A Plus Finance

A Plus Finance, which is headquartered in Paris (France), is an independent trust company specialising in the management of Common Investment Funds for Innovation (FCPI) and Proximity Investment Funds (FIP). A Plus Finance is involved in all innovative sectors, particularly in the IT, media and security fields. The A Plus Finance team includes financiers and entrepreneurs, thus providing companies with both an awareness of the daily constraints of management and a long-term perspective on the development of their business. Managing funds amounting to nearly €220m, A Plus Finance invests between €1 million and €4 million per project.per
FB

Frédéric Bayol

Partner, Co-Founder

NC

Niels Court-Payen

CEO and President

Alexis François

Director

OG

Olivier Gillot

Partner

Fabrice Imbault

Managing Partner

MM

Marine Marmey

Analyst

NC

Niels Court Payen

Chairman, Co-Founder

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Guillaume Pellery

Investment Director

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Nicolas Pereira

Associate

Christophe Peyre

Partner

JS

Jean-Michel Sibué

Partner

Alexandre Villet

Investment Director

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Libon

Seed Round in 2018
Libon is the application that call friends and family with the best quality at the best price. The Libon Service was developed by Orange Vallée, the subsidiary in charge of innovation and development of the Orange Group. Set up in 2008, Orange Vallée aims to identify new needs and new technological uses to develop innovative services accessible to all users regardless of their mobile operator or their internet access provider. Since August 2018, Libon team left Orange to become an independent company: Libon S.A.S.

Wyplay

Series B in 2008
WYplay SAS develops digital TV software solutions. The company provides television and home media connected platforms for markets in North America. It offers software licensing to turnkey products, media center consumer electronic (CE) devices, full-HD IPTV boxes, DVB set top boxes, connected televisions, and in-home HD multimedia-HDD products. The company also offers media management, home networking, and connectivity products, as well as connected digital media player, digital media server, CD/DVD optical drive, browser, and analog acquisition components. WYplay SAS was founded in 2006 and is based in Allauch, France.

Oxatis

Series D in 2016
Oxatis offers tools for creating complete websites (online CMS software, hosting, integrated shopping cart, etc). Their products allow small businesses to establish an Internet presence and sell online without prior technical knowledge and with minimal investment.

SpineGuard

Series A in 2009
The primary objective of SpineGuard is to establish PediGuard® as the STANDARD OF CARE FOR SAFER PEDICLE SCREW PLACEMENT to the benefit of patients, surgeons and health care providers as well as the shareholders, employees and partners of SpineGuard. Secondarily, SpineGuard is exploring other applications for the PediGuard technology platform provided that they are in line with the SpineGuard mission.

HYDRELIS SAS

Venture Round in 2010
HYDRELIS SAS manufactures and sells water breakers that automatically shut off the water in case of abnormal consumption. The company provides switch, stop, and sensi flow water breakers. It offers its products through retailers and an online store. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Isques, France.

Novalys

Series A in 2007
Novalys designs development tools for software developers. The company offers Visual Expert that automates impact analysis, generates source code documentation, and checks code quality; and Visual Guard, an application permission system, which manages user profiles and permissions in PowerBuilder applications. It serves banking and insurance, administration, industry, and service companies, as well as IT consultancy and software vendors. Novalys was founded in 1998 and is based in Boulogne, France.

Passage SAS

Private Equity Round in 2015
Passage SAS produces and distributes non-skid floor coverings used in roadways, building, and water sports. The company was incorporated in 1978 and is based in Liré, France.

ERCOM

Venture Round in 2009
Ercom is a Thales company with years of combined expertise in two key areas cybersecurity and communication networks. Being a reference company means providing clients with cutting-edge solutions for their industry, combining certified security and simplicity to accelerate end-user adoption over a range of devices. They develop a complete range of solutions to counter data, devices, and communication hacking. More than 120 institutions, small and big companies trusted Ercom to secure their data and communications.

Systancia SA

Venture Round in 2012
Systancia is a french leading company in server based computing. Thanks to its comprehensive range of software, Systancia covers all the functional and technical needs for centralised environments. By the technological values of its products, by the solutions brought to users, today Systancia gets more and more customers in France, the company goes on growing thanks to a large partner network in France and in Europe.

