# Saint-Gobain

> Saint-Gobain is a VC fund in Courbevoie backing Manufacturing and Software. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Courbevoie, France
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/saint-gobain
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/saintgobain
- Website: http://www.saint-gobain.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/saintgobaingroup

Saint-Gobain is a French multinational company that designs, manufactures and distributes building materials, providing innovative solutions to meet growing demand in emerging economies, for energy efficiency and for environmental protection. The company aims to provide comfort, performance, and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainableconstruction, resource efficiency, and climate change.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$7.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 7 | 35% |
| Software | 6 | 30% |
| Robotics | 4 | 20% |
| Computer | 2 | 10% |
| Electronics | 2 | 10% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 8 | 40% |
| Seed | 3 | 15% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 5 | 25% |
| United States | 4 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |
| China | 1 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 5% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adarsh Sowcar | External Venturing Project Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adarsh-sowcar |
| Charlotte Sperling | CIO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlotte-sperling |
| Emmanuelle Gouillart | Director of joint CNRS | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emmanuelle-gouillart |
| Huan Wang | Chief Digital Officer - APAC | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huan-wang-ec16 |
| Julie Kennedy | User Experience Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-kennedy |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Merlin Solar Technologies | Merlin Solar is the brainchild of several disparate experts in the solar industry coming together, with a bit of a kick from a few helpful outsiders. Like its magical namesake, Merlin embraces an inquisitive solutions-oriented approach. The founders come from deep solar backgrounds, having worked the gamut of thin film and silicon slicingtechnologies. Core members also come from outside the industry, working in areas such as flexible displays and high throughput automation. This combination of deep solar expertise and outsider push has resulted in a product that fundamentally rethinks the physics and mechanical strength of a crystalline solar cell. By starting from first principles and designing for optimal performance, while also keeping line changes to a minimum, the team has come up with a solution that is simultaneously incremental and disruptive. | $31M | Series B | Oct 27, 2024 |  |
| Ecodrop | Ecodrop is the solution for construction waste |  |  | Jun 21, 2024 |  |
| OKIBO | Okibo is developing intelligent, mobile, multi-purpose and autonomous robots for use in construction sites. The company’s first product is a robot for wall rendering (e.g., stucco, EIFS, concrete, primer, and adhesives) that will be used to simplify and lower costs of handling wall isolation.`​ Okibo’s robots sit atop a highly mobile platform anduse advanced computer vision, laser detectors, geo-positioning, and inertial motion sensors to operate at, and assimilate into any construction site. The robot’s versatile robotic manipulators enable the programming of a multitude of tasks that are today performed by manual labor or limited machinery. | $7.9M | Seed | Mar 28, 2024 |  |
| KOPE | Our software platform KOPE, is a connected offsite construction platform with embedded, standardized processes and algorithms that bridges the gap between design, manufacturing and construction. | $7M | Seed | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| ISYBOT | ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST . | $3.3M |  | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| ISYBOT | ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST . | $3.2M |  | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| Mobility Work | Mobility Work is developer of software designed for maintenance management. Mobility Work CMMS is used in many business fields and responds to the needs of many industries. If you work in the maintenance field, Mobility Work will inevitably meet your needs. | $2M | Series A | Oct 17, 2022 |  |
| Megasol | Megasol is a manufacturer of solar modules and mounting systems. Sound advice and smart complete solutions from a single source. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Transaera | Transaera is developing a new class of affordable, energy-efficient,environmentally friendly cooling systems. | $4.5M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Livspace | Livspace is an interior design startup that offers a platform that connects people to designers, services, and products.The online shopping platform is a destination to find design, decorate, and furnish dream houses so they can undertake renovations like kitchen upgrades or repainting a room. It also provides end-to-end home interior services.In 2016, Livspace launched Canvas, its proprietary design-to-installation platform, a first for the interior design industry that aims to create a unique experience for homeowners and scales the job of interior designers. The décor startup is backed by Goldman Sachs, TPG Growth, Jungle Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Helion Venture Partners, and Trifecta Capital Advisors.It was founded in 2014 by Anuj Srivastava and Ramakant Sharma. | $60M | Corporate Round | Nov 10, 2021 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amundi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amundi) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [3M](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3m) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Cascade Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cascade-angels-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CEA Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cea-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DSM Venturing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsm-venturing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Saint-Gobain invest in?

Saint-Gobain invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Robotics startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Saint-Gobain's check size?

Saint-Gobain typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$7.9M 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 Saint-Gobain participates in.

### How do I contact Saint-Gobain?

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### Who are the partners at Saint-Gobain?

The team at Saint-Gobain includes Adarsh Sowcar (External Venturing Project Manager), Charlotte Sperling (CIO) and Emmanuelle Gouillart (Director of joint CNRS), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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