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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in France (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in France Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in France Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bpifrance
VC Fund
17 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $752k–$34M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
9 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $515k–$16M
Founders Future
VC Fund
8 France, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$25M
360 Capital
VC Fund
8 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$33M
Otium Capital
VC Fund
8 France, Spain, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $968k–$64M
Isai
VC Fund
8 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $999k–$50M
M Capital Partners
VC Fund
8 France, United States, Canada Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage $1.1M–$5.6M
Daphni
VC Fund
7 France, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $2.4M–$110M
Angelsquare
VC Fund
6 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $329k–$6.1M
Naxicap Partners
VC Fund
6 France, Belgium, United States Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Retail $2M–$56M
Aster
VC Fund
6 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Energy, Software, Manufacturing $281k–$27M
Evolem Start
VC Fund
6 France, Italy, Senegal Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.1M–$26M
Quadia
VC Fund
6 France, Germany, Switzerland Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail $2.2M–$53M
Eutopia VC
VC Fund
5 France, Belgium, Denmark Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage $1.3M–$48M
Anaxago
VC Fund
5 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, SaaS, Software $620k–$13M
Frederic Halley
Angel
5 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Retail $520k–$11M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.2M–$65M
Partech
VC Fund
5 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$56M
Entrepreneur Venture
VC Fund
5 France, United States, Poland Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Internet, Advertising $1.2M–$10M
Runa Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$20M
CapHorn Invest
VC Fund
5 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$27M
NCI Gestion
VC Fund
4 France, Italy, Martinique Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Manufacturing, Retail $484k–$16M
OBRATORI
VC Fund
4 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Cosmetics, Retail, Fashion $564k–$5.3M
Elaia
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$50M
MAIF Impact
VC Fund
4 France Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Retail, Software, Education $589k–$19M
NCI
VC Fund
4 France, Italy Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Manufacturing, Software $484k–$19M
Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, France, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$102M
Marc Menasé
Angel
4 France, United States, Spain Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet $415k–$8.4M
Eduardo Ronzano
Angel
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $150k–$5.6M
Crédit Agricole
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Italy Debt Financing, Seed Energy, Health Care, Software $837k–$1.3B
Ahmed Mhiri
Angel
4 France, Tunisia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $532k–$2.4M
Colam Impact
VC Fund
4 France, Cameroon Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Retail, Internet of Things, Energy $1.8M–$13M
XAnge
VC Fund
4 France, Germany, Belgium Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Health Care $1.1M–$75M
BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund
4 France, Germany, The Netherlands Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $2M–$43M
UI Investissement
VC Fund
3 France, Spain, Canada Private Equity, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$49M
Alven
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $900k–$53M
Financiere Saint James
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $975k–$28M
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $500k–$33M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.4M–$102M
Xavier Niel
Angel
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.1M–$35M
BNP Paribas
VC Fund
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy $564k–$2.5B
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
3 France, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Retail, FinTech, Internet $559k–$57M
BREEGA
VC Fund
3 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$24M
IRIS
VC Fund
3 France, Germany, United States Series A, Series B, Series C Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $2.4M–$70M
Generis Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 France, Germany, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Internet, E-Commerce $110k–$9.4M
Point Nine
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$62M
Ring Capital
VC Fund
3 France, Côte d'Ivoire, Spain Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $2.2M–$44M
Karista
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $768k–$33M
Crédit Industriel et Commercial
VC Fund
3 France, Canada, Hong Kong Seed, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $339k–$11B
Starquest Capital
VC Fund
3 France, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $300k–$20M
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 17 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1722
  • Round size: Seed $752k–$6.1M; Series A $2.6M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cofarco — Founded in 2009, Cofarco has established itself as a premier insurance brokerage firm dedicated for complex and specialist risks
  • Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
  • Advicenne — Specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of pediatric friendly therapeutics for the treatment of orphan renal diseases and neurology.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 9 investments in France Retail startups

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey. The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors; backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth. Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset. Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 769
  • Round size: Seed $515k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $591k–$3.8M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
  • Verso — Verso is an AI-powered qualitative market research platform that automates consumer insights at scale. It uses adaptive AI to conduct 1-on-1 video or voice interviews with consumers worldwide, turning open-ended conversations into structured, actionable insights in under a week.
  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
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Founders Future
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups, 21 in the past 12 months

Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Marc Menasé, Founders Future is a transatlantic tech investment platform supporting a new generation of AI-first entrepreneurs driving major transformations. Backed by entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the platform manages nearly $400 million and ranks among the most active early-stage players in Europe. As part of its expansion into the United States, Founders Future strengthened its shareholder base in 2025 with long-term partners such as MACSF, the Dassault family, and the CMA CGM Group. With over 120 investments, Founders Future is actively supporting companies like AMI Labs, Saronic, Harmattan AI, Audion, Databricks, Perplexity, Function Health, Waterdrop, Veesion, Riot, Conduktor and Raidium. Its strategy focuses on high-impact sectors - AI, fintech, SaaS, and healthcare - with a clear ambition: to empower the most ambitious entrepreneurs in scaling breakthrough technologies on a global scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $6.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Clueso — Create step-by-step guides, how-to videos, and training modules for your knowledge base in minutes. Achieve 10x the quality in just 10% the time.
  • Reecall — Regardless of call volume, Reecall's virtual agent provides rapid responses. A competitive advantage that ensures the growth of a business and the delight of its customers. Reecall boosts sales teams' productivity by automating the administration of incoming calls. Request pre-qualification, estimates, and partnership requests may all beprocessed automatically, allowing your personnel to focus on client connections.
  • SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups, 17 in the past 12 months

As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 251
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
  • BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
  • Circular Materials — Scopri Circular Materials: immagina una tecnologia che tratta le acque reflue e, allo stesso tempo, recupera metalli preziosi.
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Otium Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $968k–$7.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$64M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $215M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
  • e-peas — Discover e-peas, pioneer of the Ambient IoT concept since 2014, which offers the most efficient energy harvesting pmics on the market to make your devices more energy self-sufficient: AEMs.
  • Jimmy — Jimmy develops and operates thermal generators that supply industrial facilities with process heat produced through nuclear fission. The company designs compact generators that use high-temperature reactor technology to create heat without combustion and deliver it to industrial systems through heat transfer circuits. Its systems connect to factoryinfrastructure and provide heat for processes such as steam production, thermal oil heating, or hot air generation. Jimmy installs, operates, and manages these generators as integrated energy units adapted to the heat demand of each industrial site. The technology relies on micro-reactor architecture and modular deployment so multiple units can be combined to match required thermal output. Through this approach, Jimmy provides industrial heat that replaces fossil-fuel-based heat sources in manufacturing and processing operations.
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Isai
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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 their experience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions. Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $999k–$8M; Series A $2.9M–$22M; Series B $6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $329M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kheops — Kheops is a tool that shops and producers use to search and order local products.
  • Origin — Origin is building the World's First General Purpose Construction Robot that automate interior finishing trades like drywall finishing, painting and more on real job sites. Construction is a $2T+ industry facing labor shortages, rising costs, and stagnant productivity. While manufacturing, logistics, and automotive have embraced automation, construction remains largely manual. Origin is developing the world’s first general-purpose construction robot — an AI-powered robotic system designed to work alongside human crews and operate power tools across multiple trades. Our robots are already deployed on live job sites in New York City in partnership with leading General Contractors and Trade Contractors. We are on a multi-decade mission to build intelligent robotic systems that enable scalable, high-quality, and cost-efficient construction.
  • Panora — Panora's goal is to provide a clear and structured perspective of their business, files, and opportunities.
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M Capital Partners
VC Fund · Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups

M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM. A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth. In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$5.6M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Haiku — Haiku is revolutionizing legal practice by placing artificial intelligence and data at the service of law.
The company's objective is to free lawyers from tedious research and writing tasks to assist them in all of their work and thus increase their productivity while preserving their expertise.
  • The Sanctuary Group — The Sanctuary Group provides aqua-cycling, indoor cycling, boxing bootcamp, yoga, dance cardio, HIIT workouts, and kids’ swim classes.
  • Ascendance — Sustainable flight solutions for today & tomorrow... because cleaner aviation can't wait. With Ascendance, Fly quieter, cleaner, further.
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Daphni
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in France Retail startups, 22 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$13M; Series A $6.1M–$23M; Series B $17M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $281M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • EPYR — Turning renewable power into high-temperature heat with thermal energy storage
  • quartz — Quartz operates a personal wealth platform that brings financial accounts and assets into one dashboard. The platform learns about users' goals and provides personalized financial information based on portfolio data, market information, news, and other financial inputs. Users can review their wealth across categories such as property, stocks, and cryptocurrency. Quartz also provides account information services under its United Kingdom regulatory registration and is developing the product for launch.
  • Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
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Angelsquare
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $678k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

