Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in France (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$16M |
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Bpifrance
VC Fund
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11 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $694k–$35M |
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AA Sons
VC Fund
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10 | France, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Health Care | $1.1M–$33M |
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XAnge
VC Fund
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8 | France, Germany, Belgium | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$60M |
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel
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7 | France, India, Cameroon | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Internet, FinTech | $122k–$2.4M |
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Hexa
VC Fund
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7 | France, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $197k–$69M |
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Thibaud Elziere
Angel
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7 | France, United States, Belgium | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $395k–$16M |
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Didier Valet
Angel
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6 | France, Luxembourg, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $663k–$20M |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.3M–$100M |
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Serena
VC Fund
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6 | France, United States, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1.4M–$55M |
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360 Capital
VC Fund
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6 | France, Italy, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1.1M–$22M |
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SGH CAPITAL
VC Fund
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6 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $120k–$29M |
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Point Nine
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $900k–$53M |
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Fabric Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $2M–$30M |
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Frederic Montagnon
Angel
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5 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Blockchain, SaaS | $318k–$5M |
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Founders Future
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1M–$25M |
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Financiere Saint James
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Internet | $1M–$27M |
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Sebastien Borget
Angel
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5 | United States, France, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency | $150k–$60M |
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Alven
VC Fund
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5 | France, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $800k–$53M |
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Nicolas Bacca
Angel
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5 | France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | $300k–$18M |
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BlueYard Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Internet | $1.2M–$47M |
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Karista
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $713k–$43M |
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Anthemis
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $1.3M–$60M |
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SOSV
VC Fund
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4 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | |
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Isai
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $878k–$50M |
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Otium Capital
VC Fund
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4 | France, Spain, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $987k–$18M |
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Thomas France
Angel
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4 | France, United States, Cayman Islands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology | $400k–$31M |
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $750k–$170M |
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Blockwall
VC Fund
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4 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $50k–$15M |
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Julien Bouteloup
Angel
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4 | France, Singapore, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance | $250k–$10M |
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White Star Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $1M–$60M |
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $600k–$33M |
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Eric Larchevêque
Angel
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4 | France | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain | $550k–$670k |
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BREEGA
VC Fund
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4 | France, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $1.1M–$25M |
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Eduardo Ronzano
Angel
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4 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $150k–$5.3M |
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Motier Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software | $1.8M–$27M |
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Newfund
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, Canada | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.1M–$15M |
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Saviu Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $165k–$5M |
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Semantic Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $2M–$20M |
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Cygni Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, France, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $3.5M–$35M |
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Owen Simonin
Angel
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3 | France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech | |
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Frst
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Luxembourg | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Eiffel Investment Group
VC Fund
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3 | France, Israel, Ireland | Debt Financing, Seed | Renewable Energy, Financial Services, FinTech | |
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Arthur Waller
Angel
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3 | France, Spain, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | |
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Jean-Daniel Guyot
Angel
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3 | France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Blockchain, B2B | $1.2M–$4.4M |
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Xavier Niel
Angel
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3 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$70M |
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Nicolas Steegmann
Angel
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3 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, SaaS | $350k–$7.3M |
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Guillaume Lestrade
Angel
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3 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, SaaS | $549k–$22M |
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Idinvest Partners
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Spain | Series B, Series A | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $3.3M–$66M |
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Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 544
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $584k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoora —
- Avocode — Centralize design collaboration, developer hand-off, version control, screen flows, & feedback in one tool. Sign up free today. Work with Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma designs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1070
- Round size: Seed $694k–$6.9M; Series A $2.6M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Melvan — Melvan develops, finances, builds and operates solar and wind installations, combined, where relevant, with storage facilities.
- NewHeat — NewHeat owns and operates solar heat plants. It engages in financing, engineering, procurement, construction, and operation of solar heat plants that transform solar radiation into heat. It uses solar thermal collectors to transfer solar energy to water, steam, or thermal oil.
- Ostrea — OSTREA is a pioneering company in the creation of high-performance materials based on bio-minerals: seashells.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $6M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HUG — Join our global creative community to showcase & sell your art, connect with others, and access creator-friendly grants and education.
- Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
- Multiwave Technologies — More than 2/3 of humanity has no access to medical imaging Our mission is to make MRI available globally, through our ultra-low field mobile device.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, Germany, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 213
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $234M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- ELDIM —
- Dattak — Dattak offers cyber insurance solutions based on cybersecurity technologies. Their cybersecurity tools allow us to assess a company's level of cybersecurity without complex questionnaires. They provide their policyholders with a variety of cybersecurity tools to help them prevent and defend against cyberattacks.
- Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, India, Cameroon
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $219k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $122k–$1.1M; Series A $849k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MerciYanis — Yanis is a Toulouse start-up that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect buildings and help work environment departments
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- Primaa — Primaa develops AI-based software for automated and accurate histological diagnoses, improving a vital step in the detections of cancer and other pathologies.
eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $197k–$4.4M; Series A $3.3M–$20M; Series B $1.1M–$69M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
- Aircall — AI-powered customer communications platform to unify channels, automate tasks, & provide insights. Integrate with CRM & helpdesk. 250+ integrations like Hubspot, Salesforce.
- Yousign — Yousign, soon Youtrust, is a complete digital trust platform combining eSignature, identity verification and KYC services.
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $713k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $395k–$3.2M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
- Veeton — Veeton is an all-in-one AI platform to create, manage, and scale stunning, photorealistic fashion visuals. Perfect for brands, e-commerce, and creative teams looking to streamline photoshoots, cut costs, and launch collections faster.
Didier Valet
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Luxembourg, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $663k–$10M; Pre-Seed $900k–$2.2M; Series A $3.3M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qlower — Qlower assists landlords in managing their properties by leveraging on Open Banking and Machine Learning technologies. Qlower offers free rental management and automates accounting & tax declaration. Its DeepTech Wealth Advisory engine provides quantified savings and assists investors in making right decisions.
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- MarketLeap — Breaking E-commerce Barriers with Software. MarketLeap is managing all the complexities of selling and growing on marketplaces worldwide.
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1090
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Ozon — leading e-commerce platform in Russia, first russian marketplace
- Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
- Culture Amp — Culture Amp was founded as a result of its members' first hand experiences with the challenge that fast growing organizations face when their core business expands faster than its people can adapt. With years of experience in enterprise organizations, CultureAmp's team has taken more than a walk in your shoes–they've been running inthem. They look to seize an opportunity for a new type of technology- technology that amplifies learning and drives culture, instead of hindering it.
Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management. Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of itsportfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels. Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 159
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Series A $3.3M–$20M; Series B $6.6M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Inato — Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.
- iContainers — Instant freight rates with leading cargo freight forwarders offering top freight forwarding services. Get the best freight shipping rate & quotes in just a few clicks!
- Descartes Underwriting — Descartes Underwriting is an insurtech company that specializes in climate risk modeling and data-driven risk transfer. It works with corporate brokers to design and underwrite innovative, bespoke, and affordable insurance. The company offers tech-based insurance products covering risks such as flooding, wildfires, droughts, and other large-scaleevents to businesses, across all sectors, including agriculture, hospitality, mining, construction, traditional and renewable energy, entertainment, and retail. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 202
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NOC Energy — NOC Energy facilitates the decarbonization of industrial heating without producing any carbon emissions.
- Sinergy Flow — We are developing a redox flow battery based on earth abundant and low-cost material which is fully compliant with the Circular Economy principles.
- Innoviz Technologies — A leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms.
Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 134
- Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$27M; Series A $1.7M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Kalshi — Kalshi is a regulated exchange & prediction market where you can trade on the outcome of real-world events. Buy and sell Event Contracts.
- FINESSE — Welcome to the future of fashion: AI-driven, size inclusive, affordable and sustainable, FINESSE is the first fashion house that produces styles voted on by you & our AI - no overproduction, no waste!
- Merge Labs — Merge Labs is a brain-computer interface startup that aims to compete with Neuralink and integrate human cognition with AI.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 255
- Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Athenian — Introducing the world to software engineering metrics that help teams, and improve processes. Athenian is built for GitHub and Jira users.
