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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in France (August 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 Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bpifrance
VC Fund
16 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $757k–$34M
M Capital Partners
VC Fund
8 France, United States, Canada Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage $1.1M–$6.8M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
8 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $589k–$16M
Founders Future
VC Fund
8 France, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1M–$25M
Isai
VC Fund
7 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $878k–$50M
Daphni
VC Fund
7 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $2.4M–$23M
Otium Capital
VC Fund
7 France, Spain, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $1.2M–$17M
Angelsquare
VC Fund
6 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, SaaS $400k–$6.1M
Naxicap Partners
VC Fund
6 France, Belgium, United States Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Retail $2M–$56M
Evolem Start
VC Fund
6 France, Italy, Senegal Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.1M–$21M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
5 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$68M
Quadia
VC Fund
5 France, Switzerland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail $2.2M–$53M
360 Capital
VC Fund
5 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$44M
Anaxago
VC Fund
4 France, Belgium, Cameroon Series A, Seed, Series B SaaS, Biotechnology, Software $1M–$25M
Alven
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$53M
Marc Menasé
Angel
4 France, United States, Spain Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet $384k–$8.4M
XAnge
VC Fund
4 France, Germany, Belgium Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1.1M–$75M
BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund
4 France, Germany, The Netherlands Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $2.2M–$24M
Colam Impact
VC Fund
4 France, Cameroon Series A, Seed, Series B Retail, Internet of Things, Energy $1.8M–$20M
MAIF Impact
VC Fund
4 France Series A, Seed Retail, Software, Education $589k–$13M
Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, France, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$102M
Eduardo Ronzano
Angel
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $150k–$5.5M
Crédit Agricole
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Italy Debt Financing, Seed Energy, Health Care, Software $837k–$1.3B
NCI Gestion
VC Fund
4 France, Italy, Martinique Seed, Series A Internet, Manufacturing, Retail $439k–$16M
Eutopia VC
VC Fund
4 France, Belgium, Denmark Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage $1.3M–$48M
Crédit Industriel et Commercial
VC Fund
3 France, Canada, Hong Kong Seed, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $339k–$11B
Elaia
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$50M
Ahmed Mhiri
Angel
3 France, Tunisia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $549k–$1.1M
Karista
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $713k–$33M
Aster
VC Fund
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Energy, Software, Manufacturing $1.6M–$27M
Runa Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $1.1M–$20M
Xavier Niel
Angel
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$70M
UI Investissement
VC Fund
3 France, Spain, Canada Private Equity, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$49M
Starquest Capital
VC Fund
3 France, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $288k–$11M
Financiere Saint James
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $975k–$28M
OBRATORI
VC Fund
3 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Cosmetics, Fashion, Health Care $564k–$5.3M
Frst
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Luxembourg Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $116k–$40M
Frederic Halley
Angel
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Retail $520k–$11M
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
3 France, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Retail, Internet, E-Commerce $511k–$57M
Generis Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 France, Germany, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.1M–$25M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$32M
BNP Paribas
VC Fund
3 France, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $8.5M–$2.5B
Frédéric Mazzella
Angel
3 France, United States, Hungary Seed, Series A Internet, Information Technology, Apps $439k–$28M
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $500k–$33M
AQUITI Gestion
VC Fund
3 France, United States Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $170k–$18M
Amundi Private Equity Funds
VC Fund
3 France, India, Hungary Private Equity, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Karim Kaddoura
Angel
2 France Seed Retail, Security, Software
Thibaud Elziere
Angel
2 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $743k–$16M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.5M–$102M
Bertrand Diard
Angel
2 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $300k–$25M
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 16 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1458
  • Round size: Seed $757k–$6.3M; Series A $3M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • FinKey — Finkey : la meilleure solution pour vendre sa PME au juste prix. Un accompagnement sur-mesure des chefs d'entreprise.
  • Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
  • Nepsis — AI-powered software and debt advisory for renewable energy developers. Modern financing solutions for small & medium renewable projects.
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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:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.4M; Series A $3.3M–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Haiku — L'IA et la data au service des du droit
  • 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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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups

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

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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: 633
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6M; Pre-Seed $589k–$3.8M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
  • Shiplong — Shiplog gives every customer a live profile and decides the next best action in real time, so you expand, retain and grow revenue from the customers you already have.
  • Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
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Founders Future
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups, 18 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 activeearly-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 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, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; 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

