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Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in France (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
17 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $757k–$34M
Otium Capital
VC Fund
8 France, Spain, United States Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, E-Commerce $968k–$17M
360 Capital
VC Fund
8 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$33M
Isai
VC Fund
8 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $878k–$50M
Founders Future
VC Fund
8 France, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1M–$25M
M Capital Partners
VC Fund
8 France, United States, Canada Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage $1.1M–$5.7M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
8 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $591k–$16M
Daphni
VC Fund
7 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $2.4M–$23M
Quadia
VC Fund
6 France, Germany, Switzerland Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail $2.2M–$53M
Naxicap Partners
VC Fund
6 France, Belgium, United States Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Retail $2M–$56M
Angelsquare
VC Fund
6 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $400k–$6.1M
Aster
VC Fund
6 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Energy, Software, Manufacturing $1.2M–$27M
Evolem Start
VC Fund
6 France, Italy, Senegal Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.1M–$22M
Eutopia VC
VC Fund
5 France, Belgium, Denmark Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage $1.3M–$48M
Anaxago
VC Fund
5 France, Belgium, Cameroon Seed, Series A, Series B SaaS, Biotechnology, Software $620k–$24M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
5 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.2M–$65M
CapHorn Invest
VC Fund
5 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$27M
Colam Impact
VC Fund
4 France, Cameroon Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Retail, Internet of Things, Energy $1.8M–$13M
MAIF Impact
VC Fund
4 France Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Retail, Software, Education $589k–$19M
Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, France, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$102M
Runa Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$20M
BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund
4 France, Germany, The Netherlands Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $2M–$24M
OBRATORI
VC Fund
4 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Cosmetics, Retail, Fashion $564k–$5.3M
NCI Gestion
VC Fund
4 France, Italy, Martinique Seed, Series A Internet, Manufacturing, Retail $484k–$16M
Elaia
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$50M
XAnge
VC Fund
4 France, Germany, Belgium Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1.1M–$75M
Crédit Agricole
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Italy Debt Financing, Seed Energy, Health Care, Software $837k–$1.3B
Point Nine
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$62M
IRIS
VC Fund
3 France, Germany, United States Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $2.4M–$33M
Puma Private Equity
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Japan, France Private Equity, Series A Software, Retail, Consulting $2.5M–$14M
NCI
VC Fund
3 France, Italy Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, Manufacturing, Retail $484k–$19M
Karista
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $768k–$33M
AQUITI Gestion
VC Fund
3 France, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $170k–$18M
Frst
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Luxembourg Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $116k–$40M
Ring Capital
VC Fund
3 France, Côte d'Ivoire, Spain Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Internet, Information Technology $1.6M–$44M
Partech
VC Fund
3 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$56M
Entrepreneur Venture
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Belgium Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Internet, Marketing $1.2M–$18M
Amundi Private Equity Funds
VC Fund
3 France, India, Hungary Private Equity, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
BREEGA
VC Fund
3 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$24M
Alven
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$53M
Generis Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 France, Germany, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1.1M–$9.4M
Financiere Saint James
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $975k–$28M
Crédit Industriel et Commercial
VC Fund
3 France, Canada, Hong Kong Seed, Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $339k–$11B
BNP Paribas
VC Fund
3 France, United Kingdom, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Financial Services, Information Technology, Software $8.5M–$2.5B
Starquest Capital
VC Fund
3 France, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $291k–$20M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $575k–$30M
Orange Ventures
VC Fund
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series B, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $500k–$33M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.5M–$102M
UI Investissement
VC Fund
3 France, Spain, Canada Private Equity, Seed, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Health Care $1.5M–$49M
Sand Hill Angels
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series B, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $1M–$100M
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 17 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1645
  • Round size: Seed $757k–$6.1M; Series A $2.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Melvan — Melvan develops, finances, builds and operates solar and wind installations, combined, where relevant, with storage facilities.
  • AI-Stroke — Developer of an artificial intelligence-powered mobile application designed to assist in pre-CT/MRI stroke diagnostics. The company offers a platform that guides first responders and patients through relevant exercises for stroke detection, captures and analyzes video data, and leverages the world's largest proprietary stroke patientvideo dataset (20,000 videos and 6 million images), enabling patients with a diagnosis and outcomes by reducing delays in treatment for stroke, increasing the number of treatment procedures, and recuding the rehab costs.