- Lottielab — Easiest animation editor for design and tech teams.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 124
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.2M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Earn Alliance — Discover the magic of play and high-quality games with Playfull. As your ultimate gaming hub, we showcase the best games across all platforms. Engage with the most exciting, rewarding, and innovative titles in the gaming space here.
- Addressable — Target the best users across blockchains and social media to boost growth.
- Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $318k–$5M; Angel $560k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Marc Menasé, Founders Future is a transatlantic tech investment platform supporting a new generation of AI-first entrepreneurs driving major transformations. Backed by entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the platform manages nearly $400 million and ranks among the most activeearly-stage players in Europe.As part of its expansion into the United States, Founders Future strengthened its shareholder base in 2025 with long-term partners such as MACSF, the Dassault family, and the CMA CGM Group. With over 120 investments, Founders Future is actively supporting companies like Databricks, Perplexity, Function Health, Waterdrop, Veesion, Riot, Conduktor and Raidium.Its strategy focuses on high-impact sectors - AI, fintech, SaaS, and healthcare - with a clear ambition: to empower the most ambitious entrepreneurs in scaling breakthrough technologies on a global scale.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 131
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $6.4M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Audion — Advertisers and publishers deliver measurable performance over the entire audio ecosystem with Audion adtech solutions.
- Petwealth — Petwealth, under their direction, is in the forefront of AI-powered pet diagnostics, providing earlier, wiser health insights.
- Bon Vivant — Discover Verley's innovative precision fermentation technology for sustainable, nutritious, and delicious dairy proteins. Join us in driving the environmental transition of the dairy industry.
Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$4.4M; Series A $4.6M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
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.
- Cleo Labs — Cleo Labs develops regulatory intelligence and product compliance software that enables companies to manage complex legal requirements across multiple international markets. The company provides an AI-powered platform that identifies applicable regulations for products, mapping obligations related to safety standards, labeling, certifications, andimport requirements across jurisdictions. Its system automates pre-launch compliance workflows by generating regulatory checklists for each product and target market, allowing teams to understand requirements before entering new regions. It also offers continuous monitoring capabilities that track regulatory updates in real time and alert users when changes affect their products or operations. The platform integrates data from thousands of regulatory sources and authorities, applying AI models to analyze legal texts and assess compliance risks for specific product and market combinations. It includes features such as risk scoring, jurisdiction mapping, and automated due diligence checks for supply chains, enabling structured evaluation of compliance exposure.
- Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 75
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Pre-Seed $150k–$7M; Series A $5M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DAOBase — DAOBase is an AI-powered data and infrastructure platform developed particularly for DAOs. By employing innovative algorithms, the company assists DAOs and voters in establishing on-chain and off-chain data reputation layers, allowing users to intelligently monitor DAO governance, make educated decisions, and investigate future job models.
- Belledonne — Belledonne is a fashion brand that designs, makes, and develops sneakers that are well-designed and comfortable.
- Pixelverse — Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game.
Independent early-stage VC firm for 25 years
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 211
- Round size: Seed $800k–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$20M; Series B $7.3M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Mindee — Mindee develops API-based products for instantly extracting information from any kind of image and transforming it into usable data. Try for free now.
- Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
- Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $822k–$18M; Pre-Seed $300k–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cube — Cube is a French accelerator for tech startups, particularly in Web3, blockchain, and innovation, rebranded from Cube3. It provides a 9-month program combining strategic mentoring, customized funding, media production, and investor networking to scale promising ventures.
- Inflow — Inflow delivers payment solutions that integrate affordability, efficiency, innovation, and tailored service.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $185M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Chemify — Digitising Chemistry and Chemical Discovery
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Visolis — Visolis, a bioengineering company, develops carbon-negative and sustainable chemicals. Its systems approach integrates innovations in synthetic biology, chemical catalysis, and process scale-up to enable new bio-based manufacturing platforms. Visolis' bio-based process helps in achieving true carbon negative chemical synthesis. It beganoperation in 2012, with its headquarters in Berkeley in California.
Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $713k–$6.6M; Series A $1.2M–$18M; Series B $2.5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
- Physikron — Physikron is a developer of mass spectrometry technologies used to improve the performance of tandem spectrometry. Its technologies offer proteomic analysis and dramatically improves the number of peptides and proteins identified during an LC/MS/MS acquisition that enable researchers to research in an enhanced way.
- Look Up Space — Lookup space is the next global leader for space safety, security and sustainability
digitally native finance
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 253
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $10M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tremor — Tremor designs, builds & manages SmartMarkets utilize state-of-art auction technologies & optimization techniques.
- TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
- Maxwell Financial Labs — Hi, we're Maxwell. We’re on a mission to revolutionize the $8.5T residential mortgage market by reimagining how mortgage lenders collaborate with homebuyers and real estate agents to buy a home. We connect our hundreds of lenders onto one seamless, intuitively-designed platform, so the focus isn’t the paperwork, it’s the place to call home.Today, hundreds of lenders across the United States use Maxwell’s digital mortgage platform to originate billions in mortgage loans each month at a cycle time 45 percent faster than the national average.
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1482
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 165
- Round size: Seed $878k–$8M; Series A $2.2M–$22M; Series B $5.6M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $196M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- FinFrog — FinFrog accompagne les particuliers dans la gestion de leur budget en leur proposant des micro-prêts faciles d’accès. FinFrog propose un crédit 100% sur mobile avec une demande de prêt qui ne prend pas plus de 5 minutes. FinFrog encourage un recours responsable à l’emprunt, avec des critères d'octroi stricts et adaptés aux changements de lasociété. Retrouvez-nous sur https://www.finfrog.fr et sur https://www.finfrog.blog
- Pricemoov — Pricemoov is a global provider of next-generation price management and optimization solutions that help companies power digital commerce, adapt to market dynamics, and empower sales teams. Featuring powerful data science, end-to-end automation, and an intuitive user experience, the cloud-native Pricemoov platform enables B2B and B2C businesses to unlock their revenue potential with intelligent pricing.
- 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.
In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $987k–$6.9M; Series A $1.6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $204M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Stratumn — Stratumn is a SaaS software company, based in Paris. Stratumn has invented a digital, irrefutable and customer-oriented audit trail based on the blockchain technology. Stratumn simply connects with existing data sources and tools and gives business users an overview of their critical processes, regardless of the system or the contributor. Ourcustomers are leading European players in Bank and Insurance.
- 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.
- Source{d} — Source{d} is an engineering observability platform that develops neural networks for the executives to analyze and understand actionable insights about codebases, software development processes, and teams. The company is characterized by matching the code of developers to bring them closer to an appropriate project based on the objective measure oftheir work.
Entrepreneur, Investor
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Cayman Islands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$7.2M; Series A $2.8M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
- Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
- Belfort — Belfort is specialising in technology that accelerates encrypted data processing, allowing it to be done in real time without ever decrypting the data.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $50k–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Flyra — Flyra is the stablecoin and AI-powered operating system for remittance. We connect earn, cross-border transfer, and everyday spending in a single programmable flow. Senders move money directly from earnings. Receivers tap a stablecoin wallet with instant cards, bill pay, and rewards. Available directly to individuals through WhatsApp or the Flyramobile app, and built to embed inside leading platforms, from work marketplaces to global financial brands. The first version of the platform is set to launch in 2026.
- KIRHA — Context-as-a-Service (CaaS) for AI systems. Real time data streaming from trusted providers. https://linktr.ee/Kirha_AI
- Kulipa — Kulipa provides the underlying infrastructure to settle global payments, manage stablecoin accounts, and issue cards - all through a unified, compliant stack. Grow revenue with debit cards. Boost acquisition with white-labelled accounts & cards. Scale faster with global payment products.
Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.
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- Industry: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Angel $250k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $960k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
- Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
- Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Seed $1M–$11M; Series A $5M–$27M; Series B $15M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Himedi — Himedi is an information technology company that provides hospital reservation service.
- FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.
- TransactionLink — Our global KYC/KYB orchestration platform allows you to build and upgrade your digital onboarding journey in just days instead of months.
Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M; Series B $11M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
- Traace — Traace is a software that allows companies to measure and manage their carbon footprint. Carry out your carbon assessment. Follow your action plan easily and precisely.
- Gebeya — Gebeya is building a-self-sustainable ecosystem that trains, hires, and nurtures the best of African talent. Our mission is to be the premier software engineering and IT training academy in Africa, while becoming the number one global IT services workplace that matches African IT talent with clients across Africa and the rest of the world.
Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.
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- Industry: Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $550k–$670k
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Closd — Digitalisez et suivez vos projets juridiques avec l'outil de gestion de projets juridiques.
- Coinhouse — Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinhouse, consult our educational content or visit our physical space, Coinhouse Store. Invest in the future, today.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
- Carbon Maps — Calculate and monitor your environmental impact at product-level. Rapid, high-precision assessments of food products and agricultural raw materials.
- YMO Guinée — YMO Guinée is an app to send and receive money in Guinea, at the best rate. Available for free on iOS and Android.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $768k–$5.3M; Angel $500k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.We are a value-added business angel. At scale.We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investmentthemes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, Creative Technologies and Cybersecurity.We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV, Citynove...) and across many industries.If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$26M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$3.4M; Series A $8M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Topograph — Topograph retrieves company information from public registers in real-time to fuel the compliance processes of regulated companies.
- PAVE Space — PAVE Space develops in-space transportation and satellite servicing technologies that enable movement and management of payloads across different orbits. The company builds spacecraft systems centered around a kickstage platform that transfers multi-ton payloads from low Earth orbit to target orbits within short timeframes using onboard propulsionsystems. Its core offering focuses on orbital mobility, providing services that bridge the gap between launch vehicles and final satellite deployment by repositioning payloads after initial launch. The platform is designed to integrate with multiple launch providers and supports both rideshare and dedicated missions through compatible interfaces and propulsion technologies.Beyond transportation, PAVE Space develops capabilities for in-orbit operations, including satellite inspection, life extension, docking, and servicing. These functions use a combination of propulsion systems, guidance and control algorithms, and autonomous technologies to manage spacecraft activities and extend satellite usability.
- Piston — Piston is the first Agentic ERP that thinks, advises, and executes tasks autonomously, so revenue grows while your team stays lean.
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Series A $2.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Pliant.io — Pliant makes it possible to quickly develop and deploy IT automation in response to the changing demands of complex business processes. The company was established in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- PyxiScience — Adaptive math exercises, AI-assisted grading of handwritten papers, and personalized learning paths for 10,000+ students.
Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.
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- Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5M; Pre-Seed $165k–$250k; Series A $2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- POZI — POZI app is an innovative tracking and geolocation solution primarily designed for fleet monitoring and management.
- Workpay — Looking for the best payroll software in Kenya? Workpay provides the best payroll software and hr software for your business in Kenya, Nigeria and for Africa
- Userguest.com — Userguest is a Travel SaaS company that provides technology to hotels in order to improve their online revenue. Our smart tool applies RevMarketing Automation to hotel website, by matching a user’s booking intent with the hotel’s inventory priorities. We display personalized incentives to boost hotel revenue where it counts.
Semantic Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in open markets and networks. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $2M–$4.3M; Series A $7.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
- Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
- Herd Labs — Herd Labs is a collaborative cryptocurrency terminal that allows users to search, understand, and act on-chain with AI agents.
Investing in the future of trust (Blockchain, Privacy, AI)
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$10M; Series A $22M–$25M; Series B $35M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Anoma — A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties.
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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Browse database — It's Free!Owen Simonin is a French entrepreneur, investor, and influencer specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He is the founder and CEO of Meria (formerly Just Mining), a leading company in blockchain infrastructure and staking services. Through his YouTube channel "Hasheur," he has played a key role in educating the French-speakingcommunity about crypto and decentralized finance.
