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.

Marion Aubry

Investment Director

Emmanuel Audouard

Director of Transverse Venture Capital Investments Division

Maufras Du Chatellier, Elyssa

Investment Director

Charlotte Corbaz

Investment Drector - Large Venture

Dahoune, Sofia

Associate

Vanessa Giraud

Director of Environmental Impact Funds

Gwenaël Hamon

Investment Director

Laurent Higueret

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

Jacq, Véronique

Head of Digital Venture team

So-Yeon Koo

Senior Investment Manager

Eric Lefebvre

Director

Legardeur, Arnaud

Investment Director

Serge Mesguich

Director of FIT

Louis Molis

Investment Director

Adrien Neel

Investment Director

Gilles Schang

Deputy Managing Director

Past deals in Series A

Santé Académie

Series A in 2023
As a result of a lack of caregivers across the country, their tasks are evolving - doctors can be asked to practice a gynaecologist act, or a nurse to follow up on a patient under anticancer treatment. Meanwhile, medical knowledge is increasing all around the world - we estimate that 50% of it becomes useless after 7 years. Therefore how can we provide continuous training to 2 million caregivers? Santé Académie rethinks Continuing Medical Education by offering educational videos with cinematographic quality accessible by web or mobile. Each course is divided into 5 to 15 min episodes to adequate caregivers' schedules. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, care assistants, and chiefs nurses, can access a catalogue of high-quality courses on clinical and regulatory themes customized to their daily practice. These courses are certified by the ANDPC and produced by the best experts from prestigious institutions. Our goal? To educate health professionals as well as their engagement, with the top-end knowledge directly accessible from their phone, to improve patient care from prevention to follow-up. A new experience already approved by more than 20 000 professional and health institutions (GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences, Service de Santé des Armées …) !

EyeLights

Series A in 2023
EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple, uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding. The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g.

Kiro

Series A in 2023
Operator of a digital medicine company intended to provide insights on laboratory test results that are understandable to patients. The company fosters the interactions between laboratories, health professionals and patients and goes beyond results in patient care through the use of new technologies and artificial intelligence, enabling medical professionals to easily interpret and diagnose in a personalized and effective way.

Siteflow

Series A in 2022
For many years digital transformation of the manufacturing industry has been underway. However, for regulated industries and operations that combine complex reporting workflows, project manufacturing and mobility for the field, few digital solutions meet the expectations. As a result, on those sites, tools and work methods haven’t changed so much the past decades while quality and safety requirements have exploded. That is around those challenges that professionnals from the nuclear industry, special works and software experts have gathered, to create Siteflow, the first cloud-based field service management software designed for complex operations (Nuclear, Oil&Gas…). A solution designed for end-user Beyond technical specificities from those markets, we have leveraged learnings from industries that have already been through digital transformation: every time user acceptance is key to make those challenging projects a success. This is why at Siteflow, our obsession is to design the most simple interfaces, and functionalities that bring value directly for our users, in order to simplify their daily tasks, to ease collaboration with their colleagues and to help them focus on what really matters. A change management program to facilitate digital transformation As we all know, the choice of a software solution is just part of the puzzle to implement a digital transformation program. Organizations need to be re-designed as day-to-day activities of engineers, project managers and operators are directly concerned. Based upon our experience, we help our customers for a smooth transition to operational excellence.

Club Employes

Series A in 2022
Club Employes is an innovative web platform that offers hundreds of products, services at reduced prices to employees of French companies.

Arianee

Series A in 2022
Arianee is on a mission to allow brands and owners to bring products, experiences, and communities to life digitally through NFTs. We establish direct and continuing interactions via trust, respect, and honesty.

Implicity

Series A in 2022
Implicity is a developer of a Saas-based remote monitoring platform designed to provide smart monitoring of connected cardiac electronic implants. The company's platform sorts and summarizes data of patients with connected pacemakers and defibrillators with the help of an artificial intelligence module and determines the criticality of each alert taking into account the medical context of the patient, enabling cardiologists and healthcare professionals to automate the remote monitoring of their patients and get patients' telepulse on a single platform.

mobee travel

Series A in 2022
Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment during their trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.

Umiami

Series A in 2022
Umiami is a French food-tech startup that develops plant-based food technology to reduce meat consumption. It also offers plant-based whole-cuts that contain plant proteins helping consumers to have alternatives that mimic the taste, texture, and smell of meat. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.

Umiami

Series A in 2022
Umiami is a French food-tech startup that develops plant-based food technology to reduce meat consumption. It also offers plant-based whole-cuts that contain plant proteins helping consumers to have alternatives that mimic the taste, texture, and smell of meat. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.

