Top 50 Restaurants VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in May 2025
A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in May 2025
Investor | Restaurants France investments |
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M Capital Partners | 7 |
360 Capital | 5 |
LeadX Capital Partners | 3 |
Anaxago | 3 |
Highland Europe | 2 |
Kima Ventures | 2 |
Bpifrance | 2 |
Isai | 2 |
FJ Labs | 2 |
Banque des Territoires | 2 |
BREEGA | 2 |
Evolem Start | 2 |
Angelsquare | 2 |
Daphni | 2 |
Serena | 2 |
Makesense Seed I | 2 |
Partech | 2 |
UL Invest | 2 |
Qualgro VC | 1 |
Seed-One Ventures | 1 |
Investisseurs privés | 1 |
henQ | 1 |
Kerala Ventures | 1 |
Quiet Ventures | 1 |
Celeste Management | 1 |
Starquest Capital | 1 |
Bleu Capital | 1 |
Alven | 1 |
R/GA Ventures | 1 |
Cameleon Invest | 1 |
Eutopia VC | 1 |
SideAngels | 1 |
123Venture | 1 |
Ardian | 1 |
Galia Gestion | 1 |
Meridiam | 1 |
INCO Ventures | 1 |
Societe Generale Asset Management | 1 |
Finorpa | 1 |
Notus Technologies | 1 |
KBW Ventures | 1 |
UFG Private Equity | 1 |
SGH CAPITAL | 1 |
Acequia Capital (AceCap) | 1 |
Rise Partners | 1 |
ODYSSEE VENTURE | 1 |
Bourrelier Group | 1 |
Elaia | 1 |
Orange Ventures | 1 |
Région Ile-de-France | 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, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
- Resilco — Resilco develops and applies unique sustainable solutions for circular economy, carbon capture and for gas purification, both for clean production and for renewable energy applications. They offer knowledge combined with high skill in material science to solve existing and emerging problems in gas treatment.
- Soource — Automate B2B sourcing with Soource AI: find and compare new suppliers, and maintain an updated database optimizing your procurement processes.
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.
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
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, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Series B, Series C, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
- LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 16 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress
- smaXtec — We offer professional dairy farmers the most technologically advanced health system, based on measuring inner body temperature, rumination and activity inside the cow's rumen. Farmers achieve stable high milk yields, reduce the use of antibiotics and significantly increase animal welfare. The 24/7 health monitoring system increases theeffectiveness of all work processes on professional dairy farms. smaXtec makes a decisive contribution to the stability and profitability of industrial dairy farming worldwide - while at the same time increasing sustainability.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
- Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
- Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Lprint — Lprint revolutionise the way PCBs are designed and manufactured, empowering hardware engineers and product development teams. Lprint is a 3D electronic printing system for PCBs, designed to manufacture complex, free-form printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single step, simplifying the prototyping, testing, and manufacturing process of electronics.
- Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
- PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.
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
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- Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Fleequid — Buy or sell buses and commercial vehicles through auctions: Join Fleequid and effortlessly participate in top-notch B2B auctions for industrial vehicles
- Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
- Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States
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- 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.
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
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, United States
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- Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
- Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.
Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Italy, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
- Oplit — Oplit is a production planning platform that provides software and support to help industrials boost operations profitability.
- Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- JOBO Interim — JOBO Interim is a staffing agency that recruits employees and provides employment through digital access.
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…
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Switzerland
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- 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!
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, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Faume — Faume fournit une solution technologique et logistique en marque blanche, aux marques qui souhaitent lancer leur offre de seconde main
- comet — Comet is a platform created in September 2016 that seamlessly matches the best hard-skill Freelancers to top companies.These experts want to work as Freelancers and companies won’t survive without them. Their goal is to satisfy both sides: relevant and prompt skills for companies, security and inspiring projects for Freelancers.They screen andevaluate the best tech and data talents to build an interactive community. We're developing a smart product, powered by strong algorithms, to enhance their user experiences.
- underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.
Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management.
Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of itsportfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels.
Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
- 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.
- Kleio — Kleio providing AI to sales and marketing teams so they can convert prospects and concentrate on high-value tasks.
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.
