Bpifrance

Bpifrance Financement S.A. is a French financial institution that provides a wide range of financing solutions and support services for businesses at various stages of their development. Established in 1980 and based in Maisons-Alfort, France, the company offers medium to long-term loans, export insurance, real estate and equipment leasing, and working capital loans. Bpifrance also invests in startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and mid-cap companies through direct investments and fund management activities. Additionally, it provides consulting services for executives and training for CEOs, aiming to facilitate innovation and growth. Bpifrance was formed from the merger of several entities in July 2013, including OSEO, CDC Entreprises, and FSI, to enhance its role in supporting the financing of the French economy.

Laurent Arthaud

Managing Director

Marion Aubry

Investment Director

Emmanuel Audouard

Director of Cross-Functional Investments Venture Capital

Elyssa Maufras du Châtellier

Investment Director

Charlotte Corbaz

Deputy Director of the Large Venture Fund and Deputy Managing Director

Sofia Dahoune

Associate

Vanessa Giraud

Managing Director

Laurent Higueret

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

Hortense Jacon

Investment Associate

Veronique Jacq

Head of Digital Venture team

So-Yeon Koo

Senior Investment Manager

Eric Lefebvre

Director

Arnaud Legardeur

Investment Director

Serge Mesguich

Director

Louis Molis

Investment Director

Adrien Neel

Investment Director

Gilles Schang

Deputy Director

Tuan Tran

Investment Director / VC

Past deals in Laser

Scintil Photonics

Venture Round in 2022
Scintil Photonics SAS, founded in 2018 and based in Grenoble, France, specializes in the development of silicon photonic integrated circuits aimed at advancing high-speed optical communications and chip interconnections. The company offers a range of products, including multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors. By employing wafer-scale bonding techniques that combine Silicon and Indium Phosphide materials, Scintil Photonics creates fully integrated circuits that enhance performance and reliability while significantly lowering implementation costs. Their innovative approach allows for the monolithic integration of optical amplifiers and lasers on advanced silicon photonic circuits, making their solutions suitable for a variety of industrial applications.

Quandela

Venture Round in 2021
Quandela SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Palaiseau, France, specializes in the production of photonic and semiconductor chips designed for quantum computing applications. The company is recognized for its innovative product, E-delight, which serves as a solid-state source of single and highly indistinguishable photons. This technology plays a crucial role in advancing quantum photonics and quantum information research. Quandela's single-photon source device integrates photonics with semiconductor quantum dots, facilitating efficient collection of emitted single photons at high rates. This capability significantly reduces charge noise decoherence and enhances the emission of identical photons, which is vital for the development of advanced quantum technologies, including communication, computation, and sensing. By focusing on the unique properties of quantum light, Quandela contributes to the progress of photon-based quantum computing and communication networks.

Quantum Surgical

Venture Round in 2021
Quantum Surgical is a provider of surgical robotics focused on developing innovative solutions for minimally invasive surgeries. The company is creating a novel robotic platform designed to enhance the assessment, planning, and treatment of medical conditions. Its technology supports advanced percutaneous ablation therapy, particularly for liver cancer treatment, aiming to improve patient outcomes and enhance the safety of interventional oncology procedures. With a commitment to delivering effective clinical solutions, Quantum Surgical seeks to represent unique spinal products and treatment options, benefiting both physicians and patients throughout the continuum of care.

MastOR SAS

Debt Financing in 2020
MastOR SAS is a medical device company based in Paris, France, founded in 2019. The company focuses on developing a surgical robot designed to assist with laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgical technique. This innovative platform aims to enhance access to advanced surgical procedures for surgeons and improve resource utilization in operating rooms. By providing tools that facilitate laparoscopy, MastOR seeks to advance surgical practices and patient care.

Quantum Surgical

Grant in 2020
Quantum Surgical is a provider of surgical robotics focused on developing innovative solutions for minimally invasive surgeries. The company is creating a novel robotic platform designed to enhance the assessment, planning, and treatment of medical conditions. Its technology supports advanced percutaneous ablation therapy, particularly for liver cancer treatment, aiming to improve patient outcomes and enhance the safety of interventional oncology procedures. With a commitment to delivering effective clinical solutions, Quantum Surgical seeks to represent unique spinal products and treatment options, benefiting both physicians and patients throughout the continuum of care.

Laclarée

Seed Round in 2019
Laclarée Vision, founded in 2016 and based in Lyon, France, specializes in developing adaptive eyeglasses designed to correct presbyopia. The company employs patented fluid technology to create variable-focus lenses that automatically adjust to the viewer's distance, providing clear vision at all ranges. This innovation targets individuals aged 45 and older who are dissatisfied with traditional solutions, such as progressive lenses or multiple pairs of glasses. By integrating advanced adaptive lens technology, Laclarée aims to enhance the visual experience for those with additional refractive errors like astigmatism, myopia, or hyperopia.

Scintil Photonics

Seed Round in 2019
Scintil Photonics SAS, founded in 2018 and based in Grenoble, France, specializes in the development of silicon photonic integrated circuits aimed at advancing high-speed optical communications and chip interconnections. The company offers a range of products, including multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors. By employing wafer-scale bonding techniques that combine Silicon and Indium Phosphide materials, Scintil Photonics creates fully integrated circuits that enhance performance and reliability while significantly lowering implementation costs. Their innovative approach allows for the monolithic integration of optical amplifiers and lasers on advanced silicon photonic circuits, making their solutions suitable for a variety of industrial applications.

Lantern

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Lantern is a software development company that specializes in user behavior monitoring and data analytics for various business sectors. Its autonomous analytics software is designed to analyze multiple metrics in real-time, automatically detecting behavioral changes that may impact revenues. The platform identifies unusual patterns, including temporary spikes or drops, level changes, trend alterations, and seasonal variations. This enables product teams to recognize unexpected outcomes and understand the specific aspects of their products that are affected, all without the need for coding, configuration, or data expertise.

Lucibel

Venture Round in 2013
Lucibel is an innovative French group that designs and manufactures new-generation lighting products and solutions in France based on LED technology. LED technology is cost efficient, sustainable and smart. It is transforming the world and is now part of the digital era. Not only are Lucibel lighting solutions compatible with remote management systems. Light can now interact with its surroundings and be controlled and measured in real time. But it also allows for a new medium for data transmission, interactions and well-being thanks to the development by Lucibel of innovative and smart solutions.

Oxxius

Seed Round in 2002
Oxxius SA specializes in the development, design, manufacturing, and sale of diode-pumped solid-state lasers and laser diode modules. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Lannion, France, the company produces a range of lasers including UV, visible, and infrared options, as well as ultra-stable and single longitudinal mode laser modules. These products serve various applications such as fluorescence analysis in flow cytometry and microscopy, interferometry in laser Doppler velocimetry and holography, and Raman spectroscopy. Oxxius's innovative laser technology offers significant advancements in compactness, reliability, and cost-efficiency, catering to both research and industrial markets. The company distributes its products through a network of partners across multiple countries, ensuring wide accessibility for its offerings in bio-photonics, metrology, and spectroscopy.
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