Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in France in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Restaurants startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Restaurants companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Restaurants Startup Investors in France in October 2024
Investor | Restaurants France investments |
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M Capital Partners | 7 |
360 Capital | 5 |
LeadX Capital Partners | 3 |
Daphni | 2 |
Anaxago | 2 |
Makesense Seed I | 2 |
Banque des Territoires | 2 |
Highland Europe | 2 |
Kima Ventures | 2 |
UL Invest | 2 |
Marc Menase | 2 |
Angelsquare | 2 |
Xavier Niel | 2 |
Serena | 2 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 2 |
Frederic Montagnon | 2 |
Partech | 2 |
Bpifrance | 2 |
Isai | 2 |
Breega | 2 |
Michel Guilhermier | 1 |
Philippe Salle | 1 |
Jeremie Berrebi | 1 |
Marc Simoncini | 1 |
Ardian | 1 |
Orange Ventures | 1 |
Possible Ventures | 1 |
Finorpa | 1 |
123Venture | 1 |
Notus Technologies | 1 |
Damien Guermonprez | 1 |
Bourrelier Group | 1 |
Quiet Ventures | 1 |
henQ | 1 |
Elaia | 1 |
Galia Gestion | 1 |
MAIF Impact | 1 |
Reto Graf | 1 |
Jim Texier | 1 |
Dominique Laugier | 1 |
Nicolas Douay | 1 |
KBW Ventures | 1 |
Thibaud Elziere | 1 |
BACKED VC | 1 |
Alven | 1 |
CM-CIC Capital Prive | 1 |
Julien Romanetto | 1 |
SGH CAPITAL | 1 |
UFG Private Equity | 1 |
Starquest Capital | 1 |
M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM.
A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth.
In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Fasst — Fasst is involved in the creation, distribution, consulting, and connection of unique digital insurance solutions for brokers and insurers.
- Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
- Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach.
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Investment focus
- Restaurants, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Germany, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
- Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
Daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- apiday — Gain control of your ESG data, easily comply with requests from stakeholders and unlock new opportunities with the apiday SaaS platform.
- NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
- ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight
Anaxago is a brand new crowdfunding platform dedicated to innovative companies. Anaxago aims at changing the traditional equity capital investment model. Their goal is to forget about the capitalistic-only and go for a truly sharing and participative investment model. Thanks to Anaxago, entrepreneurs can benefit from the financial support oftheir investors but also learn from the shareholders' experience, expertise and network. Each investor can take an active part to the company life and so be a part of a lively entrepreneurial adventure.They offer a small range of companies each month to their investors community. Startups and small companies are chosen with good care and have to go through a whole process of financial analysis. They also prefer to select companies with a real innovative value added. With Anaxago, young and small companies can find funding and support to grow and develop. They give them a chance to be the actors of tomorrow's growth and reboost their economy.Since its launch, Anaxago gathered 100 000 members and invested more than 130M€ funding more than 200 businesses.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Belgium, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
- Xenothera — Xenothera is a xenotherapy platform with embedded technology that renovates immunological treatments. Xenothera creates new therapeutic modes in numerous domains from immunomodulation to infectious diseases.Xenothera's technological platform is built on a double expertise of animal genetics and mastery of immunology processes. It renovatespassive immunotherapy by marketing a new generation of hyperimmune polyclonal sera.Xenothera’s platform ensures short-time development thanks to their mastery of the entire process, from animal genetics, choice of the immunogen, selection, and purification of interesting immunoglobulins, and access to market authorization in accelerated timescale.
- Check & Visit — In Brittany, in Rennes Check & Visit was born from the desire to help the owners of the whole world to realize the conditions of their apartment. In France each year, there are over 3,400,000 inventories made. For the 2,500,000 owners, which they are part of it is not always easy to make the inventory of his apartment. Whether due to lack ofavailability, legal knowledge, or the reliability of paper status reports. The inventory quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task that any owner would like to do without.
- PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology
Makesense Seed Iis the first impact pre-seed fund backed by an incubator and labeled French Impact.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Medical, Catering
- Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Ensweet — Ensweet is a telemedicine platform intended to offer telerehabilitation services to patients. They offer equipment so that everyone can exercise whenever possible, enabling patients to have accessible rehabilitation.
- Vesto — Vesto has set up an industrial area specifically for the repurposing of equipment used by restaurateurs. In addition to traditional catering, we hope to make it possible for group catering, open tenders, and eventually other professions to outfit themselves with less expensive, second-hand equipment while still minimizing their impact.