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 — Orosound is a French startup committed to improving your well-being at work. The company design breakthrough Noise Control Technologies. The company's earphone brand Tilde has noise-filtering technology that facilitates selective filtering of ambient noise, enabling office workers to filter disturbing noise while they are working.
  • 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!
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Naxicap Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: France, Belgium, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$24M; Private Equity $2M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2.9B in 2026

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.
  • Anywr — Anywr is a consulting company that aids job seekers in finding the ideal position and aids employers in hiring qualified personnel. is a digital ecosystem at the service of talent and customers that brings together digital services, software supported by artificial intelligence, and recruitment and mobility platforms for the first time.
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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in France Retail startups

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 industry sectors 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).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$20M; Series B $7M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $281k–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $283M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
  • Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
  • 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.
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Evolem Start
VC Fund · Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France · 6 investments in France Retail startups

Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Italy, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.6M; Series A $3.5M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reecall — Regardless of call volume, Reecall's virtual agent provides rapid responses. A competitive advantage that ensures the growth of a business and the delight of its customers. Reecall boosts sales teams' productivity by automating the administration of incoming calls. Request pre-qualification, estimates, and partnership requests may all beprocessed automatically, allowing your personnel to focus on client connections.
  • Kimialys — Kimialys provides a patented and disruptive surface chemistry for biosensors, enabling the development of innovative rapid diagnostic assays.
  • Innovorder — Founded in 2014, Innovorder is the leader in digital solutions for the food service industry and services some of the largest players in the commercial and institutional catering sectors.Innovorder’s comprehensive SaaS software suite enables the deployment of new order channels, the management of both a restaurant networks and single points ofsale, the acceleration of order and kitchen preparation while optimizing production management, sales monitoring and customer loyalty. 6 years after its creation, Innovorder has more than 800 customers and thousands of points of sale using the Innovorder solution, including industry leaders such as KFC, Big Fernand, Quick, Bagel Corner, Courtepaille, Agapes, Amorino, and Poivre Rouge. Innovorder also provides its solution to the largest Contract Catering companies such as Elior, Compass, Api Restauration, Convivio and Dupont Restauration. Based in Paris, France, the company acquired the start-up La Caisse Tactile in October 2016. It employs more than 60 people and has completed two major rounds of fundraising, the latest in July 2019, for a total of more than 10 million euros.
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Quadia
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 6 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.4M; Series A $5.5M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

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.
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Eutopia VC
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

Eutopia is a fund for consumer startups. We back founders who are rethinking the way we eat, shop, sleep and feel. We are backing 26 startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Belgium, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Series A $4M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$9.4M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Moderato — Moderato is a retail and wholesale company that manufactures and supplies a range of beverages online to various sectors.
  • 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.
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Anaxago
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

Anaxago is a brand new crowdfunding platform dedicated to innovative companies. Anaxago aims at changing the traditional equity capital investment model. Their goal is to forget about the capitalistic-only and go for a truly sharing and participative investment model. Thanks to Anaxago, entrepreneurs can benefit from the financial support oftheir investors but also learn from the shareholders' experience, expertise and network. Each investor can take an active part to the company life and so be a part of a lively entrepreneurial adventure.They offer a small range of companies each month to their investors community. Startups and small companies are chosen with good care and have to go through a whole process of financial analysis. They also prefer to select companies with a real innovative value added. With Anaxago, young and small companies can find funding and support to grow and develop. They give them a chance to be the actors of tomorrow's growth and reboost their economy.Since its launch, Anaxago gathered 100 000 members and invested more than 130M€ funding more than 200 businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $620k–$2.7M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Posos — Posos is a clinical support platform optimizing healthcare professionals’ decisions at every step of the patient journey thanks to an AI-based cross-referencing search engine. Posos allows healthcare professionals to conduct simultaneous research on several drugs and to contextualize answers based on patient data
  • 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
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Frederic Halley
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $520k–$6.9M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Keyban — Build interoperable customer experience based on Keyban infrastructure
  • 10% — 10% is reshaping the future of consumer loyalty by empowering brands to take back control from retailers. We enable leading FMCG companies to build direct, data-rich relationships with their customers through a unified loyalty platform that works seamlessly across all channels. Shoppers are rewarded consistently for buying the brands they love, nomatter where they shop, while brands gain access to powerful first- and zero-party data, behavioral insights, and automated engagement tools. By combining loyalty, data, and media into one scalable ecosystem, 10% unlocks a new growth engine for brands ready to own their audience and outperform in a retail-dominated landscape.
  • Lemrock — Lemrock powers agentic commerce infrastructure for brands and retailers, connecting product catalogs to LLM platforms like OpenAI and Perplexity.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1805
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.8M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Causa Prima — Causa Prima develops software to help finance teams handle both sides of every transaction on one network. The company's AI agents handle invoicing, disputes, and discounts on behalf of clients. It provides a network for the financial operations of businesses.
  • Goodweek — The AI management platform that gives partners and businesses one secure place for every AI model.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 699
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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Entrepreneur Venture
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

