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Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in France in May 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Travel startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in France in May 2025

Investor Travel France investments
Bpifrance 7
Isai 6
Partech 5
Karista 4
Eduardo Ronzano 4
Daphni 3
Otium Capital 3
CapHorn Invest 3
Xavier Niel 3
Prime Ventures 2
Angelsquare 2
Kima Ventures 2
CM-CIC Capital Prive 2
Montefiore Investment 2
Index Ventures 2
Felix Haas 2
Thierry Petit 2
Serena 2
Raise Ventures 2
HOWZAT Partners 2
Starquest Capital 2
IRIS 2
Thibaud Elziere 2
Gimv 2
Ahmed Mhiri 2
Audi 2
Paca Investissement 2
Denis Fayolle 2
SIDE Capital 2
Innovacom 2
Siparex Groupe 1
Kapinno 1
WMH PROJECT 1
Mutual Education Insurance 1
P.Factory 1
Karot Capital 1
Finaqui 1
Frederic Halley 1
Elevation Capital Partners 1
FJ Labs 1
Mediaapps Innovation 1
Entrepreneur Venture 1
AccorHotels 1
Xavier Chauvin 1
Red River West 1
Pleiade Capital 1
ESSEC Ventures 1
IFC 1
Courtin Investment 1
Evolem Start 1
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Bpifrance VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 93 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Lprint — Lprint revolutionise the way PCBs are designed and manufactured, empowering hardware engineers and product development teams. Lprint is a 3D electronic printing system for PCBs, designed to manufacture complex, free-form printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single step, simplifying the prototyping, testing, and manufacturing process of electronics.
  • Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
  • PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.
Isai VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • France, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 29 investments in the past 12 months
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
  • Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
Karista VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • France, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Deemea — Deemea is a collaborative AI platform that connects and provides services for the analysis of medical data for physicians. It uses its expertise in clinical research, data science, and software development to help healthcare professionals.
  • 10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
  • Brightflow — Brightflow operates as a medical device startup.
Eduardo Ronzano Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
  • Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
  • Poolside — The best code you never wrote.
Daphni VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Faume — Faume fournit une solution technologique et logistique en marque blanche, aux marques qui souhaitent lancer leur offre de seconde main
  • comet — Comet is a platform created in September 2016 that seamlessly matches the best hard-skill Freelancers to top companies.These experts want to work as Freelancers and companies won’t survive without them. Their goal is to satisfy both sides: relevant and prompt skills for companies, security and inspiring projects for Freelancers.They screen andevaluate the best tech and data talents to build an interactive community. We're developing a smart product, powered by strong algorithms, to enhance their user experiences.
  • underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.
Otium Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in the past 12 months
In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
  • JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
  • comet — Comet is a platform created in September 2016 that seamlessly matches the best hard-skill Freelancers to top companies.These experts want to work as Freelancers and companies won’t survive without them. Their goal is to satisfy both sides: relevant and prompt skills for companies, security and inspiring projects for Freelancers.They screen andevaluate the best tech and data talents to build an interactive community. We're developing a smart product, powered by strong algorithms, to enhance their user experiences.
CapHorn Invest VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
CapHorn Invest is an independent Venture Capital Firm launched in 2010. The company invests in B2B digital companies. CapHorn Invest currently manages 180 million euros across two funds and has a portfolio of more than 20 companies. They invest in B2B startups that drive digital transformation. They mainly focus on Series A & B in roundsranging from 2 to 20M€.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
  • Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.
  • Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
Xavier Niel Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cube — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
  • Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
  • H Company — Runner H is a state-of-the-art AI agent that will allow anyone to automate complex, cumbersome, multi-step tasks without repetitive and manual input.
Prime Ventures VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Prime Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on investing in European companies in the technology and related industries and leverages its capital, experience and network to actively guide them into global category leaders. The firm has invested in companies in the Benelux countries, United Kingdom, France, Finland and Sweden. From itsoffices in The Netherlands and the UK the independent partnership manages over EUR700 million in committed capital.(Source :
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • The Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
  • TerraPay — TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. Thenetwork facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements.TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement.
  • Zuper — The best field service management software for businesses of any size. Simplify work orders, estimates, invoices, scheduling, timesheets etc.
Angelsquare VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, United States, Switzerland
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 — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
  • 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!
