Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in France in July 2025

Investor	Retail France investments
M Capital Partners	8
Bpifrance	8
Founders Future	7
Isai	7
Otium Capital	6
Naxicap Partners	6
Evolem Start	5
Angelsquare	5
360 Capital	5
Kima Ventures	5
Frederic Halley	4
XAnge	4
Anaxago	4
Marc Menase	4
Aglaé Ventures	4
Alven	4
NCI Gestion	4
Daphni	4
Colam Impact	3
Generis Capital Partners	3
Quadia	3
Runa Capital	3
AQUITI Gestion	3
Elaia	3
Global Founders Capital	3
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	3
Frst	3
Orange Ventures	3
BNP Paribas Développement	3
Ahmed Mhiri	3
Aster	3
MAIF Impact	3
Eduardo Ronzano	3
Karista	3
Amundi Private Equity Funds	3
BNP Paribas	2
Great Oaks Venture Capital	2
Nauta Capital	2
Tomcat Invest	2
Financiere Saint James	2
Demeter	2
3T Capital	2
Thibault Chassagne	2
Ring Capital	2
Florent Couty	2
Nicolas Douay	2
CapHorn Invest	2
Ventech	2
Steva Investissement	2
Bourgogne Angels	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

Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
DejaBlue — The unified electrification offering for smarter, greener businesses.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.
Tilt Energy — We are passionate engineers, PhD, business grads on a mission to help the energy transition using our skills: software and AI ! As we need to produce and consume energy in a more responsible, efficient and low-carbon way, our solution enables decentralized energy consumers to better integrate into the grid. We are building an innovative platformthat empowers the widespread adoption of renewable energies and everyone to take charge of their energy consumption. If energy is a topic at heart and you like challenge then join us !
Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.

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

Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
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.

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.

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

Fungu'it — A new generation of flavor ingredients for healthy, sustainable, and accessible food.
JOBO Interim — JOBO Interim is a staffing agency that recruits employees and provides employment through digital access.
Sirius NeoSight — Sirius NeoSight is a biotech and pharmaceutical company that detects subclinical neo-cancers and provide treatment for it.

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!

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

Portfolio highlights

PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.
Via Sana — Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices.

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

Relief — Relief is an AI assistant application for generating improved financial quotes.
Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.
One Biosciences — One Biosciences unlocks routine analysis of tumor heterogeneity through AI-powered single-cell technologies, transforming precision medicine.

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.

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

Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
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.
Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.

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, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Filics — A scalable transport solution for standardized load carriers with a minimum energy footprint
Skynopy — Skynopy offers an end-to-end connectivity solution for satellite operators to communicate with their satellites in Low-Earth Orbit.
Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.

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.

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

Ever Dye — A new standard for dyes. Naturally made, carbon emissions reducing, water protecting.
Relief — Relief is an AI assistant application for generating improved financial quotes.
Kerys Software — Kerys Software is a Data Security Product Manufacturing firm developing secured virtualization tool for cases.

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.

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 — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.
Moments Lab — Newsbridge is a cloud platform for Media & Sports Rights-Holders. Index your content with AI. Build & Monetize your Media Asset Collections.
Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.

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

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.

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

Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
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 builds AI agents that streamline healthcare admin workflows, seamlessly integrated with existing systems to unlock efficiency at scale.

Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

DESKi — HeartFocus is an AI-powered heart exam software for ultrasound and can be used with any hand-held probe, cart or ultrasound system. The product is available as an APP or SDK and is appropriate for clinics, health systems and learning institutions
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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
Poolside — We are software's leading AI research lab.

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.

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.

BNP Paribas provides banking, financing, investment, savings, and protection solutions. The Group's three operational divisions are mobilized to support each type of clientele in their growth and development projects including corporate and institutional banking, commercial, personal banking, investment and protection services. The companyprovide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wellow — Freeing up vacant large apartments in the city center and set it back to the market to provide comfortable living spaces and address the housing crisis is the mission of Wellow. Wellow is committed to tackling the housing crisis among young people and is developing a new model of collective and urban housing to offer them an immersive andinteractive lifestyle, bridging the gaps within and between cities. Wellow empowers its community with access to fully-equipped rooms within shared spaces, creating a sense of home and belonging.But the Wellow experience doesn't stop there. It extends into the heart of the city, where a vibrant social tapestry weaves around culture, social and charitable events offered every week.For private and institutional property owners, Wellow not only mitigates rental risks but also actively addresses the challenges of vacant properties, asset maintenance, and unpaid rents in large residential spaces.Today, Wellow stands tall with over 500+ young individuals finding their place in the heart of Paris. Discover our mission at www.wellowhouse.com
Optus Finance — Optus Finance provides financial services realted to the telcom sector.
Zenith Energy — Zenith Energy specialises in tailored remote off-grid power generation and urban microgrids, with a focus on renewable energy generation.