Cairdac

Series A in 2022
Cairdac is a medtech startup that is creating on a self-sustaining leadless pacing system that uses an inertial energy harvester. The company used its assets and resources to become the first company in the world to successfully develop a self-sustaining pacemaker with a lifespan of more than 15 years. The use of a proprietary piezoelectric energy harvester in conjunction with its miniaturized ASIC "high-efficient power management circuit" enabled this energy performance. ALPSTM is a one-of-a-kind, autonomous, and endoscopically implanted leadless pacemaker with patented self-sustaining power technology that harvests the heart's kinetic energy. CAIRDAC applies disruptive technologies to traditional leadless pacemakers, meeting the growing needs of patients and healthcare professionals with an all-in-one, cost-effective solution that will revolutionize patients' quality of life.

Archeon

Series A in 2022
Archeon is fully dedicated to the development of innovative solutions for the monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients in prehospital care.

Alice & Bob

Series A in 2022
Alice&Bob build Universal, Error-free, Quantum Computers to help industries and researchers solve the hardest problems.

CarbonWorks

Series A in 2022
CarbonWorks is specialising in the use of microalgae to capture and utilise carbon dioxide.

Silvr

Series A in 2022
Silvr reinvents the way entrepreneurs get funded. Financing businesses has not evolved over the last decades: banks prefer to fund assets, and equity is not the best fit for all. Silvr enables entrepreneurs by building a world where funding is easy to access, scalable, and equity-free. Silvr leverages digital business data to predict future revenues and offer funding in 24 hours. Silvr is headquartered in Paris, is backed by ISAI and Eurazeo, and deploys millions of euros of funding for European entrepreneurs every month.

Elicit Plant

Series A in 2022
Elicit Plant is an agro-biotech company specializing in crops’ water resistance and the development of innovative phytosterol-based solutions. The company develops products that significantly reduce water stress in field-grown plants, making them better equipped to handle water shortages.

Combo

Series A in 2022
Combo is a staff planning and staff management software.

Ascor Communication

Venture Round in 2022
Ascor Communication is a holding company with private and family shareholders whose vocation is to invest in digital and distance learning.

Cureety

Series A in 2022
Cureety is a telemedicine startup that improves the follow-up and care of patients.

Depixus

Series A in 2021
Depixus includes a Full genome analysis, which necessitates technologies capable of reading DNA, RNA, and their base changes. The dynamics of this cannot be captured with single-molecule precision by today's sequencing technology.

Meiogenix

Series A in 2021
Meiogenix is a biotech company developing breeding technologies to unlock the unexplored genetic diversity of organisms. Meiogenix expands the natural biodiversity and helps to develop new products to address global food and industrial challenges.

Emergence Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Emergence Therapeutics AG is a biopharmaceutical company based in Duisburg, Germany, focused on developing novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) immuno-therapeutics for high-need cancers. Founded in 2019, the company is advancing its lead program, which combines a highly specific antibody with optimized linker and payload technology to target Nectin-4, a clinically validated target for various cancers. This approach is inspired by the success of enfortumab vedotin, an approved treatment for urothelial cancers. Emergence Therapeutics is also exploring opportunities to create additional first- or best-in-class ADCs, aiming to address significant therapeutic needs in oncology.

HYPNO VR

Series A in 2021
HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.

Kinvent

Venture Round in 2021
KINVENT is actively involved in the fields of physical rehabilitation and sports biomechanics producing innovative measuring and training devices for the facilitation of every day and athletic movements. Our strengths at KINVENT is that we can think and produce solutions to any challenge of sports biomechanics and physical rehabilitation. Triangular force plates for visual feedback balance training, sensors for continuous 3D kinematic analysis in the water, force sensors for kite surf, accelerometers for rowing and sailing, are some of our on demand products. If you are looking for excellence in hardware and software solutions for your work... work with us. Our KFORCE solution is a range of torque measuring instruments for human strength, balance and motion. This system consists of six instruments with high-precision measuring equipment, which concentrate all the know-how of K-INVENT. The display of the data recorded by the device sensors is transcribed by the KFORCE software, installed on any iOS or Android terminal. This accessory capable of reading and re-transcribing the information given by all dynamometers of the entire range is usable on smartphones or tablets with Android and IOS operating system

Newheat

Venture Round in 2021
NewHeat owns and operates solar heat plants. It engages in financing, engineering, procurement, construction, and operation of solar heat plants that transform solar radiation into heat. It uses solar thermal collectors to transfer solar energy to water, steam, or thermal oil.