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 42 investments in the past 12 months
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
  • Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
  • Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.
CM-CIC Capital Prive VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
CM-CIC Capital Prive is a French investment company focused on SMEs and innovative companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • L'addition — L'addition is an Ipad cash register software for bars, restaurants, food trucks, and etc. It has developed software that fully meets the expectations of restorers for order intake and collections. Relying on Apple media, its offer is intuitive and economical.The application aims to exceed the functionality of a conventional cash registerwhile enjoying the robustness and ease of use of the iPad. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
  • TISSIUM — TISSIUM is creating the future of tissue reconstruction. Learn more about our novel solutions based on our proprietary platform of biomorphic programmable polymers.
  • Presto Engineering — We enable companies imagine and implement microelectronics solutions in high-value markets such as Industrial, Automotive, Communication and Medical.
Montefiore Investment VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Montefiore Investment is a private equity firm which seeks to invest in the tourism, leisure, brands, specialized distribution, B2B and B2C services sectors. They invest in medium-sized companies can combine growth and profitability. Close management teams, they support their efforts by providing expertise and a catalyst of active development.Montefiore Investment is authorized by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and member of the French Association of Capital Investors ( AFIC).
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Investment focus
  • Events, E-Commerce, Travel
  • Funding Round, Post-IPO Debt, Private Equity
  • France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • NGE — NGE is the french independent group entirely devoted/dedicated to public works. The Company develop the connections that weave and strengthen the links to move better, live better, exchange better.
  • SAHAR — SAHAR specializes in the collection, analysis, and visualization of data.
  • STREET Bangkok — STREET Bangkok offers a chain of restaurants in Bangkok.
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 59 investments in the past 12 months
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
  • Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
  • Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.
Felix Haas Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
  • Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Thierry Petit Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
  • Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
  • La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
  • mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.
Serena VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Serena invests in bold ventures and provides them with an unrivaled level of expertise and operational resources. In ten years, the firm has already contributed to the emergence of many success stories (Aramisauto - Acquired by PSA, The Fork - acquired by TripAdvisor, Cheerz -acquired by Cewe), and has currently 40 handpicked startups in itsportfolio such as Dataiku, Evaneos, Malt, iBanFirst, CybelAngel, or Lifen.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Odaseva — Odaseva is the leading enterprise data platform for Salesforce. Industry leaders rely on Odaseva to keep data protected, compliant, and agile.
  • Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
  • Metrobloks — Metrobloks is revolutionizing data infrastructure in major metro areas across North America. With a focus on providing low-latency, high-capacity data solutions for AI/ML, IoT, Gaming, Streaming and other data intensive services, Metrobloks delivers future-proof multi-tenant colocation facilities to underserved urban markets. Founded by adiverse team of industry veterans, Metrobloks is committed to shaping the future of digital connectivity.
Raise Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Raise Ventures is a Venture Capital structure dedicated to innovative startups in France and Europe.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Information Technology, GreenTech
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • France, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
  • Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.
  • NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
HOWZAT Partners VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
  • Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
  • Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
Starquest Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
High Tech, Low Carbon: crafting tomorrow, today. We finance innovation to make tomorrow happen today. Starquest is a Montefiore Company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, Singapore, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • auum — auum is a glass cleaning machine that optimizes the cleaning process and reduces its water consumption. It is also an economical cleaning technology designed to promote reusable containers at work. They offer service, maintenance, and replacement services.
  • Leakmited — At leakmited they reduce Non Revenue Water by finding leaks and by predicting risky pipes.They collect the client's Geographical Information System providing locations of the infrastructure and the history of breakdowns and leakages.
  • TRYON Environnement — TRYON intervenes on several levels to meet the expectations of catering professionals and communities in terms of organic waste . ​With a passion for technology and ecology, our team of specialists is committed to providing robust and efficient solutions based on sustainable development, the circular economy and pedagogy.
IRIS VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Iris Capital is a European VC specialized in digital, fueling entrepreneurs from early stage to growth since 1986. From Paris, Berlin, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Dubai, Iris Capital supports start-ups and scale-ups in their global expansion with the unique support on its multi corporate partners, including Orange, Publicis, Valeo andBRED.Iris Capital invests in various industries, from platforms to Saas, AdTech, IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, IoT, robotics and mobile services, and is always looking for ambitious industry disrupters led by unique entrepreneurs across the world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • WeeFin — WeeFin centralizes ESG data, customizes strategy, and automates reporting processes. Their solutions are ESG connect, hub expertise, and ESG advisory.
  • DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
  • Hopia — Hopia is a scheduling solution that optimizes human and material resources for healthcare institutions. Hopia centralizes the management of doctors' and nurses' schedules and uses constrained optimization and prediction algorithms to propose the most optimal organization for all stakeholders.
Thibaud Elziere Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
  • Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
  • Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Gimv VC Fund · Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Gimv, a trusted European investment company, helps mid-market businesses create sustainable value through growth capital and expertise across diverse sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Series B, Funding Round, Private Equity
  • Belgium, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Curana — Curana is a manufacturer of bike equipment and accessories.
  • Kivu Bioscience — At Kivu Bioscience, we leverage advanced, next-generation proprietary ADC technologies to deliver more precise and effective cancer treatments.
  • ImmunOs Therapeutics — ImmunOs Therapeutics AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing next generation and novel human immunomodulatory proteins with a role in both innate and adaptive immunity.Their mission is to develop the next generation of novel therapeutics that will improve the lives of patients with serious disease.
Ahmed Mhiri Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit. An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad. In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move. As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses. Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, Tunisia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jaylo — Jaylo.ai transforms your email experience by using AI. Automatically organize and prioritize your inbox, ensuring nothing important gets lost. Generate context-aware replies that perfectly match your tone and intent. Save you time and effort, allowing you to communicate efficiently and professionally. Free up your day for what really matters"high-impact, meaningful work."
  • Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
  • Kare Partners — Kare Partners, LLC provides therapeutic rehabilitation and other ancillary services in the healthcare sector. The company offers physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services through a network of outpatient therapy clinics in North Carolina and Arkansas. It also assists home health agencies by providing fully-trained therapy-teams tocomplement their in-house talent or add a new dimension to their service delivery. In addition, it provides a direct educational and credentialing path for therapy clinicians in India to gain employment in the United States healthcare system. Kare Partners, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Audi VC Fund · Herndon, Virginia, United States
Explore the full lineup of Audi Sport, SUVs, sedans, e-tron models & more. Build your own, search inventory and explore current special offers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Automotive, Transportation
  • Seed, Corporate Round, Series C
  • United States, France, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Revl — Revl is an automatic video editing system that makes providing customer videos and photos easy by automating the entire process using artificial intelligence.
  • Sauber — Sauber builds racing and karting cars with remarkable wind tunnel capabilities.
  • Silvercar — Audi on demand car rental. Audi on demand offers no-hassle experience and a luxury, all-Audi fleet providing access to the Audi Experience.
Paca Investissement VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • GANGZ — Gangz is the first digital platform for talent recruitment: Models, hosts, extras and actors.
  • SailEazy — The SailEazy community offers all sailing enthusiasts the choice of freedom. A shared professional fleet, bases between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean ... discover a disruptive and innovative way of navigation. Throughout the year, 7 days / 7 and 24 hours a day, you can book and discover the high-performance sailboats of a professionalfleet, entirely managed by SailEazy. Subscriber, or punctual browser, autonomous or not, you have the choice. You freely determine your niche of reservation, without constraint time or duration, you choose your base of departure and your sailboat, according to your program (short exit, cruise, regatta, coastal, wide ...). Hourly pricing includes a 360 ° service keychain beyond the cost of the lease, including insurance, fuel, cleaning and equipment. Compulsive veiled, expert or contemplative, all members of the community have their way of navigating.
  • C4Diagnostics — C4Diagnostics developed a fast, reliable detection of microorganisms. Our Click-chemistry technology is at the core of our portfolio of diagnostic tests.
Denis Fayolle Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Angel, Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
  • Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
  • Adrenaline Hunter — Live unforgettable moments! Book among hundreds of the best outdoor activities on manawa.com. Best service and best prices guaranteed.
SIDE Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • nopillo — Nopillo provides tools to automate and optimize the tax declaration and the return on investment. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in Paris, Ile de France.
  • Seelab.ai — Seelab.ai is a generative AI solution that helps marketing & creative teams creating branded visual content
  • Yuccan Lead — Yuccan Lead is an app that generates highly qualified leads by building customers' own network of Ambassadors easily.
