Unigrains
VC Fund
Paris, France
Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector.
- Total investments:
- 76
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
- Fund size:
- $47M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Unigrains invests in
Stages Unigrains invests in
Countries Unigrains invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Private Equity
- $61M–$1.4B
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $4.8M–$47M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 31 (41%)
- Agriculture 29 (38%)
- Farming 18 (24%)
- Food Processing 18 (24%)
- Manufacturing 16 (21%)
Stage
- Private Equity 47 (62%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 14 (18%)
- Funding Round 9 (12%)
- Series A 3 (4%)
- Seed 1 (1%)
Country
- France 64 (84%)
- Spain 3 (4%)
- Belgium 2 (3%)
- Italy 1 (1%)
- Austria 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Maxime Vandoni
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Alfredo Cicognani
Founder and Investment Director
|
Founder and Investment Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Sébastien Essioux
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
|
Deputy Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Virginie Boutrouille
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haricaman is a distribution company that offers organic wheat flour, flakes, seeds, grits, breadcrumbs, and breakfast cereals. | Private Equity / Jul 27, 2026 | ||
| We develop and market a low-cost hybrid weeding robot to help farmers improve their profitability. The company specializes in precision farming, AI, robotics | $7M / Series A / Dec 16, 2025 | ||
Maison Duprez
|
Maison Duprez manufactures and sells cookies. | Private Equity / Dec 18, 2024 | |
| Ñaming is to develop and distribute fresh prepared ready-to-eat foods that meet the new needs of consumers, with a growing demand for healthy, innovative, tasty and easy-to-prepare products. | Private Equity / Oct 07, 2024 | ||
| Seederal Technologies produces electric tractor. | $7.6M / Series A / Apr 25, 2024 | ||
| RED Horticulture specializes in horticulture LED lighting systems, photobiology research, and indoor and greenhouse lighting. | $18.6M / Series A / Nov 21, 2023 | ||
| Biobest N.V. develops and supplies natural crop care systems. It specializes in bumblebee pollination and sustainable crop management. The company offers biological pollination products, such as bumblebees; biological control products, which include beneficial insects and mites, beneficial nematodes, and biopesticides; and monitoring and scoutingproducts, including sticky traps and rolls, pheromone traps, and pheromone lures and attractants to growers. | $391.2M / Private Equity / Sep 07, 2023 | ||
| Leygatech provides flexible film packaging, equipped with functionalities compatible with the requirements of the circular economy and intended for the agri-food, pharmaceutical, and pharmaceutical markets. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 27, 2023 | ||
| HUILERIE CAUVIN is a manufacturer of natural vegetable oils, both organic and conventional. | Private Equity / Oct 03, 2022 | ||
| RESTORIA is a collective catering company that preserves the taste of traditional and healthy foods. Every day RESTORIA strives to provide a service and quality service adapted to the individual needs of each guest. From its inception by the fathers of the two co-directors, artisan butchers, RESTORIA has held fast to the fundamental value thatdrives its teams: the desire to preserve the true profession of cook in collective catering. After these 49 years of development, they remain, in the world of collective catering, a company on a human scale. | Private Equity / May 16, 2022 | ||
| See all 76 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Unigrains invest in?
Unigrains invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Agriculture and Farming startups, most often at Private Equity and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 76 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Unigrains invest in?
Unigrains typically joins rounds of $61M–$1.4B at Private Equity and $4.8M–$47M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Unigrains's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Unigrains took part in.
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Who are the partners at Unigrains?
The team at Unigrains includes Maxime Vandoni (CEO), Alfredo Cicognani (Founder and Investment Director) and Sébastien Essioux (Deputy Chief Executive Officer). 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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