Top 15 Sporting Goods Angel Investors in France (October 2026)

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• ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
• Wavo — Wavo provides debt-free inventory financing for SMEs, allowing them to grow without cash constraints.Unlike traditional financing, Wavo purchases inventory upfront, so businesses don’t have to immobilize cash or take on debt. Repayments are directly tied to sales, ensuring flexibility and preserving financial capacity. The solution is accessibleto fast-growing businesses, as it does not require balance sheet analysis or financial ratios.With Wavo, SMEs can seize new opportunities, optimize working capital, and scale faster—without financial constraints.
• Bricks — Bricks is a real estate investment platform that enables people to invest in real estate and benefit from a rental income every month. Bricks' solution enables anyone to accumulate wealth with a few clicks starting at €10. Bricks is on a mission to make real estate investing simple and accessible.

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• Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.
• 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.

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• Claimy — Integrate Claimy to unlock the full potential of your catalogue, recover missing royalties, and gain real-time insights into your performances.
• Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
• Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.

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• Waterdrop — waterdrop® is a fast-growing hydration brand based in Vienna, Austria, disrupting the beverage industry with its innovative waterdrop® Microdrink and global hydration platform. The company's mission is to encourage people to drink more water in a sustainable way, with its sugar-free, flavored cubes dissolving in water to enrich it with naturalfruit & plant extracts and valuable vitamins. waterdrop® is significantly reducing plastic use and CO2 emissions, thanks to its individual recyclable packaging for each cube. The company also partners with Plastic Bank, pledging to collect one plastic bottle for every 12-pack sold. waterdrop® has grown to have more than 2 million online customers and over 300 employees, with product listings in over 20,000 retail outlets and more than 40 waterdrop® stores worldwide.
• TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.

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• Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.

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• ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
• Shadow — Experience the power of cloud gaming with Shadow.tech. Dive into a world where high-performance gaming is accessible on any device. Enjoy features such as 4K resolution, VR compatibility, and seamless gameplay without the need for expensive hardware. Explore our comprehensive game store and start your ultimate gaming journey today
• URBAN CUISINE — Urban Cuisine creates interconnected indoor gardens where plants can thrive to produce fruit, vegetables, and flavorful herbs near where people live or work. Their business line includes urban farming, homedesign, fresh produce, agriculture, and technology.

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• Campsider — Campsider is a supplier of outdoor sports equipment. They provide products that include vêtements, vestes, pantalons, polaires, sous vêtements techniques, t-shirts, and shorts. They offer products that are available for shopping online.

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• Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.

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• Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.

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• Norqain — Norqain is an independent watch manufacturing company that specializes in manufacturing a wide range of wristwatches.
• Barooders — Barooders is a sports community to buy and sell used sports equipment. They ensure verified listings, equipment tested and approved by the team, and secure payment, available free of charge. They sell snowboard jackets, socks, gloves, helmets, running shoes, bikes, and related accessories.

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• Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.

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• Colizey — Colizey is building a global sports marketplace, starting with France. It is connecting technical and inspiring brands (and edgy retailers) to passionate consumers. It is centralizing, simplifying and elevating the experience of shopping for sports equipment for men, women and children.
• Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.

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• Upway — Upway offers an online platform focused on refurbished electric bicycles, providing consumers with access to inspected, repaired, and certified e-bikes from a variety of categories, including city, cargo, mountain, and folding models. The company acquires used or excess bikes from individuals, retailers, and fleets, performs comprehensivemechanical and electrical reconditioning, and then resells the bikes with a one-year warranty and delivery service. Upway also offers a trade-in option for owners looking to sell their e-bike, and supplies accessories like locks, lights, and bags to complement the purchase. The business emphasizes sustainable mobility by extending the life of existing e-bikes and delivering them at a lower cost than typical new bike retail.
• Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
• Prelude — Prelude unifies device, network, and signup signals into one onboarding decision, helping you build trust while protecting conversion and cost efficiency.

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• Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.

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• autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
• 58 Facettes — Jewelry
• The Poken Company — We are a blockchain based technology startup which wants to put the spotlight back to the content creators and artists.