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

Jérémy Berthuin

Health Sector Manager

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

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

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

François Picarle

Executive

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

Alban Stamm

Innovation Delegate

Pierre-Alain Truan

Innovation Delegate

Claire Waché

Senior Investment Officer

Pascale Courcelle

Director of Real Estate Financing, Energy Environment

Jean-Marie Fougeray

Senior Investment Director, Brittany

Past deals in Robotics

Galam Robotics

Series A in 2025
Galam Robotics develops modular robotic solutions to optimize logistics and storage processes. The technology enhances productivity and compactness of stores and logistics hubs, transforming storage into constrained spaces to improve handling flows at high density and speed, enabling businesses with complex needs to optimize storage capacity and throughput.

AISPRID

Series A in 2025
AISPRID is a robotic company that manufactures autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.

Interactive Autonomous DYnamic Systems

Grant in 2024
Iadys designs, develops, and delivers robotic and AI innovations aimed at environmental preservation. The company's flagship product, the Jellyfishbot, is a robot that collects floating waste and oil in water bodies and performs underwater measurements. Iadys also offers the Mobile Oil Skimmer, which is used for oil spill response. These products are designed to access and clean hard-to-reach areas, contributing to cleaner and safer aquatic environments.

Inbolt

Series A in 2024
Inbolt is a company focused on enhancing industrial operations through advanced vision systems for robots. It has developed a vision-based artificial intelligence that enables real-time decision-making in various environments, allowing for smarter automation of complex tasks. The company's technology includes a tool positioning system that provides real-time quality control for manual operations such as torquing, drilling, and riveting. By implementing these innovations, Inbolt aims to reduce errors in operations and improve overall quality control, thereby streamlining industrial processes and increasing efficiency.

OSS Ventures

Series B in 2024
OSS Ventures is a startup studio established in 2018 by Renan Devillières, dedicated to fostering innovation within the French industry through technological, environmental, social, and societal transitions. Since its inception, OSS Ventures has launched 15 startups primarily in France and internationally, while also investing in an additional four startups. The company focuses on sectors such as manufacturing and technology, with an emphasis on coding, the sharing economy, open-source solutions, smart sensors, big data, robotics, additive manufacturing, and blockchain. Through its initiatives, OSS Ventures aims to drive significant advancements and improvements in various industries.

Magnetfab

Grant in 2024
Magnetfab manufactures micromagnets for microelectronic applications using thin-film sputtering to produce rare-earth magnets with micron-level precision and wafer-scale fabrication. This enables integration of compact magnetic components into advanced electronic systems across consumer electronics, robotics, and quantum computing, prioritizing reliability and scalability.

SteerLight

Debt Financing in 2024
SteerLight is a startup focused on the development of LiDAR-based optical sensors designed for mobility applications. The company specializes in creating advanced laser-based optical systems that offer long-range functionality and enhanced three-dimensional perception, enabling users to accurately interpret their surroundings. By utilizing silicon photonics technology, SteerLight's sensors provide increased decision-making precision, which supports clients in designing cost-effective automated robots. Through its innovative solutions, SteerLight aims to improve navigation and automation in various sectors.

Osiris Agriculture

Seed Round in 2023
Osiris Agriculture is a technology company focused on sustainable farming. It develops autonomous, four-wheeled robots designed to assist farmers in growing potatoes, sugar beets, and field crops. These robots automate and enhance tasks such as watering, fertilizing, weeding, and crop protection, aiming to improve agricultural sustainability and help farmers optimize their operations.

Niryo

Series A in 2023
Niryo is a manufacturer of educational robots designed to facilitate prototype industrial case studies. The company specializes in open-source six-axis collaborative robots that serve as tools for learning robotics and computer programming. By providing these resources, Niryo aims to support educational institutions in delivering higher education and professional training, thereby enhancing the skills of students and professionals in the field of robotics.

GenSensor

Seed Round in 2023
GenSensor is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing and implementing a genomic-based, in-line bioproduction monitoring system. This system combines a robotic device with advanced analytics software to monitor, characterize, and optimize the production of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) and vaccines. By providing real-time insights into the bioproduction process, GenSensor helps healthcare companies maximize the use of innovative drugs, improve production efficiency, and ultimately reduce manufacturing costs, thereby benefiting patients.

Pollen Robotics

Venture Round in 2023
Pollen Robotics is a robotics company focused on developing humanoid service robots designed for interaction and manipulation of objects across various industries such as healthcare, retail, and education. Their robots are customizable and equipped with advanced robotic arms, enabling them to convey emotions through technology and antennas, thereby expanding potential applications and accessibility in the field of robotics.

Orthopus

Seed Round in 2023
Orthopus manufactures and distributes medical devices. They develop a range of robotic devices for arm mobility. Their supporter compensates for the weight of the arm to facilitate vertical movements. Their robotic device is used in an electric wheelchair and on a table.