HYDRELIS SAS

Venture Round in 2013
HYDRELIS SAS manufactures and sells water breakers that automatically shut off the water in case of abnormal consumption. The company provides switch, stop, and sensi flow water breakers. It offers its products through retailers and an online store. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Isques, France.

Spartoo

Series C in 2012
Spartoo is a European online retailer of shoes and footwear. It is engaged in the online retail of shoes for men, women, and children. The company offers low top trainers, low smart shoes, boots and high top shoes, high top trainers, flip flops, sandals, court shoes, boots, flat shoes, and ankle and low boots. It delivers products to England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and offshore islands. Spartoo was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Grenoble, France. It has operations in Germany, England, Italy, and Spain.

Neteven

Series A in 2016
NETEVEN SA provides online sales management services. It is a platform to manage and optimize the full sale cycle on all marketplaces in Europe, United States, Africa, and Asia. It publishes a virtual platform using the even marketplaces application which enables professional users to manage the publication of their sales offers directly. The company offers to sell products online from one central cloud based platform. NETEVEN SA was founded in 2005 and is based in Paris, France.

Oxatis

Series C in 2014
Oxatis offers tools for creating complete websites (online CMS software, hosting, integrated shopping cart, etc). Their products allow small businesses to establish an Internet presence and sell online without prior technical knowledge and with minimal investment.

Neteven

Series A in 2013
NETEVEN SA provides online sales management services. It is a platform to manage and optimize the full sale cycle on all marketplaces in Europe, United States, Africa, and Asia. It publishes a virtual platform using the even marketplaces application which enables professional users to manage the publication of their sales offers directly. The company offers to sell products online from one central cloud based platform. NETEVEN SA was founded in 2005 and is based in Paris, France.

VeryLastRoom

Venture Round in 2014
VeryLastRoom is a last-minute hotel booking app that offers same-day deals. The less stay, the cheaper get - on VeryLastRoom, prices fall in real time from noon until 2am. Every day they offer rooms for the evening with discounts up to 70%. Already more than 400 hotels offer us their best “very last minute” rates, from small and charming hotel to 5 stars; there is something for all tastes and all budgets.
RSI Video Technologies is the manufacturer of Videofied, a wireless alarm system that sends a short video clip over 3G/4G cellular or Ethernet to professional monitoring stations for immediate video verification of the alarm and dispatch to law enforcement for priority response to a verified crime-in-progress.

Holimetrix

Series A in 2015
Holimetrix has been developed specifically for digital companies that significantly invest in media and marketing services, both on and offline, with the aim of acquiring and retaining both existing and new customers. Their main concern is to enable companies to make productivity gains in marketing and ensure their media and marketing activities are more effective and profitable. They have therefore developed a tool to respond to the short and medium term challenges faced by companies

Anatole

Venture Round in 2010
Anatole provides solutions allowing enterprises to deal with key aspects of telecoms, mobility and IT: cost, policy, usage and assets. Anatole offers a market-leading TEM solution and a management suite for analytics, reporting and management of all telecoms and IT assets, including enterprise mobility solutions and other user/asset systems. Anatole offers a complete range of solutions, from software, to consulting, to managed and professional services. Anatole manages telecom spend in more than 50 countries throughout the world; and over 150 customers rely on Anatole solutions. Anatole works directly with enterprises as well as mobile operators and systems integrators.

My-Serious-Game

Series A in 2019
As the French leader in customized digital training, My-Serious-Game develops the knowledge of your employees, enhances their soft skills and mobilizes them, through tailor-made gamified solutions such as 3D simulations, competitive mobile challenges, blended learning or VR. Dare to learn in a fun and technological way! Catch and keep the trainees’ attention by offering them real immersive adventures. Combining techno-pedagogy, storytelling, technologies and techniques borrowed from the world of video games, they plunge your learners into a new formative, powerful and engaging experience.

Systancia SA

Venture Round in 2009
Systancia is a french leading company in server based computing. Thanks to its comprehensive range of software, Systancia covers all the functional and technical needs for centralised environments. By the technological values of its products, by the solutions brought to users, today Systancia gets more and more customers in France, the company goes on growing thanks to a large partner network in France and in Europe.

