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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in France in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Recruiting startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in France in January 2026

Investor	Recruiting France investments
Kima Ventures	5
Ring Capital	5
Otium Capital	3
Turenne Capital	3
Xavier Niel	3
Angelsquare	3
BREEGA	3
Rebel Fund	3
Alto Invest	3
Kois Invest	3
Alter Equity 3P	2
Financiere Saint James	2
Thierry Petit	2
Région Sud Investissement	2
INCO Ventures	2
Founders Future	2
Denis Fayolle	2
Alain Thibaut	2
SGPA	2
Bpifrance	2
Sofiouest	2
Daphni	2
Jean-Baptiste Rudelle	2
Idinvest Partners	2
Frst	2
Alven	2
Picus Capital	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Purple	2
Loic Le Meur	2
Cabiedes & Partners	2
Banque des Territoires	2
Crédit Mutuel Innovation	1
Jean-Marc BUCHET	1
Finorpa	1
Blossom Capital	1
DST Global	1
Latour Capital	1
Michael Benabou	1
Thomas Landais	1
Edenred Capital Partners	1
IRIS	1
FJ Labs	1
Capital Croissance	1
Nord Création	1
Jonathan Widawski	1
AQUITI Gestion	1
Olivier Bonnet	1
Leap Ventures	1
Julien Codorniou	1

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Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mokn — Phish-back your credentials from attackers using contextualized deceptive technology.
IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
Motley — Manual reporting costs business teams 2.4 billion hours a year. Get your time back with Motley, your AI reporting assistant.

Tech for Good VC investing in Series A and Series B

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Solarock — Solarock is a French solar panel installer specializing in residential and small commercial self-consumption. The company offers a turnkey solution combining quality, transparency, and local support, with certified technicians and a comprehensive service, from design to maintenance. Solarock relies on sustainable equipment, a local franchise model,and technological innovations to democratize access to efficient solar energy that is accessible to all .
Ever Dye — A new standard for dyes. Naturally made, carbon emissions reducing, water protecting.
SPRiNG Collective — SPRiNG is a consumer goods company that offers clean and efficient laundry and cleaning products, delivered in a 100% plastic-free box and directly in the mailbox. The company is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France by Philippe Cantet, Laure Favre, and Ben Guerville in 2017.

In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

PayFit — Simplify payroll with UK payroll software that automates tasks, saving time and reducing stress.
Amenitiz — The all-in-one hotel management platform for independent hotels. Streamline operations, maximize occupancy, and control your business.
Source{d} — Source{d} is an engineering observability platform that develops neural networks for the executives to analyze and understand actionable insights about codebases, software development processes, and teams. The company is characterized by matching the code of developers to bring them closer to an appropriate project based on the objective measure oftheir work.

Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France : - Paris - Lyon - Marseilles - Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million. Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million. 32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement. Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à : - Paris - Lyon - Marseille - Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
France, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sydev — Sydev is a publisher of management software and tariff databases for technical building trades in the construction industry.
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.

Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.

Since its launch in 2016, Angelsquare has supported more than 500 startups from all sectors in their Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & Series B fundraising. From the implementation of the operation to the final negotiations, we have developed unique expertise that we put at the service of entrepreneurs to advise them throughout their fundraisingoperation and help them convince the right investors. : Business Angels, Family Offices, investment funds…

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ensol — Ensol offers custom-made photovoltaic installations at low prices as well as personalized guidance assisting homes in selecting the optimum sizes and solar equipment for their needs and maximizing their return on investment.
Pensero AI — Pensero.ai is an AI-powered performance review platform for engineering teams, offering real-time insights, automated analysis, and ongoing feedback. Setup in just 15 minutes to enhance transparency, save managers 50 hrs, and promote a culture of growth.
Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.

Rebel Fund is powered by an elite team of top Y Combinator alumni partners to support the world's most promising technology startup founders

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Writesonic — Writesonic is an AI-powered copywriting tool that generates unique and engaging marketing content for any business in seconds. With a few lines of text, Writesonic will generate ads, blog posts, landing pages, product descriptions, and more.
Sohar Health — Streamline patient intake and boost revenue with Sohar's real-time insurance verification and eligibility solutions. Automate workflows, reduce claim denials, and improve conversion rates with accurate, fast, and reliable tools. Book a demo today to transform your patient onboarding process.
Sohar Health — Sohar Health is an AI-driven company that offers front-end Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solutions. The services focus on enhancing healthcare providers' insurance verification processes, aiming to improve efficiency and reduce claim denials. Sohar Health utilizes advanced technology to streamline eligibility checks and facilitatebetterpricing transparency. The platform caters primarily to the needs of sales teams and sales development representatives in the healthcare sector. By automating key processes, Sohar Health helps organizations optimize their revenue cycle operations.

