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Top 45 Sporting Goods VC Funds & Investors in France (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in France Sporting Goods startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in France Sporting Goods startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bpifrance
VC Fund
7 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $757k–$34M
Aster
VC Fund
6 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Energy, Software, Manufacturing $1.2M–$27M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $591k–$16M
Seventure Partners
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Germany Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $3.3M–$63M
Founders Future
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1M–$25M
Sequoia Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $6M–$220M
SGPA
VC Fund
2 France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Analytics $987k–$29M
LCL
VC Fund
2 France Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Information Technology, Energy $542k–$315M
Crédit Agricole
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Italy Debt Financing, Seed Energy, Health Care, Software $837k–$1.3B
Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$102M
Upfront Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$43M
360 Capital
VC Fund
2 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$33M
Turenne Capital
VC Fund
2 France, Poland, Germany Series A, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $2.8M–$33M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $575k–$30M
CASSIUS
VC Fund
2 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Gaming $1.3M–$18M
Les Gars des Eaux
VC Fund
1 France Seed Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
Rosenpick & Associés
VC Fund
1 France Seed Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
Avolta Partners
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, Advertising $573k–$16M
HPF
VC Fund
1 France Pre-Seed Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle
Societe Generale Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 France Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown Sports, Software, Agriculture $1.7M–$237M
Exor Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Italy, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $320k–$55M
50 Partners Impact
VC Fund
1 France Seed Web3, Software, Blockchain
Machame
VC Fund
1 France Seed Sports, PC Games $2.3M–$5M
Spring Invest
VC Fund
1 France, United States Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Marketing, E-Commerce $325k–$7.6M
BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund
1 France, Germany, The Netherlands Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $2M–$24M
Impact Seed Ventures
VC Fund
1 France Seed Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
Societe Generale S.A.
VC Fund
1 France, India, United States Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Post-IPO Secondary Energy, Renewable Energy, Financial Services $32M–$2.6B
ODYSSEE VENTURE
VC Fund
1 France, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $878k–$16M
Sofimac Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 France, Italy, Austria Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing $274k–$16M
Expansinvest
VC Fund
1 France Private Equity, Seed, Series A Software, Computer, Information Technology $658k–$4.4M
Érbe Family Office
VC Fund
1 France Pre-Seed Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
Teampact ventures
VC Fund
1 France, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $1.5M–$23M
GROUPE RIVE NEUVE
VC Fund
1 France Seed Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
123Venture
VC Fund
1 France, Spain, Germany Series A, Series B Software, B2B, Computer $1.6M–$6.9M
SPGA
VC Fund
1 France Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel
Angelsquare
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $400k–$6.1M
APEX Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Portugal, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment $611k–$25M
Sport & Performance Capital
VC Fund
1 France Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel
Transition
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Software, CleanTech $2.5M–$312M
IXO Private Equity
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Canada Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $1.8M–$22M
My Family Officer
VC Fund
1 France Pre-Seed Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
Origins Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Sports, Health Care $1.5M–$25M
Cathay Innovation
VC Fund
1 United States, France, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $6.2M–$176M
M Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Canada Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage $1.1M–$5.7M
ve2.ventures
VC Fund
1 France Seed Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in France Sporting Goods 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, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1646
  • Round size: Seed $757k–$6.1M; Series A $2.8M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Melvan — Melvan develops, finances, builds and operates solar and wind installations, combined, where relevant, with storage facilities.
  • AI-Stroke — Developer of an artificial intelligence-powered mobile application designed to assist in pre-CT/MRI stroke diagnostics. The company offers a platform that guides first responders and patients through relevant exercises for stroke detection, captures and analyzes video data, and leverages the world's largest proprietary stroke patientvideo dataset (20,000 videos and 6 million images), enabling patients with a diagnosis and outcomes by reducing delays in treatment for stroke, increasing the number of treatment procedures, and recuding the rehab costs.
  • MSInsight — Explore how our cutting-edge genomic analysis uncovers actionable insights into microsatellite instability (MSI), driving targeted, personalized cancer treatments.
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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$20M; Series B $7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $283M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Easybike — Easybike designs and manufactures a range of bikes that run on electricity. It offers its clients two major ranges of bikes which includes Liberty range and Infinity range.The company is driven by a vision to democratize innovative mode of travel. Easybike was known as one of the first brands in France to have specialized in electric bikes andtailor-made solutions. Easybike was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.
  • 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.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 708
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $591k–$3.8M; Series A $1.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Klaimee — Certify your AI agent. Get guaranteed. Risk evaluation, certification badge, financial guarantee, and liability insurance for AI agents.
  • Shiplong — Shiplog gives every customer a live profile and decides the next best action in real time, so you expand, retain and grow revenue from the customers you already have.
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Seventure Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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 undermanagement 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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 258
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $3.4M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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.
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Founders Future
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Sporting Goods startups, 18 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, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; 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