  • MSInsight — Explore how our cutting-edge genomic analysis uncovers actionable insights into microsatellite instability (MSI), driving targeted, personalized cancer treatments.
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Otium Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
  • e-peas — Discover e-peas, pioneer of the Ambient IoT concept since 2014, which offers the most efficient energy harvesting pmics on the market to make your devices more energy self-sufficient: AEMs.
  • Stratumn — Stratumn provides the finance departments of midsized and large companies with a SaaS solution that optimizes their end-to-end financial processes.
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 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: 239
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $3.5M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026

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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Isai
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 8 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: 180
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$7.5M; Series A $2.9M–$22M; Series B $6.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $329M 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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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: 143
  • 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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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$5.7M
  • 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: 708
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $591k–$3.8M; Series A $1.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
  • Klaimee — Certify your AI agent. Get guaranteed. Risk evaluation, certification badge, financial guarantee, and liability insurance for AI agents.
  • 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.
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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: 145
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$13M; Series A $6.1M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $281M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
  • 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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Quadia
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 6 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.4M; Series A $5.5M–$25M; Venture - Series Unknown $4.5M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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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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 $2.8M–$22M; Private Equity $2M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $2.9B in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • MYRE — With 17 years of professional experience, Deborah (founder) has devised a tailor-made tool adapted to the new challenges of an industry still waiting to be modernized, allowing real estate players to focus on tasks with high added value. MYRE help Asset Managers in taking the control of their datas (financials, legal,...) in the asset lifecycle.We provide Financials analysis and modeling capabilities, advanced dataroom, Debt management, Real Estate Master data management in an inclusive way with all the stakeholders (PM, brokers, bank, ...)MYRE is based on twofold expertise of both technology and real estate business needs.
  • Dog Chef — Dog Chef is an exhibit supplier of homemade and natural food for dogs across the region.
  • Anywr — Your trusted HR Expert
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Angelsquare
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $678k–$1.5M; 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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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in France Retail startups

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and 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: 160
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$20M; Series B $7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $283M 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.
  • Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
  • Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
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Evolem Start
VC Fund · Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France · 6 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.6M; Series A $3.5M–$22M
  • 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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Eutopia VC
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bastille — Bastille is a brand of urban bicycles. The Astir brand is synonymous with folding bicycles. The primary quality constraint Bastille, a British designer, aims to create a folding motorcycle with standard wheels rather than the mini 16-inch wheels that are traditionally associated with folding bikes.
  • Moderato — Moderato is a retail and wholesale company that manufactures and supplies a range of beverages online to various sectors.
  • SPRiNG Collective — SPRiNG is a consumer goods company that offers clean and efficient laundry and cleaning products, delivered in a 100% plastic-free box and directly in the mailbox. The company is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France by Philippe Cantet, Laure Favre, and Ben Guerville in 2017.
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Anaxago
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Belgium, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $620k–$2.7M; Series A $1.3M–$13M; Series B $7.7M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Posos — Posos is a clinical support platform optimizing healthcare professionals’ decisions at every step of the patient journey thanks to an AI-based cross-referencing search engine. Posos allows healthcare professionals to conduct simultaneous research on several drugs and to contextualize answers based on patient data
  • Check & Visit — In Brittany, in Rennes Check & Visit was born from the desire to help the owners of the whole world to realize the conditions of their apartment. In France each year, there are over 3,400,000 inventories made. For the 2,500,000 owners, which they are part of it is not always easy to make the inventory of his apartment. Whether due to lack ofavailability, legal knowledge, or the reliability of paper status reports. The inventory quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task that any owner would like to do without.
  • PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology
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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: 1747
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.7M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $11M–$65M
  • 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.
