# MAIF Avenir

> MAIF Avenir is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Internet. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maif-avenir/?viewAsMember=true
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MAIFAVENIR
- Website: https://www.maif-avenir.fr/

MAIF Avenir is a French VC firm investing in post-seed to series B startups founded by French entrepreneurs.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5.5M |
| Series A | $4.4M–$13M |
| Series B | $9.8M–$36M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 17% |
| Internet | 8 | 13% |
| SaaS | 5 | 8% |
| Peer to Peer | 5 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 8% |

102 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 22 | 37% |
| Seed | 13 | 22% |
| Series B | 9 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 41 | 68% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rodrigue Leroy | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodrigue-leroy |
| Rodrigue Leroy | VC, Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodrigue-leroy-2139 |
| Alexandre Joulié | VC, Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-jouli%C3%A9 |
| Gaspard Martin | VC, Associate | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaspard-martin |
| Juliette Huot | VC Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juliette-huot |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Iceberg Data Lab | Iceberg Data Lab offers financial companies with environmental data solutions to report and manage environmental impact. | $10M | Series A | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Naboo | Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need | $8.1M | Seed | Feb 05, 2024 |  |
| Strong by Form | Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility. | $5.2M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Yescapa | Yescapa is a rental platform for motorhomes and travel vehicles between individuals founded in 2012 by Benoît Panel and Adrien Pinson. The company that began calling itself AlquilarMiAutocaravana has not gone through the hands of any accelerator but the French mentoring program 'The Family'. The results cannot be better, in just threeyears, Yescapa has85,000 registered users in France, Germany, and Spain.The proper functioning of the idea is due, in part, to its success in the two rounds of financing that it has closed to date. The first in 2014 for a value of 550,000 euros, and the last one in September 2016 for 3 million euros. In this last round it has been capitalized only by MAIF Avenir , an investment fund, belonging to the MAIF insurer, specialized in collaborative economics, the digital world and innovation. MAIF Avenir joins the capital of Yescapa's historical associates, which are Frédéric Mazzella and Damien Grulier (co-founders of BlaBlaCar ), Stéphane Romanyszyn (founder of Entreparticuliers.com), Thierry Vandewalle and Xavier Gury (WINDEST fund), Laurent Mouflin (Pax Corporate Finance), The Family, and Arnaud Lecherf.Yescapa has been recognized with several awards in France, for the originality and usefulness of the idea. In addition, its differential value lies in the rental of camper vans and camper vans between individuals in a simple and fast way through its web platform, allowing users to enjoy innovative and unique trips under the parameters of simplicity, trust, and safety. | $7.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 25, 2023 |  |
| Edflex | Edflex offers content for businesses such as articles, videos, podcasts, online courses, and books. It is a SaaS solution that connects companies to access online corporate training content. Edflex is working to improve everyone's training by making it more understandable. The company's goal is to be the innovator in bringing togetherparticipants in online training by developing an easy-to-follow learning route. The teams at Edflex strive every day to locate and offer instructional content in a way that makes learning seem natural and effortless, rather than like an extra effort. | $9.8M | Series B | May 11, 2023 |  |
| Santé Académie | As a result of a lack of caregivers across the country, their tasks are evolving - doctors can be asked to practice a gynaecologist act, or a nurse to follow up on a patient under anticancer treatment. Meanwhile, medical knowledge is increasing all around the world - we estimate that 50% of it becomes useless after 7 years. Therefore how can weprovide continuous training to 2 million caregivers? Santé Académie rethinks Continuing Medical Education by offering educational videos with cinematographic quality accessible by web or mobile. Each course is divided into 5 to 15 min episodes to adequate caregivers' schedules. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, care assistants, and chiefs nurses, can access a catalogue of high-quality courses on clinical and regulatory themes customized to their daily practice. These courses are certified by the ANDPC and produced by the best experts from prestigious institutions. Our goal? To educate health professionals as well as their engagement, with the top-end knowledge directly accessible from their phone, to improve patient care from prevention to follow-up. A new experience already approved by more than 20 000 professional and health institutions (GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences, Service de Santé des Armées …) ! | $13.2M | Series A | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Carbo | Leading Decarbonization Platform for ambitious SMB/SMEs in Europe. Define, track, realize, and optimize your environmental and sustainability goals with our go-to carbon accounting softwares. | $5.5M | Seed | Feb 02, 2023 |  |
| Beeldi | Beeldi is THE fastest and most complete digital diagnostic solution on the market. Beeldi digitizes wealth management and allows you to exploit your data over time. | $8.3M | Series A | Nov 13, 2022 |  |
| Naboo | Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Naboo | Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does MAIF Avenir invest in?

MAIF Avenir invests primarily in Software, Internet and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 60 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is MAIF Avenir's check size?

MAIF Avenir typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5.5M at Seed, $4.4M–$13M at Series A and $9.8M–$36M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds MAIF Avenir participates in.

### How do I contact MAIF Avenir?

Public channels for MAIF Avenir 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 MAIF Avenir?

The team at MAIF Avenir includes Rodrigue Leroy (Principal), Rodrigue Leroy (VC, Principal) and Alexandre Joulié (VC, Principal), among 8 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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