Top 50 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in France (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aster
VC Fund
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8 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Energy, Software, Manufacturing | $281k–$27M |
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Bpifrance
VC Fund
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7 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $752k–$34M |
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Seventure Partners
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $1.1M–$63M |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $163k–$13M |
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.2M–$100M |
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Founders Future
VC Fund
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3 | France, United States, Italy | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1M–$25M |
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Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.4M–$102M |
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Tony Parker
Angel
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2 | France | Seed, Angel, Series A | Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance | $3.7M–$13M |
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SGPA
VC Fund
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2 | France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1M–$29M |
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Upfront Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $2M–$50M |
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CASSIUS
VC Fund
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2 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Gaming | $1.3M–$18M |
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Crédit Agricole
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, Italy | Debt Financing, Seed | Energy, Health Care, Software | $837k–$1.3B |
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Omar Fonseca
Angel
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2 | France, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Soccer, Fitness | $536k–$2M |
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Turenne Capital
VC Fund
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2 | France, Poland, Germany | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $2.2M–$33M |
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LCL
VC Fund
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2 | France | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Manufacturing, Information Technology, Energy | $542k–$315M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $575k–$30M |
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360 Capital
VC Fund
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2 | France, Italy, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$33M |
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ve2.ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Momentous Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Sporting Goods | $611k–$1.2M |
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Lars Jonker
Angel
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Sporting Goods | |
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Eno Polo
Angel
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Sporting Goods | |
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APEX Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Sports, Media and Entertainment, Sports Leagues and Teams | $611k–$25M |
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Alberto Uncini Manganelli
Angel
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Sporting Goods | |
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Stan Wawrinka
Angel
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1 | France, Switzerland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle | |
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Cathay Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, China | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $6.2M–$176M |
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Les Gars des Eaux
VC Fund
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Angelsquare
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $400k–$6.1M |
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HPF
VC Fund
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle | |
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Sport & Performance Capital
VC Fund
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1 | France | Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel | ||
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Teddy Riner
Angel
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1 | France | Series A | FinTech, Finance, Software | $9.5M–$11M |
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Origins Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Sports, Health Care | $1.5M–$25M |
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Avolta Partners
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Advertising | $573k–$17M |
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Italy, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $320k–$55M |
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Marc Simoncini
Angel
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1 | France | Seed, Angel, Series B | Software, Retail, Finance | $219k–$21M |
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Thomas Rebaud
Angel
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1 | France, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $539k–$5.6M |
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Transition
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Series B | Manufacturing, Software, CleanTech | $2.5M–$312M |
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123Venture
VC Fund
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1 | France, Ireland, Spain | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, B2B, Computer | $1.6M–$29M |
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BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany, The Netherlands | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $2M–$43M |
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Paca Investissement
VC Fund
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1 | France | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Internet, Manufacturing | $325k–$9.3M |
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SPGA
VC Fund
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1 | France | Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel | ||
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Érbe Family Office
VC Fund
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods | |
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Impact Seed Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Elina Svitolina
Angel
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1 | France, Austria | Pre-Seed | Water, Consumer Goods, Sporting Goods | |
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Societe Generale Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | France | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Sports, Software, Agriculture | $1.7M–$237M |
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GROUPE RIVE NEUVE
VC Fund
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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IXO Private Equity
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Canada | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | $2.1M–$22M |
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M Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Canada | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$7.2M |
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Henri Moissinac
Angel
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1 | France, Italy | Series A | SMS, Content, Cycling | $10M–$25M |
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ODYSSEE VENTURE
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $878k–$16M |
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Teampact ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology | $1.1M–$23M |
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Series A $1.8M–$20M; Series B $7M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $281k–$9.5M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $283M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
- Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
- Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1745
- Round size: Seed $752k–$6.1M; Series A $2.6M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
- Advicenne — Specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of pediatric friendly therapeutics for the treatment of orphan renal diseases and neurology.