  • Linc — Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively.
  • Bohr Energy — Bohr Energy is an artificial intelligence firm that aims to make the energy market accessible to independent producers.
  • Pramaana Labs — Building the verification layer of AI for accelerated trust and super-intelligence.
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Isai
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in France Retail startups, 9 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 theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 173
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$8M; Series A $2.2M–$25M; Series B $7.3M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $196M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
  • Panora — Panora's goal is to provide a clear and structured perspective of their business, files, and opportunities.
  • APL Datacenters — Organic Design, des #datacenters en symbiose avec leur environnement
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Daphni
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in France Retail startups

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, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$13M; Series A $6.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Shine.fr — Shine is a mobile bank that provides an administrative and financial management platform for freelance workers. It offers freelancers a multitasking solution platform that combines online banking with contract and invoice management, streamlining administrative and financial tasks for those who work independently.The company was established inyear 2017 in Paris, France.
  • Certo — Certo is an agentic AI company that offers a product compliance platform for regulatory management.
  • Logistica OS — Logistica OS helps logistics teams get more done through AI. Our AI agents automate load carrier management, returns and other backoffice processes in logistics.
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Otium Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 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
  • Geography: France, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.2M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $204M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • PayFit — Simplify payroll with UK payroll software that automates tasks, saving time and reducing stress.
  • Comet — Comet is a platform that connects organisations with skilled independent consultants in technology, data, and AI. It enables companies to access expertise for digital projects by combining talent screening with AI-powered matching. It also fosters innovation through its AI lab, supporting businesses in navigating complex technologicaltransformations.
  • Source{d} — source{d} provides the technology for large-scale code analysis and machine learning on code.
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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, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.1M; Series A $2.1M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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: 103
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$22M; Private Equity $2M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2021

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 — Your trusted HR Expert
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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
  • Geography: France, Italy, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.6M; Series A $3.5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fungu'it — A new generation of flavor ingredients for healthy, sustainable, and accessible food.
  • 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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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, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1441
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
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Quadia
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 5 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, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.4M; Series A $5.5M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $7.8M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups, 20 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $6.6M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Klaro — Klaro is an AI platform that assists small businesses with credit and improves cash flow management.
  • Talentware — Talentware is the platform that lets you manage your company and people by putting skills first: boosting engagement, talent retention, and productivity.
  • Circular Materials — Scopri Circular Materials: immagina una tecnologia che tratta le acque reflue e, allo stesso tempo, recupera metalli preziosi.
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Anaxago
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 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: SaaS, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, Belgium, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.1M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Series B $16M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

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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Alven
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

Independent early-stage VC firm for 25 years

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$10M; Series A $2.7M–$20M; Series B $7.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M 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.
  • Generare — Generare is a biotech startup that discovers next-generation medicines and high-value molecules hiding in soil bacteria.
  • 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: 46
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$8.4M; Angel $658k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $686k–$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 turns products into pixel-perfect 3D Digital Twins that global teams use to power visuals across commerce, marketing, retail, and AI. No technical skills required.
  • Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
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XAnge
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, Germany, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 233
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $6.6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $234M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • HABX — habx provides real estate developers with a digital solution enabling the personalization of new housing units
  • 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.
  • SunaCare — SunaCare specializes in the nationwide placement of private nurses from the (adjoining) EU-countries.The company's services offer care-supporting senior care at home, enabling people to get cares from Germany and neighboring countries that provide 24-hour care on-site.
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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:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$7M; Series A $3.9M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Primo1D — Primo1D was founded in August 2013 and has his headquarters in the heart of the MINATEC Campus in Grenoble, France. The company offers solutions for embedding sparkles of intelligence in objects and materials using the E-Thread® yarn, a yarn containing electronics. We love explaining our customers what this yarn can do for them.
  • 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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Colam Impact
VC Fund · 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, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.4M; Series A $2.7M–$12M; Series B $14M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OceanWings — OceanWings is an industrial startup focused on the decarbonation of shipping using the wind as a propulsion solution. OceanWings designs and manufacture the Oceanwings system, a combination of wingsails and software. OceanWings delivers fuel and therefore emissions saving ranging between 20% and 50% for oceangoing vessels.
  • 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.
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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
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $589k–$7.4M; Series A $3.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups, 9 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: 122
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5.5M–$30M; Series B $24M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Primepoint — Primepoint is the construction AI platform trusted by leading GCs. Connect documents, catch conflicts before the field and get instant answers traced to the exact drawing or spec.
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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: 88
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$5.5M; Angel $500k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
  • Frak Labs — 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: 181
  • Round size: Seed $837k–$6M; Debt Financing $2.1M–$1.3B
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