  • Linc — Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively.
  • Bohr Energy — Bohr Energy is an artificial intelligence firm that aims to make the energy market accessible to independent producers.
  • Pramaana Labs — Building the verification layer of AI for accelerated trust and super-intelligence.
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Sequoia Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2368
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $11M–$100M; Series C $12M–$220M
  • 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.
  • Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
  • Agent Universe — Agent Universe is an agent research and development company that provides data analysis and operational support services.
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SGPA
VC Fund · Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $987k–$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
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LCL
VC Fund · Villejuif, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Crédit Agricole
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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

  • Crelan — Daar wordt u beter van - C'est mieux pour vous
  • 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.
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Aglaé Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $5.7M–$30M; Series B $24M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Humanoid — Humanoid creates advanced humanoid robots that integrate seamlessly into daily life, enhancing human potential. Learn more about our mission and vision.
  • Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
  • Primepoint — Primepoint is the construction AI platform trusted by leading GCs. Connect documents, catch conflicts before the field and get instant answers traced to the exact drawing or spec.
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Upfront Ventures
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 425
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$9M; Series A $3M–$25M; Series B $8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $3.4M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Andrenam — Andrenam is building an AI-powered, distributed maritime sensing network for persistent autonomous awareness from surface to seabed.
  • Critical Energy — Critical Energy is an energy based firm that generate electricity with the help of heat through modular and geothermal power plant.
  • Endeavor Optical Networks — Endeavor Optical Networks is a space communications startup building laser-based satellite links to move large amounts of data between continents as an alternative to undersea fiber cables. It builds dedicated intercontinental data-transfer infrastructure using optical satellites, targeting AI labs, hyperscalers, and telecom operators.
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $3.5M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Klaro — Klaro is an AI platform that assists small businesses with credit and improves cash flow management.
  • Talentware — Talentware is the platform that lets you manage your company and people by putting skills first: boosting engagement, talent retention, and productivity.
  • Circular Materials — Scopri Circular Materials: immagina una tecnologia che tratta le acque reflue e, allo stesso tempo, recupera metalli preziosi.
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Turenne Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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. Itinvests 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Poland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Series A $2.8M–$33M; Series B $7.2M–$30M
  • 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
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1090
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; 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

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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CASSIUS
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

We are early-stage technology investors across North America and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Share your links. Sell your products. Showcase your best work. All in one stunning place, for free.
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Les Gars des Eaux
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
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Rosenpick & Associés
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Rosenpick & Associés is an independent legal firm with expertise in business law specifically in private equity and mergers and acquisitions. It builds close relationships with its clients in order to support them in their strategic reflections.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
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Avolta Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Advertising
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $573k–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
  • 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.
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HPF
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

HPF is an Investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Societe Generale Capital Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Societe Generale Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in all sectors of commercial service companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — #forthosewhoworkonthewater Paris FR - Vancouver CA - Stevensville US - Swansea UK - Roses SP - Sydney AU - Chiavari IT - Singapore
  • 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.
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Exor Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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50 Partners Impact
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

