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Top 35 Photography Startup Investors in France in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Photography startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Photography Startup Investors in France in April 2025

Investor	Photography France investments
Global Founders Capital	2
Aglaé Ventures	2
FJ Labs	2
Thibaud Elziere	2
5M Ventures	2
Adjacent	2
Jeremy Yap	2
Omnes Capital	1
IDF CAPITAL	1
Xavier Court	1
Balderton Capital	1
Ace Capital Partners	1
ZEBOX Ventures	1
Eduardo Ronzano	1
ODYSSEE VENTURE	1
SIDE Capital	1
Societe Generale Asset Management	1
Andurance Ventures	1
Anaxago	1
Apax Partners	1
Seventure Partners	1
CSK Venture Capital	1
Apicap	1
White Star Capital	1
Julien Chaumond	1
Kima Ventures	1
Meta	1
Jiong Ma	1
Arya Bolurfrushan	1
OneRagtime	1
Oskar Hartmann	1
Nicolas Douay	1
Hugging Face	1
Armilar Venture Partners	1
Alven	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Distru — Seed-to-Sale Cannabis ERP that helps operators manage their inventory, orders and customers from a single interface, while staying compliant with Metrc.
Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Scribe Health AI — HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation tool that seamlessly integrates with 50+ EMR systems including Epic, Cerner & Athena . Automates SOAP notes and medical coding while ensuring data security. Perfect for healthcare providers seeking efficient, compliant documentation workflows

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Revv — Revolutionize your calibration processes with Revv ADAS: lightning-fast calibration identification, comprehensive OEM data, and seamless insurance-ready invoicing, all in one powerful solution for increased efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.
Belfry — Belfry is a technology provider that offers a software platform for managing security guard services and businesses. Its platform offers an optimized schedule, maintains engagement in deployed officers, and prepares payroll that help clients scale their businesses by simplifying and automating workforce management.
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Paro — A Paro fractional CFO/COO shares his strategies for aligning finance and operations in order to connect performance goals with financial impact.
ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
Strike — Top quality cybersecurity for your business. Discover our range of products to keep your company safe, from Pentesting to Automated Scans. Set up your account in a few minutes and start getting your systems tested with Strike.

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 — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

5M Ventures is a unique Start-Up accelerator that has a complete ecosystem that meets all the needs of entrepreneurs: Fundraising, Consulting, Media For Equity, Purchase of Space and an Investment Fund dedicated to Products Consumer Goods.The founders and shareholders of 5M Ventures, investors in over 250 Start-Up companies, are convinced thatbusiness creators need tailor-made support to succeed in the world of Venture Capital.5M Venture is an innovative model for capital risk investment, offering B2C companies experiencing rapid growth the possibility to advertise in top quality media space in exchange for shares in the said companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Innovation Management, Recruiting
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Valoo — Valoo is a Digital Management Platform for your belongings. It helps you: 1- to inventorize anything you purchase or own already in an automatic way, including important documentation (receipts, warranty, etc.) 2- to know the market value in real time of your belongings 3- to actively manage it - sell, rent, share any but also insure or file aclaim - for a single item or your inventory as a whole.It is free and if your home insurance provider is a partner, you get a premium version.
CornerJob — CornerJob is a startup founded by Antai Venture Builder and is therefore part of the Southern Europe´s leading digital ecosystem with headquarters in Barcelona. The same digital ecosystem that founded other successful ventures like Wallapop, Glovo (JustBell), Deliberry, BePretty, Stampydoo, Shopery or Elcodi, among others.CornerJob'smission is both, for companies to empower them with mobile technology and multiple disrupting features in order for them to find the right candidate in the shortest period of time, and for candidates to find the right job in the same short timeframe.It is basically a job matching platform that enables users to find geolocated job offers, apply to them, chat directly with the recruiters and get an answer in 24 hours. For companies, it represents the perfect recruiting channel in terms of simplicity, interaction and immediacy. It also adds value in the selection process, since it includes a chat feature to minimize timeouts.
Cherche mon nid — When they was a real estate agent, Antoine Huvé, the founder of rechercheemonnid.com, started from the double observation that it had become tedious for clients to search for real estate on the internet (many sites, imprecise locations, multiplication of contacts and registration, ....) and for professionals, it became very expensive and painful tohave to multiply ads on different media to be able to get customer contacts without valuing its expertise and skills.The very simple idea of Cherchemonnid.com appeared:To allow people in search of good to be able to contact ALL the professionals of a sector in a single step in order to receive CUSTOMIZED proposals and to cover the whole market.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a low-stimulation app for kids 2-7 filled with Montessori-inspired digital toys that offer a calmer way to learn through screen time play.
Inversion — Inversion Space is a privately held company driven to change how humanity utilizes space. Its builds affordable, high cadence return vehicle for the commercial and defense industries.
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

