123Venture

123Venture provides funds of funds to both institutional and individual investors, focusing on private equity investments. The firm has established a strong network of leading private equity managers across France and Europe. In addition to managing funds, 123Venture also engages in direct investments in companies, often collaborating with other private equity fund managers in co-investments. For institutional investors, 123Venture offers access to its expertise through both funds of funds and managed accounts, ensuring that its dedicated programs can be customized to meet a diverse array of client-defined objectives.

Jocelyn Dioux

Investment Director

31 past transactions

Snowleader

Venture Round in 2020
Snowleader is an online retail platform specializing in winter sports, outdoor activities, and streetwear. The company offers a wide range of products, including sports accessories, shoes, equipment, and apparel, catering to ski and mountain enthusiasts. Snowleader focuses on providing affordable prices and features a diverse selection of brands and product references. Additionally, the company enhances the shopping experience with free home delivery and returns, ensuring customer satisfaction and convenience.

SnapEvent

Series A in 2017
SnapEvent is an event planning platform that specializes in online venue booking services for various functions and gatherings. Founded in 2014, the company operates from Riga and offers users an easy way to find and reserve spaces for events. It provides a diverse selection of locations and includes additional services such as catering, hostess, security, chef, and valet options. The platform assists individuals, organizations, and businesses in organizing and executing both indoor and outdoor events, making it a comprehensive solution for event planning.

Nabab Kebab

Venture Round in 2016
Nabab Kebab is a fast-food restaurant chain established in 2015, specializing in halal-certified kebabs and offering a range of authentic Lebanese cuisine, including wraps, sandwiches, and platters. The brand operates under a master franchise model and has successfully expanded to over 80 locations in France and internationally. Founded by Eddy BENGHANEM, the first four restaurants were opened in Rhône-Alpes within a year of inception. Each restaurant is designed to be standardized and replicable, featuring an area of over 100 square meters and accommodating up to 80 customers. Nabab Kebab's restaurants are open seven days a week, ensuring continuous service and competitive pricing for quality meals.

SeniorAdom

Venture Round in 2015
SeniorAdom, founded in November 2012, specializes in remote assistance technology aimed at ensuring the safety of elderly and disabled individuals. The company’s innovative system employs a network of detectors—without the use of cameras—to automatically detect falls, sudden illnesses, and unusual behavioral patterns in users' homes. This central device is easy to install and operates independently, utilizing an embedded GSM mobile phone card that requires no internet connection. Caregivers receive alerts via text or email, allowing them to monitor the well-being of their clients through a secure, personalized platform. By providing real-time monitoring and emergency alerts, SeniorAdom enhances the safety and peace of mind for both caregivers and service users, effectively modernizing a sector that has seen limited technological advancement over the past several decades.

ALSEI SAS

Venture Round in 2015
ALSEI SAS is a French real estate group.

Axègaz

Venture Round in 2015
Axègaz SAS is a supplier and distributor of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in France, catering primarily to business customers across various sectors, including industry, transportation, and local distribution networks. Founded in 2012 and based in Levallois-Perret, the company offers a range of services beyond LNG supply, including technical studies, administrative support, installation, maintenance, and financing services. Axègaz focuses on providing sustainable energy alternatives, ensuring that LNG and bio-LNG are accessible to diverse customer segments. The company emphasizes the integration of necessary energy infrastructure, allowing for remote monitoring of consumption and anticipating tank deliveries, which aids industries in enhancing their environmental performance while achieving operational efficiencies.

Menlook Group

Venture Round in 2014
Menlook Group is a prominent European online marketplace focused on men's lifestyle and fashion, attracting over 4 million unique visitors each month. Since its acquisition of oki-ni.com in 2013, the company has solidified its position in the premium and luxury markets. With a workforce of 150 employees across four countries and a network of over 1,000 partners, Menlook has demonstrated significant growth, achieving an impressive growth rate of 80% in 2015. The marketplace offers a diverse range of products, including ready-to-wear clothing, shoes, and accessories, complemented by editorial content that covers various topics of interest to men, such as fashion, technology, culture, travel, and gourmet food. This comprehensive approach enables Menlook to embody and promote the essence of the modern masculine lifestyle.

Secret Sales

Series C in 2014
Secret Sales Ltd., established in London in 2006, operates as an online retailer specializing in discounted fashion products for women and men. Its offerings include clothing, accessories, footwear, denims, jewelry, underwear, cosmetics, and homeware from various brands. The company, formerly known as Noble Secret Ltd., changed its name to Secret Sales Ltd. in February 2007. In the same month, it received additional investment from 123Ventures and Partech VI alongside existing shareholders and founders.

