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Top 25 Social VC Funds & Investors in France (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in France Social startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in France Social startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Alter Equity 3P
VC Fund
2 France, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce $1.1M–$22M
Banque des Territoires
VC Fund
2 France, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.4M–$30M
Founders Future
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$25M
Asterion Ventures
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, CleanTech $1.4M–$35M
Demeter Partners
VC Fund
1 France, Germany, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics $1.5M–$15M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $752k–$34M
SGH CAPITAL
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $120k–$27M
Financiere Saint James
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $975k–$28M
Capitole Angels
VC Fund
1 France Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $121k–$1.7M
BNP Paribas
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy $564k–$2.5B
RATP Capital Innovation
VC Fund
1 France Seed, Series A, Series B Transportation, Rental, Automotive $1.1M–$8.8M
AQUITI Gestion
VC Fund
1 France, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing $531k–$18M
Generis Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 France, Germany, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Internet, E-Commerce $110k–$9.4M
Citizen Capital
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Germany Series A, Seed Health Care, Software, Construction $1.6M–$16M
Arkea Capital
VC Fund
1 France Private Equity, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Social, Wholesale, Accounting
Aviva Impact Investing France
VC Fund
1 France Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Gift, Energy $1.1M–$2.6M
Phitrust Partenaires
VC Fund
1 France Venture - Series Unknown Social, Internet, Social Network
Fermentalg
VC Fund
1 France Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Social, Internet, Biotechnology
A Plus Finance
VC Fund
1 France, United States Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications $1.2M–$15M
Angelsquare
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $329k–$6.1M
OneRagtime
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $848k–$351M
Mirova
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Kenya Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing Energy, Renewable Energy, Farming $1.6M–$195M
Suez Ventures
VC Fund
1 France, Spain, Canada Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Water, Social $3.6M–$11M
Idinvest Partners
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Spain Series B, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Impactivist
VC Fund
1 France Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Wellness, Energy $1.1M–$12M
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Alter Equity 3P
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Social startups

Alter Equity 3P specializes in growth capital and buyout investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.8M; Series A $3M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$8.9M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Syroco — Syroco's AI-powered platform helps shipping companies reduce fuel costs, cut emissions and protect CP terms. Real-time routing, digital twins and performance intelligence.
  • Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
  • Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
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Banque des Territoires
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Social startups

Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.6M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
  • Aquassay — Aquassay assists you with improving the industrial and environmental performance of all your water usage (supply, production, discharge).
  • Click&Care — Click&Care is a caregiver marketplace empowers families to easily find, manage and pay licensed caregivers online. Click&Care is a transformation in quality homecare that contribute to make it more affordable and accessible.
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Founders Future
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Social startups, 21 in the past 12 months

Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Marc Menasé, Founders Future is a transatlantic tech investment platform supporting a new generation of AI-first entrepreneurs driving major transformations. Backed by entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the platform manages nearly $400 million and ranks among the most activeearly-stage players in Europe.As part of its expansion into the United States, Founders Future strengthened its shareholder base in 2025 with long-term partners such as MACSF, the Dassault family, and the CMA CGM Group. With over 120 investments, Founders Future is actively supporting companies like Databricks, Perplexity, Function Health, Waterdrop, Veesion, Riot, Conduktor and Raidium.Its strategy focuses on high-impact sectors - AI, fintech, SaaS, and healthcare - with a clear ambition: to empower the most ambitious entrepreneurs in scaling breakthrough technologies on a global scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.8M; Series A $6.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Complir — Complir's AI agents map product data, analyse compliance risks, generate documentation and track regulations across every market you sell in.
  • Reecall — Regardless of call volume, Reecall's virtual agent provides rapid responses. A competitive advantage that ensures the growth of a business and the delight of its customers. Reecall boosts sales teams' productivity by automating the administration of incoming calls. Request pre-qualification, estimates, and partnership requests may all beprocessed automatically, allowing your personnel to focus on client connections.
  • Delos — The French flair striking hard in AI
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Asterion Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

