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

Elyssa Maufras du Châtellier

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

Paul-Francois Fournier

Executive Director, Innovation Department

Pierre Gillet

Investment Director

Vanessa Giraud

Director of Environmental Impact Funds

Alessandro Gonella

Director

Gwenael Hamon

Investment Director

Laurent Higueret

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

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

Jean-Marie Fougeray

Senior Investment Director, Brittany

Past deals in Payments

Request Finance

Venture Round in 2025
Request Finance is a financial management platform that facilitates cryptocurrency invoicing, payroll, and expense management for businesses. The platform allows users to send and receive invoices in various cryptocurrencies, automate payments, and track their financial transactions efficiently. Designed to assist finance, operations, and HR managers, Request Finance eliminates the challenges of manual processes, enabling them to concentrate on more critical tasks. The platform also ensures compliance with tax regulations and integrates seamlessly with accounting systems for streamlined reporting. By serving companies, freelancers, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), Request Finance simplifies digital asset payments and enhances overall financial operations.

Hub2.Io

Series A in 2024
Hub2.Io is a system for digitizing ongoing transactions. Services like cash out, to pay, manage, and others are offered by them. Connecting businesses to their infrastructure will enable them to accept and process payments quickly and safely.

Kard

Debt Financing in 2022
Kard is a financial technology company focused on providing a banking experience tailored for young individuals. It offers an intuitive mobile application that aligns with the preferences of teenagers, allowing them to manage their finances effectively. The platform enables users to enroll in multiple debit and credit cards, as well as bank accounts, facilitating secure online and in-store payments. Kard's application emphasizes financial education by assisting teenagers in learning money management skills. Additionally, it allows for parental involvement, enabling parents to oversee their children's accounts while still granting them autonomy. Through this approach, Kard aims to empower young users to make informed financial decisions and earn rewards for their transactions.

Kresus

Seed Round in 2022
Kresus operates an online platform that streamlines trade finance services by automating the administration of supplier discounts. The company enables businesses to pay suppliers in advance, either using their own funds or through dedicated financing, which helps to enhance profit margins without risk. Kresus's platform integrates accounting systems to manage invoices and automatically collects accounts payable, facilitating timely supplier payments. Additionally, it offers invoice financing options that allow businesses to benefit from discounts associated with early payments, thereby improving overall financial efficiency.

Alma

Series C in 2022
Alma SAS is a French company that operates a payment platform designed for online businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the company offers a range of services that facilitate payment management, accounting exports, and data analysis for its clients. Alma’s platform provides a customer conversion solution that allows retailers to offer flexible payment options, including installment plans, cash payments, and loans. This approach aims to enhance the payment experience for consumers while supporting businesses in optimizing their sales processes.

Asilimia

Debt Financing in 2021
Asilimia is a mobile payment platform designed to facilitate financial transactions for African micro-entrepreneurs. The application allows users to send money through M-PESA quickly and without transaction fees, making it a cost-effective solution for digital money transfers. Users can deposit funds into their M-PESA accounts and use the Asilimia app to send money to any other M-PESA account seamlessly. In addition to its payment capabilities, Asilimia helps business owners manage their finances by digitizing transactions and providing tools for cash-based accounting. This comprehensive approach enables micro-entrepreneurs to maintain accurate financial records, track outstanding debits and credits, and streamline their business operations.

Asilimia

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Asilimia is a mobile payment platform designed to facilitate financial transactions for African micro-entrepreneurs. The application allows users to send money through M-PESA quickly and without transaction fees, making it a cost-effective solution for digital money transfers. Users can deposit funds into their M-PESA accounts and use the Asilimia app to send money to any other M-PESA account seamlessly. In addition to its payment capabilities, Asilimia helps business owners manage their finances by digitizing transactions and providing tools for cash-based accounting. This comprehensive approach enables micro-entrepreneurs to maintain accurate financial records, track outstanding debits and credits, and streamline their business operations.

Alma

Series B in 2021
Alma SAS is a French company that operates a payment platform designed for online businesses. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the company offers a range of services that facilitate payment management, accounting exports, and data analysis for its clients. Alma’s platform provides a customer conversion solution that allows retailers to offer flexible payment options, including installment plans, cash payments, and loans. This approach aims to enhance the payment experience for consumers while supporting businesses in optimizing their sales processes.