- BiPER Therapeutics — BiPER Therapeutics is a biotech company to develop and commercializes novel therapeutics.
Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital and Life Sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion. Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with € 1 billion under management as of December 31, 2023. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations. Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors. The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today: - Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition - Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity - Sports & Wellbeing - Blue Economy
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 281
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$24M; Series B $3.3M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Flexvelop — Flexvelop is a fintech transforming the way businesses finance essential business equipment. "Flexing" is an innovative combination of leasing, renting and bank-financing terms offering a kind of Hardware-as-a-Service solution. Embedded as a payment solution, partnered manufacturers, vendors and brands are actively offering"Flexing" to their b2b customers for financing new business equipment right at the point of sale and in online shops. Flexvelop is operating in the verticals of office-it, hospitality equipment, medical devices or fitness equipment throughout Germany. Well-known manufacturers like Lenovo, WMF, or LaMarzocco are using Flexing openly or as a white-label solution. SMB customers flex equipment to grow flexibly without the usual investment risk – saving liquidity, tax and a clean balance sheet. Flexvelop is using its patented in-house financing technology, promoting a more sustainable circular economy in the same time. Flexing becomes the new standard for business equipment procurement for SMBs throughout Germany, Europe and beyond.
- Kainova Therapeutics — Domain Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on GPCR in immuno-oncology. Discover more than you think on our innovative cancer treatments tackling GPCR mediated-immunosuppression
- Vertero — Axial Therapeutics is a biotechnology company fundamentally changing the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders by harnessing groundbreaking science in the microbiome-gut-brain axis.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey. The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors; backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth. Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset. Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 864
- Round size: Seed $163k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $567k–$3.8M; Series A $1.2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AQQI — AQQI is an AI-powered personal assistant that simplifies the home-buying process. It finds suitable properties, compares listings, and contacts real estate agents to gather information. It also helps schedule property visits and organize the steps toward purchasing a home.
- Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
- Weflayr — Weflayr is an AI gateway and inference routing platform that dynamically directs individual AI requests to the optimal large language model based on performance benchmarks, cost considerations, and specific business context.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2614
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $5M–$48M; Series B $11M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Skai — Skai is an AI-powered platform that offers consumer and market insights, strategic planning, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement services to brands and retailers. It is the go-to-market engine that enables smarter decisions and better outcomes with actionable intelligence in making customer connections. It includes a suite ofdata-driven products for market intelligence, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement, enabling brands and agencies to make predictions, improve strategic planning and drive growth on the most important customer channels.
- Medallion — Provider credentialing and enrollment reimagined. Accelerate time-to-revenue, stay compliant, and scale provider operations, without adding headcount, through automated credentialing and enrollment.
- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse empowers engineering leaders to spot delays early, fix process bottlenecks, and confidently commit to deadlines.
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 active early-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 AMI Labs, Saronic, Harmattan AI, Audion, 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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; 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
- Clueso — Create step-by-step guides, how-to videos, and training modules for your knowledge base in minutes. Achieve 10x the quality in just 10% the time.
- Weflayr — Weflayr is an AI gateway and inference routing platform that dynamically directs individual AI requests to the optimal large language model based on performance benchmarks, cost considerations, and specific business context.
- SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb, Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5.7M–$30M; Series B $24M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Siena AI — The autonomous customer service platform designed for commerce. Combine the best of human empathy and intelligent automation to transform the way your customer service teams operate and engage with shoppers.
- Alta — Your personal AI stylist that truly gets you
- Humanoid — Humanoid creates advanced humanoid robots that integrate seamlessly into daily life, enhancing human potential. Learn more about our mission and vision.
Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player.
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- Industry: Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $3.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
SGPA is a family and independent company that invests in the long term in PME, ETI, and Start-ups. They support, finance and accompany leaders for the development of their business.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4M; Series A $1.5M–$8.4M; Series B $22M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HARDLOOP — Marcher, courir, grimper, glisser : découvrez chaque jour de nouvelles aventures sportives et le matériel pour les réaliser.