Asterion Ventures is dedicated to pre-seed and seed for impact and climate tech startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$5.3M; Series A $3.5M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bubble Robotics — Building the ocean's autonomous workforce, powering infrastructure, ecosystems & resilience.
  • Nelson Mobility — Nelson Mobility is a software dedicated to the energy transition of company vehicle fleets.
  • Companion.energy — Companion.energy provides energy management, forecasting and flexibility software to bridge the gap between energy procurement and operations.
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Demeter Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $53M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ICTYOS — Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic. It recycles fish skins from the culinary and catering industries.
  • Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
  • Hyperplan — Digital agriculture platform for enterprise agribusiness teams. Field-level crop intelligence & in-season signals to size markets, manage risk, and act faster.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1710
  • Round size: Seed $752k–$6.1M; Series A $2.6M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cube — Cube is a French accelerator for tech startups, particularly in Web3, blockchain, and innovation, rebranded from Cube3. It provides a 9-month program combining strategic mentoring, customized funding, media production, and investor networking to scale promising ventures.
  • Ostrea — OSTREA is a pioneering company in the creation of high-performance materials based on bio-minerals: seashells.
  • NeoXperiences — NeoXperiences develops technological solutions that bring audiences together around fun and interactive experiences.
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SGH CAPITAL
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 1 investments in France Social startups

Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$27M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $103M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cell Type — On-prem biological LLMs that simulate human biology, learn from your data, and outperform general-purpose AI on drug development tasks. YC W26.
  • Merge Labs — Merge Labs is a brain-computer interface startup that aims to compete with Neuralink and integrate human cognition with AI.
  • Constellation Space — We are building the OS for Space. Backed by @ycombinator and @nvidia.
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Financiere Saint James
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $975k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$4.3M; Series A $5.2M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onxeo — Onxeo is a biotechnology company that develops drugs for oncology. It offers Beleodaq, a histone deactylase inhibitor for the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma; Livatag, a nanoparticle formulation of doxorubicin, which is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of primary liver cancer; Validive, a mucoadhesive buccal tablet that is inPhase II clinical trials for the prevention and the treatment of chemoradioation therapy-induced severe oral mucositis in patients with head and neck cancer; and Combo BelCHOP, which is Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of peripheral T-cell lymphoma.Onxeo is headquartered in Paris, France.
  • CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
  • Cleo Labs — Cleo Labs develops regulatory intelligence and product compliance software that enables companies to manage complex legal requirements across multiple international markets. The company provides an AI-powered platform that identifies applicable regulations for products, mapping obligations related to safety standards, labeling, certifications, andimport requirements across jurisdictions. Its system automates pre-launch compliance workflows by generating regulatory checklists for each product and target market, allowing teams to understand requirements before entering new regions. It also offers continuous monitoring capabilities that track regulatory updates in real time and alert users when changes affect their products or operations. The platform integrates data from thousands of regulatory sources and authorities, applying AI models to analyze legal texts and assess compliance risks for specific product and market combinations. It includes features such as risk scoring, jurisdiction mapping, and automated due diligence checks for supply chains, enabling structured evaluation of compliance exposure.
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Capitole Angels
VC Fund · Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$1.7M; Angel $121k–$825k; Venture - Series Unknown $637k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

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.
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BNP Paribas
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

BNP Paribas provides banking, financing, investment, savings, and protection solutions. The Group's three operational divisions are mobilized to support each type of clientele in their growth and development projects including corporate and institutional banking, commercial, personal banking, investment and protection services. The companyprovide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 313
  • Round size: Seed $564k–$20M; Post-IPO Debt $40M–$2.5B; Debt Financing $8.5M–$1.8B
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $799M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Encavis — The Encavis AG is listed in the SDAX segment of the German stock exchange and is a producer of electricity from renewable energy sources. As one of the leading independent power producers, They acquire and operate solar and wind parks throughout Europe. Their plants generate stable returns and make an important contribution to safe and clean energysupplies.
  • Vinfast Vietnam JSC — Vinfast Vietnam is a subsidiary of Vinfast.
  • Encompass — Award-winning EC360 CDI platform and EC solutions for fast, flawless, and frictionless corporate client identity validation and verification.
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RATP Capital Innovation
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Social startups

An inestment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Rental, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenride — Zenride offers a company bike program that allows employees to lease a bicycle of their choice, resulting in savings of over 30% on the bike for daily commutes. The program functions as a zero-cost benefit for companies, enabling them to offer an attractive perk to their workforce. Zenride handles the partnership, bike selection, and payrolldeductions, aiming to promote employee well-being and sustainable mobility.
  • Cityscoot — Cityscoot offers full access to electric scooters throughout Paris, Nice, Milan and Rome through an app. The company started operating 150 free floating electric scooters in Paris in June 2016. Since then, it has progressively extended its fleet to 5000 scooters in Paris, Nice, Milan and Rome (summer 2019). The user identifies in the app anavailable scooter nearby, books it free of charge for 10 minutes, then unlocks it with a four digit code. The service includes a comprehensive insurance coverage to ensure safe rentals. Cityscoot is the only operator that has developed its own software and hardware technology. Fleet management is another point of differentiation : employees are maintening the scooters in good conditions and they're driving electric utility-trucks.
  • Vianova — Join us in creating safer, greener cities with Vianova. Partner with 80+ cities and 30 companies for carbon neutral and efficient mobility.
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AQUITI Gestion
VC Fund · Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

