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.

Laurent Arthaud

Managing Director

Marion Aubry

Investment Director

Emmanuel Audouard

Director of Transverse Venture Capital Investments Division

Benoit Barteau Ph.D

Investment Director

Nicolas Berdou

Investment Director, Defense Expert

Clarisse Blandin

Investment Director

Edouard Combette

Investment Director

Charlotte Corbaz

Deputy Director of the Large Venture Fund and Deputy Managing Director

Nicolas Dardenne

Senior Investment Director, Normandy (Caen Rouen)

Arnaud Despoisse

Director of Occitanie Participations

Philippe Dutheil

Investment Director

Mailys Ferrere

Director of Large Venture Investments

Jean-Marie Fougeray

Senior Investment Director, Brittany

Paul-Francois Fournier

Executive Director, Innovation Department

Pierre Gillet

Investment Director

Vanessa Giraud

Managing Director

Gwenaël Hamon

Senior Investment Director

Laurent Higueret Ph.D

Senior Investment Director

Louis Janneau

Investment Director and Fund Manager

Magali Joessel

Director of Funds

So-Yeon Koo

Senior Investment Manager

Jérôme Langlade

Investment Director Aquitaine / Limousin / Poitou-Charentes

Eric Lefebvre

Director

Stephane Lefevre-Sauli

Senior Investment Director

Arnaud Legardeur

Investment Director

Chahra Louafi

Senior Investment Director

Elyssa Maufras du Châtellier

Investment Director

Quentin Mayolle

Senior Investment Officer

Serge Mesguich

Director of FIT

Laure Michel

Investment Director

Louis Molis

Investment Director

Jean-Francois Morin

Investment Director

Sébastien Moynot

Director

Adrien Muller

Investment Director

Adrien Néel

Investment Director

Axel Piriou

Director of Investments

Olivier Rameil

Senior Investment Director / VC seed

Vincent Roque

Director

Thibaut Roulon Ph.D

Investment Director

Gilles Schang

Deputy Director

Claire Waché

Senior Investment Officer

Past deals in Language Processing

ToumAI Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2025
ToumAI Analytics specializes in software development, offering voice analytics, real-time analytics, and reporting services. Its AI-driven multilingual voice technology enables businesses to make data-driven decisions, enhance customer service performance, and ensure inclusivity regardless of language or ability.

Lingua Custodia

Grant in 2024
Founded in 2011, Lingua Custodia specializes in developing SaaS-based software for machine translation tailored to the financial domain. Its flagship product, VERTO, offers customized translation solutions for finance professionals, serving financial institutions, language service providers, and other finance-related entities.

Callyope

Seed Round in 2023
Callyope is a technology company focused on enhancing brain health monitoring through human-centered solutions. By developing a speech-based platform that utilizes natural language processing and signal processing techniques, Callyope enables caregivers to monitor patients' brain functionality more effectively. The platform allows for a detailed examination of patients' verbal productions, providing valuable insights that help identify relapses and inform treatment decisions. Ultimately, Callyope aims to improve the quality of life for patients while also contributing to a reduction in re-hospitalization rates.

Locuta

Seed Round in 2023
Locuta specializes in developing advanced callbot solutions aimed at automating the conversational customer experience. The company designs artificial intelligence bots that function as virtual teleconsultants, capable of processing requests in multiple languages. Their callbots and chatbots seamlessly integrate with telephone platforms and customer relationship management systems, allowing virtual agents to respond to inquiries and support requests effectively. Utilizing dialogue management based on automatic learning, Locuta assesses the automation potential of customer call centers by analyzing production audio recordings. This enables businesses to enhance their customer service operations and streamline order management within e-commerce environments.

Snips

Series A in 2017
Snips is an artificial intelligence voice platform that runs on the edge and processes voice data locally, enabling private-by-design conversations for products and devices. Its embedded voice AI offers offline, cloud-free operation with enterprise-grade performance and cloud-level accuracy across various hardware, allowing developers and businesses to build custom voice commands, natural language interfaces, and dialog flows. The platform includes on-device automatic speech recognition, hotword detection, natural language understanding, and dialog management to derive context from location, calendars, emails, and contacts. Snips operates in Paris, New York, and Tokyo, and focuses on privacy and low-power footprints to simplify interactions with connected devices.

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.
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