Top 15 Social Startup Investors in France in October 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Social Startup Investors in France in October 2024
Investor | Social France investments |
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Philippe Bossanne | 1 |
Alexandra Mathiolon | 1 |
Capitole Angels | 1 |
Mirova | 1 |
Banque des Territoires | 1 |
Yannis Yahiaoui | 1 |
Idinvest Partners | 1 |
SGH CAPITAL | 1 |
Generis Capital Partners | 1 |
Financiere Saint James | 1 |
Philippe Marcel | 1 |
OneRagtime | 1 |
Angelsquare | 1 |
A Plus Finance | 1 |
Citizen Capital | 1 |
Philippe Bossanne (co-founder and president of Huttopia)
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Investment focus
- Social, Sustainability, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Auxo — Auxo Dynamics assists businesses in transitioning to a more sustainable business strategy. The technological platform automates data collecting from information systems and provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports in accordance with requirements. Auxo Dynamics also allows stakeholders to share reports, facilitating access tolong-term financing.
Alexandra Mathiolon (Chief Executive Officer of SERFIM).
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Investment focus
- Social, Sustainability, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Auxo — Auxo Dynamics assists businesses in transitioning to a more sustainable business strategy. The technological platform automates data collecting from information systems and provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports in accordance with requirements. Auxo Dynamics also allows stakeholders to share reports, facilitating access tolong-term financing.
Capitole Angels is to create this association was born from the experience of many of its founders in the field of start-ups including the following observations. Need a structure enabling them to meet investors / promoters of the project. Plethora of potential investors hampered by the lack of an open structure. A region rich in technology,its universities, laboratories and therefore the bearer of innovation.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, 3D Technology
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Hoope — Hoope offers crunchy mueslis, spreads, and biscuits rich in nutrients, all organic, without palm oil, additives.
- Deepbloo — DeepBloo is a Sales and Market Intelligence platform. We provide : + 5.8 millions tenders and market information Worldwide and + 300 000 tenders in France
- Sensivic — Designed and manufactured in France, SENSIVIC smart audio detection systems add meaning to your security. Our solutions automatically detect and alert you in real time as soon as an abnormal sound or suspicious noise occurs.
Mirova is an asset managerment company offering investment solutions that combine financial performance with environmental and social impact.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jala Tech — JALA helps shrimp farmers increase cultivation production and efficiency in the shrimp industry.
- GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
- Neosilver — Neosilver is the platform that connects seniors with providers of collective, sports, and cultural activities.
Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Movivolt — Movivolt is a company that offers professionals long-term electric car rentals. Movivolt specializes in 100% electric vehicles for long-term rental, offering all brands and types of electric vehicles (cars, utility vehicles, freight cycles, etc.) at the best possible price.
- Neosilver — Neosilver is the platform that connects seniors with providers of collective, sports, and cultural activities.
- vorteX-io — vorteX-io is a flood warning and forecasting system meant to monitor watercourses and reduce flood risk. It provides hydrology monitoring services with compact space-based altimeters intended to accurately measure the height of the sea surface, allowing users to get a continuous, real-time measurement of several hydrological parameters withcentimeter accuracy.
Yannis Yahiaoui
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Investment focus
- Social, Social Network, Recreational Vehicles
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CapCar — CapCar is the first actor of the used vehicle to offer individuals cars and services of quality, without the commissions usually taken by the professionals. For you sellers, this means receiving 20% more for your car than at a dealership, with a sale in about 2-3 weeks. For you buyers, it is the guarantee of having a quality vehicle havingsuccessfully passed our 200 control points, delivered at home for a price 5% lower than the traditional professional prices.
- Lita.co — LITA.co is the first impact investing platform that connects individuals and social entrepreneurs. In order to manage your finances in a more ethical way, LITA.co allows you to invest online in companies seeking social, environmental or other positive impacts.
- Monk.ai — Monk is an AI company delivering state of the art AI Powered Vehicle Inspection solutions for the automotive, insurance and mobility markets.
Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- Stilla Technologies — Stilla Technologies is taking digital PCR to a whole new level with a unique 6-color target detection capability
Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Archax — Archax is the next evolution in digital asset trading
- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.
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
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Upsideo — Upsideo is a software publishing company for finance professionals.
