Top 35 Social Network Startup Investors in France in December 2024

Investor	Social Network France investments
Alven	3
Bpifrance	2
Idinvest Partners	2
Florian Seroussi	2
Hexa	2
Secocha Ventures	1
Quentin Nickmans	1
Montefiore Investment	1
A Plus Finance	1
GUIBOR	1
Angelsquare	1
Partech	1
Creator Collective Capital	1
Diaspora Ventures	1
Denis Lafont-Trévisan	1
Eric Besson	1
Daphni	1
Paca Investissement	1
DST Global	1
New Wave (VC)	1
Banana Capital	1
Creator Ventures	1
Leap Ventures	1
Saint-Gobain	1
Elevation Capital Partners	1
Alexandre Yazdi	1
Karista	1
Nestadio Capital	1
Point Nine	1
Blaise Matuidi	1
Farinia Group	1
Eduardo Ronzano	1
Bleu Blanc Zebre	1
MAIF Avenir	1
Yannis Yahiaoui	1

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.

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.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Biolevate — Accelerating Therapeutic Innovation: AI-Enhanced Workflow Automation
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

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.

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

Florian Seroussi is the Founder and CEO of Evercontact and Trackbuster. He previously worked at Global Roaming as the President and CEO. Florian Seroussi attended Tel Aviv University.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Shade — Clinical-grade wearable UV sensor for clinical studies or personal use. Funded by the National Cancer Institute.
Helios.do — Leading sustainable banking alternative - 100% transparent and dedicated to limite climate change
Evercontact — Let Evercontact connect the dots in your life by turning your emails into an always-updated address book!

eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.

Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

10club — Find unique products for home decor at 10clubhomes. Choose from a wide range of home improvement products for living room, dining, kitchen, garden and more.
CarePredict — CarePredict @Home detects changes in the daily activity pattern of a senior and alerts family members when things are different than usual.
Allocate — Allocate is the operating system for private market alternatives investing

Quentin is a Co-founder of eFounders. He spent his first years working as a strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and acts on the board of several SaaS ventures

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
RockFi — RockFi is a private management company offering wealth management services.
Twin — Twin Labs, offer an automated tool for repetitive operations, such as onboarding new staff to all internal systems.

Montefiore Investment is a private equity firm which seeks to invest in the tourism, leisure, brands, specialized distribution, B2B and B2C services sectors. They invest in medium-sized companies can combine growth and profitability. Close management teams, they support their efforts by providing expertise and a catalyst of active development.Montefiore Investment is authorized by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and member of the French Association of Capital Investors ( AFIC).

Investment focus

Events, E-Commerce, Travel
Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt, Private Equity
France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NGE — NGE is the french independent group entirely devoted/dedicated to public works. The Company develop the connections that weave and strengthen the links to move better, live better, exchange better.
SAHAR — SAHAR specializes in the collection, analysis, and visualization of data.
STREET Bangkok — STREET Bangkok offers a chain of restaurants in Bangkok.

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 â‚¬220m, A Plus Finance invests between â‚¬1 million and â‚¬4 million per project.per

Investment focus

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.
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.

Dominique Romano, Guibor is a multi-sector investment company. Guibor has built its organization on a model based on trust, listening and kindness.

Investment focus

Health Care, Organic, Social Network
Seed, Angel, Series C
France, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Qilibri — Experts in wellness through food
WholyMe — Relieve your body with natural products.
api.video — api.video lets you quickly and securely deliver on-demand and live-stream videos directly from your website, software, or app.

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…

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
QPLIX Wealth Management Software — QPLIX lets Family Offices, IFAs and Asset Managers consolidate all asset data and streamline controlling, reporting and accounting.
Socium — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.

Creator Collective Capital (C3.VC) is a venture capital fund investing alongside some of the most influential creators on earth, including YouTubers, musicians, athletes, streamers, influencers, and TV personalities.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Dating
Seed
India, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tangany — Tangany is a German provider of a regulated digital asset custody solution.
RetainIQ — Mesmerize shoppers with hyper-personalization. Create meaningful 1:1 customer experiences through powerful AI personalization on email and SMS.
Feels — Not a dating app, just relaxed relationships without rules or labels, without societal pressure, paternalistic injunctions or traditional norms. Because swiping is boring, we've created an experience designed for natural, healthy and pressure-free interactions as easy as on social networks.

Diaspora Ventures invests in the next generation of french entrepreneurs building tech companies. Diaspora Ventures targets French founders who have true global ambition, by investing early and giving them access to the best tech ecosystem in the world, the United States.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Safary — Transform billions of data points into the intelligence you need to dominate crypto mindshare.
Dynamiq — Build, deploy and monitor on-premise GenAI applications to solve specific business needs, reducing costs, driving revenue and boosting competitiveness - all in one platform
Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Distributed Workforce related companies. 2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 3 exits. Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Ramify — Ramify est une plateforme qui vous permet d'investir simplement dans tous les produits financiers. Simulez gratuitement votre portefeuille en ETF, private equity et SCPI.
Front-Commerce — PWA Frontend-as-a-service for composable & headless commerce (Magento 1 & 2, SFCC, OpenMage, BigCommerce, CommerceTools, Shopify)

Eric Besson is the Founding President of Eric Besson Consulting.