Innovacom VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Innovacom provides new technologies, hardware, and software products. They focus on the creation of financial and strategic value through support, networking, and the search for the best industrial partners for our startups in a context of open innovation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Interactive Autonomous DYnamic Systems — Iadys designs robotic and AI solutions like the Jellyfishbot for environmental preservation and oil spill response.
  • ION-X — Based on patented technology, our unique ionic liquid electrospray thrusters is the next big thing in small satellites propulsion.
  • AISPRID — AISPRID is a robotic company that manufactures autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.
Siparex Groupe VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon.It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of theindependent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Seed
  • France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
  • NeoPhotonics — NeoPhotonics design and manufacture advanced hybrid photonic integrated optoelectronic devices for ultra-fast communications networks, including optical components
  • Ekoscan Integrity — Ekoscan Integrity is an innovative solution for the integrity and sustainability of industrial products through the implementation of innovative technology.
Kapinno VC Fund · Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
Kapinno is a venture capital fund organized by Venture Capital. We invest in start-ups operating in business sectors with high growth potential and innovative nature.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Travel, Leisure
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • FutBak — FutBak is to provide an innovative physical and technical tracking tool for the amateur athlete.
  • Navily — Navily is an innovative cruising guide with more than 500,000 users worldwide. Share your experience on anchorages and marinas and book a boat slip in more than 700 partner marinas easily.
WMH PROJECT VC Fund · Courbevoie, Ile-de-France, France
WMH PROJECT provides event marketing, corporate events, communication, seminars, business travel, inaugurations - product launch, incentives, conventions, global communication, marketing, scenography, events, congress, event agency, digital, internal communication, event communication, and event.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Tourism
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Fairmoove — Fairmoove is a digital travel agency that promotes environmentally responsible tourism. Fairmoove is to ensure that tourists and local people have a satisfying and sustainable travel experience while minimizing the negative effects of travel and tourism on the environment and society.
Mutual Education Insurance VC Fund
Mutual Education Insurance is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Children, Travel Accommodations
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Totemia — Totemia is an online platform that offers travel accommodation services for camps meant for children and teenagers.
P.Factory VC Fund · Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
P. Factory is an online platform that offers a range of training programs to its clients.The platform provides its users with entrepreneurial training programs that educate them on entrepreneurship, startups, business, and finance. In addition, it offers one-to-one appointments with partners to assist in KPI reports, and resource mobility.P.Factory was launched in 2014 by Bertrand Bigay and is based in Marseille.
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Investment focus
  • Internet of Things, Sports, Travel
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Navily — Navily is an innovative cruising guide with more than 500,000 users worldwide. Share your experience on anchorages and marinas and book a boat slip in more than 700 partner marinas easily.
  • Fenotek — Fenotek develops a smart doorbell that facilitate video communication tools. Its customers are able to monitor actions and connect with their visitors through video conversations. Furthermore, it also facilitates video recording and features an alarm, motion sensor, video monitoring, solar panel, and more.Fenotek offers a mobile application thatenables its customers to get notifications about activities in their house and activate pre-defined scenarios such as turning on lights, opening the door, opening blinds, and more.Fenotek was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Meyreuil, France.
  • onTracks — onTracks Navigate Smarter, Hot Springs, Adventure Further with onTracks Latest Articles
Karot Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Karot Capital : Investissements Early Stage dans l'Innovation, pour des entrepreneurs ambitieux et sans filtre sectoriel.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Robotics, Industrial Automation
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cook-e — Cook-e's robotic kitchen automatically prepares warm dishes such as bowls, pastas, woks, from fresh ingredients. Recipes can be entered in the software controlling the robot. The robot can cook up to 100 dishes/hour.
  • ISYBOT — ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST .
  • ISYBOT — ISYBOT is a designer and manufacturer of collaborative robots or "Cobots", that is to say, robots working in collaboration with workers. Its cobots work with workers and make it possible to: - reduce the arduousness of workstations - multiply their productivity - enhance manual workstations ISYBOT is based on a breakthrough technicalinnovation, resulting from 15 years of R&D carried out within CEA LIST .