  • Lastro — Lastro is building Lais, an autonomous AI worker for real estate agencies, starting in Brazil. Our AI agent initially automated lead engagement and qualification via WhatsApp, helping brokerages boost revenue and improve marketing ROI. In each brokerage, Lais acts as a personalized AI “team member” that engages with leads instantly, searches forproperties and answers common inquiries. Brokerages that have Lais in their teams are growing quickly and reporting up to 60% increases in lead conversion rates.
  • Wash Wise — Meet Reset Spray: the dry shampoo for clothes. Refresh lightly worn garments in seconds by neutralizing odors, lifting away sweat and body oils, and releasing wrinkles between washes.
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CapHorn Invest
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.1M; Series A $1.8M–$18M; Series B $3.3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $155M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • nPlan — AI that forecasts project outcomes, creates scenarios of the future and helps mitigate risk across single projects and portfolios. Trained on over 750,000 past programmes.
  • Hummink — Dream Smaller Now : Experience a revolution with Hummink's world's smallest fountain pen. Redefine micro-scale writing with our innovative technology.
  • Agriodor — Agriodor is to provide concrete and effective alternatives to insecticides to help farmers produce more sustainably.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: France, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.4M; Series A $2.8M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.9M–$13M
  • 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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Didask — Didask provides AI-powered learning software with an LMS, LXP, authoring tools, and AI coaching. It helps organizations create, manage, and deliver personalized training, onboarding, compliance, and skills development programs.
  • Heliup — Heliup is a company that creates and manufactures solar systems for huge building roofs for commercial and industrial buildings.
  • Les Nouvelles Fermes — Les Nouvelles Fermes is a producer of fruits, vegetables to be made locally without chemical treatment, with taste. The company defends and develops new, ultra-local, sustainable, and inclusive agriculture, enabling clients to the crossroad between market gardening, agro-industry, and startups.
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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: 123
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5.7M–$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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Runa Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Enlightra — Extreme-bandwidth data transmission enabled by light
  • 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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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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $3.9M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amarris — Amarris Groupe : expertise comptable innovante pour freelances, entrepreneurs, RH et investisseurs immobiliers.
  • 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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OBRATORI
VC Fund · Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • KohortPay — KohortPay is a gamified social checkout tool that boosts influencer value, doubling conversion and reducing customer acquisition expenses. KohortPay streamlines collaboration, payments, and savings for both retailers and their customers by applying referral rewards to a purchase, even days after it's completed.
  • Carton Vert — Carton Vert is a company that specializes in the selling of discarded packing cardboard, carefully collected from trustworthy partners.
  • FunCell — FunCell is a new company exploiting a technology developed by a leading-edge academic research center in France in a region that is the heart of the paper industry.
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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 $484k–$2.6M; 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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Elaia
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 237
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.6M; Series A $2.7M–$23M; Series B $4.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $154M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Hema.to — Flow cytometry analysis software, re-imagined. From raw FCS and LMD data to finalized report with AI-powered CellStudio.
  • 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.
  • Zenchef — Zenchef was created in 2010 and has more than 7000 customers in 15 different countries. Zenchef has developed a complete customer experience management tool (before, during and after the service) without commission or intermediary for restaurateurs. The restaurant owner remains independent! With only one software, manage all your reservations, yourwebsite, your digital menus, the click & collect, your reviews, your customer file, the digital payment by QR Code, your marketing campaigns...
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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: 236
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $6.6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $261M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • ELDIM — Eldim proposes photometric and calorimetric products of instrumentation allowing to qualify the ergonomic parameters and the quality of the image of the flat screens. Its customers (manufacturers of components or sreen-Sharp, Sony, Samsung, -or integrators-IBM, Apple, Valeo, Honeywell, Nokia, Motorola-) are mainly foreigns.
  • Skello — Skello is the The AI HR solution for frontline teams. HR tools were designed for offices, yet 55% of the workforce works on their feet and deserves technology designed for the field. Our mission is to improve their daily lives. For managers and HR directors, Skello offers seamless management from hiring to the payslip: our AI automatestime-consuming tasks so they can anticipate and supervise while maintaining full control. For teams, Skello guarantees a transparent and collaborative experience from their very first day. In July 2026, we reached a major milestone with the announcement of €200 million in funding to accelerate our development. After 10 years spent listening to our customers, this new chapter solidifies our conviction: technology must assist and facilitate work, without ever replacing humans. Our ambition is to be the go-to AI HR management solution for all frontline teams in Europe.
