# Polytechnique Ventures

> Polytechnique Ventures is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Robotics. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last fund: Mar 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/polytechnique-ventures
- Website: https://www.polytechnique-ventures.fr/?lang=en

Polytechnique Ventures is a VC fund in Paris focused on Biotechnology and Robotics. Polytechnique Ventures support entrepreneurs from the School's ecosystem.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$2.7M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 15% |
| Robotics | 3 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 12% |
| SaaS | 2 | 8% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 31% |
| Series A | 5 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 14 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Denis Lucquin | Founder and Non Exec Chairman | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denis-lucquin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Porelio | Porelio is an environmental technology that provides purification technologies for water and industrial chemicals. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Porelio | Porelio is an environmental technology that provides purification technologies for water and industrial chemicals. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Jimmy | Jimmy develops and operates thermal generators that supply industrial facilities with process heat produced through nuclear fission. The company designs compact generators that use high-temperature reactor technology to create heat without combustion and deliver it to industrial systems through heat transfer circuits. Its systems connect to factoryinfrastructure and provide heat for processes such as steam production, thermal oil heating, or hot air generation. Jimmy installs, operates, and manages these generators as integrated energy units adapted to the heat demand of each industrial site. The technology relies on micro-reactor architecture and modular deployment so multiple units can be combined to match required thermal output. Through this approach, Jimmy provides industrial heat that replaces fossil-fuel-based heat sources in manufacturing and processing operations. | $46.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 09, 2026 |  |
| Goodvest | Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance. | $14.1M | Series B | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| One Biosciences | One Biosciences leverages single-cell technologies to identify new therapeutics for difficult-to-treat diseases. Magali Richard, David Schilansky, and Céline Vallot co-founded the company in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. | $17.4M | Series A | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| bYoRNA | bYoRNA is a French biotechnology company specializing in the cost-efficient, scalable bioproduction of high-quality therapeutic messenger RNA (mRNA) using engineered eukaryotic cells, particularly recombinant yeast. Their disruptive platform enables the production of long, humanized mRNA with lower immunogenicity and higher integrity compared totraditional in vitro enzymatic synthesis. This technology aims to mass produce mRNA for gene therapies, cancer vaccines, and infectious disease vaccines at a fraction of current costs, making mRNA therapeutics more accessible globally. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Gobano Robotics | Gobano Robotics develops AI-driven robots capable of automating complex, dexterous tasks. Their solutions include soft manipulation, bin picking, packing and unpacking, and precise assembly operations. The robots learn from real-world experiences, improving performance to handle new situations with human-like decision-making. They are designed toreplace manual labor with automated processes. | $3.5M | Seed | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| mirSense | mirSense technology is a developer and manufacturer of a new generation of ultra-compact gas sensors designed to offer lasers for the medium infrared. The company's Industrial Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) and QCL-based spectrometer modules provide very low detection levels for the control of gas emissions, detection of dangerous substances orthe analysis of biological samples, enabling industries and defense sectors to get affordable quantum cascade lasers. | $7.9M | Series A | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Galam Robotics | Galam Robotics offers modular robotic solutions for optimizing logistics and storage processes. | $10.9M | Series A | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| REEV | REEV motorizes medical orthoses to help people affected by gait disorders to walk with greater ease everyday. | $9.2M | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Polytechnique Ventures invest in?

Polytechnique Ventures invests primarily in Biotechnology, Robotics and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Polytechnique Ventures's check size?

Polytechnique Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$11M at Seed, $1.3M–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $6.5M–$17M 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 Polytechnique Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Polytechnique Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Polytechnique Ventures?

The team at Polytechnique Ventures includes Denis Lucquin (Founder and Non Exec Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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