Top 25 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in December 2024
A list of 25 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 25 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in December 2024
Investor | Photography France investments |
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5M Ventures | 2 |
FJ Labs | 2 |
Adjacent | 2 |
Global Founders Capital | 2 |
Aglaé Ventures | 2 |
Apicap | 1 |
Anaxago | 1 |
IDF CAPITAL | 1 |
ODYSSEE VENTURE | 1 |
Alven | 1 |
Societe Generale Asset Management | 1 |
Andurance Ventures | 1 |
Armilar Venture Partners | 1 |
Omnes Capital | 1 |
Meta | 1 |
OneRagtime | 1 |
Balderton Capital | 1 |
Hugging Face | 1 |
Ace Capital Partners | 1 |
Seventure Partners | 1 |
CSK Venture Capital | 1 |
Kima Ventures | 1 |
Apax Partners | 1 |
ZEBOX Ventures | 1 |
White Star Capital | 1 |
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.
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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.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Leland — Leland is a marketplace that connects ambitious people with world-class coaches who can help them reach their career and educational goals via 1:1 coaching and small group classes.
- Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
- JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
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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.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- 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.
- Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
Apicap offers investment and co-investment solutions for managers, wealthy private clients and institutional investors.
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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 — FEELBAT - Feelbat
- Karma Koma — Karma Koma is specializes in retail and French and international distribution with multi-brand resellers.
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.
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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
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.
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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
ODYSSEE VENTURE is a private equity firm. The Company provides independent financial advisory services to management companies, family office, and major institutional networks. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Interstis — Interstis is a software tool that allows its users to collaborate with the team to share information, project tracking and communication.
- Leader Print — LEADER PRINT GROUP is a company that specializes in large format digital printing. The company offers a range of printing services, including the production of visual solutions for communication purposes. The company's offerings are designed to meet the needs of various industries, with a focus on manufacturing. With a team of dedicatedprofessionals, LEADER PRINT GROUP is committed to providing innovative and tailored solutions to its clients, ensuring their printing needs are met with precision and efficiency.
- eXplain — Explain provides market intelligence solutions to companies who do Business with Governments. Explain leverage proprietary technology to collect and analyze unique datasets to help companies identify and understand local events, local stakeholders, local opinions and local regulation.Previously known as Liegey Muller Pons, Explain developed aleading campaign targeting software used by more than a thousand campaigns across Europe, including the last two French winning presidential bids. Over the past two years, Explain has successfully diversified its portfolio of clients and now mostly works with private companies.
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
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
- 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.
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).
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
- Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
- The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.
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.
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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).
We are a venture capital platform that sources, finances and scales early-stage European start-ups. Our fully digitised investment process offers our exclusive community the freedom and flexibility to choose how they invest, on a deal-by-deal basis or via our funds.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Delli — We're a company just starting out on our mission to make good food accessible and enjoyed by all.
- Convergence — Convergence focuses on developing AI assistants to learn, adapt, and retain information to manage tasks effectively. Convergence provides Proxy, a personal AI agent to assist individuals with their unique administrative tasks in beta. The funding will be utilized to create innovative models that enhance Proxy assistants, surpassing the capabilitiesof the current generation of AI, emphasizing facilitating continuous learning and skill development through memory.
- Convergence Labs — Convergence Labs builds a future of abundance for all of humanity.
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.
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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.
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)
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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!
Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, 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€ 660 million under management as of December 31, 2016. 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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
- Siit — Siit is a modern IT service management platform. Conversational, integrated and AI-powered service desk for IT and internal operation teams. Simplify internal operations today!
- Sequentia Biotech — Sequentia Biotech is a bioinformatics company that offers services for healthcare, pharma, agriculture, industry and environment.
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.
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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 company’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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Solteo — Solteo operates as a platform for photovoltaic installers.
- Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
- Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.
Apax is a leading global private equity advisory firm. For 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and ideas that transform businesses.
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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.
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.
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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,
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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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.
- RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
- Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.
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