Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2010, known for its active engagement in early-stage investments. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage companies, primarily focusing on the technology sector while also exploring a diverse range of other industries such as e-commerce, health, and fintech. Kima Ventures typically invests between €0.15 million and €5 million in its portfolio companies, often as a significant minority shareholder. The firm emphasizes collaboration, frequently co-investing alongside business angels and other venture capital funds. With a commitment to supporting ambitious founders, Kima Ventures aims to streamline the fundraising process, enabling entrepreneurs to concentrate on growth and execution. Over the past five years, Kima Ventures has invested in over 400 startups across 24 countries, establishing a reputation as one of the world's most active early-stage investors. The firm operates from its headquarters in Paris and maintains an additional office in London.

Jeanne Cluset

VC Associate

Xavier Niel

Founder

Alexis Robert

Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Rayon

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rayon is a design platform that facilitates collaborative space creation for designers. It enables users to design efficiently by providing access to block libraries and smart drawing features. The platform supports real-time multiplayer design, allowing multiple users to work together, collect feedback, and make annotations seamlessly. By functioning directly in web browsers, Rayon enhances the design experience, making it easier for designers to share their work and integrate their preferred workflows. Its API-friendly environment further supports customization and flexibility, catering to the diverse needs of design professionals.

Claap

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an asynchronous meetings platform designed to solve roadblocks. The company's platform allows to easily review codes, and share and analyze the performance, enabling people to share video updates, get feedback and make decisions without the need to be in the same room, at the same time.

GDevelop

Seed Round in 2021
GDevelop is an open-source, cross-platform game engine designed for everyone.

WeWeb

Seed Round in 2021
WeWeb is a website-building platform designed for professional teams, enabling them to create high-performance websites efficiently. The platform features a no-code interface that allows users to build and customize websites quickly while also providing developer-friendly options to connect to various back-end services such as Headless CMS, Shopify, Airtable, Google Sheets, and custom APIs. Additionally, WeWeb offers a drag-and-drop editor that facilitates the integration of custom front-end components, making it accessible for both technical and non-technical users. This dual approach empowers developers to efficiently create tailored websites while ensuring that non-technical team members can participate in the process.

Conduktor

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of desktop applications designed to help developers, testers, and companies work efficiently. The company's software offers configuration sharing, multi-cluster management, monitoring, error management, brokers management, topics management, and other related services, helping users to develop tasks with ease and efficiency.

Ponicode

Seed Round in 2020
Ponicode SAS is a Paris-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence and machine learning platform for software testing. The platform simplifies the process of creating, modifying, and visualizing unit tests for JavaScript code. With an intuitive interface, Ponicode allows users to set up and integrate testing capabilities into their integrated development environments (IDEs) quickly and seamlessly. The tool automates the generation and maintenance of test files, which alleviates the burden of tedious preparation tasks, such as configuring testing frameworks or selecting libraries. By streamlining the testing process, Ponicode enables developers to focus on their core business activities while ensuring that their software functions are thoroughly tested and reliable.

NuxtJS

Seed Round in 2020
NuxtJS SAS, based in Bordeaux, France, develops an open-source framework for building websites and applications using the Vue.js model. Formerly known as ORION, the company was established in 2017. The Nuxt framework leverages official Vue.js libraries, including vue, vue-router, and vuex, along with advanced development tools such as webpack, Babel, and PostCSS. Its primary objective is to enhance web development by providing a powerful and performant solution while ensuring an excellent developer experience.

Asayer

Seed Round in 2019
Asayer is an online DevOps platform based in Paris, France, founded in 2017. The platform enables users to debug and automate high-value tests for web applications, providing insights into user interactions and the performance of the entire technology stack. By offering detailed visibility into application behavior, Asayer helps users identify the root causes of issues, facilitating efficient resolution and improving overall application reliability.

Bearer

Seed Round in 2018
Bearer specializes in simplifying API integration and enhancing data security for developers and organizations. The company offers a technology platform that enables the creation of reusable, plug-and-play API integrations, making the integration process more efficient and scalable. Additionally, Bearer provides a Static Application Security Testing tool that aligns with DevSecOps principles, allowing security and engineering teams to enforce data security policies effectively. This platform aims to mitigate risks associated with data leaks, breaches, regulatory fines, and potential revenue losses throughout the development lifecycle. By focusing on these two critical areas, Bearer supports businesses in maximizing the value of APIs while ensuring robust data security measures are in place.

Ludus

Seed Round in 2017
Ludus N, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in designing and developing a web-based presentation tool. Founded in 2016, Ludus offers a platform that allows users to create engaging presentations by integrating dynamic images and content from various external sources. Its intuitive design caters to professionals seeking to enhance their presentations without sacrificing quality. The tool facilitates easy content creation and sharing, enabling users to craft slides with limitless creativity while also tracking audience engagement. By providing a comprehensive solution for presentation needs, Ludus aims to be a central hub for content creation accessible through any web browser.

Doctrine

Seed Round in 2016
Doctrine is a Paris-based company focused on transforming the legal research and publishing industry through innovative technology. It develops a legal research and analytics platform tailored for legal professionals, law firms, companies, and individuals. The platform organizes access to judicial documents, offers comprehensive search capabilities across various areas of law, and provides a historical overview of corporate litigation. By utilizing advanced artificial intelligence, Doctrine enables users to analyze court decisions and gain valuable insights, facilitating case management and supporting business growth. Its solutions are designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of legal research, making legal information readily accessible in real time.

Designlab

Seed Round in 2014
Designlab offers online design education focused on web development skills, including layout, user experience, and typography. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides a four-week course that enhances web design capabilities through one-on-one mentorship from experienced designers. Designlab aims to empower creators by equipping them with the necessary tools and skills to produce impactful products and services that can positively influence a global audience.

