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Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in France

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Video games startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in France

Investor	Video Games France investments
Kima Ventures	6
Alven	5
Educapital	4
Serena	4
Angelsquare	2
Elevation Capital Partners	2
Econocom	2
Bpifrance	2
Innovacom	2
Andurance Ventures	2
Xavier Niel	2
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	2
Michael Benabou	2
Octave Klaba	1
Craft Ventures	1
Elefund	1
Thibaud Elziere	1
Financiere Saint James	1
Jérôme Le Feuvre	1
Epopée Gestion	1
Banana Capital	1
The House Fund	1
Frederic Montagnon	1
Secocha Ventures	1
Bertrand Diard	1
Cédric Delorme	1
Idinvest Partners	1
Sony Innovation Fund	1
Turenne Capital	1
Venus Capital	1
GO CAPITAL	1
Id4 ventures	1
Garena	1
Finorpa	1
Olivier Guillaumin	1
Antoine Martin	1
Anne Méaux	1
Diaspora Ventures	1
Alexis Bonillo	1
Pierre-François Filet	1
1Up Ventures	1
Raise Ventures	1
Pascal Gauthier	1
Pierre Andurand	1
Gumi Inc	1
Epyllion	1
Lakestar	1
Nicolas Bacca	1
Kwalee	1
Guillaume Luccisano	1

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Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NOLEJ — NOLEJ is a decentralized skills platform powered by an AI engine, that automatically generates interactive courseware & global knowledge graph
HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
MerciApp — MerciApp is a spellchecker that helps people write faster and better in French. It is correcting stylistic, spelling, and grammar errors embedded in a secure and simple interface.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Fipto — Empower your business with a fast, secure and transparent treasury management solution. Convert and send fiat and digital currencies instantly and securely through the blockchain. Our solution combines institutional security, user management and consolidation tools.
Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
Quandela — Quandela is an expert in the fabrication of performing devices for the research in quantum photonics and quantum information. They fabricate unique solid-state sources of quantum light. These sources bring a new revolution in quantum technologies based on light.The company's single-photon source device combines photonics and semiconductorquantum dots for quantum communication, computation and sensing and permits to collect the emitted single-photons with exceptional efficiency at high rates, enabling researchers to strongly reduce the charge noise decoherence and assist in the emission of identical photons with fidelity close to unity, an essential requirement for the development of the most advanced quantum applications.

AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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 — Hire Silicon Valley Caliber Developers | Remotebase

The management company of the Inter Invest Group.

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.
IMPACT Plus — IMPACT Plus offers technology-driven carbon footprint optimization services of digital campaign to various brands and advertising companies.
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.

Econocom is a European group that makes digital transformation happen for companies and public organisations. They help their clients get the most out of digital by focusing on users as the starting point for their digital transformation. Econocom, a service group present in 8 European countries, is a market leader in IT and telecom systemsmanagement for businesses.

Investment focus

Children, Education, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Magic Makers — Magic Makers is a business that offers workshops to children to teach them how to program video games. The company offers children ages 6 to 15 the opportunity to learn how to code, to learn how to create their own games, projects, and robots. They have developed a teaching method which allows children to learn about the code in a fun way.Createdin June 2014 by Claude Terosier, Magic Makers has already welcomed over 5,000 children in their weekly workshops, workshops, and events, in 6 centers and 15 partner locations in Paris and Bordeaux.

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.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

HawkCell — A plug-and-play solution turning human MRI into the first animal-dedicated imaging enhanced with AI algorithms. A unique MRI solution.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
Docent — Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully-personalized experience for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary masterpieces.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo is a deeptech company designing and assembling collaborative robots. We focus deliver affordable and intuitive 6 axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial market. Discover our latest technologies through NED2 robot and an entire ecosystem to discover robotics, AI, industry 4.0 and more
Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
Elixir Aircraft — You can now fly with unmatched safety at unbeatable cost. The best of general aviation. Discover the safety, savings and versatility of the Elixir aircraft.

Andurance Ventures is an independent technology venture capital firm based in London, founded by Nicolas Granatino and Pierre Andurand. Andurance Ventures is focused on digital media, content management and knowledge economy enabler start-ups in the converging consumer and enterprise ecosystems.

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Video Streaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Neolithe — Néolithe transforms non-recyclable waste into mineral aggregates.
Massa — The decentralized and scaled blockchain
Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cure51 — Cure51 mission is to create a database of cancer survivors to leverage their exceptional biological features and find new drugs to cure Cancer.
VizBlock — Blockchain Analytics made simple
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
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.

President at Financiere Saint James.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.

