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 Sales Automation

Crew.work

Seed Round in 2023
Crew.work is an all-in-one recruiting CRM that lets teams automate their outbound efforts, streamline the hiring processes, and gather all the data in one place. Instead of waiting for candidates to apply, companies use Crew to pro-actively contact, nurture & close talent, at scale.

Whaly

Seed Round in 2022
Whaly lets business teams build analytics & reports on top of their everyday tools (Hubspot, Postgres, Airtable, Google Ads, etc.) without coding. Your data is automatically synced with Whaly allowing you to build cross sources reports and design impactful dashboards. No more manual data update or #REF hell.

Palette

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of sales commission software designed to manage sales commission plans built for the enterprises' business growth. The company automatically collects data and tracks sales performance by integrating it into CRM data, enabling enterprises to maintain efficient compensation plans built for growth.

Carsell

Venture Round in 2021
Carsell is an automotive company that offers turnkey service solutions for their car. The company supports the entire process of selling used vehicles between individuals and frees them from all the constraints and sources of stress associated with it Carsell was founded by Morgan Petitjean in 2021.

Onepilot

Seed Round in 2021
Onepilot developed a software solution aiming to help both large corporates and SMEs with a ticketing system for providing a fast, human response to customer support at all times, 24/7. The company says that their solution allows agents to handle even the most complex of issues in a matter of minutes, increase a company’s sales by up to 20%, and halve their average response time.

Onepilot

Seed Round in 2021
Onepilot developed a software solution aiming to help both large corporates and SMEs with a ticketing system for providing a fast, human response to customer support at all times, 24/7. The company says that their solution allows agents to handle even the most complex of issues in a matter of minutes, increase a company’s sales by up to 20%, and halve their average response time.

Tomorro

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a legal contract management platform designed to help companies reduce the time spent on contract management and give them control and visibility over legal and financial risks. The company's platform centralizes all contracts on a secure network and improves follow-up with automatic tracking and reminders, enabling clients to manage the whole contract lifecycle efficiently and streamline the process.

Vitesse Automation

Seed Round in 2021
Full Speed Automation specializes in developing advanced automation systems designed to enhance productivity and streamline manufacturing processes. The company offers a software platform that enables businesses to achieve intelligent production agility through features such as fast bring-up, rapid iterations, and improved traceability. Its hardware-agnostic approach allows for the orchestration, telemetry, and optimization of operations, making it easier for organizations to refine their processes from design through to post-manufacturing quality testing. By focusing on liberating humans from repetitive tasks, Full Speed Automation aims to significantly improve operational efficiencies across various industries.

Supli

Seed Round in 2021
SUPLI FRANCE, SAS develops an online and mobile software for wholesalers and distributors to simplify the processing of their orders and increase their profitability. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Paris, France.

Upflow

Seed Round in 2019
UPFLOW SAS provides an online platform for B2B Industry. The online platform include features, such as follow up customer’s unpaid invoice, track customer purchasing trend, real time analysis, manage credit exposure, manage receivables, and collaboration with colleagues. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

SeedLegals

Series A in 2019
SeedLegals Ltd designs and develops a legal automation platform for investors and new businesses. Its features include reduction in deal completion time and cost, dynamic cap table modelling, comparison of key terms, enables data-driven decisions, and makes real-time investment dashboard. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Shone

Seed Round in 2018
Shone, Automation Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in developing and manufacturing autonomous sensors for container ships. Its innovative platform utilizes artificial intelligence to create a digital co-pilot system, which analyzes the surroundings of a ship and predicts the behavior of nearby vessels. This technology aims to enhance safety in ocean trade while also contributing to fuel savings. By automating existing cargo ships, Shone seeks to reduce risks for shipowners, protect personnel, and promote environmentally friendly practices in the shipping industry.

Zenaton

Seed Round in 2018
Zenaton is a France-based company that offers a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed for developers to build, run, and scale asynchronous workflows. Its technology simplifies the orchestration of background tasks, allowing developers to create efficient business processes. By providing tools that facilitate the management of customer interactions and data across various applications, Zenaton enhances coding capabilities, supporting businesses in streamlining their operations and improving workflow efficiency.

Inato

Seed Round in 2017
Inato is a company focused on transforming the clinical trial process for life science organizations. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, with additional offices in New York and London, Inato provides an AI-powered platform that automates data collection and analysis for clinical trials. This platform enables pharmaceutical companies to significantly reduce drug development costs and expedite the launch of new therapies. Inato operates a global clinical trial marketplace that connects pharmaceutical companies with a diverse array of community research sites, promoting inclusivity and efficiency in clinical research. The company emphasizes collaborative enrollment planning and offers ongoing support to ensure successful trial delivery, ultimately helping to bring therapies to patients more quickly and affordably.

