Bpifrance

Bpifrance is a financial institution dedicated to supporting companies throughout their development stages, particularly those preparing for stock market listing and seeking credit equity. The organization provides a range of financial solutions, including financing, innovation assistance, and capital investment. By integrating various entities such as OSEO and CDC Entreprises, Bpifrance aims to deliver tailored financial support that addresses the specific needs of businesses. The institution is committed to fostering innovation and helping companies transition toward sustainable growth, ensuring they are well-equipped to face future challenges.

Marion Aubry

Investment Director

Emmanuel Audouard

Director of Transverse Venture Capital Investments Division

Maufras Du Chatellier, Elyssa

Investment Director

Charlotte Corbaz

Investment Drector - Large Venture

Dahoune, Sofia

Associate

Vanessa Giraud

Director of Environmental Impact Funds

Gwenaël Hamon

Investment Director

Laurent Higueret

Senior Investment Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences - Large Venture Fund

Jacq, Véronique

Head of Digital Venture team

So-Yeon Koo

Senior Investment Manager

Eric Lefebvre

Director

Legardeur, Arnaud

Investment Director

Serge Mesguich

Director of FIT

Louis Molis

Investment Director

Adrien Neel

Investment Director

Gilles Schang

Deputy Managing Director

Past deals in MENA

Odaptos

Seed Round in 2023
Odaptos specializes in developing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates usability testing in videoconferencing environments. This artificial intelligence-driven solution analyzes human emotions and user behavior, delivering comprehensive insights that help businesses understand their end-users. The platform streamlines the usability testing process by visually highlighting critical moments during interviews, thereby saving time and allowing for a more efficient evaluation of the user journey. Through its innovative approach, Odaptos aims to enhance user experience and optimize product development based on real-time feedback and analysis.

Nutripure

Private Equity Round in 2022
Nutripure is a company based in Deyme, France, focused on the development and distribution of food supplements and organic superfoods. The business offers a diverse range of products, including protein bars, whey protein shakes, and peptides, aimed at helping customers achieve their health and wellness goals. As a Digital Native Vertical Brand, Nutripure emphasizes direct engagement with consumers, ensuring accessibility and quality in its offerings.

SeaBeLife

Grant in 2022
SeaBeLife Biotech SAS is a biotechnology company based in Roscoff, France, established in 2019. The company focuses on developing innovative drug candidates aimed at treating acute pathologies, particularly acute liver and renal failure. SeaBeLife's products are derived from a family of patented molecules designed to block regulated necrosis, a type of regulated cell death. By targeting two synergistic pathways involved in various acute and chronic diseases, SeaBeLife aims to establish a new standard of care for patients with significant unmet medical needs. Through its research and development efforts, the company seeks to enhance patient outcomes and reduce complications associated with serious health conditions.

Tenacy

Seed Round in 2022
The SaaS platform for better Compliance and Risk Management

Lisaqua

Seed Round in 2022
Lisaqua is developing a unique aquaculture process to raise prawns without antibiotics and without polluting waste

CarbonWorks

Series A in 2022
CarbonWorks is specialising in the use of microalgae to capture and utilise carbon dioxide.

Echoliv

Grant in 2021
Echoliv designs artificial intelligence solutions for abdominal ultrasound. They develop software to assist radiologists and hepatologists. The Ultraliv solution from Echoliv assists radiologists and hepatologists in early-stage ultrasound screening for the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (or HCC). The algorithm can detect nodules other than those identified by practitioners.

Lisaqua

Seed Round in 2021
Lisaqua is developing a unique aquaculture process to raise prawns without antibiotics and without polluting waste

Younited

Venture Round in 2021
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

Agilitest

Seed Round in 2021
Featuring a unique approach to functional test automation, Agilitest offers a comprehensive view on the quality of software at all times – on web, desktop, mobile and webservice technologies alike. In a context where Agile teams and DevOps integration are becoming the norm, Agilitest provides all software testers – whether they have a technical background or not – with an intuitive and robust way to create, maintain and execute automated functional tests.

iWire

Series A in 2021
iWire is a UAE based company established since 2009, providing IT services to enterprise clients. As the digital era is unfolding at a breath-taking pace, we are determined to provide leading-edge solutions in the following domains to address the new market realities. o Internet of Things o IT Optimization o Digital Transformation

