# Frst

> Frst is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 72 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 72
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $76M
- Last fund: Jun 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/frstvc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/frst_vc
- Website: https://www.frst.vc/

Frst is a seed-stage venture firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Frst. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Frst. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/frst-d3d4?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$18M |
| Pre-Seed | $116k–$4.3M |
| Series A | $6.6M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 10% |
| SaaS | 6 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 7% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 6% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 46% |
| Series A | 12 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 1% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 31 | 43% |
| United States | 3 | 4% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pierre Entremont | Co-founder & Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pierre-entremont |
| Bruno Raillard | Co-Founder & Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-raillard |
| Gabriel de Vinzelles | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-de-vinzelles |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| KelAI | KelAI develops AI software that automates investment research, signal testing, and quantitative trading workflows. | $5M | Seed | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Uncovr | Uncovr is an AI-powered surgical intelligence and documentation platform that automatically transforms operating room videos into structured clinical reports and billing codes. | $7M | Seed | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Fakto | AI platform for cost intelligence. | $4.2M | Seed | May 13, 2026 |  |
| Elastics | Elastics is an AI-native operating system for prediction markets and beyond. Powered by auditable AI agents, it allows traders to build and automate trading workflows in plain language, from signal generation to live execution. | $2M | Pre-Seed | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Helical | Helical is an intermediary platform that offers bioinformaticians free access to the technologies from AI and biological computation. | $10M | Seed | Apr 13, 2026 |  |
| Parallel 1245 | Parallel helps coding agent works side by side with hospital teams to deliver faster and more accurate medical coding. | $20M | Series A | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Freeda | Deliver real-estate projects 10x faster | $3.9M | Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Spiko | Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds. | $21.5M | Series A | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Orasio | Orasio is an AI tool that designs solutions capable of detecting, situations in video streams, for internal security forces. | $17.9M | Seed | May 15, 2025 |  |
| Flexion Robotics | Flexion Robotics develops an AI-driven autonomy platform for humanoid robots to enhance automation and space exploration. The company uses simulated environments and reinforcement learning to train robots for different tasks. Its software stack integrates reinforcement learning, language-based reasoning, vision-language-action models, andtransformer-based whole-body control to enable robots to understand instructions, adapt to new environments, and perform complex tasks without extensive human teleoperation. The company trains its models in high-fidelity simulators to generate synthetic data at scale, reducing reliance on human demonstrations. | $7.4M | Seed | Apr 23, 2025 |  |

10 of 72 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Fabric Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabric-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Eurazeo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurazeo-com) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Frst invest in?

Frst invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 72 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Frst's check size?

Frst typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$18M at Seed, $116k–$4.3M at Pre-Seed and $6.6M–$40M 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 Frst participates in.

### How do I contact Frst?

Public channels for Frst include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Frst?

The team at Frst includes Pierre Entremont (Co-founder & Partner), Bruno Raillard (Co-Founder & Partner) and Gabriel de Vinzelles (Principal). 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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