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Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in France

Last updated: Aug 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
Serena	4
Educapital	4
Andurance Ventures	2
Xavier Niel	2
Bpifrance	2
Econocom	2
Michael Benabou	2
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	2
Innovacom	2
Angelsquare	2
Elevation Capital Partners	2
Motier Ventures	2
Cédric Delorme	1
Jérôme Le Feuvre	1
Anne Méaux	1
1Up Ventures	1
Kwalee	1
TRUST ESPORT	1
Azom Partners	1
Pierre Andurand	1
Epyllion	1
Olivier Guillaumin	1
Pascal Gauthier	1
Makers Fund	1
Gumi Inc	1
Epopée Gestion	1
Aglaé Ventures	1
Shrug Capital	1
Jean-Marie Hullot	1
Sebastien Borget	1
Elefund	1
Secocha Ventures	1
Idinvest Partners	1
GO CAPITAL	1
Craft Ventures	1
Thibaud Elziere	1
The House Fund	1
Financiere Saint James	1
Bertrand Diard	1
Id4 ventures	1
Remo Bienz	1
Flat6Labs	1
Dream Machine	1
Investessor	1
Octave Klaba	1
Banana Capital	1
Turenne Capital	1
Venus Capital	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, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
Tracklab — Tracklab is a B2B compliance software helping regulated companies manage their mandatory supplier documentations.
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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

Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.

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, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Odaseva — Odaseva is the leading enterprise data platform for Salesforce. Industry leaders rely on Odaseva to keep data protected, compliant, and agile.
Metrobloks — Metrobloks is revolutionizing data infrastructure in major metro areas across North America. With a focus on providing low-latency, high-capacity data solutions for AI/ML, IoT, Gaming, Streaming and other data intensive services, Metrobloks delivers future-proof multi-tenant colocation facilities to underserved urban markets. Founded by adiverse team of industry veterans, Metrobloks is committed to shaping the future of digital connectivity.
Kelvin — Comment réussir à multiplier par 10 le nombre de rénovations énergétiques performantes des logements individuels ?Entre les aides compliquées à comprendre et la multitude des possibilités de travaux (isolation par l'intérieur, par l'extérieur, installation d'une VMC, d'une PAC, etc.), les projets sont coûteux, risqués, etparfois peu efficaces.kelvin permet aux professionnels des travaux et de l’immobilier d’accompagner efficacement les projets de rénovation énergétique des particuliers grâce à des études énergétiques fiables et pertinentes.A partir d’une adresse et des photos d’un logement, kelvin estime à distance la performance énergétique d’un logement et génère des recommandations travaux chiffrées et adaptées pour une amélioration du DPE garantie.Basée sur un moteur d’IA et de la reconnaissance visuelle par ordinateur, le logiciel kelvin propose une expérience révolutionnaire pour qualifier les projets de rénovation énergétique.Découvrez comment nous transformons la rénovation énergétique sur go-kelvin.com.

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.

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

Cube AI — 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.

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

Tracklab — Tracklab is a B2B compliance software helping regulated companies manage their mandatory supplier documentations.
SOTERIA LAB — SOTERIA LAB offers a whole range of cyber security services allowing a global support.
Micropep Technologies — Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact.The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 creates collaborative robots. We providing intuitive 6-axis collaborative robots for the education and industrial markets.
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 — Elixir Aircraft is an aerospace company that provides aircraft, component manufacturing, and training services.

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.
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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.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.

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).

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.

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.

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!
Midsummer Studios — Midsummer Studios is a independent, well-funded and committed to building a new kind of studio.

Kwalee is a video game developer and publisher

Investment focus

Computer, Video Games
Corporate Round
France

Portfolio highlights

8SEC — 8SEC is a computer games company.

Trust Esport is a VC Fund for Esports and Gaming founded by Matthieu Dallon

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, eSports
Seed
France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

Azom Partners

Investment focus

Video Games, Developer Platform, Information Technology
Funding Round
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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 — 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.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
Sekai Studio — We are creating next-level entertainment for Anime fans between episodes.

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.

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, Information Technology, Consulting
Funding Round, Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nova Carbon — High-performance sustainable carbon fiber composites
Parthena Consultant — Parthena Consultant is a digital transformation consulting and information systems services.
SEEDERAL Technologies — Seederal Technologies produces electric tractor.

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
Photoroom — Create product and portrait pictures using only your phone. Remove background, change background and showcase products.
Borderless AI — Borderless AI is an Employer of Record (EOR) & PEO platform simplifying global payroll management & team hiring to empower your growth worldwide. Book a demo now!

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

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:

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.