Investment focus

Dating, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Feels — Not a dating app, just relaxed relationships without rules or labels, without societal pressure, paternalistic injunctions or traditional norms. Because swiping is boring, we've created an experience designed for natural, healthy and pressure-free interactions as easy as on social networks.

Daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pruna AI — Pruna is the AI Optimization Engine - a frictionless solution to help you optimize and compress your ML models for efficient inference.
Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.

Paca Investissement is specializes in investing in startups and developmental stages. The fund invests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

GANGZ — Gangz is the first digital platform for talent recruitment: Models, hosts, extras and actors.
SailEazy — The SailEazy community offers all sailing enthusiasts the choice of freedom. A shared professional fleet, bases between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean ... discover a disruptive and innovative way of navigation. Throughout the year, 7 days / 7 and 24 hours a day, you can book and discover the high-performance sailboats of a professionalfleet, entirely managed by SailEazy. Subscriber, or punctual browser, autonomous or not, you have the choice. You freely determine your niche of reservation, without constraint time or duration, you choose your base of departure and your sailboat, according to your program (short exit, cruise, regatta, coastal, wide ...). Hourly pricing includes a 360 ° service keychain beyond the cost of the lease, including insurance, fuel, cleaning and equipment. Compulsive veiled, expert or contemplative, all members of the community have their way of navigating.
C4Diagnostics — C4Diagnostics developed a fast, reliable detection of microorganisms. Our Click-chemistry technology is at the core of our portfolio of diagnostic tests.

DST Global is an investment firm that funds late-stage ventures in the internet industry. Its investments include some of the world’s fastest-growing and most valuable companies. DST Global has offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong.The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta,and Tom Stafford.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series C, Series B, Series D
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
Zip — Zip is the new concierge for procurement. Increase employee adoption and get spend and risk under control.
Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.

New Wave is a seed only fund, whose purpose is to back the next generation of successful European founders. New Wave was co-founded by two early-stage investors Pia d'Iribarne (ex-Accel, Stride) and Jean de La Rochebrochard (Kima), and is backed by a group of iconic founders (Free, Zenly, Voodoo, Sorare) and GPs from the best later-stage funds(Coatue, Benchmark, DST, Insight Partners).

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about

Banana Capital is a technology investment firm that invests globally across all sectors and from pre-seed to pre-IPO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

BinStar — BinStar is New England's newest bargain store. Discover deals on overstock and returned merchandise from your favorite brands and retailers.
Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.

The venture capital firm that invests and collaborates with creators. We invest in companies helping to advance how humans interact.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Content Creators, Publishing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

beehiiv — Access the best tools available in email, helping your newsletter scale and monetize like never before.
Praktika — Automated 1-1 tutorship experience with generative AI Avatar tutors
sync.labs — sync labs offers a revolutionary ai video editor. with real-time lipsync, seamless translation for global reach. create, reanimate, understand humans in video with our api. from wav2lip founders. upload video and lipsync to any audio or text.

Global tech from MENA

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dogdrop — Join Dogdrop today! Quality, flexible, and affordable dog daycare service in Los Angeles, Denver, and Fort Lauderdale. Sign up for a Good Fit Test!
Xolo — Xolo is an all-for-solos business engine that provides local and global solutions for business formation, VAT-compliant invoicing, accounting, tax reporting, business expenses and more.
Keyang Semiconductor — Keyang is mainly engaged in the design, R&D, manufacture, packaging, and testing of semiconductor TSV package integrated circuit products.

Saint-Gobain is a French multinational company that designs, manufactures and distributes building materials, providing innovative solutions to meet growing demand in emerging economies, for energy efficiency and for environmental protection. The company aims to provide comfort, performance, and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainableconstruction, resource efficiency, and climate change.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Robotics
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Seed
France, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

ISYBOT — ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST .
Merlin Solar Technologies — Merlin Solar is the brainchild of several disparate experts in the solar industry coming together, with a bit of a kick from a few helpful outsiders. Like its magical namesake, Merlin embraces an inquisitive solutions-oriented approach. The founders come from deep solar backgrounds, having worked the gamut of thin film and silicon slicingtechnologies. Core members also come from outside the industry, working in areas such as flexible displays and high throughput automation. This combination of deep solar expertise and outsider push has resulted in a product that fundamentally rethinks the physics and mechanical strength of a crystalline solar cell. By starting from first principles and designing for optimal performance, while also keeping line changes to a minimum, the team has come up with a solution that is simultaneously incremental and disruptive.
ISYBOT — ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST .

The management company of the Inter Invest Group.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Advertising
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Audion — Founded in 2018, Audion is an adtech company that develops proprietary technology to automate, customize and measure digital audio advertising. Our products are used by leading medias and podcasters on behalf of the world’s most iconic brands.
IMPACT Plus — IMPACT Plus offers technology-driven carbon footprint optimization services of digital campaign to various brands and advertising companies.
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.

