# WinEquity

> WinEquity is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and SaaS. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/winequity/
- Website: https://www.winequity.fr/

WinEquity is an investment company founded by investors - entrepreneurs who actively finance and support innovative startups that have at least one woman in the founding team.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for WinEquity. Shizune tracks 2 team members at WinEquity. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/winequity?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 50% |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |
| Internet | 1 | 13% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Florence Richardson | co-Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florence-richardson-156a |
| Ksenia Duarte | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ksenia-d |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PureNat | PureNat is a deep-tech economy company that has developed a brand new patented biomimetic material for the purification of air and sustainable air pollution control solutions. | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Sitowie | Sitowie develops SaaS technology and tools to understand the degradation of buildings. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Trust-Place | Trust-Place allows brands to authenticate the item with a digital certificate of ownership. | $4.4M | Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| MerciYanis | Yanis is a Toulouse start-up that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect buildings and help work environment departments | $2.8M | Series A | Oct 12, 2023 |  |
| VeriQloud | VeriQloud develops applications and software for quantum networks. The company implements quantum network protocols for various quantum communication technologies. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 23, 2023 |  |
| Outmind | Outmind is a search engine that integrates with all of the user's tools and uses artificial intelligence to increase team productivity in businesses. Using Outmind, the user can access, organize, and categorize their institutional knowledge in new ways. It allows the user to search through all the tools, leverage institutional knowledge,identify subject matter experts, and enhance the user's reference documents. | $2M | Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Healshape | Healshape is a 3D bioprinting regenerative medecine company. | $6.3M | Seed | Jun 28, 2022 |  |
| Sitowie | Sitowie develops SaaS technology and tools to understand the degradation of buildings. | $1.9M | Seed | Mar 14, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Axeleo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axeleo-sas) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Femmes Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/femmes-business-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karista](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karista) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Paris Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paris-business-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [50 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/50-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [6-24 HOLDING](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6-24-holding) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does WinEquity invest in?

WinEquity invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact WinEquity?

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### Who are the partners at WinEquity?

The team at WinEquity includes Florence Richardson (co-Founder) and Ksenia Duarte (Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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