# Founders Future

> Founders Future is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and E-Commerce. See 142 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 142
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last fund: May 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founders-future/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/foundersfuture
- Website: http://www.foundersfuture.com

Founders Future is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and E-Commerce. Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Marc Menasé, Founders Future is a transatlantic tech investment platform supporting a new generation of AI-first entrepreneurs driving major transformations. Backed by entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the platform manages nearly $400 million and ranks among the most activeearly-stage players in Europe.As part of its expansion into the United States, Founders Future strengthened its shareholder base in 2025 with long-term partners such as MACSF, the Dassault family, and the CMA CGM Group. With over 120 investments, Founders Future is actively supporting companies like Databricks, Perplexity, Function Health, Waterdrop, Veesion, Riot, Conduktor and Raidium.Its strategy focuses on high-impact sectors - AI, fintech, SaaS, and healthcare - with a clear ambition: to empower the most ambitious entrepreneurs in scaling breakthrough technologies on a global scale.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$5.8M |
| Series A | $6.2M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 10% |
| Internet | 12 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 6% |
| Retail | 6 | 4% |

140 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 51 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 21 | 15% |
| Series A | 20 | 14% |
| Series B | 9 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 67 | 47% |
| United States | 8 | 6% |
| Italy | 2 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Austria | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Camille Aubery | Head of Private Investors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/camille-aubery |
| Diane Conqueret | Head of Legal & ESG | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diane-conqueret |
| Dulcie fforde | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dulcie-fforde-dd1d |
| Gabrielle Fourey | Communication | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabrielle-fourey |
| Guillaume Ambar | Head of Investor Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-ambar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bohr Energy | Bohr Energy is an artificial intelligence firm that aims to make the energy market accessible to independent producers. | $11.4M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Linc | Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively. | $9.7M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Pramaana Labs | Pramaana Labs utilizes formal logic and mathematical proofs to ensure that outputs are grounded in stated evidence rather than statistical predictions. Its core verification engine identifies contradictions and ambiguities within complex datasets like tax codes, clinical trials, and financial policies. The platform allows users to simulate what-ifscenarios and run self-consistency checks before deploying formalized rules. These services assist entities in fields such as medical safety and multi-state tax compliance by creating auditable and traceable claims. | $27M | Seed | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| ZeroDrift | ZeroDrift is building the AI-native enforcement infrastructure for enterprise communication. We are the first platform that enforces the rules before an AI message is ever sent, fixing violations in real time across every channel where AI speaks for the business. Everything goes out clean. Nothing dangerous comes in.As AI starts to communicate onbehalf of entire organizations, the gap between what compliance requires and what companies can actually enforce is widening fast. Every existing solution monitors after send, once the risk is already out the door. ZeroDrift enforces before send. Enforcement did not exist as a category. We created it.We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and other world-class VCs, and built by a team from Microsoft, Google, and Goldman Sachs, led by a repeat AI founder. | $10M | Seed | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Noa | noa is a digital fitness and wellness company that offers premium, structured training programs for strength, pilates, and overall well-being through expert coaching and technology-driven experiences. | $5.8M | Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Audion | Audion transforms audio advertising into scalable performance with AI-driven optimization. | $15M | Series B | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| Petwealth | Petwealth, under their direction, is in the forefront of AI-powered pet diagnostics, providing earlier, wiser health insights. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Bon Vivant | A French biotechnology startup founded by Hélène Briand, and Stéphane Mac Millan that leverages precision fermentation technology to develop plant-based milk using yeast to create non-dairy alternatives that are similar in texture and taste to its counterparts. | $29.4M | Series A | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| getinside | Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022. | $2.4M | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Cashmere | Cashmere enables publishers to liberate their premium content for usage in AI platforms by providing tools for monitoring and monetizing data in the agentic AI era. | $5M | Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |

10 of 142 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 23 deals together
- [Daphni](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daphni) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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- [AA Sons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aa-sons) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [AFI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afi-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Founders Future invest in?

Founders Future invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 142 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Founders Future's check size?

Founders Future typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed, $1M–$5.8M at Pre-Seed and $6.2M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Founders Future participates in.

### How do I contact Founders Future?

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### Who are the partners at Founders Future?

The team at Founders Future includes Camille Aubery (Head of Private Investors), Diane Conqueret (Head of Legal & ESG) and Dulcie fforde (Principal), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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