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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in France in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Payments startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in France in November 2024

Investor	Payments France investments
Kima Ventures	14
Bpifrance	10
AA Sons	10
XAnge	8
Thibaud Elziere	7
360 Capital	7
Damien Guermonprez	7
Hexa	7
SGH CAPITAL	6
Didier Valet	6
Sebastien Borget	5
Financiere Saint James	5
Julien Bouteloup	4
SOSV	4
Eric Larchevêque	4
Point Nine	4
Isai	4
Frederic Montagnon	4
Anthemis	4
Thomas France	4
Newfund	4
Karista	4
Breega	4
BlueYard Capital	4
Saviu Ventures	4
Serena	4
Alven	4
Orange Ventures	4
Eduardo Ronzano	4
Semantic Ventures	3
Tiny VC	3
Otium Capital	3
Nicolas Bacca	3
Jean-Daniel Guyot	3
Motier Ventures	3
Fabric Ventures	3
Cap Innov'Est	3
Aglaé Ventures	3
Idinvest Partners	3
Speedinvest	3
Guillaume Lestrade	3
Lorimer Ventures	3
Nicolas Steegmann	3
Nicolas Louvet	3
Eiffel Investment Group	3
Pascal Gauthier	3
Xavier Niel	3
A Plus Finance	3
Cygni Capital	3
Edward Lando	2

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Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.
Storio Energy — Storio Energy is an AI-powered energy efficiency technology platform that provides renewable energy.

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.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vaxinano — Vaxinano is a biotechnology company specialized in preclinical and pharmaceutical development of human and veterinary vaccines and drug delivery systems. Vaxinano was created in 2016, building on 25 years of research and clinical trials on vaccines and the patented technology of Pr Didier Betbeder.
Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
Starfish Bioscience — STARFISH Bioscience focuses on the creation and development of microbiological solutions for agriculture and vineyards. Our objective is to regenerate soils by restoring their microbiomes, increasing sustainability and productivity while minimizing environmental impact. We are dedicated to improving humanity's well-being and preserving theearth by inventing technologies that address the future difficulties of global agriculture.

AA Sons focuses on raising venture capital for ambitious, fast-growing companies with a desire to 'make the world a better place' in retail, mobility, healthcare, care, fintech and broader tech sectors.

Investment focus

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

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.

For 20 years, XAnge has been a key venture capital fund in Europe. With 70 startups in its portfolio, XAnge invests early in innovative tech companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Candix — Get set up in 3 minutes. It's free and confidential.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, India, Cameroon

Portfolio highlights

Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.

eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.

Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Archax — Archax is the next evolution in digital asset trading
Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.

Didier Valet

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Luxembourg, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
Arrago — Arrago is a Fintech lending platform providing French Lifetime Mortgages
OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DinMo — Discover the all-in-one data platform which makes it easy to collect, enrich, segment, and activate your customer data in all your business platform. Get started now for free; no credit card required.
autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.

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.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Closd — CLOSD is a legal transaction management platform created by former business lawyers. It brings together lawyers and parties in a safe space, facilitates and ensures document exchange, simplifies project organization and management with interactive check lists, automates signings and closures with electronic signatures in a secure interface toauthenticate the signatures, and creates archives on transactions once they are closed.
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!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.

Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Mercateam — Mercateam specializes in developing staff management software.
Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.

digitally native finance

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.
Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel

Entrepreneur, Investor

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.

Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

nopillo — Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France.
Greenscope — ESG reporting & CSR diagnosis | EU Taxonomy & CSRD/SFDR reporting | Carbon & biodiversity footprint calculator
Ramify — Ramify est une plateforme qui vous permet d'investir simplement dans tous les produits financiers. Simulez gratuitement votre portefeuille en ETF, private equity et SCPI.

Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Deemea — Deemea is a collaborative AI platform that connects and provides services for the analysis of medical data for physicians. It uses its expertise in clinical research, data science, and software development to help healthcare professionals.
10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

InSpek — Next-generation chemical monitoring systems using Raman-on-a-chip integrated photonic sensors.
Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.

BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
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
Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.

Serena invests in bold ventures and provides them with an unrivaled level of expertise and operational resources. In ten years, the firm has already contributed to the emergence of many success stories (Aramisauto - Acquired by PSA, The Fork - acquired by TripAdvisor, Cheerz -acquired by Cewe), and has currently 40 handpicked startups in itsportfolio such as Dataiku, Evaneos, Malt, iBanFirst, CybelAngel, or Lifen.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.

Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .
Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Frak Labs — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel.
Poolside — The best code you never wrote.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

X10 — 10X experience for every trader
Chainbound — Chainbound is a research and development organization building optimized infrastructure and networking tools for blockchains. We are hiring!
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

e-peas — Ready to make your device energy autonomous with our state-of-art energy harvesting solutions? Phone: (+32) 10 77 12 30, sales@e-peas.com
Caats — Caats describes customized meals and their advantages for cat health. They offer answers for a variety of issues, including optimum weight, kidney hydration, strengthened immune system, silky coat, protection of the intestinal flora, and others. They provide monthly from 14.90€.
Comet Software — Comet Software is a business software publishing company that helps businesses achieve autonomy and independence.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
Hylé — Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.
Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France

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!

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.
Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.

Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

idOS — The idOS is an open-source, decentralized identity system empowering users with data security, self-sovereignty, and control in web3 applications.
Loot Labs — Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles.
Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.

