Top 10 Social Impact Startup Investors in France
A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Social impact startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social impact companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Social Impact Startup Investors in France
Investor | Social Impact France investments |
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Thierry Petit | 2 |
StarkWare Industries | 1 |
La Poste Ventures | 1 |
Ring Capital | 1 |
SIDE Capital | 1 |
Angelsquare | 1 |
Ethereal Ventures | 1 |
Kima Ventures | 1 |
Jérôme Le Feuvre | 1 |
Sylvain Theveniaud | 1 |
Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to:
• Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic).
Today Showroomprive.com is:
• A team of 500 employees
• A community of 20 million members in Europe
• A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development:
Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi
Health : Feeli, Lifen, May,
Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent
Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted
Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot,
Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor,
FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October
RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot
Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners
Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital
VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
- Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
- mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.
StarkWare is using STARK proofs to bringing scalability, security and privacy to a blockchain near you
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series C
- United States, France, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
- carbonABLE — All-in one platform to execute your contribution strategy. Derisk, Drive, and elevate your carbon investments. Ongoing portfolio management, monitoring, reporting & auditability.
- Nil Foundation — Marketplace for zero-knowledge proofs
La Poste Ventures, financing startups committed to challenge the status quo and generate a positive impact on business.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Legal, Finance
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France
Portfolio highlights
- carbonABLE — All-in one platform to execute your contribution strategy. Derisk, Drive, and elevate your carbon investments. Ongoing portfolio management, monitoring, reporting & auditability.
- Vianova — Vianova is a platform for managing connected and shared mobility in the urban public realm. It helps cities better manage their urban space, starting with mobility services. Along with the benefits of new mobility solutions, cities face growing challenges as they integrate fast-developing modes of transportation. Its company's technology helpscities and mobility operators better collaborate and communicate, in order to foster more liveable and breathable streets.
- Smart Tribune — Smart-platform is a turnkey solution that allows a company / association / e-merchant to establish a conversational space directly with its user community. Present on the entire site of a company / association / e-merchant Smart Platform will enable to gather opinions, suggestions, problems, praise, and exploit them toimprove service, reduce cost of its customer service and increase its conversion rate. In the trend of Social CRM, Smart -tribune is based on a simple and intuitive interface for its users and allows great mastery thanks to an advertiser perspective administration interface. An effective way to better know your community, your customers in order to better the satisfy.
Ring Capital is an investment ecosystem that combines business performance with sustainability by pulling in responsibly minded entrepreneurs and empowering them to thrive.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Social Media
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Ava — Free transcription for Zoom and in-person meetings. Ava accurately captions in a click any in-person or online meeting, using AI & professionals. Enter 24/7 communication access for the Deaf & hard-of-hearing.
- Yespark — Trouvez le meilleur parking dans votre ville et abonnez-vous en quelques clics avec Yespark.
- each One — each One delivers turnkey recruitment and training solutions dedicated to refugees and newcomers that make inclusion an incredible experience for businesses and their employees. They are reinventing inclusion by connecting companies and talents in new ways. The HR solutions reveal the full potential of multiculturalism and enable companies andtheir teams to fully benefit from it.
Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- LiveTonight — LiveTonight is the referencing platform for live music events and DJ sets in bars.
- Superindep.fr — Superindep is an auto entrepreneur that offers personalized support and automation of their VAT and turnover declarations. They provide space for real-time monitoring and entry of their invoices and expenses.
- Elqano - Where Knowledge Finds People — The story behind Elqano starts in a Coffee Conversation between two young professionals that wanted to shape the future of knowledge management. Yann and Guillermo were tired of spending half of their day looking for information stored in disorganized folders or overwhelmed email inboxes so they came out with a holistic platform that makes theright knowledge find straight away the right people.
AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
- Orosound — Orosound is a tech company with a unique expertise in audio. Learn more about our technologies and our headsets, designed and made in France.
- Remotebase — Remotebase | Hire silicon valley caliber developers remotely | Remote software engineers jobs
Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
- Connext Labs — Connext is the most secure interoperability protocol, allowing users to bridge funds and developers to build asynchronous Solidity for the first time!
- Alluvial Finance — Building the enterprise-grade liquid staking standard
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
Jerome Le Feuvre is the Head of Development and Operations for Europe at Bytedance.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Gaming
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Prizle — Prize turn some of your purchases online into free donations !
- Done — You know that moment when you find everything in the right place? No need to go in 15 different apps to do your work or talk with your team. It's all in Done and it's the only app you really need for work.
- Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
Sylvain Theveniaud - Managing Director @ Allianz Accelerator
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Finance, Aerospace
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- carbonABLE — All-in one platform to execute your contribution strategy. Derisk, Drive, and elevate your carbon investments. Ongoing portfolio management, monitoring, reporting & auditability.
- INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
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Investors in France by industry
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Film
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Oil and Gas
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Beauty
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Finance
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Food and Beverage
Video Games
Wine And Spirits
Big Data
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Internet
Mobile Advertising
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Digital Media
Art
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Android
Mobile
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eSports
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Travel
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Hospitality
CleanTech
Payments
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Platforms
Biotechnology
FinTech
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Enterprise
Health Care
Biotech
Organic Food
EdTech
Climate
Energy
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Marketplace
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Artificial intelligence
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Retail
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Fashion
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Publishing
Sporting Goods
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Clean Energy
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Fitness
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Music
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Education
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