Pole Capital
VC Fund
Paris, France
Pole Capital is a VC fund in Paris focused on Payments and Sustainability. Pole Capital est une société d’investissement spécialisée dans la prise de participations à long-terme dans des startups non-cotées.Nous accompagnons des dirigeants désireux d’accélérer leur développement, en intervenant à la fois comme partenaire financier et comme consultant opérationnel.Notre objectif est de générer durablement de lacroissance pour nos investisseurs, les entreprises et les dirigeants que nous conseillons.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Pole Capital invests in
Stages Pole Capital invests in
Countries Pole Capital invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Payments 2 (29%)
- Sustainability 2 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (29%)
- LGBT 1 (14%)
- Hotel 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (14%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Country
- France 5 (71%)
- United States 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.Its team builds analytics and investment signals by analyzing billions of web articles and messages using natural language processing and machine learning. With its NLP platform TextReveal and its quantitative data science platform SignalReveal,SESAMm addresses the entire value chain of alpha research. SESAMm’s 90 people team in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Tunis, UK, and Metz, works with major hedge funds, banks, and asset management clients around the world for both fundamental and quantitative use cases. | $3.2M / Series A / Mar 09, 2018 | ||
| Pledg provides instant financing solutions on e-commerce and in-store sites. Thanks to Pledg, merchants increase their conversion rates, average basket and brand loyalty. Private and professional buyers buy straight away and pay later or in instalments; the merchant, meanwhile, is paid upon ordering.Pledg's solutions are omnichannel, veryeasy to integrate and have an exceptional acceptance rate thanks to a unique scoring algorithm: - Shared payment: buy as a group - Instalment payment: obtain a payment facility in 2x to 12x instalments without any risk to the merchant - Deferred payment: customers try their items at home without advancing any money and pay 15, 30 or 45 days later for the items they keepPledg has already conquered >100 large accounts, many of which have +€1 billion turnover. | $1.3M / Seed / Dec 05, 2017 | ||
| 1Check solution digitizes business processes related to the hotel industry to optimize the quality of service for its customers. | $1.1M / Jan 09, 2017 | ||
| Claim Assistance owns and operates refundmyticket.com and remboursermonbillet.com that help travelers claim air transport related refunds. It has developed tools, databases, algorithms and processes to optimize and industrialize air passenger claims for delayed or cancelled flights. They use them for individuals but indeed for corporatepartnerships like OTA, metasearch companies or corporate travel platforms. Pierrick Morier and Romain Drosne founded RefundMyTicket in 2014. It has its headquarters in Pantin in France. | $1.1M / Seed / Sep 18, 2016 | ||
| Misterb&b is an operator of a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ community. Its marketplace offers a searchable database of short-term rentals of homes, rooms, and apartments for its users as per their preferred locations that enable LGBTQ individuals and allies to monetize from their spare space whileproviding affordable houses in a hassle-free manner.Misterb&b was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2M / Seed / May 04, 2015 | ||
| Zenpark offers Europe's first automated parking shared service. Zenpark allows its members to access an intelligent network shared parking, a convenient and economical solution to park with confidence. Their network consists of partners (hotels, residential landlords, businesses, parking operators, administrative buildings ...) thus optimizethe use of their places. | $1.8M / Seed / Jan 01, 2015 | ||
| Zenpark offers Europe's first automated parking shared service. Zenpark allows its members to access an intelligent network shared parking, a convenient and economical solution to park with confidence. Their network consists of partners (hotels, residential landlords, businesses, parking operators, administrative buildings ...) thus optimizethe use of their places. | $329K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2013 |
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FAQ
What does Pole Capital invest in?
Pole Capital invests primarily in Payments, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Pole Capital's check size?
Pole Capital typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pole Capital participates in.
When did Pole Capital last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Pole Capital closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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