- Ordalie AI — Ordalie is an AI-powered legal research and writing tool, driven by its own AI models specialized in French law.
- Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career
Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 459
- Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $8M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $3.4M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Fortastra — Orbital defense built for scale.
- Daytona — Deploy Al code with confidence using Daytona's lightning-fast infrastructure. 90ms environment creation, stateful operations, and enterprise-grade security.
- Rainmaker Technology — Rainmaker uses drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall, restore ecosystems, and fight drought. Learn how our scalable weather technology brings water to the West.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $6.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
- Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
- Paage — Paage offers a link-in-bio platform that enables creators and businesses to sell digital and physical products.
Credit Agricole is a banking corporation with focuses on corporate and investment banking, retail banking, and savings management. Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, helpful bank serving 49 million customers, 7.4 million mutual shareholders, and 1.2 million shareholders. Crédit Agricole Group supports its customers in their plans and projectsin France and around the world, through its operations in all segments of the market including insurance, real estate, payment systems, asset management, leasing and factoring, consumer finance, and corporate and investment banking. Crédit Agricole also stands out for its dynamic, innovative corporate social responsibility policy serving the economy. This policy is based on a pragmatic approach that permeates throughout the entire Group and engages all its employees. Its recent inclusion in the Vigeo-NYSE Euronext extra-financial indices is recognition of this engagement.
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- Industry: Energy, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Round size: Seed $837k–$6M; Debt Financing $2.1M–$1.3B
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
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- Bohr Energy — Bohr Energy is an artificial intelligence firm that aims to make the energy market accessible to independent producers.
- Brenus Pharma — Brenus Pharma develops off-the-shelf, next-generation in vivo immunotherapies designed to unlock the immune response against solid tumors.
Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.
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- Industry: Sports, Soccer, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $536k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France : - Paris - Lyon - Marseilles - Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million. It invests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million. 32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement. Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à : - Paris - Lyon - Marseille - Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, Poland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Series A $2.8M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- Germitec SAS — Germitec is a world leader in UV-C high-level disinfection. Fast, safe, chemical-free, one-button UV-C high-level disinfection for ultrasound probes.
- Kainova Therapeutics — Domain Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on GPCR in immuno-oncology. Discover more than you think on our innovative cancer treatments tackling GPCR mediated-immunosuppression
Crédit Lyonnais is a historic French bank. In the early 1990s it was the largest French bank, majority state-owned at that point.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $46M–$287M; Debt Financing $542k–$315M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$117M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Calicéo — Calicéo operates as a family group of aquatic fitness and beauty-massage spaces.
- K-Motors — One device replacing contactors, fuses, current sensors and precharge lines.
- Voltalia — The Investor Relations website contains information about Voltalia's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1125
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 257
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
- BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
- Photon Bridge — Photon Bridge develops multi-wavelength digital light engines and photonic integration platforms for dense wavelength division multiplexing in data center and telecom optics. The company focuses on external laser sources, tunable laser assemblies, and transmit optical sub-assemblies for co-packaged optics, optical I/O, and high-density optical interconnects. Photon Bridge uses a patented cantilever waveguide and photonics interposer approach to integrate III–V light sources with silicon photonics using OSAT-based manufacturing flows. Its architectures target high channel density, wavelength stability, and simplified packaging for AI data centers, hyperscale cloud, and high-performance computing infrastructure. Photon Bridge also designs scalable photonic integration solutions that support applications in lidar, spectral sensing, and next-generation PIC-based optical systems.
ve2ventures is turning creative concepts into cutting-edge digital goods and businesses.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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.
Momentous Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on backing early-stage frontier technology startups, especially in AI, productivity tools, fintech, and the future of work.
