# Top 45 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in France in June 2026

## Angelsquare
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Since its launch in 2016, Angelsquare has supported more than 500 startups from all sectors in their Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & Series B fundraising.
From the implementation of the operation to the final negotiations, we have developed unique expertise that we put at the service of entrepreneurs to advise them throughout their fundraisingoperation and help them convince the right investors. : Business Angels, Family Offices, investment funds…

## Demeter Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

## Evolem Start
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.

## Owen Simonin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Metz, Lorraine, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech

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.

## Vessoa Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Travel, Winery, Tourism

Vessoa Private Equity invests in companies with a solid business that has a faithful client base for long term.

## Mattéo Serpolet
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Mattéo Serpolet is a Content creator & investor.

## Sami Chlagou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Sami Chlagou is a CEO Cross the Ages.

## Bertrand Jacquelot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology

Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.

## Youssef Gabsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Youssef Gabsi is a Co-Founder @THE HUB

## Holnest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

Holnest is a venture capital firm.

## Hugues Trijasse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Hugues Trijasse is a French startupper.

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Hubert Patricot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Uxbridge, Hillingdon, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Fitness

Hubert Patricot - Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises

## Founders Future
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Marc Menasé, Founders Future is a transatlantic tech investment platform supporting a new generation of AI-first entrepreneurs driving major transformations. Backed by entrepreneurs, leading European families, and institutional investors, the platform manages nearly $400 million and ranks among the most activeearly-stage players in Europe.As part of its expansion into the United States, Founders Future strengthened its shareholder base in 2025 with long-term partners such as MACSF, the Dassault family, and the CMA CGM Group. With over 120 investments, Founders Future is actively supporting companies like Databricks, Perplexity, Function Health, Waterdrop, Veesion, Riot, Conduktor and Raidium.Its strategy focuses on high-impact sectors - AI, fintech, SaaS, and healthcare - with a clear ambition: to empower the most ambitious entrepreneurs in scaling breakthrough technologies on a global scale.

## Alter Equity 3P
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Fashion, Renewable Energy

Alter Equity 3P specializes in growth capital and buyout investments.

## Credit Agricole Atlantique Vendee
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Winery, Recycling, Service Industry

Credit Agricole Atlantique Vendee offers banking services such as savings and loans.

## SideAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

SideAngels is a club deal platform which allows the members of its community to invest in start-ups, alongside experienced business angels.

## Cabiedes & Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services.


Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

## William Simonin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Metz, Lorraine, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

William Simonin is the CEO at ViVoka. William Simonin attended University of Kent.

## Reto Graf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, Tourism

Reto Graf - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ EAT.ch

## Frenchfounders
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, B2B

FrenchFounders provides its members with a networking platform for premium business profiles.

## Aonia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, B2B

Aonia Ventures is investing in tech companies all over the world. Supporting entrepreneurs from the start of their projects ! Investing from 150k$ to 300k$ in early stage rounds.

## Laurent Flores
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Laurent Flores is an Associate Professor Of Marketing at Panthéon-Assas University.

## Cléry
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Winery, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Cléry is an investing vehicle that funds environmentally and socially responsible projects.

## Unigrains
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Farming

Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector.

## Sylvain Zimmer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage

Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor.

## Karot Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Manufacturing, Cosmetics

Karot Capital : Investissements Early Stage dans l'Innovation, pour des entrepreneurs ambitieux et sans filtre sectoriel.

## LeadX Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: München, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Restaurants

Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach.

## Kickston Partner
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: B2B, B2C, Gift

Kickston Partner is a corporate Banking Company specialized in Technology. We are building a bridge between industrial companies and start-ups. Our mission is to help industrial companies executive to diversify and grow through start-ups. To do so, we help you address the technological market by selecting the best startups and setting up the rightrelation from partnership to investment and acquisition. On the other hand, our entrepreneur state of mind push us to help the one who wants to grow faster by raising their first round of financing.

## Biocoop
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Shopping, Wine And Spirits

Biocoop is brings together more than 600 organic stores around a common goal: the development of organic farming in a spirit of equity and cooperation.
A leader in organic food distribution, Biocoop is also known for its fair trade products and a wide choice of eco-products and cosmetics. More than just a network of retailers, Biocoop also wishesto influence the choices of society and shares its project with other actors: employees, consumers, producers and partners.

## Newfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Reshape
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software

Reshape is a next-generation investor in technology-enabled companies that need real estate to scale.

## Sodero
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Winery, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Sodero offer the equity required for the growth of startups, SMEs, and ETIs in the greater west. Sodero plays an important role in the investment channel from regional savings to local firms, as well as responding to territorial and societal concerns.

## Maxime CHERY
- Type: Angel
- Location: Auxerre, Bourgogne, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Maxime CHERY is an individual investor.

## Xinomavro Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: France, Idaho, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Winery, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Xinomavro Ventures is a venture capital business that focuses on driving innovation in the wine and beverage industry.

## Constellation Brands Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Winery, Organic, Nutrition

Constellation Brands Ventures is the Corporate Venture arm of Constellation Brands focused on investing in producers of beer, wine and spirits brands.

## Marc Menasé
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

## Milo Mitchum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Winery, Online Games

Milo Mitchum is a Los Angeles-based British music manager and Partner at Three Six Zero, an entertainment company responsible for selling tens of millions of records Worldwide, and guiding some of music’s biggest stars.  Milo’s career in management, promotion, and as a record label executive, has given him an intricate understanding of today’sentertainment landscape at the highest level.  He is known for his entrepreneurial approach to artist management, and has a client roster of some of the industry's most important cultural icons.

## Demeter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, AgTech

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the energy and ecological transition. They invest from 500 K€ to 30 M€ to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

## Laurent Lyothier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Laurent Lyothier is a Senior Associate M&A Wine & Spirits.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

## Romain Rafecas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits

Romain Rafecas  is a partner at Digital Springboard.

## Bamboo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Winery, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.

## Chris Paul
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Sports, Wellness

Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
