Emertec
VC Fund
Grenoble, France
Emertec is a VC fund in Grenoble focused on Energy and Electronics. EMERTEC’s experienced investment team has developed proven track record and has been able to develop close ties with major industrial players, many of them also being investors in their funds.These close ties are extremely valuable as to understand medium and long-term requirements of major order placers and high-level commercial opportunities. This brings visibility and confidence for entrepreneurs as well as for its investors. Their objective is to create value by turning ground-breaking technological innovations into commercial and financial successful companies.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Fund size:
- $78M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Emertec invests in
Stages Emertec invests in
Countries Emertec invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$3.3M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$6.8M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $566k–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 6 (20%)
- Electronics 6 (20%)
- Biotechnology 5 (17%)
- Hardware 4 (13%)
- Software 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (30%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (27%)
- Seed 4 (13%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
Country
- France 22 (73%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Switzerland 1 (3%)
- United States 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jean-Philippe Gendre
Member, Board of Directors
|
Member, Board of Directors | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| MESA Imaging is focusing on the development and production of 3D time-of-flight cameras. | $4.3M / Series A / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| Osmia SAS provides crop pollination services to improve yield and quality of agricultural production. Osmia intervenes in the context of specific problems on entomophilous or anemophilic pollination. Methodological approach and experience enables the company to find relevant solutions. It offers pollination studies and services for pre-base, baseor multiplication seeds. It also offers simple and efficient pollination services for arboriculture and optimize the yields and the quality of the productions of fruit trees.Osmia SAS was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in France. | $1.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 17, 2017 | ||
| Sencrop is an ag-tech startup that offers an in-field data-based platform to empower farmers to make better decisions in their daily agricultural activities. Sencrop designs and sells connected weather forecast solutions for farmers to measure rain, hygrometry, and wind speed. The sensors are cheap, robust, movable, and easy to use, making moreefficient and sustainable farming possible | $1.5M / Seed / Jan 12, 2017 | ||
| Ynsect provides products and services that operate in the agro-food and environmental biotech industries. It uses the potential of insect nutrients and behaviors to develop novel products and services in collaboration with their clients. Since 2011, Ÿnsect has been transforming farmed insects into premium animal nutrition. They are developinginnovations to farm insects at large scale and automating processes to turn insects into the highest quality raw materials for animal feed. Its unique know-how makes Ÿnsect a preferred partner among agri-food professionals, laboratories, investors, public institutions, and insect industry farmers. | $15.2M / Series B / Dec 14, 2016 | ||
| Nexdot develops the synthesis, the production, and the applications of a new generation of semiconductor nanocrystals with controlled size and shape: Quantum Dots (QDs). We are the world leader for the development of nanoplatelets – 2D nanosheet Quantum Dots with upgraded properties.They are a spin-off company from a world-class academic lab atESPCI (Paris, France) in nanomaterial research and we benefit from more than ten years of experience in fundamental and applied research on nanomaterials and their technological applications. After four years of intense internal R&D efforts, we have developed unique know-how for the production of colloidal Quantum Dots and Nanoplatelets, Our proprietary materials with controlled shape and composition are unique and bring new expectations for use in displays, lighting, energy storage, detectors, and bio-imaging. Nexdot gathers young, enthusiastic, top level scientists and a board of senior executives with very strong track records on company management and innovation leadership. | $3.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 14, 2016 | ||
| eLichens' mission is to provide relevant and comprehensive information about the air they breathe. The company relies on a portfolio of patents, know-how and skills that enable a complete air quality solution (sensors and services) and address both consumer electronics and industrial markets. eLichens has its offices in Grenoble, France andin the Silicon Valley California, USA. | $3.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 29, 2016 | ||
| Deepki is the most trusted sustainability solution for real estate. The complete SaaS platform helps asset owners and investors manage risk, enhance financial performance, and meet rising expectations from regulators and stakeholders with data-driven insights. They support clients in creating clear, actionable plans for both climate transition andadaptation—delivering quantifiable environmental and financial outcomes.With 600+ customers and 70,000 users, Deepki monitors €4T in assets across 90+ countries and 60+ asset types, serving clients such as Generali Real Estate, PGIM, Swiss Life, and the French government. Deepki holds both ISAE 3000 Type II and SOC 2 Type II reports, meeting the highest standards for data security, credibility and auditability.With 500+ customers and 50,000 users, Deepki monitors €4T in assets across 80+ countries and 60+ asset types, serving clients such as Generali Real Estate, PGIM, Swiss Life, and the French government. Their platform is also ISAE 3000 Type 2 certified, which meets the highest standards for data credibility and auditability. | $2.3M / Series A / Jun 23, 2016 | ||
| Naio Technologies develops and markets machines for agriculture and viticulture. It features electric tools for weeding, hoeing, and harvesting that help farmers collect and harvest their products. The company specializes in agriculture, AI, robotics, and Agtech. Naio Technologies was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Midi-Pyrenees, France. | $3.3M / Seed / Dec 22, 2015 | ||
| Defymed is a worldwide leader in the development of innovative implantable medical devices that change the paradigm of therapeutics' administration. Defymed's innovations were developed to limit adverse events related to current standard of care based on site specific delivery of therapeutics. Our solutions aim for a preciseadministration of drugs, in a physiologic site, in order to improve disease's management and patients' quality of life. Up to date, two first in class technologies were developed by Defymed: MailPan®, a physiologic cell encapsulation device, and ExOlin®, a targeted drug delivery device (in clinics). Defymed owns an exclusive technology and know-how which positions its medical devices as a platform to meet several therapeutic applications, among which type 1 diabetes, hemophilia and cancer management. Defymed is certified ISO13485:2016. Defymed relies also on a strong and unique worldwide network gathering experts from the cell therapy and drug delivery fields. Defymed has been rewarded several times in Europe and in the USA, for its unique approaches to reinvent patients' journey. | $2.8M / Seed / Oct 27, 2015 | ||
| Osmia SAS provides crop pollination services to improve yield and quality of agricultural production. Osmia intervenes in the context of specific problems on entomophilous or anemophilic pollination. Methodological approach and experience enables the company to find relevant solutions. It offers pollination studies and services for pre-base, baseor multiplication seeds. It also offers simple and efficient pollination services for arboriculture and optimize the yields and the quality of the productions of fruit trees.Osmia SAS was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in France. | $565.6K / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 14, 2015 | ||
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FAQ
What does Emertec invest in?
Emertec invests primarily in Energy, Electronics and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 30 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 Emertec invest in?
Emertec typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$3.3M at Seed, $1.4M–$6.8M at Series A and $566k–$6M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Emertec's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Emertec took part in.
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The team at Emertec includes Jean-Philippe Gendre (Member, Board of Directors). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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