Rivalfox

Seed Round in 2014
Rivalfox is a developer of a cloud-based digital competitive intelligence platform that focuses on enhancing sales strategies. The platform continuously monitors competitors' activities and delivers comprehensive reports that include actionable business intelligence and real-time analysis. By automating the competitor tracking process, Rivalfox provides marketers with immediate insights into effective marketing tactics, allowing them to quickly understand which strategies resonate with their target audience. This streamlined approach replaces the tedious manual tracking methods traditionally used, enabling businesses to make informed decisions based on up-to-date competitive data.

TrackDuck

Seed Round in 2014
TrackDuck Oy is a visual feedback and issue tracking solution that facilitates web design and development by enabling users to provide contextual comments and track issues in real-time. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Espoo, Finland, TrackDuck offers a user-friendly platform where clients can leave feedback directly on websites and image files, thereby streamlining communication for small and mid-sized web agencies and freelancers. The tool allows for anonymous feedback, status updates, and integration services, catering to diverse feedback needs from mock-ups to live websites. As of May 2017, TrackDuck operates as a subsidiary of InVisionApp Inc.

Cloud 66

Seed Round in 2014
Cloud 66 Ltd. is a technology company that provides a DevOps-as-a-Service platform, enabling developers to build, deploy, and manage applications on their preferred cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2011 and based in London with an additional office in San Francisco, the company offers several specialized tools, including Cloud 66 for Docker for container deployment, Cloud 66 for Rails for managing Ruby applications, and Cloud 66 for Node for deploying Node.js applications. Their services automate the application lifecycle, simplifying tasks such as scaling databases and managing server processes. Cloud 66 also features an enterprise solution designed for on-premises deployment, catering to a diverse clientele that includes developers, startups, non-profits, and digital agencies.

Thrive

Seed Round in 2013
We design and build beautiful online tools for the world's creators and innovators, freeing them from distractions so they can flourish and grow. Our apps replace a combination of existing products (think Basecamp, Freshbooks and Toggl). Streamlining the day-to-day tasks that can often get in the way of creativity – like quotes, invoicing, staff management, organising workload and filling in time sheets. They elegantly output real-time business and market intelligence, providing founders, managers and professionals the transparency they need to maximise their potential, giving them the freedom to continue producing great creative work.

Cloud 66

Seed Round in 2013
Cloud 66 Ltd. is a technology company that provides a DevOps-as-a-Service platform, enabling developers to build, deploy, and manage applications on their preferred cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2011 and based in London with an additional office in San Francisco, the company offers several specialized tools, including Cloud 66 for Docker for container deployment, Cloud 66 for Rails for managing Ruby applications, and Cloud 66 for Node for deploying Node.js applications. Their services automate the application lifecycle, simplifying tasks such as scaling databases and managing server processes. Cloud 66 also features an enterprise solution designed for on-premises deployment, catering to a diverse clientele that includes developers, startups, non-profits, and digital agencies.

Codebox

Seed Round in 2013
Codebox is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) that provides cloud and desktop tools designed to enhance collaboration among software developers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oro Valley, Arizona, the platform enables programmers to host, manage, and share their development environments through a user-friendly dashboard or API. It supports various applications, including remote team collaboration, freelancing, pair programming, job interviews, and programming education. Codebox's services facilitate real-time collaborative code editing and integrate seamlessly with FTP servers and other tools, addressing the diverse needs of developers. The company operates as a subsidiary of Corvisa Services, LLC.

Codelearn

Seed Round in 2012
Codelearn lets users learn new technology (currently ruby-on-rails) through tutorial which teach to build a full fledged app and by providing an in-browser app development environment to build web apps. Its heroku + codecademy bundled into one. Try it at www.codelearn.org. We recently launched Android tutorial as well - www.codelern.org/android-tutorial . Instead of going cloud IDE way, there is an Eclipse plugin built which evaluates user's app at every lesson making it truly interactive.

Brass Monkey

Seed Round in 2012
Brass Monkey Inc. specializes in developing software that allows developers to create web-based games that replicate traditional console features. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the company's patented technology enables smartphones to function as intuitive controllers for both single and multi-player games. This innovation allows users to experience gameplay that was previously limited to consoles like the Nintendo Wii, utilizing WiFi-enabled devices and browser-based formats. Brass Monkey's offerings include a video game console that leverages various screens with web browsers for display and provides Software Development Kits (SDKs) compatible with iOS, Android, HTML5, and Adobe Flash, with plans for additional platforms. The company aims to establish its tools as a global standard for connecting mobile devices with diverse display options, ranging from personal computers to large billboards.

Crave

Seed Round in 2011
Crave.io Inc. is a developer of a software infrastructure platform aimed at enhancing engineering productivity for software and chip design engineers. Established in 2016 and located in Sunnyvale, California, the company focuses on improving the development process by providing migration services, parallelized compilation, and pipeline consistency. Additionally, Crave.io offers tools that facilitate the creation of personal applications for digital creators and influencers, allowing them to co-create, collaborate, and engage with their audiences more effectively. The platform is designed to accelerate builds and testing on shared servers, thereby fostering efficiency in remote work environments.

Rapportive

Seed Round in 2010
Rapportive is a company that offers a plug-in designed to enhance the Gmail user experience by providing contextual information about contacts directly within the inbox. This tool enables users to view details such as contact photos, location, and professional information, allowing for improved personal connections and networking opportunities. Users can engage with their contacts by referencing shared interests and can easily connect through various social platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Additionally, Rapportive allows users to take notes about their interactions for future reference, facilitating better relationship management within email communications.
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