# NextStage AM

> NextStage AM is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Manufacturing. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 89%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextstage-am/?originalSubdomain=fr
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nextstageam?lang=en
- Website: https://nextstage-am.com/

NextStage AM is a multi-strategy private equity platform investing in innovative and growth-driven mid-market companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $11M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 22% |
| Legal | 1 | 11% |
| Shoes | 1 | 11% |
| Energy | 1 | 11% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 1 | 11% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bastien Aversa | private Equity Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bastien-aversa |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SMAIO | SMAIO is a manufacturer of medical devices for spinal pathologies. They provide control over surgical procedures to the spine physician through a range of solutions. | $1.7M | Post-IPO Equity | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| SMAIO | SMAIO is a manufacturer of medical devices for spinal pathologies. They provide control over surgical procedures to the spine physician through a range of solutions. | $1.1M | Post-IPO Debt | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| Yseop | Yseop is an artificial intelligence enterprise software on the market, which automatically writes (or speaks) in intelligent and non-repetitive text, both in English and a variety of other languages, just like a human being, but at a speed of over a thousand pages per second. Using a patented enterprise software based on Artificial Intelligenceand Natural Language Generation, Yseop boosts the performance of business teams by automating tasks such as lead generation, up-selling, cross-selling as well as by writing prep-to-meeting reports, post meeting summaries, personalized proposals, and customer intelligence executive summaries.Yseop’s solution dramatically reduces the cost of sales and makes sales and marketing teams more efficient. With Yseop, a company’s sales team can spend more time on customer interactions and less time on administrative tasks in order to close business faster.Yseop is able to deliver its technology as a SaaS or as an annual term license hosted on a company’s servers. Currently, Yseop is able to generate text in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Japanese. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Aventa | Aventa is a service-providing company that offers consulting, engineering, and digitalized services to marine energy projects. | $11.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2023 |  |
| FAGUO | SARL FAGUO manufactures and sells shoes and accessories. It offers adult and children shoes; accessories, such as bags and wallets; and tee shirts for men and women. The company sells its products through upscale stores, as well as online. It offers its products in Japan, Hong-Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark,Norway, Spain, and Canada. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Paris, France. | $15.9M | Private Equity | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| FAGUO | SARL FAGUO manufactures and sells shoes and accessories. It offers adult and children shoes; accessories, such as bags and wallets; and tee shirts for men and women. The company sells its products through upscale stores, as well as online. It offers its products in Japan, Hong-Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Denmark,Norway, Spain, and Canada. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Paris, France. | $15.9M | Private Equity | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| Javelot | Javelot is committed to supporting their teams, their members, and their customers in the daily management of their storage of agricultural raw materials. | $11M |  | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Javelot | Javelot is committed to supporting their teams, their members, and their customers in the daily management of their storage of agricultural raw materials. | $9.6M | Series B | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| Infolegale | Infolegale provides a legal information platform to monitor company solvency. It processes high value-added business information services containing legal information, corporate group structures, and financial information on companies and officers. The company's monitoring solutions allow clients to have priority access to exclusiveinformation on events that affect the solvency of the business relations.The company also delivers key company information and solvency appraisals that are accessible on webservices, e-mail alerts, e-files, or direct integration of the records in the clients’ databases, giving clients an accurate and reliable business information management.Infolegale was founded on 2008 and is based in Lyon, France. | $13.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 17, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IDIA Capital Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idia-capital-investissement) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Crédit Agricole](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-agricole) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sparkling Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparkling-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eli Lilly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eli-lilly) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Novartis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novartis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wille Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wille-finance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does NextStage AM invest in?

NextStage AM invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Legal startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NextStage AM's check size?

NextStage AM typically joins rounds of $11M–$14M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NextStage AM participates in.

### How do I contact NextStage AM?

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### Who are the partners at NextStage AM?

The team at NextStage AM includes Bastien Aversa (private Equity Associate). 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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