Omnes VC is the Venture Capital arm of Omnes Capital, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation with €4.8 billion in assets under management and a 20 year + experience in: venture capital, buyout & growth capital, private debt, renewable energy, co-investment, secondary funds of funds. Omnes Capital is fullyindependent.With 65 business sales including 14 IPOs carried out in 16 years, Omnes VC is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both Technology and Healthcare sectors. Omnes VC has supported 120 companies and has invested more than €500M in businesses such as Scality, Novaled, BioVex, arGEN-X, Pixium, Blablacar.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

Founded in 1995, the IDF Capital (formerly Development IDF) has passed the 185 supported and positioned itself as a major venture capital regions. As such, they develop a network with all stakeholders to share franciliens their respective technical, economic and financial.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Marketing
Funding Round, Series C
France

Portfolio highlights

PubliAtis — PubliAtis is a lightweight editorial system that allows media and marketing departments to organize the cross-media production of their publications while drastically optimizing their profitability. A SaaS vendor, PubliAtis Cloud Publishing platform brings together the different steps of periodical production (editorial workflow, DAM, contentformatting, publication, distribution) in a single software package starting at a low monthly fee.It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France.
InterAtlas — InterAtlas provides urban aerial orthophoto solutions in France. It offers Shockymap, a GIS mapping technology. The company also offers products and services, such as interactive mapping, map and aerial photo service, and GIS solution. InterAtlas is based in Hauts-de-Seine, France.
CCI PLV Productions — global video community

Xavier Court is a co-founding partner at Veepee.

Investment focus

Fashion, Photography
Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
Grand Games — Grand Games is shaping the future of gaming by creating genre-defining games played by millions worldwide.
Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.

Ace invests with a sector-focused approach, active in Industrials and Technology. The firm builds partnerships with large corporates (including Airbus, Safran, Dassault Aviation, Thales, EDF, Naval Group, Sopra Steria), which invest in its funds and maintain an ongoing dialogue with the firm, enabling Ace to take a differentiated approach toinvesting. Ace provides capital for businesses going through transformation, with the ability to invest with a variety in growth, buyout, and restructuring situations. We focus on companies with a proven expertise in their market, and with high and resilient intrinsic value, but which require transformation to deliver on their potential. We act as a strategic partner to management as we transform operations, and restructure/grow the business both organically and through external growth. Ace is active throughout Europe and North America. The firm has offices in Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Montreal, and accesses the global network of Tikehau Capital offices (London, Milan, Madrid, Brussels, New York, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul). Investment strategies overview: - Growth Capital: investment in high/hyper growth companies raising money in Series A through C, active in the Cybersecurity and Digital Trust verticals o Investment amount: up to €50m o Sector of focus: Technology (e.g. Cybersecurity, Digital Trust) - Support Capital: development capital / special opportunities (minority or control) investments in companies requiring capital to stabilise and or grow operations o Investment amount: up to €50m o Sector of focus: Industrials (e.g. Aerospace, Defence) - Platform Capital: development capital / special opportunities (minority or control) investments in companies requiring capital to stabilise and or grow operations o Investment amount: €50-200m o Sector of focus: Industrials (e.g. Aerospace, Defence)

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Cyber Security
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

3NUM — 3NUM Shield is the first Web3 mobile number minted as a NFT that protects your identity while providing private, secure messaging.
Satys — Satys Sealing & Painting offers the aviation and rail industry unique services resulting from its in-house team of painting & sealing experts, professionally trained by the Satys Training Academy. Furthermore, dedicated state-of-the-art painting facilities worldwide enable Satys to provide qualiy services and customer proximity.
Jscrambler — Jscrambler is the leading client-side security solution for JavaScript in-app protection and real-time webpage monitoring. Start your free trial today!

