# Serena

> Serena is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 170 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 170
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last fund: Nov 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/serenavc/about/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/serenavc
- Website: http://www.serena.vc

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$16M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$25M |
| Series B | $6.6M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 24 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 10% |
| Internet | 16 | 9% |
| SaaS | 14 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 8% |

167 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 40 | 24% |
| Seed | 38 | 22% |
| Series B | 27 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 9% |
| Series C | 11 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 71 | 42% |
| United States | 16 | 9% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 2% |
| Spain | 2 | 1% |
| Belgium | 2 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marc Fournier | Co-founder & Managing Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-fournier |
| Bertrand Diard | Venture Partner | 29 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertrand-diard |
| David Bitton | Operating Partner & Head of Operating Team | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-bitton |
| Emilie Benayad | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emilie-benayad |
| Eric Gossart | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-gossart |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpsMill | Simplify Infrastructure Automation | $14M | Series A | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Waiv | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Naftiko | 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 |  |
| Bitstack | 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 | Probabl is a provider of open-source data science and machine learning solutions to core developers. | $15.2M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Goodvest | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 170 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Isai](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isai) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Eurazeo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurazeo-com) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Serena invest in?

Serena invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 170 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 $6.6M–$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.

### How do I contact Serena?

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### Who are the partners at Serena?

The team at Serena includes Marc Fournier (Co-founder & Managing Partner), Bertrand Diard (Venture Partner) and David Bitton (Operating Partner & Head of Operating Team), among 16 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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