ALTO INVEST was founded by partners Antoine Valdes and Jean-FranÃ§ois Paumelle, who have worked together since 1994 for one of Europe's largest financial institutions. Their team has managed several portfolios on behalf of institutional and private clients, and made more than 50 private equity investments in Europe, North America and Asia.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Convertible Note
France, Martinique, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unow — Unow delivers tutored training programs on project management, soft skills and business skills. With a portfolio of 50+ training programs and a network of 100+ field experts, our goal is to improve team collaboration and productivity. Unow is headquartered in Paris, France.
Karos — Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies.
Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.

Kois Invest

Investment focus

B2B, Dental, Education
Series A, Series B, Series C
India, France

Portfolio highlights

Gojob — Our goal? To build a more inclusive future by offering anyone and everyone a job and the ability to progress regardless of age, gender, origin, education or experience. Gojob was ranked 18th in Europe among the fastest growing companies by the Financial Times and was ranked #1 as the fastest growing company in France! We love growth, but wenever forget our impact! Gojob is recognized by the French government as a Tech for Good company and is in the process of being listed as B Corp. We've enshrined our mission within our statutes, monitoring our activity with KPIs linked to our tangible impact on the labor market. So what makes us different? Our technological ecosystem and our algorithm – probably the most advanced in the world – which are revolutionizing the recruitment process and reinventing the way we support people. Sourcing, matching, management, onboarding, monitoring, training at Gojob, technology is everywhere! For our clients, this makes all the difference: more productive and motivated temps, better responsiveness, competitive prices and simplified temp management. Just 6 years after its creation, Gojob is continuing its rise on the job market by attracting new gojobbers, clients and employees every day. 150 employees 900 customers 500 000 gojobbers
Disprz — Transform your workforce with Disprz's Skills & Learning Platform. Drive learning, upskilling, & mobility with solutions built for the future of work.
Medikabazaar — Medikabazaar is an online B2B marketspace for medical supplies and equipment. They are a single point of contact for all product-based needs, enabling medical institutions and individual practitioners alike to cut down on operational costs and making the best global brands available locally, all aided with the miracle that goes by the name oftechnology. They are connected with more than 50,000 medical establishments, 1,50,000 Independent Practitioners, and have partnered with 13,000+ suppliers all over India including ones in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities, and remoter locations to establish a strong foothold in India and simultaneously earn the respect of our clients. With the power of technology, we organized a haywire market in a country with perhaps the largest and most complex geographical structure in the world for this purpose. Our last-mile delivery system and 26 strategically placed Fulfilment Centres across India enable us to deliver essential medical supplies to healthcare facilities and help them nurture quality and timely patient care. With our first international office in the Middle East, we are transcending boundaries to deliver care, everywhere.

Alter Equity 3P specializes in growth capital and buyout investments.

Investment focus

Fashion, Energy, Management Information Systems
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Wealthcome — Wealthcome has created a technological ecosystem for all players involved in wealth management, private management, and personal finance management. Our objective is straightforward: to make all phases of asset monitoring, analysis, and optimization accessible, simple, enjoyable, and exact.
Elum Energy — Elum Energy is an energy and automation company that supplies efficient monitoring and control solutions for solar energy systems.
Circle Sportswear — Circle Sportswear is a Circular & Sustainable Premium Sportswear DNVB

Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
Freqens — Freqens empowers your teams to buy smarter and faster with AI and data. Anticipate renewals, benchmark suppliers, and reduce indirect spend.
Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.

Région Sud Investissement is an investment Firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

ORUS — ORUS specializes in high-resolution hyperspectral spatial data and associated analytical services.
AUSTRAL Dx — AUSTRAL Dx is developing a new imaging technique based on airborne ultrasounds in order to map the vibrations coming from the lungs. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Paris.
Hydroclimat — Hydroclimat is a French DeepTech company using AI and climate data to help industries and authorities manage climate risks.

INCO Ventures is an AMF-licensed fund manager, specialised in venture capital and pioneer in impact investing. INCO Ventures manages or advises more than €500M of assets to invest in the most promising start-ups and companies that are shaping the new inclusive and sustainable economy, and advises funds on their investments or on impactmeasurement.

