# Benoist Grossmann

> Benoist Grossmann is a Series B investor at Idinvest Partners backing Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Idinvest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idinvest-partners)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 52%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoist-grossmann-4956b37

Benoist Grossmann is a Series B investor at Idinvest Partners in Paris focused on Software and Information Technology. Benoist Grossman joined Idinvest Partners in 2002. Benoist Grossman was appointed a board member in 2003 and operates mainly in the sectors of internet. Benoist Grossman is currently on the boards of Criteo, Viadeo, Dailymotion, 24h00 and Winamax.Before joining Idinvest Partners, Benoist Grossman worked for several venture capital funds forover 10 years. Benoist Grossman was a partner at Viventures from 1998 to 2002 and worked as Investment Manager at La Financière de Brienne. Benoist Grossman had previously spent over 10 years working in the industry as a laser systems specialist at EDF, NASA and Thomson-CSF Optronique, for whom Benoist Grossman invented five patents and authored over twenty publications.Benoist Grossman has a Ph.D in physics from the Université de Paris VI and an MBA from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 10% |
| B2B | 1 | 5% |
| SEO | 1 | 5% |
| Apps | 1 | 5% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 29% |
| Series C | 3 | 14% |
| Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 10 | 48% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blue Bridge | Blue Bridge is an AI platform for organizational assistance in the deployment of AI resources into their workflows. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| Dark | Dark develops space defense technology focused on protecting satellites and addressing orbital threats. The company builds systems for space security, satellite defense, and interception of objects in orbit. | $5.9M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| Exotrail | Exotrail develops electric propulsion solutions for small satellites.Their safe and efficient Hall Effect Thrusters are helping build agile constellations to revolutionize telecommunication, earth observation, space, and science.David Henri, Jean-Luc Maria, Paul Lascombes, and Nicolas Heitz co-founded the company in Palaiseau, Ile-de-France in2015. | $58M | Series B | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Exotrail | Exotrail develops electric propulsion solutions for small satellites.Their safe and efficient Hall Effect Thrusters are helping build agile constellations to revolutionize telecommunication, earth observation, space, and science.David Henri, Jean-Luc Maria, Paul Lascombes, and Nicolas Heitz co-founded the company in Palaiseau, Ile-de-France in2015. |  | Series B | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Dark | Dark develops space defense technology focused on protecting satellites and addressing orbital threats. The company builds systems for space security, satellite defense, and interception of objects in orbit. | $5M | Seed | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| Ornikar | Ornikar is an online driving school that offers radically cheaper, uncomplicated and faster offer to obtain a driving license.Ornikar relies on a network of state-qualified teachers to offer an apprenticeship in mobile driving at reduced prices. The cmpany is an an online driving school more in tune with the demand of current and futuregenerations.The company's mission is to make the driver's license exam cheaper and its learning more enjoyable. | $120M | Series C | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| Ornikar | Ornikar is an online driving school that offers radically cheaper, uncomplicated and faster offer to obtain a driving license.Ornikar relies on a network of state-qualified teachers to offer an apprenticeship in mobile driving at reduced prices. The cmpany is an an online driving school more in tune with the demand of current and futuregenerations.The company's mission is to make the driver's license exam cheaper and its learning more enjoyable. | $120M | Series C | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| Homa Games | Homa Games is a gaming technology platform that publishes and creates mobile games for studios and developers. It develops games internally and in partnership with more than 200 handpicked studios worldwide. The company has published more than 30 games with titles such as NERF Epic Pranks!, Sky Roller, and Idle World. Homa Games gives gamecreators the data-driven tools and human expertise needed to turn their creative ideas into commercial hits. The company is headquartered in Paris France. | $15M | Seed | Feb 08, 2021 |  |
| Withings | Withings is a developer of digital health and wellness smart devices. The company makes a range of products that empower people to make the right decisions for their health. Its digital health and wellness smart devices include a fitness watch that enables users to measure their heart rate. | $60M | Series B | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| Jabmo | Jabmo pioneered a whole new approach to account-based marketing with their hyper-aware ABM platform, advertising, and managed services. They are the disruptive vendor in a market where most B2B marketing programs still focus only on known contacts.Their vision, technology, and talent have fueled their rapid growth worldwide.Global manufacturerssuch as Eaton and BD rely on Jabmo to drive revenue by serving personalized and relevant ads to target accounts throughout the buying cycle.They are specialized in ABM for manufacturers and they are the most international vendor with local support throughout EMEA and USA. With their ABM Platform, their customers see over 2X marketing engagement from target accounts and higher sales win rates. | $11M | Series C | Sep 18, 2018 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kkr) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Brighteye Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brighteye-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Elaia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaia-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [H14](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holding-italiana-quattordicesima-s-p-a) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ventech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ventech-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Idinvest Partners

VC Fund · Paris, France

Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

5 contacts available at Idinvest Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alain Munoz | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alain-munoz |
| Alban Wyniecki | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alban-wyniecki |
| Benoist Grossmann | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benoist-grossmann |
| Chloe Giard | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chloe-giard |
| Louis Bô | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b%C3%B4-louis |

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## FAQ

### What does Benoist Grossmann invest in?

Benoist Grossmann invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and B2B startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Benoist Grossmann last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Benoist Grossmann closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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