# MELIES Business Angels

> MELIES Business Angels is a VC fund in Montpellier backing Aerospace and Art. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montpellier, France
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/melies-business-angels
- Website: https://melies.fr/

MELIES Business Angels is an association that brings together more than one hundred investors in order to finance and support companies in the Languedoc-Roussillon region with strong growth potential. MELIES BA was labeled in 2006 by the Ministry of SMEs / SMIs and in 2014 by iSource. In 2016, the Toulouse-based Capitole Angels and MELIESBusiness Angels network together created a new federative structure

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 2 | 25% |
| Art | 1 | 13% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| CRM | 1 | 13% |
| Drones | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Angel | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gilles Roche | President | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Drone Geofencing | Drone Geofencing creates applications for remotely piloted aircraft as well as a system for remotely monitoring a fleet of drones from a command center. Drone Geofencing collaborates closely with many research teams from the CNRS and CIRA, as well as manufacturers of professional drones and several significant clients. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| Odaptos | Odaptos designs and markets a SaaS product to perform usability testing in videoconferencing, analyze human emotions, and provide results and insights to understand the end-users. It is an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to perform usability testing. | $526K | Seed | Jan 05, 2023 |  |
| FairFair | FairFair is a marketplace that connects small craftsmen and artisans and fixers with people needing emergency repairs. | $485.6K | Venture - Series Unknown | May 10, 2021 |  |
| Deepbloo | Deepbloo is a B2B platform that provides business development and market intelligence solutions in the energy sector | $608K | Pre-Seed | Jan 11, 2021 |  |
| EPUR | EPUR has developed the OAKBOT, a portable digital milling machine for traditional woodwork and wood construction. | $409K | Angel | Dec 05, 2019 |  |
| Wefight | Wefight is an open door for patients treated outside clinical settings. It makes it possible to offer services and facilitates the collect of data in real life. Our goal: to secure patients at home and save time for care teams. | $2M | Seed | Aug 29, 2019 |  |
| Microbia Environnement | Microbia Environnement is a specialized biotechnology company in molecular diagnosis for environmental microbiology and helps organizations, which want to secure their water resources and anticipate the microbial risk. Our company proposes biosensor based solutions to anticipate toxic microalgae blooms in brackish and seawaters. | $625K | Angel | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| YellowScan | YellowScan is committed to provide the most reliable integrated imaging systems and customer support for demanding UAV applications. Since 2012, the team’s dedication to fulfill high resolution and high-quality survey requirements has fueled research and development.This year, YellowScan is presenting its next generation integrated LiDARs.Ergonomic, robust and easy-to-use, these systems are designed by surveyors to serve surveyors, civil engineers, archeologists or environment scientists with a turn-key solution that can be mounted on any drone for short-time data processing needs.Mapper II and YellowScan Vx completes the “Just press the Yellow Button” product line including YellowScan Surveyor, the successful world lightest all integrated LiDAR for UAV, and the LiveStation, the real-time in flight LiDAR monitoring kit (software & radio-modems). | $439K | Seed | Nov 01, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capitole Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capitole-angels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Les Business Angels des Grandes Écoles](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/les-business-angels-des-grandes-%C3%A9coles) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Mines Alès Angels — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sofilaro](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sofilaro) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angels Santé](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-sant) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arts et Métiers Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arts-et-mtiers-business-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does MELIES Business Angels invest in?

MELIES Business Angels invests primarily in Aerospace, Art and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.

### How do I contact MELIES Business Angels?

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### Who are the partners at MELIES Business Angels?

The team at MELIES Business Angels includes Gilles Roche (President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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