Investment focus

Training, EdTech, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round
France, Guinea

Portfolio highlights

Vulkam — Vulkam is an innovative microtechnology start up from the french research laboratories.
PyxiScience — AI-enhanced adaptive math learning platform for students and teachers in higher and secondary education.
Zenior — Zenior offer senior healthcare facilities and services including residential accomodation.

Founders Future is a transatlantic investment group dedicated to Tech. Founded in 2018 by tech entrepreneur Marc Menasé and backed by a collective of entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the firm sees entrepreneurship as the most powerful driver to tackle the key challenges of tomorrow. Founders Future supportsambitious founders at every stage of their journey, combining capital, strategic networks, and operational expertise to help them scale—and to build bridges between Europe and the U.S. With over 110 companies and 350 founders in its portfolio, the investment group ranks among Europe’s most active early-stage funds, backing tech champions like Databricks, Function Health, Waterdrop, Conduktor, Yuka, Alma, Taster, Veesion. Our investment strategy is built around key verticals: Applied AI, SaaS, Fintech, Climate Tech, and Medtech.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.
Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.

Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Angel, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
Adrenaline Hunter — Live unforgettable moments! Book among hundreds of the best outdoor activities on manawa.com. Best service and best prices guaranteed.

Alain Thibaut

Investment focus

Freelance, Recruiting, Virtual Workforce
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.

SGPA is a family and independent company that invests in the long term in PME, ETI, and Start-ups. They support, finance and accompany leaders for the development of their business.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

HARDLOOP — Marcher, courir, grimper, glisser : découvrez chaque jour de nouvelles aventures sportives et le matériel pour les réaliser.
Ordalie AI — Ordalie is an AI-powered legal research and writing tool, driven by its own AI models specialized in French law.
Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AUSTRAL Dx — AUSTRAL Dx is developing a new imaging technique based on airborne ultrasounds in order to map the vibrations coming from the lungs. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Paris.
IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
Brevo — Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform used to meet the demand of businesses to engage with customers. Its platform encompasses the entire chain, from the creation of a newsletter to analysis and reporting tools to targeting modules that enable businesses, eCommerce sellers, and agencies to build customer relationshipsthrough digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation.Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Sendinblue tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Sofiouest is an investment and participation company that invests in “late stage start-ups”, companies with high potential in the field of innovation having proven their business model and wishing to boost their growth.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Information Technology, Human Resources
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Yespark — Trouvez le meilleur parking dans votre ville et abonnez-vous en quelques clics avec Yespark.
Eldo — Eldo helps professionals and brands in the home improvement industry digitalize their communication and commercial management.
Santé Académie — As a result of a lack of caregivers across the country, their tasks are evolving - doctors can be asked to practice a gynaecologist act, or a nurse to follow up on a patient under anticancer treatment. Meanwhile, medical knowledge is increasing all around the world - we estimate that 50% of it becomes useless after 7 years. Therefore how can weprovide continuous training to 2 million caregivers? Santé Académie rethinks Continuing Medical Education by offering educational videos with cinematographic quality accessible by web or mobile. Each course is divided into 5 to 15 min episodes to adequate caregivers' schedules. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, care assistants, and chiefs nurses, can access a catalogue of high-quality courses on clinical and regulatory themes customized to their daily practice. These courses are certified by the ANDPC and produced by the best experts from prestigious institutions. Our goal? To educate health professionals as well as their engagement, with the top-end knowledge directly accessible from their phone, to improve patient care from prevention to follow-up. A new experience already approved by more than 20 000 professional and health institutions (GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences, Service de Santé des Armées …) !

daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ankar AI — Your AI Operating System for Patents
Relief — Relief is an AI assistant application for generating improved financial quotes.
Karavela — Karavela is a company developing a "foundation model" of the human brain using large-scale brain imaging data (like MRI) and AI.

Jean-Baptiste Rudelle is the President at The Galion Project.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Cloud Data Services
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

YZR — From raw product data to perfect product sheets with AI. Generate your product sheets. Increase your visibility. Boost your conversions.
Skello — Skello makes schedule in a few clicks, communicate with teams and automatically process payroll. Skello calculates in real time the management indicators you need: Payroll, productivity, staff ratio.
Riminder — HrFlow.ai is an API-first company and the leading AI-powered HR data automation platform. The company helps +1000 customers (HR software vendors, staffing agencies, large employers, and headhunting firms) to thrive in a high-volume and high-frequency labor market.

Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
Stilla Technologies — Stilla Technologies is taking digital PCR to a whole new level with a unique 6-color target detection capability

Frst is a seed-stage VC firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Cajoo — Cajoo is a startup company that provides grocery home delivery services.The food delivery company revolutionizes everyday shopping by offering a fast, reliable, and affordable shopping experience. It operates dark stores and manages its own inventory of products. Customers can then order items without having to think whether they’ll be home whenthe delivery happens. Around 15 minutes later, a delivery person shows up with their groceries.Henri Capoul headquartered Cajoo in Paris, Ile-de-France in 2021.
Parallel 1245 — Parallel builds AI agents that streamline healthcare admin workflows, seamlessly integrated with existing systems to unlock efficiency at scale.
Pelikan Mobility — Building a new type of EV leasing company for commercial fleets: tech-enabled and operations-centric.

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.
Aleph — Aleph helps top finance teams work with their data in real time. Businesses can automate financial models and streamline budgeting and forecasting with the fastest-to-implement FP&A platform. Aleph eliminates the need to export data from multiple sources by syncing spreadsheet models with data from 150+ integrations, and allows teams tointeract with their data in no-code dashboards.From annual budgeting to ad hoc reporting, scale your financial processes faster with better data without expanding your team. See why over 90% of people who start a trial with Aleph become customers!

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

Bringing together knowledge, people, best practices and capital, we invest from pre-seed to series A in companies we share values and vision. Venture capital arm of Laurent Ritter (co-founder of Voodoo).

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Grâce — Grâce offers innovative insurance solutions to enhance customer experience and improve process efficiency.
Freqens — Freqens empowers your teams to buy smarter and faster with AI and data. Anticipate renewals, benchmark suppliers, and reduce indirect spend.
Bonx — Bonx a startup studio focusing on operations (supply chain, construction, and industry), reinvents ERP for French SMEs. Bonx is a no-code ERP that can be deployed in a matter of weeks and readily adjusts to the difficulties unique to each manufacturer.

Loic Le Meur - Founder & CEO @ Leade.rs

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.

Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services. Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Laagam — Laagam is a apparel & fashion website.
Shalion — Shalion enables ambitious brands to navigate their journey to digital shelf excellence with a unique, unified digital shelf & retail media insights solution.
Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.

Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kapsera — Kapsera bridges the gap between sustainability and productivity in agriculture, using cutting-edge, biosourced and biodegradable formulation technologies.Kapsera offers natural and innovative formulations for microbials based biofertilizers and biopesticides.
Aquassay — Aquassay assists you with improving the industrial and environmental performance of all your water usage (supply, production, discharge).
Leakmited — At leakmited they reduce Non Revenue Water by finding leaks and by predicting risky pipes.They collect the client's Geographical Information System providing locations of the infrastructure and the history of breakdowns and leakages.

Crédit Mutuel Innovation is the evergreen venture capital entity of Crédit Mutuel Equity (€3.5 billion in capital). We invest €1-20M in life science, digital and deeptech companies from seed to growth stages.We help bold and ambitious entrepreneurs to develop their strong growth potential with our worldwide enterprise ecosystem (our 350+portfolio companies, our abroad subsidiaries, 150+ largest global corporates and the best-in-class experts). Because it takes more than 5 years to build a Unicorn, we invest our own equity and ensure durable partnerships with visionary leaders.Today, the 350 companies in which we have invested generate a cumulative annual turnover of €50bn and create more than 250,000 jobs.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Obat — Obat is a saas solution provider that uses software for contractors and self-employed for invoicing.
Biomemory — Biomemory creates DNA Drives for large corporates and administrations.
Glopal — Glopal provides advanced international Google shopping solutions for ecommerce retailers and brands seeking to grow their businesses' globally.

52 years old - Graduate of the IGIA (ESSEC Master) Master in Biology.Jean-Marc spent 2 years at the Bank HERVET and 8 years as Regional Delegate of SODERO (Regional Development Company of the West). From 1996 to 2000, he became CEO of Financière PLASTIGOM (72), and operates two producing footwear medium-high range (approx. 5 M € turnover, 90employees) before joining the Group SIPAREX SMEs NCI in 2000 to create and ensure its direction after leaving the group in 2005.

Investment focus

Recruiting
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

My Job Glasses — My Job Glasses is the result of an encounter between two young and passionate entrepreneurs and having the same desire: to revolutionize the recruitment of young people by offering an innovative platform both in concept and in the vision of its founders in the long term (be patient they reserve you some great additional features in the comingmonths!). Allowing a reconciliation of the post Bac students and businesses via the network approach myjobglasses.com will help you locate yourself in the ocean of existing business and that you know probably not. Then enjoy up to this new tool designed for you, meets a maximum of professionals, raises many questions and keeps in touch. If 80% of senior management positions are found via the network, there is no reason for it to be any different for students.

Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Extensee — Extensee is a French company that specializes in providing comprehensive drone solutions tailored for civil, industrial, and governmental applications. Their offerings include drones (UAVs) and sensors, airworthiness management, maintenance services, logistics support, expert personnel deployment, and supply of spare parts. This enables clients toeffectively implement drone-based operations across various sectors, ensuring operational readiness and compliance with regulatory standards.
Nutriearth — Nutriearth is a biotech firm that develops nutritional ingredients for human and animal health.
Beyond Green — Beyond Green is an agri-food group specializing in agricultural transition and sustainable food.

Blossom Capital is a Series A venture capital firm that invests in European founders building global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Frankenburg Technologies — Frankenburg Technologies aims to develop missile systems that are ten times more affordable, a hundred times faster to produce, and in quantities far exceeding current industry capabilities.

DST Global is an investment firm that focuses on late-stage ventures in the Internet sector. The firm has invested in several rapidly growing companies. Its offices are in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series B, Series C, Series D
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

CloudX — CloudX is a supply side platform for mobile and AI publishers. Boost revenue with AI workflows and a liquid marketplace.
Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.
Flexion Robotics — Founded by scientists, roboticists and engineers, Flexion is for those who refuse to settle for the status quo and dare to venture where others won't. Join us.

In creating the VCF Latour Capital at the request of some great French entrepreneurs, we wanted to build a new tool entirely focused investment , majority LBO in business to potential.

Investment focus

Software, Employment, Recruiting
Funding Round, Private Equity
France

Portfolio highlights

Primonial group — The Primonial group imagines, selects, and designs heritage management solutions in open architecture, adapted to savers' issues, with heritage, financial, tax and legal expertise.
Multiposting — Multiposting is a leading job posting software company based in Paris, France.The company develops online software solutions for the human resources industry :- Input a job once and cross-post it to 2,500+ job boards, schools and social networks- Search once and find CVs into several CV banks- Automatically launch Google job ad campaignsClients include 800+ companies in the world, 10 000+ users and 2,500+ partners in 50+ countries.The company was founded by Stephane Le Viet (ex McKinsey, ex Hellman & Friedman) and Gautier Machelon (ex Heidrick & Struggles).

President at Financiere Saint James.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.

Previously : Co-Founder of DOCTOLIB & Country Manager at LAFOURCHETTE Now : Working on new projects & Business Angel (mainly focusing on web&mobile / gastronomy opportunities) I keep paying attention to any challenging and innovative projects.

Investment focus

SaaS, Computer, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Skello — Skello makes schedule in a few clicks, communicate with teams and automatically process payroll. Skello calculates in real time the management indicators you need: Payroll, productivity, staff ratio.
Extracadabra — Extracadabra offers Restaurateurs and Hoteliers a free application allowing them to find almost instantaneously an employee (cook, waiter, maid ...) for a few hours, a few days or in CDD / CDI.
Neptune Elements — Neptune Elements offerFrench seaweed of controlled origin, with exceptional taste and culture.

Edenred Capital Partners is the Venture Capital investment arm of Edenred group. Employee Benefits, Payment, Mobility, Human Resources, and Retail.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
Beekeeper — Beekeeper is the employee app built for frontline success. Connect frontline teams, boost engagement, and make every shift more productive.

Iris Capital is a European VC specialized in digital, fueling entrepreneurs from early stage to growth since 1986. From Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Dubai, Iris Capital supports start-ups and scale-ups in their global expansion with the unique support on its multi corporate partners, including Orange, Publicis, Valeo andBRED.Iris Capital invests in various industries, from platforms to Saas, AdTech, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, and is always looking for ambitious industry disrupters led by unique entrepreneurs across the world.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

WeeFin — WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. Their solutions are ESG connect, hub expertise, and ESG advisory.
DGG — Reliably deliver impressive results, thanks to a single, standardized pipeline for 3D tooling and delivery.
Escape — Escape is the only API Security solution that combines the capabilities of API inventory, security testing, and business logic testing in CI/CD.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
Clutch — Clutch is a Toronto-based technology company that is reinventing the way people buy and own cars. Clutch offers high-quality certified vehicles at great prices through a fully online customer experience. At Clutch.ca, customers browse inventory online, buy the car that’s right for them, and enjoy effortless at-home delivery. Clutch’s mission is toprovide customers with a delightful car buying experience by offering high-quality cars at great prices with ultimate convenience while making a positive impact on the communities in which it operates.
Transparency Analytics — Transparency Analytics is a new company dedicated to measuring risk and delivering transparent, technology-driven solutions for clients in the evolving world of private credit.

