Bpifrance

Bpifrance Financement S.A. is a French financial institution that provides a range of financing solutions and support services aimed at fostering the growth of startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and mid-cap companies. It offers various financial products, including medium to long-term loans, export insurance, and leasing options for both tangible and intangible assets. Additionally, Bpifrance supports companies through consulting services, guarantees for bank financing, and training for executives. The organization also engages in direct investments and manages funds aimed at enhancing the financial landscape for businesses at different stages of their development. Established in 1980 and based in Maisons-Alfort, France, Bpifrance was formerly known as OSEO S.A. and rebranded in July 2013. It operates as a subsidiary of Bpifrance SA, reinforcing its commitment to bolstering the French economy through diversified financial solutions.

Céline André

Investment Director

Adonis Arnaud

Junior Investment Manager

Laurent Arthaud

Managing Director

Françis Aymard

Investment Director

Simon Beauroy

Director

Isabelle Bebear

Director for International and University

Soukanda Bentaleb

Investment Officer

Denis Biju-Duval

MD of Mezzanine division

Stéphane Boivert

Associate

Pascal Bordat

Investment Director

Charles-Henri Boyer

Associate

Émilie Brunet

Investment Director and Portfolio Manager

Caroline Butin-Gelineau

Senior Investment Director

Nathalie Carmona

Associate

Yoann Caujolle

Portfolio Director

Jocelyne Cerasa

Investment Director

Nicolas Ceria

Associate

Ménelé Chesnot

Senior Investment Director

Maufras Du Chatellier, Elyssa

Investment Director

Samuel Dalens

Investment Director

Florent Debienne

Managing Director | Head of Technology Funds Investments

Christian Deblaye

Deputy MD

Grégoire Delpit

Portfolio Director

Luc Doyennel

Investment Director

Nicolas Dufourcq

CEO

Jean-Yves Duriez

Investment Director

Antoine Emmanuelli

Partnership Director

Francis Estellat

Senior Investment Director

Yannick Etienne

Investment Manager

Alain Fakhoury

Investment Director Bretagne

Stephen Fargis

Associate

Arnaud Fauquembergue

Investment Manager

Olivier Fosse

Investment Director Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine

Jean-Marie Fougeray

Investment Director Bretagne

Stéphanie Frachet

Investment Director

Ronan Frefield

Portfolio Director

Marie-Laure Garrigues

Investment Director

Laurence Gauthier

Senior Investment Director Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Xavier Gelot

