Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in France in May 2025

Investor	Retail France investments
M Capital Partners	8
Bpifrance	8
Founders Future	7
Isai	7
Otium Capital	6
360 Capital	6
Naxicap Partners	6
Kima Ventures	5
Evolem Start	5
Angelsquare	5
Daphni	4
NCI Gestion	4
Anaxago	4
Marc Menase	4
Aglaé Ventures	4
Alven	4
Frederic Halley	4
MAIF Impact	3
Orange Ventures	3
Eduardo Ronzano	3
XAnge	3
Amundi Private Equity Funds	3
Karista	3
Starquest Capital	3
Colam Impact	3
Generis Capital Partners	3
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	3
Frst	3
Ring Capital	3
Ahmed Mhiri	3
BNP Paribas Développement	3
Quadia	3
Runa Capital	3
AQUITI Gestion	3
Aster	3
Elaia	3
Global Founders Capital	3
Cathay Innovation	2
iFly.vc	2
Turenne Capital	2
Danone Manifesto Venture	2
Eutopia VC	2
Ventech	2
Nick Telson-Sillett	2
CapHorn Invest	2
Steva Investissement	2
Bourgogne Angels	2
KIMPA - Impact Investing	2
UI Investissement	2
Xavier Niel	2

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

auum — auum is a glass cleaning machine that optimizes the cleaning process and reduces its water consumption. It is also an economical cleaning technology designed to promote reusable containers at work. They offer service, maintenance, and replacement services.
Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
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.

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.

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.

Naxicap Partners is a financial partner responsible, active and present along with its holdings. Their concept of partnership is to provide their participants and their managers substantial support in periods of expansion as in times of difficulty, with lines of action to be effective and practical.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Retail
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
France, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

MYRE — With 17 years of professional experience, Deborah (founder) has devised a tailor-made tool adapted to the new challenges of an industry still waiting to be modernized, allowing real estate players to focus on tasks with high added value. MYRE help Asset Managers in taking the control of their datas (financials, legal,...) in the asset lifecycle.We provide Financials analysis and modeling capabilities, advanced dataroom, Debt management, Real Estate Master data management in an inclusive way with all the stakeholders (PM, brokers, bank, ...)MYRE is based on twofold expertise of both technology and real estate business needs.
Dog Chef — Dog Chef is an exhibit supplier of homemade and natural food for dogs across the region.
Witco — Witco is an app that centralizes all the services that power a great work experience. We provide flexible workplaces & coliving solutions.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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€.

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…

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

NCI is a private investor company that offers their skills for investing in the public and private markets.

Investment focus

Internet, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Italy, Martinique

Portfolio highlights

ZEWAY — ZEWAY is a developer of mobility solution intended to help people switch to electric scooters for mobility. The company operates on a subscription model that allows access to a network of stations with electric scooters along with insurance, assistance and maintenance services, helping customers move within Paris without causing air pollution.
Eelway — Luggage storage and delivery available 7 days a week. Discover the Eelway luggage services. Finally you're going to travel your hands-free.
Optoprim — Optoprim is a machinery manufacturing company that specializes in the distribution of lasers, optics and optic electronic instruments.

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.

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

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

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.

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

CAST AI — Cast AI cuts AWS, Azure, and GCP costs, secures Kubernetes applications, and boosts DevOps efficiency. Try it now!
HeyLibby — HeyLibby is the AI sales assistant and best kept secret for small business owners to engage, qualify, and convert leads.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
Kamino Retail — Ultimate Retail Media Monetization Platform that has been designed for Retailers to unlock their true potential and set up their own private marketplace. The 1st independent and interoperable Retail Media Monetization platform.

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.

Investment focus

Retail, Children, Recycling
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

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.

Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series B, Series C
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
Poolside — The best code you never wrote.

XAnge is a Franco-German team of venture capital investors that manages €450 million and invests in digital, deeptech, and impact startups.It is the innovation brand of the Siparex group, a major player in French private equity. XAnge is a key European investor in early-stage startups and is looking for game-changing startups and entrepreneurswho rock the code[s].The Paris, Ile-de-France-located company was founded in 2004.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.
Request Finance — A suite of financial tools to make your life easier - crypto organizations & freelancers use Request for invoices, expenses, payroll or accounting.