Capital Croissance makes equity investments in French SMEs through transfer or growth capital transactions with a dual objective: to accelerate their growth and make them bigger by offering tailor-made support to management teams for their strategic projects.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Advertising, Health Care
Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
France, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Tradim — Tradim delivers commission, development and maintenance activities for the waste management hardware and integrated software.
Gaming Campus — Designed by video game and education professionals, Gaming Campus is an unique place to reveal talent and develop skills with 3 higher education schools specialized in the video game sector : • G. Business : business school www.Gaming.BS • G. Tech : informatic school www.Gaming.Tech • G. Art : art school www.Gaming.Art In the heart of Lyon(France), Gaming Campus is designed to create optimal learning conditions adapted to the video game industry. More : www.GamingCampus.fr
Previa Medical — Previa Medical analyzes the data of the patients in real time and identifies the complication risks. They also provide forecasting pathology. They use FHIR technology for their solutions. The company's contact modes are by mail and physical address.

An Investment Firm.

Investment focus

Software, Agriculture, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo creates collaborative robots. We supply 6-axis robotic arms for the education and industrial markets.
Agrikolis — Agrikolis is the French (then European) relay farm network for deliveries for heavy and bulky products. Consumers can thus collect their large parcels from a relay near their home on a farm. It is a local solution allowing social links. In the coming weeks, a DIY brand will start a period of testing with Agrikolis.
DiagRAMS Technologies — DiagRAMS Technologies offers predictive maintenance solution for AI industry.

Jonathan Widawski is the Founder and CEO of Maze. He previously worked at Bam. tech as a UX Lead. Jonathan Widawski attended EMLV - École de Management Léonard de Vinci.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Userled — Userled is a no-code interface and AI-powered platform that automates the distribution of personalizing marketing experiences across all ad and email platforms, empowering revenue teams with person-level engagement insights without cookies. Customers can deploy multiple personalized campaigns across all their target platforms from email, Linkedin,Meta, and more.
Freeplay — Freeplay builds AI features that do real work.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.

Floated in 1998, thanks to the local authority "Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine" and the "Caisse des dépôts", our venture, growth and LBO funds (Aquitaine Amorçage, ACI, Aqui-Invest) now benefit from the support of public and private influential shareholders and sponsors.Up to now, AQUITI GESTION has invested in more than 200operations contributing to the creation and development of about 150 companies and thousands of jobs.Currently, ACI and Aqui-Invest manage a portfolio gathering 50 companies which revenues scale from 0 € (early stage) to 30 M€.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dionymer — dionymer creates endless opportunities for a multitude of industries. Replacing petrochemical polymers with a circular and biodegradable alternative.
Materrup — Materrup produces low-carbon earth concrete for construction and urban development. Materrup construction solutions meet the requirements of future RE2020 regulations and the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of the construction industry.
ALOGIA Groupe — ALOGIA Groupe offers preventive health responses to senior people at home through care management and innovative services.

Bonnet joined BlaBlaCar in 2017 following a leadership role at Apple, where he spent more than a decade as a software engineer manager. In 2012, he made the move from Paris to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, leading the Operating System teams charged with the development of iCloud. Bonnet joined Apple in 2004 as an engineer afterearning a master’s degree in engineering from École Polytechnique and Telecom ParisTech.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, CRM
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Italy, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
Tsuga — Tsuga is redefining observability for the modern enterprise. Our mission is to deliver next-generation insights, clarity, and control through innovative observability solutions that empower organizations to understand, optimize, and scale their systems with confidence.

Global tech from MENA

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dogdrop — Join Dogdrop today! Quality, flexible, and affordable dog daycare service in Los Angeles, Denver, and Fort Lauderdale. Sign up for a Good Fit Test!
Xolo — Xolo is an all-for-solos business engine that provides local and global solutions for business formation, VAT-compliant invoicing, accounting, tax reporting, business expenses and more.
Keyang Semiconductor — Keyang is mainly engaged in the design, R&D, manufacture, packaging, and testing of semiconductor TSV package integrated circuit products.

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Sharpist — We offer personalized learning that will help people-centric organizations and teams grow throughout the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more!
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

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