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- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $611k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
- NEX Health Intelligence —
Co-founder / Marketing & Operations @ Oaky
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- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
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Browse database — It's Free!Eno Polo is the CEO of LeDap Group. He previously worked at Global Brands Group (Member of Fung Group) as a President - GBG, Europe. Eno Polo attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education.
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- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.
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- Industry: Sports, Media and Entertainment, Sports Leagues and Teams
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $611k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $59M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Graymatter Labs — Boost focus and calm naturally with Bright Mind by Graymatter - a plant-based nootropic blend of 27+ ingredients for energy, clarity, and mood balance.
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
- International Dance League —
Alberto Uncini Manganelli is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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.
A global venture capital firm investing in founders building transformative businesses everywhere.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, France, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Series A $6.2M–$30M; Series B $15M–$60M; Series C $30M–$176M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $1B in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Embat — Embat develops cloud-based treasury management software designed to help finance teams manage cash flow, banking operations, and financial forecasting in real time. The company provides a platform that connects bank accounts, enterprise resource planning systems, and payment systems to centralize visibility of cash positions across multipleentities and currencies. Its software supports automated reconciliation, payment execution, liquidity forecasting, and financial reporting through a unified interface. The platform also includes AI-driven features that assist with transaction matching, anomaly detection, and cash flow prediction to reduce manual finance operations. Embat works with mid-sized and large enterprises to streamline treasury workflows, improve liquidity management, and support financial decision-making. The company integrates with a wide network of financial institutions and enterprise systems to enable continuous financial data synchronization and operational control.The platform uses automation and AI features to reduce manual treasury tasks, including transaction matching, accounting entries, and financial reporting workflows. It integrates with a wide range of banking systems and corporate ERPs to synchronize financial data continuously. Embat also enables centralized payment management, allowing finance teams to initiate, approve, and track transactions across multiple banking relationships. Its tools support cash visibility, debt monitoring, and financial scenario planning for operational decision-making.
- skan.ai — Skan.ai uses cognitive technologies to map, model, and manage business processes by creating digital twins of human/digital interactions. Skan.ai replaces human interviews and observation, which are not accurate, by cognitive tooling that learns based on observation of human/digital work. Skan does this at scale and learns /reconstructs business processes grounds up. This approach is significantly faster, more accurate, and has much greater depth and coverage.
- Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.
Les Gars des Eaux has been a national leader in the water damage industry for more than 30 years, specializing in non-destructive water leak detection.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $400k–$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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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Muule — Muule, an ethical outdoor equipment distributor, examines companies before distributing them. Each brand sold on the site is subject to an eco-responsibility barometer that considers three important indicators: product eco-design, manufacturing chain, and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
- Saola — At SAOLA, we believe in style and sustainability. Casual shoes for men, cute shoes for women, all made with sustainable, eco-friendly materials. BIG LIFE, small footprint
Sport & Performance Capital is an investment Firm.
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- Industry: Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- HARDLOOP — Marcher, courir, grimper, glisser : découvrez chaque jour de nouvelles aventures sportives et le matériel pour les réaliser.
Teddy Riner is the three-time Olympic champion and ten-time World champion of judo.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Software
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Series A $9.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Gaming, Sports, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$21M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.5M; Series A $10M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
- Le Walk — Explore any city in real time with Routes. Press play or choose a tour and let your AI guide narrate the streets, stories, and hidden corners around you.
Avolta Partners provides independent M&A and corporate finance advice to young, cutting-edge, and leading startups in Europe. They have a strong track record of M&A and Venture Capital deals such as TokTokTok, Qarnot Computing or Smartangels.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $573k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.8M–$7.8M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rediv — Patatam is the european's most trusted online shop for buying and selling like-new clothing for kids and babies. Parents can send their quality kids' clothing in a free pre-paid bag (the Patabag), earn cash up front for their clothing selected, and can shop the best brands for their kids at Patatam.com for up to 90% off retail. Based inthe south west of France, Patatam was launched in 2013 by Mariève Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Mathieu Bidart. The company is advised and backed by former Price Minister CEO and founder Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Frederic Mazzella and Francis Nappez (founders of BlaBlaCar) and several other investors.