Amundi Private Equity Funds, an Amundi asset management subsidiary, specialises in private equity and unlisted infrastructure investments. Combining a wealth of expertise in all aspects of asset management built up over more than 10 years, Amundi provides both institutional and individual investors with a wide spectrum of investmentopportunities, ranging from direct fund investments in unlisted French and foreign companies to dedicated mandates and funds-of-funds for multi-management private equity and infrastructure investments. With more than 60 professionals based in Paris, Bucharest, Cairo, Casablanca, Tunis and Warsaw, Amundi Private Equity Funds assists companies at all stages of their development, the key objective being to offer fund subscribers yields in line with the best in the industry. At 31 December 2009, French and international subscribers had committed more than â‚¬3.7 billion to Amundi Private Equity Funds, making it a leading private equity player. The company owes its solid foundations to its positioning as part of a leading third-party asset management group of companies and to its membership of two international banking groups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series A
France, India, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Deenova — Deenova is the undisputed leading supplier of integrated robotics and automation solutions. It provides closed-loop drug and medical device traceability in the healthcare sector. They provide services for healthcare professionals. Their pharmacy automation solution is unit-dose repackaging and complete software interoperability and their managementsolutions provide maximum synergy by bringing together hardware, software, and human resources.
Eduservices — Eduservices network and pool a set of skills and resources for schools.
Les Opticiens Mobiles — Les Opticiens Mobiles is the first national network of opticians trained to intervene everywhere : at home, at work or in nursing homes or residences for elderly, both for working people and for fragile, isolated people.Covering the whole territory, the health professionals come to visit you with all the equipment needed. Based on an ethic chart,they offer services and products tailored to all : all types of glasses (eyeglasses, sunglasses, safety googles, contact lenses, hearing protection) with fixed prices, reimbursed by social welfare.

Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Deemea — Deemea is a collaborative AI platform that connects and provides services for the analysis of medical data for physicians. It uses its expertise in clinical research, data science, and software development to help healthcare professionals.
10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.

High Tech, Low Carbon: crafting tomorrow, today. We finance innovation to make tomorrow happen today. Starquest is a Montefiore Company.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, Singapore, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

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.
TRYON Environnement — TRYON intervenes on several levels to meet the expectations of catering professionals and communities in terms of organic waste . With a passion for technology and ecology, our team of specialists is committed to providing robust and efficient solutions based on sustainable development, the circular economy and pedagogy.

Colam Impact is a financial services company that aims to develop companies with a societal impact through financial investment in these companies and long - term support for the men and women who run them.

Investment focus

Retail, Energy, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, Cameroon

Portfolio highlights

Pony — Instant city bike hire
Futura gaia — Futura gaïa is a food production company.
Tri’n’collect — Tri'n'collect provides a customized service for sorting, collecting, and recycling building trash. Tri'n'collect is a mission-driven corporation whose major goal is to protect the planet's natural resources by preventing building site waste and recycling it in a circular economic loop. T'n'C works with individualhome builders, developers, real estate developers, public works companies, and renovation and deconstruction sites.

Generis Capital Partners is a management company approved by the AMF, whose mission is to provide financing to SMEs in the form of capital contribution or the form of bonds. Generis Capital Partners is a crossroads between the banking business and the business of traditional venture capital. Generis Capital Partners provides innovativefinancing and technical pioneers to best meet the needs of SMEs and investors. Thanks to its technology and a diversified and balanced allocation of assets, Generis Capital Partners has the objective to provide better protection to investors while retaining the possibility of strong gains linked to capital investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kickmaker — Kickmaker is a European & Asian based industrialization agency. Our community & innovative contracting model propels our partners’ projects to industrial success & brings their prototypes to the shelves. Our design to manufacturing expertise and culture of making ensures that our partners’ products reach their target markets. Ourpassionate talents develop industrialization strategy, optimize product design, implement DFX methodologies, prepare manufacturing, improve quality & manage product life-cycles.
Provectio — Provectio is a provider of "fundamental" IT services for companies.
Les Raffineurs — Les Raffineurs has been offering a selection of products to find a gift for men or the next favorite, experiences to live or to offer in Paris and throughout France. The e-shop to have fun or for a successful gift for men or women.

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Comand AI — Next generation command and control for defense & security operations
Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Parallel 1245 — Parallel helps coding agent works side by side with hospital teams to deliver faster and more accurate medical coding.

Ring Capital is an international investment ecosystem dedicated to impact investing. Its mission is to actively direct capital towards vital solutions tackling major social and environmental challenges, and purposefully help entrepreneurs and companies grow by fostering both impact and business performance.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Edumapper — Edumapper is an educational platform providing tools to optimize learning experiences.
Moea — MOEA recrute ! Consultez toutes nos offres d'emploi (CDI, CDD) ainsi que toutes nos offres de stage et postulez en ligne.
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.

