Top 15 Oil and Gas VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in April 2025
A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Oil and gas startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Oil and gas companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Oil and Gas VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in April 2025
Investor | Oil and Gas France investments |
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Index Ventures | 1 |
Ouest Croissance | 1 |
ODYSSEE VENTURE | 1 |
Karista | 1 |
EDF Ventures | 1 |
CEA Investissement | 1 |
Alps Capital innovation | 1 |
IRIS | 1 |
Polytechnique Ventures | 1 |
Demeter Partners | 1 |
True Green Capital Management | 1 |
Auriga Partners | 1 |
CM-CIC Capital Prive | 1 |
Blue Oceans Partners | 1 |
Seventure Partners | 1 |
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- Dorsia — Dorsia is a members-only platform that offers reservations at in-demand restaurants in major cities. The platform utilizes technology to enhance experiences for both operators and members, ensuring smooth booking without stress. Dorsia operates in various cities, including Miami, Los Angeles, Dubai, and San Francisco, making it a versatile choicefor food enthusiasts.
Partner companies not listed, Western Growth is specialized for over 20 years in operations mobility of capital and financing needs of growing businesses. Player in capital investment in the Far West, they offer the leaders of financial solutions to support the major stages in the life of the company - reclassification, transmission anddevelopment. The aim of West Growth: create long-term value for shareholders and executives.More than an investor, the Western philosophy of growth is based on partnerships with businesses. They act without constraint of time and are invested with managers in the strategic thinking, the study of growth and external financing, the optimization of the financing solutions required means and the establishment of better systems of motivation and 'shares. Since its inception, more than 400 partner companies have regional trust West Growth.
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Investment focus
- Software, Water, Home and Garden
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Lhyfe — Lhyfe is a developer, investor, and supplier of 100% green hydrogen for mobility and industry.
- Placeshaker — Placeshaker publishes and designs specialized project management software for renovation and rehabilitation sites.
- Lantana Paysage — Lantana Paysage offers garden maintenance services. Lantana Paysage is involved in creation and development on all aspects of the private garden : from the portal to the terrace (wood, natural stone, concrete imitation wood, ...), going through the fence, concrete, decorative concrete, deactivated concrete, emulsion, gravel stabilizer, etc.),garden, sprinkler system, low consumption lighting, basins, etc.
ODYSSEE VENTURE is a French Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France. The company has raised over 600M€.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Copains — Copains is a bakery that produces a wide variety of pastry and confectionery items intended to offer a healthy eating approach.
- Terratis — Terratis is a French company that uses the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to reduce the populations of tiger mosquitoes and agricultural pests. Their mission is to diminish harmful insect populations effectively on a large scale using a scientific, innovative, ecological, and efficient approach.
- 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.
Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.
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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.
EDF Ventures is a leading venture capital firm investing in early-stage healthcare companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DataBank — DataBank provides scalable and secure data center solutions for enterprises, offering colocation, cloud, and managed services. Our expert team ensures 24/7 support and maximum uptime for your critical IT infrastructure.
- IntelePeer — With IntelePeer's conversational ai platform, you'll increase revenue, improve customer interactions & make better business decisions.
- BeZero Carbon — The Carbon Ratings Agency | BeZero Carbon
CEA Investissement (SA), founded (as CEA Valorisation) in 1999, is a subsidiary of the CEA, a major player in technological research, development and innovation. The central mission of CEA Valorisation is to create economic value based on technological innovations. To fulfill this mission, they have developed two main activities: Investmentin seed capital in innovative start-ups / start-ups active in the technology areas of CEA. The Licensing of advising companies and public laboratories of innovation in creative strategy development and marketing rights to patent or know-how belonging to the CEA, other research organizations or innovative companies. In addition, CEA contributes to the financing of national investment in seed technology (activity "Fund of Funds"), this activity is developed through particular Emertec management and funds managed by this company (FCPR Emertec 2 Emertec Energy and Environment), the FCPR managed by ACE Security Management SA, an investment company in seed priming Minatec SAS. Their areas of technological expertise are mainly micro-and nanotechnology, health technologies, the New Technologies for Information and Communication (NTIC), advanced materials and technologies for energy.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Semiconductor
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- HEXANA — HEXANA is an energy platform that combines flexible sodium-cooled fast neutron reactors with a thermal management system.
- Otrera — Otrera provides customizable solutions for delivering low-carbon energy to industries and local communities.
- Blue Capsule Technology — Blue Capsule Technology is a nuclear power company that specializes in the development of advanced innovative reactors to produce industrial-grade heat for industry.