Quandela

Venture Round in 2021
Quandela is a quantum computing platform that accelerates the development of communication networks and optical computers. The company manufactures photonic quantum computers and sells them to industrial customers. The company's single-photon source device combines photonics and semiconductor quantum dots for quantum communication, computation, and sensing and permits to collection of the emitted single-photons with exceptional efficiency at high rates, enabling researchers to strongly reduce the charge noise decoherence and assist in the emission of identical photons with fidelity close to unity, an essential requirement for the development of the most advanced quantum applications.

Groover

Venture Round in 2021
Groover, the all-in-one platform for independent artists. Groover has built a community of 200,000 independent artists subscribed to its platform in more than 186 different countries. Over two million feedback were made on tracks from Groover's vetted community of 3,000 music curators and professionals.

iFollow

Series A in 2021
iFollow develops collaborative autonomous robots for the logistics industry and the retail industry.

Egle Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Egle Therapeutics SAS is a biotechnology company based in Paris, France, founded in 2020. It specializes in developing innovative immunotherapies that target immune suppressor regulatory T-cells (Tregs) for the treatment of oncology and autoimmune diseases. The company's research focuses on a proprietary drug pipeline that includes computationally designed IL-2 variants aimed at modulating Treg activity. This approach seeks to either engage or dis-engage Tregs, facilitating the development of therapies that can effectively combat cancer and other related conditions by addressing the immune suppression caused by Tregs. Egle Therapeutics aims to advance its unique portfolio to provide new treatment options in the healthcare field.

Beem Energy

Series A in 2021
Beem provides a simple-to-install solar kit. The Beem solar kit allows users to generate green electricity in just a few minutes. A simple installation that anyone can do to get started with solar energy. Beem was founded in 2018 by Arthur Kenzo, Ralph Feghali, and Pierre-Emmanuel Roger.

Mindee

Series A in 2021
Mindee's mission is to enhance the value of your business by offering tailor-made artificial intelligence solutions for businesses. Their team of experts in machine learning and artificial intelligence designs your solutions, from prototyping to production and training of client teams. As close as possible to your business needs, our end-to-end services offer guarantees a smooth and efficient integration of the highest technologies into your structure.

Ask Mona

Series A in 2021
Ask Mona develops artificial intelligence solutions and chatbots for cultural institutions like museums, galleries, historic sites, and gardens, among others. It creates dialogues, creates links and bridges, and brings cultural institutions and their audiences closer together. The company is committed to developing tools, building communities, and sharing inspirational stories.

Swan

Series A in 2021
Swan is a European fintech and innovation leader in embedded finance. Swan’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is the easiest way for companies to embed banking features. Via Swan’s simple APIs, European companies can integrate banking services (accounts, cards, and payments) quickly and easily into their own product. Founded in 2019, the fintech processes over 200 million euros of transactions per month, for 60+ companies across ten European countries. Swan has over 100 employees and is led by fintech experts and experienced entrepreneurs: Nicolas Benady, Nicolas Saison and Mathieu Breton. The company was founded together with the startup studio eFounders and has received growth capital from leading VC investors such as Creandum and Accel. Swan is a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the ACPR.

Paradiso media

Series A in 2021
Paradiso media aids the media and companies in turning their community into podcasts. They are able to provide assistance at all stages of content creation, including editorial production, production, communication, and distribution, thanks to their audio and advertising production.

Farmitoo

Series A in 2021
Farmitoo is an online purchase of farm equipment directly from manufacturers.

Younited

Venture Round in 2021
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

iWire

Series A in 2021
iWire is a UAE based company established since 2009, providing IT services to enterprise clients. As the digital era is unfolding at a breath-taking pace, we are determined to provide leading-edge solutions in the following domains to address the new market realities. o Internet of Things o IT Optimization o Digital Transformation

Edflex

Series A in 2021
Edflex offers content for businesses such as articles, videos, podcasts, online courses, and books. It is a SaaS solution that connects companies to access online corporate training content. Edflex is working to improve everyone's training by making it more understandable. The company's goal is to be the innovator in bringing together participants in online training by developing an easy-to-follow learning route. The teams at Edflex strive every day to locate and offer instructional content in a way that makes learning seem natural and effortless, rather than like an extra effort.

PASQAL

Series A in 2021
PASQAL is developing a full-stack quantum computer that will be used to simulate complex phenomena for scientific discovery and to address general problems such as optimization, drug discovery, and machine learning. The company's quantum processing units are made up of hundreds of atomic qubits in 2D and 3D arrays, and their programming environment, to address our customers' needs in quantum computing and simulation.

AQEMIA

Series A in 2021
AQEMIA is a pharmatech company developing a drug discovery platform to discover new drugs for specific therapeutic targets. Its platform combines quantum-inspired physics and machine learning to scale the drug discovery process, generating a growing pipeline of new drug candidates.

