# Pleiade Venture

> Pleiade Venture is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and E-Commerce. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pleiade-venture/about/
- Website: http://pleiadeventure.com

Pleiade Venture is a French Ventrue Capital Company. It supports innovative companies from all sectors, except biotech.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 39% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 14% |
| Internet | 4 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 58% |
| Series A | 7 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 28 | 78% |
| Belgium | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Harry Gozlan | Member of the Investment Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harry-gozlan |
| Jean-Michel Renck | Founder & Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-michel-renck |
| Maximilien Oursel | Investment Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maximilien-oursel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kenko | Kenko is an application that helps to provide corporate health insurance. | $4.7M | Seed | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| ArcaScience | Achieving worldwide biomedical targeting, identifying adverse events, and mastering interoperability down to the tiniest form of data extraction and visualization is what ArcaScience does on a daily basis. User-friendly interface generating instant hypotheses, extracting therapeutic insights in seconds, and showing incredible graphicrepresentations to pick up any evidence made clear instantly. | $7M | Seed | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| RIVRS | RIVRS creates high quality UGC games on all trending sandbox platforms. | $4.4M | Seed | Oct 03, 2024 |  |
| Climbing District | Climbing District is a social club and coworking space between batignolles, canal saint-martin, buttes-chaumont, and saint-lazare where beginners or experienced climbers practise climbing in bouldering rooms. | $10.8M | Series A | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Sensefuel | Sensefuel is a software publisher dedicated to the retail industry and in particular e-commerce. Its innovative e-commerce search engine is based on algorithms specifically designed for online sales. It helps e-merchants of all sizes to give their visitors a new search experience through personalized results. | $3.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 2023 |  |
| askR.ai | Kaptain Charlie est le coach virtuel qui permet aux directeurs de magasin de prendre les bonnes initiatives au bon moment pour maximiser les performances de leur point de vente.Co-construit avec plus de 60 Directeurs Régionaux, Kaptain Charlie est le coach virtuel qui permet aux enseignes de gagner quelques points de chiffre d’affaires enalignant les points de vente les moins performants sur les meilleurs. Grâce à une puissante IA, il aide les directeurs de magasins à prendre les bonnes initiatives au bon moment pour maximiser leurs performances. | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Per Angusta | Per Angusta is an agile procurement performance management platform that develops a SaaS to enhance the performance of procurement teams. It also offers a SaaS solution to help you build your procurement action plan, set objectives, measure performance, and communicate the value created throughout the organization. They also enable buying teams toachieve quantum in collaboration, agility, and accountability.Per Angusta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France. | $3.5M | Series A | Sep 17, 2020 |  |
| Primaa | Primaa is a French startup based in Paris. It was co-founded in 2018 by 3 cousins with complementary skills and experiences : Fanny, Stéphane and Marie Sockeel. | $2M | Seed | Oct 16, 2019 |  |
| creads | Creads is an advertising agency based on principles of crowdsourcing. Over 50,000 designers are gathered across the world to create the perfect design for brands such as logo design, name and slogan conception, web and print design. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Ysance | Ysance provides SaaS AI and marketing solutions for retailers.Ysance enables marketing teams to recognize and qualify an unprecedented share of their anonymous digital audience and engage them in meaningful personalized interactions, across all online advertising, web, mobile, in-store and email activation channels.Benefits include optimizedmedia strategies, superior web and mobile conversions, online-to-offline omni-commerce strategies that demonstrably grow in-store revenue, and turbocharged email campaign performance. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [CapHorn Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caphorn-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [KREAXI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rhne-alpes-cration) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [123 Investment Managers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/123-investment-managers) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Pleiade Venture invest in?

Pleiade Venture invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Pleiade Venture's check size?

Pleiade Venture typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5M at Seed and $1.4M–$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 Pleiade Venture participates in.

### How do I contact Pleiade Venture?

Public channels for Pleiade Venture include LinkedIn 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 Pleiade Venture?

The team at Pleiade Venture includes Harry Gozlan (Member of the Investment Committee), Jean-Michel Renck (Founder & Partner) and Maximilien Oursel (Investment 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 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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