- Plant on Demand — Plant on Demand allows the digitization and automation of processes while facilitating cooperation between agents in the short supply chain, improving the competitiveness of small producers and increasing sales of local and ecological products. They work to bring the most advanced technology to the small organic producer, thus accelerating thetransition to more sustainable and ethical production and consumption models
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
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- Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
- Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
- AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
UL Invest is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Human Resources, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- France, Spain
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- 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.
- Combo — Combo (formerly Snapshift) is a staff planning and management software designed to make the daily life of your business easier.
- PeopleSpheres — PeopleSpheres was created in response to a lack of HR management solutions completely suited to meet customer needs. Their customized solution was born to be a suitable, sustainable and scalable HR Solution for every company. PeopleSpheres partners with premiere national HR service providers in order to serve American businesses.
Qualgro is a venture capital (VC) fund based in Singapore that provides funding to tech startups across Southeast Asia, in areas like Data, Software, and AI.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Singapore, Australia, India
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- Convosight — World's #1 platform to monetize your Facebook group, engage members and get deep insights into what is working in your community.
- Accredify — Build digital trust for your organisation with verifiable information. Issue instantly verifiable digital documents and simplify document management processes.
- Supermom — Supermom helps parents make the right decisions on what to buy and where to buy at the lowest prices. Best prices guaranteed for millions of mom, baby & kids products.
Seed-One Ventures is a Finance company.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Recycling, Mobile Apps
- Series A
- France
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- BIBAK — BIBAK is an industrial technogy solution making reusable packaging services simplier.
Investisseurs privés is a private investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France
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- Tollys — Tollys is a biopharmaceutical company focused on innate immunity, particularly on the biology and modulation of the TLR3 receptor. The company is advancing TL-532, a new cancer immunotherapy to treat various types of cancer. TL-532 is a structurally defined double-stranded RNA, produced synthetically and highly specific to the TLR3 receptor.
- Clone (ex Not So Dark) — Not So Dark offers a food delivery industry solution that creates exclusively online brands.
- LE DRIVE TOUT NU — LE DRIVE TOUT NU is a startup of Consumers services Buyer aid.
Early-stage funding for the odd ones out in B2B software.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- The Netherlands, United States, France
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French VC fund insanely focused on bringing massive strategic and operational support to its entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Lokki — Lokki is a software tool for equipment rental companies.
- Skillup — Skillup has designed the new @Tripadvisor for professional trainings hosting over 20k trainings and 50k reviews. It aims at helping HR services to find the adequate trainig for employees.
- Napta — PickYourSkills is a SaaS solution helping companies to find the best match between their projects and their employees.
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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Investment focus
- SaaS, Mining, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Eon — Meet Eon, the next-generation cloud backup solution with the first-ever backup autopilot for cloud infrastructure. We empower organizations with cloud backup posture management (CBPM), making complex backups simple and turning them into valuable, easily accessible assets.
- DYNO — DYNO is a company that offers digital and provision-free solutions for occupational pension schemes.
- Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.
Celeste Management is a Swiss family office.
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Investment focus
- Medical, Medical Device, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- France, Switzerland, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Adionics — Adionics provides advances ionic solutions such as lithium and iodide extraction, and salts separation.
- DomoHealth — Join us in revolutionizing patient care using the power of AI-assisted digital health platform and safety solutions. Enhancing digital health with the best platform, application and devices for the direct benefits of patients and healthcare professionals.
- Ascendance — Sustainable flight solutions for today & tomorrow... because cleaner aviation can't wait. With Ascendance, Fly quieter, cleaner, further.
High Tech, Low Carbon: crafting tomorrow, today. We finance innovation to make tomorrow happen today. Starquest is a Montefiore Company.
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Investment focus
- 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.
We're a multi-stage, transatlantic investment fund helping founders create category-defining companies that will shape up the consumer experiences of tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- MoldCo — Get expert-led, evidence-based healthcare for the symptoms of mold exposure. Includes specialized lab testing and personalized care plans to promote recovery.
- Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
- Nova Carbon — High-performance sustainable carbon fiber composites
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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- Marveri — AI made for Corporate and Transactional Work. No prompting. No chatbots. Just verifiable results.
- OpusMajor — Opus Major is a French video games studio building a cross-platform multiplayer game set in a vast & joyful universe. Discover our first opus and get in tune!