Alexandre Yazdi - Co-Founder and CEO @ Voodoo

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Residential
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Turkey, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about

Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Deemea — Deemea is a collaborative AI platform that connects and provides services for the analysis of medical data for physicians. It uses its expertise in clinical research, data science, and software development to help healthcare professionals.
10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.

Nestadio Capital is a French venture capital and private equity firm specialized in direct investments.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Pledg — Pledg provides instant financing solutions on e-commerce and in-store sites. Thanks to Pledg, merchants increase their conversion rates, average basket and brand loyalty. Private and professional buyers buy straight away and pay later or in instalments; the merchant, meanwhile, is paid upon ordering.Pledg's solutions are omnichannel, veryeasy to integrate and have an exceptional acceptance rate thanks to a unique scoring algorithm: - Shared payment: buy as a group - Instalment payment: obtain a payment facility in 2x to 12x instalments without any risk to the merchant - Deferred payment: customers try their items at home without advancing any money and pay 15, 30 or 45 days later for the items they keepPledg has already conquered >100 large accounts, many of which have +€1 billion turnover.
Zenpark — Zenpark offers Europe's first automated parking shared service. Zenpark allows its members to access an intelligent network shared parking, a convenient and economical solution to park with confidence. Their network consists of partners (hotels, residential landlords, businesses, parking operators, administrative buildings ...) thus optimizethe use of their places.
SteerFox — Notre solution croissance e-commerce c'est : une plateforme unique de gestion des canaux SEA et une expertise humaie pour atteindre vos objectifs.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
Hula Earth — Biodiversity Monitoring for Nature, Agriculture, and Infrastructure
Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.

Blaise Matuidi

Investment focus

Banking, Dating, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom is a financial technology company that provides innovative, fair, responsible and inclusive financial products.
Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
Feels — Not a dating app, just relaxed relationships without rules or labels, without societal pressure, paternalistic injunctions or traditional norms. Because swiping is boring, we've created an experience designed for natural, healthy and pressure-free interactions as easy as on social networks.

Farinia Group is a manufacturing organization, dedicated to material transformation.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Industrial
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Mobility Work — Plug & Play maintenance management software for manufacturers. Deploy and start piloting your maintenance activities in a few days!

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
Poolside — The best code you never wrote.

Bleu Blanc Zebre

Investment focus

Apps, CivicTech, Smart Cities
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Smiile — Smiile is an innovative social network that facilitates sharing on a daily basis. As an enhancer of better living together and local mutual support, this social network has created concrete solutions to facilitate the daily act of sharing. Thanks to him, the inhabitants of the same district or the same city can exchange objects or services withcomplete confidence. It generates savings and provides many participatory services. True connector, Smiile brings together all the actors of the local life on one and the same platform: inhabitants, communities, businesses, associations, collaborative actors.

MAIF Avenir is a French VC firm investing in post-seed to series B startups founded by French entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Strong by Form — Strong by Form bonds nature and technology to build a sustainable future. Our Woodflow technology allows to produce high-performance lightweight biocomposites that are strong enough to become an alternative to materials such as aluminum or fiber reinforced plastics on vehicles and steel and concrete used on buildings. Emulating trees’ structuralefficiency, we’ve developed a design-to fabrication technology that combines the latest optimization tools and AI with a proprietary additive manufacturing process. This allows us to create timberbased composites capable of matching the performance other structural materials at a fraction of their weight and environmental impact.We tackle the sustainable lightweight materials market. These enable vehicles to reach longer distances and buildings to use less raw material. We expect Woodflow’s combination of high-performance, sustainability and productivity to become a game changer for the new generation of sustainable construction and mobility.
Iceberg Data Lab — Iceberg Data Lab is a fintech firm that develops assessment tools and provides environmental data solutions to financial institutions.
Santé Académie — As a result of a lack of caregivers across the country, their tasks are evolving - doctors can be asked to practice a gynaecologist act, or a nurse to follow up on a patient under anticancer treatment. Meanwhile, medical knowledge is increasing all around the world - we estimate that 50% of it becomes useless after 7 years. Therefore how can weprovide continuous training to 2 million caregivers? Santé Académie rethinks Continuing Medical Education by offering educational videos with cinematographic quality accessible by web or mobile. Each course is divided into 5 to 15 min episodes to adequate caregivers' schedules. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, care assistants, and chiefs nurses, can access a catalogue of high-quality courses on clinical and regulatory themes customized to their daily practice. These courses are certified by the ANDPC and produced by the best experts from prestigious institutions. Our goal? To educate health professionals as well as their engagement, with the top-end knowledge directly accessible from their phone, to improve patient care from prevention to follow-up. A new experience already approved by more than 20 000 professional and health institutions (GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences, Service de Santé des Armées …) !

Yannis Yahiaoui is the Co-Founder of Xpln.ai. He previously worked at Regattas as an Investor. Yannis Yahiaoui attended Emlyon Business School.

Investment focus

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.