Octave Klaba is a Chairman of the Board of Directors at OVHcloud.

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Aerospace
Seed, Angel, Series B
France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Aerospacelab — Aerospacelab makes access to space simple. By combining our satellite platforms with mission payloads, Aerospacelab is able to deliver end-to-end satellite solutions tailored to meet your business needs.
Qubit Pharmaceuticals — We work alongside biopharmas to transform the way drugs are developed by moving from approximation to prediction.
C12 Quantum Electronics — C12 Quantum Electronics develop reliable quantum processors with carbon nanotubes. Its unique technology reduces drastically the error rate, making the platform a prime candidate for noisy intermediate-scale quantum applications. The Paris, Ile-de-France, France-based company was formed in 2019 by Pierre and Matthieu Desjardins.

Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to the craft of building great companies. Craft has brought together a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience and investor acumen. Over the past twenty years, David, Bill, Jeff and Sky have built and invested in some of the most iconic companies of this generation.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Respell — Respell combines no-code workflows, an agent-driven chat experience, and suggestions so you can make magic with AI.
Knock — Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. Use our APIs to engage your users, power cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences.
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.

Founded in July 2015, Elefund is a US-based venture capital firm with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The firm has invested in several well-known companies whose products and services have benefited millions of people all over the world and created thousands of jobs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Powder — Sales copilot for wealth advisors
StretchDollar — The simplest, most affordable health benefit option for small businesses. More control over your budget and more choice for your people. Get started today!
Canopy Connect — Verify premiums, limits, deductibles with Canopy Connect. Use our agent dashboard or build with our insurance API for even greater flexibility.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.

Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Nūmi — Nūmi mission to redefine health through groundbreaking research making the unparalleled benefits of breast milk accessible to all.
Tomorro (ex Leeway) — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.

Jerome Le Feuvre is the Head of Development and Operations for Europe at Bytedance.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Gaming
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Prizle — Prize turn some of your purchases online into free donations !
Done — You know that moment when you find everything in the right place? No need to go in 15 different apps to do your work or talk with your team. It's all in Done and it's the only app you really need for work.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.

Epopée Gestion is an investment firm that supports SME transitions, innovation and digital solutions, local real estate and mobility firms.

Investment focus

Last Mile Transportation, SaaS, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Greenscope — ESG reporting & CSR diagnosis | EU Taxonomy & CSRD/SFDR reporting | Carbon & biodiversity footprint calculator
Pony — Instant city bike hire
Parthena Consultant — Parthena Consultant is a digital transformation consulting and information systems services.

Banana Capital is a technology investment firm that invests globally across all sectors and from pre-seed to pre-IPO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
Artie — Leverage change data capture to replicate data from databases to your data warehouse or data lake with low latency and no impact to database performance.
Chainguard — We build products and offer services that help protect organizations from software supply chain attacks and vulnerabilities.

A pre-seed and early stage venture capital fund investing in Berkeley's top alumni, faculty, and student startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Two Boxes — The future of sustainable e-commerce returns has arrived. Two Boxes is the best way to process returns and capture critical data from the returns process.
Crowdbotics — It's not low-code, it's full code made easy. Build business-ready software, apps, integrations, and more with the Crowdbotics App Builder. Hire certified PMs and developers to help build your project at any time.
Prime Roots — Prime Roots is on a mission to provide a better cut of meat for every type of eater. Rooted in koji, Prime Roots is able to replicate the taste and texture of meat without any of the environmental costs of animal proteins.

Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Della AI — Della AI is a contract review solution that allows law firms and in-house legal teams to ask questions using artificial intelligence.
getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility

Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

10club — 10club acquires small brands that sell their products on e-commerce platforms and scales those businesses.Great businesses are growing on the backs of e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, and more. They get their foundational years right but find it difficult to scale, and understand that competition is hard to curb. That's where10club steps in, allowing entrepreneurs to enjoy an exit and benefit from years of hard work
CarePredict — CarePredict @Home detects changes in the daily activity pattern of a senior and alerts family members when things are different than usual.
Allocate — Allocate is platform that enables investors to discover and invest in high-quality venture funds.

