Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in France in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in January 2025
Investor | Video Games France investments |
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Kima Ventures | 6 |
Alven | 5 |
Educapital | 4 |
Serena | 4 |
Bpifrance | 3 |
Michael Benabou | 2 |
Andurance Ventures | 2 |
Motier Ventures | 2 |
Xavier Niel | 2 |
Innovacom | 2 |
Angelsquare | 2 |
Elevation Capital Partners | 2 |
Econocom | 2 |
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet | 2 |
Idinvest Partners | 1 |
Jean-Marie Hullot | 1 |
Craft Ventures | 1 |
Cédric Delorme | 1 |
Octave Klaba | 1 |
Pascal Gauthier | 1 |
Banana Capital | 1 |
Brian Pokorny | 1 |
Frederic Montagnon | 1 |
Cliff Capital | 1 |
Epopée Gestion | 1 |
Thibaud Elziere | 1 |
The House Fund | 1 |
Venus Capital | 1 |
Finorpa | 1 |
Antoine Martin | 1 |
Time for Growth | 1 |
Azom Partners | 1 |
The Games Fund | 1 |
Stephan Altmüller | 1 |
TRUST ESPORT | 1 |
Investessor | 1 |
Turenne Capital | 1 |
Lyrik Ventures | 1 |
Anne Méaux | 1 |
1Up Ventures | 1 |
Nicolas Bacca | 1 |
Guillaume Luccisano | 1 |
Financiere Saint James | 1 |
Pierre-François Filet | 1 |
Elefund | 1 |
Shrug Capital | 1 |
Secocha Ventures | 1 |
Développement et Partenariat | 1 |
Gumi | 1 |
Adrien Dassault | 1 |
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Omnidoc — Omnidoc is a tele-expertise platform for healthcare professionals to exchange medical opinions.
- Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices
- Attention — Attention is a powerful conversational intelligence software that helps you coach and ramp up your sales reps into top performers.
The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.
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Investment focus
- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- NOLEJ — NOLEJ is an EdTech company creating the framework that will drive education in the future!
- Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.
- Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.
Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management.
Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of itsportfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels.
Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- Edgee — Edgee is a full-stack edge platform that aims to alter how workloads and data are processed on the internet. A variety of services are offered by the Edgee platform for edge-based applications.
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
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- Vibly — Vibly is a comprehensive management and communication platform designed to support higher education associations by enhancing organizational efficiency, increasing the visibility of student initiatives, and fostering a stronger sense of belonging within educational communities. Through its secure, closed network, Vibly ensures the protection ofprivate data while facilitating seamless interaction and collaboration among students, faculty, and associations.
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- NEBULA — NEBULA maps 3D macromolecule using dataset-free genAI and physics, enhancing drug target discovery, which forms the basis of all new drugs.
President at Financiere Saint James.
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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.
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.
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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.
Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.We are a value-added business angel. At scale.We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investmentthemes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, Creative Technologies and Cybersecurity.We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV, Citynove...) and across many industries.If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Deblock — Forget your bank account: Get an IBAN, a Debit Card and a Non-custodial Crypto wallet. Deposit any crypto on your current account. Exchange Euro and Crypto without any limit.
- Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
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.
- 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.
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
- Samp — Samp accelerates modernization and de-risks contracts by connecting outdated drawings with current 3D reality captures of your facilities using our AI.
- 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.
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!
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.
- 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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- 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.
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.
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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.
Jean-Marie Hullot is a French computer scientist and programmer who previously worked at Apple and NeXT Software.He authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include the SOS Interface for the Mac, which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985), and later still evolved into animportant part of Mac OS X. He also led the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).Hullot received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Paris at Orsay in 1981. He was a researcher at INRIA from 1979 to 1985, when he joined NeXT Computer. In 1996 he co-founded RealNames, a URL translation service, which closed in 2002. From 2001 to 2005 he was Apple Computer's Applications Division CTO, reporting to Sina Tamaddon.Photo credit:
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Investment focus
- News, Mobile, Advertising
- Angel, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- fotopedia — Contact with an owner of fotopedia.com domain name.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.
- First Resonance — First Resonance presents ION Factory OS, factory operating system -transforming how companies gain productivity, efficiency, and scalability through digitized workflows that change the speed and quality of manufacturing.
- Upwind Security — Upwind Security creates and develops software and online tools that ensures security of cloud infrastructure. It manages runtime environments of the cloud platform.
Business angel investing with impact in Foodtech, Winetech, Insuretech and Fintech
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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).
Octave Klaba is a Chairman of the Board of Directors at OVHcloud.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Gaming
- 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 — Explore C12's innovative quantum technology solutions using carbon nanotubes. Discover how our advancements in quantum computing are shaping the future of technology.
Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- Runes DEX — Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards.
- Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
Banana Capital is a technology investment firm that invests globally across all sectors and from pre-seed to pre-IPO.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
- 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.