Cap Innov’Est is a 36M€ tri-regional fund dedicated to investments in young innovative start-ups. Cap Innov’Est was launched in July 2014 and has already invested in 13 start-ups. Cap Innov’Est is supported by Fonds National d’Amorçage, the 3 Regions Alsace, Bourgogne and Franche-Comté, SAFIDI, caisses d’épargne d’Alsace etBourgogne/Franche-Comté, BNP Paribas et CIFC

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

VistaCare — "Making Difficult Wounds Easy" : VistaCare is a Breakthrough and non-invasive Medical Device designed for treatment during the critical phases of the wound.
Opencell Software — Increase recurring revenue. Opencell's platform simplifies launch, scales with your business, and streamlines billing. Optimize sales cycles, improve customer experience, and gain valuable revenue insights. Start today!
Rhythm Diagnostic Systems — Many of our team have worked together on different projects and in different companies over the last 30-plus years. We are experienced technology, medical, health care and biotech professionals, with long, successful histories in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
Stilla Technologies — Stilla Technologies is taking digital PCR to a whole new level with a unique 6-color target detection capability

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Our mission is to find and catalyze the success of founders with big ideas, who envision a radically different future and have a plan to make it a reality

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
Airship — Elevate your HVAC sales process with Airship, the all-in-one proposal and sales software designed for technicians. Our point-of-sale solution simplifies proposal creation, integrates seamlessly with FSM systems like ServiceTitan and Housecall Pro, and enhances customer conversions through effective
Airship — Elevate your HVAC sales process with Airship, the all-in-one proposal and sales software designed for technicians. Our point-of-sale solution simplifies proposal creation, integrates seamlessly with FSM systems like ServiceTitan and Housecall Pro, and enhances customer conversions through effective

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AniML — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.

CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture). Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in -Dataiku (colead, Series A) - FinalCad (lead, Series A) - Lengow (lead, Series B) - Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A), - Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B) - TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed) - Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B) - and 15+ other companies... He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills: - Entrepreneurship, company management, business development - Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe - Fund management and creation - Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition) - Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zeenea — Zeenea’s data catalog empowers your data-driven organization with a common language. It’s with a better understanding, easier access and effective communication around your data that your organization will become data-driven! For many, the process of acculturation to data is a question of common language.In light of this conviction, Zeeneacreated a data catalog. On an easy-to-access and intuitive platform, Zeenea connects all of your data sources by automatically importing and updating your data, into a central data repository. Our tool allows anyone - with the necessary capacities - to discover, understand and trust the enterprise’s data asset.Companies rely on Zeenea to meet the challenge of setting up effective data governance in a lean startup mode: to promote the use of data internally while limiting the risks!Our data catalog promotes the concept of data-fluency: Be Data Fluent!
Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
AssoConnect — AssoConnect is an online tools platform that meets all the needs of volunteers and community leaders. The complete management of an association is time consuming and tedious. Some tasks - accounting, membership management, payment tracking, grant applications - require hundreds of hours of work per year. Less time for associative projects.itrepresents the digital revolution applied to the voluntary sector. Through this platform, associations have more time to devote to projects and have a complete, simple and intuitive tool to carry out all their associative activities over the long term.

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.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
France, Israel, Ireland

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.
PL-SUN — PL-SUN is a holding company of UAB Atsinaujinančios Energetikos Investicijos (AEI).
HysetCo — HysetCo is a pioneering hydrogen mobility start-up that helps its clients shift to zero-emission transportation. It has created an integrated mobility solution to aid in the system-wide transition to hydrogen. In addition to offering easy access to its network of hydrogen distribution stations, it provides customers with a complete turnkey solutionthat includes all vehicle-related services, from procurement to maintenance, repair, insurance, and training.

Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
Runes DEX — Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards.
Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.

Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

A Plus Finance, which is headquartered in Paris (France), is an independent trust company specialising in the management of Common Investment Fundsfor Innovation (FCPI) and Proximity Investment Funds (FIP). A Plus Finance is involved in all innovative sectors, particularly in the IT, media and security fields.The A Plus Finance team includesfinanciers and entrepreneurs, thus providing companies with both an awareness of the daily constraints of management and a long-term perspective on the development of their business. Managing funds amounting to nearly â‚¬220m, A Plus Finance invests between â‚¬1 million and â‚¬4 million per project.per

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Uzaje — Uzaje offers solutions that enable food service professionals and food manufacturers to eliminate packaging and consumption waste through container cleaning and change management.
Anotherway — Anotherway assists everyone in their transition to a healthier and more responsible lifestyle by developing ecological alternatives with a positive impact, with the goal of banning single-use plastic and lowering the carbon footprint. Its solutions encompass all aspects of home life (hygiene, cooking, and maintenance) and are designed to bepractical, simple, and cost-effective.
Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.

Investing in the future of trust (Blockchain, Privacy, AI)

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about

Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qoohoo — qoohoo is India's first community ecosystem where creators of different skills & experiences can launch, grow and monetize their community. Be it sessions, subscriptions, cohorts, workshops, discussion or one to one engagement - creators can launch any event on qoohoo and collect payments easily. No need to juggle between between different tools - all at one place. Creators get real time actionable insights for content engagement, audience and marketing to help grow their audience.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Mirage — Mirage reinvented the 3D canvas to give creatives complete control when using AI to create designs.

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