R/GA Ventures goes beyond financial capital to provide access to R/talent GA's and extensive client network to founders. It is developing an innovation platform to assist industry leaders in disrupting business as usual by connecting them with groundbreaking technologies and emerging players that can open up new doors.Beyondfinancial capital, R/GA Ventures connects early- and growth-stage startups with its creative talent, clients, and innovative program partners. Its flexible financing terms help businesses at every stage of funding and growth. It invests at current market valuations in each of its program companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Pet, Mobile
- Funding Round, Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- FORTË — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
- VetVerifi — VetVerifi is technology company that better connects veterinarians to their pet care partners. A secure, verified way to communicate patient records to the partners you approve, from pet services to emergency.
- Monterra — Made with Softr, the easiest way to turn your data into portals and internal tools.
Cameleon Invest is an investment holding and consulting firm. We invest directly into French or International start-ups or SMBs with high growth profiles and bring expertise and ambition to creative and non-consensuel projects.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Catering, Marketplace
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Loewi — Loewi allows you to sell your two-wheeled companion.
- 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.
- Imagination Machine — Imagination Machine Imagination Machine is a startup studio.
Eutopia is a fund for consumer startups. We back founders who are rethinking the way we eat, shop, sleep and feel. We are backing 26 startups
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Investment focus
- Retail, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
- Bastille — Bastille is a brand of urban bicycles. The Astir brand is synonymous with folding bicycles. The primary quality constraint Bastille, a British designer, aims to create a folding motorcycle with standard wheels rather than the mini 16-inch wheels that are traditionally associated with folding bikes.
- 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.
SideAngels is an investment banking firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Accounting, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Delicity — Delicity is a delivery and booking platform that enables restaurateurs to deliver their customers' orders without paying exorbitant commissions.
- Scalingo — Discover Scalingo the 1st European PaaS certified HDS (Health Data Hosting) and ISO 27001. Host your app in France and enjoy top-notch client support. Deploy your apps faster.
- 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.
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.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- France, Italy, Germany
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- My Pie — My Pie makes meals and natural lunch breaks.
- Mon Véto — Mon Véto is a generic veterinary clinic chain. It is a cutting-edge, well-equipped veterinary clinic.
- Heathrow Airport Holdings — Heathrow is the UK’s only hub airport. Around 70 million people pass through our terminals every year. 190,000 every day flying in and out of 90 different countries. They serve 86 airlines including the national carriers British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. Right in the heart of the business world. A huge part of the UK economy, on the doorstep ofLondon one of the world’s most vibrant cities.
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.
Meridiam is a global investor and asset manager specializing in public and community infrastructure with a long-term view. Founded in 2005, the company is an independent player committed to aligning the interests of all stakeholders. Meridiam develops projects in OECD countries by working closely with public authorities at every stage of theirprojects, from design through long-term management (25 years). Meridiam promotes a hands-on approach with a strong focus on technical, environmental and social aspects as well as an active engagement with project stakeholders.
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- Energy, Solar, Battery
- Funding Round, Series C
- France, Canada, Senegal
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- Verkor — Verkor is a battery cell manufacturer whose goal is to increase the production of low-carbon batteries to fulfill the growing demand for electric vehicles. The company focuses on the development of low-carbon batteries with a carbon footprint that is many times smaller than standard batteries. This reduces the logistics footprint, includingemissions, and provides businesses with batteries that are very inexpensive and use carbon-free electricity.
- Iwell — AI-driven EMS and Modular BESS to future-proof your operations. Reinforce your energy security and stay resilient with iwell.
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.
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- Training, EdTech, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, Guinea
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- Susu — Susu is a dynamic and innovative company that offers a wide range of health services for families in the African diaspora. Susu provides a complete offer on Preventive care, Medical treatments, Management of chronic diseases, and Authentic drugs.
- Vulkam — Vulkam is an innovative microtechnology start up from the french research laboratories.
- PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.
SGAM AI is a leading institutional player in Alternative Investment Management. SGAM AI successfully mixes the cultures of asset management and capital markets. They are client driven and institutional, like an asset manager. Their approach of each market is entrepreneurial and financial, like an investment bank. They offer the widest coverage ofAlternative Investment classes. Their size and profitability allow long term investments and credibility. They have the ability to offer solutions, not only products. SG Group's strengths are brought to the Alternative Investment's industry. They benefit from SG Group's long term commitment in Alternative Investments. They use the processes ans resources of SGAM Group (rated M2 by Fitch).