- LE DRIVE TOUT NU — LE DRIVE TOUT NU is a startup of Consumers services Buyer aid.
Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Movivolt — Movivolt is a company that offers professionals long-term electric car rentals. Movivolt specializes in 100% electric vehicles for long-term rental, offering all brands and types of electric vehicles (cars, utility vehicles, freight cycles, etc.) at the best possible price.
- Neosilver — Neosilver is the platform that connects seniors with providers of collective, sports, and cultural activities.
- vorteX-io — vorteX-io is a flood warning and forecasting system meant to monitor watercourses and reduce flood risk. It provides hydrology monitoring services with compact space-based altimeters intended to accurately measure the height of the sea surface, allowing users to get a continuous, real-time measurement of several hydrological parameters withcentimeter accuracy.
Highland Europe invests in rapidly growing European internet, mobile, and software companies that address large market opportunities and have over €10 million in annualized revenues. They can provide acquisition finance or lead secondary transactions as well as making primary investments. Their capital enables management teams to accelerate growthand build a lasting, valuable business.Highland Europe was launched in 2012 and closely collaborates with Highland Capital Partners, an independent global venture capital firm with a twenty-seven year investment experience and offices in Boston and Palo Alto.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PVcase — We are on a mission to fight climate change through software. We are fulfilling this aim by creating seamlessly integrated solar technology solutions for companies of all sizes to help them design, estimate and optimize commercial and utility scale solar assets, wherever they may be.
- Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
- Hyperexponential — We are transforming insurance through the power of decision intelligence.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- 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.
- Willy anti-gaspi — Willy anti-gaspi is a waste-fighting e-commerce business.
UL Invest is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Snapshift — Snapshift is a staff management web solution for restaurants. The company's software enables restaurant owners to make online scheduling and enter the information on contracts, endorsements, proofs, leave requests, time sheets which will be stored online, enabling restaurant owners spend less time on administrative tasks so they can focus ontheir customers.
- Yaba — Yaba buy, finance and support the growth of businesses based on Amazon FBA.
- Combo — Combo (formerly Snapshift) is a staff planning and management software designed to make the daily life of your business easier.
Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
- Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
- Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- 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!
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cube AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
Serena invests in bold ventures and provides them with an unrivaled level of expertise and operational resources.
In ten years, the firm has already contributed to the emergence of many success stories (Aramisauto - Acquired by PSA, The Fork - acquired by TripAdvisor, Cheerz -acquired by Cewe), and has currently 40 handpicked startups in itsportfolio such as Dataiku, Evaneos, Malt, iBanFirst, CybelAngel, or Lifen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Odaseva — Odaseva is the leading enterprise data platform for Salesforce. Industry leaders rely on Odaseva to keep data protected, compliant, and agile.
- Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
- Metrobloks — Metrobloks is revolutionizing data infrastructure in major metro areas across North America. With a focus on providing low-latency, high-capacity data solutions for AI/ML, IoT, Gaming, Streaming and other data intensive services, Metrobloks delivers future-proof multi-tenant colocation facilities to underserved urban markets. Founded by adiverse team of industry veterans, Metrobloks is committed to shaping the future of digital connectivity.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
- 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.
- Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.
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.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
- Oderis — Oderis helps corporate and private equity clients with transaction advisory, business valuation, consulting and financial assistance.
- VELA — VELA is an innovative 100% wind-powered maritime transport. It has been working to address the climate emergency by providing a creative, sustainable, and socially responsible maritime transportation solution.
Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- Mercateam — Mercateam specializes in developing staff management software.
- Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.
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.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Entalpic — Entalpic is an AI-driven discovery platform for sustainable industries aiming to optimize carbon-intensive sectors.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
Michel Guilhermier - Advisor @ Telescop
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Investment focus
- SaaS, E-Commerce, Restaurants
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Zenchef — Zenchef (formerly 1001menus) is the easiest marketing and booking system for restaurants, and is an all-in-one marketing SaaS that helps restaurants attract customers and increase loyalty.
- Watchdog Systems — Technology company focused on anti-theft IoT products. Currently working on a connected lock for motorcycles. Made in France. Available worldwide.