Ganymed Robotics

Debt Financing in 2023
Ganymed Robotics is a medical device company that develops robotics technologies for orthopedic surgeons, including a therapeutic device designed to improve precision in knee replacement procedures. Founded in 2018 and based in Paris, the company aims to enhance surgical accuracy, reduce operating times, and improve patient outcomes by integrating robotics into the orthopedic workflow.

Naïo Technologies

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2011, Naïo Technologies designs and develops electric tools for mechanical weeding and harvesting in agriculture. Headquartered in Midi-Pyrénées, France, the company specializes in improving farming efficiency while reducing chemical usage.

Ludocare

Seed Round in 2022
Ludocare is a company focused on developing therapeutic robots aimed at assisting patients with chronic diseases and their families. Its innovative devices are designed to complement traditional drug treatments by providing personalized support that empowers patients, particularly children, to enhance their treatment compliance and overall quality of life. By improving patients' abilities and autonomy, Ludocare's solutions seek to foster better disease management and stabilization of essential treatments, ultimately aiming to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery for those affected by chronic conditions.

ex9

Grant in 2022
Ex9 is a provider of unmanned transport solutions specifically designed for logistics operators. The company specializes in automating the movement of trailers within confined spaces such as warehouses, distribution hubs, and manufacturing plants through a fleet of eco-friendly, cost-effective robot-tractors. By facilitating dock-parking and cross-dock shunting operations, Ex9 ensures continuous, 24/7 operations that significantly reduce operational costs, CO2 emissions, and incidents. The company aims to enhance operational performance by 30% while achieving up to a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions throughout the global supply chain. Ex9 focuses on addressing unsafe, time-consuming, and low-value tasks in industrial transport, ultimately helping businesses boost productivity and efficiency in their operations.

Wandercraft

Series C in 2022
Wandercraft is a robotics company that develops self-balancing robotic exoskeletons to enable paralyzed users to stand and walk hands-free, without crutches. Its flagship exoskeleton, Atalante, is a commercial device designed for daily life and rehabilitation, CE-marked in 2019 and marketed to European rehab hospitals to support gait re-learning. The company combines algorithmics, AI, robotics, production, clinical, marketing and sales to deliver a full-stack solution and aims to bring a realistic, autonomous walking device beyond lab prototypes. The exoskeleton uses motors at each joint controlled by a computing unit running software that computes robotic algorithms every millisecond to replicate a human gait, enabling paraplegic individuals to regain autonomy during daily activities.

Exotec

Series D in 2022
Exotec is a designer and manufacturer of the Goods to Person SKYPOD solution, a robotic order picking system tailored for retail logistics across various sectors. The SKYPOD system facilitates order preparation and can function as a buffer for completed orders, adaptable to both cool and ambient environments. With a focus on performance and flexibility, Exotec customizes its solutions based on clients' automation needs and specific logistics characteristics. The company's technology incorporates a fleet of collaborative mobile robots that work alongside humans to enhance the efficiency of order assembling and dispatching. This centralized intelligence system optimizes warehouse operations by reducing travel distances and maximizing space utilization, ultimately improving productivity and ensuring sustainable, accurate, and profitable order fulfillment for its customers. Exotec's solutions are designed to support business growth without interrupting production, allowing for the seamless addition of robots, stations, or racks as needed.

iFollow

Series A in 2021
iFollow is a manufacturer of collaborative autonomous robots designed to enhance operations in the logistics and retail sectors. The company specializes in developing autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that automate the transport of heavy loads, addressing needs across various industries, including food, industrial, pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetics, logistics, and retail. iFollow also offers a proprietary software suite that facilitates the optimization of intralogistics flows, enabling clients to improve productivity and efficiency in their operations. Through its innovative solutions, iFollow aims to transform traditional logistics processes by integrating advanced robotics technology.

Quantum Surgical

Venture Round in 2021
Quantum Surgical is a company focused on advancing minimally invasive treatments for liver cancer through the development of surgical robotics. Its mission is to democratize access to effective treatment options for this condition. By providing intelligent tools designed for advanced percutaneous ablation therapy, Quantum Surgical aims to enhance the capabilities of healthcare providers, allowing them to improve patient outcomes and deliver safer interventional oncology procedures. The company is dedicated to transforming the surgical landscape for liver cancer, ensuring that more patients can benefit from innovative and less invasive treatment options.

Interactive Autonomous DYnamic Systems

Debt Financing in 2021
Iadys designs, develops, and delivers robotic and AI innovations aimed at environmental preservation. The company's flagship product, the Jellyfishbot, is a robot that collects floating waste and oil in water bodies and performs underwater measurements. Iadys also offers the Mobile Oil Skimmer, which is used for oil spill response. These products are designed to access and clean hard-to-reach areas, contributing to cleaner and safer aquatic environments.