- Minuit une — Minuit has developed a groundbreaking patented laser technology called IVL™ lighting (stand for Immersive & Versatile Laser lighting) which grabbed rapidly the attention of all related sectors (concert, event, TV production, clubbing).
- Serious Factory — Serious Factory is a publisher of innovative learning solutions for training purposes. Thanks to its expertise in instructional engineering and gamification, Serious Factory can help make your entire training programme genuinely effective: from acquiring knowledge (digital learning modules, Serious Games, blended learning and much more) anddeveloping and strengthening skills (practical work, behavioural simulator, etc.) to updating content and monitoring skills from day to day.
Exor Ventures is the venture capital arm of Exor, one of Europe's largest diversified holding companies. Exor Ventures focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including digital services, fintech, cybersecurity, and mobility. Exor Ventures leverages its strategic insights and globalnetwork to identify promising startups with disruptive potential and supports them through funding, mentorship, and access to its extensive resources. EXOR Seeds offers a truly different type of partnership to the select group of entrepreneurs that it backs:- As a fifth-generation family-led business, we proved that we are builders not traders;- Our permanent capital allows us to take a long-term view and put the interest of the companies We invest in first;- Our global network, across industries and geographies, is a unique advantage to entrepreneurs
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$26M; Pre-Seed $320k–$6.3M; Series A $5.8M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plino — Plino is the SMEs FP&A co-pilot, integrating your company data and making it faster and easier to analyse them, empowering entrepreneurs in taking successful informed decisions. On one side it collects, organizes and analyses data from different company’s data sources such as invoices, bank accounts, MES, ERP, WMS, industry 4.0 data, andcompany documents (contracts, technical data sheets). On the other, it provides a user-friendly chat where the user (either the entrepreneur, the CFO, or the accountant) can type questions and receive fast, precise and insightful answers on the company’s revenues, costs, clients, products, and production process. Its mission is to empower SME’s managers to take better informed strategic decisions to lead the company to scale toward success by overcoming market uncertainty.
- PhaseV — PhaseV empowers biopharma sponsors and CROs with AI/ML-driven solutions for fast, efficient, and accurate clinical development decisions.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Marc Simoncini is the CEO, Co-Founder and Owner of Jaina Capital. He previously worked at MEETIC as a Founder, Owner and Ex-CEO. Marc Simoncini attended E.S.I.
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- Industry: Software, Retail, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Angel $219k–$1.4M; Series B $20M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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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.
Thomas Rebaud is 28 years old when he founds Meero in 2016, driven by the desire to make the Internet more beautiful. The story begins in 2007 when he joins EMLyon Business School. Still a student, he becomes president of the Junior branch of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a cooperation present in 15 countries whose aim is to developentrepreneurship as a vector of growth and employment in the world. Through this, Thomas develops a solid knowledge of good business practices. In 2013, with a second Masters under his belt, he sets up his first Internet-free loan comparison company, which works well but doesn’t take off. So he takes up an opportunity with Diji, a new kind of IT consultancy and engineering company. And that’s it. His progress at Diji leads him to discover the professional photography market, which is just waiting to be disrupted. Thomas gets it and seizes the opportunity by creating Meero!
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $539k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $938k–$1.8M; Series A $585k–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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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.
Accelerating the inevitable transition
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.3M; Series A $12M–$27M; Series B $14M–$312M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $150M in 2026
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- Matel Motion — Matel Motion is a pioneer in energy-efficient IE5 motors, advanced EV powertrain solutions, and sustainable technology for industries and electric vehicles.
- OLIX — Building the infrastructure for frontier AI.
- Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.