Philippe Salle is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines de Paris and obtained an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (Chicago, USA). He began his career at Total in Indonesia before joining Accenture in 1990. He moved to McKinsey in 1995, where he was promoted to Senior Manager in 1998. He joined the Vedior Group(now Randstad, a company listed on Amsterdam Euronext) in 1999 and was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vedior France in 2002, and President of the Southern Europe zone in 2006 (France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland). He held this position until 2007, when he joined the Geoservices group (now Schlumberger, a company listed on the New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam and Zurich stock exchanges), a technological company in the oil sector operating in 52 countries with nearly 7,000 employees, first as Managing Director then as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer up to March 2011. Philippe Salle was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Altran group since June 2011. He was appointed Chairman of the Elior's Board of Directors on March 10th, 2015, and is Chairman and CEO of the Group since April 29th, 2015.
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Restaurants, Food Processing
- Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Popchef — PopChef launched at Paris Founders Event Winter 2015 and they were curious to get some updates on this flavourful, fairly-price, conscious business, but firstly let’s find out how everything started out and the obstacles these three young entrepreneurs faced along the way.
Jeremie Berrebi is a Internet experts with 20 years of experience.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Angel
- United States, France, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
- Optix — Optix is the leading coworking software to enable coworking owners and operators to manage, measure, and grow their business.
- Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.
Marc Simoncini is the CEO, Co-Founder and Owner of Jaina Capital. He previously worked at MEETIC as a Founder, Owner and Ex-CEO. Marc Simoncini attended E.S.I.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Software, Audio
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
- Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
- URBAN CUISINE — URBAN CUISINE develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.
We are an employee controlled company managing and/or advising more than $125 bn of assets. Our mission is to generate sustainable, long-term returns for our clients, alongside positive social impact that benefits all our stakeholders and society at large.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- France, Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mon Véto — Mon Véto is a generic veterinary clinic chain. It is a cutting-edge, well-equipped veterinary clinic.
- Theradial — Theradial is to provide health actors in Dialysis-Nephrology, Gastroenterology and Onco-Hematology quality information on the products of Nikkiso, TauroPharm, Serumwerk, NxStage, to meet the care requirements. patients. Today, THERADIAL engages a partnership with the medical and scientific community through the development of clinical studies andaccess to information in Hematology, Oncology and Gastroenterology.
- Resonance Imaging Group — Resonance Imaging Group provides all patients with access to medical imaging, for increasingly precise diagnoses.
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CorralData — Experience the power of AI-generated metrics and insights with CorralData. Get one month free and seamlessly integrate with 200+ data sources with no upfront costs.
- Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Eden Brew — Eden Brew is a ground-breaking new way to enjoy dairy products sustainably and nutritiously.
- Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.
Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Construction, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Niryo — Niryo creates collaborative robots. We providing intuitive 6-axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial markets.
- SPART — SPART, your company's sport and health partner. Improve the cohesion and well-being of your teams through physical activity.
- NeoCem — NeoCem creates, manufactures, and promotes a variety of low-carbon cements for the building industry. They have developed a novel procedure that permits the utilization of raw materials sourced from recovery sectors.
123 Venture offers funds of funds to both institutional investors as well as individual investors. 123Venture has successfully built a network of leading private equity managers in France and Europe.
123Venture also invests directly in companies, typically alongside other private equity fund managers (co-investments) with whom they have made fundinvestments.
If you are an institutionnal investor, you can have access to our know how through our funds of funds or through managed accounts. 123Venture’s dedicated programs can be tailored to meet a broad range of client-defined objectives.
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Investment focus
- Software, Computer, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, Spain, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- SeniorAdom — Founded in November 2012, SeniorAdom offers new remote assistance technology. SeniorAdom’s next-generation technology automatically detects falls and sudden illness using a smart system of detectors (no cameras) connected to a central device. This central device is easy to install and use. It can simply be plugged into a power socket (no need foran internet connection because it has an embedded GSM mobile phone card). No special training is required. In addition to falls and sudden illness, SeniorAdom’s solution can also report any unusual patterns in the life of a dependent person by sending a text or email to their carer. Each carer has a personalised and secure space from which they can monitor the well-being of the person living in their own home. SeniorAdom has genuinely disrupted the remote assistance space, which had barely advanced in 35 years. It provides comfort and peace of mind to both carers and service users.
- Snowleader — Votre boutique en ligne (qui sent bon le reblochon) spécialiste des sports d’hiver, outdoor et street.
- SnapEvent — SnapEvent is a mobile application that enables its users to follow conference trends and event planning tips. It was launched in 2014 by Edgars Vecozolins and Zigmars Rozentals and is based in Riga.
