Alto Invest
VC Fund
Versailles, France
Alto Invest is a VC fund in Versailles focused on Software and SaaS. ALTO INVEST was founded by partners Antoine Valdes and Jean-François Paumelle, who have worked together since 1994 for one of Europe's largest financial institutions. Their team has managed several portfolios on behalf of institutional and private clients, and made more than 50 private equity investments in Europe, North America and Asia.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Alto Invest invests in
Stages Alto Invest invests in
Countries Alto Invest invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $1.5M–$5.2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.6M–$3.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (26%)
- SaaS 4 (17%)
- Health Care 3 (13%)
- Biotechnology 3 (13%)
- Manufacturing 3 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (26%)
- Funding Round 4 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (17%)
- Convertible Note 2 (9%)
- Seed 1 (4%)
Country
- France 15 (65%)
- Germany 1 (4%)
- Martinique 1 (4%)
- United States 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Benoit Thiedey
Head of Investments
|
Head of Investments | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Franck Halley
Associate Director
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Associate Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jean-François Paumelle
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Emilie Da Silva
Head of Investments
|
Head of Investments | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Marie Conilh de Beyssac
Back Office Manager - Partner Relations
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Back Office Manager - Partner Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies. | $2.1M / Convertible Note / Oct 06, 2019 | ||
| Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015. | $3.2M / Series A / Jun 27, 2018 | ||
| Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015. | $3.5M / Series A / Jun 27, 2018 | ||
| Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies. | $5.2M / Series A / Apr 16, 2018 | ||
| Yousign is a leading European SaaS player in the e-signature space, mainly active in France, Germany, and Italy. Having anticipated the shift towards paperless long before any European competitors, Yousign helps thousands of sales, purchasing, HR, legal, IT teams to digitalise and automate their contract processes. Yousign seeks to support SMBs ofvarious sectors through its easy-to-use electronic signature application. It also features a powerful API that is easy to integrate and facilitates adoption by smaller companies. The e-signature company aims to expand its product further up the value chain into document automation, approval management, and additional workflows. Founded in 2013 by Luc Pallavidino and Antoine Louiset, Yousign has more than 6000 customers, 1.5M+ monthly signers, 100+ employees, growing at a x2.5 rate YoY, making it the most performing e-signature scale-up in Europe. | $3.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 23, 2018 | ||
| Arcad Software provides application lifecycle management solutions that focus on IBM.The ARCAD Software Group is leading provider of DevOps and Modernization solutions, covering a multitude of platforms including IBM i, UNIX, Linux, Windows and z/OS. The company operates through its head office based in France and subsidiaries in Europe, theUSA, India and Asia. ARCAD technology is distributed globally by IBM. ARCAD solutions integrate with the most popular multi-platform tools such as GitHub, JIRA, Jenkins or Docker. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 27, 2017 | ||
| Unow delivers tutored training programs on project management, soft skills and business skills. With a portfolio of 50+ training programs and a network of 100+ field experts, our goal is to improve team collaboration and productivity. Unow is headquartered in Paris, France. | $3.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 02, 2017 | ||
| Nosopharm is a young innovative biotechnology company dedicated to anti-infective drug discovery. Nosopharm addresses the unmet medical need of the bacterial multidrug resistance to antibiotics, a very concerning issue for hospital-acquired infections.Nosopharm has set up an innovative anti-infective drug discovery platform based on themedicinal mining of the microbial biodiversity. The company has developed a unique expertise in the screening and the characterization of bioactive secondary metabolites produced by an original microbial bioresource: the bacterial genera Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus. | $2.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 28, 2017 | ||
| Ubleam helps manufacturers to increase their sales and customer knowledge with a smart mobile tag (bleam) for B2B services on mobile. More than 200 B2B customers use the bleam to for pro services on their product or improve maintenance processes in their industry.Awarded in France in 2015, Ubleam grows fast thanks to its BleamCard and IOTPlatform to become the european leader in B2B Augmented Reality. | $1.3M / Seed / Feb 01, 2017 | ||
| 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. | $158.8M / Series E / Nov 18, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does Alto Invest invest in?
Alto Invest invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Alto Invest's check size?
Alto Invest typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.2M at Series A and $2.6M–$3.7M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alto Invest participates in.
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Who are the partners at Alto Invest?
The team at Alto Invest includes Benoit Thiedey (Head of Investments), Franck Halley (Associate Director) and Jean-François Paumelle (Managing Director), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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