Director of Fonds de Renforcement des PME

Emmanuelle Gervais

Senior Investment Director

Isabelle Ginestet-Naudin

Deputy MD and Director of Sectorial Funds

Vanessa Giraud

Managing Director

Alessandro Gonella

Director

José Gonzalo

Executive Director Mid and Large Cap Direction

Jean-Michel Grau

Office and Institutional Relations MD

Alexis Guinard

Investment Director

Raphaël Guterman

Associate

Yonel Génin

Partnership Director

Luc Heinrich

MD

Hubert Hernandez

Investment Director

Hortense Jacon

Investment Associate

Véronique Jacq

Managing Director

Jean-René Jégou

Director of the Regional Funds Department

Pascal Lagarde

Director

Caroline Lebel

Senior Associate

Eric Lefebvre

Director

Ronan Lefort

Investment Director

Arnaud Legardeur

Investment Director

Benjamin Legourd

Investment Manager

Christian Leonetti

Investment Director

Olivier Levy

Director of East private equity Interregional Network

Martin Lochon

Associate

Cedric Lowenbach

Director of Operations

Arielle Marsaud

Associate

Alex Marvaldi

Partner

Laure Michel

Investment Director

Maud Moulin

Portfolio Director

Sébastien Moynot

Investment Director and Member of the Management Board

Philippe Mutricy

Deputy MD

Valérie de la Ménardière

Investment Director

Marinus Oosterbeek

Associate

Alexandre Ossola

MD

Stanislas Panhard

Senior Investment Director

Nicolas Parpex

Senior Investment Director

Emeline Parry

Investment Manager

Sophie Perette

Portfolio Director Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine

Thibault Peroys

Investment Director

Dominique Phelouzat

Incharge of Administration and Finance, CFO

Axel Piriou

Senior Investment Manager

Marc Prévôt

Director of North Private Equity Interregional Network

Matthieu Rabeisen

Portfolio Director

Sarah Roeland

Investment Manager

Stéphane Romang

Investment Director

Thibaut Roulon

Investment Director

Julie Régnier

Senior Investment Manager Alsace Champagne-Ardenne Lorraine

Eduardo Sampaio

Portfolio Director

Nadia Sarri

Investment Director

Gilles Schang

Deputy Managing Director

Nicolas de La Serre

Investment Director Pays de la Loire

Nicolas Sluys

Associate

David Smadja

Investment Manager

Thierry Sommelet

MD

Vincent Stievenard

Investment Director and Director of North Private Equity Interregional Network

Jonathan Szalavecz

Associate

Xavier Tessier

Director

Gabrielle Tetart

Senior Investment Manager and Associate

Tuan Tran

Investment Director

Alain Tueux

Investment Director

Stanislas de Tymowski

Associate

Adrien Vasseur

Portfolio Director

Luc Vernhet

Associate

Benoît Villain

Senior Investment Manager

Philippe Vuarchex

Associate

Stéphanie Vuillaume

Associate

Romain Vérani

Associate

Samuel Waddell

Associate

Tristan de Witte

Associate

Le Mintier Jonglez, Delphine

Investment Director

de Saint Lager, Benoist

Investment Director

Galamand Patard, Isabelle

Director

Past deals in AgTech

SENCROP

Series B in 2022
Sencrop is an ag-tech startup that offers an in-field data-based platform to empower farmers to make better decisions in their daily agricultural activities. Sencrop designs and sells connected weather forecast solutions for farmers to measure rain, hygrometry, and wind speed. The sensors are cheap, robust, movable, and easy to use, making more efficient and sustainable farming possible

Umiami

Series A in 2022
Developer of a plant-based food technology designed to reduce meat consumption. The company's technology offers plant-based whole-cuts that contain plant proteins, enabling consumers to have alternatives that mimic the taste, texture, and smell of meat.

Umiami

Series A in 2022
Developer of a plant-based food technology designed to reduce meat consumption. The company's technology offers plant-based whole-cuts that contain plant proteins, enabling consumers to have alternatives that mimic the taste, texture, and smell of meat.

Lisaqua

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

Elicit Plant

Series A in 2022
Elicit Plant is an agro-biotech company specialized in crops’ water resistance and in the development of innovative phytosterol-based solutions.

Meiogenix

Series A in 2021
Meiogenix SAS operates as a biotech company that develops breeding and genomic technologies. It offers SpiX technology, which modulates the process of homologous recombination in the genome by increasing its frequency in cold regions and PhoeniX, which is a non-GM method that induces meiotic recombination in hybrid diploid (or polyploid) yeast cells without the need to go through the entire process of meiosis. The company helps to develop new products to address global food and industrial challenges. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.

Agronutris

Venture Round in 2021
Operator of a food biotech firm dedicated to the development of the insect-rearing industry intended to feed and preserve the world. The company specializes in rearing and transforming insects into organic fertilizers and proteins for animal nutrition, especially for the aquaculture and pet food markets, enabling the agri-food industry to feed the world sustainably and preserve it through bioconversion.

Lisaqua

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

Umiami

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a plant-based food technology designed to reduce meat consumption. The company's technology offers plant-based whole-cuts that contain plant proteins, enabling consumers to have alternatives that mimic the taste, texture, and smell of meat.

Agilitest

Seed Round in 2021
Agilitest specializes in a no-code functional testing platform that enables users to create, maintain, and automate software tests across various technologies, including web, desktop, mobile, and web services. The platform is designed to support both technical and non-technical software testers, providing an intuitive and robust solution for functional testing. By streamlining the testing process, Agilitest helps organizations achieve their automation goals effectively, ensuring a comprehensive view of software quality at all times. As Agile methodologies and DevOps practices gain traction, Agilitest's approach caters to the evolving needs of software development teams, facilitating scalable codeless functional testing.