Zaion

Series A in 2021
Zaion developed a voice customer relationship solution, a chatbot software that automates conversations and offers voice customer relationship processing using remote advisors. Zaion is a European expert in customer relationship solutions augmented by Artificial Intelligence.

Arkhn

Series A in 2021
Arkhn is a company focused on healthcare data interoperability, addressing challenges related to accessing and managing healthcare data. It develops medical enterprise software that standardizes healthcare information to enhance patient care and support medical teams. By improving data accessibility, Arkhn aims to facilitate medical research and innovation while streamlining the operations of healthcare centers. This enables healthcare establishments to provide better support for patients and caregivers, ultimately accelerating advancements in the healthcare sector.

dessIA

Series A in 2021
DessIA uses augmented engineering software powered by AI to reduce product development lead time. The company's platform provides bots that help engineers design mechanical systems. The Bots help engineers and architects in the early stages of the development process by swiftly producing thousands of architectures and determining the optimum configurations satisfying sustainability and profitability criteria.

Moments Lab

Series A in 2021
Moments Lab’s mission is to help content producers build videos faster. The platform makes audiovisual content searchable to reduce the time spent sourcing the key moments required to tell a story. MXT Multimodal AI is here to address video indexing challenges, describing sequences in natural language, enabling content professionals to focus on creativity and higher-value decisions. Today, the platform is used worldwide by TV networks, sports rights holders, production companies, journalists, producers, and archivists to scale content creation workflows and generate new revenue streams. Whether it be for managing and accessing live recordings, clipping highlights, researching story angles, content retrieval, or content showcasing and licensing. Newsbridge offers four solutions powered by MXT-1: - Just Index: For companies needing to extract metadata and send it to their third-party media asset management system. - Media Hub: For companies looking for an innovative media asset management platform with a best-in-class search engine. - Live Asset Manager: For companies needing to instantly access and centralize live streams as they are being recorded, in a scalable fashion. - Media Marketplace: For companies looking for a white label storefront to monetize their media library. Newsbridge creates value for its clients by: - Improving productivity and building video stories 50% faster: by erasing the need for manual logging and accelerating the video sourcing process. - Giving teams and partners immediate access and autonomy in finding content: Did you know that 80% of content worldwide is still stored on hard drives? - Providing immediate ROI: By making content more easily reusable and more findable on video search engine platforms, such as YouTube. Newsbridge serves clients worldwide, including Hearst Corporation, World Rally Championships, Agence France Presse (AFP), Asharq News, SWR, Le Parisien, French Football Federation, Olympique de Marseille, Bayer Leverkusen, TF1, M6, BFM (Altice Group), and more.

Tekyn

Series A in 2021
TEKYN offers the most innovative, intuitive, and effective software, hardware, and service solutions to make digitalization achievable and accessible to everyone in the textile industry. This digital transformation is critical to ensuring competitiveness and efficiency, allowing for the textile supply chain to be optimized to become more agile, efficient, and transparent. As a result, TEKYN is at the heart of the technological and human ecosystem, connecting all players and their digital tools, facilitating data exchange, and streamlining processes.

Babylone Growers

Series A in 2021
Babylone Growers specializes in hydroponic greenhouse production of fruits and vegetables through an innovative vertical farming structure known as the X-frame. The company is committed to sustainable agriculture, utilizing techniques that significantly reduce water usage and eliminate the need for pesticides. By focusing on environmentally friendly practices, Babylone Growers aims to enhance crop yields and lower production costs, allowing businesses to participate in a more sustainable future.

ARGOBIO

Funding Round in 2021
Argobio is a start-up studio devoted to developing unique therapeutic solutions, with the purpose of nurturing and launching revolutionary biotech firms. It sources cutting-edge early-stage projects from leading European academic research institutes in order to cultivate and nurture these projects before launching companies. The main focus is on rare diseases, neurological issues, oncology, and immunology. Additionally, the studio is looking to create promising platform technologies for therapeutic products.

Powder

Series A in 2021
Powder is a startup that offers a video editing platform aimed at gamers and content creators. The platform employs artificial intelligence to automatically identify and clip highlight moments from video streams, allowing users to efficiently share their favorite gaming moments. By streamlining the editing process, Powder enables creators to concentrate on content creation and engage with others who share similar interests. This approach not only enhances the gaming experience but also fosters a community where users can connect and interact over their shared passions.

Sis ID

Series A in 2021
Fintech created in 2016, Sis ID assists major companies in the fight against bank transfer fraud.