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Cookie3 — Cookie3 utilizes off- and on-chain analytics and an AI data layer to determine quality users who bring value on-chain and reward them for their contribution. It's a three-platform hub for businesses, creators, and users with a unique value offering for all.
BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

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, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

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
Canopy Connect — Verify premiums, limits, deductibles with Canopy Connect. Use our agent dashboard or build with our insurance API for even greater 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 is an India-first brand that has something to add to every room of your home. From tableware to towels, baby nursery to bed linen, gardening shears to vases, and storage solutions of all sizes, we prioritise the little things you use every day. We ensure our products are always- useful, durable and beautiful.
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.

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Vanta — Vanta automates the complex and time-consuming process of SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI, and GDPR compliance certification. Automate your security monitoring in weeks instead of months.
Pearl — Pearl is shaping the future of dentistry with a suite of FDA-cleared dental AI solutions, which dentists, practices, labs and insurers use to elevate the efficiency, accuracy and consistency of dental care around the world.
Onehouse — Open storage, continuous pipelines, and automatic optimizations across table formats, engines, clouds. Automated data platform across Hudi, Delta, and Iceberg.

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.

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.

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, Financial Services, Internet
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.

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 advanced Computer Vision. Visual AI automates quality control 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.

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, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

ThinkSono — ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology.
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.
Northbound — We are building the dynamic decision engine that translates real-time data into operational excellence & stakeholder transparency. All at the intersection of warehouse and transport logistics.

Remo Bienz

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Video Games
Series A, Funding Round
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Advertima AG — Advertima is a 3D computer vision platform provider founded in 2016 and headquartered in St.Gallen, Switzerland. Advertima visually interprets human behavior in the physical world, enabling smart spaces of the future to interact with people in seamless and meaningful ways. Their real-time and easily accessible data stream, called the ‘Human DataLayer’, powers their smart retail solutions, including Autonomous Store and Smart Signage. These next-generation solutions empower companies to create the customer experience of tomorrow: frictionless, relevant and highly-targeted. Advertima is fully compliant with the EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR).Advertima is headquartered in St.Gallen (Switzerland) and has offices in Berlin (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Belgrade (Serbia) and London (UK).
Gamestream — They propose a highly qualitative Cloud Gaming solution allowing us to stream in HD (1080p/60fps) a catalog composed of the latest AAA games and of a selection of the best independent games.They designed a White-Label solution to serve Hotels, Cruise ships and hospitals by enabling them to bypass the limited internet connections inside theirpremises.This solution will allow Hospitality providers to offer their guests with a “Next-Gen console experience” easy to integrate where no console needs to be installed.This is only a glimpse of what Gamestream can provide.

Flat6Labs is the MENA region’s leading seed and early stage venture capital firm, currently running the most renowned startup programs in the region. Annually, Flat6Labs invests in more than 100 innovative and technology-driven startups enabling thousands of passionate entrepreneurs to achieve their daring ambitions and ultimately becoming theirinstitutional co-founders. Flat6Labs manages a number of seed funds with a total AUM in excess of $85M. More than 25 leading institutions have invested into the Flat6Labs managed funds; believing in the asset class and Flat6Labs’ proven track record as the market leader.. Flat6Labs provides a wide range of investment ticket sizes ranging from $50K to $500k, supporting startups through their early journeys from Pre-Seed all the way to Pre-Series A stages. Alongside to the investments, Flat6Labs’ exceptional startup programs, executed to cater specifically for the needs of the innovative entrepreneurs, helps them accelerate their growth by providing them with a plethora of support services and connecting them to unparalleled opportunities with an expansive network comprising hundreds of business mentors, investors and corporates. Launched and headquartered in Cairo since 2011, Flat6Labs has multiple offices across the region; with ongoing plans to expand into other emerging markets.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
Yamm — Yamm is an e-commerce platform that offers a method for refunding customers' money.
Wateer — Wateer is a digital partner that meets the needs of the real world with solutions from the digital world. Wateer offers paperless invoices at retail points "Receipt as a Service (RaaS)" using a low friction process for shoppers and retailers. It was founded in 2022 and is located in Riyadh, Riyadh.

Dream Machine is an oppotinistic seed fund, interested in AI, voice, AR, VR, IoT, and blockchain.It is founded by Alexia Bonatsos, the former co-editor-in-chief of TechCrunch and one of the earliest reporters to write about Whatsapp, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest.With Dream MAchine, she hopes to help exceptional founders make science fictionnon-fiction.

Investment focus

Social Media, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

OneRoof — OneRoof is an app that helps meet people with similar interests living in your building and build new friendships. Communication should go further than a nod in the elevator.
Ghost Message — Ghost your messages
Somewhere Good — We design and thrive with technology that calms and strengthens, that comes from a place of joy with a deep belief in a world that exists for us.

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Investment focus

Software, Internet, Augmented Reality
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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, 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.

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, Biotechnology, Medical Device
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.
PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides biosafety assays based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) for biologics quality testing. GMP biotesting for biopharmaceuticals. Learn more.
AlgoTherapeutix — AlgoTherapeutix is the operator of a biotechnology company designed to develop topical treatments for complex pain.

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.

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