Serena
VC Fund
Paris, France
Serena is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management. Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of itsportfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels. Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.
- Total investments:
- 181
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
- Fund size:
- $235M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Serena invests in
Stages Serena invests in
Countries Serena invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$16M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$25M
- Series B
- $3.9M–$33M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 27 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 21 (12%)
- SaaS 17 (9%)
- Internet 17 (9%)
- Information Technology 13 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 42 (23%)
- Series A 42 (23%)
- Series B 29 (16%)
- Series C 11 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (6%)
Country
- France 78 (43%)
- United States 18 (10%)
- Switzerland 3 (2%)
- Spain 2 (1%)
- Belgium 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Marc Fournier
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Co-founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Philippe Hayat
co-founder
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co-founder | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Bertrand Diard
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 29 | Find email | |
David Bitton
Operating Partner & Head of Operating Team
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Operating Partner & Head of Operating Team | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Emilie Benayad
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simplify Infrastructure Automation | $14M / Series A / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Owkin is a French-American startup that uses artificial intelligence to find the right treatment for every patient. Our focus is to use AI to discover and develop better treatments for unmet medical needs, starting with the fight against cancer.They use AI to identify new drug candidates, de-risk and accelerate clinical trials and builddiagnostic tools that improve patient outcomes. Using federated learning, a pioneering collaborative AI framework, Owkin enables medical and biopharma partners to unlock valuable insights from siloed datasets, while protecting patient privacy and securing proprietary data. Owkin was co-founded by Thomas Clozel MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical onco-hematology, and Gilles Wainrib, a pioneer in the field of machine learning in biology, in 2016.Owkin has raised over $255 million and became a ‘unicorn’ – a startup valued at more than $1 billion – in November 2021 through a $180 million investment from French biopharma company Sanofi. | $33M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| 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 | ||
| DeepIP is an AI-powered tool created by Kili Technology to assist intellectual property practitioners throughout the patent prosecution process. | $25M / Series B / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| Naftiko serves a broad spectrum of enterprise users—from heads of API & integration to platform engineers, architects, and developers—delivering a unified, extensible, observable, and policy-driven experience tailored to each. | $1.6M / Seed / Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change in bitcoin, to a dynamic app bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. Our mission is to empower people to better financetheir future by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We are rebuilding finance from the group up by building the first crypto-native bank that leverages Bitcoin and stablecoins to revolutionize consumer banking. | $15M / Series A / Dec 02, 2025 | ||
| Probabl is a provider of open-source data science and machine learning solutions to core developers. | $15.2M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Roofline makes an AI deployment at the edge flexible, efficient, and easy. It was founded in 2024 and is located in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen. | Seed / Jul 07, 2025 | ||
| Pelico's Manufacturing Orchestration Platform solves the biggest challenge facing global manufacturers: fragmentation. Disconnected data, siloed teams, and outdated tools are causing delays, increasing costs, and eroding customer trust. Pelico seamlessly connects your supply chain data, maps dependencies and reveals the blockers that matter.Our AI-powered operations anticipate disruptions, simulate responses, and recommend the best course of action — allowing your teams to coordinate before problems escalate. Precision insights provide executives with answers to critical questions needed to deliver to plan and optimize revenue. Pelico empowers operations teams to resolve issues in real time and keep production moving. | $40M / Jun 18, 2025 | ||
| See all 181 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Serena invest in?
Serena invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 181 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Serena's check size?
Serena typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$16M at Seed, $3.3M–$25M at Series A and $3.9M–$33M 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 Serena participates in.
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Who are the partners at Serena?
The team at Serena includes Marc Fournier (Co-founder & Managing Partner), Philippe Hayat (co-founder) and Bertrand Diard (Venture Partner), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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