# Wind

> Wind is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and Manufacturing. See 64 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 64
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last fund: Sep 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wind-capital/?originalSubdomain=fr
- Website: https://wind.capital/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/windcapitalinvestments/

Wind is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and Manufacturing. Wind Capital is a venture capital firm that offers support and funding to European innovators.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Wind. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Wind. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/wind-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$9.8M |
| Series A | $2M–$36M |
| Series B | $18M–$69M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 17% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 8% |
| Health Care | 4 | 6% |

120 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 48% |
| Series A | 13 | 20% |
| Series B | 6 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 44 | 69% |
| United States | 7 | 11% |
| Belgium | 2 | 3% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aurélie NICOLAS | General Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aur%C3%A9lie-nicolas |
| Oliver Mougenot | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-mougenot |
| Perrine Blanc | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/perrine-blanc |
| Thibaud Déchaud | VC Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thibaud-d%C3%A9chaud |
| Thierry Vandewalle | Founding Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thierry-vandewalle |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eledone | Eledone operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model that provides agentic artificial intelligence solutions to automate back-office B2B sales administration. The platform connects directly to commercial email inboxes to extract client data from purchase orders and quotation requests. It then matches this information against internaldatabases to automatically generate quotes or pre-fill sales orders within a client's existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This value proposition centers on reducing transcription errors, accelerating order response times, and eliminating manual data entry without requiring companies to alter their current workflows. | $1.7M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Sopht | Sopht is an Environmental Services company that allows organizations to pilot their environmental impact and automate their decarbonation.Sopht provides a lever for optimizing and rationalizing the challenges of an IT department. The platform is built on a series of modules that reconstitutes the entire IT value chain of a company (multi-cloudmonitoring, management of IT assets, analysis of digital uses and services, etc.) thus allowing a vision and end-to-end management.Founded by Jérémie Veg, Julien Rouzé, Gautier Levert in 2021 and is located in Lyon and Paris. | $8.6M | Series A | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Mantle8 | Mantle8 is a natural hydrogen exploration company. It has developed geological models and imaging technologies that detect the best natural hydrogen locations with “world-first accuracy“ | $36.4M | Series A | May 13, 2026 |  |
| blue activity | Blue Activity GmbH is a CleanTech startup that specializes in sustainable industrial water treatment for evaporative cooling systems, replacing environmentally harmful chemical biocides with natural microorganisms and biopolymers. It provides a complete service package, including 100% sustainable products, real-time online monitoring via dashboard,and tailored on-site support for worry-free operations. | $9.8M | Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| TiHive Technologies | TiHive Technologies built an innovative interconnectable and scalable imaging and sensing system, where many devices operate together at high speeds forming hives of intelligent see-through cameras. | $9.4M |  | Oct 02, 2025 |  |
| Synboli | Synboli is a deep-tech company that combines artificial intelligence and proprietary chemistry technologies to accelerate the discovery and development of novel polymers and advanced materials. Its AI-powered platform predicts polymer properties, designs new molecular structures, and integrates laboratory testing to reduce material developmenttimelines. | $4.1M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Genomines | World resources are expected to be depleted in the next 30 to 50 years and increasing scarcity is driving metal prices up, sometimes doubling in a few years. 86% of ore that is being extracted, containing up to 10years+ metal consumption, is not processed as metal concentration is too low. Each year a volume of low-metal concentrated soilsequivalent to the area of Paris and 100m high is extracted and not processed. It is not only a missed opportunity to recover significant amounts of metal, but it is also a serious risk for the environment. At Genomines, we bring together 2 worlds: Agriculture and Mining. We offer a sustainable alternative to conventional mining by genetically enhancing the natural ability of plants to hyperaccumulate metals. | $45M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| cosma | Cosma is to bring together multi-disciplinary expertise in underwater robotics, navigation, and data collection at sea, as well as data science, artificial intelligence, and marine biology. | $2.9M | Seed | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Via Sana | Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices. | $18.3M | Series A | Apr 28, 2025 |  |
| Keey Aerogel | Keey Aerogel is the exclusive manufacturer of silica aerogel produced from construction waste through a closed-loop process that recycles carbon dioxide and ethanol. | $18.8M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |

10 of 64 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Isai](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isai) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ternel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ternel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [50 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/50-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Otium Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/otium-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Wind invest in?

Wind invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 64 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Wind's check size?

Wind typically joins rounds of $800k–$9.8M at Seed, $2M–$36M at Series A and $18M–$69M 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 Wind participates in.

### How do I contact Wind?

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### Who are the partners at Wind?

The team at Wind includes Aurélie NICOLAS (General Partner), Oliver Mougenot (General Partner) and Perrine Blanc (CFO), among 6 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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