Entrepreneur Venture is a private equity firm based in Paris, France. The firm seeks to invest in the retail, SaaS, and e-commerce sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Advertising
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Mascaret — We are doing some work on our site. Please come back later. We'll be up and running in no time.
  • Audivi AI — Audivi AI is a tech company that offers drive through voice automation service for QSR industry.
  • Fairmoove — Fairmoove is a digital travel agency that promotes environmentally responsible tourism. Fairmoove is to ensure that tourists and local people have a satisfying and sustainable travel experience while minimizing the negative effects of travel and tourism on the environment and society.
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Runa Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 5 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
  • Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
  • Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.
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CapHorn Invest
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

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€.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.1M; Series A $1.8M–$18M; Series B $3.7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $155M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
  • Hummink — Dream Smaller Now : Experience a revolution with Hummink's world's smallest fountain pen. Redefine micro-scale writing with our innovative technology.
  • Agriodor — Agriodor is to provide concrete and effective alternatives to insecticides to help farmers produce more sustainably.
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NCI Gestion
VC Fund · Rouen, Haute-Normandie, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Manufacturing, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Italy, Martinique

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $484k–$2.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2021

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.
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OBRATORI
VC Fund · Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

OBRATORI, is the seed investment structure of the L'OCCITANE Group specializing in the fields of Wellbeing, e-Health, Digital and Tech4Good. Since its creation in 2018, the fund has supported the growth of more than 10 companies, in France and internationally. OBRATORI promotes the emergence of new Wellbeing products and services that willreinvent our daily lives, change the way we live and consume.As a selective early-stage investment funds, OBRATORI invests in Wellbeing, Retailtech and Tech4Good projects.With a unique approach, OBRATORI brings a combination of cash and support. We make sur our interests are fully aligned with those of the entrepreneurs. OBRATORI has assembled a team of experts who provide its portfolio companies with expertise and extensive experience in finance, legal marketing, sales, regulatory compliance and other commercial aspects of a wellbeing and retail tech company. By providing these services, portfolio companies are able to accelerate growth without the additional time, capital that would be required to build the infrastructure to perform these functions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cosmetics, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $564k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$5.3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KohortPay — KohortPay is a gamified social checkout tool that boosts influencer value, doubling conversion and reducing customer acquisition expenses. KohortPay streamlines collaboration, payments, and savings for both retailers and their customers by applying referral rewards to a purchase, even days after it's completed.
  • Carton Vert — Carton Vert is a company that specializes in the selling of discarded packing cardboard, carefully collected from trustworthy partners.
  • FunCell — FunCell is a new company exploiting a technology developed by a leading-edge academic research center in France in a region that is the heart of the paper industry.
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Elaia
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 241
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.6M; Series A $2.7M–$23M; Series B $4.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $154M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Hema.to — Flow cytometry analysis software, re-imagined. From raw FCS and LMD data to finalized report with AI-powered CellStudio.
  • RelaiSanté — RelaiSanté provides a digital coordination platform that connects hospitals with home care providers to manage patient return home. The company offers online tools for hospital teams, home help services, independent nurses and territorial health actors to organize care pathways after hospitalization. RelaiSanté enables secure information sharing, task assignment and monitoring of care arrangements between medical and social care stakeholders. Its products include dedicated interfaces for establishments, home care services and independent professionals. The platform supports teams in structuring discharge processes, reducing fragmentation of communication and clarifying responsibilities. RelaiSanté focuses on improving continuity of care between the healthcare facility and the patient’s home environment.
  • Sim&Cure — Providing Physicians with advanced endovascular treatment solutions for a better Patient Care
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MAIF Impact
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