50 Partners Impact is a selective French accelerator program dedicated to ambitious startups creating innovative environmental or social solutions that align with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Software, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • E36 Knots — E36 Knots build decentralized web3 services with the goal of empowering developers and users
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Machame
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Machame is a sports and innovation investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, PC Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Unagi — Collect your favorite football players and pick your best 11 every week!
  • 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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Spring Invest
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Technology is transforming the entire retail value chain ​creating unprecedented opportunities to build new leaders in enabling technologies and commerce. Spring Invest is a venture capital firm that makes pre-series A, series A investments in all the companies that are shaping the future of retail sector. The firm is based in Paris, France.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $325k–$5.2M; Series A $2.7M–$7.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.2M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.
  • Tranché — Tranche is inventing the bakery of tomorrow with the know-how of yesteryear.
  • Dataïads — We are the Post Click Experience technology. We deliver shopping experiences that increase conversion rates by over 15%.
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BNP Paribas Développement
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Series A $3.9M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amarris — Amarris Groupe : expertise comptable innovante pour freelances, entrepreneurs, RH et investisseurs immobiliers.
  • 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.
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Impact Seed Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Impact Seed Ventures is an investment firm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
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Societe Generale S.A.
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups, 64 in the past 12 months

Societe Generale is one of the European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the positive transformations of the world.Active inthe real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale employs over 149,000 members of staff in 67 countries and supports on a daily basis 31 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world. The Group offers a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions to secure transactions, protect and manage assets and savings, and help its clients finance their projects. Societe Generale seeks to protect them in both their day-to-day life and their professional activities, offering the innovative services and solutions they require. The Group’s mission is to empower each and everyone who wants to have a positive impact on the future.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 282
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $32M–$2B; Debt Financing $81M–$2.6B; Post-IPO Secondary $41M–$444M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meesho — Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
  • Lenskart — Lenskart, the first of its kind online optical store in India, has made it possible to acquire a good quality pair of specs with prescription lenses for just Rs. 399. With a 48-hour free home delivery guarantee and 365 days return policy, Lenskart.com is doing what e-commerce hasn’t been able to do in India yet.The website has over 500 designs ofeye frames, in multiple colors, for all age groups, from Rs. 399 all the way to Rs. 4,000 for a pair. All one needs to do is select a frame, fill in their power, and place an order. You can pay online or at the time of delivery.Lenskart.com has the biggest collection of discounted contact lenses consisting of all top-notch brands (viz. Johnson & Johnson, Bausch & Lomb, Ciba Vision to name a few) and be it disposable, toric, colored, or bifocal contact lenses, you can find all possible types here. Lenskart is dedicated to providing its customers with a simple, hassle-free way to replace their contact lenses. One can receive the exact same contact lens, their doctor prescribed, delivered to their door, at a great price.
  • Squadron Energy — Squadron Energy is an Australian resources company focused on projects in natural resources and renewable energy.
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ODYSSEE VENTURE
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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. The company has raised over 600M€.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • 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