Great Oaks Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with a mission to support and invest in the most innovative and disruptive startups. Visit our home page to learn more about our portfolio companies, investment approach, and the experienced team behind our success.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
Amulet — Amulet is shining a light on invisible threats in our food system. Amulet has two core brands: - Allergy Amulet helps consumers determine whether their foods are safe by detecting potentially life-threatening allergenic ingredients. - Amulet Scientific equips businesses and manufacturers with tools to help ensure the safety of their food supplychain. Learn more: www.allergyamulet.com www.amuletscientific.com
Tracer Biotechnologies — Tracer Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that offers monitoring services for oncology patients.

We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
Acai Travel — An all-in-one solution to enable your agents be twice as efficient, to optimize your call centers, and gain your customers' trust

Tomcat Invest supports and engages in supporting startups specializing in BtoB and BtoBtoC.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Rzilient — Rzilient is a SaaS IT management platform that supports IT fleet management and uses a single interface for all IT-related topics.
Abby — Abby is a management app that helps entrepreneurs get rid of administrative tasks and improve their organization.
Tictactrip — Tictactrip est un comparateur de billets de transports terrestres, qui permet la création de combinaisons intermodales pour voyager à travers l’Europe1. Ce site internet regroupe les offres des transports ferroviaires, et routiers (bus et covoiturage). Une centaine de compagnies et sociétés de transports sont partenaires, telles que Ouibus,Flixbus, Isilines, SNCF ou encore Blablacar. Leurs offres sont analysées, restructurées et combinées par la plateforme, qui a pour but de proposer des trajets économiques.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the energy and ecological transition. They invest from 500 K€ to 30 M€ to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Germany, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

GIREVE — GIREVE is contributing to the emergence of an open market for electric mobility services that accompanies the development of this type of soft mobility.
Onafis — Onafis is a company that provides digital solutions for tracking each stage of winemaking in real time on wines, beers, and spirits, adaptable to different types of containers.
Viti-Tunnel — Viti-Tunnel is a farm-tech company that provides innovative retractable tunnel devices for automatically sheltering rows of vines during rain, hail, frost, and weather damage.

3T Capital is a venture capital fund, serving innovative companies within the Information Technology and Communication sector from their seed and early-stage phases. 3T Capital is funded by the European Investment Fund, BPI France, and its strategic partner, Institut Mines Telecom.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

IKO System — Target and score leads with advanced custom filters. Predictive sales engagement and sales automation for outbound prospecting.
Proximis — Proximis is the only digital unified commerce platform enabling brands and store chains to offer their customers an online buying experience like an in-store experience.
SlimCut Media — SlimCut Media creates new premium advertising inventory for digital publishers. Our innovative video ad units are 100% viewable to guarantee brand engagement. In addition, we give our clients easy access to programmatic demand through partnerships with leading industry platforms.

Thibault Chassagne - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Software
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Carsell — Carsell is an automotive company that offers turnkey service solutions for their car. The company supports the entire process of selling used vehicles between individuals and frees them from all the constraints and sources of stress associated with it Carsell was founded by Morgan Petitjean in 2021.
Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Sharelock — Sharelock is the first shared locks network in the world. They develop, deploy and operate an innovative secured shared lock infrastructure in partnership with city authorities and mobility operators to massively enable active mobility. Based on mobility expertise and proprietary data, they also develop disruptive insurance products.

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

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

Florent Couty is the former Chief Innovation of IAD.

Investment focus

Retail, Automotive, E-Commerce
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Carsell — Carsell is an automotive company that offers turnkey service solutions for their car. The company supports the entire process of selling used vehicles between individuals and frees them from all the constraints and sources of stress associated with it Carsell was founded by Morgan Petitjean in 2021.

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

DRIMCo — DRIMCo is an enterprise AI-SaaS product to analyze requirements in documents and optimize business processes.
Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
Inven — Save time by using AI to find companies. Inven scans millions of websites to provide comprehensive data on companies similar to your search criteria.

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.