Cooltech Applications

Venture Round in 2013
Cooltech Applications specializes in innovative refrigeration systems utilizing magnetocaloric cooling technology, a concept rooted in 19th-century science. The company's solutions aim to replace conventional gas-based cooling systems found in home appliances, buildings, and transportation. By harnessing the magnetocaloric effect, Cooltech's systems provide a compression-less and gas-free alternative that is both energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. This approach allows users to adopt appliances that significantly reduce carbon footprints, promoting a more sustainable future in cooling technologies.

Cooltech Applications

Venture Round in 2013
Cooltech Applications specializes in innovative refrigeration systems utilizing magnetocaloric cooling technology, a concept rooted in 19th-century science. The company's solutions aim to replace conventional gas-based cooling systems found in home appliances, buildings, and transportation. By harnessing the magnetocaloric effect, Cooltech's systems provide a compression-less and gas-free alternative that is both energy-efficient and environmentally friendly. This approach allows users to adopt appliances that significantly reduce carbon footprints, promoting a more sustainable future in cooling technologies.

Logix.Aero

Venture Round in 2013
Logix Aero, founded in 2009 and based in Caluire-et-Cuire, France, specializes in inventory management and repair management solutions for the aerospace industry. The company offers a range of services, including operational leases for aircraft rotables, inventory optimization, and management of used serviceable components. Logix Aero focuses on providing efficient parts dispatch management, as well as support for loan and exchange management, repair cycle management, and documentation management. By offering tailored solutions and direct visibility on inventory, the company aims to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), maintenance, repair, and operations (MROs), and operators to streamline their processes and enhance their operational efficiency.

StartingDot

Series A in 2012
StartingDot launched in October 2011. They are the registry for 3 new generic top-level domain names (TLDs) dedicated to major sectors: .archi, .bio and .ski. Their TLDs help people and businesses clearly express themselves and reach deeper into their audiences. They are a leading European TLD Registry with offices in Dublin (Ireland), Paris (France) and New York City (USA). Their strategy is to focus on TLDs in SME categories where the correlation between trade and domain name is critical. The company was acquired by Afilias plc in August 2016.

Unowhy

Venture Round in 2010
UNOWHY, established in 2007 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in designing and developing innovative applications for iPhone users. Originally launched as a Foodtech company, it has successfully transitioned into the Edtech sector, focusing on harnessing digital technology to enhance learning experiences. The company is known for its QOOQ and SQOOL platforms, which provide valuable services and educational content. UNOWHY also develops specialized touch tablets tailored for the kitchen and educational environments, featuring a practical design and exclusive content aimed at simplifying the learning processes for cooking and other educational subjects.

The Bakery

Venture Round in 2010
The Bakery is an innovative technology company providing revolutionary software solutions for the production of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery, or "3D") animated feature films. The Bakery has decided to build software solutions designed to scale up efficiently and give guarantees of delivery for the production of high quality 3D feature films.

Santen Pharmaceutical

Series D in 2009
Santen is a pharmaceutical company specializing in ophthalmic products, dedicated to improving the quality of life for patients worldwide. With over 120 years of research experience, Santen focuses primarily on the development of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, which constitutes the majority of its revenue. The company also offers over-the-counter medications and medical devices under its other operating segment. Santen's clinical development network spans Europe, Japan, and the United States, reflecting its commitment to addressing unmet needs in ophthalmology through innovative therapies and collaborative efforts. Most of its sales are generated in Japan, with a growing presence in other Asian markets.

Agnitio

Series B in 2009
Agnitio is a global leader in Voice ID technology, specializing in voice biometrics solutions for law enforcement, intelligence, and military agencies. Its products enable these organizations to prevent crime, identify suspects, and present evidence in court. With a broad customer base spanning over 35 countries, Agnitio's solutions are also employed in contact centers, financial services, telecommunications, and enterprise security sectors.

Deskom

Venture Round in 2008
Deskom operates a platform that facilitates the exchange of electronic invoices for its B2B customers. The company offers services and software solutions designed to assist organizations with invoice management, including internal accounting and the editing and maintenance of digital invoices. Additionally, Deskom enables third-party software integration to enhance the functionality of its hub, streamlining the invoicing process for businesses.