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Germany
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- Augure — Improve your brand performance with Launchmetrics' leading software solutions for fashion, lifestyle and beauty brands
- Force-A — FORCE-A designs, produces, and sells optical sensors for the assessment of physiological and health status of crops. It offers crop sensors for nondestructive assessment of leaf polyphenolics. The company also provides multiparameter noncontact sensors-based on leaves or fruits, and berries autofluorescence measurements. Its multiparameternoncontact sensor provides inputs for decision support systems for a range of crops, including fertilisation needs, weed infestation, crop diseases, and crop yield and quality forecast. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Orsay, France.
- METRIXWARE — Metrixware has, since 1995, been providing software maintenance & quality management solutions to CIOs and IT professionals through its System Code range of application management tools. The company provides global organizations with information, indicators and diagnostic to streamline decision making and implement best practice and compliancestandards.
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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- Manufacturing, Industrial, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
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- Nutriearth — Nutriearth is a biotech firm that develops nutritional ingredients for human and animal health.
- Inodesign group — Inodesign group is an integral part of the whole production of an electronic technology product, including engineering, PCB manufacture, test benches, and cable harness production.
- Beyond Green — Beyond Green is an agri-food group specializing in agricultural transition and sustainable food.
Notus Technologies is a business and industrial firm.
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- Retail, Organic, Nutrition
- Series A, Private Equity
- France
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- Flatsy — Flatsy is a platform that manages real estate viewings of the company offers a dedicated real estate appointment tool and provides local agents to help professionals to carry out real estate visits. It was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
- BienManger — 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.
Focusing exclusively on venture capital, value creation and growth equity, KBW Ventures is an asset management company that targets direct investments in some of the world's most highly sought-after private companies.
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, France
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- PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
- Rebellyous Foods — Rebellyous Foods makes crispy, juicy, 100% plant-based nuggets. Your guests will love the taste. Your team will love the simplicity. Get Rebellyous with us!
- Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.
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.
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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- Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
- OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
- Forepont Capital Partners — Founded in 2017 in New York, Forepont Capital Partners is a global asset manager in healthcare and life science.
We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
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- Uthana — Uthana operates as a 3D character animation studio that uses generative AI.
- Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.
- Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.
Rise Partners is a management consulting firm that specializes in financial strategy and advisory services to startup businesses.
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- Solar, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
- Seed, Series A
- France
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- Owneat — Owneat is a web solution aimed to expedite the customers' experience in the restaurant. It will provide access to Business Intelligence type information intended to improve the restaurant management.
- VB-Tech — VB-Tech is a Brain digital twin technology for neurological interventions.
- Pess Energy — Pess Energy designs, manufactures, and markets zero-emission generator sets with large capacities and powers.
ODYSSEE VENTURE is a French Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France. The company has raised over 600M€.
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- Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, United States
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- Copains — Copains is a bakery that produces a wide variety of pastry and confectionery items intended to offer a healthy eating approach.
- Terratis — Terratis is a French company that uses the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to reduce the populations of tiger mosquitoes and agricultural pests. Their mission is to diminish harmful insect populations effectively on a large scale using a scientific, innovative, ecological, and efficient approach.
- Circle Safe — Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. The most effective way to prevent recurrence is to perform an interventional procedure: ablation. Most of these procedures are performed by Radiofrequency or by a more recent technique, the Cryoballoon. The latter has many advantages including speed and simplicity but has a complicationthat is specific to it: the risk of creating Diaphragmatic Paralysis. Circle Safe is developing a solution with the aim of permanently eliminating this complication.
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.
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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- AQEMIA — Aqemia is an in silico drug discovery start-up, whose ambition is to discover rapidly more innovative therapeutic molecules with better chances of success.
- GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
- Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
- ToumAI Analytics — ToumAI Analytics is a software development company providing voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services.
Région Ile-de-France is a major business and techno hub in Europe.
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- Software, Catering, AgTech
- Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, The Netherlands
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- ION-X — Based on patented technology, our unique ionic liquid electrospray thrusters is the next big thing in small satellites propulsion.
- SkyVisor — SkyVisor engages in advancing drone inspection technology for renewable energy sector.
- Parallel 1245 — Parallel helps coding agent works side by side with hospital teams to deliver faster and more accurate medical coding.
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