Alps Capital innovation
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Computer
- Funding Round, Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- HIKOB — In a world with limited resources and confined space, the understanding and exploitation of our physical assets, capital goods, infrastructures, industrial equipments and machinery, is a crucial challenge for years to come. During the life cycle of these assets, the acquisition of data is essential and is a key factor in the process of: -Knowledge & understanding: It consists in a better understanding to create and innovate. - Exploitation & maintenance: It consists in a better use to reduce costs and make it last. However to be useful and data has to be captured at the source on these assets in their real life conditions and in their real context of use: - Outdoor environment - Large natural spaces - Harsh or regulated environments - Mobility contexts HIKOB’s mission is to develop and provide wireless autonomous multi-points data acquisition system to capture information on the field and learn from reality, in all contexts and conditions. Provided as a fully integrated hardware and software platform, HIKOB systems collect complex data and support advanced data processing algorithms. Quick and easy to install, long lasting, HIKOB systems enable not only the multiplication of measurement points but also deployments in all contexts and all type of fields, while avoiding the installation and maintenance costs of traditional wired systems. HIKOB technologies are a key enabler and a result booster for businesses in their development and innovation process as well as for operations and maintenance.
- ARGOSIM — Powerful Tools for a Simulation-Driven Design Process.
- BiBOARD — BiBOARD is a Grenoble based business intelligence company. The company has established itself as a key player in this market. It also managed to bring on-board some big name clients, including Orange, Clarins, and Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite), and key partners including BULL and ATOS. In addition to providing comprehensive and dynamicvisualization of data, one of the things BiBOARD also brings to the market is a collaborative aspect, where users can communicate with their clients, partners, and suppliers via a secure hypertext link.The company was founded in 2008 and was acquired by Econocom on 2017.
Iris Capital is a European VC specialized in digital, fueling entrepreneurs from early stage to growth since 1986. From Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Dubai, Iris Capital supports start-ups and scale-ups in their global expansion with the unique support on its multi corporate partners, including Orange, Publicis, Valeo andBRED.Iris Capital invests in various industries, from platforms to Saas, AdTech, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, and is always looking for ambitious industry disrupters led by unique entrepreneurs across the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- WeeFin — WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. Their solutions are ESG connect, hub expertise, and ESG advisory.
- 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.
- Hopia — Hopia is a scheduling solution that optimizes human and material resources for healthcare institutions. Hopia centralizes the management of doctors' and nurses' schedules and uses constrained optimization and prediction algorithms to propose the most optimal organization for all stakeholders.
Polytechnique Ventures support entrepreneurs from the School's ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Home - Your Next Best Move, at Scale, Every Day: The First AI-Powered SaaS Platform Automating Strategic Planning.
Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Germany, United States
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- ICTYOS — Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic. It recycles fish skins from the culinary and catering industries.
- Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
- Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
Founded in July 2011, True Green Capital Management LLC is a privately owned, specialized energy infrastructure asset management firm based in Westport, Connecticut.
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Investment focus
- Banking, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Faradae — Faradae originates, develops, owns, and operates solar generation, powering hospitality, health care, and office buildings.
Since 1998, AURIGA PARTNERS, an independent Venture Capital firm, has been managing several early stage funds specializing in Information Technology and Life Sciences.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Patrowl — Identify and harden your External Security Posture with Patrowl, the leader. Let us manage time-consuming tasks and focus on remediation.
- 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.
- Vade Secure — Vade is a global leader in predictive email defense, protecting 1 billion inboxes worldwide. AI-based email security for Microsoft 365.
CM-CIC Capital Prive is a French investment company focused on SMEs and innovative companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, United States, Germany
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- L'addition — L'addition is an Ipad cash register software for bars, restaurants, food trucks, and etc. It has developed software that fully meets the expectations of restorers for order intake and collections. Relying on Apple media, its offer is intuitive and economical.The application aims to exceed the functionality of a conventional cash registerwhile enjoying the robustness and ease of use of the iPad. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
- TISSIUM — TISSIUM is creating the future of tissue reconstruction. Learn more about our novel solutions based on our proprietary platform of biomorphic programmable polymers.
- Presto Engineering — We enable companies imagine and implement microelectronics solutions in high-value markets such as Industrial, Automotive, Communication and Medical.
A direct impact strategy investing in innovations that help regenerate ocean health, hence contributing to achieve SDG #14.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Water, Aerospace
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lactips — Lactips produces water soluble and biodegradable thermoplastic pellets based on milk protein. Plastic transformation is realized through their secret industrial process. They are able to provide pellets fast and with high volume. Those pellets are used by clients as a raw material for thermoforming, films, or any kind of plastic applications. Theirfirst mission, correlated with their fundamental values, is to provide their industrial clients with new disruptive innovations to help them entering new markets.Their product will be a cleaner alternative to oil-based products, more efficient, and sustainable for consumers and the environment.
- MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
- Polystyvert — Notre technologie permet de collecter facilement le polystyrène et de le recycler pour le remettre sous sa forme originale. Du polystyrène recyclé d'aussi bonne qualité que du neuf !
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
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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
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