MAIF Investissement Social et Solidaire finances projects that are innovative, committed, and civic. The MAIF group demonstrates its ambition to support its driving role with companies in the social and solidarity economy. MAIF has supported the development of companies created to meet societal needs, and not simply to generate profits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Software, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $589k–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Didask — Didask provides AI-powered learning software with an LMS, LXP, authoring tools, and AI coaching. It helps organizations create, manage, and deliver personalized training, onboarding, compliance, and skills development programs.
  • Heliup — Heliup is a company that creates and manufactures solar systems for huge building roofs for commercial and industrial buildings.
  • Les Nouvelles Fermes — Les Nouvelles Fermes is a producer of fruits, vegetables to be made locally without chemical treatment, with taste. The company defends and develops new, ultra-local, sustainable, and inclusive agriculture, enabling clients to the crossroad between market gardening, agro-industry, and startups.
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NCI
VC Fund · Saint-grégoire, Bretagne, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

NCI invests skills and equity in business creation, development and transfer projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $484k–$3.2M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $163M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Expliseat — Expliseat combines innovation and manufacturing performance in the lightest aircraft seat in the world: the Titanium Seat. At just 4 kg, this seat reduces fuel consumption considerably, resulting in savings of up to $500,000 per plane per year. And with 10 patents, the Titanium Seat also provides passengers with greater comfort and 2 inches moreroom, thanks to its unique ergonomic design.
  • 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
  • Keey Aerogel — Home - Welcome to the homepage of KEEY Aerogel ! Discover our company, our products and our know-how in aerogels.
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Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5.7M–$30M; Series B $24M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Siena AI — The autonomous customer service platform designed for commerce. Combine the best of human empathy and intelligent automation to transform the way your customer service teams operate and engage with shoppers.
  • Humanoid — Humanoid creates advanced humanoid robots that integrate seamlessly into daily life, enhancing human potential. Learn more about our mission and vision.
  • Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
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Marc Menasé
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $415k–$8.4M; Angel $658k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $724k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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 the Product Source of Truth for consumer brands. It combines accurate Digital Twins with GenAI to help teams create and scale product visuals - from product launches and e-commerce PDP to global campaigns and creative production.
  • Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
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Eduardo Ronzano
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$5.6M; Angel $500k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kraaft — Kraaft is a field communication and coordination platform built for subcontractors, specialty trades, and construction teams. Crews share real-time updates, photos, tasks, and jobsite reports directly from the field, while project managers gain clear visibility into progress across every job. Kraaft replaces scattered WhatsApp threads and phonecalls with structured, job-based chats that automatically organize documentation, tracking, and reporting. More than 1,000 contractors use Kraaft to improve field-to-office communication, reduce delays, and standardize jobsite activity across multiple crews and projects.
  • Frak Labs — The Recommendation Economy makes influence scalable. Turn word-of-mouth into measurable, rewarded growth.
  • Poolside — We are software's leading AI research lab.
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Crédit Agricole
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

Credit Agricole is a banking corporation with focuses on corporate and investment banking, retail banking, and savings management. Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, helpful bank serving 49 million customers, 7.4 million mutual shareholders, and 1.2 million shareholders. Crédit Agricole Group supports its customers in their plans and projectsin France and around the world, through its operations in all segments of the market including insurance, real estate, payment systems, asset management, leasing and factoring, consumer finance, and corporate and investment banking. Crédit Agricole also stands out for its dynamic, innovative corporate social responsibility policy serving the economy. This policy is based on a pragmatic approach that permeates throughout the entire Group and engages all its employees. Its recent inclusion in the Vigeo-NYSE Euronext extra-financial indices is recognition of this engagement.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $837k–$6M; Debt Financing $2.1M–$1.3B
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

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  • Bohr Energy — Bohr Energy is an artificial intelligence firm that aims to make the energy market accessible to independent producers.
  • Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma develops off-the-shelf, next-generation in vivo immunotherapies designed to unlock the immune response against solid tumors.
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Ahmed Mhiri
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, Tunisia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $532k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Colam Impact
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet of Things, Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: France, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.4M; Series A $2.8M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.9M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pony — Instant city bike hire
  • 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.
  • CarbonFarm Technology — Decarbonise rice farming, transparently. CarbonFarm harnesses satellites and AI to monitor and certify decarbonisation projects at scale.
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XAnge
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