Floated in 1998, thanks to the local authority "Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine" and the "Caisse des dépôts", our venture, growth and LBO funds (Aquitaine Amorçage, ACI, Aqui-Invest) now benefit from the support of public and private influential shareholders and sponsors.Up to now, AQUITI GESTION has invested in more than 200operations contributing to the creation and development of about 150 companies and thousands of jobs.Currently, ACI and Aqui-Invest manage a portfolio gathering 50 companies which revenues scale from 0 € (early stage) to 30 M€.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$6.5M; Series A $849k–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.9M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Aquassay — Aquassay assists you with improving the industrial and environmental performance of all your water usage (supply, production, discharge).
  • RelaiSanté — RelaiSanté provides a digital platform that connects hospitals and home care providers to coordinate patient return home.
  • CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
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Generis Capital Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$9.4M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • ANTOLI — ANTOLI is a printing company that prints packaging, catalogs, flyers, magazines, and more.
  • Provectio — Provectio is a provider of "fundamental" IT services for companies.
  • aais - armageddon artificial intelligence security — AAIS Armageddon provides cybersecurity software, employee awareness training, and threat-monitoring services.
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Citizen Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Construction
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5.5M; Series A $5.9M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $42M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Didask — Didask provides AI-powered learning software with an LMS, LXP, authoring tools, and AI coaching. It helps organizations create, manage, and deliver personalized training, onboarding, compliance, and skills development programs.
  • Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
  • Vesto — Vesto has set up an industrial area specifically for the repurposing of equipment used by restaurateurs. In addition to traditional catering, we hope to make it possible for group catering, open tenders, and eventually other professions to outfit themselves with less expensive, second-hand equipment while still minimizing their impact.
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Arkea Capital
VC Fund · Brest, Bretagne, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

A private equity subsidiary of the Arkéa group, Arkéa Capital supports the daring visions of entrepreneurs and managers at each stage of the life of their company: Innovation, Development and Transmission.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, Wholesale, Accounting
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amarris — Amarris Groupe : expertise comptable innovante pour freelances, entrepreneurs, RH et investisseurs immobiliers.
  • Eduservices — Eduservices network and pool a set of skills and resources for schools.
  • Groupe Rouger Industries — Groupe Rouger Industries manufactures metal stamped parts and assemblies for industrial applications.
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Aviva Impact Investing France
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Social startups

A development capital fund, supporting French social enterprises taking off.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Gift, Energy
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Interactive Autonomous DYnamic Systems — Innovative company developing #AI & #robotic products in service of Nature, designer of the #Jellyfishbot & #MobileOilSkimmer. #greentech #pollution #robots
  • Solaire Box — Solaire Box is developing a brand new range of eco-buildings on the border between the light construction market and the solar photovoltaic industry. We install in France (metropolis & overseas) our turnkey timber frame constructions: Les Solaire Box. Thanks to their entirely solar roofs, the Solar Box houses allow to have a very weak footprinton the environment. Coupled with a storage system, the Solar Box houses become autonomous and can thus be installed in the most remote places. - Robust: Thanks to its wooden frame construction similar to that of houses built of wood; Ten-year warranty for the construction part and 25-year guarantee for the power part of the solar panels. - Ecological: More than 3 tons of CO2 are saved every year thanks to the production of solar electricity.
  • Gifts for Change — Gifts for Change is creating and manufacturing a new generation of corporate gifts, promotional objects and accessories with positive impacts. The Gifts for Change creations are eco-friendly, made in France, manufactured by disabled workers and they contribute to great causes such as reforestation. Gifts for Change is also the editor of Treez, abrand of conscious fashion items, mainly bracelets, necklaces and other jewelry items which contribute to reforestation. The collections are made of contemporary and poetic jewelry pieces, which are made in France by disabled workers. For each accessory you buy, a tree is planted within a reforestation project.
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Phitrust Partenaires
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

Phitrust Partenaires is a social investment company which provides technical and financial support to small and medium-sized companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, Internet, Social Network
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Fermentalg
VC Fund · Libourne, Aquitaine, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