Tetco Technologies

Series D in 2007
Tetco Technologies SA engages in the development, integration, and distribution of services and solutions for telecom operators and enterprises in France. It offers a multi applications platform that enables to run various services and applications on the same hardware. The company offers next generation voice mail, unified messaging, unified communication, prepaid, live call screening, voice SMS, ringbacktone, short messaging service, and voice response solutions to telecom service providers. It also provides UCS unified communication, which is a product that integrates a unified number for mobile, office phone, and fax; UCS unified messaging that manages messages, such as voice, fax, and email; UCS voice mail; UCS fax server that manages faxes and e-mails; EVA, which is a speech recognition solution that offers an auto-attendant and a voice portal; IVR that access to information and services from a voice interface; and SMS Quest, which is a tool that uses the SMS technology to send and retrieve information inside a company to small enterprises and medium businesses. Tetco Technologies SA was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Courbevoie, France.

Seanodes

Series B in 2007
Seanodes SA develops data storage domain and shared internal storage solutions in France. It offers Exanodes, a software solution, which creates a shared storage system using the cluster's own hard disks. The company’s technology virtualizes storage assets to leverage underused internal disks and direct attached storage into a virtual shared storage array. It also provides online support, implementation, and consulting services. The company serves small and medium businesses, service providers, high performance computing, government, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, and oil and gas sectors through a network of resellers internationally. Seanodes SA was founded in 2002 and is based in Boulogne Billancourt, France.

Orchestra Networks

Series A in 2007
Orchestra Networks specializes in data management solutions, enabling organizations to effectively manage, govern, and share their critical data assets. The company offers a flexible software application designed for multidomain data management, which encompasses master data, reference data, and metadata. This comprehensive approach allows users to address diverse data needs, enhancing their ability to manage and distribute information across various platforms, including mobile and web applications. With over fifteen years of experience in the field, Orchestra Networks emphasizes the importance of a robust data management strategy that goes beyond simple point solutions, catering to the evolving requirements of businesses in various sectors.

Nautilus Biotech

Venture Round in 2007
Nautilus Biotech is a biotechnology company. The company has a pipeline of therapeutic proteins with improved profiles. The company's products include Belerofon, an injectable and orally available interferon alpha for use in the treatment of chronic Hepatitis C infection; and Vitatropin, an injectable and orally available human growth hormone (hGH) for use in the treatment of growth deficiencies. Nautilus Biotech S.A. sells therapeutic proteins, including interferons, hormones, growth factors, and enzymes in France and internationally. The company's protein engineering technology improves the pharmacology profile and administration route of blockbuster protein drugs. Nautilus Biotech S.A. was founded in 1999 and is based in Evry, France.

Tetco Technologies

Series C in 2007
Tetco Technologies SA engages in the development, integration, and distribution of services and solutions for telecom operators and enterprises in France. It offers a multi applications platform that enables to run various services and applications on the same hardware. The company offers next generation voice mail, unified messaging, unified communication, prepaid, live call screening, voice SMS, ringbacktone, short messaging service, and voice response solutions to telecom service providers. It also provides UCS unified communication, which is a product that integrates a unified number for mobile, office phone, and fax; UCS unified messaging that manages messages, such as voice, fax, and email; UCS voice mail; UCS fax server that manages faxes and e-mails; EVA, which is a speech recognition solution that offers an auto-attendant and a voice portal; IVR that access to information and services from a voice interface; and SMS Quest, which is a tool that uses the SMS technology to send and retrieve information inside a company to small enterprises and medium businesses. Tetco Technologies SA was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Courbevoie, France.

Netsize

Series D in 2006
Netsize, a company under Gemalto, specializes in mobile operator micro-payment solutions and messaging services. It directly collaborates with mobile operators to assist clients in monetizing mobile services, including the sale of digital goods, vending, ticketing, and value-added services such as mobile marketing. The company’s payment and messaging network serves over 2 billion consumers and connects more than 1,000 merchants and service providers with over 160 mobile network operators across more than 50 countries. This extensive reach enables Netsize to provide customized solutions such as In-App Payments, P-SMS, and Online and Direct Billing. With a team of over 250 telecom professionals and local offices in 21 countries, Netsize leverages its direct connections to mobile operators to facilitate rapid market engagement and effective, results-oriented campaigns for its clients.

fg microtec

Venture Round in 2006
fg microtec GmbH provides multimedia applications for 2.5G, 3G, and WLAN mobile phones. Its products include OMA/IMS compliant push-over-cellular clients, IMS and SIP based VoIP solutions, videotelephony, and video sharing over 3G and WLAN networks. The company also provides embedded software solutions, push to talk over cellular solutions, embedded applications, layered architectures, OMA enabler conformance tests, and data streams and protocols. It serves mobile phone manufacturers. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Munich, Germany with an additional office in Zagreb, Croatia.