A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit. An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad. In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move. As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses. Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, Tunisia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jaylo — Jaylo.ai transforms your email experience by using AI. Automatically organize and prioritize your inbox, ensuring nothing important gets lost. Generate context-aware replies that perfectly match your tone and intent. Save you time and effort, allowing you to communicate efficiently and professionally. Free up your day for what really matters"high-impact, meaningful work."
Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
Kare Partners — Kare Partners, LLC provides therapeutic rehabilitation and other ancillary services in the healthcare sector. The company offers physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services through a network of outpatient therapy clinics in North Carolina and Arkansas. It also assists home health agencies by providing fully-trained therapy-teams tocomplement their in-house talent or add a new dimension to their service delivery. In addition, it provides a direct educational and credentialing path for therapy clinicians in India to gain employment in the United States healthcare system. Kare Partners, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Gastonia, North Carolina.

BNP Paribas Développement is the investment arm of BNP Paribas that specializes in SME development. It specializes in second stage, mezzanine, bridge, acquisition, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, and privatizations transactions.The firm considers investments in manufacturing, service industries,medicine, electronics, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automations, industrial goods and services, transportation, consumer goods, commerce and distribution, buildings and public works, wholesale retail, biotechnology, telecommunications, and information technology sectors.BNP Paribas Développement was established in 1988 and is based in Paris, France.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, Germany, The Netherlands

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Poppins — Mila merges music, technology, and neuroscience to reshape therapy into a musical experience. We create musical games for children based on neurologic music therapy methods. These games are designed to address learning dissabilities like dyslexia, providing a digital treatment at home and helping identify these conditions. Behind these games, weleverage data science and new technologies to interpret learning, language, and motor performance into a cognitive score. Our goal is to improve the process for patients receiving treatment and to reaching the vast undiagnosed majority.
Eduservices — Eduservices network and pool a set of skills and resources for schools.
Ostrea — OSTREA is a pioneering company in the creation of high-performance materials based on bio-minerals: seashells.

Quadia is a regulated investment manager specialized in social and environmental finance. With more than CHF 70 million invested in over 20 companies, Quadia is a leading and pioneering impact investor. Our core investment thesis centers on sustainability as a pillar of risk management and economic valuation. It targets significantly impactfulcompanies which have positioned their products and services to meet a growing demand which is influenced by an irreversible paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is driven by worldwide interdependent social, environmental and economic stakes.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Asphalte — Asphalt is a clothing brand for men.
Fairphone — At Fairphone we believe a fairer electronics industry is possible. By making change from the inside, we're giving a voice to people who care.
Poiscaille — Le casier de la mer, en direct des pêcheurs ! Transparence, qualité, pêche durable et respect.

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Speeral — Speeral is a technological solution for user to access second-hand market and products.
Aquassay — Aquassay assists you with improving the industrial and environmental performance of all your water usage (supply, production, discharge).
Materrup — Materrup produces low-carbon earth concrete for construction and urban development. Materrup construction solutions meet the requirements of future RE2020 regulations and the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of the construction industry.

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hema.to — Hema.to provides fully automated, AI-powered blood cancer detection suggestions based on flow cytometry data.
Alice & Bob — At Alice & Bob, we're building the first universal quantum computer. This is humanity's next challenge.
GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
Scribe Health AI — The #1 Free AI Medical Scribe & Progress Note Taker. Integrated to your EMR. HIPAA Compliant AI Scribe. Save 2 hours everyday. Reduce Burnout by 80%. No credit card signup.

A Global Venture Capital Platform Connecting Innovators Everywhere

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
Bioptimus — Our mission is to build the first universal AI foundation model for biology to fuel breakthrough discoveries and accelerate innovations in biomedicine and beyond.
Resilience — Resilience Care is building a software-based solution for cancer treatment providers and patients.

At iFly, we invest in technology-enabled transformation across the value chain of traditional industries with the initial focus on commerce. We aspire to assist entrepreneurs with grit to embrace unglamorous yet impactful opportunities.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Cheese — Banking that Rewards You
Ume Tea — Ume Tea provides candy-colored bubble tea.
Waysia — Alorsfaim develops an application for ordering and delivering food. It offers various kinds of food from different Asian cuisine restaurants. Alorsfaim is based in Paris, France.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sydev — Sydev is a publisher of management software and tariff databases for technical building trades in the construction industry.
Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
AlgoTherapeutix — AlgoTherapeutix is the operator of a biotechnology company designed to develop topical treatments for complex pain.

