) - Algolia ($184M) - Alkemics ($54M) -Builder ($29M) - Verve ($28M) - Fox Intelligence (€18M)

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
finres — Finres empowers decision-making for climate resilience, leveraging machine learning to enhance agricultural sustainability and adaptation strategies.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Uthana — Uthana operates as a 3D character animation studio that uses generative AI.
Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

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.

an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Pyka — We believe that electrification and automation will make aviation safer, more affordable, and more accessible than has ever been possible in human history.
OneSkin — It's time to redefine how we think about skin health. Explore how we use aging & longevity science principles for products that'll leave your skin feeling healthier.
Qminder — Set up Qminder queue management software in minutes. Real-time reports on customer service & employee performance. Cloud-based. Wireless. Free Support.

Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Construction, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo creates collaborative robots. We supply 6-axis robotic arms for the education and industrial markets.
SPART — SPART, your company's sport and health partner. Improve the cohesion and well-being of your teams through physical activity.
NeoCem — NeoCem creates, manufactures, and promotes a variety of low-carbon cements for the building industry. They have developed a novel procedure that permits the utilization of raw materials sourced from recovery sectors.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.

Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin that come from science, and business in deep tech companies. The firm particularly invests across Europe into founders building high potential startups that specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning, blockchain,cybersecurity, big data, analytics, or other industries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DeepOpinion — Explore DeepOpinion's AI-powered Generative Automation for enterprises. Enhance business processes in finance, insurance, and manufacturing with our advanced AI solutions.
Runware — The most affordable and flexible image generation API. Easily deploy blazing-fast AI features in any app. Start today and create 1000 images for free.
Lodestar Space — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.

AAPS AVOCATS is a legal firm that handles both advisory and litigation matters. AAPS AVOCATS is a boutique law firm formed from the merger on January 1, 2015, between Cabinet Séguin and Cabinet Aussedat. Its clientele primarily consists of businesses (SMEs and subsidiaries of listed groups), investment funds, financial institutions, acquirers,associations, and executives.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Automotive
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Stern Tech — We created a revolutionary SaaS platform for human behavior analysis. We use AI and cognitive sciences to interpret human behavior in real time. Use cases: Automotive, Health, Marketing, Training, Politics. See our partnership with Renault and STMicroelectronics : https://stern.consulting/sterntech-h1stvision.mp4

ALTO INVEST was founded by partners Antoine Valdes and Jean-FranÃ§ois Paumelle, who have worked together since 1994 for one of Europe's largest financial institutions. Their team has managed several portfolios on behalf of institutional and private clients, and made more than 50 private equity investments in Europe, North America and Asia.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Convertible Note
France, Martinique, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unow — Unow delivers tutored training programs on project management, soft skills and business skills. With a portfolio of 50+ training programs and a network of 100+ field experts, our goal is to improve team collaboration and productivity. Unow is headquartered in Paris, France.
Karos — Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies.
Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.

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