XAnge is a BCorp-certified early-stage investment fund managing €700 million, with offices in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels. The fund backs European founders who aim to transform daily life through technology, investing between €500,000 and €10 million from the seed stage onwards. XAnge’s investment focus spans deeptech, health, fintech, SaaS, and e-commerce, with a portfolio including Lydia, Welcome to the Jungle, Believe, MrSpex, and Ledger. XAnge is the innovation-driven venture capital brand of the Siparex Group.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Germany, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 243
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $261M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • ELDIM — Eldim proposes photometric and calorimetric products of instrumentation allowing to qualify the ergonomic parameters and the quality of the image of the flat screens. Its customers (manufacturers of components or sreen-Sharp, Sony, Samsung, -or integrators-IBM, Apple, Valeo, Honeywell, Nokia, Motorola-) are mainly foreigns.
  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • Intent Technologies — Intent Technologies provides a dedicated service platform for real estate players that allows them to optimize the operation of a heritage and build and distribute their services. The platform integrates a growing connected ecosystem including real estate managers (social and private landlords, trustee, real estate, communities, etc.), serviceproviders (facility management, energy, elevators, personal services, insurance, etc.), publishers business software (BIM, ERP, CRM, CMMS, BI, etc.) and IoT solution providers.
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BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $3.9M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
  • Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
  • Ostrea — OSTREA is a pioneering company in the creation of high-performance materials based on bio-minerals: seashells.
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UI Investissement
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.8M; Series A $3.2M–$33M; Private Equity $3.2M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Eclore — Eclore utilizes origami-inspired designs to produce cylindrical and flat protective bellows, as well as specific protection kits for SCARA robots. These components are constructed from materials resistant to solvents, oils, ultraviolet rays, and high-pressure cleaning while maintaining compliance with international standards. The products functionthrough compression and expansion cycles to safeguard equipment from environmental contaminants and mechanical wear. By reducing the total number of parts and overall bulk, the folding technology creates lightweight protective barriers suitable for various industrial diameters.
  • Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma is an allogeneic platform to generate immune therapy ambitioning to harness patient immune system & prevent cancer resistance over treatment.
  • B Capital Partners — B Capital Partners is a financial services firm offering investment advisory solutions with a focus on infrastructure and clean energy.
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Alven
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

Independent early-stage VC firm for 25 years

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 244
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$10M; Series A $3.1M–$18M; Series B $7.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $373M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Stoïk — Stoïk is a cyber insurance company that integrates cybersecurity software with insurance protection, helping businesses manage their cyber risks effectively. Stoïk empowers brokers by offering clients comprehensive insurance policies and protection against cyber risks. Its mission is to equip brokers with the tools to help their clients insure andsafeguard against cyber threats.Stoïk's unique product simplifies the underwriting process using automated tests, replacing traditional questionnaires. It also provides continuous risk prevention through integrated cybersecurity tools and ensures swift, effective incident response with an in-house team of crisis management experts.
  • Rivercell — Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico.
  • Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
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Financiere Saint James
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $975k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$4.3M; Series A $4.6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
  • Cleo Labs — AI-powered product compliance platform covering 106 countries and 3,700+ regulatory sources. The Deel of product compliance.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M; Series B $11M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
  • Cycloid — Cycloid Internal Developer Portal and Platform revolutionizes governance, cloud management, sovereignty, and DevX. Available on-prem or in any cloud.
  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in France Retail startups