Santen Pharmaceutical

Post in 2006
Santen is a pharmaceutical company specializing in ophthalmic products, dedicated to improving the quality of life for patients worldwide. With over 120 years of research experience, Santen focuses primarily on the development of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, which constitutes the majority of its revenue. The company also offers over-the-counter medications and medical devices under its other operating segment. Santen's clinical development network spans Europe, Japan, and the United States, reflecting its commitment to addressing unmet needs in ophthalmology through innovative therapies and collaborative efforts. Most of its sales are generated in Japan, with a growing presence in other Asian markets.

Ariane Systems

Venture Round in 2006
Ariane Systems Group develops self-service check-in and check-out technology solutions tailored for the hospitality industry. The company offers a range of products, including electronic kiosks, mobile applications, and web-based solutions designed to streamline the check-in and check-out process. Key features include passport scanning, image capture, magnetic strip cards, online registration, and a dashboard module for managing arrivals and departures. By enabling guests to bypass the front desk and use their devices for check-in and key collection, Ariane Systems enhances operational efficiency and minimizes unnecessary face-to-face interactions. The company supports its customers with project management, training, and ongoing support services. Established in 1994 and headquartered in Pantin, France, Ariane Systems maintains a network of distributors across Europe, North America, Southeastern Asia, and South Africa, and has formed strategic partnerships with various organizations in the hospitality sector.

fg microtec

Series B in 2005
fg microtec GmbH provides multimedia applications for 2.5G, 3G, and WLAN mobile phones. Its products include OMA/IMS compliant push-over-cellular clients, IMS and SIP based VoIP solutions, videotelephony, and video sharing over 3G and WLAN networks. The company also provides embedded software solutions, push to talk over cellular solutions, embedded applications, layered architectures, OMA enabler conformance tests, and data streams and protocols. It serves mobile phone manufacturers. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Munich, Germany with an additional office in Zagreb, Croatia.

TheraDiag

Series C in 2005
TheraDiag is a France-based company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of in-vitro diagnostic products. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Marne La Vallée, the company offers a range of diagnostic tools, including reagents for autoimmune and infectious diseases, as well as fertility tests. Notable products include IMMUNO-TROL, a quality control tool; various instruments for disease testing; and the SQA-V semen analyzer. TheraDiag also provides advanced instrumentation such as the Theralis platform, which integrates immunofluorescence and ELISA technologies, and the FIDIS platform for laboratory analysis. Additionally, the company offers therapeutic drug monitoring services for chronic inflammatory diseases and LISA tracker, a tool designed for monitoring biotherapies.

Nautilus Biotech

Venture Round in 2005
Nautilus Biotech is a biotechnology company. The company has a pipeline of therapeutic proteins with improved profiles. The company's products include Belerofon, an injectable and orally available interferon alpha for use in the treatment of chronic Hepatitis C infection; and Vitatropin, an injectable and orally available human growth hormone (hGH) for use in the treatment of growth deficiencies. Nautilus Biotech S.A. sells therapeutic proteins, including interferons, hormones, growth factors, and enzymes in France and internationally. The company's protein engineering technology improves the pharmacology profile and administration route of blockbuster protein drugs. Nautilus Biotech S.A. was founded in 1999 and is based in Evry, France.

Santen Pharmaceutical

Post in 2003
Santen is a pharmaceutical company specializing in ophthalmic products, dedicated to improving the quality of life for patients worldwide. With over 120 years of research experience, Santen focuses primarily on the development of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, which constitutes the majority of its revenue. The company also offers over-the-counter medications and medical devices under its other operating segment. Santen's clinical development network spans Europe, Japan, and the United States, reflecting its commitment to addressing unmet needs in ophthalmology through innovative therapies and collaborative efforts. Most of its sales are generated in Japan, with a growing presence in other Asian markets.

TheraDiag

Series B in 2003
TheraDiag is a France-based company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of in-vitro diagnostic products. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Marne La Vallée, the company offers a range of diagnostic tools, including reagents for autoimmune and infectious diseases, as well as fertility tests. Notable products include IMMUNO-TROL, a quality control tool; various instruments for disease testing; and the SQA-V semen analyzer. TheraDiag also provides advanced instrumentation such as the Theralis platform, which integrates immunofluorescence and ELISA technologies, and the FIDIS platform for laboratory analysis. Additionally, the company offers therapeutic drug monitoring services for chronic inflammatory diseases and LISA tracker, a tool designed for monitoring biotherapies.
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