Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in France in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Web3 startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in France in May 2025
Investor | Web3 France investments |
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Bpifrance | 12 |
Kima Ventures | 10 |
Fabric Ventures | 7 |
XAnge | 7 |
Sebastien Borget | 7 |
SGH CAPITAL | 6 |
BlueYard Capital | 6 |
Nicolas Bacca | 6 |
Thibaud Elziere | 5 |
Frederic Montagnon | 5 |
Semantic Ventures | 5 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 4 |
Frst | 4 |
Stake Capital Group | 4 |
Thomas France | 4 |
Blockwall | 4 |
Nicolas Steegmann | 4 |
Julien Bouteloup | 4 |
Founders Future | 4 |
Owen Simonin | 4 |
Serena | 4 |
Eric Larchevêque | 4 |
SOSV | 4 |
Isai | 3 |
Motier Ventures | 3 |
Tiny VC | 3 |
White Star Capital | 3 |
Greenfield | 3 |
Axeleo Capital | 3 |
Wintermute Ventures | 3 |
Newfund | 3 |
Alven | 3 |
1kx | 3 |
Triton Capital | 3 |
NOIA Capital | 3 |
OneRagtime | 3 |
Daedalus Angel Syndicate | 3 |
Pascal Gauthier | 3 |
Nicolas Louvet | 3 |
Cygni Capital | 3 |
Meld ventures | 2 |
Alexandre Stachtchenko | 2 |
Protocol Labs | 2 |
Orange DAO | 2 |
MOVE Capital | 2 |
Bilal EL ALAMY | 2 |
Algorand | 2 |
Cassius | 2 |
Visary Capital | 2 |
ConsenSys | 2 |
Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Lprint — Lprint revolutionise the way PCBs are designed and manufactured, empowering hardware engineers and product development teams. Lprint is a 3D electronic printing system for PCBs, designed to manufacture complex, free-form printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single step, simplifying the prototyping, testing, and manufacturing process of electronics.
- Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
- PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
- Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
- Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.
Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- XWeave — Xweave enables real time & competitive cross-border payments with no pre-funding
- Codex — Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
- Tapestry — Tapestry enables anyone to create and deploy social applications using simple prompts.
XAnge is a Franco-German team of venture capital investors that manages €450 million and invests in digital, deeptech, and impact startups.It is the innovation brand of the Siparex group, a major player in French private equity. XAnge is a key European investor in early-stage startups and is looking for game-changing startups and entrepreneurswho rock the code[s].The Paris, Ile-de-France-located company was founded in 2004.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Germany, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.
- Request Finance — A suite of financial tools to make your life easier - crypto organizations & freelancers use Request for invoices, expenses, payroll or accounting.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
- Alliance Games — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.
Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
- OpenAI — Introducing Sora: Creating video from text
- Forepont Capital Partners — Founded in 2017 in New York, Forepont Capital Partners is a global asset manager in healthcare and life science.
BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
- Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
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, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- 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.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Semantic Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in open markets and networks.
It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- 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.
- Herd Labs — Herd Labs is a collaborative cryptocurrency terminal that allows users to search, understand, and act on-chain with AI agents.
- Valantis Labs — Valantis is a platform comprising decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and on-chain tools that empower developers to design and implement custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Using modular components, Valantis streamlines the process, making it faster, cost-effective, and user-friendly.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
- Poolside — The best code you never wrote.
Frst is a seed-stage VC firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Luxembourg
Portfolio highlights
- Comand AI — Next generation command and control for defense & security operations
- Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
- Parallel 1245 — Parallel helps coding agent works side by side with hospital teams to deliver faster and more accurate medical coding.
Stake Capital is operated by pioneers in Blockchain and DeFi, who are positioned at the crossroads of traditional industries and blockchain technology.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
- Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.
- Neptune Protocol — Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner.
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
- Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Blu — Blue is a blockchain security platform. They offer KYC/AML trading on DeFi protocols like uniswap and curve, as well as wrap and trading services with secured KYC. They provide intermediary services for banks and brokerages.
- Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AniML — Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
- Entroview — Entroview delivers innovative solutions for gigafactories, automotive, and recycling, using entropy-based diagnostics to optimize battery performance.
- 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.
Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Turtle Club — Turtle Club is a distribution Protocol, democratizing liquidity access, monetizing Web3 activities, and redistributing value fairly in DeFi.