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1591
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Moleskine — Moleskine develops, distributes, and sells notebooks, diaries, portfolios, purses, writing materials, reading articles, and many other products in Italy and internationally.The company offers paper products such as notebooks, diaries, home and office products, and gifts as well as writing, travelling, and reading collections, including pens,pencils, bags, reading glasses, and book lights. It also offers digital services and products comprising templates and applications for smartphones and tablets; Smart Notebook; and print-on-demand services for the creation of photo-books.Moleskine distributes its products in approximately 105 countries through a network of book, department, specialty, and stationery stores as well as museums; its sales network and websites; and a retail network of 30 directly-operated stores, including 9 in China, 12 in Italy, 2 in the United Kingdom, 2 in France, and 5 in the United States.Moleskine was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • PanGenetics — PanGenetics B.V. develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immune mediated diseases.PanGenetics is a clinical development company that specializes in taking antibodies from the late research stage through to clinical proof of concept. The company is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with an office in Cambridge, UK. PanGenetics employsa lean business model with manufacturing and clinical development activities outsourced to specialist providers. Apart from PG110, the other clinical program of PanGenetics is PG102, a CD40 antagonist for treatment of autoimmune diseases which is currently being evaluated in a clinical study in psoriatic arthritis patients
  • Milestone Systems — See and know more with video technology. Milestone offers award-winning XProtect video management software, Arcules VSaaS, and BriefCam analytics.
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Xavier Niel
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, France and is the Founder of NJJ Holding.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$35M; Series A $3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qutwo — We build AI that helps industry leaders define the next decade of competitive advantage.
  • HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
  • Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
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BNP Paribas
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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 company provide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 315
  • Round size: Seed $564k–$20M; Post-IPO Debt $40M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $8.5M–$1.8B
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $799M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Capitolis — Capitolis is the technology company helping to create safer and more vibrant financial markets by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities. Rooted in advanced technology and deep financial expertise, Capitolis powers groundbreaking financial solutions that drive growth forglobal and regional banks – and institutional investors alike.
  • Encompass — Award-winning EC360 CDI platform and EC solutions for fast, flawless, and frictionless corporate client identity validation and verification.
  • Power Solutions International — Power Solutions International is a global producer and distributor of a range of high-performance, certified low emission, power systems for original equipment manufacturers of off-highway industrial equipment. The Company's power system configurations range from a basic engine block integrated with appropriate fuel system components tocomplete packaged power systems that include any combination of cooling systems, electronic systems, air intake systems, fuel systems, housings, power takeoff systems, exhaust systems, hydraulic systems, enclosures, brackets, hoses, tubes, and other assembled componentry. The Company's power systems are primarily spark-ignited, running on alternative fuels such as natural gas and propane. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, distributes, and provides after-market support for its power systems. In April 2014, Power Solutions International Inc acquired Professional Power Products Inc.
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Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $559k–$5M; Angel $1.1M–$15M; Series A $3.7M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
  • Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
  • Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.
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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.4M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Wealthcome — Wealthcome is a wealth management company that offers tools for tracking expenses, optimizing fees, and analyzing investment performance.
  • Cori Clinical — Cori Clinical provides AI-driven software for clinical development teams. The platform manages study documents end to end with version control, permissions, and comprehensive audit trails. It tracks deadlines and regulatory requirements to maintain compliance across protocols, submissions, and site communications. Automated workflows route tasks, generate checklists, and prepare documentation for reviews. AI tools classify files and extract metadata to reduce manual effort and standardize records. Built-in access controls and logging support audit readiness and data protection. The system serves sponsors, CROs, and research sites that need consistent processes for documentation and oversight.
  • Biochar Industrial Group — Biochar Industrial Group partners with agricultural processors to convert biomass waste into biochar through industrial pyrolysis. The company finances, installs, and operates biochar production systems that process agricultural residues such as palm kernel shells, cashew husks, and sawdust. It manages biochar production, carbon creditverification, carbon credit sales, and revenue sharing with its partners. Biochar Industrial Group also provides waste value assessments and partnership programs for eligible agricultural processors.
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IRIS
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

IRIS is a European VC specialized in digital, fueling entrepreneurs from early stage to growth since 1986. Based in Berlin, Munich and Paris, IRIS supports Tech start-ups and scale-ups in their global expansion. IRIS invests in various industries, from platforms to Saas, Security, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, and is always looking for ambitious industry disrupters led by unique entrepreneurs across the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 155
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$16M; Series B $4.3M–$33M; Series C $5.4M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • OpsMill — Infrahub from OpsMill is the AI-ready data management platform for powering reliable network and infrastructure automation at scale.
  • Implicity — At Implicity, we help improve the patient care standard by offering an effective AI-based remote monitoring solution
  • Vates — Vates is a open source virtualization company that develops and supports XCP-ng and xen orchestra.
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Generis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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 innovative financing 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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$9.4M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • ANTOLI — ANTOLI is a printing company that prints packaging, catalogs, flyers, magazines, and more.
  • Provectio — Provectio is a provider of "fundamental" IT services for companies.
  • aais - armageddon artificial intelligence security — AAIS Armageddon provides cybersecurity software and services focused on employee awareness and social-engineering threats. Its platform supports customized phishing, vishing, smishing, and deepfake simulations, interactive sessions, and administrative reporting dashboards. The company also offers data-breach monitoring, continuous monitoring of similar domains, and dark-web analysis related to cybersecurity risks. Its services include customized awareness programs, cybersecurity communication plans, capture-the-flag exercises, and interactive activities such as escape games and workshops.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in France Retail startups