Brian Pokorny is a General Partner of SV Angel. Prior to this, he was at Airbnb, where he joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/Batch. DailyBooth was a venture backed social media start-up that Brian led for 3 years as their CEO. Before this, Brian was a partner at SV Angel with David Lee and Ron Conway upon the launch of the firm. Prior toSV Angel he was a founding team member and partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment firm. Before joining Baseline, Brian spent close to 4 years at Google within various positions in the Content Partnerships team and Direct Sales Organization. Before this, he had various roles within sales operations and finance at Juniper Networks, TIBCO Software, and Applied Materials. Brian graduated with a degree in Operations and Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University. Brian's first angel investment was in Twitter and he is also a personal angel investor in Square, OMGPOP (Acquired by Zynga), Tweetdeck (Acquired by Twitter), Milo (Acquired by eBay), Chomp (Acquired by Apple) and others. Brian has advisory positions with Ooyala (Acquired by Telstra), Rupture (Acquired by EA). At SV Angel, Brian has also originated investments in companies such as Instacart, Patreon, Mesosphere, Credit Karma, and foursquare.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
- Plenty — Plenty is a wealth platform helping modern couples invest and plan for their future together. We bring the investment strategies of the wealthy to every household.
- Float Health — Float Health is a mobile application that allows consumers to send a nurse to their house when a family member is ill. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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.
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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
Cliff Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Sports, Casual Games
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- OVAL3 — You have 72 hours to auction : 30 Player Cards Emission and One Unique Player Card. OVAL3 provides the most advanced WEB3 immersive fantasy rugby experience. We project the game of fantasy rugby in WEB3 around a project bringing together players, teams, clubs and the entire global ecosystem of our sport.
- Fungiball — Web3 Fantasy Tennis Game! Each NFT card is linked to a pro tennis player. Card values evolve with real-time player performance. Collect, trade, and profit from your favorite players.
Epopée Gestion is an investment firm that supports SME transitions, innovation and digital solutions, local real estate and mobility firms.
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Investment focus
- Last Mile Transportation, Information Technology, Consulting
- Funding Round, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Keysom — Keysom is a French startup expert in the architecture of processor cores based on the RISC-V ISA. Keysom offers ad EDA tool to automatically build unique custom processors from the application code.
- Qovoltis — Qovoltis specializes in the renewable energy sector, providing smart charging solutions for electric vehicles. Their product is a smart charger with real-time power demand adaptability, designed to connect with all vehicles compatible with the ISO 15118 standard. The company also offers a mobile application that allows users to authenticatethemselves and manage their charging remotely. In addition to individual users, Qovoltis provides innovative charging station solutions for real estate projects, enhancing asset value.
- Pony — Instant city bike hire
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, 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.
A pre-seed and early stage venture capital fund investing in Berkeley's top alumni, faculty, and student startups.
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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.
At Venus Capital, we seek to deliver better risk-adjusted returns in emerging markets by reducing volatility using strategies to produce absolute returns.
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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.
Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Construction, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Niryo — Niryo creates collaborative robots. We supply 6-axis robotic arms for the education and industrial markets.
- 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.
Antoine Martin - Co-founder & CEO @ Zenly
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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.
A partner of choice for high growth Tech companies.
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- Gaming, Fashion, Internet
- Series A, Series C, Funding Round
- France, Sweden
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- Geolid — Geolid is a search optimization website with a primary focus on french consumers.
- Oh BiBi Games — At Oh BiBi we believe that we're only at the beginning of what mobile gaming can offer the world! Makers of Frag Pro Shooter.
- Zound Industries — Zound Industries designs, develops, and markets headphones. It offers four brands, intended to serve specific audiences: Urbanears, Coloud, Marshall, and Molami.The company has set up distribution in more than 100 markets, and its products are available at over 20,000 locations globally, including Apple, Best Buy, HMV, Target, Urban Outfitters,Colette, FNAC, Media Markt, Telia, Deutsche Telecom, Orange, and Tesco.Zound Industries was co-founded by Konrad Bergström, Niklas Bergh, and Oscar Axhede in 2008 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its products were first introduced to the market in December 2009.
Azom Partners
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- Video Games, Developer Platform, Information Technology
- Funding Round
- France
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- 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.
TGF is an early-stage VC fund founded by video games industry veterans.
We invest in future leaders: game developers, gaming technologies, and services.
We share best practices and offer our experience and personal touch.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Cyprus, United States, Poland
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- Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
- Drama Studios — Drama Studios is a video game development studio company. UNRECORD is a single-player FPS that follows the story of a tactical police officer via the eyes of body camera.
- Dark Passenger — Dark Passenger is a firm that develops video games. The team consists of both new blood specialists and seasoned gamedev professionals. The objective is to develop incredibly thrilling online experiences that emphasize both collaboration and competition and are captivated by human connections, alliances, fearless conflicts, and surprising turns ofevents.
Stephan Altmüller
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- Computer, Video Games
- Pre-Seed
- France
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- Fungiball — Web3 Fantasy Tennis Game! Each NFT card is linked to a pro tennis player. Card values evolve with real-time player performance. Collect, trade, and profit from your favorite players.