Kyanos

Seed Round in 2021
High value polysaccharides and pigments produced with high-output micro-algae and vertical photo-reactors.

Babylone Growers

Series A in 2021
Babylone Growers is a hydroponic greenhouse producer of vegetables and fruits using a vertical farming structure (X-frame).
Our mission is to help cities to become greener, more sustainable, more human. By installing our farms, we provide eco-systemic services to cities, improving their quality of life and creating social interactions. We want to extent our farms, and from there become the urban farming glocal leader; delivering a positive and healthy experience that will dramatically improve our clients lives.

Activ'Inside

Funding Round in 2020
Activ'Inside manufactures botanical ingredients and formulations to commercialize the products for well-being markets. Based in the Bordeaux area (France), Activ’Inside is an independent health food-tech company specialized in the development, production, and marketing of natural active ingredients, mainly from grape and saffron, for the health nutrition industry.

AlgoTherapeutix

Series A in 2020
AlgoTherapeutix SAS is a biotechnology company founded in 2018 and located in Suresnes, France, focused on developing innovative topical treatments for complex pain conditions. The company's primary product, ATX01, is designed to alleviate peripheral neuropathic pain caused by chemotherapy. By targeting the damaged nerve fibers in the skin, AlgoTherapeutix aims to provide effective pain relief while minimizing the systemic side effects associated with oral medications. The company's approach also addresses other pain syndromes, such as erythromelalgia, thereby offering medical practitioners new options to enhance patient care for those suffering from chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.

GrAI Matter Labs

Venture Round in 2020
GrAI Matter Labs utilizes biology-inspired spiking neural networks to overcome the limitations of traditional Von Neumann machines and application processors. Their massively parallel, fully programmable compute technology enables multi-modal sensor analytics and dynamic machine learning at low power levels not feasible before. Combining next generation neuromorphic compute with cutting edge silicon technologies brings AI to every edge device across the Internet of Things without the need for cloud computing support.

Champerché

Debt Financing in 2020
Provider of agriculture services intended to offer pesticide-free organic produce to customers. The company distributes locally grown vegetables and fruits by creating an ideal ecosystem for herbs, enabling customers to get fresh products while maintaining the biodiversity of the soil.

ABC Transfer

Series A in 2020
ABC Transfer is a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the development of Rapid Transfer Systems (RTS) for the pharmaceutical industry. The company manufactures secure transfer systems designed specifically for sterile drug manufacturing and bioprocessing. Its innovative solutions include alpha doors, beta containers, and single-use bags, all built on patented designs. These systems enhance sterility assurance, improve operator safety, and increase overall efficiency in drug manufacturing processes. Through its focus on secure and efficient transfer methods, ABC Transfer aims to support the biopharmaceutical industry's critical need for reliable and safe drug production.

Naïo Technologies

Series A in 2020
Naio Technologies develops and markets machines for agriculture and viticulture. It features electric tools for weeding, hoeing, and harvesting that help farmers collect and harvest their products. The company specializes in agriculture, AI, robotics, and Agtech. Naio Technologies was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Midi-Pyrenees, France.

AlgoTherapeutix

Seed Round in 2019
AlgoTherapeutix SAS is a biotechnology company founded in 2018 and located in Suresnes, France, focused on developing innovative topical treatments for complex pain conditions. The company's primary product, ATX01, is designed to alleviate peripheral neuropathic pain caused by chemotherapy. By targeting the damaged nerve fibers in the skin, AlgoTherapeutix aims to provide effective pain relief while minimizing the systemic side effects associated with oral medications. The company's approach also addresses other pain syndromes, such as erythromelalgia, thereby offering medical practitioners new options to enhance patient care for those suffering from chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.

TOOPI Organics

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Toopi Organics SAS is a French company that focuses on manufacturing biostimulants for agriculture derived from human urine. Established in 2019 and based in Langon, France, the company produces products such as Arbop and Vitip, which are designed to enhance plant growth. By utilizing human urine as a resource, Toopi Organics operates in a unique market segment that promotes sustainable agricultural practices.