GEOLID

Series A in 2010
Geolid is a search optimization website with a primary focus on french consumers.

Neteven

Seed Round in 2007
NETEVEN SA provides online sales management services. It is a platform to manage and optimize the full sale cycle on all marketplaces in Europe, United States, Africa, and Asia. It publishes a virtual platform using the even marketplaces application which enables professional users to manage the publication of their sales offers directly. The company offers to sell products online from one central cloud based platform. NETEVEN SA was founded in 2005 and is based in Paris, France.

Radio Systemes Ingenierie

Series D in 2009
Radio Systemes Ingenierie S.A. provides wireless communication systems. It offers Visioguard, a wireless alarm system that provide remote video monitoring, local monitoring with a TV or a monitor, integrated Internet-server, and emails with attached video-files. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Strasbourg, France.

ividence

Series B in 2012
Ividence, Inc. operates as an email advertising platform. The company offers ividence, an email advertising exchange platform that uses behavioral targeting technology to match the right offer to the right audience. The platform connects advertisers and publishers, optimizes the email creativity and maintain list hygiene, matches the right email offer to the right records based on end-user behavior, advertising bid, sends email offers, manages feedback, unsubscribed requests and complaints, real-time reporting for advertisers, CRM retargeting, and list the owners. Ividence, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in New York and San Francisco.

Neteven

Series A in 2020
NETEVEN SA provides online sales management services. It is a platform to manage and optimize the full sale cycle on all marketplaces in Europe, United States, Africa, and Asia. It publishes a virtual platform using the even marketplaces application which enables professional users to manage the publication of their sales offers directly. The company offers to sell products online from one central cloud based platform. NETEVEN SA was founded in 2005 and is based in Paris, France.

Neteven

Seed Round in 2010
NETEVEN SA provides online sales management services. It is a platform to manage and optimize the full sale cycle on all marketplaces in Europe, United States, Africa, and Asia. It publishes a virtual platform using the even marketplaces application which enables professional users to manage the publication of their sales offers directly. The company offers to sell products online from one central cloud based platform. NETEVEN SA was founded in 2005 and is based in Paris, France.

Vis Ma Ville

Seed Round in 2012
Vis Ma Ville is a flash sales e-commerce platform of products that simplify daily individuals’ life.

Oxatis

Series B in 2010
Oxatis offers tools for creating complete websites (online CMS software, hosting, integrated shopping cart, etc). Their products allow small businesses to establish an Internet presence and sell online without prior technical knowledge and with minimal investment.

ATEME

Venture Round in 2010
ATEME SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides video delivery infrastructure solutions worldwide. The company offers various solutions, such as TITAN Live, a software-based live video compression for distribution applications; TITAN Mux, a multi-function software stream processing solution; Titan Origin, a software-based origin server, recorder, and just-in-time packager; TITAN File, a file transcoder; and AMS, a unified network management system. It also provides KYRION CM5000, an ultra-low latency encoder; and KYRION DR5000, an ultra-low latency integrated receiver decoder. The company offers its products for cable, DTH, IPTV, terrestrial, OTT, teleport, and contribution markets. ATEME SA was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France.

Directstreams SA

Venture Round in 2012
Directstreams SA operates as a software editor and services operator. It offers DSiD, a media center solution for the guest room to manage and deliver interactive and multimedia services on a TV set or/and a computer into every guest room. The company also provides DSkiosk, a business center solution for the hospitality sector that enables external and internal communications system to be installed rapidly and without the risk of incompatibilities. Directstreams SA was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, France.

ividence

Series A in 2011
Ividence, Inc. operates as an email advertising platform. The company offers ividence, an email advertising exchange platform that uses behavioral targeting technology to match the right offer to the right audience. The platform connects advertisers and publishers, optimizes the email creativity and maintain list hygiene, matches the right email offer to the right records based on end-user behavior, advertising bid, sends email offers, manages feedback, unsubscribed requests and complaints, real-time reporting for advertisers, CRM retargeting, and list the owners. Ividence, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in New York and San Francisco.

