Top 15 Social Startup Investors in France in May 2026
Top 15 Social Startup Investors in France in May 2026
| Investor | Social France investments |
|---|---|
| Banque des Territoires | 2 |
| Citizen Capital | 1 |
| Capitole Angels | 1 |
| Yannis Yahiaoui | 1 |
| Idinvest Partners | 1 |
| Mirova | 1 |
| Philippe Marcel | 1 |
| Alexandra Mathiolon | 1 |
| Philippe Bossanne | 1 |
| Generis Capital Partners | 1 |
| A Plus Finance | 1 |
| Angelsquare | 1 |
| SGH CAPITAL | 1 |
| Financiere Saint James | 1 |
| OneRagtime | 1 |
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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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- Health Care, Software, Medical
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Hubcycle — Hubcycle turns food by-products into high-performance ingredients. Scalable, traceable solutions for industries committed to sustainable sourcing.
- CardioParc — CardioParc is a network of cardiology institutions that aims to redefine cardiology consulting by reorganizing it around the notion of delegation of tasks.
- Phagos — Phagos uses AI and phages to create personalized bacterial treatments in 2 months. Our sustainable antibiotic alternative targets specific bacteria without resistance, serving chicken, cattle, swine, and shrimp farms worldwide.
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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- 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.
- 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.
- Immoblade — IMMOBLADE is an innovative company specializing in solar protection, passive and seasonal glazing. It revolutionizes solar protection of glass walls with an innovative glazing solution.
Yannis Yahiaoui is the Co-Founder of Xpln.ai. He previously worked at Regattas as an Investor. Yannis Yahiaoui attended Emlyon Business School.
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- Social, Social Network, Recreational Vehicles
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Eden AI — Eden AI meets your business needs with a unified AI API and powerful Workflow builder, enabling efficient deployment of AI models!
- 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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- 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
Mirova is an asset managerment company offering investment solutions that combine financial performance with environmental and social impact.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Agriculture
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- JET Charge — Australia's #1 supplier and installer of EV charging stations for homes and businesses, expert solutions for all EV infrastructure needs.
- Elyse Energy — Elyse Energy is a French industrial SME offering low-carbon solutions for industry, shipping and aviation.
- OpenAirlines — OpenAirlines was founded in Toulouse, France, in 2006 to meet the needs of airlines to optimize their flight operations and reduce their costs.Leveraging a team of airline specialists and data scientists, it offers innovative software solutions to save fuel (SkyBreathe®), manage crews (CrewIntelligence™ and CrewPad™) and fleet (OptiFleet™).OpenAirlines has customers in Europe, Asia, Americas and Africa.
Philippe Marcel is the President of PBM.
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- 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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- Social, Sustainability, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- France
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- 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.
Philippe Bossanne (co-founder and president of Huttopia)
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- 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.
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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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications
- Series A, Funding Round, 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.
- AlephD — The programmatic performance company
- WEEZEVENT — Weezevent is a French start-up that provides online event registration and ticketing services to event organizers. Event organizers can start selling tickets in just minutes for a 2.5% fee on each ticket sold, with no extra expenses.Previously working in the events industry, the 3 founders encountered difficulties in selling tickets over theInternet, and devised a simple solution to solve this problem.
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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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Switzerland
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- 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!
Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
- Persona AI — Persona AI builds industrial humanoid robots designed for real world worksites, performing skilled, dangerous, and physically demanding tasks.
- Hyper — Our Augmented Reality platform enables every business to serve their customers on a one-to-one basis, with guidance and information to supercharge their experience.
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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- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
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- Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- Freqens — Freqens is the AI procurement agent for companies that manage suppliers without a dedicated team. Track vendors, benchmark prices, prepare negotiations and stop overpaying.
- Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.
OneRagtime is a venture capital platform that finances and scales early-stage startups. Join our investor community and discover unique opportunities.
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- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Yogosha — Yogosha is the first private Bug Bounty platform in Europe, helping organizations to detect and fix vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.
- Golem.ai — Golem.ai is an artificial intelligence of understanding human language. Their solution automates tasks with low added value, involving interaction between the employee and the machine through language.
- Buster.Ai — SaaS
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Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.
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Hoji
— Hoji is a startup studio focused on driving the environmental transformation of manufacturers. It develops companies that provide innovative technological solutions and decision-making tools designed to help manufacturers reduce their ecological impact, modernize operations, and adapt their business models to address environmental, energy, andsocietal challenges.
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Kapsera
— Kapsera bridges the gap between sustainability and productivity in agriculture, using cutting-edge, biosourced and biodegradable formulation technologies.Kapsera offers natural and innovative formulations for microbials based biofertilizers and biopesticides.
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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.
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