123 Venture offers funds of funds to both institutional investors as well as individual investors. 123Venture has successfully built a network of leading private equity managers in France and Europe. 123Venture also invests directly in companies, typically alongside other private equity fund managers (co-investments) with whom they have made fund investments. If you are an institutionnal investor, you can have access to our know how through our funds of funds or through managed accounts. 123Venture’s dedicated programs can be tailored to meet a broad range of client-defined objectives.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, Computer
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: France, Ireland, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$3.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2012
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- Snowleader — Votre boutique en ligne (qui sent bon le reblochon) spécialiste des sports d’hiver, outdoor et street.
- Nabab Kebab — Created in 2015, this group of fast food restaurants under master franchise Nabab Kebab specializes in halal certified kebab, quality and at competitive prices.In just one year, Eddy BENGHANEM opened 4 restaurants under the name in Rhône-Alpes.The restaurants are based on a standardized and duplicable model. They have an area of over 100 m²,a capacity of 80 seats and are open 7 days a week continuously.Nabab Kebab belongs to the European leader in fast food products of halal origin. The network operates more than 80 restaurants in France and abroad.
- SnapEvent — SnapEvent is a mobile application that enables its users to follow conference trends and event planning tips. It was launched in 2014 by Edgars Vecozolins and Zigmars Rozentals and is based in Riga.
BNP Paribas Développement is the investment arm of BNP Paribas that specializes in SME development. It specializes in second stage, mezzanine, bridge, acquisition, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, and privatizations transactions. The firm considers investments in manufacturing, service industries, medicine, electronics, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automations, industrial goods and services, transportation, consumer goods, commerce and distribution, buildings and public works, wholesale retail, biotechnology, telecommunications, and information technology sectors. BNP Paribas Développement was established in 1988 and is based in Paris, France.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $3.9M–$24M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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- Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
- Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
- Ostrea — OSTREA is a pioneering company in the creation of high-performance materials based on bio-minerals: seashells.
Paca Investissement is specializes in investing in startups and developmental stages. The fund invests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $325k–$1.7M; Series A $482k–$9.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
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.
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- Industry: Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- HARDLOOP — Marcher, courir, grimper, glisser : découvrez chaque jour de nouvelles aventures sportives et le matériel pour les réaliser.
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Browse database — It's Free!Érbe Family Office is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Muule — Muule, an ethical outdoor equipment distributor, examines companies before distributing them. Each brand sold on the site is subject to an eco-responsibility barometer that considers three important indicators: product eco-design, manufacturing chain, and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Impact Seed Ventures is an investment firm
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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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.
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player.
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- Industry: Water, Consumer Goods, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Austria
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- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Waterdrop — Small cube - big impact.Waterdrop has compressed the best natural ingredients into a small, sugar-free, dissolvable cube - or what we like to call a micro drink. With waterdrop®, you will turn a glass of water into a sugar-free microdrink full of key vitamins and rejuvenating fruit extracts that have been sourced from the finest regions in theworld.
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
Societe Generale Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in all sectors of commercial service companies.
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Agriculture
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Private Equity $6.6M–$237M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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- HR Path — HR Path is a global consultancy with over 500 consultants across North America, Europe and the Middle East, and is solely dedicated to HR Systems Integration, HR Outsourcing, and HR Business Consulting.Co-founded in 2001 by François Boulet and Cyril Courtin, HR Path provides human capital management technology and is an authorized reseller forsoftware solutions in the French market (SAP and SuccessFactors, HR Access, Oracle HCM, Cegid, Sage, Talentsoft). The company has also developed its own HR software solutions, including BiHRdy (a business intelligence decision-making tool), Pandore (a packaged solution for HR, payroll and time management), and Geef (a talent management system).Headquartered in Paris, the company has operations in 13 countries on five continents, employs more than 500 consultants and generates €60 million in annual revenue through its network of agencies in major cities across France and its foreign subsidiaries.The client portfolio includes several CAC 40-listed companies, but also many small and medium-sized enterprises, intermediate-sized firms, and public sector organizations.
