# Safran Corporate Ventures

> Safran Corporate Ventures is a VC fund in Paris backing Aerospace and Software. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Fund size: $59M
- Last fund: May 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/safran
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/safran
- Website: https://www.safran-group.com/fr/societe/safran-corporate-ventures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groupesafran

Safran Corporate Ventures is a VC fund in Paris focused on Aerospace and Software. Established in 2015, Safran Corporate Ventures is the Group's corporate venture capital arm. It funds startups that have developed breakthrough or disruptive technologies or business models which will help Safran to address the challenges of the aerospace, defense or security markets. Safran Corporate Ventures will help agile,innovation-driven companies by funding their growth. These companies will also benefit from: • Access to an international network of leading technology experts in Safran's business sectors.• The global commercial and industrial reach of Safran companies.• Commercial and development agreements to be implemented between such startups and Safran's own entities.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.5M–$23M |
| Series B | $7.7M–$128M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 8 | 24% |
| Software | 5 | 15% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 12% |
| Energy | 3 | 9% |
| Hardware | 3 | 9% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 36% |
| Series B | 7 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 21% |
| Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 15 | 45% |
| Germany | 3 | 9% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Austria | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aura Aero | Aura Aero integrates mastered technologies into new concepts and applies new technologies to proven concepts. | $57.7M | Series B | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Metavonics | Metavonics creates modular avionics platform that provides safety-critical computing power to all airborne vehicles. | $8.5M | Series A | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| OXCCU | OXCCU develops renewable energy technology with the goal of achieving a circular economy for fuels, chemicals, and plastics. The technology offered by the company combines carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with hydrogen from water and renewable electricity to produce fuels, chemicals, and biodegradable plastics. | $27.9M | Series B | Sep 29, 2025 |  |
| Turbotech | TURBOTECH is a French start-up that develops on-board electric generation solutions for hybrid-electric aircrafts.Our solution consists of a very light and compact 55 kW turbo-generator in which a micro-turbine directly drives a high speed generator. This device produces electricity from virtually any fuel source (biofuel, hydrogen, Jet-A1,diesel, gasoline, etc...). All the while, maintaining a very high efficiency thanks to a heat exchanger that recovers -usually wasted- exhaust heat energy.TURBOTECH also develops a small 100 hp Turboprop dedicated to light aircrafts (135 hp for helicopters). It is equipped with the same heat exchanger as the turbogenerator, for a fuel consumption equivalent to best-in-class piston engines while being much lighter, quieter and more reliable. | $9.9M | Series A | Jun 25, 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 |  |
| Estuaire | Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Avnos | Avnos is commercializing technology to capture CO2 without consuming water, producing water for every ton. The company uses water to capture CO2, eliminating heat consumption and reducing costs. | $36M | Series A | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| GREENERWAVE | We are aiming to change the world by helping every customer to always have a good wireless indoor connection | $16.3M | Series A | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| INERATEC | INERATEC provides sustainable fuels, gas-to-liquid, power-to-gas and power-to-liquid application products. | $128.4M | Series B | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| blackshark.ai | Blackshark.ai provides a 3D digital twin of Earth by extracting information from satellite imagery and reconstructing detected attributes in photorealistic 3D fully automatically. A scalable artificial intelligence builds the core of the blackshark platform, detecting features globally with incredible precision and speed. A patented approach to 3Dreconstruction can store petabytes of data and render it in infinite detail in real-time, allowing for powerful visualization and simulation applications for government, geospatial intelligence, humanitarian relief, paletary management, autonomous driving and flying, insurance, smart cities and more. The blackshark.ai platform, backed by Microsoft's venture fund M12 and Silicon Valley VC Point72 Ventures, serves large clients globally with a team of 100+ people based out of Silicon Valley/US and Graz/Austria, Europe's computer vision hub. | $15M | Series A | Nov 16, 2023 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Safran Corporate Ventures invest in?

Safran Corporate Ventures invests primarily in Aerospace, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Safran Corporate Ventures's check size?

Safran Corporate Ventures typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$23M at Series A and $7.7M–$128M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Safran Corporate Ventures participates in.

### When did Safran Corporate Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Safran Corporate Ventures closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 33 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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