# Groupe IRD

> Groupe IRD is a VC fund in Marcq backing Software, AgTech and Retail. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marcq, France
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupe-ird
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/groupeird
- Website: http://www.groupeird.fr/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groupe-ird-110612575622110

Groupe IRD is a VC fund in Marcq focused on Software and AgTech. Groupe IRD specializes in the financing of development of small and medium-sized businesses and industries (PME/PMI) in the Nord Pas de Calais region.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| AgTech | 1 | 13% |
| Retail | 1 | 13% |
| Farming | 1 | 13% |
| Grocery | 1 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DiagRAMS Technologies | DiagRAMS Technologies offers predictive maintenance solution for AI industry. | $1.3M | Seed | Aug 30, 2023 |  |
| Ensweet | Ensweet is a telemedicine platform intended to offer telerehabilitation services to patients. They offer equipment so that everyone can exercise whenever possible, enabling patients to have accessible rehabilitation. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| SENCROP | 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 | $18M | Series B | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Minafin | Minafin is a global fine chemicals developer and manufacturer. Minafin develops and manufactures active ingredients, organic intermediates, and specialty fine chemicals for the life science industries and technical applications. |  | Private Equity | Jul 06, 2021 |  |
| Retail Shake | Retail Shake is a 360° tool for price monitoring, product comparison, benchmarking, tracking promotions, geolocating stock, business intelligence by sector and more. Everything you need on a daily basis to optimise your stock, merchandising plan, and marketing strategy. Convey the essence of your products. Optimise your brand image. Enhance yourbrand equity.You can also track brands and retailers that interest you.Track your brand’s prices, customer reviews, merchandising, geolocate products and stock – and for your competitors’ brands too. Get live information about your competitors’ product line and promotion policies. Our integrated competitive intelligence is automated. Receive information updated daily, whenever it suits you.Retail Shake is convinced that retail stores still have a great future. They are strategic in the customer journey. Human relationships, giving advice, listening to customers, and the way products are displayed on shelves are key to the customer relationship. They make all the difference for pure players. New ideas and practices are tested in stores every day. The industry is dynamic, and competition is fierce. We offer new ways to monitor your teams’ – and your competitors’ – good and bad practices. You have a comprehensive benchmark. You can also use Retail Shake to share your best merchandising practices with your community including other stores, purchasing departments, and suppliers.Having products in stock is vital to meeting consumer demands. Forecasts and stock levels are key to ensuring adequate stock levels.Retail Shake geolocates your stock to help you track products. Check the quantity of products in each store on the dynamic map. You receive daily alerts about the value and quantity of your stock and sold-out and surplus items.Optimised information means you hone stock monitoring for greater agility. | $787.6K | Seed | Jul 01, 2020 |  |
| Ausha | Ausha is a podcast hosting platform, that currently hosts more than 2,600 podcasts. | $848.6K | Seed | Mar 10, 2020 |  |
| Mapwize | Mapwize is an indoor mapping platform for guiding people inside every building. The platform offers various benefits, including improved visitor experience, precise directions across multiple floors and multiple buildings, customized maps, restricted access to confidential information, and more.Mapwize was launched in 2014 by Mederic Morel andMathieu Gerard. It is operated from Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 14, 2017 |  |
| BBG Market | BBG Market is the largest organic supermarket good and gourmet of the region of Lille, with a varied range of organic products in Fruits & Vegetables, Butcher / Delicatessen, Fresh Produce, Bulk, Savory / Sweet Groceries, Cosmetics and Hygiene. | $549K | Series B | Oct 23, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Finorpa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finorpa-gie) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nord France Amorcage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nord-france-amorcage) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Finovam Gestion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finovam-gestion) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerusalem-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [50 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/50-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Groupe IRD invest in?

Groupe IRD invests primarily in Software, AgTech and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Groupe IRD last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Groupe IRD closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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