We are a corporate venture group located in New York City and Paris that is part of a global food and beverage company with a unique manifesto and world-class expertise and resources.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Symbrosia — Reducing livestock methane emissions with the world's mightiest seaweed.
Minor Figures — Minor Figures is a coffee company that makes coffee products for coffee lovers. Oat Milk. Nitro Cold Brew Coffee. Chai. CBD oil. No dairy. No added sugar. Brewed in East London.
Nous anti-gaspi — We anti-Gapsi is the network of anti-waste food stores. This grocery store project offers producers and manufacturers the opportunity to their downgraded and unsold products at a fair price. They are a qualitative environment, they market products excluded from the usual mass distribution circuits for small defects, physical defects, contract-datenot respected, and end of series. They offer consumers a new mode of consumption that gives priority to common sense and that is at the same time smart, qualitative, and eco-responsible. In their stores, they offer you to find, in a warm atmosphere, a complete choice of food products to save waste: fruits and vegetables, fresh and frozen products, groceries, and even a small bulk section.

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

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.

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
Omaha Insights — Omaha Insights is a company that provides standardized financial data and analytical tools to help investors do research and analysis.

Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
sequel — A community of the world's best athletes investing in the world's best startups, advancing humanity.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

CapHorn Invest is an independent Venture Capital Firm launched in 2010. The company invests in B2B digital companies. CapHorn Invest currently manages 180 million euros across two funds and has a portfolio of more than 20 companies. They invest in B2B startups that drive digital transformation. They mainly focus on Series A & B in roundsranging from 2 to 20M€.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

EODev — EODev develops and industrialises sustainable, reliable and accessible energy solutions using hydrogen.
Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.

Steva Investissement improves the quality of life of citizens by investing in transport, education, digital, health, tourism, and others.

Investment focus

Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Dood — Dood is a developer of an online ordering application platform that is designed to integrate e-commerce, marketing, and data services. They offer operational and decision-making tools for food businesses and clients.

BOURGOGNE ANGELS assists companies in Burgundy and Franche-Comté in the creation, development and resumption phase.

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Finance
Series A, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

SESAMm — SESAMm is the leading provider of natural language processing and machine learning solutions and analytics for Investment firms and corporations.
Dood — Dood is a developer of an online ordering application platform that is designed to integrate e-commerce, marketing, and data services. They offer operational and decision-making tools for food businesses and clients.

KIMPA - Impact Family Office aims to deploy the capital of its clients towards investment that offers a positive environmental and social impact on our planet.

Investment focus

Retail, Environmental Engineering, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series C
France, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!
WeDressFair — WeDressFair is a select-store of beautiful brands that place the respect of workers and the environment at the center.
Carbo Culture — We are a project developer with proprietary climate technology. We are building a rapidly scalable biochar carbon removal solution.

Since 1967, the UI brand embodies a partnership with companies. Actor of the economy, UI has accompanied more than 120 SMEs over the last fifteen years, investing more than 550m € and giving substance to their development projects. Combining experience and corporate culture, UI has established itself as an involved and independent partner, able tocount on its shareholder leaders to favor, independently, the sustainable performance of the SMEs it accompanies.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
Private Equity, Series A, Seed
France, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DeepUll — DeepUll is a biotech company that focuses its activity on the development of a new diagnostic system for early-stage sepsis condition. DeepUll’s proposal is based on quickly identifying the pathogens and offering the antibiogram within a few hours on the one hand, and on using the data and learning about the patient’s immunological and functionalstatus on the other. The system allows doctors to predict the future appearance and evolution of sepsis within a short period of time and thus provide a suitable clinical response even before the symptoms arise.
Fizimed — Fizimed has made the choice to develop the EMY perineal probe with recognized health professionals. The probe is connected to a mobile app and associated with custom exercises. The probe captures the contractions of the perineal muscles in real time to allow the patient to do 5-minute exercises through fun games (jumping obstacles, jumping ...) sothat she remains motivated. The patient can follow her results as well as her progress in the application and unlock new universes according to the points obtained. Much of the effort of Fizimed's technical teams is focused on balancing a product, combining the quality and safety of a medical device, with a fun application to empower each woman. One goal: the simplicity of the product and the interface for home use.Beyond the product, the Fizimed team is committed to the fight against taboos related to urinary incontinence problems affecting one in ten women. She wants to "demystify" this topic so that every woman can find her adapted solution. An EMY community is being born on social networks in which the feminine hassles are put into images and discussed with humor, while talking about innovations that can simplify their daily lives.In summary, EMY by Fizimed is the connected and fun medical probe that allows women wishing to regain control of their perineum to do their home exercises. It was developed by a dynamic Alsatian start-up whose ambition is to remove taboos on a public health issue.
Nova Carbon — High-performance sustainable carbon fiber composites

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.

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.