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 is an allogeneic platform to generate immune therapy ambitioning to harness patient immune system & prevent cancer resistance over treatment.
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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
  • Geography: France, Italy, Martinique

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$2.5M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — 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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Eutopia VC
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 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 $3.3M–$10M; Series A $4M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise 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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Crédit Industriel et Commercial
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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 — Turn 1 master into unlimited, brand-controlled versions. Automate post-production, scale your output, and take back control of video performance.
  • Voltalia — The Investor Relations website contains information about Voltalia's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
  • nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
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Elaia
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 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: 223
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.9M; Series A $2.2M–$26M; Series B $4.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Hema.to — Hema.to provides fully automated, AI-powered blood cancer detection suggestions based on flow cytometry data.
  • Ornikar — Ornikar is an online driving school that offers radically cheaper, uncomplicated and faster offer to obtain a driving license.Ornikar relies on a network of state-qualified teachers to offer an apprenticeship in mobile driving at reduced prices. The cmpany is an an online driving school more in tune with the demand of current and futuregenerations.The company's mission is to make the driver's license exam cheaper and its learning more enjoyable.
  • Stanley Robotics — Stanley Robotics is a DeepTech business helping the transportation and logistics industries digitalise and robotise outdoor operations.
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Ahmed Mhiri
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 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: 37
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$1.1M
  • 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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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: 156
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$6.3M; Series A $1.2M–$18M; Series B $2.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tricares — TRiCares is a medical device company, devoted to developing a catheter-based valve replacement system for minimal invasive treatment of tricuspid valve regurgitation.
  • 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.
  • Physikron — Physikron is a developer of mass spectrometry technologies used to improve the performance of tandem spectrometry. Its technologies offer proteomic analysis and dramatically improves the number of peptides and proteins identified during an LC/MS/MS acquisition that enable researchers to research in an enhanced way.
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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 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 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).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$22M; Series B $6.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $281M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Easybike — Easybike designs and manufactures a range of bikes that run on electricity. It offers its clients two major ranges of bikes which includes Liberty range and Infinity range.The company is driven by a vision to democratize innovative mode of travel. Easybike was known as one of the first brands in France to have specialized in electric bikes andtailor-made solutions. Easybike was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Iceotope — Iceotope develops liquid cooling technology for data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and high-performance computing environments. The company designs precision liquid cooling systems that use dielectric fluids to manage heat generated by GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, and power components within server infrastructure. Its platformreplaces or reduces dependence on traditional air cooling by using sealed liquid-based thermal management architectures for rack-scale and edge computing deployments. The company provides cooling solutions for AI workloads, hyperscale data centers, telecommunications infrastructure, industrial edge computing, and enterprise computing systems. Its product portfolio includes liquid-cooled server systems, rack infrastructure, thermal management platforms, and integrated cooling architectures compatible with existing data center environments.Iceotope also develops thermal management technologies focused on energy efficiency, heat reuse, and reduced water consumption in compute-intensive environments. The company collaborates with hardware manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and infrastructure providers to support the deployment of liquid-cooled computing systems for AI, analytics, and high-density computing applications.
  • Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
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Runa Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 3 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, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$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

  • Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
  • 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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Xavier Niel
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$70M; Series A $3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qutwo — We unite Qutwo OS and world-class AI and quantum scientists with the most forward-looking enterprises to develop competitive edge through classical AI, hybrid, and full quantum systems. We tackle the most challenging problems in AI computing.
  • 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.
  • Advanced Machine Intelligence — AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence - builds world-model-based AI that understands the real world. We develop safe, controllable intelligent systems for industry, robotics, healthcare, and beyond.
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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: Likely still investing — 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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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, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $288k–$2.3M; Series A $1.1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $59M in 2021