Founders Future is an investment group dedicated to Tech. Founded in 2018 by tech entrepreneur Marc Menasé and backed by a collective of entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the firm sees entrepreneurship as the most powerful driver to tackle the key challenges of tomorrow. Founders Future supports ambitiousfounders at every stage of their journey, combining capital, strategic networks, and operational expertise to help them scale—and to build bridges between Europe and the U.S. With over 110 companies and 350 founders in its portfolio, the investment group ranks among Europe’s most active early-stage funds, backing tech champions like Databricks, Function Health, Waterdrop, Conduktor, Yuka, Alma, Taster, Veesion. Our investment strategy is built around key verticals: Applied AI, SaaS, Fintech, Climate Tech, and Medtech.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- auum — auum is a glass cleaning machine that optimizes the cleaning process and reduces its water consumption. It is also an economical cleaning technology designed to promote reusable containers at work. They offer service, maintenance, and replacement services.
- Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.
Owen Simonin is a French entrepreneur, investor, and influencer specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He is the founder and CEO of Meria (formerly Just Mining), a leading company in blockchain infrastructure and staking services. Through his YouTube channel "Hasheur," he has played a key role in educating the French-speakingcommunity about crypto and decentralized finance.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Waltio — Your Crypto Tax Return.In one Click.Centralize all your cryptocurrency transactions. Declare and reduce your crypto tax amount.
- InterCellar — InterCellar offers you a unique buying and reselling experience. In line with the innovative spirit of the web3.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
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.
- Kleio — Kleio providing AI to sales and marketing teams so they can convert prospects and concentrate on high-value tasks.
Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Closd — CLOSD is a legal transaction management platform created by former business lawyers. It brings together lawyers and parties in a safe space, facilitates and ensures document exchange, simplifies project organization and management with interactive check lists, automates signings and closures with electronic signatures in a secure interface toauthenticate the signatures, and creates archives on transactions once they are closed.
- Coinhouse — Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinhouse, consult our educational content or visit our physical space, Coinhouse Store. Invest in the future, today.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Inicio — Inicio's objective is to expedite the energy transition of territories by lowering the risk of establishing solar projects and encouraging collaborations between landowners and renewable energy project developers.
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
- Tomorro — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
- Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
- Pyannote AI — Pyannote AI develops speaker diarization technology that accurately identifies and segments speakers in audio recordings. This technology enables users to analyze conversations by providing detailed insights into who speaks when, facilitating effective communication in various contexts such as meetings and interviews. Pyannote AI offers tools thatintegrate seamlessly with existing workflows, allowing sales teams to enhance their understanding of customer interactions. The company focuses on empowering organizations to leverage conversational data for improved decision-making and strategy development. With its commitment to innovation, Pyannote AI continues to refine its solutions to meet the evolving needs of its clients.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, 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.
- Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
- Flare — We enable companies to prevent cyber attacks before they become costly data breaches.
We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Gibraltar
Portfolio highlights
- Drosera — Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks.
- Warlock Labs — Warlock Labs is a provider of an omni-chain liquidation engine that improves the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols by recapturing the maximum extractable value.
- Liquorice — Liquorice is a developer of a DeFi protocol that combines one-sided loan pools with a MEV-free trading engine.
AXC is a European Venture Capital Fund, supported by a large community of tech entrepreneurs. We back startups from pre-seed / seed.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United Kingdom, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
- Formance — Numary makes it easy to build complex money-moving software with its open-source ledger & Numscript programming language.
- OFFROAD — OFFROAD is a French company specializing in road maintenance and public space management.
Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Blum — Blum is a decentralized exchange platform
- DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Evera — Olino is the insurance for tomorrow's SME. A digital service, a turnkey solution tailored to VSBs and SMEs, meeting all insurance needs.
- Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.
- PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.
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
- Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
- Marveri — AI made for Corporate and Transactional Work. No prompting. No chatbots. Just verifiable results.
- OpusMajor — Opus Major is a French video games studio building a cross-platform multiplayer game set in a vast & joyful universe. Discover our first opus and get in tune!
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
- Miden — Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.
- Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
Kraken Ventures is a global VC fund investing in the economies of the future. Learn more today.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, France
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- Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
- Reown — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
- Schuman Financial — Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain.
NOIA Capital is an actively managed alternative asset manager pursuing excellence in digital assets and blockchain technology investments.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Jersey, Belgium
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- Kelp DAO — Kelp DAO is intended to provide liquidity to illiquid assets put on restaking platforms such as EigenLayer.
- Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
OneRagtime is a venture capital platform that finances and scales early-stage startups. Join our investor community and discover unique opportunities.