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- Industry: Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Waltio — Your Crypto Tax Return.In one Click.Centralize all your cryptocurrency transactions. Declare and reduce your crypto tax amount.
- InterCellar — InterCellar offers you a unique buying and reselling experience. In line with the innovative spirit of the web3.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Frst is a seed-stage VC firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Cajoo — Cajoo is a startup company that provides grocery home delivery services.The food delivery company revolutionizes everyday shopping by offering a fast, reliable, and affordable shopping experience. It operates dark stores and manages its own inventory of products. Customers can then order items without having to think whether they’ll be home whenthe delivery happens. Around 15 minutes later, a delivery person shows up with their groceries.Henri Capoul headquartered Cajoo in Paris, Ile-de-France in 2021.
- Parallel 1245 — Parallel builds AI agents that streamline healthcare admin workflows, seamlessly integrated with existing systems to unlock efficiency at scale.
- Pelikan Mobility — Building a new type of EV leasing company for commercial fleets: tech-enabled and operations-centric.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 456
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
- GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
- Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
Eiffel Investment Group is a portfolio manager with €4 billion assets under management*. Eiffel’s investor base consists of large institutional investors (insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, banks, large family offices, public investors) as well as individual investors via retail distribution channels. Backed by the Impala groupfounded by entrepreneur Jacques Veyrat, Eiffel Investment Group leverages its strong corporate expertise particularly in the field of energy transition, but also in the health, agri-food, and information & communication technology sectors.Eiffel finances companies and their assets through four main strategies: private debt, private equity, energy transition infrastructure, and listed equities and credit. Eiffel Investment Group’s mission is to invest for a sustainable world. Its investment strategies aim to generate not only a strong financial performance but also positive and measurable social and environmental impacts. The Eiffel Investment Group has brought together a team of around 80 talented professionals based mainly in France (Paris) but also in The Netherlands (Amsterdam) and in the USA (New York).* early 2022, including uncalled commitments.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: France, Israel, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Dametis — Dametis offers software and training to improve industrial environmental performance and reduce energy consumption.
- Reforest'Action — Regenerating terrestrial ecosystems at scale to tackle global challenges using field experience, local communities, science and technology
Arthur Waller is a co-founder of PriceMatch, a start-up aiming to industrialize and democratize yield management.Arthur studied economics and econometrics at Ecole polytechnique and Sciences Po. He first worked in economic research at the IMF and at Goldman Sachs before creating his start-up, PriceMatch, with some friends. Using theirskills in economics, econometrics, software engineering, they developed a SaaS platform offering revenue management solutions to companies.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Benefiz — Maximisez la valeur des avantages sociaux. Pour vos collaborateurs, vos finances et votre croissance.
- Orus — L'assurance professionnelle que vous attendiez. Plus juste, rapide, simple et humaine. Souscrivez en 5 minutes et recevez votre attestation sous 48 heures.
- Piston — Piston is the first Agentic ERP that thinks, advises, and executes tasks autonomously, so revenue grows while your team stays lean.
Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.
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- Industry: SaaS, Blockchain, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
- Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $1M–$70M; Series A $2.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qutwo — Europe’s next-generation AI lab for a quantum world.
- HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
- Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.4M; Angel $500k–$1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$7.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoora —
- Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.
- Kerys Software — Your Isolated Workplace is Just One Swipe Away
Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $658k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $549k–$2.2M; Series A $6.6M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 252
- Round size: Series A $3.3M–$24M; Series B $7.8M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $88M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Ornikar — Ornikar is an online driving school that offers radically cheaper, uncomplicated and faster offer to obtain a driving license.Ornikar relies on a network of state-qualified teachers to offer an apprenticeship in mobile driving at reduced prices. The cmpany is an an online driving school more in tune with the demand of current and futuregenerations.The company's mission is to make the driver's license exam cheaper and its learning more enjoyable.
- Glovo — Glovo delivers the best products of your city in less than 1 hour
- Stanley Robotics — Stanley Robotics is a DeepTech business helping the transportation and logistics industries digitalise and robotise outdoor operations.
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