Fermentalg is a new innovative company based in the Gironde region, which aims to become the leader in the production of micro-algae for the agrifood, healthcare and energy markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social, Internet, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • CarbonWorks — Founded in 2021, CarbonWorks aims to decarbonize the industry using microalgae.
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A Plus Finance
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2009

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.
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Angelsquare
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $678k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

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 French startup committed to improving your well-being at work. The company design breakthrough Noise Control Technologies. The company's earphone brand Tilde has noise-filtering technology that facilitates selective filtering of ambient noise, enabling office workers to filter disturbing noise while they are working.
  • 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!
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OneRagtime
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $848k–$7.7M; Series A $3.5M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$351M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elefantia — Elefantia is a digital platform that assists users in writing and preserving their personal life stories through AI-supported interviews and storytelling. It enables users to record their memories by answering personalized questions via phone or online, which are then transformed into an authentic, engaging narrative. The service offers variouspackages, including options to create e-books, printed books, and personalized biographer-guided storytelling sessions. It also provides support for seniors or digitally less experienced users through personal assistants called "Elefantos." Elefantia focuses on capturing and safeguarding memories to create meaningful legacies across generations. The company operates out of Saint-Malo, France, and uses AI to simplify and enrich the memoir writing process.
  • PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
  • Antimatter — Antimatter builds AI infrastructure designed for real-world limits: energy, geography, and deployment time. Faster to deploy and lower cost than hyperscale models.
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Mirova
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

Mirova is an asset managerment company offering investment solutions that combine financial performance with environmental and social impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Farming
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Debt Financing
  • Geography: France, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Debt Financing $10M–$91M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$195M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $219M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Big Tree Farms — Big Tree Farms is a supply chain management company that provides its services to farmers producing coconut sugar, raw cacao, and more. The company works directly with over 13,000 small farmers to create transparent, socially equitable supply relationships and products. They grow, harvest, process and manufacture tropical food products includingCoconut Sugars, TRU-RA Cacao and Cashew, Honeys, Spices, Sea Salts, Peppers, and Medicinal Herbs.Big Tree Farms harvest flower nectar daily in thriving food forests using production practices that steward the soil and protect the trees. It was founded in 2003 and is based in Hinesburg, Vermont.
  • Solveo Energie — Solveo Energie specializes in the field of consulting and local renewable energy.
  • Greenway — Everything for charging EVs & the largest network of EV chargers in our region. We also sell, lease, install, and operate charging stations for 3rd parties.
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Suez Ventures
VC Fund · La Défense, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

SUEZ supports local authorities and businesses with circular solutions in water and waste.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Water, Social
  • Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: France, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series B $3.6M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Inflowmatix — Inflowmatix designs, duils, and consults on the implementation of solutions that enable water utilities to monitor and optimise performance of networks.
  • Loop Industries — Loop Industries, Inc. is a technology and licensing company whose mission is to accelerate the world’s shift toward sustainable plastic and away from our dependence on fossil fuels. Loop owns patented and proprietary technology that depolymerizes no and low value waste PET plastic and polyester fiber, including plastic bottles and packaging, carpetand polyester textile of any colour, transparency or condition and even ocean plastics that have been degraded by the sun and salt, to its base building blocks (monomers). The monomers are filtered, purified and repolymerized to create virgin-quality Loop™ branded PET plastic resin and polyester fiber suitable for use in food-grade packaging to be sold to consumer goods companies to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Through our customers and production partners, Loop is leading a global movement toward a circular economy by raising awareness of the importance of preventing and recovering waste plastic from the environment to ensure plastic stays in the economy for a more sustainable future for all.
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Idinvest Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

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

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 246
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Impactivist
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Social startups

Invest & + is the gathering of many entrepreneurs and investors, convinced that the company can contribute effectively to the common good.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.5M; Series A $2.3M–$12M; Series B $8.9M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lifeaz — Lifeaz saves lives by developing a new generation of connected, simpler, more reliable and smarter defibrillators.
  • Mindday — Mindday is reinventing mental well-being by combining human support, digital programs and science to provide immediate and personalized support to anyone.
  • Incepto Medical — AI solutions for medical imaging - Co-creating artificial intelligence application with doctors and distributing AI apps solutions for radiology
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Social VC funding in France at a glance

Stats across 28 deals from 40 investors.

40
investors
in France Social startups
28
deals
in France Social startups
$1.9M
median round
in France Social startups
35%
lead investors
lead at least one round
32%
Seed
most common funding stage

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