  • Aerospacelab — Aerospacelab makes access to space simple. By combining our satellite platforms with mission payloads, Aerospacelab is able to deliver end-to-end satellite solutions tailored to meet your business needs.
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Crédit Agricole
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Crelan — Daar wordt u beter van - C'est mieux pour vous
  • Bohr Energy — Bohr Energy is an artificial intelligence firm that aims to make the energy market accessible to independent producers.
  • Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma develops off-the-shelf, next-generation in vivo immunotherapies designed to unlock the immune response against solid tumors.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 284
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sereact — The only real-world verified Vision-Language-Action AI. Proven at scale. Trained on the world's largest dataset of robotic picks.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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IRIS
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

Iris Capital is a European VC specialized in digital, fueling entrepreneurs from early stage to growth since 1986. From Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Dubai, Iris Capital supports start-ups and scale-ups in their global expansion with the unique support on its multi corporate partners, including Orange, Publicis, Valeo andBRED.Iris Capital invests in various industries, from platforms to Saas, AdTech, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, and is always looking for ambitious industry disrupters led by unique entrepreneurs across the world.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$16M; Series B $4.4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $38M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • OpsMill — Infrahub from OpsMill is the AI-ready data management platform for powering reliable network and infrastructure automation at scale.
  • Hopia — Hopia is a scheduling solution that optimizes human and material resources for healthcare institutions. Hopia centralizes the management of doctors' and nurses' schedules and uses constrained optimization and prediction algorithms to propose the most optimal organization for all stakeholders.
  • Nala Earth — Nala empowers companies to measure, manage and report their impact and dependency on nature - compliant with regulation.
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Puma Private Equity
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in France Retail startups

We invest in businesses, providing capital, expertise & partnership to drive transformational change and enable scalable growth. Learn more.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, Consulting
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Japan, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$14M; Private Equity $2.5M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 93% lead, 7% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aveni — Automate compliance and streamline workflows with Aveni's AI for financial services. Drive productivity with industry-leading solutions.
  • HubBox — HubBox provides software for online retailers to offer out of home delivery through pickup networks, with seamless ecommerce courier integration.
  • Semeris — Discover Semeris, an AI-powered platform offering legal document analysis for finance, asset management, and legal firms. Streamline deal insights and decision-making.
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NCI
VC Fund · Saint-grégoire, Bretagne, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $484k–$3.2M; Series A $2.2M–$19M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$7.8M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $163M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Expliseat — Expliseat combines innovation and manufacturing performance in the lightest aircraft seat in the world: the Titanium Seat. At just 4 kg, this seat reduces fuel consumption considerably, resulting in savings of up to $500,000 per plane per year. And with 10 patents, the Titanium Seat also provides passengers with greater comfort and 2 inches moreroom, thanks to its unique ergonomic design.
  • Wellow — Freeing up vacant large apartments in the city center and set it back to the market to provide comfortable living spaces and address the housing crisis is the mission of Wellow. Wellow is committed to tackling the housing crisis among young people and is developing a new model of collective and urban housing to offer them an immersive andinteractive lifestyle, bridging the gaps within and between cities. Wellow empowers its community with access to fully-equipped rooms within shared spaces, creating a sense of home and belonging.But the Wellow experience doesn't stop there. It extends into the heart of the city, where a vibrant social tapestry weaves around culture, social and charitable events offered every week.For private and institutional property owners, Wellow not only mitigates rental risks but also actively addresses the challenges of vacant properties, asset maintenance, and unpaid rents in large residential spaces.Today, Wellow stands tall with over 500+ young individuals finding their place in the heart of Paris. Discover our mission at www.wellowhouse.com
  • Keey Aerogel — Home - Welcome to the homepage of KEEY Aerogel ! Discover our company, our products and our know-how in aerogels.
