# Top 35 Organic Food Startup Investors in France in June 2026

## UI Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care

Since 1967, the UI brand embodies a partnership with companies. Actor of the economy, UI has accompanied more than 120 SMEs over the last fifteen years, investing more than 550m € and giving substance to their development projects. Combining experience and corporate culture, UI has established itself as an involved and independent partner, able tocount on its shareholder leaders to favor, independently, the sustainable performance of the SMEs it accompanies.

## Daphni
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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

## Beyond Impact
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Apps

Beyond Impact VC invests in companies which are carbon-negative, nature-positive, sustainable and animal-free.

## Demeter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, AgTech

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

## Capagro
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, AgTech

The First European Independent Venture Capital fund dedicated to AgTech and Food Tech

## Elevation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Elevation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on consumers, enterprises, logistics, and B2B.

## Henri Seydoux
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Wireless, Fruit, AgTech

Henri Seydoux founded Parrot in 1994 and has been its CEO ever since its inception. Parrot is today one of the major players in the civil drone market. Self-taught, Henri started his career in 1978 as a trainee and then as a journalist for the magazine Actuel. In 1982, he joined the company SSCI as a developer and then, the company Micro Archi. In1986, he created BSCA, a company that specialized in rendering 3D computer images and served as CEO until 1990. In 1991, along with three other partners, he founded Christian Louboutin, a luxury shoes company.

## Exerte Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Relevant deals: 1

We are a Single Family Office based in Nicosia, Cyprus with a global investment focus.

## Thomas Landais
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Computer, Software

Previously : Co-Founder of DOCTOLIB & Country Manager at LAFOURCHETTE
Now : Working on new projects & Business Angel (mainly focusing on web&mobile / gastronomy opportunities)
I keep paying attention to any challenging and innovative projects.

## Pymwymic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Information Technology

Invest in the food and agriculture sector. Pymwymic has a pioneering role in impact investing with a focus on restoring broken systems

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Blast. Club
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Apps

Blast.club is an early-stage startup that allows investing in an exclusive selection of startups.

## Seventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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

## C2Ad
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Solar, Mining, Internet

C2Ad is a French investor/investment fund based in France.

## Marc-David Choukroun
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Nutrition, Accounting, Real Estate

Marc-David Choukroun is the co-founder of « La Ruche qui dit Oui ! » (« The Food Assembly » in the UK) and its actual CEO. Marc-David started his career in 2004 for Ogilvy communication group where he was a web project manager. In 2008, he started his own web agency called flipin. In 2010, he starts “La Ruche qui dit Oui !” with Guilhem Chéron& Mounir Mahjoubi. La Ruche is now the first european platform for online short food supply chain. Launched in 9 countries, the company employs 130 people and its platform connects 1 500 local communities to more than 6 000 producers.

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## AQUITI Gestion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

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€.

## Danone Manifesto Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Health Care

We are a corporate venture group located in New York City and Paris that is part of a global food and beverage company with a unique manifesto and world-class expertise and resources.

## Blue Horizon Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology

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

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

## Damien Guermonprez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Payments

Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.

## Jean-Daniel Guyot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Blockchain, B2B

Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.

## Caravelle SA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Aerospace, E-Commerce, Health Care

Caravelle SA is a family-owned diversified group of companies, investing in B to B activities as a stable majority shareholder.

## WeLikeStartup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Internet

WeLikeStartup is a crowdfunding platform. WeLikeStartup brings startups their initial financing by the pre-sale or fundraising capital and provides investors to support entrepreneurship and job creation in France while providing services tailored to their security concerns and liquidity. Created by a recognized entrepreneurs and financeprofessionals team is WeLikeStartup Financial Investment Adviser, registered with ORIAS ( Unique Register of Insurance Intermediaries, Banking and Finance ), Member of the CNCIF ( National Chamber of Investment Advisers financial ) and Associate Partner of the first Business Angels network in France ( Investessor ).

## Jacques-Antoine Granjon
- Type: Angel
- Location: La Plaine-saint-denis, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Advertising

Jacques-Antoine Granjon was born in Marseille on 9th August 1962 and studied at the prestigious European Business School (EBS). A born entrepreneur, he founded overstock distributer Cofotex S.A. with EBS friend Julien Sorbac in 1985. In 1996, Jacques-Antoine bought and renovated the former print works of national French newspaper Le Monde in LaPlaine Saint-Denis (93), just outside of Paris, setting up Oredis group HQ.In 2000, he and his business partners realised that the Internet was “an opportunity to welcome the world in a virtual store with digital catalogues”. This realization led to the creation of a revolutionary concept: an online platform entirely dedicated to flash sales for brands.In January 2001, Jacques-Antoine and his seven business partners launched vente-privee.com in France, before e-commerce had barely started in Europe. He then applied his extensive experience to the Internet, selling excess stock for important fashion and home brands, relying on two main strategies: events and exclusivity, all the while focusing on customer satisfaction. In 2012, he went on to win the “Customer Service Award” for the fourth year in a row, presented to him by the Institute BVA-Viséo Conseil, France’s fourth market research company.It was not until 2004 that the website’s success became apparent. In 2005, its turnover grew a staggering 500% from the previous year. The website is now available in 8 European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK, Belgium and Austria, and the Netherlands) and the United States, in partnership with American Express. In 12 years, vente-privee.com has become an event-creating media, bringing together over 18 million members and 2.5 million unique users per day. This solid foundation allows the site to offer its 2,000 partner brands an innovative distribution channel.Jacques-Antoine Granjon’s professional success has been recognized with many awards. He was named ‘2011 Communication Personality of the Year’ by the Grand Prix des Agences de l’Année, ‘Personality of the Year’ by the Trophées LSA de l’Innovation 2011, ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 2011 Technologies Numériques awards, ‘2011 Man of the Year’ by the Enseignes d’Or panel and ‘2010 Businessman of the Year’ by French GQ readers. Jacques-Antoine was also crowned ‘E-commerce Man of the Year’ by a panel of internet users at the E-commerce Magazine awards in 2007 then ‘Businessman of the Year’ at the BFM Awards in 2008. He also then went on to collect the European prize for ‘Chief Marketing Office of the year’, sponsored by Booz & Company, in 2009.

## Crédit Agricole Alpes Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Information Technology

Crédit Agricole Alpes Development is the investment capital tool of Crédit Agricole des Savoie and Crédit Agricole Sud Rhône Alpes that support projects by investing in the capital of companies.

## La Famiglia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

## Numerous Confidential Sources
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Nutrition

Numerous Confidential Sources

## Henri Capoul
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Nutrition, Organic Food

Henri Capoul Co-founder and CEO at Cajoo.

## Wind
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, E-Commerce

Wind Capital is a venture capital firm that offers support and funding to European innovators.

## Sylvain Zimmer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage

Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor.

## GROUPE ILP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Metz, Lorraine, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, GreenTech, Manufacturing

GROUPE ILP is a local investment fund that assists in the development of the equity of startups and SMEs across all industries. For 38 years, it has been supporting entrepreneurs, buyers, and managers in the different stages of their development, from business creation to transmission, including development.

## Philippe Cantet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Nutrition

Philippe Cantet is the Co-Founder and CEO at SPRiNG Collective. He attended ESSEC Business School in 1992.

## YEAST
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vandoeuvre-lès-nancy, Lorraine, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Electric Vehicle, Machinery Manufacturing

YEAST is an association bringing together around thirty Business Angels interested in projects at the start-up stage in all areas.

## Jean-Christophe Liaubet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Organic Food, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Jean-Christophe Liaubet serves as managing partner of the consulting agency in FABERNOVEL innovation.

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