HireSweet

Venture Round in 2017
HireSweet SAS is a Paris-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence software designed to enhance the recruitment of software engineers. Established in 2016, the company offers a solution that scans various technical platforms, including GitHub and Stack Overflow, to identify qualified developers. By processing unstructured data such as profile descriptions, HireSweet categorizes candidates based on their skills, project experience, and adaptability, enabling companies to make informed hiring decisions. Its clientele includes notable organizations like Doctrine, eFounders, Deezer, Nokia Health, Sqreen, and CallDesk. Through its innovative approach, HireSweet empowers tech companies to regain control of their hiring processes and effectively connect with top engineering talent.

Upcall

Seed Round in 2017
Upcall, Inc. is a company that specializes in an outbound calling platform designed for business professionals, non-profits, and individuals worldwide. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, with a headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Upcall provides tools and services that help companies acquire, qualify, engage, and retain customers through effective phone calls. The platform offers 24/7 access to thousands of vetted callers, call campaign management tools such as script templates and analytics, and seamless integrations with existing workflows like Slack and Salesforce. Upcall's services enhance lead generation and customer engagement by enabling real-time communication, performance tracking, and budget monitoring, thus helping businesses optimize their outbound calling efforts. The company is also recognized for its participation in the esteemed Y Combinator accelerator program.

Visiblee

Seed Round in 2016
Visiblee Inc. specializes in lead generation solutions that help B2B companies identify individual decision-makers visiting their websites. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company utilizes a script installed on client websites to gather information about visitors, leveraging IP addresses, cookies, and metadata. This technology enables sales teams to convert anonymous website visitors into qualified leads, significantly enhancing website conversion rates. Visiblee's platform also offers real-time access to relevant commercial information through external web sources and databases, employing algorithms to rank leads based on customer target markets and visitor behavior. The company was developed by Salezeo, which has offices in Paris, the UK, and Spain.

Stamplay

Series A in 2016
Stamplay is a low-code platform that facilitates the development of workflow automation solutions for organizations by integrating various cloud services and business applications. Its platform enables users to streamline manual processes and enhance collaboration between business and IT teams. By mapping real business processes, Stamplay eliminates delays in information transfer across departments, allowing for quicker decision-making. The platform is designed for both business users and developers, enabling the creation of web applications without extensive back-end coding. Stamplay has been recognized by 500Startups and serves a diverse clientele, including well-known companies such as Box, MSC Cruise, Lennar, and Cisco.

Recast.AI

Seed Round in 2016
Recast.AI, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Paris, France, offers a platform that enables developers to create and implement bots across various messaging services. The platform facilitates the integration of artificial intelligence, allowing users to develop bots for diverse applications such as calendar management, smart appliances, automated customer support, and logistical processes. With over 30,000 developers utilizing its technology to build more than 50,000 bots, Recast.AI plays a significant role in enhancing customer relations, particularly in sectors like automotive, retail, and energy. It provides both a comprehensive bot development suite and pre-built customer support bots, addressing the increasing demand for efficient and responsive customer service solutions. As of January 2018, Recast.AI operates as a subsidiary of SAP France Société Anonyme.

Reelevant

Seed Round in 2016
Reelevant SAS, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in live email intelligence technology. The company addresses the limitations of traditional email marketing, which often results in irrelevant messages that fail to engage recipients. By analyzing the context and behavior of each email opener, Reelevant delivers real-time, personalized content that resonates with individual preferences and intent. This innovative approach allows for the automatic generation of "on-demand" content at the moment an email is opened, transforming the email experience into one that is more engaging and relevant. Reelevant positions itself as a pioneer in creating unexpected and meaningful interactions within the inbox, aiming to redefine how marketing messages are perceived and received.

PushMarket

Seed Round in 2014
Answerbook automates and personalizes email marketing for eCommerce. Answerbook's predictive intelligence engine analyzes consumer behavior on email, website and purchase history. With this information, Answerbook automatically sends relevant follow up emails to consumers.

Front

Seed Round in 2014
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

Front

Seed Round in 2014
Front is a collaborative customer communication platform that integrates email and applications to enhance interactions between teams and customers. By offering a shared inbox, Front enables businesses to manage communications efficiently and foster meaningful relationships. The platform is utilized by over 6,000 organizations to scale personalized customer engagement and streamline workflows, ultimately driving significant business impact. Through its focus on facilitating natural conversations, Front helps companies cultivate enduring customer relationships and transform their operational effectiveness.