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile. The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio, Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.5M; Series A $3.1M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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Ring Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 10 in the past 12 months

We support entrepreneurs who innovate to provide vital solutions to the social and environmental challenges of our time, from accessibility to healthcare, climate change and nature.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Côte d'Ivoire, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M; Series A $6.5M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $59M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Ed.ai — Ed AI provides an AI platform for automated grading, feedback, and personalized learning materials in education.
  • Hylight — Hylight inspects energy infrastructures and provide solutions that makes societies resilient to the effects of climate change.
  • cosma — Cosma observes, maps and monitors the seabed to deliver open, neutral and affordable data at global scale.
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Karista
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$6.2M; Series A $1.4M–$23M; Series B $3M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $44M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Kynogon — Autodesk game middleware products, including Beast, Navigation, HumanIK and Scaleform, will no longer be available for purchase.
  • Advestigo — Advestigo S.A., a technology company, provides digital assets protection solutions. It offers theraography technology, which analyses digital content to generate content-based fingerprints; AdvestiCHECK, a software package that allows companies to monitor information technology networks and workstations; and AdvestiGUARD, a software package thatallows companies to monitor communication channels. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Saint-Cloud, France. As of March 9, 2009, Advestigo S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Hologram Industries SA.
  • Plasmabiotics — PENTAX Medical PlasmaBiotics: Ultra-fast endoscope reprocessing solutions to improve patient safety and infection prevention.
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Crédit Industriel et Commercial
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

CIC Lyonnaise De Banque offers commercial banking services. CIC is the fourth largest banking group in France, consisting of seven regional banks which operate across France through a network of 1,844 branches employing 24,000 staff. CIC's customer base includes 2.7 million retail clients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: France, Canada, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $858k–$2.7M; Post-IPO Debt $46M–$11B; Debt Financing $339k–$7.2B
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aive — Aive is the future of video for brands and creatives. Our mission is to automate qualitative video creation and distribution at scale. Imagined and co-founded by Olivier Reynaud, Teads founder (CEO) and Rudy Lellouche (COO), the Aive video technology is currently under construction with a team of excellence in sophisticated technology and highcreativity. Aive’s innovation and AI team is located in Montpellier (France) and Aive’s business and marketing teams are in Paris (France).
  • Voltalia — The Investor Relations website contains information about Voltalia's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
  • Sizewell C — Doing the power of good for Britain
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Starquest Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $448k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Heliup — Heliup is a company that creates and manufactures solar systems for huge building roofs for commercial and industrial buildings.
  • Cailabs — Cailabs is a global leader in free-space optical communications. Its dual-use Optical Ground Stations (OGS) are deployed worldwide by leading satellite operators and agencies such as SES, ESA and Contec. The company is among the very few globally to have demonstrated satellite-to-ground links fully compliant with the US Space Development Agency(SDA) standard, confirming its unique technological position.It also plays a central role in European sovereignty/defense programs such as Keraunos, developing secure OGS for next-generation optical satellite links.Founded in 2013, Cailabs has raised over €100M and grown to 170 employees (as of Dec 2025). Cailabs has a global presence with 3 offices : its HQ based in Rennes (Brittany, France), 1 office in Paris (France) and 1 office in Washington DC (Arlington, VA).
  • Eurodia — Eurodia is a designer, manufacturer, and assembler of industrial solutions for the purification of fluids. They provide liquid purification industrial processes combining electrodialysis, chromatography, ion exchange systems, and membrane filtration. They provide these tools for the dairy and cheese industries, the sugar and wine industries, andthe field of energy and ecological transition. They provide electrodialysis technology, bipolar membrane electrodialysis, membrane filtration, and much more.
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Retail Investor funding in France at a glance

Stats across 454 deals from 558 investors.

558
investors
in France Retail startups
454
deals
in France Retail startups
$2.7M
median round
in France Retail startups
35%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage
79/21
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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