CIC Ouest
VC Fund
Nantes, France
CIC Ouest is a financial services group that seeks to support its customers' individual and collective goals and projects.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries CIC Ouest invests in
Stages CIC Ouest invests in
Countries CIC Ouest invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$5.5M
- Debt Financing
- $1M–$1.3B
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.4M–$9.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (23%)
- Internet 2 (15%)
- Biotechnology 2 (15%)
- Service Industry 2 (15%)
- SaaS 1 (8%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (38%)
- Debt Financing 4 (31%)
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Post-IPO Debt 1 (8%)
Country
- France 12 (92%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison IA functions as an artificial intelligence accelerator designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises integrate AI into their business operations. The company provides a structured, multi-phase framework—spanning 30, 60, and 90 days—to guide businesses from initial training to full deployment. It specializes in developing custom, secure AI agents tailored to automate internal processes, analyze data, and optimize specific corporate workflows. Their service includes auditing a company's readiness, training employees, and implementing scalable AI solutions that comply with data privacy standards. | $1.1M / Seed / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Jinka is a housing rent-or-buy app. In order to not miss the ad, they look for people on more than a hundred different websites. To stop individuals from falling for con artists' traps, their systems analyze and spot phony advertisements. | $1M / Debt Financing / May 28, 2026 | ||
| LACROIX group is a major groups involved in e-commerce, communication and software are taking ownership – alongside start-ups – of a world that is changing. This world of tomorrow – built on innovation, flexibility and creativity – belongs to our Group, too. That’s why LACROIX has chosen an English tagline with a “start-up” feel, despite itsappearance as a fairly traditional medium-sized French company, whose business has historically been based on three pillars: electronics, signalling and telemetry, applied to water | $91.4M / Post-IPO Debt / May 11, 2026 | ||
| Bring you content to life | $2.3M / Debt Financing / Apr 07, 2026 | ||
| Gigaclear is one of the fastest and most reliable broadband networks in the UK. Delivered only to rural areas of England we deliver better broadband than is available to most towns and cities. With ultrafast, pure fibre broadband, available to every one of their customers, rural communities will be ready to meet the demands of Internet services ofthe future.Founded in December 2010 by Matthew Hare, the Chief Executive, the company has grown steadily ever since, key appointments have included Joe Frost in 2012 as Sales and Marketing Director and in March 2014 Simon Bullock joined the company as CFO.In May 2011 Ofcom applied the electronic communications code to Gigaclear for the purposes of the provision, by Gigaclear, of an electronic communications network in the United Kingdom. Also in May 2011 the company took a majority stake in local access pioneer Rutland Telecom and in September of that year the company started construction of its first fibre-to-the-premises network, which opened service in October 2011 in Hambleton in Rutland.During 2012 Gigaclear also delivered its first Gigabit fibre-to-the-premises network in the rural communities of Appleton, Eaton and Besselsleigh in Oxfordshire. During 2013 and 2014 the company opened new networks in Fyfield, Frilford, Farmoor, Stanton Harcourt, Woodeaton, Beckley and Northmoor in Oxfordshire, Godden Green in Kent and Uppingham in Rutland. At the end of 2015, Gigaclear had 27 rural networks live with 39 more in construction in Oxfordshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. In addition Gigaclear is building rural networks supported by BDUK Superfast Broadband grants in Gloucestershire, West Berkshire and Essex.Gigaclear delivers incredibly fast, and reliable broadband access, everyone connected to the network has the same level of service regardless of 'distance from the cabinet' or weather conditions. | $1.3B / Debt Financing / Dec 15, 2023 | ||
| Tri'n'collect provides a customized service for sorting, collecting, and recycling building trash. Tri'n'collect is a mission-driven corporation whose major goal is to protect the planet's natural resources by preventing building site waste and recycling it in a circular economic loop. T'n'C works with individualhome builders, developers, real estate developers, public works companies, and renovation and deconstruction sites. | $5.4M / Seed / Dec 07, 2023 | ||
| Co-created in July 2016 by Justine LIPUMA, PhD in microbiology, and Christine PONCET-DOISE, Senior Research Engineer at INRA, MYCOPHYTO is the result of 30 years of experimentation in biological crop protection. | $4.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| Utocat offers a solution for managing the registration and life of unlisted securities by automating the transfer process.It was created in 2014 by Clément Francomme, Utocat aims to facilitate the process of investing in unlisted companies. The company has developed a suite of unique software tools that leverage Blockchain technology. It hasjoined the Acceleration program of EuraTechnologies of Lille in 2016 and has achieved its first fundraising of 500 000€ in September 2016. It has more than 10 clients including AXA and BNP Paribas. | $1.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| Imagination Machine Imagination Machine is a startup studio. | $9.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 19, 2022 | ||
| Lisaqua is developing a unique aquaculture process to raise prawns without antibiotics and without polluting waste | $5.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does CIC Ouest invest in?
CIC Ouest invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Internet and Biotechnology startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 13 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 CIC Ouest invest in?
CIC Ouest typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5.5M at Seed, $1M–$1.3B at Debt Financing and $1.4M–$9.8M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not CIC Ouest's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds CIC Ouest took part in.
When did CIC Ouest last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for CIC Ouest closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 13 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?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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