New Wave (VC)
VC Fund
New Wave (VC) is a VC fund focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. New Wave is a seed only fund, whose purpose is to back the next generation of successful European founders. New Wave was co-founded by two early-stage investors Pia d'Iribarne (ex-Accel, Stride) and Jean de La Rochebrochard (Kima), and is backed by a group of iconic founders (Free, Zenly, Voodoo, Sorare) and GPs from the best later-stage funds(Coatue, Benchmark, DST, Insight Partners).
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $80M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries New Wave (VC) invests in
Stages New Wave (VC) invests in
Countries New Wave (VC) invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$24M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.5M–$3M
- Series A
- $15M–$414M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (19%)
- FinTech 3 (11%)
- Payments 3 (11%)
- Mobile Apps 3 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (56%)
- Series A 5 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (11%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
Country
- France 9 (33%)
- United States 4 (15%)
- Germany 2 (7%)
- Switzerland 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jean de La Rochebrochard
Co-founder & Partner
|
Co-founder & Partner | Total investments: 26 | Find email | |
Pia d'Iribarne
Co-founder & Managing Partner
|
Co-founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 29, 2024 | ||
| We are creating next-level entertainment for Anime fans between episodes. | $10.9M / Seed / Jul 11, 2024 | ||
| Lago synchronizes customer data to business tools. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New Castle County, Delaware. | $15M / Series A / Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| Mistral AI develops artificial intelligence models, applications, and infrastructure for organizations and developers. Its product portfolio includes Vibe for autonomous work and coding, Studio for building and deploying AI applications, Forge for training and customizing models, and Compute for AI training and inference infrastructure. The company also provides frontier models, APIs, model customization, document intelligence, speech solutions, and applied AI services for business and public-sector use cases. Its deployment options include self-hosted environments, Mistral-hosted services, and integrations through cloud providers. Mistral AI supports applications such as enterprise knowledge search, data analysis, document synthesis, coding, agent orchestration, model evaluation, and domain-specific AI development. | $414.5M / Series A / Dec 10, 2023 | ||
| 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers | $4.4M / Seed / Jun 19, 2023 | ||
| Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure to write software codes. | $26M / Seed / May 14, 2023 | ||
| Amo is a social networking platform. | $17.6M / Seed / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Blobr is helping non-technical people to manage their APIs as products and drive forward the API economy. | $5.4M / Seed / Feb 09, 2023 | ||
| Product Science increases product metrics for mobile applications and helps apps work faster by providing insights into key performance issues that impact user experience. It analyzes the code and actual runtime data to pinpoint performance issues. Its AI enables them to do it more efficiently by providing unique insights for data visualizations tohelp mobile developers identify the problem right away. The company's integrated development environment tools and plugins display video recordings of apps alongside performance traces, providing insights into what's going on behind the screen.Product Science was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $18M / Seed / Jan 04, 2023 | ||
| cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system. | $3M / Seed / Dec 06, 2022 | ||
| See all 27 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does New Wave (VC) invest in?
New Wave (VC) invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does New Wave (VC) invest in?
New Wave (VC) typically joins rounds of $3M–$24M at Seed, $1.5M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$414M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not New Wave (VC)'s own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds New Wave (VC) took part in.
How do I contact New Wave (VC)?
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Who are the partners at New Wave (VC)?
The team at New Wave (VC) includes Jean de La Rochebrochard (Co-founder & Partner) and Pia d'Iribarne (Co-founder & Managing Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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