# Publicis Groupe

> Publicis Groupe is a VC fund in Paris backing Apps and SaaS. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/publicis-groupe
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PublicisGroupe
- Website: http://www.publicisgroupe.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/publicisgroupe

Publicis Groupe is a VC fund in Paris focused on Apps and SaaS. Publicis Groupe is now the 3rd largest communications group in the world. Through powerful alchemy of creativity and technology, they are driving business transformation across the entire value chain.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $93k–$6M |
| Convertible Note | $150k–$260k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 12% |
| SaaS | 2 | 12% |
| Mobile | 2 | 12% |
| Software | 2 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 12% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Convertible Note | 4 | 24% |
| Grant | 2 | 12% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 35% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 24% |
| Israel | 2 | 12% |
| Egypt | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agathe Bousquet | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agathe-bousquet |
| Alex Saber | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-saber |
| Dave Monk | Executive Creative Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-monk-3d0f |
| Jane Lin-Baden | Managing Partner APAC & CEO North Asia (Greater China, Japan, Korea) | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jane-lin-baden |
| Jean Etienne | Executive Vice President & CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-michel-etienne |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bria | Bria is a Computer Software company. | $24M | Series A | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Duel | The Duel Brand Advocacy Platform enables brands to mobilize and manage entire communities of social affiliates, content creators and micro-influencers to acquire customers and drive revenue at scale. It also measures the true ROI of advocacy and its impact on Social Commerce, in comparison to ads.Committed to working with brands that put peopleand the planet over profit, Duel is Bcorp Certified and breaks a brand’s reliance on digital advertising through its Social Affiliate and Brand Ambassador programs.Founded by world-record breaking adventurer and former brand ambassador, Paul Archer, and viral games developer, Panagiotis Tsarouchis, the Duel team is made up of psychologists, brand experts and community builders from companies including Amazon and Lululemon. The platform is used by brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Monica Vinader, Mint Velvet, NEOM Organics, ELEMIS and more, with the team having consulted with hundreds of other brands. | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 27, 2020 |  |
| NewsGuard | NewsGuard will address the fake news crisis by hiring dozens of trained journalists as analysts to review the 7,500 news and information websites most accessed and shared in the United States. NewsGuard will license its ratings and Nutrition Labels to the various social media and search platforms and other aggregators of news and information sothat they can offer the ratings and Nutrition Labels with their feeds. | $6M | Seed | Mar 06, 2018 |  |
| Yumamia | Yumamia is a chain of virtual cloud kitchens that offers corporates & busy professionals a premium food delivery service through on demand & subscription based plans offering high quality, delicious & clean food that is more affordable & convenient than fast food. Currently operating in Egypt and expanding soon to the GCC. | $200K | Convertible Note | Aug 14, 2017 |  |
| Formisimo | Formisimo is a cloud-based analytics solution that improves online checkouts and online forms.From the 2 billion data points that Formisimo has captured, an average of 67% of people who start typing in an online checkout don't complete the process. The many technical, informational and design related issues in online checkouts lead tomotivated and interested consumers leaving, and transacting with a different retailer. Described as the "Google Analytics for forms", the light-touch code can be installed in seconds. The technology then tracks and analyses what website visitors do in the checkout process, turning data in to insight that companies can use to improve their process.Our powerful, but easy to use, back-end shows the pain points of consumers in interactive reports. Formisimo was part of the Seedcamp accelerator in 2014. | $219K | Convertible Note | Mar 09, 2017 |  |
| WiseShelf | Wiseshelf transforms standard retail shelves into IoT world. Wiseshelf is an appliance mounted on existing retail shelves that provides real-time information regarding the stock level of each product. Our mission is to use the store shelf as a platform for interacting with employees/customers in a variety of use cases: Logistics &operation, Marketing & promotions, and creating valuable data that can be used by suppliers. | $1.2M | Seed | Jul 20, 2016 |  |
| Pixelbug | Pixelbug allows businesses to easily create compelling augmented reality experiences that add value to the world and to unleash the power of creativity by fully dissolving the boundaries between imagination and reality. We offer augmented reality as a service that businesses can use to drive reward based sales and overcome the barriers of buying ata distance by enabling next-gen purchasing experiences. | $93K | Seed | Jul 15, 2016 |  |
| InnaMed | Launching HomeLab, a gateway to personalized healthcare in the comfort and privacy of your home. Measure + Analyze + Enhance. | $11K | Grant | Jul 05, 2016 |  |
| Vidrovr | Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $150K | Convertible Note | Jul 01, 2016 |  |
| Ugogo | Ugogo Africa is an ecommerce site designed for people without bank accounts. The platform will allow artisans and craftspeople to sell their goods online, without needing traditional banking facilities such as bank accounts or credit cards. Using Ugogo's technology combined with a mobile cash system such as Mpesa, a user can create an account,sell their goods and receive cash payment directly to their mobile phone. |  | Grant | Jun 30, 2016 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atinum Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atinum-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atinum Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atinum-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blue Haven Initiative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-haven-initiative) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bright Link Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bright-link-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cox Investment Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cox-investment-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Publicis Groupe invest in?

Publicis Groupe invests primarily in Apps, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Publicis Groupe's check size?

Publicis Groupe typically joins rounds of $93k–$6M at Seed and $150k–$260k at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Publicis Groupe participates in.

### How do I contact Publicis Groupe?

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### Who are the partners at Publicis Groupe?

The team at Publicis Groupe includes Agathe Bousquet (President), Alex Saber (Chairman) and Dave Monk (Executive Creative Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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