Top 20 Social Network VC Funds in France

Investor	Social Network France investments
Alven	3
Hexa	2
Bpifrance	2
Idinvest Partners	2
Diaspora Ventures	1
Secocha Ventures	1
Montefiore Investment	1
GUIBOR	1
Karista	1
Farinia Group	1
MAIF Avenir	1
A Plus Finance	1
Saint-Gobain	1
Point Nine	1
Creator Collective Capital	1
Elevation Capital Partners	1
Paca Investissement	1
Financiere Saint James	1
Nestadio Capital	1
Daphni	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

Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Simbel — Learning platform for SMEs
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.
Cohort — The NFT-powered digital engagement platform made for brands and their customers.

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

HawkCell — A plug-and-play solution turning human MRI into the first animal-dedicated imaging enhanced with AI algorithms. A unique MRI solution.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
Docent — Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully-personalized experience for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary masterpieces.

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, Software, Health Care
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.
BreezoMeter — BreezoMeter offers personalized air quality & pollen data as well as active fire alerts with worldwide coverage & accuracy down to the street level.

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, Manufacturing, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Safary — Safary is the web3 alternative for Google analytics. Privacy friendly. No cookies. Acquire more wallets in one click.
Starchain Gazer — Building the most user-centric Web3 game studio in the world, creating powerful gaming experiences.
Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

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 — 10club acquires small brands that sell their products on e-commerce platforms and scales those businesses.Great businesses are growing on the backs of e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, and more. They get their foundational years right but find it difficult to scale, and understand that competition is hard to curb. That's where10club steps in, allowing entrepreneurs to enjoy an exit and benefit from years of hard work
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 platform that enables investors to discover and invest in high-quality venture funds.

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.
MisterFly — Misterfly is a specialist in selling airline tickets, aims to be a preferred partner through the depth and competitiveness of its air supply, including regular, low cost, and charter flights.
STREET Bangkok — STREET Bangkok offers a chain of restaurants in Bangkok.

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.

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, Germany

Portfolio highlights

constellr — Smart Farming and Climate Monitoring from Space. At constellr, we are using cutting-edge beyond-visual imaging technology to revolutionise the way we assess crucial aspects of our planet's health.
Look Up Space — Lookup space is the next global leader for space safety, security and sustainability
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.

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

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Industrial
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Mobility Work — Mobility Work is developer of software designed for maintenance management. Mobility Work CMMS is used in many business fields and responds to the needs of many industries. If you work in the maintenance field, Mobility Work will inevitably meet your needs.

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, United States

Portfolio highlights

Carbo — Leading Decarbonization Platform for ambitious SMB/SMEs in Europe. Define, track, realize, and optimize your environmental and sustainability goals with our go-to carbon accounting softwares.
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.
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 …) !

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
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.

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

Megasol — Megasol is a manufacturer of solar modules and mounting systems. Sound advice and smart complete solutions from a single source.
Mobility Work — Mobility Work is developer of software designed for maintenance management. Mobility Work CMMS is used in many business fields and responds to the needs of many industries. If you work in the maintenance field, Mobility Work will inevitably meet your needs.
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 .

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

Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick-and-pack automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Grasp — Grasp mission is to increase the rate at which humans learn.
Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company

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 for custody of digital assets and crypto.
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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Nūmi — Nūmi mission to redefine health through groundbreaking research making the unparalleled benefits of breast milk accessible to all.
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.
Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kolet — Get mobile Internet wherever you travel. Keep your physical SIM, no more roaming costs, easy installation and global coverage. Test Kolet for free!
Dema.ai — First-of-its-kind AI decision platform for e-commerce
Airthium — Airthium builds a new kind of energy storage system, that stores electricity as heat - reversibly - and in the form of ammonia.The system relies on a high-temperature heat pump/heat engine to heat molten salt to 540°C ( 1000°F), and then convert the heat back into electricity, with a 70% roundtrip efficiency.Airthium's units can beused to store and deliver solar and wind energy, starting at 100 kW and up to GW scale (Utility).Moreover, an ammonia generation unit and an external ammonia burner can be added to the system, to provide uninterruptible power, or go off-grid, even after several days of bad weather (no sun/wind).