- Zodiac Milpro — The group is at the forefront of the inflatable and semi-rigid boat industry, providing top-tier products services for professional
- Hi-Tech Detection Systems — Hi-Tech Detection Systems provide services based on analytical science and product inspection. They also launch remote diagnostic solutions for its fleet of analytical instruments and life sciences.
The RIVE NEUVE Group assists businesses in comprehending societal issues, developing their commercial strategies, and putting impact measurement instruments into place
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
The private equity fund focused on adding high value. IXO Private Equity is a private equity management company recognized, approved and authorized by the Financial Market Authorities (AMF) operating under the number GP03018. IXO Private Equity is the most important independent regional private equity General Partner in France. The company manages French General Private Equity Investment Funds (known in France as F.C.P.R.), Local Private Equity Investment Fund (known in France as F.I.P.), and Private Equity Investment Funds for Innovation (F.C.P.I.) to meet the equity needs for the best companies in Western and Southern France.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$13M; Private Equity $3.3M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $74M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Indy — Indy offers end-to-end and advanced AI-powered accounting software. Indy is an accounting robot that aims to automate the accounting of freelancers and professionals. It is an accounting robot for the liberal professions. It automates the management of accounting, recovers bank entries to turn them into accounting lines, and sends tax returnsdirectly to an AGM.It was founded in 2016 as Georges by Côme Fouques, Pablo Larvor, Romain Koenig, and Adrien Plat to simplify independent accounting, which is certainly simple but repetitive and time-consuming.
- Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
- MyC — Reduce and better manage health-related risks with MyC.
M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM. A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth. In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.4M; Series A $3.6M–$7.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Haiku — Haiku is revolutionizing legal practice by placing artificial intelligence and data at the service of law. The company's objective is to free lawyers from tedious research and writing tasks to assist them in all of their work and thus increase their productivity while preserving their expertise.
- The Sanctuary Group — The Sanctuary Group provides aqua-cycling, indoor cycling, boxing bootcamp, yoga, dance cardio, HIIT workouts, and kids’ swim classes.
- Ascendance — Sustainable flight solutions for today & tomorrow... because cleaner aviation can't wait. With Ascendance, Fly quieter, cleaner, further.
Henri Moissinac is the CEO and Co-Founder of dott. He previously worked at ofo UK as a Head of Business Europe. Henri Moissinac attended Télécom Paris.
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- Industry: SMS, Content, Cycling
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: France, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Series A $10M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
ODYSSEE VENTURE is a French Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. It was founded by Mathieu Boillet and Sébastien Sassolas in 1999 and is based in Paris, France. We invest €1M to €5M in French startups and SMEs (Series A/B) to drive organic growth and M&A build-ups. Key sectors: SaaS, B2B Software, Fintech, HealthTech, Cybersecurity, MedTech, Greentech, and Digital Transformation. As an agile lead investor with over 20 years of expertise, we provide strategic support to help ambitious entrepreneurs scale while prioritizing resilient business models and structural market shifts.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $878k–$6.9M; Series A $1.6M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kheops — Kheops is a tool that shops and producers use to search and order local products.
- ENGO Eyewear — engo3 is a next generation heads up display built for endurance athletes. Instant, frictionless, hands free access to performance metrics with long battery life and an ultra lightweight form factor. Unlock your data, and experience an entirely new way to train and compete
- Elixir Aircraft — Discover Elixir Aircraft, manufacturer of 4th generation light aircraft focusing on safety, savings, versatility, and sustainability in general aviation.
Teampact is a business Partner & Sport inspired toolbox, community and funding for people first startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.7M; Series A $5M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hylight — Hylight inspects energy infrastructures and provide solutions that makes societies resilient to the effects of climate change.
- 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.
- Hephaestus Technologies — Hephaestus Technologies builds simulation acceleration engines for research and development. Our current focus is plasma science, enabling faster hardware development cycles.
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