Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in France in November 2024

Investor	Retail France investments
M Capital Partners	8
Bpifrance	8
Isai	7
Otium Capital	7
360 Capital	6
Naxicap Partners	6
Kima Ventures	5
Angelsquare	5
Quadia	4
Evolem Start	4
Partech	4
Frederic Halley	4
Marc Menase	4
NCI Gestion	4
Alven	4
MAIF Impact	3
Orange Ventures	3
Aster	3
Eutopia VC	3
XAnge	3
Eduardo Ronzano	3
Daphni	3
Amundi Private Equity Funds	3
Colam Impact	3
Starquest Capital	3
Karista	3
Frst	3
Runa Capital	3
Elaia	3
Global Founders Capital	3
Generis Capital Partners	3
BNP Paribas Développement	3
Anaxago	3
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	3
Aglaé Ventures	3
Elevation Capital Partners	2
Nicolas Douay	2
Goodwater Capital	2
Tomcat Invest	2
Financiere Saint James	2
UI Investissement	2
Xavier Niel	2
Thibault Chassagne	2
iFly.vc	2
Karim Kaddoura	2
Florent Couty	2
Danone Manifesto Venture	2
Sand Hill Angels	2
Index Ventures	2
Siparex Groupe	2

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Fasst — Fasst is involved in the creation, distribution, consulting, and connection of unique digital insurance solutions for brokers and insurers.
Hakbah — Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.
Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vaxinano — Vaxinano is a biotechnology company specialized in preclinical and pharmaceutical development of human and veterinary vaccines and drug delivery systems. Vaxinano was created in 2016, building on 25 years of research and clinical trials on vaccines and the patented technology of Pr Didier Betbeder.
Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
Starfish Bioscience — STARFISH Bioscience focuses on the creation and development of microbiological solutions for agriculture and vineyards. Our objective is to regenerate soils by restoring their microbiomes, increasing sustainability and productivity while minimizing environmental impact. We are dedicated to improving humanity's well-being and preserving theearth by inventing technologies that address the future difficulties of global agriculture.

Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Mercateam — Mercateam specializes in developing staff management software.
Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

e-peas — Ready to make your device energy autonomous with our state-of-art energy harvesting solutions? Phone: (+32) 10 77 12 30, sales@e-peas.com
Caats — Caats describes customized meals and their advantages for cat health. They offer answers for a variety of issues, including optimum weight, kidney hydration, strengthened immune system, silky coat, protection of the intestinal flora, and others. They provide monthly from 14.90€.
Comet Software — Comet Software is a business software publishing company that helps businesses achieve autonomy and independence.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kima Ventures 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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.
Storio Energy — Storio Energy is an AI-powered energy efficiency technology platform that provides renewable energy.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Italy, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Kolus — Kolus is a company that specialized in offering visual assistance technologies for customer support operations across a variety of sectors. The platform provides an intuitive interface, remote help, data centralization, performance tracking, and centralized monitoring for optimal management, allowing organizations to improve the customer experienceand team cooperation.
Sopht — Sopht is an Environmental Services company that allows organizations to pilot their environmental impact and automate their decarbonation.Sopht provides a lever for optimizing and rationalizing the challenges of an IT department. The platform is built on a series of modules that reconstitutes the entire IT value chain of a company (multi-cloudmonitoring, management of IT assets, analysis of digital uses and services, etc.) thus allowing a vision and end-to-end management.Founded by Jérémie Veg, Julien Rouzé, Gautier Levert in 2021 and is located in Lyon and Paris.
NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

vorteX-io — vorteX-io is a flood warning and forecasting system meant to monitor watercourses and reduce flood risk. It provides hydrology monitoring services with compact space-based altimeters intended to accurately measure the height of the sea surface, allowing users to get a continuous, real-time measurement of several hydrological parameters withcentimeter accuracy.
TOOPI Organics — TOOPI Organics is specializing in using human urine for agriculture and industry
BIBAK — BIBAK is an industrial technogy solution making reusable packaging services simplier.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .
Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Retail, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Belgium, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
Nous anti-gaspi — We anti-Gapsi is the network of anti-waste food stores. This grocery store project offers producers and manufacturers the opportunity to their downgraded and unsold products at a fair price. They are a qualitative environment, they market products excluded from the usual mass distribution circuits for small defects, physical defects, contract-datenot respected, and end of series. They offer consumers a new mode of consumption that gives priority to common sense and that is at the same time smart, qualitative, and eco-responsible. In their stores, they offer you to find, in a warm atmosphere, a complete choice of food products to save waste: fruits and vegetables, fresh and frozen products, groceries, and even a small bulk section.
Peas&Love (Urban farm Company SA) — Our mission is to help cities to become greener, more sustainable, more human. By installing our farms, we provide eco-systemic services to cities, improving their quality of life and creating social interactions. We want to extent our farms, and from there become the urban farming glocal leader; delivering a positive and healthy experience thatwill dramatically improve our clients lives.