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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: 158
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$6.2M; Series A $1.4M–$23M; Series B $2.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $44M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • AlephD — The programmatic performance company
  • Stootie — Stootie is a buyer-focused classifieds platform. It's mobile. It's local. And it's quick. Really quick!This is the tool you use to get that phone power outlet you forgot when you're working in a Starbucks. Or pretty much anything else. Anywhere. Anytime.The keywords of Stootie are : marketplace, P2P business, local,mobile, realtime, platform.Stootie is currently available on iOS and Android.
  • Voluntis — Voluntis design digital therapeutics to people across multiple areas to self-manage their treatment improving real-world outcomes.
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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:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$4.1M; Series A $849k–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.9M 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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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: 72
  • 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 $79M 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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Ring Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8.3M; Series A $6.5M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $59M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • ISAAC — ISAAC is an innovative tech company at the forefront of enhancing structural resilience through advanced active mass damper systems. Specializing in seismic and wind protection, ISAAC's solutions dynamically improve the stability of existing buildings and infrastructure. Utilizing non-invasive retrofitting techniques, our active mass dampersenhance the safety and comfort of structures under dynamic loads without altering their original aesthetics. This approach not only safeguards buildings during natural events but also contributes to greener construction practices by avoiding extensive reconstruction, aligning with sustainable development goals in urban environments.
  • Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
  • En Carta Diagnostics — En Carta provides low cost and high accuracy paper based diagnostics. Our first product is a SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 Diagnostic
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 654
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
  • Jungo Software — Experience the future of driving with in-cabin sensing technology. Learn how this accident prevention system saves lives
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Entrepreneur Venture
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Mascaret — Mascaret is a communication consultancy that provides marketing strategies, acquisitions, mergers, exit planning, and financial services.
  • Audivi AI — Audivi AI is a tech company that offers drive through voice automation service for QSR industry.
  • Fairmoove — Fairmoove is a digital travel agency that promotes environmentally responsible tourism. Fairmoove is to ensure that tourists and local people have a satisfying and sustainable travel experience while minimizing the negative effects of travel and tourism on the environment and society.
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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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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in France Retail startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 150
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Bondio — Connect instantly to 1000+ networks in 200+ countries, with 0 commitments
  • Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
  • Biochar Industrial Group — Biochar Industrial Group partners with agricultural processors to convert biomass waste into biochar through industrial pyrolysis. The company finances, installs, and operates biochar production systems that process agricultural residues such as palm kernel shells, cashew husks, and sawdust. It manages biochar production, carbon creditverification, carbon credit sales, and revenue sharing with its partners. Biochar Industrial Group also provides waste value assessments and partnership programs for eligible agricultural processors.
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Alven
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

Independent early-stage VC firm for 25 years

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$10M; Series A $3.1M–$18M; Series B $7.3M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $373M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Stoïk — Stoïk is a cyber insurance company that integrates cybersecurity software with insurance protection, helping businesses manage their cyber risks effectively. Stoïk empowers brokers by offering clients comprehensive insurance policies and protection against cyber risks. Its mission is to equip brokers with the tools to help their clients insure andsafeguard against cyber threats.Stoïk's unique product simplifies the underwriting process using automated tests, replacing traditional questionnaires. It also provides continuous risk prevention through integrated cybersecurity tools and ensures swift, effective incident response with an in-house team of crisis management experts.
  • Generare — Exploring microbial chemistry. Building a library of nature-evolved molecules for discovery.
  • 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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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 $2.4M–$9.4M
  • 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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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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Crédit Industriel et Commercial
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aive — 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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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: 305
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $40M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $8.5M–$1.8B
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $799M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Capitolis — Capitolis is the technology company helping to create safer and more vibrant financial markets by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities. Rooted in advanced technology and deep financial expertise, Capitolis powers groundbreaking financial solutions that drive growth forglobal and regional banks – and institutional investors alike.
  • Proxymity — Announcing our Newest Partnership
  • Encompass — Award-winning EC360 CDI platform and EC solutions for fast, flawless, and frictionless corporate client identity validation and verification.
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Starquest Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $291k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $444k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Heliup — Heliup is a company that creates and manufactures solar systems for huge building roofs for commercial and industrial buildings.
