Air Liquide
VC Fund
Paris, France
Air Liquide is a VC fund in Paris focused on Renewable Energy and Energy. Air Liquide supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Air Liquide is the result of an idea - industrially produce oxygen from liquid air - and the meeting of two men, Georges Claude and Paul Delorme visionary pragmatic creator. Air Liquide supplies its customers inextremely diverse industries as steel industry, food and beverage, electronics or pharmaceuticals. To meet the requirements of each, the Group is organized around different industries.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Air Liquide invests in
Stages Air Liquide invests in
Countries Air Liquide invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $12M–$215M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Renewable Energy 3 (30%)
- Energy 2 (20%)
- Manufacturing 2 (20%)
- Fuel 1 (10%)
- Solar 1 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Series D 1 (10%)
- Series E 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 4 (40%)
- France 2 (20%)
- Germany 1 (10%)
- Philippines 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael J. Graff
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Benoît Potier
Chairman of the Board of Directors
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Chairman of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Christian Tillmann
Energy Operations Manager
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Energy Operations Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Fabio Rivalta
Supplier
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Supplier | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
François Abrial
Senior VP Group General Secretary
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Senior VP Group General Secretary | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
HysetCo
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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. | $214.8M / Series A / Apr 10, 2024 | |
H2 MOBILITY
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H2 MOBILITY is a hydrogen filling station operator that offers consulting, planning, and construction services for hydrogen stations. | $120.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 28, 2022 | |
FirstElement Fuel
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FirstElement Fuel provides customers with retail hydrogen fueling for the next generation of vehicles powered by fuel cells. | $24M / Corporate Round / Apr 03, 2019 | |
SIGFOX
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Sigfox is the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has built a global network to connect billions of devices to the Internet while consuming as little energy as possible, as simply as possible.Sigfox’s unique approach to device-to-cloud communications addresses the three greatest barriers toglobal IoT adoption: cost, energy consumption, and global scalability. Today, the network is present in 26 countries and on track to cover 60 by 2018 – covering a population of 397 million people. With millions of objects connected and a rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Sigfox empowers companies to create new innovations on the IoT.Founded in 2010 by Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the company is headquartered in Labège near Toulouse, France’s “IoT Valley”. Sigfox also has offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai and Singapore. | $164.6M / Series E / Nov 18, 2016 | |
Inpria
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Inpria Corporation is a pioneer in extending semiconductor lithography with inorganic photoresists and other thin-films for nanoscale patterning. Inpria’s patented photo-condensed molecular oxides offer customers the unique ability to deposit – directly from solution – atomically smooth, intrinsically dense, and directly photopatternable metaloxide films, enabling advanced performance with simplified processing. | Mar 01, 2016 | |
Startup Hearten
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Our simple and effective approach ensures the outcome we deliver will fully meet your specific requirements in a cost effective yet scalable manner, which reduces risk. Aligned to Customer Success, we identify the outcome to achieve and deliver it.With over 30 years of Collaboration experience let us help you with a new deployment or optimizingan existing collaboration platform, we can help you get to where you need to be. We use a five phased approach which involves reviewing and assessing your current operations, identifying improvement opportunities, creating a solution that meets your business' short and long term goals followed by a deployment of the solution in a timely manner, packaged with ongoing support and services customized to your needs and specifications. | $5M / Seed / Feb 01, 2016 | |
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SIGFOX
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Sigfox is the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has built a global network to connect billions of devices to the Internet while consuming as little energy as possible, as simply as possible.Sigfox’s unique approach to device-to-cloud communications addresses the three greatest barriers toglobal IoT adoption: cost, energy consumption, and global scalability. Today, the network is present in 26 countries and on track to cover 60 by 2018 – covering a population of 397 million people. With millions of objects connected and a rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Sigfox empowers companies to create new innovations on the IoT.Founded in 2010 by Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the company is headquartered in Labège near Toulouse, France’s “IoT Valley”. Sigfox also has offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai and Singapore. | $109.7M / Series D / Feb 11, 2015 | |
Quanta
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Quanta is a medical devices company that develops advanced haemodialysis systems for use in the home and clinic. Quanta is focused on the commercialisation and ongoing development of SC+, an innovative cartridge-based haemodialysis system.SC+ is a high performance, compact haemodialysis system providing clinical efficacy by utilising typical flowrates of traditional in-centre machines.SC+ supports the entire ‘Continuum of Care’ for dialysis patients, from nurse-assisted treatment through self-care in centre to home haemodialysis. Their system facilitates the seamless transition between treatment modalities providing the best tool to enable flexibility for patients, and treatment options for physicians. | $35.4M / Series B / Nov 03, 2014 | |
Terrajoule
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Terrajoule provides modular 2MW solar power stations with storage, dispatching clean energy 24 hours per day. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $11.5M / Series A / Nov 04, 2013 | |
Plug Power
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Plug Power is a hydrogen and fuel cell company that provides clean hydrogen and zero-emission fuel cell solutions.Plug Power is building the hydrogen economy as the leading provider of comprehensive hydrogen fuel cell turnkey solutions. The Company’s innovative technology powers electric motors with hydrogen fuel cells amid an ongoing paradigmshift in the power, energy, and transportation industries to address climate change and energy security, while meeting sustainability goals. Plug Power created the first commercially viable market for hydrogen fuel cell technology. As a result, the Company has deployed over 40,000 fuel cell systems for e-mobility, more than anyone else in the world, and has become the largest buyer of liquid hydrogen, having built and operated a hydrogen highway across North America. Plug Power delivers a significant value proposition to end-customers, including meaningful environmental benefits, efficiency gains, fast fueling, and lower operational costs. Plug Power’s vertically-integrated GenKey solution ties together all critical elements to power, fuel, and provide service to customers such as Amazon, BMW, The Southern Company, Carrefour, and Walmart. The company was founded in 1997 and based in Latham, New York. | $6.5M / Post-IPO Equity / May 08, 2013 |
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Elliott Management Corp.
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Hy24
2 deals together
TotalEnergies
2 deals together
TotalEnergies SE
2 deals together
b2venture
1 deal together
CITA Investissement
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Air Liquide invest in?
Air Liquide invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Energy and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Air Liquide's check size?
Air Liquide typically joins rounds of $12M–$215M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Air Liquide participates in.
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Who are the partners at Air Liquide?
The team at Air Liquide includes Michael J. Graff (Director), Benoît Potier (Chairman of the Board of Directors) and Christian Tillmann (Energy Operations Manager), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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