Roadster

Seed Round in 2014
Roadster Online Inc., founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, operates an online marketplace for purchasing new cars, aiming to revolutionize the car buying process. The company offers an omnichannel commerce platform that allows dealerships to integrate a seamless online and in-store experience. By aggregating inventory, financing, leasing, incentives, and service plan data, Roadster provides consumers with the ability to fully customize their car buying experience, including specific deal terms. This approach addresses the outdated technology prevalent in the automotive industry, which has yet to adapt to modern consumer needs. Roadster's user-friendly platform is designed to enhance the dealership's website and in-store operations, making it easier for customers to navigate the purchasing process. The team behind Roadster has a proven track record, having previously built a successful retail platform that generated significant sales.

DOZ

Seed Round in 2014
DOZ Marketing Software helps create an organic marketing campaign and to launch a customized timeline of tasks needed to achieve marketing goals.DOZ has vetted marketing professionals from around the world. DOZ automatically assigns the right experts to every task on custom, marketing campaign.DOZ helps websites to run more effective online marketing campaigns by managing natives industry experts and marketing professionals.

Marquee

Seed Round in 2014
They are on a mission to empower marketing professionals to efficiently connect with their clients and colleagues, organize their jobs and scale their business. We do the heavy lifting so they can focus on what they do best. Together they form the strongest, biggest and most influential marketing group in the world and help the passionate ones fulfill their dreams.

Partnered

Seed Round in 2014
Partnered is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 that specializes in sponsorship management and partnership solutions for enterprise B2B companies. It provides a platform that enables users to efficiently manage sales partnerships by identifying prospect and customer overlaps through secure connections to shared customer relationship management systems. One of its key offerings, the MANAGE tool, facilitates the submission of sponsorship requests, collaboration on decision-making, and management of existing sponsorship relationships. Partnered aims to simplify and enhance the productivity of partner collaborations, making it easier for sales teams to work together and gain insights into how partnerships impact their sales pipeline.

MailLift

Seed Round in 2014
MailLift Inc. specializes in providing handwritten letter services tailored for sales professionals and marketers across the United States. Founded in 2013 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company has established itself as a leader in the B2B sector, supporting a diverse range of clients, including many enterprises listed in the Inc. 5000 and Fortune 500. MailLift offers automated solutions that enable businesses to engage customers through personalized handwritten letters, cards, and envelopes. Their user-friendly software allows for the customization of templates and recipient details, ensuring a unique touch for each communication. Additionally, MailLift provides consulting services that encompass copywriting classes, API integration, and sales force setup to enhance client marketing strategies. With a commitment to client success, MailLift produces over one million words per year and maintains a reputation for confidentiality and quality service.

SalesFloor

Seed Round in 2014
SalesFloor is an online marketplace that connects remote sales professionals and product advocates with e-commerce companies. Founded in 2013 by Yoel Feldman and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, SalesFloor enables associates to customize and personalize retailers' e-commerce sites. The platform also offers cloud-based tools including dashboards, performance reports, and website analytics to enhance the sales experience and improve operational efficiency for its users.

Trakio

Angel Round in 2014
Trakio is a cloud-based customer success platform aimed at helping subscription-based companies enhance revenue and minimize customer churn. By integrating various data sources, the platform delivers a comprehensive view of customer engagement, allowing businesses to identify early signs of churn. Trakio analyzes critical metrics such as feature usage, payment history, support interactions, and communication records. This data-driven approach enables companies to proactively manage customer relationships by sending automated emails directly through the platform, eliminating the need for additional software. By focusing on customer retention, Trakio addresses the significant cost disparity between acquiring new customers and retaining existing ones, making it an essential tool for subscription businesses seeking to improve customer loyalty and satisfaction.

SimpliField

Seed Round in 2014
SimpliField is a B2B SaaS company specializing in field intelligence solutions that enhance the efficiency of field teams. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Paris, France, the company offers a mobile platform that allows businesses to collect and analyze field data in real time, including photos, videos, surveys, and pricing information. This enables effective communication and reporting among merchandisers, sales teams, and store managers. SimpliField's applications facilitate various tasks, such as quality control at points of sale, monitoring street marketing campaigns, and building customized campaigns. By replacing traditional spreadsheets and paper forms, SimpliField provides organizations with a comprehensive view of their field operations, allowing for more agile decision-making and improved performance, ultimately driving retail excellence and profitability.

Voz.io

Seed Round in 2014
Built on the latest VOIP technologies, Voz.io enables companies to deploy a robust phone-support solution with zero infrastructure aside from access to an internet enabled computer. Voz.io leverages HTML5 WebRTC technology to deliver peer-to- peer, encrypted, high definition audio/video from within the Web browser - eliminating the need for third-party application downloads (such as required by Skype) or browser-plugins. Companies can purchase multiple numbers from different countries and phone support agents can be located anywhere in the world, making it possible for companies to offer support globally and in various languages. An in-built CRM solution tracks and records all phone calls and voicemails as a “ticket”, allowing companies to keep a close eye on the types of customer calls and the quality of the team’s support. We can be integrated with 3rd party CRM solutions such as Zendesk, Freshdesk, Base, Google, Magento, Salesforce, Shopify, Prestashop, and more.