Kard

Convertible Note in 2020
Kard is a financial technology company focused on providing a banking experience tailored for young individuals. It offers an intuitive mobile application that aligns with the preferences of teenagers, allowing them to manage their finances effectively. The platform enables users to enroll in multiple debit and credit cards, as well as bank accounts, facilitating secure online and in-store payments. Kard's application emphasizes financial education by assisting teenagers in learning money management skills. Additionally, it allows for parental involvement, enabling parents to oversee their children's accounts while still granting them autonomy. Through this approach, Kard aims to empower young users to make informed financial decisions and earn rewards for their transactions.

Pixpay

Series A in 2020
Pixpay is a financial technology company that offers a banking application tailored for teenagers. The platform provides online banking services, allowing users to manage a mobile bank account linked to a payment card and mobile payment options. This enables teenagers to monitor and track their spending, make payments, receive funds, save money, and access discounts from popular brands. In addition to facilitating financial transactions, Pixpay aims to educate younger users on budget management and responsible consumption. The company's approach encourages teenagers to engage in practical financial experiences, empowering them to experiment, learn from failures, and ultimately achieve their personal and financial goals.

ACINQ

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2014 and based in Paris, France, ACINQ is a startup focused on developing products and services for the Bitcoin ecosystem. The company specializes in blockchain technology that facilitates high throughput, instant payments, and low transaction fees. ACINQ's solutions aggregate incoming payments and enable periodic transaction dispatches to recipients' wallets. This approach allows clients to enjoy instant, low-cost payment options and receive funds as they would through traditional cash transactions, enhancing the efficiency and convenience of financial exchanges within the Bitcoin network.

Kard

Debt Financing in 2019
Kard is a financial technology company focused on providing a banking experience tailored for young individuals. It offers an intuitive mobile application that aligns with the preferences of teenagers, allowing them to manage their finances effectively. The platform enables users to enroll in multiple debit and credit cards, as well as bank accounts, facilitating secure online and in-store payments. Kard's application emphasizes financial education by assisting teenagers in learning money management skills. Additionally, it allows for parental involvement, enabling parents to oversee their children's accounts while still granting them autonomy. Through this approach, Kard aims to empower young users to make informed financial decisions and earn rewards for their transactions.

Eversend

Grant in 2017
Eversend SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Paris, France, offers a multi-currency e-wallet application that enables users to send and receive money, buy cryptocurrency, create virtual cards, and purchase airtime. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide a digital payment gateway, facilitating electronic money transfers to bank accounts and mobile payments while minimizing costs associated with fees and foreign exchange. In addition to its current services, Eversend plans to expand its offerings to include personal loans, savings, group savings, merchant payments, and investment options. The company aims to grow its presence in Nigeria, Francophone Africa, and Europe while utilizing funds for product development, user acquisition, and regulatory compliance.

YouPass

Venture Round in 2015
Youpass is a global payment group (E-money institution) that enables millenials and gamers to create, spark their own e-money, manage their wallet and monetize their talents, to explore new consumption skylines and a lot more... They all know that the mobile era is uncountable. At its core, the massive millenials and all the unbanked present in the emerging markets shift to smartphones is about one thing: financial empowerment and new consumption eyeline. So what do they want with such huge fingertips power? They want to create money, lessen their problems, find new disruptive ways to consume and monetize their apps. They learn about that and created Youpass, the relevant mobile payment solution who embrace the whole Y payment and consumption wish cycle. Actual leader on their historic french market, they will expand their solutions in Europe in early 2016.

YouPass

Venture Round in 2015
Youpass is a global payment group (E-money institution) that enables millenials and gamers to create, spark their own e-money, manage their wallet and monetize their talents, to explore new consumption skylines and a lot more... They all know that the mobile era is uncountable. At its core, the massive millenials and all the unbanked present in the emerging markets shift to smartphones is about one thing: financial empowerment and new consumption eyeline. So what do they want with such huge fingertips power? They want to create money, lessen their problems, find new disruptive ways to consume and monetize their apps. They learn about that and created Youpass, the relevant mobile payment solution who embrace the whole Y payment and consumption wish cycle. Actual leader on their historic french market, they will expand their solutions in Europe in early 2016.
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