  • Cailabs — Cailabs is a global leader in free-space optical communications. Its dual-use Optical Ground Stations (OGS) are deployed worldwide by leading satellite operators and agencies such as SES, ESA and Contec. The company is among the very few globally to have demonstrated satellite-to-ground links fully compliant with the US Space Development Agency(SDA) standard, confirming its unique technological position.It also plays a central role in European sovereignty/defense programs such as Keraunos, developing secure OGS for next-generation optical satellite links.Founded in 2013, Cailabs has raised over €100M and grown to 170 employees (as of Dec 2025). Cailabs has a global presence with 3 offices : its HQ based in Rennes (Brittany, France), 1 office in Paris (France) and 1 office in Washington DC (Arlington, VA).
  • Eurodia — Eurodia is a designer, manufacturer, and assembler of industrial solutions for the purification of fluids. They provide liquid purification industrial processes combining electrodialysis, chromatography, ion exchange systems, and membrane filtration. They provide these tools for the dairy and cheese industries, the sugar and wine industries, andthe field of energy and ecological transition. They provide electrodialysis technology, bipolar membrane electrodialysis, membrane filtration, and much more.
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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: 1090
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1505
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
  • OpenX — OpenX has the largest independent ad exchange network for publishers and demand partners, while maintaining the highest quality marketplace standards. Learn more.
  • StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
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UI Investissement
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.8M; Series A $3.2M–$33M; Private Equity $3.2M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $39M 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 develops off-the-shelf, next-generation in vivo immunotherapies designed to unlock the immune response against solid tumors.
  • 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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Sand Hill Angels
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 2 investments in France Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Series A $1.4M–$18M; Series B $8.5M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SellHound — SellHound is a price comparison engine for secondhand marketplaces that makes it easy to sell second-hand items. Its product includes a multi-marketplace virtual assistant listing app for used goods, as well as, the first-ever aggregator of secondhand marketplaces. Their smart recommerce platform is designed to make selling as easy as buying.Our goal is to make reuse more mainstream by making recommerce easier and more successful for everyone.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.
  • Lincode — The #1 business challenge that manufacturers identify is quality management. As new manufactured products continue to enter the market and consumer expectations shift faster than ever, factories are looking to improve their quality systems while scaling operations and cutting costs. At Lincode, we enable manufacturers to improve the speed, accuracy, and data tracking capabilities of their quality inspection systems at scale.
  • Clean Power Finance — Clean Power Finance (CPF) is building an online business-to-business marketplace to drive the mass-market adoption of solar. The company connects providers of capital who are committed to investing in residential solar with qualified solar marketers, installers and distributors who need residential solar finance products to differentiate and growtheir businesses. CPF raises 100 percent third-party‐owned project finance funds from institutional investors such as Morgan Stanley and Google, working with the investors to structure and launch the funds with managed risk and return profiles. CPF then markets the funds as solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) to qualified solar professionals, including Paramount Solar and Real Goods Solar (Nasdaq: RSOL), through its licensed online solar sales platform, CPF Tools. CPF Tools is software-as-a-service that simplifies complex sales, quoting, proposal and finance processes and minimizes the “soft costs” of selling solar.CPF’s fund investors earn favorable returns on stable investments on the resulting portfolios of residential distributed generation projects. The company’s solar professional partners gain access to solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs) that they can brand and sell to homeowners who want the benefits of solar without the cost and hassle of owning and maintaining a system.CPF manages approximately half a billion dollars of capacity on behalf of fund investors, and supports more than 100 solar professional customers who currently use the CPF Market to sell residential solar finance products to homeowners in CA, CO, HI, MA and NJ. Thousands of solar professionals in all 50 states have extensively used CPF Tools to quote and design solar systems.
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Retail VC funding in France at a glance

Stats across 410 deals from 427 investors.

427
investors
in France Retail startups
410
deals
in France Retail startups
$3.1M
median round
in France Retail startups
45%
lead investors
lead at least one round
23%
Seed
most common funding stage

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Who built Shizune?

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