Notus Technologies is a business and industrial firm.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Organic, Nutrition
- Series A, Private Equity
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Mercateam — Mercateam specializes in developing staff management software.
- BienManager — BienManager is an online store that sells wine, delicacies and organic food products.
- BIBAK — BIBAK is an industrial technogy solution making reusable packaging services simplier.
Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, India, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
- Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
Bourrelier Group is specialized in developing large-scale distribution networks to bring its brands to market, with a special focus on DIY.
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- Hospitality, Restaurants, Food Processing
- Series A
- France
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- Popchef — PopChef launched at Paris Founders Event Winter 2015 and they were curious to get some updates on this flavourful, fairly-price, conscious business, but firstly let’s find out how everything started out and the obstacles these three young entrepreneurs faced along the way.
Quiet Ventures: A venture studio above the noise. We build useful products worth talking about & build apps for fellow founders thinking about quitting their day jobs.
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- Mining, FinTech, Robotics
- Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, France
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- 21Shares — The simplest way to invest in the best performing asset class of the last decade using your existing bank or brokerage.
- 21.co — From beginners to crypto-native users, 21.co bridges traditional finance and decentralized finance for crypto asset management.
- Impossible Mining — BATTERY MINERALS: A GROWING PROBLEM Mining continues to play a vital role in our path to a green, circular economy. A growing population, urbanization, emerging market economies and the transition to green energy all demand more minerals. Responsible seabed mining will drive a truly responsible transition to circularity. Discover Our Solution
Early-stage funding for the odd ones out in B2B software.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom
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- Tomorro (ex Leeway) — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- imagino — imagino provide a ground-breaking composable revenue-first CDP and marketing platform across Europe. For marketers who think big, but need to act fast. Any industry. Any challenge. Any outcome. Welcome to the future.
- CloudTalk — CloudTalk is an intuitive and easy-to-use cloud-based call center software with many advanced features designed to improve customer support.
Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Spain
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- Aviwell — Aviwell’s mission is to develop healthy, native, natural, and sustainable solutions to improve animal health and growth to better nourish the planet ... At a fraction of the cost.
- Hema.to — Hema.to provides fully automated, AI-powered blood cancer detection suggestions based on flow cytometry data.
- Greenbids — Reducing digital advertising carbon emissions with machine learning.
Galia Gestion is a private equity and venture capital firm. GALIA Gestion is a “management company” approved by the AMF, with majority shareholder Alliance Entreprendre.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, United States
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- Wizaly — Wizaly's ambition is to help advertisers understand the impact of their online & offline marketing channels across all conversions, helping clients improve the ROI of their marketing budgets by up to 30%.The Wizaly platform applies its algorithmic attribution technology to provide a holistic and unbiased vision of campaigns performancestogether with actionable optimization recommendations.
- Agenium — Agenium offers career perspectives in an international and tech environment. They offer this through the specific expertise of their business units. They offer solutions to the business and of the defense, industry, and space sectors.
- Germitec SAS — Germitec is a world leader in UV-C high-level disinfection. Fast, safe, chemical-free, one-button UV-C high-level disinfection for ultrasound probes.
MAIF Investissement Social et Solidaire finances projects that are innovative, committed, and civic. The MAIF group demonstrates its ambition to support its driving role with companies in the social and solidarity economy.
MAIF has supported the development of companies created to meet societal needs, and not simply to generate profits.
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- Retail, Children, Recycling
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France
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- vorteX-io — vorteX-io is a flood warning and forecasting system meant to monitor watercourses and reduce flood risk. It provides hydrology monitoring services with compact space-based altimeters intended to accurately measure the height of the sea surface, allowing users to get a continuous, real-time measurement of several hydrological parameters withcentimeter accuracy.
- TOOPI Organics — TOOPI Organics is specializing in using human urine for agriculture and industry
- BIBAK — BIBAK is an industrial technogy solution making reusable packaging services simplier.
Reto Graf - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ EAT.ch
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- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- France, Switzerland
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- Somm'it — Restaurant profits are low. Somm’It thinks beverages are the main driver for profit within restaurants, but are not leveraged enough because of management complexity, lack of tools, skills, and expertise.Somm’It is the automated sommelier for every restaurant. Restaurants can also optimize the management of beverages through data intelligence,easy stock management, dynamic purchasing, and reliable, in real-time management of the wine lists.
- TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Jim Texier is a Chief Technology & Product Officer at Lightspeed Commerce.
