Claire Houry
Managing Partner @ Ventech
Paris, France
Claire Houry is a Series A investor at Ventech in Paris focused on Software and E-Commerce. Claire joined Ventech as General Partner in 2008. She focuses on Software and Wireless sectors as well as on the Cleantech technologies. Claire brings to Ventech her international investment experience in varied sectors as well as her sector-based expertise in Cleantech. She currently sits on the board of MXP4, BonitaSoft and B-Process.Claire started her career at Crédit Lyonnais in projects financing activities in France and in the USA. Then she participated in the creation and in the development, between 2000 in 2005, of the Venture capital department of Crédit Lyonnais (which will become Credit Agricole Private Equity), leading the investments in companies as Musiwave (sold to Openwave) or Meiosys (sold to IBM). In 2005 Claire co-funded the Infrastucture fund for AXA Private Equity, investing in the Utilities sector (energy, water, waste) in Europe, more particularly in the renewable energy sector. Claire was at the time board member of companies as Sita Cornwall (integrated waste management project operated by the group Suez Environnement, UK) or Monte Calvello (wind farms developed by the Italian company Tozzi, IT). Claire is an engineer in electronics (Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris) and graduated of ESSEC.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Claire Houry invests in
Stages Claire Houry invests in
Countries Claire Houry invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (22%)
- E-Commerce 4 (22%)
- SaaS 2 (11%)
- Fashion 2 (11%)
- Big Data 2 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (28%)
- Series B 5 (28%)
- Series C 5 (28%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
Country
- France 8 (44%)
- Germany 2 (11%)
- United States 1 (6%)
- The Netherlands 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Xpln.ai
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Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless. | $7.6M / Series A / Oct 15, 2024 | |
Fluid Topics
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Fluid Topics is a SaaS platform that reinvents usability and accessibility by unifying all forms of technical documentation that exist for your products. You can either use the out-of-the box full-featured and highly customizable portal, or you can insert graphic and functional widgets in an existing site or extranet, and even integrate FluidTopics into your applications and information system using the rich platform APIs. | $16.3M / Series B / Apr 03, 2024 | |
Antidot
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Antidot is a software vendor that leverages 20 years of advanced research in semantic search and content enrichment to develop its content delivery platform (CDP). The company’s products multiply the value of content by delivering dynamic information in a personalized and contextualized form. Antidot helps more than 150 customers around the worldimprove their operational efficiency. | $16.3M / Series B / Feb 01, 2024 | |
mediarithmics
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Mediarithmics is Saas vendor proposing a nextgen CDP covering all DMP and CDP uses. The platform can also be used to create Data Alliances, guaranteeing the security of data between partners whilst complying with current and future regulations.Its technology enables the collection of every customer and prospect’s data without compression,allowing segmentation and activation of multi-channel campaigns in real time. Mediarithmics’ clients can add their own algorithms to personalize the platform's strategic points, whether it be on 360° marketing personalization or Data monetization use cases. | $7.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 03, 2023 | |
Botify
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Botify is the first unified suite of applications assisting enterprise SEO stakeholders in each phase of the organic search process including technical SEO, content, and real keywords. Often referred to by our customers as the “advanced version of Google Search Console”, Botify is giving SEO stakeholders the data, tools, and diagnostics necessaryto create and maintain high-quality digital assets for search engines and voice assistants. | $55M / Series C / Sep 02, 2021 | |
Farmitoo
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Farmitoo is an online purchase of farm equipment directly from manufacturers. | $11.9M / Series A / Jul 12, 2021 | |
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Antidot
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Antidot is a software vendor that leverages 20 years of advanced research in semantic search and content enrichment to develop its content delivery platform (CDP). The company’s products multiply the value of content by delivering dynamic information in a personalized and contextualized form. Antidot helps more than 150 customers around the worldimprove their operational efficiency. | Series A / Jan 23, 2019 | |
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Botify
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Botify is the first unified suite of applications assisting enterprise SEO stakeholders in each phase of the organic search process including technical SEO, content, and real keywords. Often referred to by our customers as the “advanced version of Google Search Console”, Botify is giving SEO stakeholders the data, tools, and diagnostics necessaryto create and maintain high-quality digital assets for search engines and voice assistants. | $7.2M / Series A / Jan 20, 2016 | |
Vestiaire Collective
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Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items.The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future bypromoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day.Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan. | Series D / Sep 03, 2015 | |
asgoodasnew
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asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B. | Series C / Mar 01, 2015 | |
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Co-Investors
About Ventech
Ventech is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in startup companies. It has a broad investment scope with the capacity to invest in B2B and in B2C, in software and in hardware, with an industry agnostic approach. The firm's primary geographical focuses are, for the European fund, France, DACH region and the Nordics,with offices in Paris, Munich and Helsinki. Ventech China invests in Asia with an office in Shanghai.
Ventech Contacts
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Alain Caffi
Founding Partner & Senior Advisor
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Claire Houry
Managing Partner
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Andrew Chen
Associate & Principle
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Audrey Soussan
Managing Partner
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Charles Fourault
Partner
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What does Claire Houry invest in?
Claire Houry invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Claire Houry last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Claire Houry closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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