NH TherAguix

Series A in 2019
NH TherAguix SAS, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, develops nanomedicines for cancer, combining imaging, and radiotherapy. It offers AGuIX, a nanoparticle that is designed to improve the localization of solid tumors and the outcomes of radiation therapy by intravenous injection; allows the radiation therapy treatment for patient to determine the optimal moment to perform the irradiation; and allows to treat radioresistant cancers and to minimize the radiation therapy secondary effects by decreasing the dose to healthy tissues. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Villeurbanne, France.

Ynsect

Series C in 2019
Ynsect is a biotech company based in Evry, France, founded in 2011. The company specializes in the design, construction, and operation of insect production and processing facilities aimed at producing sustainable feed for fish and poultry. Ynsect focuses on the bioconversion of organic resources through insects, transforming them into high-quality nutrients such as proteins and lipids for animal feed, as well as non-food applications like organic fertilizers and bioenergy. By leveraging insect nutrients and behaviors, Ynsect collaborates with clients to develop innovative products and services. The company is recognized for its expertise in large-scale insect farming and automated processing, making it a preferred partner among professionals in the agri-food sector, laboratories, investors, and public institutions.

SENCROP

Series A in 2019
Sencrop is an ag-tech startup that offers an in-field data-based platform to empower farmers to make better decisions in their daily agricultural activities. Sencrop designs and sells connected weather forecast solutions for farmers to measure rain, hygrometry, and wind speed. The sensors are cheap, robust, movable, and easy to use, making more efficient and sustainable farming possible
At Ascendance we are building tomorrow’s flying taxi: Atea, a unique Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft with a hybrid propulsion system. We believe that the future of mobility will include the sky and that operational fit will be key to support the emergence of this market. Therefore we focused our efforts in designing an innovative, safe, silent, clean and affordable aircraft that will be able to blend into existing infrastructures and regulations to ease its deployment and maximise social acceptance.

Innov'Atm

Venture Round in 2018
Innov'ATM develops solutions to optimize air traffic management and airport resources, as well as solutions for the integrations of drones into the airspace. The company also provides consulting for air traffic topics. It offers solutions for air navigation stakeholders, including ATCOs, airport, and airlines based on artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Toulouse, France.

Agricool

Series B in 2018
Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.). The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.

Apitrak

Venture Round in 2017
Apitrak is a developer of a fast and easy geolocation system designed to save time and money by locating medical devices. The company's H-tag is a geolocation system which can be easily attached on all devices such as stretchers, wheelchair and syringe pump as well as customizes the locating frequency, staff access and equipment's properties, enabling users to receive an easy implement indoor tracking device and localize medical equipment straightaway in a healthcare institution.

Ynsect

Series B in 2016
Ynsect is a biotech company based in Evry, France, founded in 2011. The company specializes in the design, construction, and operation of insect production and processing facilities aimed at producing sustainable feed for fish and poultry. Ynsect focuses on the bioconversion of organic resources through insects, transforming them into high-quality nutrients such as proteins and lipids for animal feed, as well as non-food applications like organic fertilizers and bioenergy. By leveraging insect nutrients and behaviors, Ynsect collaborates with clients to develop innovative products and services. The company is recognized for its expertise in large-scale insect farming and automated processing, making it a preferred partner among professionals in the agri-food sector, laboratories, investors, and public institutions.

Actility

Series C in 2015
Actility is an industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). ThingPark by Actility offers a carrier-grade IoT platform, with a growing ecosystem of partners; low-power, long-range wireless networks for sensors and devices; an operating system and middleware that enables web applications to connect seamlessly with data from different sensors; and a B2B e-commerce market featuring tested and approved IoT device, connectivity, and application partners. Actility is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance™.

Vi Technology

Venture Round in 2014
Vi Technology develops advanced systems for the electronics industry, specifically focusing on Surface Mount Technology (SMT) inspection requirements. The company specializes in automated optical inspection (AOI) and solder paste inspection (SPI) systems, providing essential solutions for the printed circuit board (PCB) assembly process. With a global installed base exceeding 3,500 systems, Vi Technology serves various sectors within the electronics industry. The company also boasts a robust support organization operating in 40 countries, staffed by experienced application and support specialists, alongside a network of qualified partners to enhance customer service and system performance.