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- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
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- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
- MoSo — Zoom in on identity, zoom out on potential.
Daedalus Angel Syndicate is a blockchain-focused angel collective.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, France
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- Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
- DeCharge Network — DeCharge Network lays the groundwork for a global energy network that will power automobiles, drones, and future technology.
- Schuman Financial — Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain.
Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Switzerland, United States
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- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- Runes DEX — Swap Runes for BTC seamlessly, enjoy low fees, fast transactions, and earn yield as a liquidity provider.
- Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture).
Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in
-Dataiku (colead, Series A)
- FinalCad (lead, Series A)
- Lengow (lead, Series B)
- Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A),
- Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B)
- TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed)
- Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B)
- and 15+ other companies...
He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills:
- Entrepreneurship, company management, business development
- Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe
- Fund management and creation
- Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition)
- Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)
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- Information Technology, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- France, United States
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- Zeenea — Zeenea is a cloud-native SaaS solution that democratizes data access and accelerates all your data-driven business initiatives.
- Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero, and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
- AssoConnect — AssoConnect is an online tools platform that meets all the needs of volunteers and community leaders. The complete management of an association is time consuming and tedious. Some tasks - accounting, membership management, payment tracking, grant applications - require hundreds of hours of work per year. Less time for associative projects.itrepresents the digital revolution applied to the voluntary sector. Through this platform, associations have more time to devote to projects and have a complete, simple and intuitive tool to carry out all their associative activities over the long term.
Investing in the future of trust (Blockchain, Privacy, AI)
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Canada
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- Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
- 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.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Meld Ventures is an Australian-based firm dedicated to backing the next wave of blockchain entrepreneurs.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Italy, France, Australia
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- Wayru — Wayru is a decentralized Internet service provider for the urban development world aiming to democratize Internet access
- Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
- Prismatic — bDollar is an algorithmic multi-pegstablecoin running on Binance Smart-chain. Completely decentralized on-chain governance Presented by Bearn.fi, bDollar is the first algorithmic stablecoin on Binance Smart Chain with an innovative solution that can adjust its supply deterministically to move the price of the token in the direction of a target price to bring programmability and interoperability to
Alexandre Stachtchenko
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- FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
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- Tilvest — Tilvest, partenaire crypto des CGP et CIF, permet d'allier gestion de patrimoine et investissement en crypto. Suivez le portefeuille de vos clients.
- 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.
Protocol Labs is building the next generation of the internet.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Akave — Akave is a decentralized data management network that supports the next generation of data-driven apps and marketplaces.
- Randamu — Revolutionizing Real-World Consensus via Threshold Cryptography | drand dcrypter: a modular network for threshold signing
- Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
- United States, Singapore, Spain
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- Kiki World — KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.
- Lumino — Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup whose mission is to enable the power of AI for every human.
- Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
MOVE Capital is a NEAR ecosystem native investment vehicle that exists to support founders and developers launching products on top of NEAR Protocol.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- France
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- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
We are the builders of Algorand, the high performance Layer-1 blockchain. Let us unlock the power of Algorand for you.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Grant, Series A
- Argentina, United States, Brazil
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- Koibanx — Koibanx is a blockchain solutions company that offers payment infrastructure, transactional core, Web3 integration, and crypto capabilities.
- PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
- Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.
We are early-stage technology investors across North America and Europe.
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- Online Games, Beauty, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France, Sweden
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- GOALS — GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. Gameplay-first, free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.
- Pomp — Pomp: Personalized Skincare Recommendations
- Goldenset Collective — Goldensetsupport creators by becoming equity partners in their growing and evolving businesses, with the collective goal of creating long-term enterprise value truly owned by the creator. We believe that creators are more than just "influencers" who can be rented like billboards by other companies and brands but are also the founders ofhigh-growth start-ups with Fortune 500 potential.
Visary Capital is an early stage fund investing in teams building infrastructure, protocols, and applications for the next generation digital economy.Investment areas include crypto assets, distributed systems, financial services, data analytics, machine learning, healthcare, media, remote work, and more. Partnering closely with companies andopen-source communities enabling freedom, inclusiveness, education, and major societal efficiencies through technology.
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, France, Singapore
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- Boost — Boost combines management, legal expertise, and technology to empower creators worldwide. From securing deals to protecting your rights and streamlining payments, we handle the complexities so you can focus on creating.
- Azteco — For every bit of life
- Lit Protocol — Lit is a key management network for decentralized signing and encryption. Create apps and wallets that use secrets without single points of failure.
Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
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