Finaqui VC Fund · Mérignac, Aquitaine, France
Finaqui SA is a venture capital firm specializing in seed/start-up, early-stage and growth capital investments. It usually invests in all service and good sectors. The firm seeks to invest in non-listed companies based in the French regions Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Automotive, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Emulseo — Emulseo is a startup company dedicated to the design and production of high-quality formulations for microfluidic applications. The company's service is based upon long-time know-how and expertise in the field of microfluidics for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and chemical industry.Emulseo was established in 2018 in Pessac,Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
  • Goamigo — Goamigo is a platform that enables influencers to design and market vacations to their networks.
  • Fari Analytics — Fari Analytics democratises access to the possibilities of data analysis and AI. The company's solution is built on current, anonymised data, whether it originates from an ERP, CRM, or BI platform.
Frederic Halley Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
  • NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
  • Kamino Retail — Ultimate Retail Media Monetization Platform that has been designed for Retailers to unlock their true potential and set up their own private marketplace. The 1st independent and interoperable Retail Media Monetization platform.
Elevation Capital Partners VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The management company of the Inter Invest Group.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Advertising
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Audion — Founded in 2018, Audion is an adtech company that develops proprietary technology to automate, customize and measure digital audio advertising. Our products are used by leading medias and podcasters on behalf of the world’s most iconic brands.
  • Volt — Volt est devenu en 6 ans un leader de la mobilité électrique en distribuant les meilleures marques du marché (Minimotors, Tromox, Gogoro, Kuickwheel, Lower, Opai,…) sur les segments milieu et haut de gamme des Nouveaux Véhicules Électriques Individuels (NVEI) : vélos, trottinettes, gyroroues, scooters, motos.
  • Smart Tribune — Smart-platform is a turnkey solution that allows a company / association / e-merchant to establish a conversational space directly with its user community. Present on the entire site of a company / association / e-merchant Smart Platform will enable to gather opinions, suggestions, problems, praise, and exploit them toimprove service, reduce cost of its customer service and increase its conversion rate. In the trend of Social CRM, Smart -tribune is based on a simple and intuitive interface for its users and allows great mastery thanks to an advertiser perspective administration interface. An effective way to better know your community, your customers in order to better the satisfy.
FJ Labs VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 96 investments in the past 12 months
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Momos — Only restaurant management growth platform, purposely built to help brands grow through our combination of customer engagement, digital marketing and analytics tools.
  • TurboAI — TurboAI is an AI solution that streamlines the design and automation of business processes for enhanced operational efficiency.
  • JobLeap.ai — Jobleap is an AI-powered career advisor that matches you to your perfect job
Mediaapps Innovation VC Fund
Mediaapps Innovation
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Seed
  • United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • apty — Apty's digital adoption platform enables enterprise software adoption at scale. Make any web-based application easier to use through on-screen guidance and data-driven insights.
  • Apty — Apty's digital adoption platform enables enterprise software adoption at scale. Make any web-based application easier to use through on-screen guidance and data-driven insights.
  • Mile — Mile specializes in creating mobile apps that combine geographical positioning with data related to tourism.
Entrepreneur Venture VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Entrepreneur Venture is a private equity firm based in Paris, France. The firm seeks to invest in the retail, SaaS, and e-commerce sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • France, United States, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
  • Fairmoove — Fairmoove is a digital travel agency that promotes environmentally responsible tourism. Fairmoove is to ensure that tourists and local people have a satisfying and sustainable travel experience while minimizing the negative effects of travel and tourism on the environment and society.
  • Mosh — MOSH is a mission-focused, family-run company to get you thinking more about your brain health! Try our MOSH bars formulated with superfoods & vital brain nutrients.
  • Neocase Software — Human Resource & Employee Relations Case Management software to service your employees anywhere, anytime, from any device.
AccorHotels VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Accor is the leading Augmented Hospitality hotel group offering unique and meaningful experiences in more than 5,100 hotels across 110 countries.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Hospitality, Hotel
  • Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • France, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Worklib — Worklib develops productivity software for the hybrid work model. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
  • alltheway — Our mobile-based luggage solution will allows passengers to transfer their luggages anywhere.
  • Treebo Hotels — Treebo derives its name from "Bo Tree", the fig tree under which Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment. The fig tree family - banyan, peepal among others - has inspired not just their name but also what they do.In many ways these trees were the earliest form of budget hotels, offering shelter to travelers without discriminating betweenthe rich and the poor. They ensure quality accommodation at affordable prices. The soothing shade of these trees allowed several interesting conversations among fellow travelers. While serving their guests dutifully, they too love to strike up a conversation or two with them.