  • 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.
  • BrightHeart — BrightHeart develops an AI-based platform for fetal ultrasound analysis to improve detection of congenital heart defects.
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Sofimac Investment Managers
VC Fund · Clermont-ferrand, Auvergne, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Acteur incontournable du capital risque de proximité, SOFIMAC PARTNERS accompagne depuis maintenant plus de 30 ans les PME régionales dans le financement de leur développement à moyen / long terme. Répondant à la problématique de sous capitalisation des PME françaises, SOFIMAC PARTNERS intervient en fonds propres aux côtés des chefsd’entreprises quelle que soit leur problématique : Création, Développement, Transmission. Gérant 200 M€ d’actifs au travers de 16 fonds (FCPR, FCPI, SCR, FIP,…), notre groupe réalise ses investissements sur une grande variété de secteurs, couvrant aussi bien les activités traditionnelles que technologiques (chimie verte, éolien, chaudronnerie aéronautique, e-commerce, édition de logiciel, médecine nucléaire etc…)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Italy, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ultrawatt — Ultrawatt is a mission-driven startup to improve urban architecture while making a beneficial social and environmental effect.
  • Mob-Energy — Mob-Energy is a privately held company specializing in the development of mobile and innovative charging solutions. It designs autonomous charging robots capable of moving energy where it is needed, optimizing the site's existing infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
  • Snowleader — Votre boutique en ligne (qui sent bon le reblochon) spécialiste des sports d’hiver, outdoor et street.
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Expansinvest
VC Fund · Corenc, Rhone-Alpes, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Expansinvest is a French investment capital fund specializing in new technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Computer, Information Technology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $658k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alphi — Alphi is French company based in Savoie who supplies formwork and shoring. It was created by Mr. Edmond Souvignet in 1995.
  • ENVISOL — ENVISOL is a Consulting and engineering for polluted sites and soils.
  • TDI - Transfert Développement Informatique — TDI - Transfert Développement Informatique is a publisher of software solutions and web services for the management of multi-carrier shipments.
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Érbe Family Office
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Érbe Family Office is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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).
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Teampact ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Teampact is a business Partner & Sport inspired toolbox, community and funding for people first startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.7M; Series A $5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • neuroClues — An easy-to-use eye-tracking environment to help practitioners instantaneously quantify their clinical exam
  • SquareMind — SquareMind redefines skin exams with Swan, the world's first full-body dermoscopy robot. Automated, seamless, and powered by AI technology.
  • 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.
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GROUPE RIVE NEUVE
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
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123Venture
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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 fundinvestments. 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, Computer
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Spain, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$3.5M; Series B $6.5M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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SPGA
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HARDLOOP — Marcher, courir, grimper, glisser : découvrez chaque jour de nouvelles aventures sportives et le matériel pour les réaliser.
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Angelsquare
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods 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: 118
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $678k–$1.5M; Series A $2.1M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% 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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APEX Capital
VC Fund · Cascais, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Artificial Intelligence, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Portugal, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $611k–$2.5M; Series A $3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $53M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Marquee — Marquee turns football data into decision-ready insights in seconds, unifying external and internal data and filtering it through your club's sporting DNA.
  • Northern Super League — Northern Super League operates a professional women's soccer league, offering matches, stats, and news online.
  • International Dance League — The Global Professional Dance League Teams: Royal Family, Quick Style, 1MILLION, Jam Republic, Brotherhood, GRV
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Sport & Performance Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

Sport & Performance Capital is an investment Firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Sporting Goods, Adventure Travel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • HARDLOOP — Marcher, courir, grimper, glisser : découvrez chaque jour de nouvelles aventures sportives et le matériel pour les réaliser.
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Transition
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Accelerating the inevitable transition

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.3M; Series A $12M–$27M; Series B $14M–$312M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $150M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Revoy — We haul Pacific Northwest freight with our 95% electrified fleet.
  • 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 — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
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IXO Private Equity
VC Fund · Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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 companymanages 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$13M; Private Equity $3.3M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$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.
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My Family Officer
VC Fund · Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

My Family Officer assists managers, their holding companies, and their families in long-term asset enhancement. My Family Officer picks, with total independence and openness, tailor-made solutions that are typically reserved for institutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Lifestyle, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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).
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Origins Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

We back legendary consumer founders with an unfair advantage from seed to series A. Funding meets influence.

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Investment focus

  • 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 — Choose an experience, put your phone away, and your guide will tell you where to go, and what to know.
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Cathay Innovation
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

A global venture capital firm investing in founders building transformative businesses everywhere.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, France, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 170
  • 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.
  • GenLogs — Carrier sourcing. Carrier vetting. Carrier Compliance. Shipper prospecting. Asset monitoring. Asset recovery. Freight Intelligence. All in one Truck Intelligence platform!
  • 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.
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M Capital Partners
VC Fund · Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Haiku — L'IA et la data au service des du droit
  • 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.
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ve2.ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in France Sporting Goods startups

We are a dynamic venture company led by a team with over 50 years of unparalleled expertise and a proven track record

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
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Sporting Goods VC funding in France at a glance

Stats across 60 deals from 81 investors.

81
investors
in France Sporting Goods startups
60
deals
in France Sporting Goods startups
$2.2M
median round
in France Sporting Goods startups
46%
lead investors
lead at least one round
20%
Seed
most common funding stage

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