Trust Esport is the name for investment funds for Esports and Gaming founded by Matthieu Dallon
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- Gaming, Mobile, eSports
- Seed
- France, Germany
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- PatronGG — PatronGG is a tech startup built by esports veterans with the goal of changing the way fans follow esports by providing them with a central place to track their favourite teams and players, take part in discussions & compete to be the #1 fan. Join our journey and build amazing fan experiences with us!Our first app “Fnatic Nation” was built asthe official fan app for Fnatic to help them grow, retain and monetize their fanbase. Now, we're scaling our mission across all teams by building one central app that unites all fans and teams in one place.
- Supercosi — Video Game Development & Edition
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- Software, Internet, Augmented Reality
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
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- Corneille — Corneille is an educational entertainment platform where parents can subscribe to a sizable and regularly updated library of interactive stories and games for their children between the ages of Three to eight. Users' child is encouraged to gradually learn about this enjoyment thanks to their application.
- Showplace — Showplace is a B2B company that allows brands to sell their products directly to rental companies and provides concierge services for short-term rentals.
- Cogntivie Engines — Cognitive Engines is a robotics integrator using AI and real-time vision to control industrial robot arms, adapting to product size changes, and using a hand gesture interface for easy operation, compatible with various robotics brands.
Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France :
- Paris
- Lyon
- Marseilles
- Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million.
Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million.
32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement.
Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à :
- Paris
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, Poland, Germany
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- Sydev — Sydev is a publisher of management software and tariff databases for technical building trades in the construction industry.
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- Antabio — Antabio is a private biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibacterial resistance-breakers to treat drug-resistant infections in areas of highest unmet medical need.
We back audacious founders who disrupt the status quo
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- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
- Rena Labs — Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions.
- VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
Anne Méaux
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- iOS, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed
- France
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- 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.
1Up Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in game developers. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
- Midsummer Studios — Midsummer Studios is a independent, well-funded and committed to building a new kind of studio.
- Day 4 Night Studios — Day 4 Night Studios is a game development studio that offer interactive and original computer as well as video games.
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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
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- Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
- Hylé — Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Guillaume Luccisano was the Co-Founder of TripleByte and Socialcam. He attended EPITECH for his degree in computer science.
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- SaaS, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Belgium
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- Cryptr — Get features like SSO to convert more B2B customers, regardless of their auth provider. Just a few lines of code to start working with enterprise clients.
- 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.
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.
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- Software, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Spain
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- 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.
Pierre-François Filet - CEO & Co-Founder @ QuantHouse
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- Video Games, Developer Platform, Information Technology
- Angel
- France
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- 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.
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.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Forward — Forward is a company that helps progammers and developers coordinate their program codes to build better websites.
- Powder — AI Agents for precise document analysis
- Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.
Shrug Capital is a Venture capital firm that invests in consumer-based startups.
Shrug Capital was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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- Software, Internet, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, France
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- Rivet — Rivet is a corporate & personal tax prep firm, designed to make tax season less taxing. Because everybody deserves a tax prep firm that they love.
- W Labs — W is a line of men's personal care products that are intended to work harder and smell amazing. W's better-for-you goods are made to last, especially when you need them most. The company was founded to provide men the confidence to succeed in all that they set their minds to.
- Summer Health — Get answers from an expert, board-certified pediatricians in 15 minutes. From child health to development, Summer Health gets you answers any time, day or night.
Secocha Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage startups.
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- Financial Services, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, France
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- 10club — Discover unique home decor at 10clubhomes. Explore a wide range of living room, dining, kitchen, garden, and home improvement products today!
- 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 the operating system for private market alternatives investing
D&P Finance is a venture capital firm managing over € 180 million through its various funds under management. It aims to acquire stakes of around 3 to 7 M € in French SMEs, whose turnover is generally between 10 and 100 M €.The firm invests in a logic of development capital, by preserving the shareholders and the management team in place oralongside a managerial team financially involved in transmission operation. It also acts as a minority or majority shareholder in companies facing complex situations.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France
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- Octime — OCTIME is a software company in France in the field of Work Time Planning and Management. The company create innovative packaged HR software solutions for time management and staff scheduling.
- Decayeux SAS — Decayeux is a family-owned industrial group active in the individual and collective letterbox markets
- Orrion Chemicals — Orrion Chemicals offers an extended range of chemical products.
Gumi is a game development company that features a mobile social network.
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- Video Games, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Japan, India, France
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- 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.
Adrien Dassault
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- Software, Wireless, Mobile Apps
- Funding Round
- France
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- Fungiball — Web3 Fantasy Tennis Game! Each NFT card is linked to a pro tennis player. Card values evolve with real-time player performance. Collect, trade, and profit from your favorite players.
- Cosmo Connected — Cosmo Connected is a French start-up born in 2015, whose mission is to secure all people in mobility (users of bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and scooters). Cosmo Connected has developed a unique technology, combining hardware and software, which ensures visibility and security for the urban commuter. The device integrates different ignition modes(brake light, position light, hazard warning light, turn signals) designed to make users more visible. Connected to an application, it also has a fall detector, which alerts relatives or emergency services in the event of an accident. Our technology is patented in more than 150 countries. Our vision is to put our technology at the service of as many users as possible in order to make roads safer and greener, by promoting the use of soft mobility. Our goal is to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services that adapt to everyone's needs.
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