- Provectio — Provectio is a provider of "fundamental" IT services for companies.
- Les Raffineurs — Les Raffineurs has been offering a selection of products to find a gift for men or the next favorite, experiences to live or to offer in Paris and throughout France. The e-shop to have fun or for a successful gift for men or women.
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
- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Tomorro (ex Leeway) — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Philippe Marcel (president of PBM)
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Investment focus
- Social, Sustainability, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Auxo — Auxo Dynamics assists businesses in transitioning to a more sustainable business strategy. The technological platform automates data collecting from information systems and provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports in accordance with requirements. Auxo Dynamics also allows stakeholders to share reports, facilitating access tolong-term financing.
We are a venture capital platform that sources, finances and scales early-stage European start-ups. Our fully digitised investment process offers our exclusive community the freedom and flexibility to choose how they invest, on a deal-by-deal basis or via our funds.
Are you looking to be funded? Are you looking to invest in exclusive start-ups?
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
- MoSo — Zoom in on identity, zoom out on potential.
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 — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
- Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!
A Plus Finance, which is headquartered in Paris (France), is an independent trust company specialising in the management of Common Investment Fundsfor Innovation (FCPI) and Proximity Investment Funds (FIP). A Plus Finance is involved in all innovative sectors, particularly in the IT, media and security fields.The A Plus Finance team includesfinanciers and entrepreneurs, thus providing companies with both an awareness of the daily constraints of management and a long-term perspective on the development of their business. Managing funds amounting to nearly €220m, A Plus Finance invests between €1 million and €4 million per project.per
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Uzaje — Uzaje offers solutions that enable food service professionals and food manufacturers to eliminate packaging and consumption waste through container cleaning and change management.
- Anotherway — Anotherway assists everyone in their transition to a healthier and more responsible lifestyle by developing ecological alternatives with a positive impact, with the goal of banning single-use plastic and lowering the carbon footprint. Its solutions encompass all aspects of home life (hygiene, cooking, and maintenance) and are designed to bepractical, simple, and cost-effective.
- Pulpe de Vie — Pulpe de Vie is an organic and ethical beauty company that develops and sells organic cosmetics made from unsold fruits.
Citizen Capital is a leading French private equity fund dedicated to using an impact-driven investment approach to deliver both financial and social returns for investors and society at-large. Citizen Capital manages €60 million and provides growth capital to high growth small or medium companies (€1 to 50 million sales) with a strong socialpurpose targeting :- Inclusion : adress the needs of underserved populations (silver economy, health, education, Bottom of the Pyramid...)- Social mobility : enable excluded people to access employment and cross social barriers (job creation in underserved areas, integration of disabled or low-educated workers...)- Sustainable production and consumption : change consumption habits and give access to sustainable goods and services (local production and short distribution channels, environment-driven technologies...)- Social Innovation : introduce new organisation models with tangible positive impact upon employees and partners (employee shareholding schemes, collaborative management...)Our goal is to build wealth for all stakeholders in our portfolio companies. In addition to capital we offer a combination of strategic, financial, operational guidance to the companies in which we invest, as well as a pro-active support in building and driving impact strategy – Citizen Capital has implemented a methodology combining social impact and ESG approach. Citizen Capital has signed the Principles for Responsible Investment (United Nations, PRI) and is a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- NOVO — Digital analysis, planning and financing of energy renovation for real estate.
- Novo — Novo is to make it easier for everyone to take stock and plan energy-related renovations.And the work in the subsequent months clearly demonstrated that it can be done much faster and more digitally! The end product is NOVO
- CardioParc — CardioParc is a network of cardiology institutions that aims to redefine cardiology consulting by reorganizing it around the notion of delegation of tasks.
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FinTech
Google
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EdTech
Sustainability
Venture Capital
Beauty
B2B
Social Media
Photography
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Email
Art
Finance
Wellness
Music
Mobile
Real Estate
Franchise
Big Data
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Digital Media
Construction
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eSports
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Enterprise Software
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Clean Energy
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Video Games
Food and Beverage
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Biotechnology
Hospitality
Fitness
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Mobile Apps
Life Science
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Theatre
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Non Profit
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Investors in France by industry
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Publishing
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