# Rhône Dauphiné Développement

> Rhône Dauphiné Développement is a VC fund in Grenoble backing Manufacturing and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Grenoble, France
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/somudimec/
- Website: http://www.somudimec.fr

Rhône Dauphiné Développement is a VC fund in Grenoble focused on Manufacturing and Software. They have succeeded, without means or special support to become a player in the financing of companies each year, performs 700 operations, paying € 100 million credit, bought 1000 M € of bills by factoring. Join the 2500 member companies who work with us. Like them, take your destiny in hand financial. You will not be subject to thediscretion of your banker. Your interests will be defended and your voice heard.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $878k–$1.3M |
| Series A | $1.7M–$27M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Warehousing | 2 | 15% |
| Fuel | 1 | 8% |
| Water | 1 | 8% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 2 | 15% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 12 | 92% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MagREEsource | MagREEsource is to link the circular economy by providing a green metallurgical solution through short loop recycling of NdFeB magnets to stabilise and diversify the supply of Rare Earth permanent magnets. | $27M | Series A | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| HALIAS Technologies | HALIAS Technologies is an IT firm that offers digital services and solutions for commercial and industrial firms. | $495.5K | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| My Digital Buildings | My Digital Buildings is a software platform for producing and analyzing geographical building data, including 3D point clouds, 2D blueprints, BIM models, and virtual tours. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Hydrogen Refueling Solutions | Hydrogen Refueling Solutions offers hydrogen refueling station solutions for all types of vehicles, light and heavy fleets, for mobility, industrial activities, storage, and the energy markets. It democratizes access to hydrogen and facilitates the transition to green mobility. They provide refueling stations for large-capacity fuel cell electricvehicles. | $3.1M | Debt Financing | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| Tolv | Tolv is an e-mobility company developing and manufacturing modular powertrains and vehicle conversion platforms. | $7.1M |  | Jul 04, 2023 |  |
| Quotelo | Quotelo creates an automatization system for hoteliers to regain commercial independence in the hospitality industry and digitizes group-event-seminar reservations. The company's platform centralizes all requests and reservations for groups, events, and seminars for any type of establishment by adding a graphical chatbot to each hotel'swebsite and collecting MICE and group requests from customers automatically generating commercial proposals and reserving the rooms, restaurants, activities, and nights requested, allowing hotels to book seminars, meetings, or even events online and improve productivity, responsiveness, image, and predictability. | $1.2M | Seed | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Vitacuire | VITACUIRE is a family group in the segment of frozen aperitif pastries, private label. As a benchmark player in its market.Vitacuire, is first of all the story of two restaurant owners in Lyon, Ginette and Emile KRIEF, who back in 1952 decided to launch into the delivery of frozen puff pastry.Remaining all along an independent and familycompany, then later managed by Jean-Yves KRIEF and his two sisters, Vitacuire carried on the traditional expertise in puff pastry in all shapes: cocktail bites, individual pastries along with larger pastries to share.Since 2010 and the arrival of the third generation growth, the company has kept on innovating and developing new ranges on the canapé market: microwavable cocktail bites as well as brioche pastries. |  | Private Equity | May 14, 2018 |  |
| CentrExpert | CentrExpert provides global safety solutions for training, material audit transformation of standard industrial equipment to make it usable in areas with certification and after-sales service. The company is committed to converting machines and equipment, enabling it to be used in explosive atmospheres, more commonly known as ATEX zones.CentrExpert was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in Chasse-sur-rhône, France. | $878K | Seed | Oct 11, 2016 |  |
| Technogenia | Technogenia has specializes in tungsten carbide metallurgy, Anti-wear welding products and anti-wear coating with high-power laser. | $1.6M |  | Feb 28, 2014 |  |
| TERA Environnement | TERA Environnement is a laboratory specializing in air analysis services (chemistry of ultra-cleanliness and contamination), notably recognized as an expert in the chemical characterization of pollution. | $1.5M |  | Dec 01, 2013 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Rhône Dauphiné Développement invest in?

Rhône Dauphiné Développement invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Warehousing startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Rhône Dauphiné Développement's check size?

Rhône Dauphiné Développement typically joins rounds of $878k–$1.3M at Seed and $1.7M–$27M 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 Rhône Dauphiné Développement participates in.

### When did Rhône Dauphiné Développement last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rhône Dauphiné Développement closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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