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Top 20 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 20 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Venture capital startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in January 2026

Investor	Venture Capital France investments
Index Ventures	3
Samaipata	2
White Star Capital	2
Fasanara Capital	2
Idinvest Partners	2
SGH CAPITAL	2
LGT Capital Partners	1
Anaxago	1
INSEAD Angels	1
Elaia	1
Seventure Partners	1
Hummingbird Ventures	1
Headline	1
Avolta Partners	1
Pareto Holdings	1
Partner Ventures	1
Groupe Duval	1
Eiffel Investment Group	1
BACKED VC	1
Tikehau Capital	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

Samaipata is a specialized and pan-European venture capital fund investing in digital platforms with network effects at the early stage across Europe. With over $160M of assets under management, we start with investments of $750k to $2.5m and reserve up to $10m for future rounds, from pre-seed to Se

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
PropHero — Invest wisely in real estate There is an easier way to invest in real estate. Whether you are just getting started or already on your investment journey, at Pro
Genesy AI — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aire — The income assessment platform that leverages first-party data. Access real-time confidence in the stated income of any consumer.
Questflow — Questflow Labs seeking to give customers with an all-in-one solution for user intent perception and distribution, AI agentic workflow automation, and human-AI cooperation. Questflow Labs is pioneering a novel approach to decentralized AI agentic workflow.
Flare — Flare equips your team to shut down cybercrime before it escalates. Detect, prioritize, and remediate external cyber threats with automated Threat Exposure Management.

FASANARA CAPITAL is an independent, owner-managed alternative asset management company authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Co-founded by CEO Francesco Filia in 2011, Fasanara is based in London with alliance offices in Milan.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
multifi — Fuelling the growth of small and medium-sized businesses. Get instant access to credit with multifi's user-friendly platform.
SellersFi — SellersFi offers financial solutions for e-commerce merchants & brands. Contact us to get started and build your economic growth toolkit.

Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
StarTower — StarTower is a resource company built specifically for fully decentralized physical infrastructure and shared interaction. Based on the exclusive RIP encryption technology, StarTower realizes the interactive sharing of multiple resources with zero loss on mobile devices, thereby providing efficient resource transmission for terminal facilities. Itprovides more efficient, secure and reliable solutions in the fields of Internet of Things, smart cities, industrial automation, healthcare, etc.
Stilla Technologies — Stilla Technologies is taking digital PCR to a whole new level with a unique 6-color target detection capability

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Persona AI — Persona AI is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions.
Hyper — Our Augmented Reality platform enables every business to serve their customers on a one-to-one basis, with guidance and information to supercharge their experience.

LGT Capital Partners is a leading alternative investment manager, based in Pfaeffikon SZ, Switzerland with affiliated offices in New York, London, Dublin, Hong Kong and Tokyo. The Firm manages USD 19 billion in hedge funds and private equity assets and has an international team of 160 professionals with 31 nationalities.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, Small and Medium Businesses
Funding Round, Series B, Series D
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
H&MV Engineering — At H&MV Engineering, we are unwavering in our commitment to operate at the highest level of environmental compliance.
Western Veterinarian Partners — Western Veterinary Partners is a veterinary support organization that partners with leading veterinarians throughout the United States.

Anaxago is a brand new crowdfunding platform dedicated to innovative companies. Anaxago aims at changing the traditional equity capital investment model. Their goal is to forget about the capitalistic-only and go for a truly sharing and participative investment model. Thanks to Anaxago, entrepreneurs can benefit from the financial support oftheir investors but also learn from the shareholders' experience, expertise and network. Each investor can take an active part to the company life and so be a part of a lively entrepreneurial adventure.They offer a small range of companies each month to their investors community. Startups and small companies are chosen with good care and have to go through a whole process of financial analysis. They also prefer to select companies with a real innovative value added. With Anaxago, young and small companies can find funding and support to grow and develop. They give them a chance to be the actors of tomorrow's growth and reboost their economy.Since its launch, Anaxago gathered 100 000 members and invested more than 130M€ funding more than 200 businesses.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Belgium, Cameroon

Portfolio highlights

Xenothera — Xenothera is a xenotherapy platform with embedded technology that renovates immunological treatments. Xenothera creates new therapeutic modes in numerous domains from immunomodulation to infectious diseases.Xenothera's technological platform is built on a double expertise of animal genetics and mastery of immunology processes. It renovatespassive immunotherapy by marketing a new generation of hyperimmune polyclonal sera.Xenothera’s platform ensures short-time development thanks to their mastery of the entire process, from animal genetics, choice of the immunogen, selection, and purification of interesting immunoglobulins, and access to market authorization in accelerated timescale.
Check & Visit — In Brittany, in Rennes Check & Visit was born from the desire to help the owners of the whole world to realize the conditions of their apartment. In France each year, there are over 3,400,000 inventories made. For the 2,500,000 owners, which they are part of it is not always easy to make the inventory of his apartment. Whether due to lack ofavailability, legal knowledge, or the reliability of paper status reports. The inventory quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task that any owner would like to do without.
PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology

Group of Bay Area INSEAD Alumni

Investment focus

Education, Information Technology, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, India, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

JetLearn — Personalized online coding classes for kids by top 1% tutors. The world's first web 3 academy for kids.
Já Vendeu — We help our users to sell pre-owned, pre-loved products easily. Doing that, we also enable a whole new buyer experience, making more transparent and safe transactions compared to others similar companies.
Secret Skin — Buy non-toxic skincare & beauty products online from Secret Skin. Shop 100% natural and organic Skin Care, Hair Care, Bath & Body Care, Beard Grooming and Beauty products for Women & Men online at the Secret Skin store.

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Pili — PiLi biofabricates a sustainable alternative to create renewable inks to replace their toxic, non-biological, and non-recyclable versions.Pili was born from the reunion of a biologist, a designer, and a financial analyst at the biohacker space La Paillasse in Paris and with the creation of the first pen fed by bacteria. Its team is nowdedicated to providing the colors from micro-organisms to offer a sustainable alternative to fossil resources.
Djust — DJUST is the dedicated solution that helps companies launch their B2B eCommerce and eProcurement platforms faster
SeqOne Genomics — Healthcare is undergoing a revolution, known as genomic medicine, that uses the patient’s genomic information to optimise treatment. This trend is accelerating thanks to the arrival of New Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques that have reduced the cost of decoding genomic material while increasing the amount useful data obtained. However, NGShas had only limited impact on mainstream healthcare due to the difficulties in analyzing more and richer genomic data. SeqOne’s mission is to provide tools that enable the healthcare industry to analyse NGS genomic data better and more cost-effectively to provide universal access to genomic medicine.

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sentryc — Protect your brand and your products from counterfeiters with Sentryc. We monitor over 120 marketplaces for you and remove potential counterfeits.
Flexvelop — Flexvelop combines financial technology with circular economy to add innovative values to the core function of equipment funding.Local vendors and online-shops integrate Flexvelop as a seamless embedded payment option. Business customers are now able to #flex new equipment per click right at the point of sale. Insurance is already covered, andour customers have now the weekly option, to buy- or return their equipment, easily. This enables a new world of worry-free and flexible business growth.We #flex business equipment from €300 up to €20.000 per item; e.g. coffee-machines, laptops, gym- or dental-equipment,... anything you need for your business.NEXT GENERATION PAYMENTS + Technological Innovation: fully automatic embedded payment option + Economical Innovation: optionality (rent/buy/return) + insurance included + Ecological Innovation: sustainability (contributing to a circular economy) = Enabling worry-free flexible business developmentForget renting. Forget leasing. Grow smart - flex it!
Hepster — hepster, die Onlineversicherung, flexibel, sicher und immer 100% digital.

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tavrn — Tavrn provides state of the art, AI-powered demand letters and medical chronologies for attorneys.
OneTwoSmile — One Two Smile, the invisible alternative to braces, moves your teeth through a series of aligners. Each aligner moves your teeth slightly and is engineered to use the right amount of force in the right place at the right time. Every two weeks, you will move onto the next stage of aligners so your teeth will gradually move into the desired positionthat was mapped by our certified smile designers and certified orthodontist.100% as effective, for 70% lessOne Two Smile aligners are clinically proven to be as effective as braces without the hassle, wiring, or pain. We work with state certified orthodontists in your city to diagnose your case and create a personalized treatment plan. By sending your aligners directly to you we are able to offer our aligners for 70% less than other aligner brands. With an average treatment time of 5 months, One Two Smile is ideal for mild to moderate cases.
BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Stotles — Get instant access to public sector tenders and activities. Monitor early buying signals tailored to your business. Connect with key stakeholders in just a few clicks.
Plancraft — MISSION We empower our customers to focus on what they love: crafts & construction VISION In times of automation, individual and high-quality work of craftsmen will be as demanded as ever. Plancraft paves the way for profitable projects by bringing powerful calculation to an easy-to-use and accessible level.
SPARETECH — SPARETECH builds the leading availability platform for industrial spare parts

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Advertising
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

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.

Building world-changing companies in sunny Miami

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
Runway Health — Affordable, convenient travel health medications for motion sickness, sleeplessness, altitude sickness, malaria prevention and traveler's diarrhea.