ZEBOX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in promising entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries, including logistics, supply chain, mobility, space, and media.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Fullwhere — Fullwhere is an information technology company that provides AI Solutions
Aloen — Aloen offers live AI training for agents, analyzing 100% of calls, and enhancing personalized AI models. solutions provided by Aleon are Automation & training, Every interaction counts, GDPR: Regulatory compliance, Committed teams: Retain your talents,

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 — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
Poolside — The best code you never wrote.

ODYSSEE VENTURE is a French Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France. The company has raised over 600M€.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Copains — Copains is a bakery that produces a wide variety of pastry and confectionery items intended to offer a healthy eating approach.
Terratis — Terratis is a French company that uses the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to reduce the populations of tiger mosquitoes and agricultural pests. Their mission is to diminish harmful insect populations effectively on a large scale using a scientific, innovative, ecological, and efficient approach.
Circle Safe — Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. The most effective way to prevent recurrence is to perform an interventional procedure: ablation. Most of these procedures are performed by Radiofrequency or by a more recent technique, the Cryoballoon. The latter has many advantages including speed and simplicity but has a complicationthat is specific to it: the risk of creating Diaphragmatic Paralysis. Circle Safe is developing a solution with the aim of permanently eliminating this complication.

Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, Switzerland

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.
Seelab.ai — Seelab.ai is a generative AI solution that helps marketing & creative teams creating branded visual content
Yuccan Lead — Yuccan Lead is an app that generates highly qualified leads by building customers' own network of Ambassadors easily.

SGAM AI is a leading institutional player in Alternative Investment Management. SGAM AI successfully mixes the cultures of asset management and capital markets. They are client driven and institutional, like an asset manager. Their approach of each market is entrepreneurial and financial, like an investment bank. They offer the widest coverage ofAlternative Investment classes. Their size and profitability allow long term investments and credibility. They have the ability to offer solutions, not only products. SG Group's strengths are brought to the Alternative Investment's industry. They benefit from SG Group's long term commitment in Alternative Investments. They use the processes ans resources of SGAM Group (rated M2 by Fitch).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Augure — Improve your brand performance with Launchmetrics' leading software solutions for fashion, lifestyle and beauty brands
Force-A — FORCE-A designs, produces, and sells optical sensors for the assessment of physiological and health status of crops. It offers crop sensors for nondestructive assessment of leaf polyphenolics. The company also provides multiparameter noncontact sensors-based on leaves or fruits, and berries autofluorescence measurements. Its multiparameternoncontact sensor provides inputs for decision support systems for a range of crops, including fertilisation needs, weed infestation, crop diseases, and crop yield and quality forecast. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Orsay, France.
METRIXWARE — Metrixware has, since 1995, been providing software maintenance & quality management solutions to CIOs and IT professionals through its System Code range of application management tools. The company provides global organizations with information, indicators and diagnostic to streamline decision making and implement best practice and compliancestandards.

Andurance Ventures is an independent technology venture capital firm based in London, founded by Nicolas Granatino and Pierre Andurand. Andurance Ventures is focused on digital media, content management and knowledge economy enabler start-ups in the converging consumer and enterprise ecosystems.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Video Streaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neolithe — Néolithe transforms non-recyclable waste into mineral aggregates.
Massa — The decentralized and scaled blockchain
Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.

Anaxago is a brand new crowdfunding platform dedicated to innovative companies. Anaxago aims at changing the traditional equity capital investment model. Their goal is to forget about the capitalistic-only and go for a truly sharing and participative investment model. Thanks to Anaxago, entrepreneurs can benefit from the financial support oftheir investors but also learn from the shareholders' experience, expertise and network. Each investor can take an active part to the company life and so be a part of a lively entrepreneurial adventure.They offer a small range of companies each month to their investors community. Startups and small companies are chosen with good care and have to go through a whole process of financial analysis. They also prefer to select companies with a real innovative value added. With Anaxago, young and small companies can find funding and support to grow and develop. They give them a chance to be the actors of tomorrow's growth and reboost their economy.Since its launch, Anaxago gathered 100 000 members and invested more than 130M€ funding more than 200 businesses.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Belgium, Cameroon