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
Deepomatic — Boost your field operations with our advanced Computer Vision technology. Enhance deployment, improve quality, and propel your business towards service excellence.
NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Business angel investing with impact in Foodtech, Winetech, Insuretech and Fintech

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, CRM
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
France

Portfolio highlights

Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
Courtigo — Courtigo is a CRM and comparator software for insurance brokers (SaaS)
uvoji by T.zic — uvoji designs, develops, manufactures and markets all-in-one solutions for the treatment and disinfection of water at points of use and of surfaces by UV LEDs.To meet the major challenges of access to drinking water and provide technological solutions to the urgent needs of point-of-use water treatment, we launched the Oji Safe, Oji Pure and OjiReuse products. Our solutions are used notably by the French Red Cross for its operations.In response to the Covid pandemic, we developed the Uvo Care. Uvo Care is the disinfection box, Made in France, for all types of masks and everyday objects. The essential ally for resuming your professional activities in complete safety. It has been tested and approved by independent laboratories and kills over 99.999% of viruses and bacteria in just seconds (including SARS-COV2 virus).

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, Software, Health Care
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.
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
BreezoMeter — BreezoMeter offers personalized air quality & pollen data as well as active fire alerts with worldwide coverage & accuracy down to the street level.

Sony Innovation Fund is investing in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jabali — At Jabali, our mission is to democratize creation and bring innovation to video games. We are building an AI-native engine to empower visionaries, game designers and developers. Jabali will offer a comprehensive, easy-to-use, engine to create games and interactive experiences.
Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
Cambridge Mechatronics — Cambridge Mechatronics (CML) is a high technology design and engineering company based in Cambridge, UK. We specialise in pioneering and developing cutting-edge mechatronic platform technology from concept to mass production. We achieve this through technology licensing or partnerships with global manufacturing corporations. Our intellectualproperty portfolio consists of over 100 granted patents that we can exploit.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
France, Poland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
Ecodrop — Ecodrop is the solution for construction waste
PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides biosafety assays based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) for biologics quality testing. GMP biotesting for biopharmaceuticals. Learn more.

At Venus Capital, we seek to deliver better risk-adjusted returns in emerging markets by reducing volatility using strategies to produce absolute returns.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Mobile
Funding Round, Seed
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

EcomXML — EcomXML is a leading e-commerce solution provider for business-to-business (B2B) enterprise integration. EcomXML provides companies with enterprise integration solutions to link their buyers, suppliers and e-commerce portals together to streamline their e-business in real-time through the Internet. EcomXML utilizes open XML technology to achieveboth inter-company and intra-company integration regardless their existing technology infrastructure.
Manzalab — Manzalab is one of the most innovative companies on the Serious Games market.
Arker:The legend of ohm — Arker is a nonfungible token (NFT), a play-to-earn game that allows users to earn crypto and trade it for actual money. To fight for the city of Ohm, players must recruit heroes of different classes. As a result, they increase the loot of Arker, a mineral of great value. Fighting against another player allows earning tokens, which can be exchangedfor items, and playing player-versus-environment enables to earn rewards for items.

GO CAPITAL is a management company approved by the AMF and a member of AFIC. It is based in Rennes, and manages more than 130 million of assets by investing primarily in western France in innovative companies with high growth potential.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo is a deeptech company designing and assembling collaborative robots. We focus deliver affordable and intuitive 6 axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial market. Discover our latest technologies through NED2 robot and an entire ecosystem to discover robotics, AI, industry 4.0 and more
Episto — Episto helps you collect ultra-authentic insights from your targets, anywhere in the world, simply and instantly
Loop Dee Science — Loop Dee Science is a DNA startup that makes molecular biology diagnostics. They develop and manufacture field genetic analysis kits for the detection of pathogen DNA and RNA. Their automatic field analysis device is a multi-spectral analysis device that provides local output and can also be connected via USB or Bluetooth.

Id4 is an asset manager, designed for family offices and private investors, committed to unearth valuable and outstanding tech opportunities in Europe

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
Amalia.io — Streamline Sales Compensation. Incentive & Compensation Management platform that accelerates your business while uniting your team.
Le Fourgon — Le Fourgon provides contained drinks for home delivery. They offer milk, water, beer, wine, fruit juice, and sodas. They allow customers to have their drinks delivered free of charge during the day.

Garena is one of the largest internet companies in Southeast Asia and has over 1000 employees.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Playwind Games — Playwind Games is a mobile game studio based in the UK with a tight-knitted team that have years of experience working together in previous roles. The studio develops exciting new mobile games with a social twist and was founded in 2020 by Jack Tang with the belief that mobile games are better when played together.
PopScreen Games — PopScreen Games creates mobile RPG games for a wide audience. Wacky Battles, our first game, is a fairy tale adventure for mobile devices.

Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Niryo — Niryo is a deeptech company designing and assembling collaborative robots. We focus deliver affordable and intuitive 6 axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial market. Discover our latest technologies through NED2 robot and an entire ecosystem to discover robotics, AI, industry 4.0 and more
SPART — SPART, your company's sport and health partner. Improve the cohesion and well-being of your teams through physical activity.
NeoCem — NeoCem creates, manufactures, and promotes a variety of low-carbon cements for the building industry. They have developed a novel procedure that permits the utilization of raw materials sourced from recovery sectors.