Kwit

Series A in 2021
Kwit is a developer of a mobile application focused on smoking cessation. The application employs evidence-based methods and principles derived from cognitive and behavioral therapy to assist users in their journey to quit smoking. By providing daily support infused with positivity and kindness, Kwit aims to guide individuals toward a smoke-free life, ultimately promoting healthier and happier lifestyles.

Lovys

Series A in 2021
Lovys is a digital insurance provider based in France, founded in 2017. It is recognized as the first fully digital, all-in-one insurance platform in the country. Lovys aims to simplify the insurance experience by offering a personalized and transparent interface where users can manage their insurance needs through a single monthly subscription. The company's application allows clients to register and insure individual items with ease, providing clear insights into costs and facilitating direct management of policies and claims. By rethinking the traditional insurance model, Lovys is dedicated to making insurance simpler and more accessible for users.

Antaios

Series A in 2020
Antaios develops innovative memory technology. Antaios is fully engaged in bringing the technology to the market to help chip manufacturers solve the critical issue of exploding power requests in advanced semiconductor systems.

In&motion

Venture Round in 2020
In & Motion creates wearable smart protection systems that reduces risks of serious injuries due to falls. The company has launches the smart ski airbag vest that measure & analyse in real time skiers’ movements and anticipates falls in order to activate the airbag bladder before the impact. Protection is optimum on both broad and crucial areas. The smart ski airbag vest received several awards, was worn in 2015-16 Ski cross World Cup by racers from 7 major countries and will be available in stores since September via our partner, the Swedish brand POC.

AlgoTherapeutix

Series A in 2020
AlgoTx creates solutions to help patients suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions. The organization accomplishes this by emphasizing conditions with no proven or licensed therapy and adapting treatment to the very particular needs of the people afflicted. ATX01's admission into Phase 2 in Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy has been approved by the FDA. In the meanwhile, AlgoTx is investigating its potential in erythromelalgia, a rare and painful condition.

Preligens

Series A in 2020
Preligens develops advanced artificial intelligence technology aimed at enhancing operational decision-making for defense and intelligence sectors. By automating the analysis of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) workflows, the company leverages machine learning and computer vision to aggregate data from multiple intelligence sources, including imagery, electromagnetic signals, and open-source information. This approach enables intelligence agencies to gain critical insights into mission areas, facilitating rapid decision-making and improving situational awareness. Preligens' innovative solutions empower analysts to take informed actions, ultimately contributing to a safer world.

SparingVision

Venture Round in 2020
SparingVision is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapies for the treatment of blinding inherited retinal diseases. SparingVision is developing SPVN06, a gene-independent treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, the most common inherited retinal degeneration. There is currently no treatment to treat all genetic forms of this rare retinal disease that leads to blindness and affects nearly 2 million people worldwide.

Garantme

Series A in 2020
Garantme gives access to thousands of international students in France by guaranteeing their lease and boosting their application.

Medaviz

Series A in 2020
Medaviz is an online platform that provides medical advice to bring patients and doctors into immediate contact. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Exotrail

Series A in 2020
Exotrail develops electric propulsion solutions for small satellites. Their safe and efficient Hall Effect Thrusters are helping build agile constellations to revolutionize telecommunication, earth observation, space, and science. David Henri, Jean-Luc Maria, Paul Lascombes, and Nicolas Heitz co-founded the company in Palaiseau, Ile-de-France in 2015.

Synapse Medicine

Venture Round in 2020
At Synapse Medicine, we believe in medication success, and are dedicated to creating the technology that makes it possible for everyone. To achieve this goal, we have built an extensive global knowledge base for medication using algorithms to ensure the most reliable, up-to-date data. On the front-end, Synapse Medicine provides a SaaS platform and UI components that are used to prescribe, dispense, and manage medications across the entire patient journey. Synapse is working with world-leading hospitals and digital health companies in the United States, Europe and Japan to transform today’s medication regimens into tomorrow’s medication success.

Owkin

Series A in 2020
Owkin is a French-American startup that uses artificial intelligence to find the right treatment for every patient. Our focus is to use AI to discover and develop better treatments for unmet medical needs, starting with the fight against cancer. They use AI to identify new drug candidates, de-risk and accelerate clinical trials and build diagnostic tools that improve patient outcomes. Using federated learning, a pioneering collaborative AI framework, Owkin enables medical and biopharma partners to unlock valuable insights from siloed datasets, while protecting patient privacy and securing proprietary data. Owkin was co-founded by Thomas Clozel MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical onco-hematology, and Gilles Wainrib, a pioneer in the field of machine learning in biology, in 2016. Owkin has raised over $255 million and became a ‘unicorn’ – a startup valued at more than $1 billion – in November 2021 through a $180 million investment from French biopharma company Sanofi.

