# ODYSSEE VENTURE

> ODYSSEE VENTURE is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 86 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 86
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 74%
- Last fund: Jan 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/odyssee-venture
- Website: http://www.odysseeventure.com

ODYSSEE VENTURE is a French Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France. The company has raised over 600M€.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $878k–$6.9M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 15% |
| Analytics | 8 | 9% |
| SaaS | 7 | 8% |
| Internet | 7 | 8% |

121 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 22 | 26% |
| Series A | 18 | 21% |
| Seed | 11 | 13% |
| Private Equity | 11 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 9 | 10% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 71 | 83% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sébastien Sassolas | Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s-bastien-sassolas |
| Florent Violette | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florent-violette |
| Julien Andrieux | Investment Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-andrieux-2 |
| Julien Andrieux | Investment Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-andrieux-7106 |
| Mathieu Boillet | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mathieu-boillet |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ENGO Eyewear | ENGO Eyewear is a specialist tech company that designs and builds high performance smart glasses tailored specifically for endurance athletes like runners, cyclists, and triathletes. | $5.8M | Seed | Jul 17, 2026 |  |
| Elixir Aircraft | Elixir Aircraft is an aerospace company that provides aircraft, component manufacturing, and training services. | $51.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 02, 2026 |  |
| BrightHeart | BrightHeart is a medical technology startup that is developing artificial intelligence software to help diagnose congenital heart abnormalities in foetuses. | $12.8M | Series A | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| Veesion | Real-time gesture recognition algorithm to automatically detect shoplifting behaviors. | $43M | Series B | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Terratis | Terratis is a French company that uses the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to reduce the populations of tiger mosquitoes and agricultural pests. Their mission is to diminish harmful insect populations effectively on a large scale using a scientific, innovative, ecological, and efficient approach. | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 07, 2025 |  |
| Circle Safe | Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. The most effective way to prevent recurrence is to perform an interventional procedure: ablation. Most of these procedures are performed by Radiofrequency or by a more recent technique, the Cryoballoon. The latter has many advantages including speed and simplicity but has a complicationthat is specific to it: the risk of creating Diaphragmatic Paralysis. Circle Safe is developing a solution with the aim of permanently eliminating this complication. | $8.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Copains | Copains is a bakery that produces a wide variety of pastry and confectionery items intended to offer a healthy eating approach. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 15, 2024 |  |
| Blanchisserie De Paris | La Blanchisserie de Paris is a clothing laundry company that offers maintenance services for clothing and sanitary appliances | $6.4M | Private Equity | Jun 26, 2024 |  |
| Ecomiam | Ecomiam is an online store that offers frozen food products. They offer products that include meats, fish, seafood, vegetables, potatoes, slices of bread, pastries, desserts, and more. | $5.7M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Diabeloop | Diabeloop is a medical device company for diabetes and closed-loop system. It also develops disruptive technological innovations to automate the treatment of diabetes.The company mission is to make accessible disruptive technological innovations that will allow people with type 1 diabetes to live the life they want. Diabeloop was founded in 2015and is headquartered in Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. | $16.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 04, 2024 |  |

10 of 86 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does ODYSSEE VENTURE invest in?

ODYSSEE VENTURE invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Analytics startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is ODYSSEE VENTURE's check size?

ODYSSEE VENTURE typically joins rounds of $878k–$6.9M at Seed and $1.6M–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds ODYSSEE VENTURE participates in.

### How do I contact ODYSSEE VENTURE?

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### Who are the partners at ODYSSEE VENTURE?

The team at ODYSSEE VENTURE includes Sébastien Sassolas (Founder), Florent Violette (Investment Director) and Julien Andrieux (Investment Director). 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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