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- Software, FinTech, Finance
- Series A, Seed
- Canada, France
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- Malou — Malou offers food marketing and digital marketing solutions for restaurants. The company also offers content management, restaurant marketing, reputation management, presence management, and SEO solutions.
- YouSet — YouSet's online platform helps you find the best insurance coverage instantly. Get an insurance quote in 4 minutes and save up with YouSet.
- Maxa AI — Maxa AI provides automated machine intelligence technology solutions.
Dominique Laugier, founder of Furnotel.
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- Catering, Restaurants
- Seed
- France
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- Vesto — Vesto has set up an industrial area specifically for the repurposing of equipment used by restaurateurs. In addition to traditional catering, we hope to make it possible for group catering, open tenders, and eventually other professions to outfit themselves with less expensive, second-hand equipment while still minimizing their impact.
Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United Kingdom, Mauritius
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- Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.
It's about more than money, much more. We invest in companies that drive the Future.
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- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Singapore, France
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- BlueNalu — BlueNalu's mission is to be the global leader in cellular aquaculture, providing consumers with great tasting, healthy, safe, and trusted seafood products that support the sustainability and diversity of our oceans.
- Eclipse Foods — Eclipse Foods is the sweet tooth for all food lovers of plant-based, vegan ice cream. We offer delicious, cruelty-free vegan ice cream. Learn more today!
- Furahaa Group — Furahaa Group operates as a vegan fast-food chain.
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
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- Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
- 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.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders at Seed in Europe. Welcome to Different.
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- Software, Enterprise Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- Hoxton Farms — Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.
- Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
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- Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
- Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
- Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.
CM-CIC Capital Prive is a French investment company focused on SMEs and innovative companies.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, United States, Germany
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- L'addition — L'addition is an Ipad cash register software for bars, restaurants, food trucks, and etc. It has developed software that fully meets the expectations of restorers for order intake and collections. Relying on Apple media, its offer is intuitive and economical.The application aims to exceed the functionality of a conventional cash registerwhile enjoying the robustness and ease of use of the iPad. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
- TISSIUM — TISSIUM is creating the future of tissue reconstruction. Learn more about our novel solutions based on our proprietary platform of biomorphic programmable polymers.
- Presto Engineering — We enable companies imagine and implement microelectronics solutions in high-value markets such as Industrial, Automotive, Communication and Medical.
Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l.
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- Software, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
- MeltingSpot — One platform to broadcast your lives, initiate discussions, gather your content, manage your audiences and much more. Get MeltingSpot for free.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- TabTrader — TabTrader - Cryptocurrency trading terminal. Over 20K+ trading instruments on 20+ major exchanges in one app.
- Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.
UFG Private Equity invests in fast-growing companies in Russia and CIS countries, focusing on Healthcare, BPO (Business Processes Outsourcing), Telecom & Technology, and Consumer Staples & Retail. The three UFG Private Equity funds have a total of $712 million of investments and commitments. UFG Private Equity also offers co-investmentopportunities on larger deals. UFG Private Equity was founded in 2005.
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- Software, Ride Sharing, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, Russian Federation, United States
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- Fasten — Fasten is a mobile-based ride-hailing platform designed to offer a seamless cab booking experience by treating drivers well. The app lets its users to book cabs and at the same time see how much they're paying for the ride in realtime, providing them with a transparent and cost-efficient cab service.Fasten started in 2013 and is based inBoston, Massachusetts.
- KARO Film — KARO is the network of cinemas in Russia, managing 31 modern cinema (235 screens) in Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Samara, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg and Surgut.
- Vezet Group — Vezet Group is the largest ride hailing company in Russia. Established after the merger of two leading services, Taxi Saturn and RuTaxi, it operates in 100+ cities in Russia and CIS. Vezet Group operates the omni-channel model, providing riders the opportunity to request a ride both with the app or with a short phone call.
High Tech, Low Carbon: crafting tomorrow, today. We finance innovation to make tomorrow happen today. Starquest is a Montefiore Company.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Singapore, The Netherlands
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- Cailabs — Cailabs is a French deep tech company, based in Rennes, which designs, produces and sells photonic solutions to fully exploit the industrial potential opened up by the shaping of light.Cailabs develops and produces a unique range of optical components based on its know-how and its patented technological innovations, in particular Multi-PlaneLight Conversion (MPLC).
- Hello Watt — Hello Watt is a digital enthusiasts and developers who help you reduce your energy bills while improving your comfort.
- Caeli Énergie — Caeli Énergie develops and manufactures next-generation air conditioners with great energy efficiency and a minimal carbon impact.
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