# Groupe Arnault

> Groupe Arnault is a VC fund in Paris backing Internet and E-Commerce. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Groupe Arnault is a VC fund in Paris focused on Internet and E-Commerce. Groupe Arnault SAS is a principal investment firm. The firm seeks to hold stake in companies and is owned and controlled by Mr. Bernard Arnault. Groupe Arnault SAS was founded in 1978 and is based in Paris, France.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.5M–$19M |
| Series B | $9.9M–$45M |
| Series C | $20M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 7 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 17% |
| Software | 5 | 12% |
| Health Care | 5 | 12% |
| SaaS | 4 | 10% |

85 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 10 | 24% |
| Series A | 7 | 17% |
| Series B | 5 | 12% |
| Seed | 4 | 10% |
| Series E | 3 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 32% |
| Germany | 8 | 20% |
| France | 5 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Etienne Queti | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etienne-queti |
| Gregory Sciacca | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregory-sciacca |
| John Mertens | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-mertens-2 |
| Nicolas Brunel | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-brunel-2 |
| Antoine Loison | Investment Manager | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antoine-loison |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Open | Mindfulness studio | $9M | Series A | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| Ledger | Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology.Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active in the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain-based assets.Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France), and offices in San Francisco. | $380M | Series C | Jun 10, 2021 |  |
| CarThera | CarThera designs and develops innovative therapeutic ultrasound-based medical devices for treating brain disorders since.The company’s proprietary device called SonoCloud® is an intracranial ultrasound implant that temporarily opens the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and allows a significantly increased concentration of therapeutic molecules to reachthe brain. | $9.9M | Series B | Dec 12, 2018 |  |
| Back Market | Back Market is an online marketplace for refurbished electronics. The company brings refurbished electronic devices and appliances to customers in 13 countries (including the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, and more recently, Portugal, Japan, Finland, and Ireland). It employs ateam of 480 employees and counting across its 4 offices located in New York, Berlin, Paris, and Bordeaux.Launched in 2014 by Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Quentin Le Brouster, and Vianney Vaute, Back Market is headquartered in Paris, France. | $45M | Series B | Jun 13, 2018 |  |
| Gentle Monster | Gentle Monster operates as a luxury eyewear brand, operating under a unique philosophy and perspective, devoted towards a vision of “weird beauty” through “High-end experimentation”. |  | Private Equity | Sep 08, 2017 |  |
| Riskified | Riskified empowers businesses to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. We have built a next-generation platform that allows online merchants to create trusted relationships with their consumers. Leveraging machine learning that benefits from a global merchant network, our platform identifies theindividual behind each online interaction, helping merchants—our customers—eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. We drive higher sales and reduce fraud and other operating costs for our merchants and provide superior consumer experiences, as compared to our merchants’ performance prior to onboarding us. | $33M | Series C | Jun 27, 2017 |  |
| Spring | Spring is a retail company that sells a wide range of items from apparel to home and garden items. It is a shopping application for iOS devices. Spring enables its users to follow the brands they love as well as purchase new arrivals, exclusives, and one-of-a-kind products.The company originally operated as Jello Labs and announced the namechange in July 2014.Spring was founded by David Tisch, Alan Tisch, and Octavian Costache in New York. | $65M | Series C | May 11, 2017 |  |
| Vimcar | As one of Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS startups, Vimcar is redefining business mobility by seamlessly integrating commercial vehicles into digital ecosystems. An innovative combination of live car data and a set of cloud-based applications offer real-time insight into vehicle activity to reduce operational cost for fleets. The company specializesin providing low-price vehicle management services and has already equipped more than 90,000 vehicles with its SaaS solutions in German-speaking countries. In early 2020 Vimcar announced its expansion to the United Kingdom. | $5.5M | Series A | Apr 06, 2017 |  |
| ResearchGate | ResearchGate is the professional network for researchers. Over 20 million researchers use researchgate.net to share and discover research, build their networks, and advance their careers. Based in Berlin, ResearchGate was founded in 2008. Its mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all. | $52.6M | Series D | Feb 28, 2017 |  |
| Medigo | Headquartered in Berlin, Medigo enables global access to quality healthcare. As a third party administrator (TPA), Medigo helps organisations navigate healthcare across the globe with an international provider network, tech-driven cost containment, and an excellent member experience. Medigo is supported by leading VCs such as Accel Partners andAtlantic Labs, and employs a driven team of 50+ people from 25 countries. |  | Series A | Sep 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Groupe Arnault invest in?

Groupe Arnault invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Groupe Arnault's check size?

Groupe Arnault typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$19M at Series A, $9.9M–$45M at Series B and $20M–$80M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Groupe Arnault participates in.

### How do I contact Groupe Arnault?

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### Who are the partners at Groupe Arnault?

The team at Groupe Arnault includes Etienne Queti (President), Gregory Sciacca (Investment Manager) and John Mertens (Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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