ELWAVE

Venture Round in 2021
ELWAVE is a manufacturer of electromagnetic detection systems for underwater and industrial robotics. It was created in 2018 to promote more than 10 years of research work by the biorobotics laboratory of the Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique on “electric sense” technology. The “electric sense” is a mode of perception used by tropical fish living in muddy, heavily congested waters with branches in which vision and acoustics are ineffective. Natural evolution has led these fish to acquire this alternative mode of perception adapted to their environment.

eCential Robotics

Venture Round in 2021
eCential Robotics specializes in minimally invasive surgical solutions aimed at enhancing routine clinical practices. The company develops advanced imaging technology that integrates fluoroscopy, surgical navigation, and robotics, specifically tailored for orthopedic and trauma surgeries. Its innovative system offers high-definition imaging and real-time navigation, allowing surgeons to conduct various procedures with increased safety and precision. By facilitating day surgery, eCential Robotics provides significant benefits to patients, hospitals, clinics, and overall healthcare systems, while also minimizing radiation exposure during complex interventions.

Iktos

Debt Financing in 2021
Iktos is a French company specializing in artificial intelligence-driven solutions for medicinal chemistry and new drug discovery. It offers SaaS platforms Makya™ for generative drug design and Spaya™ for retrosynthesis, accelerating pharmaceutical R&D. Iktos also develops AI-driven synthesis automation platform Iktos Robotics and has its own drug pipeline targeting oncology and autoimmune diseases.

Quantum Surgical

Grant in 2020
Quantum Surgical is a company focused on advancing minimally invasive treatments for liver cancer through the development of surgical robotics. Its mission is to democratize access to effective treatment options for this condition. By providing intelligent tools designed for advanced percutaneous ablation therapy, Quantum Surgical aims to enhance the capabilities of healthcare providers, allowing them to improve patient outcomes and deliver safer interventional oncology procedures. The company is dedicated to transforming the surgical landscape for liver cancer, ensuring that more patients can benefit from innovative and less invasive treatment options.

Naïo Technologies

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2011, Naïo Technologies designs and develops electric tools for mechanical weeding and harvesting in agriculture. Headquartered in Midi-Pyrénées, France, the company specializes in improving farming efficiency while reducing chemical usage.

eCential Robotics

Series B in 2018
eCential Robotics specializes in minimally invasive surgical solutions aimed at enhancing routine clinical practices. The company develops advanced imaging technology that integrates fluoroscopy, surgical navigation, and robotics, specifically tailored for orthopedic and trauma surgeries. Its innovative system offers high-definition imaging and real-time navigation, allowing surgeons to conduct various procedures with increased safety and precision. By facilitating day surgery, eCential Robotics provides significant benefits to patients, hospitals, clinics, and overall healthcare systems, while also minimizing radiation exposure during complex interventions.

Wandercraft

Series B in 2017
Wandercraft is a robotics company that develops self-balancing robotic exoskeletons to enable paralyzed users to stand and walk hands-free, without crutches. Its flagship exoskeleton, Atalante, is a commercial device designed for daily life and rehabilitation, CE-marked in 2019 and marketed to European rehab hospitals to support gait re-learning. The company combines algorithmics, AI, robotics, production, clinical, marketing and sales to deliver a full-stack solution and aims to bring a realistic, autonomous walking device beyond lab prototypes. The exoskeleton uses motors at each joint controlled by a computing unit running software that computes robotic algorithms every millisecond to replicate a human gait, enabling paraplegic individuals to regain autonomy during daily activities.

Stanley Robotics

Venture Round in 2017
Founded in 2015, Stanley Robotics designs and develops autonomous valet parking robots. Its driverless platform efficiently picks up, moves, and stores vehicles in outdoor parking lots, enhancing user experience by reducing search time for parking spots and providing secure, hassle-free pick-up.

EZ Wheel

Series B in 2015
EZ-Wheel SAS is a technology company based in Saint-Michel, France, founded in 2009. It specializes in developing industrial electric traction solutions for handling tools and soft mobility applications. The company offers a variety of self-propelled electric wheels designed for scooters, tricycles, and urban vehicles, as well as agricultural and industrial products for wheelbarrows, delivery carts, and medical equipment. EZ-Wheel's technology includes features such as one-axis joystick control for speed management and wireless interface solutions. These products are used to facilitate the movement of heavy loads in various sectors, including construction, urban transport, and healthcare, enhancing the efficiency and performance of material handling equipment. Located in Charente, within the Mecatronic Valley, EZ-Wheel benefits from a supportive industrial ecosystem that fosters innovation and collaboration.
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