Portfolio highlights

Xenothera — Xenothera is a xenotherapy platform with embedded technology that renovates immunological treatments. Xenothera creates new therapeutic modes in numerous domains from immunomodulation to infectious diseases.Xenothera's technological platform is built on a double expertise of animal genetics and mastery of immunology processes. It renovatespassive immunotherapy by marketing a new generation of hyperimmune polyclonal sera.Xenothera’s platform ensures short-time development thanks to their mastery of the entire process, from animal genetics, choice of the immunogen, selection, and purification of interesting immunoglobulins, and access to market authorization in accelerated timescale.
Check & Visit — In Brittany, in Rennes Check & Visit was born from the desire to help the owners of the whole world to realize the conditions of their apartment. In France each year, there are over 3,400,000 inventories made. For the 2,500,000 owners, which they are part of it is not always easy to make the inventory of his apartment. Whether due to lack ofavailability, legal knowledge, or the reliability of paper status reports. The inventory quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task that any owner would like to do without.
PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology

Apax is a leading global private equity advisory firm. For 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and ideas that transform businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Cloud Account — Cloud Account is a financial software developer that uses CRS management and services in the accounting industry.
Swing Education — Swing Education transforms the way K-12 schools and substitute teachers connect, ensuring teacher absences are filled and student learning stays on track.
GAN Integrity — Streamline compliance with GAN Integrity's ethics and compliance management software. Ensure success with our comprehensive and configurable platform.

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital and Life Sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with € 1 billion undermanagement as of December 31, 2023. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today: - Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition - Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity - Sports & Wellbeing - Blue Economy

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ekstere — Ekstere facilitates selling and purchasing verified-quality used bicycles at a reasonable price.
Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
Seaweed Concept — Seaweed Concept is a marine biotechnology company, that focuses on the innovative utilization of seaweed to provide high-quality ingredients to various industrial sectors

CSK Venture Capital invests in companies of Japan and overseas, focusing on the areas of Information Technology and Life Science. They provide IPO and management consulting services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Ecrio — Ecrio provides optimized, standards compliant software clients and development resources to mobile phone service providers and device manufacturers for mobile commerce and real time communications. The Ecrio Mobile Communications Client Suite (MCCS) transforms everyday applications into communication-rich applications. The MCCS frameworkreduces the complexity and effort required to add rich communication functions to applications ranging from Voice and SMS to video telephony, content sharing, social communications and enterprise solutions. Applications running in common application environments, developed using standard SDK tools on a wide range of device types and platforms can be easily upgraded to communication-rich applications using the framework’s rich set of functions and its simple access methods.The Ecrio MCCS solves the challenges of enabling and sharing high-value and complex communication capabilities among multiple applications and devices, reducing the incremental effort, cost, and risk of deploying and using new LTE and IMS service capabilities. It accelerates application development resulting in more uses and optimized experiences expanding the individual value and market reach and achieving a higher value for the service capability investment.
Exanet — Exanet Ltd. designs network attached storage systems. It offers ExaStore, a solution with a clustered distributed file system; ExaSync software that offers a method of protecting and recovering data, providing mirroring between local or remote ExaStore systems; and EX1500, an integrated server pre-installed with the ExaStore clustered distributedstorage operating system. The company also provides ExaAdmin, a Web-based console and command-line interface that offers centralized configuration, management, and monitoring of ExaStore clustered storage solution from a single point; ExaStore, which provides monitoring for the cluster status, filesystem performance, and protocol information; and ExaVolumes that offers on-demand provisioning, which allows administrators to allocate capacity independently of physical storage configuration. In addition, it offers ExaSnapshots, which offers online point-in-time data protection; ExaRestore that allows administrators to recover data sets in one step. Further, the companyâ€™s solutions include data protection, digital media, disaster recovery, global content delivery, high performance computing, hosted storage services, technical applications, and Web services. It serves media and entertainment, telecom and service providers, Internet, manufacturing and imaging, enterprise, education, government, software and semiconductor industries. Exanet Ltd. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel with offices in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan.
MicroCHIPS — Microchips Biotech, Inc. is dedicated to improving the lives of patients by revolutionizing drug delivery. Our proprietary microchip-based implant can store and release precise doses of drugs over months and years. The implant, which is placed under the skin by a trained physician during a simple office procedure using local anesthesia, can bewirelessly activated or deactivated by a physician or patient, without requiring removal. In addition, physicians can wirelessly modify the frequency or dose of the drug to meet the individual needs of each patient.

