# Financiere De l'Echiquier

> Financiere De l'Echiquier is a VC fund in Paris backing Farming and Computer. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/financiere-de-l'echiquier/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/finechiquier
- Website: http://www.fin-echiquier.fr/Home_1_en.aspx
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/financieredelechiquier

Financiere De l'Echiquier is a VC fund in Paris focused on Farming and Computer. FINANCIERE JPC is a retail company based out of 20 Rue Saint-Martin, Vesoul, Franche-Comté, France.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farming | 1 | 20% |
| Computer | 1 | 20% |
| Lighting | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Commercial | 1 | 20% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 4 | 80% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Didier Le Menestrel | Management Team and Co-Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/didier-le-menestrel |
| Adrien Dumas | Manager of Global Chessboard | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrien-dumas |
| Amaury Eloy | Director of Human Resources | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amaury-eloy |
| Armand de Coussergues | Agenor manager Exchequer and Exchequer Excelsior | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/armand-de-coussergues |
| Christian Gueugnier | Co-Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-gueugnier |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Farm3 | Farm3 is a technology company specializing in industrial plant growth equipment and plant biology. They provide research accelerators and design plant production equipment. It will provide support in agronomy, mechatronics, software development, and operational development. | $500K | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Firalis | Firalis is a biotechnology company, creating novel values via biomarker discovery, development and regulatory qualification that ultimately lead to biomarker-based diagnostics.With a comprehensive expertise in the field, Firalis develops biomarkers and biomarker-based diagnostic kits to improve disease outcomes and patient comfort, increasetherapeutic decisions and finally to reduce healthcare costs remarkably, being the principle goals of biomarker services offered by Firalis. The activities of Firalis mainly, but not exclusively, involve biomarkers that are related to inflammatory disorders including common diseases such as atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis or rare/orphan diseases such as systemic or autoimmune vasculitis. A major part of their activities cover drug-induced organ injuries in particular kidney, liver and vasculature, as major drug targets.Firalis owes its leading position to a unique network of clinical centers of excellence that it established to conduct studies of biomarker qualification in clinics.At Firalis, they exclusively invest on projects with highest potential of success for biomarker-based diagnostics that will allow us to launch its first high-value diagnostic kits within short terms.The company is located in Huningue, a vibrant Alsatian town in the heart of BioValley at the triple border of France, Germany and Switzerland, next to Basel, the pharmaceutical capital of Europe. | $1.6M | Series B | Jul 04, 2013 |  |
| Tetco Technologies | Tetco Technologies SA engages in the development, integration, and distribution of services and solutions for telecom operators and enterprises in France. It offers a multi applications platform that enables to run various services and applications on the same hardware. The company offers next generation voice mail, unified messaging, unifiedcommunication, prepaid, live call screening, voice SMS, ringbacktone, short messaging service, and voice response solutions to telecom service providers. It also provides UCS unified communication, which is a product that integrates a unified number for mobile, office phone, and fax; UCS unified messaging that manages messages, such as voice, fax, and email; UCS voice mail; UCS fax server that manages faxes and e-mails; EVA, which is a speech recognition solution that offers an auto-attendant and a voice portal; IVR that access to information and services from a voice interface; and SMS Quest, which is a tool that uses the SMS technology to send and retrieve information inside a company to small enterprises and medium businesses. Tetco Technologies SA was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Courbevoie, France. | $3.1M | Series D | Dec 04, 2007 |  |
| Orchestra Networks | Orchestra Networks helps organizations manage their most important data, whatever that may be. We provide a software solution that lets users manage, govern and share any and all data assets, including master data, reference data and meta data, because we know that effective data management often requires more than a point solution. For overfifteen years, Orchestra Networks has focused on providing a multidomain data management solution so flexible that it can manage data needs you may not even have thought of yet. | $2M | Series A | May 14, 2007 |  |
| Novaled | Novaled AG is a world-class technology provider in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technologies. With expertise in synthetic and analytical chemistry, it offers complete solutions for the organic electronic markets, commercializing Novaled's Doping technology and materials.Novaled has developed long-term partnerships with major OLEDplayers worldwide. Its strong IP position in OLED technology is based on more than 500 patents granted or pending. In operation since March 2003, Novaled is headquartered in Dresden, Germany with branch offices in Asia. | $16.5M | Series B | Dec 01, 2005 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ace Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ace-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TechFund Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techfund-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [123Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/123venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Auriga Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/auriga-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdc-innovation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CFH Management GmbH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cfh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Financiere De l'Echiquier invest in?

Financiere De l'Echiquier invests primarily in Farming, Computer and Lighting startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Financiere De l'Echiquier?

The team at Financiere De l'Echiquier includes Didier Le Menestrel (Management Team and Co-Founder), Adrien Dumas (Manager of Global Chessboard) and Amaury Eloy (Director of Human Resources), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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