EasyMile

Series B in 2021
EasyMile is a high-tech startup specialized in providing both software powering autonomous vehicles and the last mile smart mobility solutions. EasyMile partners with blue-chip manufacturers to autonomize their vehicles with award-winning technology built on safety-by-design, ready for deployment today, with clear client benefits. The company’s cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing passenger and goods transportation, offering completely new mobility options. Clients include the world’s largest transport operators, city authorities, airports, corporations, business parks, and universities. EasyMile is headquartered in Toulouse (France) with offices in Singapore and Denver (USA). It also operates through value-added resellers notably in Japan and the Middle East.

Voyageurs du Monde

Post in 2021
Voyageurs du Monde SA is a leading travel agency based in Paris, France, specializing in personalized travel experiences both domestically and internationally. Founded in 1979, the company organizes a wide range of trips, including honeymoons, family holidays, romantic getaways, summer vacations, and adventure travel, with destinations such as Japan, Italy, Egypt, Australia, South Africa, Indonesia, the United States, Brazil, and Greece. In addition to individual travel, Voyageurs du Monde also caters to groups and corporate clients, offering tailored business trips and guided tours. The agency operates under various brands, including Voyageurs du Monde, Comptoir des Voyages, Terres d'Aventures, and Allibert, and is recognized as a leader in the fields of tailor-made and adventure travel in France.

SeaBeLife

Seed Round in 2020
SeaBeLife Biotech SAS is a biotechnology company based in Roscoff, France, established in 2019. The company focuses on developing innovative drug candidates aimed at treating acute pathologies, particularly acute liver and renal failure. SeaBeLife's products are derived from a family of patented molecules designed to block regulated necrosis, a type of regulated cell death. By targeting two synergistic pathways involved in various acute and chronic diseases, SeaBeLife aims to establish a new standard of care for patients with significant unmet medical needs. Through its research and development efforts, the company seeks to enhance patient outcomes and reduce complications associated with serious health conditions.

Younited

Series F in 2019
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

Agricool

Series B in 2018
Agricool, founded in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru, aims to provide local, tasty, and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables by transforming shipping containers into urban farms. These innovative farms are designed to optimize growing conditions, utilizing advanced technology to enhance productivity and sustainability. Agricool's farming methods are significantly more efficient than conventional agriculture, achieving up to 120 times greater productivity and reducing water usage by over 90%. The farms operate entirely on renewable energy, ensuring an environmentally friendly approach to food production. Currently, Agricool cultivates strawberries in Paris and Dubai, with aspirations to expand its offerings to a wider variety of fruits and vegetables, contributing to the urban farming movement and addressing global food needs.

EasyMile

Series B in 2018
EasyMile is a high-tech startup specialized in providing both software powering autonomous vehicles and the last mile smart mobility solutions. EasyMile partners with blue-chip manufacturers to autonomize their vehicles with award-winning technology built on safety-by-design, ready for deployment today, with clear client benefits. The company’s cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing passenger and goods transportation, offering completely new mobility options. Clients include the world’s largest transport operators, city authorities, airports, corporations, business parks, and universities. EasyMile is headquartered in Toulouse (France) with offices in Singapore and Denver (USA). It also operates through value-added resellers notably in Japan and the Middle East.

Kalray

Venture Round in 2018
Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris: ALKAL) is a leading provider of hardware and software technologies and solutions for high-performance, data-centric computing markets, from cloud to edge. Kalray provides a full range of products to enable smarter, more efficient, and energy-wise data-intensive applications and infrastructures. Its offerings include its unique patented DPU (Data Processing Unit) processors and acceleration cards as well as its leading-edge software-defined storage, and data management offers. Separated or in combination, Kalray’s high-performance solutions allow its customers to improve the efficiency of data centers or design the best solutions in fast-growing sectors such as AI, Media & Entertainment, Life Sciences, Scientific Research, Edge Computing, Automotive and others. Founded in 2008 as a spin-off of the well-known French CEA research lab, with corporate and financial investors such as Alliance Venture (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), NXP Semiconductors or Bpifrance, Kalray is dedicated through technology, expertise, and passion to offer more: more for a smart world, more for the planet, more for customers and developers. www.kalrayinc.com

The Agent

Venture Round in 2018
TheAgent.com revolutionizes digital distribution of fashion brands. Their platform connects hundreds of European designer brands with e-retailers in 30 countries: USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa.

