# SIDE Capital

> SIDE Capital is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Internet. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/side-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sidecapital
- Website: http://www.side-capital.com/

SIDE Capital is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and Internet. SIDE supports ambitious founders of startups tech & digital are the first stage in their history. SIDE acts as sole investor in seed rounds from 300 K € to 600 K €. SIDE offers fair and equitable deals in a fast and agile approach to the founders.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for SIDE Capital. Shizune tracks 3 team members at SIDE Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/side-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$1.6M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $646k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 24% |
| Internet | 7 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 12% |
| SaaS | 4 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 7% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 57% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 10% |
| Series A | 3 | 7% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 32 | 76% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicolas Brusson | Investor | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-brusson |
| Nicolas d'Audiffret | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-d-audiffret |
| Renaud Guillerm | Managing Partner | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/renaud-guillerm |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Klara | Klara develops a solution that is both helpful and tailored to each employee. There is a forum for promoting HR development methods. The solution allows to simplify and personalize the experience of employees for talent management, training programs, managerial ceremonies, or even visibility on the career path of your personnel. | $11M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 10, 2025 |  |
| nopillo | Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France. | $4.4M | Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Seelab.ai | Seelab.ai is a generative AI solution that helps marketing & creative teams creating branded visual content | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2024 |  |
| Datacook | Datacook's unique HIT methodology, which combines human and artificial intelligence, assists you in exceeding marketing objectives. | $646.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 08, 2023 |  |
| Yuccan Lead | Yuccan Lead is an app that generates highly qualified leads by building customers' own network of Ambassadors easily. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Klara | Klara develops a solution that is both helpful and tailored to each employee. There is a forum for promoting HR development methods. The solution allows to simplify and personalize the experience of employees for talent management, training programs, managerial ceremonies, or even visibility on the career path of your personnel. | $4.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 09, 2023 |  |
| Elqano - Where Knowledge Finds People | The story behind Elqano starts in a Coffee Conversation between two young professionals that wanted to shape the future of knowledge management. Yann and Guillermo were tired of spending half of their day looking for information stored in disorganized folders or overwhelmed email inboxes so they came out with a holistic platform that makes theright knowledge find straight away the right people. | $960.8K | Seed | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Superindep.fr | Superindep is an auto entrepreneur that offers personalized support and automation of their VAT and turnover declarations. They provide space for real-time monitoring and entry of their invoices and expenses. | $1M | Angel | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| LiveTonight | LiveTonight is the referencing platform for live music events and DJ sets in bars.LiveTonight is also a tool for all fans of live music looking to listen to live music in places near them, whether it's a concert in a hall or just live music in a bar or a restaurant.LiveTonight was established in 2016 by Jean-Baptiste Roche-Bayard, HenriJousse, and Antoine Decreme in Paris, Ile-de-France. | $1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Tulip | Tulip is a creator of a mobile commerce platform created with the goal of modernizing and reshaping the in-store experience. By utilizing the power of mobile technology, their platform enables merchants to elevate the shopping experience, drive sales, and enhance customer service. Store workers may use it to look up products, handle customerinformation, check out customers, and connect with them. | $991.2K | Seed | Oct 05, 2022 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ankaa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankaa-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Avolta Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avoltapartners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Btwinz Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/btwinz-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crédit Agricole](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-agricole) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does SIDE Capital invest in?

SIDE Capital invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SIDE Capital's check size?

SIDE Capital typically joins rounds of $549k–$1.6M at Seed and $646k–$11M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SIDE Capital participates in.

### How do I contact SIDE Capital?

Public channels for SIDE Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at SIDE Capital?

The team at SIDE Capital includes Nicolas Brusson (Investor), Nicolas d'Audiffret (Investor) and Renaud Guillerm (Managing Partner). 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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