Olivier Guillaumin is a co-founder of Netgem SA. Olivier Guillaumin served as Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director of Netgem SA. He is an internationally-known software developer. He developed leading edge technologies, such as Netgem's original Internet browser and javascript engine.During his career, Olivier co-founded several ITcompanies: Aleph2, acquired by Lotus Development, maker of Impress, the first interactive graphical user interface for Lotus 1-2-3. He invented automatic compression to print spreadsheet data.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Freelance
Seed, Angel, Series A
France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

TORO —
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.
Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.

Antoine Martin - Co-founder & CEO @ Zenly

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bleen — Building a new outdoor home brand, starting with lawn care. It’s simple, easy to use, and personalized to your home.
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.

Anne Méaux

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Mobile
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Flashbreak — Flashbreak is the first platform for "Casual Game" Competitions. It's basically bringing eSports to casual games.Every day at 5pm PST, hundreds of users join a live show on Flashbreak’s app. The host introduces a game, and then kicks-off 3 rounds of competition of 90 seconds each.The competition is commented on live andfrenetically by the host, while hundreds of players compete in real-time to achieve the best score. The top 200 players split the prize money.Shows start every weekday at 5pm, 5:15pm, 5:30pm and 5:45pm EST. Each show features a different game and lasts 10 minutes. New games are featured every week.

Diaspora Ventures invests in the next generation of french entrepreneurs building tech companies. Diaspora Ventures targets French founders who have true global ambition, by investing early and giving them access to the best tech ecosystem in the world, the United States.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

Safary — Safary is the web3 alternative for Google analytics. Privacy friendly. No cookies. Acquire more wallets in one click.
Starchain Gazer — Building the most user-centric Web3 game studio in the world, creating powerful gaming experiences.
Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

COO & Co-founder @ Zenly Retired Pole Vaulter

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Internet
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
Omi — Omi platform is designed for today's marketer and requires no technical skills.
Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.

Pierre-François Filet - CEO & Co-Founder @ QuantHouse

Investment focus

Video Games, Developer Platform, Information Technology
Angel
France

Portfolio highlights

Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.

1Up Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in game developers. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
Talofa — A fitness battle game where you move to play!
Bazooka Tango — Bazooka Tango is a mobile gaming company.

Raise Ventures is a Venture Capital structure dedicated to innovative startups in France and Europe.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Seed
France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Respire — Respire is an e-commerce company of natural and vegan cosmetic products.
Worldia — Worldia is an online travel agency.
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.

Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
MetaFight — MetaFight is the development of a video game for collecting NFT cards of MMA fighters.
Original — NFTs going mainstream - We provide simple API for your product & tech team to seamlessly integrate NFTs into your existing apps. Original enables you to go-to market in a snap and lets you focus on delivering extraordinary user experiences without blockchain headaches. Original includes APIs to transfer and sell NFTs, and a clear dashboard tomanage, collaborate and track all related activities.

Pierre Andurand - CIO @ Andurand Capital

Investment focus

Video, Mobile, Content
Angel
Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

MediaCore — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Novaquark — Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work.

Gumi is a game development company that features a mobile social network.

Investment focus

Video Games, Gaming, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Japan, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Activ8 — REAL SOLUTIONS FOR A VIRTUAL WORLD
Activ8 — Activ8 Corporate site
double jump.tokyo — double jump.tokyo is a blockchain game developer and NFT solution provider for large-scale enterprises in the gaming and entertainment sector.

Epyllion is a company that makes angel investments, offers advisory services, and creates television shows, films, and video games.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Noodle Cat Games — Noodle Cat is an independent game studio on a mission to change the current standard of game development. The Noodle Cat team is committed to learning, collaborating, and pushing boundaries in a healthy, flexible working environment.

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Mindgard — Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world.
Project B — Project B provides Operations System for Employee Financial Data.

Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

MetaFight — MetaFight is the development of a video game for collecting NFT cards of MMA fighters.
Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility

Kwalee is a video game developer and publisher

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

8SEC — 8SEC is a computer games company.

Guillaume Luccisano was the Co-Founder of TripleByte and Socialcam. He attended EPITECH for his degree in computer science.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Cryptr — Convert more B2B customers with our authentication SSO solution. A few lines of code to be SSO-ready, and you can start working with enterprise customers
Cauri Money — Cauri Money specializes in financial technology with a wide range of digital banking solutions via app for fund transfer.
Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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