Kyriba

Series E in 2017
Kyriba specializes in providing cloud-based treasury management solutions through a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba helps treasury departments manage cash, risk, payments, and working capital optimization. Its innovative Active Liquidity Network connects internal treasury applications with external resources such as banks, ERPs, and market data providers. By leveraging advanced automation and artificial intelligence, Kyriba enables organizations to address complex financial challenges, reduce costs, and protect against fraud and financial risks. The platform is designed to streamline financial operations, facilitating better decision-making and maximizing growth opportunities for thousands of companies worldwide.

Younited

Series F in 2017
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

SIGFOX

Series E in 2016
Sigfox is a leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), specializing in low-power wide-area networking services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Labège, France, the company has developed a global network designed to connect billions of devices to the Internet while minimizing energy consumption and complexity. By addressing key barriers to IoT adoption—cost, energy use, and scalability—Sigfox supports various industries, including supply chain and logistics, manufacturing, utilities, insurance, and agriculture. Its cloud-based platform simplifies device-to-cloud communications, allowing clients to benefit from efficient connectivity solutions. As of now, Sigfox's network spans 26 countries, with plans for expansion to 60 countries, serving a population of approximately 397 million people and fostering a growing ecosystem of partners and innovations in the IoT space.

Kyriba

Series D in 2016
Kyriba specializes in providing cloud-based treasury management solutions through a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba helps treasury departments manage cash, risk, payments, and working capital optimization. Its innovative Active Liquidity Network connects internal treasury applications with external resources such as banks, ERPs, and market data providers. By leveraging advanced automation and artificial intelligence, Kyriba enables organizations to address complex financial challenges, reduce costs, and protect against fraud and financial risks. The platform is designed to streamline financial operations, facilitating better decision-making and maximizing growth opportunities for thousands of companies worldwide.

Cirpack

Venture Round in 2015
Cirpack telecom service providers can now promote innovative telephony including the best of fixed and mobile services, to create new opportunities for increased revenues from enterprise sales. Founded in 1998, Cirpack is a leader in Voice over IP (VOIP) software solutions and telecommunication platforms for telecom operators to ensure the convergence of their voice, data and video services (triple play offerings) on their network. IP. The Group is present in France, Germany, Mexico, Lebanon and Vietnam. Recognized for the strength and reliability of its solutions, Cirpack Group offers flexibility and responsiveness to its customers to support them in their communication strategies over Voice over IP. The company offers a full range of innovative products to over 15 million subscribers and 150 operators worldwide thanks to the modularity and ease of integration and operation of its solutions. In parallel, Cirpack provides advice, support and maintenance to its customers.

English Attack

Series A in 2015
English Attack is a Web 2.0, entertainment-driven English language learning Entertainment Learning was created to bring leverage the power of digital entertainment to transform the way people learn. Its flagship service, English Attack! (www.english-attack.com) creates true innovation in the $35 billion market for English language learning via a 100% entertainment-driven approach to helping learners increase and enhance their exposure to, and use of, the language. It achieves this via interactive lessons based on clips from blockbuster movies, hit TV series, and television news reports; chart-topping music videos; professionally produced casual games; visual dictionaries; and a global social network of learners of English. Entertainment Learning was founded by experienced digital entertainment executives Paul Maglione and Frederic Tibout, who launched English Attack! commercially in 2012 after the service had won or been a finalist in several French and European startup competitions including Plugg Brussels, The Next Web Amsterdam, and Seedcamp Paris.

SIGFOX

Series D in 2015
Sigfox is a leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), specializing in low-power wide-area networking services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Labège, France, the company has developed a global network designed to connect billions of devices to the Internet while minimizing energy consumption and complexity. By addressing key barriers to IoT adoption—cost, energy use, and scalability—Sigfox supports various industries, including supply chain and logistics, manufacturing, utilities, insurance, and agriculture. Its cloud-based platform simplifies device-to-cloud communications, allowing clients to benefit from efficient connectivity solutions. As of now, Sigfox's network spans 26 countries, with plans for expansion to 60 countries, serving a population of approximately 397 million people and fostering a growing ecosystem of partners and innovations in the IoT space.