Partner Ventures is a 'secondary direct' venture capital fund. We provide liquidity to preferred stockholders of excellent companies, typically taking a seat on the company's Board of Directors. We work collaboratively with portfolio company management and board to help achieve its growth, profitability and liquidity objectives.

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance
Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Boulder Field — Boulder Field is a venture capital firm that is looking to acquire and grow one tech-enabled company.
Long Horizon Partners — Preserve your legacy. We are a group of entrepreneurs looking to partner with one strong small/medium-sized business to create long-term growth.
Software Legacy Partners — Software Legacy Partners is a software focused family fund. We believe it should matter who you sell your business to.

Groupe Duval is a real estate firm that involve in real estate development and investment, project management, and consulting.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Consumer Goods
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Ecuador

Portfolio highlights

Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
XXII GROUP — With more than 50 employees, XXII designs, develops and markets a SaaS platform for deploying and configuring algorithms for video stream analysis: XXIICORE. Our solution has already convinced companies in many sectors and local authorities, whose teams measure the benefits of video analysis assisted by our algorithms every day.
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

Eiffel Investment Group is a portfolio manager with €4 billion assets under management*. Eiffel’s investor base consists of large institutional investors (insurance companies, mutual funds, pension funds, banks, large family offices, public investors) as well as individual investors via retail distribution channels. Backed by the Impala groupfounded by entrepreneur Jacques Veyrat, Eiffel Investment Group leverages its strong corporate expertise particularly in the field of energy transition, but also in the health, agri-food, and information & communication technology sectors.Eiffel finances companies and their assets through four main strategies: private debt, private equity, energy transition infrastructure, and listed equities and credit. Eiffel Investment Group’s mission is to invest for a sustainable world. Its investment strategies aim to generate not only a strong financial performance but also positive and measurable social and environmental impacts. The Eiffel Investment Group has brought together a team of around 80 talented professionals based mainly in France (Paris) but also in The Netherlands (Amsterdam) and in the USA (New York).* early 2022, including uncalled commitments.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
France, Israel, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

IsyBuy — IsyBuy is a smartphone application that allows to find restaurants and bars that have your way, consult the menu, place order, and still pay your bill directly from your cell phone, with just one click. It's the fastest, easiest, and safest way to borrow and pay. They will never have to wait to be served by a waiter, let alone beg to receivethe account or the card machine.
Dametis — Dametis offers software and training to improve industrial environmental performance and reduce energy consumption.
Reforest'Action — Regenerating terrestrial ecosystems at scale to tackle global challenges using field experience, local communities, science and technology

BACKED is the human-centric venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders, at Seed, in Europe. We provide founders with an extensive support system to catalyse their development as a company operators and leaders. Through our Founder Experience Platform and energetic portfolio community we help entrepreneurs across all areas of a startup:from talent management to business development, further fundraising and international expansion.Founded in 2015 by partners Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, we invest across sectors including BioTech, Entertainment, Financial Services, Industry 4.0 and more. Investments to date include Hutch, Pollen, Thought Machine, LabGenius, THIS, Enterprise Alumni, and many more.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Aerska — Aerska develops targeted RNA medicines to treat brain diseases. By silencing genes that cause harm, we can preserve the minds and memories of those we love.
Amenitiz — The all-in-one hotel management platform for independent hotels. Streamline operations, maximize occupancy, and control your business.
Cloud Capital — CloudCapital manages cloud costs and invests in tech companies using AI and ML.

Tikehau Capital is a global asset management and investment company. The company specializes in various asset classes, including private equity, real estate, private debt, and liquid strategies. It manages investment funds and provides financial services to a wide range of clients, including institutional investors, corporations, and privateindividuals. Tikehau Capital has grown to become a significant player in the European alternative asset management industry.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Private Equity, Funding Round
France, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Egis — Egis is an international engineering, assembly and project management group. In engineering and consulting, he works in the fields of transport, city, building, industry, water, environment and energy.
Eclairion — Eclairion is a data computing center that provides high-performance computing infrastructure and AI co-location hosting of compute clusters within container modules.
FTAPI Software — FTAPI Software was founded in autumn 2010 and has since been active in the market. Its innovative transfer and storage technology sets new standards in effectiveness and security for business file exchange and access. The great potential of the idea was confirmed by many experts from the first minute. The founding team was one of the best in theMunich Business Plan Competition MBPW in 2010 and received wide support from the Strascheg Centre for Entrepreneurship (SCE) at Munich University of Applied Sciences. Furthermore, FTAPI has been supported by various national and EU programs.

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