Xavier Chauvin Angel · Päri, Western Finland, Finland
Xavier Chauvin is the Member of the digital investment committee at Campsider.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Tourism, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
  • Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
Red River West VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
RRW invests in outstanding European Tech companies. We promote their international take-off by providing significant financial firepower and game changing ...
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
  • DeepOpinion — Explore DeepOpinion's AI-powered Generative Automation for enterprises. Enhance business processes in finance, insurance, and manufacturing with our advanced AI solutions.
  • The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.
Pleiade Capital VC Fund · Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Pléiade seeks to aid students in discovering the often unknown facets of venture capital and innovation funding, as well as enable them to excel in these areas.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Travel, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Conztanz — Streamlane builds platforms to ease passenger data transmission,API-PNR data. We serve States authorities and airlines, ferry, bus.
  • MetaSing — MetaSing is a web3 lifestyle platform that combines music & crypto, which fully includes Social-Fi, Music-Fi, and Game-Fi elements.
ESSEC Ventures VC Fund · Cergy-pontoise, Ile-de-France, France
Essec has become the first French management school to launch a seed fund. The seed fund marks a new point in the school's commitment to entrepreneurship.The Essec Ventures 1 seed fund totals €1 million and is used to finance start-ups developed within the school's incubator.The fund has invested in 30 startups and secured severalprofitable exists.The school offers a range of entrepreneurship courses which are highly popular among its students. The school has also established an incubator to provide student entrepreneurs with logistical support, strategic advice, and access to a network of professionals.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Travel
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bubblz — Bubblz is a French software company specialized in process management. Founded in 2013 by Sébastien Bencherqui (CEO), Antoine Bianconi (CTO), and Arthur Froger (Designer), the start-up is pioneer in process digitalization within companies.Bubblz provides to its clients an intuitive SaaS platform, allowing them to monitor, secure and analyzeeasily their workflow in order to run process efficiency.
  • Cariboo — Cariboo connects you with enthusiastic local guides around the world for unique private tours across the cities you're willing to discover. Book a Cariboo guide and become a local everywhere in the world!
  • Vidmizer — Vidmizer is a video marketing platform that is an essential tool for companies to manage and multi-post their video content. Vidmizer transforms the video production and distribution process to make it agile by taking into account multiple formats. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
IFC VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Collaborative Consumption
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • Mexico, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
  • BlaBlaCar — BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling community, connecting people looking to travel long distances with drivers going the same way. They travel together and share the costs of the journey. The platform is engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles. Members can evenspecify how chatty they are from “Bla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers.Backed by Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok and ISAI, it operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India. The site and free mobile apps provide a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers.BlaBlaCar is based in Paris with offices across a dozen of countries.
  • Builder.ai — Turn any idea into tailor-made apps, websites or wearables with our easy software builder. No code? No problem. Start building your app today!
Courtin Investment VC Fund
Courtin Investment invests in companies headquartered in Europe or in North America.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Leisure, Tourism
  • Funding Round
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Navily — Navily is an innovative cruising guide with more than 500,000 users worldwide. Share your experience on anchorages and marinas and book a boat slip in more than 700 partner marinas easily.
Evolem Start VC Fund · Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, Italy, Senegal
Portfolio highlights
  • Kolus — Kolus is a company that specialized in offering visual assistance technologies for customer support operations across a variety of sectors. The platform provides an intuitive interface, remote help, data centralization, performance tracking, and centralized monitoring for optimal management, allowing organizations to improve the customer experienceand team cooperation.
  • Sopht — Sopht is an Environmental Services company that allows organizations to pilot their environmental impact and automate their decarbonation.Sopht provides a lever for optimizing and rationalizing the challenges of an IT department. The platform is built on a series of modules that reconstitutes the entire IT value chain of a company (multi-cloudmonitoring, management of IT assets, analysis of digital uses and services, etc.) thus allowing a vision and end-to-end management.Founded by Jérémie Veg, Julien Rouzé, Gautier Levert in 2021 and is located in Lyon and Paris.
  • NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
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