SIGFOX

Series C in 2014
Sigfox is a leading provider of connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), specializing in low-power wide-area networking services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Labège, France, the company has developed a global network designed to connect billions of devices to the Internet while minimizing energy consumption and complexity. By addressing key barriers to IoT adoption—cost, energy use, and scalability—Sigfox supports various industries, including supply chain and logistics, manufacturing, utilities, insurance, and agriculture. Its cloud-based platform simplifies device-to-cloud communications, allowing clients to benefit from efficient connectivity solutions. As of now, Sigfox's network spans 26 countries, with plans for expansion to 60 countries, serving a population of approximately 397 million people and fostering a growing ecosystem of partners and innovations in the IoT space.

Vocalcom

Private Equity Round in 2014
Vocalcom was founded on the principle of a wonderful user experience, providing a contact center software based on an innovative design and useful functionality. More than 3,500 companies such as McDonald's, Disney, and ITV are using Vocalcom to sell more, and serve better. Loved by 550,000+ users for its beautifully crafted interface, Vocalcom is the leading global provider of cloud customer contact and sales acceleration technology, that enables both Sales and Service departments to unlock massive productivity gains and deliver a personalized customer service experience regardless of the channel - enabling simple and intuitive interaction with any customer. Whether your goal is to increase productivity through efficiency gains, drive successful mobile customer engagement, reduce operational costs, or deliver a faster customer service , Vocalcom offers an open contact center software that efficiently improve sales effectiveness and customer experiences, giving you a significant competitive advantage. Businesses that want to provide an effortless experience for customers who are using mobile devices for voice, text, social media, video and Web interactions gain significant advantage using Vocalcom contact center software. In contrast to conventional contact center software, you are freed from the ongoing expenses and headaches of running IT infrastructure. No other contact center software provides this kind of easy, efficient access to rich customer engagement capabilities. By offering consumers a wide range of options for connecting with your company, you create the opportunity for a differentiated and dramatically improved customer experience. A Stunning all-in-one contact center software that easily connect your team to everything, and automatically provides in real time full context, including elements such as customer history, app navigation flow, previous contacts, location, and preferences. PCI DSS-compliant, it comes with best-in-class multi-channel routing, rich customer interactions capabilities, a powerful dialer, and a complete set of customer engagement applications to manage faster and more efficiently customer interactions over mobile devices, and across every channel—and by so doing, boosts agent productivity and improves customer experiences, while powering successful & profitable customer interactions. Turn customer service into ROI, ASAP—No IT support needed Vocalcom, together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets call center software and voice over Internet protocol solutions to contact centers in Europe and internationally. It provides Hermes .Net, a call center software that allows the management of video calls and Web surfers; Hermes Eagle, a predictive dialer algorithm that is used to optimize outbound campaigns; live chat applications; IPBX OnXMedia, which include tools to improve customer service, streamline operations, and optimize human resources; and VoiceVision, a video call application that provides personalized visual communications solutions. The company also offers Natural Language, a speech recognition software that manages voice and chat dialogues with the capability of changing the language during the conversation; Hermes pro, a call center software solution for leveraging various communication channels; Hermes Fox, a predictive dialer Avaya solution developed to work together in an outbound call environment; and iRecoder, a call recording software. In addition, it provides consulting, installation, training, VRU and agent script development, and support and guidance services for its products. The company’s products are used in debt collection, telemarketing, sales force, live chat, and Web and home-based call center applications. VocalCom S.A. was founded in 1995 and is based in Paris, France. It has subsidiary locations in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Venezuela, Colombia, Senegal, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Ivory Coast, Benn, Cameroun, and India.

Talend

Venture Round in 2013
Talend is a provider of cloud-based data integration and data management solutions, focusing on delivering reliable data to organizations swiftly. The company's platform enables the operationalization of disparate data, addressing complex business challenges by integrating data and applications in real time across big data, cloud environments, and traditional systems. This comprehensive suite of applications allows companies to collect, transform, govern, and share data effectively. By streamlining the data value chain, Talend helps organizations enhance their strategic decision-making processes and drive sustainable business value.
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