ABC Transfer

Series A in 2020
ABC Transfer is a biopharmaceutical company that develops Rapid Transfer Systems (RTS) solutions.

Rise Up

Series A in 2020
Rise Up is a learning software solution designed to help organizations and their teams stay up-to-skill to be ready for challenges. Rise Up gives businesses the ability to offer training at business speed, embed learning in workers' regular activities, and accelerate learning to improve the company. Rise Up offers a customized learning experience for everyone, every day by fusing a business-driven approach, cutting-edge technology, customer-driven service, and constant evaluation.

Ona Therapeutics

Series A in 2020
Ona Therapeutics is a biotech company that specializes in the discovery and development of therapeutic biologics targeting tumor metastatic-initiating cells and lipid metabolism. Founded in 2019 by Salvador Aznar-Benitah and Valerie Vanhooren, it was a spin-off from ICREA and Advanced Studies, and the IRB Institute for Research in Biomedicine.

Ambler

Series A in 2020
Ambler is a startup founded in 2018 by experts in digital and so-called "marketplace" models 100% French, the company enjoys the support of public authorities (Wilco-ex Scientipôle) and the support of prestigious private investors , including Partech, Idinvest Partners, Kima Ventures. The startup is developing technologies to help match the supply and demand of medical transports. It aggregates, thanks to win-win partnerships, a considerable fleet of vehicles and offers unparalleled deliverability for contractors. Ambler is the only solution capable, nationwide, of absorbing the constant growth of health transport flows induced by demographic and regulatory factors (reform of regional hospital groups).

Didomi

Series A in 2020
Didomi is a consent and preference management platform for collecting and leveraging user consents and preferences for businesses.The company's cloud-based suite of tools includes automated websites/apps scanning and auditing, privacy compliance assessment, privacy and cookie policy generation, and consent management, enabling businesses of all sizes to comply with privacy requirements and build consumer trust.

Shipup

Series A in 2020
Shipup creates a unique post-purchase experience for online retailers. We turn delivery into marketing and customer success. Shipup tracks all packages in one place and offers your customers a unique and customized experience during delivery.

Monstock

Series A in 2020
Monstock SAS, founded in 2016 and based in Bezannes, France, offers a mobile application for inventory and flow management through platforms like Google Play and the App Store. The company provides a solution designed to simplify and automate inventory management, allowing businesses to digitize their processes effectively. Monstock's platform enables users to manage product catalogs, datasheets, control dates, and generate comprehensive reports on activities. This approach facilitates improved control over inventory systems, ultimately enhancing productivity for companies seeking to streamline their operations.

Owkin

Series A in 2020
Owkin is a French-American startup that uses artificial intelligence to find the right treatment for every patient. Our focus is to use AI to discover and develop better treatments for unmet medical needs, starting with the fight against cancer. They use AI to identify new drug candidates, de-risk and accelerate clinical trials and build diagnostic tools that improve patient outcomes. Using federated learning, a pioneering collaborative AI framework, Owkin enables medical and biopharma partners to unlock valuable insights from siloed datasets, while protecting patient privacy and securing proprietary data. Owkin was co-founded by Thomas Clozel MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical onco-hematology, and Gilles Wainrib, a pioneer in the field of machine learning in biology, in 2016. Owkin has raised over $255 million and became a ‘unicorn’ – a startup valued at more than $1 billion – in November 2021 through a $180 million investment from French biopharma company Sanofi.

Vestiaire Collective

Venture Round in 2020
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items. The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day. Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.

Pixpay

Series A in 2020
Pixpay helps the younger generation learn how to manage a budget. This includes adopting responsible consumption. But also by carrying projects: try, fail, start over, succeed it push and motivate teenagers to get started and achieve their dream.

WAAM Cosmetics

Series A in 2020
WAAM Cosmetics is a natural, eco-friendly, vegan & cruelty free beauty products. Made from high quality raw materials from fair trade, and made in France.

Fair&Smart

Venture Round in 2020
Fair&Smart is a Human-centric platform for the governance and free-flow of personal data. It provides people with more control over their personal data and companies with Privacy compliance and up-to-date data.

Cardiologs

Series A in 2020
Cardiologs is a medical technology company that uses medical-grade AI and cloud technology, transforming cardiac diagnostics. The first company's product, The Cardiologs Holter solution is built on a proprietary database of more than 18,000,000 recordings growing exponentially and is supported by a number of clinical publications that demonstrate leading diagnostic performance. It is powered by the 1st deep learning technology to receive regulatory clearance. Founded in 2014, Cardiologs partners with clinicians and healthcare practitioners to realize the vision of making expert cardiac diagnostics scalable, and accessible to everyone.