Oxatis

Series A in 2008
Oxatis offers tools for creating complete websites (online CMS software, hosting, integrated shopping cart, etc). Their products allow small businesses to establish an Internet presence and sell online without prior technical knowledge and with minimal investment.

Conztanz

Series A in 2015
Created in July 2013, Conztanz was born from a common vision of the three co-founders. Between them, they have a century of experience in the travel IT sector and the accumulated experience of 15 individual initiatives. Conztanz is an expert company in data and airline IT providing consulting and a cloud-based agility platform. They serve airlines, airports and new entrants with one ambition: help airlines and their IT Providers ecosystem to implement all the assets brought by the digital and become modern customer centric retailing companies.

Doucet

Venture Round in 2014
Groupe Doucet designs, manufactures, and distributes maintenance, hygiene, and cleaning products for the upkeep, renovation, and maintenance of domestic and work environments in Europe. It offers insecticides, wood and furniture care products, and fillers for wood, metal, and other materials; and hygiene and cleaning products for public and private institutions, and small and medium-sized manufacturing and food companies. The company markets its products through distribution outlets, including drugstores, hardware shops, DIY stores, home improvement stores, garden centers, furniture shops, and merchants in France, Poland, Russia, and Romania. Groupe Doucet was founded in 1999 and is based in Paris, France.

Spartoo

Series B in 2010
Spartoo is a European online retailer of shoes and footwear. It is engaged in the online retail of shoes for men, women, and children. The company offers low top trainers, low smart shoes, boots and high top shoes, high top trainers, flip flops, sandals, court shoes, boots, flat shoes, and ankle and low boots. It delivers products to England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and offshore islands. Spartoo was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Grenoble, France. It has operations in Germany, England, Italy, and Spain.

Prylos

Venture Round in 2007
Prylos engages in designing, developing, and integrating customized embedded software for mobile devices, mobile networks, and server applications. It develops solutions for on-site interventions management, sales people reporting, and shared timeschedule. The company serves the companies that provide mobile tools, software editors, content suppliers, developing or consulting companies, and mobile operators. Prylos is based in Paris, France.

Le Lutin rouge.com

Venture Round in 2008
Le Lutin rouge.com is an online toy store.

Infront Analytics

Series C in 2006
Infinancials' mission is to serve finance professionals by simplifying company valuation, screening and benchmarking to a quick and easy task. Infinancials is the leading provider of high-quality, comparable and auditable fundamental data and analytics on worldwide listed companies.

GreenTropism

Venture Round in 2017
GreenTropism provides Unique mathematical models and software components for spectrometers, based on disruptive big data, machine learning and genetic algorithms.

Wyplay

Series C in 2010
WYplay SAS develops digital TV software solutions. The company provides television and home media connected platforms for markets in North America. It offers software licensing to turnkey products, media center consumer electronic (CE) devices, full-HD IPTV boxes, DVB set top boxes, connected televisions, and in-home HD multimedia-HDD products. The company also offers media management, home networking, and connectivity products, as well as connected digital media player, digital media server, CD/DVD optical drive, browser, and analog acquisition components. WYplay SAS was founded in 2006 and is based in Allauch, France.

Splashworld

Venture Round in 2016
Splashworld is the park covers nearly 5 hectares in the heart of a booming economic zone.Aware that France, the world's leading tourist destination, did not offer water parks at the level of the international market, Frédéric Bouvard, president of Splashworld, has developed a resolutely modern, eco-responsible concept and presenting the latest innovations in terms of attractions. It offers the largest river in Europe, the largest surf simulator with the largest artificial wave in the world, Da Wave, 3,5m. Lovers of gliding and thrills will be able to have fun at the rate of 120 water games on 1200 m² of structure. Splashworld revolutionizes the sector by offering a totally new offer: in addition to incredible attractions truly unique in Europe, it is a real theme park with a strong thematic identity supported by a family of mascots found on the park. These mascots perform on stage through an interactive musical entertainment show. One of the priority objectives of Splashworld is to minimize the ecological footprint (especially the water and energy needs, by optimizing the production processes. recycling and use of environmentally friendly products, working on short supply chains and employing local labor).