For 20 years, XAnge has been a key venture capital fund in Europe. With 70 startups in its portfolio, XAnge invests early in innovative tech companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Estuaire — Estuaire It seeks to strengthen the aviation sector by lessening its negative environmental effects. Their data firm is investigating all aspects of aviation pollution, such as CO2 emissions, NOx emissions, contrails, and aircraft production. Actionable indicators are provided to airlines, lessors, and carbon calculators to lessen the impact of airtravel.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Frak Labs — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel.
Poolside — The best code you never wrote.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
Albatross AI — Albatross: leading the revolution in user engagement. Our AI technology delivers unparalleled user experiences, maximizes conversions, and unlocks revenue growth. Say goodbye to manual A/B testing and poor recommendations.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vivalto Vie — Vivalto Vie is a privately held company that operates retirement homes in the Poitou-Charentes and Pays de la Loire regions.
Airtel — Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands. Airtel has a GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the countryof operation.Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the "airtel" brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold certification. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore.
Les Opticiens Mobiles — Les Opticiens Mobiles is the first national network of opticians trained to intervene everywhere : at home, at work or in nursing homes or residences for elderly, both for working people and for fragile, isolated people.Covering the whole territory, the health professionals come to visit you with all the equipment needed. Based on an ethic chart,they offer services and products tailored to all : all types of glasses (eyeglasses, sunglasses, safety googles, contact lenses, hearing protection) with fixed prices, reimbursed by social welfare.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cailabs — Cailabs is a French deep tech company, based in Rennes, which designs, produces and sells photonic solutions to fully exploit the industrial potential opened up by the shaping of light.Cailabs develops and produces a unique range of optical components based on its know-how and its patented technological innovations, in particular Multi-PlaneLight Conversion (MPLC).
Hello Watt — Hello Watt is a digital enthusiasts and developers who help you reduce your energy bills while improving your comfort.
Caeli Énergie — Caeli Énergie develops and manufactures next-generation air conditioners with great energy efficiency and a minimal carbon impact.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Helical — Helical is an intermediary platform that offers bioinformaticians free access to the technologies from AI and biological computation.
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sismo.io — Sismo enables users to aggregate their identity and selectively disclose personal data to apps with Sismo Connect - the crypto-native SSO using ZKPs.
Keep — The open-source alerts management and automation platform. Imagine you had GitHub Actions for any part of your observability stack.
SeeChange Technologies — Enhance your retail operations with Computer Vision AI, optimising inventory, improving customer insights, and elevating in-store experiences.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
SURGAR — SURGAR provides a plug-and-play augmented reality software suite for computer-aided laparoscopic surgery.
Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Upsideo — Upsideo is a software publishing company for finance professionals.
Provectio — Provectio is a provider of "fundamental" IT services for companies.
Les Raffineurs — Les Raffineurs has been offering a selection of products to find a gift for men or the next favorite, experiences to live or to offer in Paris and throughout France. The e-shop to have fun or for a successful gift for men or women.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
C12 Quantum Electronics — Explore C12's innovative quantum technology solutions using carbon nanotubes. Discover how our advancements in quantum computing are shaping the future of technology.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Belgium, Cameroon

Portfolio highlights

Xenothera — Xenothera is a xenotherapy platform with embedded technology that renovates immunological treatments. Xenothera creates new therapeutic modes in numerous domains from immunomodulation to infectious diseases.Xenothera's technological platform is built on a double expertise of animal genetics and mastery of immunology processes. It renovatespassive immunotherapy by marketing a new generation of hyperimmune polyclonal sera.Xenothera’s platform ensures short-time development thanks to their mastery of the entire process, from animal genetics, choice of the immunogen, selection, and purification of interesting immunoglobulins, and access to market authorization in accelerated timescale.
Check & Visit — In Brittany, in Rennes Check & Visit was born from the desire to help the owners of the whole world to realize the conditions of their apartment. In France each year, there are over 3,400,000 inventories made. For the 2,500,000 owners, which they are part of it is not always easy to make the inventory of his apartment. Whether due to lack ofavailability, legal knowledge, or the reliability of paper status reports. The inventory quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task that any owner would like to do without.
PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!

The management company of the Inter Invest Group.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Audion — Founded in 2018, Audion is an adtech company that develops proprietary technology to automate, customize and measure digital audio advertising. Our products are used by leading medias and podcasters on behalf of the world’s most iconic brands.
IMPACT Plus — IMPACT Plus offers technology-driven carbon footprint optimization services of digital campaign to various brands and advertising companies.
Smart Tribune — Smart-platform is a turnkey solution that allows a company / association / e-merchant to establish a conversational space directly with its user community. Present on the entire site of a company / association / e-merchant Smart Platform will enable to gather opinions, suggestions, problems, praise, and exploit them toimprove service, reduce cost of its customer service and increase its conversion rate. In the trend of Social CRM, Smart -tribune is based on a simple and intuitive interface for its users and allows great mastery thanks to an advertiser perspective administration interface. An effective way to better know your community, your customers in order to better the satisfy.

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

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

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Stanly — Stanly is a all-access digital fan club, empowering fans worldwide to connect, have fun, and earn rewards.
Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DinMo — Discover the all-in-one data platform which makes it easy to collect, enrich, segment, and activate your customer data in all your business platform. Get started now for free; no credit card required.
autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ultrawatt — Ultrawatt is a mission-driven startup to improve urban architecture while making a beneficial social and environmental effect.
AdEchoTech — The company was the first to market a robotic tele-ultrasound solution, expanding the capabilities currently offered in the field of teleradiology.
Quai des Notaires — Vente, succession, signez l'esprit tranquille. Sans rdv et gratuit ! Trouvez votre notaire en ligne.

Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cube AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

Thibault Chassagne - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Software
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Karim Kaddoura - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Software
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

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

Florent Couty is the former Chief Innovation of IAD.

Investment focus

Retail, Automotive, E-Commerce
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

For over two decades, Sand Hill Angels has worked openly and collaboratively with venture capital funds, other angel organizations, and the Bay Area ecosystem that fosters the growth of technology startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Pulzaid — Platform for hybrid specialty care
GaeaStar — The zero waste clay cup. GaeaStar is an engineering company developing sustainable multiple use products and technology.
PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

EthonAI — The EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System is a powerful software suite to achieve operational excellence at scale.
Hoop — Hoop helps make sure you don't miss a thing by automatically capturing your todos and action items from meetings and chat.
Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API

Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon.It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of theindependent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
Monet Associes — Monet + Associes is a public relations agency.