Aster
VC Fund
Paris, France
Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industry sectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase. They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd). Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).
- Total investments:
- 171
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $283M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Aster invests in
Stages Aster invests in
Countries Aster invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $1.8M–$20M
- Series B
- $7M–$27M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $281k–$9.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 16 (9%)
- Software 16 (9%)
- Manufacturing 11 (6%)
- Renewable Energy 10 (6%)
- Solar 9 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (13%)
- Series B 15 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 12 (7%)
- Seed 11 (6%)
- Series C 11 (6%)
Country
- France 23 (13%)
- United States 18 (11%)
- United Kingdom 5 (3%)
- Kenya 3 (2%)
- Germany 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jean-Marc Bally
General Partner and Managing Director
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General Partner and Managing Director | Total investments: 73 | Find email | |
Jerome Joaug
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Cecile Tirbonod
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chama El Shamy
Head of Operations
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Head of Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Fabio Lancellotti
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 27 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aether Fuels is a cutting-edge climate technology firm that seeks to use ground-breaking methods for creating scalable, affordable, and sustainable fuels to decarbonize "hard-to-abate" sectors including aviation and ocean shipping. | $15M / Convertible Note / Dec 30, 2025 | ||
| Neural Concept is an innovative AI platform focused on transforming engineering product design through advanced 3D deep learning algorithms. By integrating AI directly into design and simulation processes, Neural Concept enables engineering teams to shorten development timelines from months to days, enhance product performance in terms ofefficiency, safety, and sustainability, and facilitate the scaling of AI adoption without the need for expensive and lengthy integration. | $100M / Series C / Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals. | $10.9M / Series B / Oct 18, 2024 | ||
| LevelTen Energy is a company that provides renewable transaction infrastructure. It connects renewable energy buyers, advisors, and sellers and gives them the tools and services they need to get better deals done faster. Its technology-enabled marketplace connects a broader class of C & I to utility-scale projects. | $61.1M / Series D / Jul 16, 2024 | ||
| Neural Concept is an innovative AI platform focused on transforming engineering product design through advanced 3D deep learning algorithms. By integrating AI directly into design and simulation processes, Neural Concept enables engineering teams to shorten development timelines from months to days, enhance product performance in terms ofefficiency, safety, and sustainability, and facilitate the scaling of AI adoption without the need for expensive and lengthy integration. | $27M / Series B / Jun 03, 2024 | ||
| EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple,uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding.The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g. | $22M / Series A / Apr 12, 2023 | ||
| Twipes aim to tackle the ever-growing issue of single-use items and their damaging effects on our environment. The biggest contributor being, plastic-filled wet wipes. When these products are flushed or thrown away, they leave behind micro-plastics as they slowly break down. These fragments contribute to the pollution in our oceans and ourselves.With Twipes we have created a simple solution to the ever growing micro-plastics problem. Truly flushable and biodegradable wipes. Made with wood pulp cellulose (zero plastic), Twipes will fully disintegrate in water in 3 hours and will completely biodegrade within 7 days. Compared to our closest competition which takes 180 days to break down. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jan 03, 2023 | ||
| Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE. | $30M / Series A / Sep 23, 2022 | ||
| DCbrain helps Datacenters teams to run and optimize their buildings. They provide a systemic view of their systems displaying a dynamic map of all datacenter flows (energy, chilled water ...) and dynamic expert dashboards. | $5.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 21, 2022 | ||
| FINALCAD provides mobile apps and predictive analytics that helps construction stakeholders fix issues found on the building process. The company is driven by a mission to increase quality, reduce its cost and make it accessible to all. Since 2011, FINALCAD has helped more than 10,000 projects in 30 countries and keeps on advancing the digitaltransition of the construction industry. FINALCAD was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France. | $10M / Private Equity / May 12, 2022 | ||
| See all 171 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Aster invest in?
Aster invests primarily in Energy, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 171 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Aster invest in?
Aster typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$20M at Series A, $7M–$27M at Series B and $281k–$9.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Aster's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Aster took part in.
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Who are the partners at Aster?
The team at Aster includes Jean-Marc Bally (General Partner and Managing Director), Jerome Joaug (Partner) and Cecile Tirbonod (Chief Financial Officer), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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