Apicap offers investment and co-investment solutions for managers, wealthy private clients and institutional investors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Crowdaa — Crowdaa is a mobile-only music store where producers decide how to distribute and monetise their content.
Feelbat — This is the homepage of the websiteMonitor your infrastructure in real-time with Feelbat. Our smart sensors provide precise data to anticipate risks and ensure structural safety.
Karma Koma — Karma Koma is specializes in retail and French and international distribution with multi-brand resellers.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Julien Chaumond is the Co-founder at Hugging Face.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fal — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
Sourcetable — AI spreadsheet & data analyst — Quickly analyze files, clean data, create charts & graphs, get formula assistance, and have AI do your work for you.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.

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

Opsima — Opsima is an automated platform that optimizes cloud spend and saves ~30% on cloud bills. Opsima is risk-free with zero impact on your infrastructure
Moonwatt — Moonwatt solves problems of the energy transition through innovative energy products hardware and software.
Edumapper — Edumapper is an educational platform providing tools to optimize learning experiences.

Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Previously known as Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's rebrand to Meta on October 28, 2021, at the company's annual Connect Conference.Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, California in 2004. Withmillions of more users, [Friendster] attempted to acquire the company for $10 million in mid-2004. Facebook turned down the offer and subsequently received $12.7 million in funding from [Accel Partners] at a valuation of around $100 million. Facebook continued to grow opening up to high school students in September 2005 and adding a photo-sharing feature the next month. The next spring, Facebook received $25 million in funding from [Greylock Partners] and [Meritech Capital] as well as previous investors [Accel Partners] and [Peter Thiel]. The pre-money valuation for this deal was about $525 million. Facebook subsequently opened up to work networks eventually amassing over 20,000 work networks. Finally, in September 2006, Facebook was opened to anyone with an email address.Facebook continued to receive funding most notably in January 2011 receiving $1.5 billion and valuing the company at $50 billion. A year later in February 2012, Facebook announced that it was filing for its long-anticipated initial public offering. The company went public on May 18, 2012 opening in [NASDAQ] with shares trading at $42.05.Facebook announced positive numbers in February 2012 upon filing for its IPO. As of July 2013, over 1.15 billion users have logged into Facebook every month and 669 million users daily. Mobile users now make up half of Facebook’s user base with 819 million monthly active. Facebook is one of the most trafficked sites in the United States. Additionally, Facebook is the top photo-sharing site with 250 million photos uploaded per day.The company has a strategic partnership with AXA Group to develop marketing and commercial collaboration in the digital, social, and mobile sphere.Meta is currently the owner of many applications and services such as Facebook App, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus VR, Pagemodo Pagebuilder, [RSS Graffiti], Huddle, and more. Facebook is the world’s largest social network with over 2.9 billion monthly active users.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Scale AI — Trusted by world class companies, Scale delivers high quality training data for AI applications such as self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, robotics, and more.
gett.me — AI outplacement software
Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).

Jiong is a partner at Braemar Energy Ventures. She has worked in various high-technology industries since 1995, holding positions in research, operations and finance including senior technology and business positions with Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs.She also was a member of the venture capital group at 3i, where her responsibilities includedinvestments in information technology and cleantech.Currently, she serves on the board of directors for several companies.Jiong is a Kauffman Fellow with a B.S. in physics from Lanzhou University in China, a M.S. in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Bolder.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Hardware, Lighting
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Enlaps — Discover Enlaps' 6K timelapse cameras with 4G/WiFi connectivity and solar power. Perfect for construction, events, and research. Enhance project monitoring and marketing. Made in France.
Nature Coatings — Nature Coatings is a biochemicals company harnessing waste materials to create bio-based, safe, and renewable products.
Carbice Corporation — Carbice is the first no-compromise thermal interface material. It achieves all the advantages of both solid and liquid thermal interface materials without any of the pitfalls.

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Education
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
AppliedAI — AAICO uses artificial intelligence to solve document, process, and measurable business improvement problems in regulated industries.
Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.

OneRagtime is a venture capital platform that finances and scales early-stage startups. Join our investor community and discover unique opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
MoSo — Zoom in on identity, zoom out on potential.

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Russian Federation, India

Portfolio highlights

Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Photography, Photo Editing
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.

Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices

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