AlephD SAS

Series A in 2013
AlephD SAS provides publishers with real-time optimization strategies together with business intelligence solutions. It offers YieldEngine, a real-time yield management solution for AppNexus; InstantPredict, which addresses publishers’ constant need to decide what source of revenue to prioritize; and InventoryLab, an integrated software suite to help publishers to make decisions based on data analysis and business intelligence tools. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Paris, France. As of January 25, 2016, AlephD SAS operates as a subsidiary of AOL Inc.

WEEZEVENT

Series A in 2011
Weezevent is a French start-up that provides online event registration and ticketing services to event organizers. Event organizers can start selling tickets in just minutes for a 2.5% fee on each ticket sold, with no extra expenses. Previously working in the events industry, the 3 founders encountered difficulties in selling tickets over the Internet, and devised a simple solution to solve this problem.

Spartoo

Series A in 2007
Spartoo is a European online retailer of shoes and footwear. It is engaged in the online retail of shoes for men, women, and children. The company offers low top trainers, low smart shoes, boots and high top shoes, high top trainers, flip flops, sandals, court shoes, boots, flat shoes, and ankle and low boots. It delivers products to England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and offshore islands. Spartoo was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Grenoble, France. It has operations in Germany, England, Italy, and Spain.

Watt & Company

Series A in 2010
Watt & Company offers strong penetration in all classes of trade including: National Accounts, Retail Stores, Discount Stores, Computer Specialty Stores, Software Retailers, Warehouse Clubs, e-tailers and Wholesale Distribution Accounts.

GEOLID

Series B in 2013
Geolid is a search optimization website with a primary focus on french consumers.

Intrasense SA

Venture Round in 2008
Intrasense SA is a company, which specializes in designing and developing software for two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) viewing and analyzing medical images. Intrasense was founded in 2004 by a multidisciplinary team combining unique skills and experiences in IT, maths, engineering and healthcare.We aim at accelerating and leveraging the use and interpretation of medical images throughout the chain of care. This ranges from research, to screening, to diagnosis, to treatment planning, as well as lesions follow-up. Medical imaging has gone under considerable changes over the last 40 years. Images produced today are extremely detailed, complex to analyze but dramatically fundamental in all health systems. They overcome and comply with regulatory, technological and clinical constraints in order to set new standards and improve the quality of cancer treatments and patients’ lives.

SpineGuard

Series B in 2011
The primary objective of SpineGuard is to establish PediGuard® as the STANDARD OF CARE FOR SAFER PEDICLE SCREW PLACEMENT to the benefit of patients, surgeons and health care providers as well as the shareholders, employees and partners of SpineGuard. Secondarily, SpineGuard is exploring other applications for the PediGuard technology platform provided that they are in line with the SpineGuard mission.

La Belle Vie

Venture Round in 2020
La Belle Vie is an online grocery based in Paris, France. It sells basic groceries, organic stuff, meat, fish and vegetables. It has developed all its tools from scratch, including its ERP, a warehouse management service and a delivery management service.

Sport Heroes Group

Series A in 2016
Sport Heroes is a sport and wellbeing startup that aims to unite communities and motivate the masses to exercise more. The company uses innovating technology to create and animate communities of sports enthusiast, combined with their 3 pillars: inspire, motivate, reward. Founded in 2014, we're a sport and wellbeing start-up of 70 passionate people located in 4 offices: Paris - London - Madrid - Sydney. They use digital platforms to engage large audiences around their practice while delivering local experiences and a personal service. Sport Heroes has developed the tool to manage and animate communities of sport enthusiasts.

Mister Bell

Series A in 2012
Mister Bell operates a mobile advertising network in Europe. It provides advertisers with maximum ROI and publishers with monetization solutions. The company also offers mobile acquisition solutions, including mobile tracking and adserving, multi operating systems, campaign optimization, recyblage mobile advertising, geo-location mobile, and detailed reporting in real time. Mister Bell was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

Keecker SAS

Seed Round in 2017
Keecker SAS develops a mobile robot for homes that projects movies, plays music, browses the Web, and captures sounds and images. Its robot displays images on various surfaces and projects sounds in 360 degrees. The company’s robot also provides users with home analytics, including temperature, humidity, CO2 level, and more; and allows them to check in and see their homes remotely for security purposes. Its robot works through smartphones. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Paris, France.