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.

VectivBio

Series A in 2020
VectivBio AG is a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Basel, Switzerland, founded in 2019 as a spinout from Therachon. The company specializes in developing innovative treatments for severe rare diseases with significant unmet medical needs. Its primary product candidate, Apraglutide, is a long-acting synthetic analog of glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) designed to enhance the intestine's ability to absorb fluids and nutrients, thereby reducing the reliance on parenteral support. VectivBio aims to deliver transformational therapies that significantly improve the lives of patients and their families, rather than offering only incremental benefits over existing treatments.

Majelan

Series A in 2019
Majelan designs software for entertainment that helps users find and discover audio content. Its platform will allow users to search and listen to podcasts and audio content on IOS or Android smartphones, providing podcast enthusiasts with a range of different audio content in a convenient and hassle-free manner.

Combo

Venture Round in 2019
Combo is a staff planning and staff management software.

Cherche mon nid

Venture Round in 2019
When they was a real estate agent, Antoine Huvé, the founder of rechercheemonnid.com, started from the double observation that it had become tedious for clients to search for real estate on the internet (many sites, imprecise locations, multiplication of contacts and registration, ....) and for professionals, it became very expensive and painful to have to multiply ads on different media to be able to get customer contacts without valuing its expertise and skills. The very simple idea of ​​Cherchemonnid.com appeared: To allow people in search of good to be able to contact ALL the professionals of a sector in a single step in order to receive CUSTOMIZED proposals and to cover the whole market.

ACINQ

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2014, ACINQ is a French startup building products and services for the Bitcoin ecosystem. They are based in Paris, France.

Amolyt Pharma

Series A in 2019
Amolyt Pharma specializes in peptides for the treatment of rare endocrine and metabolic disorders. Its programs include AZP-3601, a parathyroid hormone analog, for the potential treatment of hypoparathyroidism, and AZP-3404, a peptide with a new and unique mechanism of action, that may restore fat and glucose metabolism.

HostnFly

Series A in 2019
HostnFly develops algorithms to optimize the income from rented apartments on Airbnb. The company also offer Parisians to take care of their apartment rental by guaranteeing an income.

LegalPlace

Series A in 2019
LegalPlace offers legal documents to individuals and professionals as well as a connection service with experienced lawyers.

My Coach Football

Series A in 2019
My Coach Football allows you to manage and organize the daily operations of your football team, day after day, season after season. Designed to answer amateur and professional coaches’ needs, the platform centralizes all of your squad’s information and allows to gain time and efficiency. In a single click, you can manage players and their personal information, the preparation of training and games, but also individual and collective statistics. Season after season, you keep all those data and hence enjoy an optimum tracking of your team’s progression.

Bleckwen

Series A in 2019
Bleckwen is a fintech company founded in 2016 and based in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, specializing in machine-learning solutions for fraud prevention in the banking sector. The company offers an advanced fraud detection platform that utilizes AI to enhance the security of banking transactions. This platform is designed to optimize the detection of irregularities, adapt to emerging fraud schemes, and monitor system performance. By employing explainable machine learning models, Bleckwen enables banks to reduce customer friction while improving fraud detection and overall banking security. With a focus on real-time Big Data processing and a customer-oriented approach, Bleckwen leverages its industry expertise to help financial institutions safeguard their operations.

Pili

Series A in 2019
PiLi biofabricates a sustainable alternative to create renewable inks to replace their toxic, non-biological, and non-recyclable versions. Pili was born from the reunion of a biologist, a designer, and a financial analyst at the biohacker space La Paillasse in Paris and with the creation of the first pen fed by bacteria. Its team is now dedicated to providing the colors from micro-organisms to offer a sustainable alternative to fossil resources.

Alentis Therapeutics

Series A in 2019
Alentis Therapeutics, the CLDN1 company, is a clinical-stage biotech investigating novel therapeutics for CLDN1+ cancers. Alentis is the pioneering business in the use of anti-CLDN1 ADCs and antibodies to modify and reverse the progression of certain diseases.

NH TherAguix

Series A in 2019
NH TherAguix SAS is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company based in Villeurbanne, France, focused on developing nanomedicines for cancer treatment, specifically utilizing radiotherapy. The company's lead product, AGuIX, is a theranostic nanoparticle designed to enhance the localization of solid tumors and improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy. AGuIX allows for the determination of optimal irradiation timing and is capable of treating radioresistant cancers while minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissues, thereby reducing secondary effects. Founded in 2015, NH TherAguix is dedicated to advancing innovative solutions in cancer care through its pioneering research and development efforts.