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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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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OBRATORI
VC Fund · Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France · 3 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, Fashion, Health Care
  • 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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Frst
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$18M; Pre-Seed $116k–$4.3M; Series A $6.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $76M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Fakto — Fakto's AI audits every supplier contract, catches billing errors and missed rebates, and protects your margins. Built for procurement, finance and operations leaders.
  • KelAI — The AI Quant. Autonomous investment intelligence.
  • Uncovr — Surgical video is the biggest dark data in medicine. We turn it into operative reports, billing codes, and clinical intelligence automatically
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Frederic Halley
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 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–$4.2M; 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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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, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $511k–$5M; Angel $1.1M–$15M; Series A $3.3M–$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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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 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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Series A $1.1M–$6M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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.
  • Kickmaker — Kickmaker is a European & Asian based industrialization agency. Our community & innovative contracting model propels our partners’ projects to industrial success & brings their prototypes to the shelves. Our design to manufacturing expertise and culture of making ensures that our partners’ products reach their target markets. Ourpassionate talents develop industrialization strategy, optimize product design, implement DFX methodologies, prepare manufacturing, improve quality & manage product life-cycles.
  • Provectio — Provectio is a provider of "fundamental" IT services for companies.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 971
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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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 companyprovide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 300
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $40M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $8.5M–$1.8B
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoop — Thrive in a hybrid work environment with Scoop's solutions for Workplace Safety, Workplace Utilization, Team Coordination, Desk Management, and Commute.
  • Proxymity — Announcing our Newest Partnership
  • Worldline — Worldline is the platform that provides payments and transactional services.
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Frédéric Mazzella
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$3M; Series A $1.2M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • La Vie — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
  • MentorShow — Mentor Show offers online course, Whether you want to improve your cooking, your football skills, your magic, or even your mental strength, you'll be able to learn from the very best, like Karim Benzema, Hélène Darroze, Kev Adams, and many more..
  • Deligo Vision Technologies — Simple and effective automation of checkout in contract catering.
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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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AQUITI Gestion
VC Fund · Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$4.1M; Series A $849k–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.4M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Synboli — Synboli is a deep-tech company that combines artificial intelligence and proprietary chemistry technologies to accelerate the discovery and development of novel polymers and advanced materials. Its AI-powered platform predicts polymer properties, designs new molecular structures, and integrates laboratory testing to reduce material developmenttimelines.
  • Aquassay — Aquassay assists you with improving the industrial and environmental performance of all your water usage (supply, production, discharge).
  • CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
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Amundi Private Equity Funds
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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 €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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: France, India, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Deenova — Deenova is the undisputed leading supplier of integrated robotics and automation solutions. It provides closed-loop drug and medical device traceability in the healthcare sector. They provide services for healthcare professionals. Their pharmacy automation solution is unit-dose repackaging and complete software interoperability and their managementsolutions provide maximum synergy by bringing together hardware, software, and human resources.
  • Eduservices — Eduservices network and pool a set of skills and resources for schools.
  • Les Opticiens Mobiles — Les Opticiens Mobiles is the first national network of opticians trained to intervene everywhere : at home, at work or in nursing homes or residences for elderly, both for working people and for fragile, isolated people.Covering the whole territory, the health professionals come to visit you with all the equipment needed. Based on an ethic chart,they offer services and products tailored to all : all types of glasses (eyeglasses, sunglasses, safety googles, contact lenses, hearing protection) with fixed prices, reimbursed by social welfare.
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Karim Kaddoura
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Retail startups

Karim Kaddoura - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Security, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Thibaud Elziere
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 2 investments in France Retail startups

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.4M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OnParty — OnParty is a digital platform and mobile app designed for organizing, discovering, and managing parties and nightlife events. Users can easily create event pages, invite friends, and access exclusive nightlife experiences. The app also connects users with vetted professionals such as DJs, influencers, and artists to enhance event planning andexecution.
  • 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.
  • DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 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, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1339
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$38M; Series B $11M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
  • Pets Deli — PETS DELI is a leading D2C pet food brand in Germany with a clear focus on subscription based eCommerce, headquartered in Berlin. The company’s vision is to become the ultimate biggest and most customer centric D2C pet food brand in its core markets. PETS DELI’s unique business model is based on multiple diversified and recurring revenuestreams: The company markets its superior product offerings via online subscriptions, their online shop, offline flagship stores as well as selected partners in the most dominant retail chains.
  • Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
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Bertrand Diard
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in France Retail startups

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Pre-Seed $300k–$878k; Series A $5.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
  • Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
  • Lobster — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.
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Retail Investor funding in France at a glance

Stats across 389 deals from 492 investors.

492
investors
in France Retail startups
389
deals
in France Retail startups
$3.2M
median round
in France Retail startups
37%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage
81/19
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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