Igyxos

Series A in 2019
Igyxos’ mission is to develop innovative new pharmaceuticals and medical technologies in the field of human fertility. Igyxos is involved in all phases of development, from the discovery of promising targets to the identification of potential lead compounds such as small molecules and antibodies, and the acquisition of intellectual property rights to drugs and technologies that can then be brought to the development phase. Igyxos also support the transfer of potential drug candidates to pre-clinical and clinical phases of drug development.

Syntony GNSS

Venture Round in 2019
Syntony GNSS specializes in software-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology, leveraging over 15 years of research and development in collaboration with industry leaders. The company was established to meet the demand for customized projects that require advanced GNSS expertise, particularly in developing simulators using software-defined radio. This innovative approach offers notable advantages, including flexibility, upgradability, and cost-effectiveness. Syntony's product lineup includes simulators, recorders, and players, as well as software-based GNSS receivers. Their technology is designed to provide precise location services for autonomous vehicles and is adaptable to meet the evolving needs of clients in aeronautics, space, and defense sectors, facilitating the location of satellites, aircraft, launchers, and trains, as well as emergency call location services.

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

My-Serious-Game

Series A in 2019
My-Serious-Game is a French company based in Tours, specializing in customized digital training solutions. Founded in 2014, it focuses on enhancing employee knowledge and soft skills through innovative and engaging methods. The company creates a variety of training materials, including gamified content, 3D simulations, virtual reality experiences, and blended learning modules. By leveraging storytelling and video game techniques, My-Serious-Game delivers immersive learning experiences that capture and retain trainees' attention. Its approach combines technology and pedagogy to provide organizations with tailor-made training solutions that optimize human resources and improve overall effectiveness.

Innov'ATM

Venture Round in 2018
Innov’ATM develops solutions aiming at optimizing air traffic management as well as airport resources using artificial intelligence algorithms. The major concern of Innov’ATM is to adapt the solutions and services according to customer’s specific needs based on agile method. For every project, Innov’ATM brings its expertise to find the best solution in line with operational constraints. Innov’ATM acts directly with airports, civil aviations, ANSPs or through partnerships such as with DSNA Services, Frequentis, ENAC, Airbus Defense & Space, etc. Innov’ATM is part of Aerospace Valley cluster and collaborate with ENAC on research programs for air traffic flows optimization.

CybelAngel

Series A in 2018
CybelAngel is a cybersecurity startup detecting data-leaks where others don’t. The company finds data that has been stolen, or data that has been leaked by accident - generally by third-party partners and suppliers. Its solution scans the visible, deep and dark webs, but it is also the only one scanning the major source of negligent leaks: Connected Storage. Its approach to data-leak detection combines Artificial Intelligence and human expertise. Smart algorithms ensure rapid and precise detection, while machine learning focuses alerts based on what is most important to their clients. And yet it’s not machines that put together your alerts - it’s people. Its cyber analysts compile a report for every incident, with all the information needed for a swift remediation.

Qucit

Venture Round in 2018
Qucit or Quantified Cities started from a simple observation. Urban population will continue to grow. More people in cities shouldn’t be an issue if urban services are able to absorb this new demand. In the mean time, human and machine interactions generate more data. They use data and artificial intelligence to make cities smarter. They are using a data-driven approach backed-up with engineering to provide predictions to urban operators and make them more efficient.

Dynacure

Series A in 2018
Dynacure is a clinical-stage drug development company focused on improving the lives of patients with rare and orphan diseases.The Dynacure team leverages its proven track record in rare disease drug development to build a pipeline of novel drugs. Dynacure is developing DYN101, an investigational antisense medicine designed to modulate the expression of dynamin 2 for the treatment of Centronuclear Myopathies, with Ionis Pharmaceuticals. Dynacure is also building a complementary research portfolio targeting other orphan disorders.

Bruce

Series A in 2018
Bruce is a full-stack solution that aims to make on-demand staffing and recruitment easy, built by gathering cutting edge recruitment and technological know how. We have a mobile application that connects in real time job seekers to companies, allowing them to reach on-demand the best professionals. Our innovative technology uses intelligence to empower both sides of the job market equation, allowing businesses and job seekers to maximize their potential and generate the best encounters.

OliKrom

Series A in 2018
Olikrom is a designer and producer of intelligent pigments able to respond reversibly or irreversibly to the action of temperature, light and pressure.

Studapart

Series A in 2018
Studapart is a white label platform SaaS editor for high schools and universities. It allows their student to find an accommodation , close from their location in France and abroad. As of January 2016, more than 60 high school and university are using Studapart platform.
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