For The Vint AB

Seed Round in 2014
Vint helps fitness providers grow their business through creating a strong community amongst its members directly in their management software = More business, less administration for our clients. The biggest problem in the fitness industry is member churn with an average of 50% member loss on a yearly basis why the management system is built to actively solve this issue by integrating social and growth components around the triggering events, simply by handling everyday tasks such as scheduling, bookings, and payment. Vint is sold as a SaaS platform with clients across the US, Sweden and Australia.

Futurelytics

Seed Round in 2013
Futurelytics Inc. offers an ecommerce retention automation platform that enhances customer engagement and retention for online businesses. Founded in 2012 and based in Dover, Delaware, the company enables clients to connect their e-commerce platforms and effectively segment customers based on purchasing behavior. Its platform includes features such as actionable analytics, behavioral segmentation, product recommendations, and marketing automation, all designed to increase customer lifetime value. By leveraging data mining techniques, Futurelytics analyzes purchase orders and identifies patterns in customer behavior, allowing businesses to tailor their marketing strategies accordingly. The platform provides visual, interactive dashboards that guide users in executing targeted actions for different customer segments, ultimately transforming one-time buyers into repeat customers and boosting revenue through personalized marketing campaigns.

NextUser

Seed Round in 2013
NextUser operates as a data marketing platform that unifies various marketing tools and channels, facilitating seamless communication with customers. By integrating data from websites, mobile applications, and multiple marketing channels, NextUser addresses challenges related to fragmented user information and ineffective messaging strategies. The platform enables marketers to create relevant marketing automation strategies and generate comprehensive user profiles for both anonymous and identified traffic. This holistic approach empowers businesses to enhance customer engagement and conversion rates by delivering personalized messages across all touchpoints. Additionally, NextUser supports improved decision-making and agility by allowing companies to easily integrate with existing marketing systems, ultimately maximizing return on investment and fostering stronger customer relationships.

ExpenseBot

Seed Round in 2013
ExpenseBot Inc. is a developer of an expense management platform that simplifies the process of creating, approving, and reimbursing expense reports for businesses. Founded in 2013 and based in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the company utilizes artificial intelligence to automate expense reporting by integrating data from various sources, including calendar applications, email, credit card transactions, and GPS information. This technology not only streamlines the completion of expense reports but also analyzes expense data to identify reimbursable items, generating reports when specific thresholds are met. ExpenseBot aims to enhance operational efficiency for organizations by making expense management more straightforward and effective.

Useful Systems

Seed Round in 2013
Useful Systems operates a mobile-first application tailored for small to medium-sized businesses, particularly those in the field service industry such as landscapers, contractors, and roofers. The app replaces traditional paper workflows with digital forms that resemble familiar documents like estimates, work orders, and invoices, all accessible via iPad. Useful Systems provides real-time reporting features, including geo-stamped timesheets and comprehensive job costing, allowing users to efficiently manage their operations and track the progress of tasks in real-time. By facilitating the management of workforce tasks, materials, and project documentation through live exchanges, Useful Systems enhances productivity and streamlines business processes.

Immediately

Seed Round in 2013
Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce. Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, to sending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows. We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

Quote Roller

Seed Round in 2013
Quote Roller, Inc. offers an online solution designed to simplify the sales proposal process for businesses globally. The company's primary product, PandaDoc, serves as a comprehensive platform for proposal and contract management, allowing users to create dynamic sales documents, automate workflows, and obtain electronic signatures. PandaDoc includes features such as template and content libraries for proposals, cloud-based contract management, and tools for quoting and signing documents directly from a CRM platform. Additionally, it provides functionalities tailored for HR professionals to streamline hiring and onboarding processes. Established in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Quote Roller, Inc. caters to various sectors, including sales, marketing, finance, and education, enabling teams to enhance productivity and improve client engagement through visually appealing and interactive documents. The company operates as a subsidiary of Coding Staff Inc.

PandaDoc

Seed Round in 2013
PandaDoc is a comprehensive document automation software that enhances the efficiency of creating, approving, and eSigning various business documents, such as proposals, quotes, and contracts. Its digital transaction management platform automates the entire lifecycle of these documents, integrating seamlessly with customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), payment, and cloud storage systems. This integration allows clients to manage the creation, editing, and signing processes effectively, ultimately improving document workflows and accelerating transaction speeds. By utilizing PandaDoc, businesses can offer their customers a more professional and timely experience.

Partnered

Seed Round in 2013
Partnered is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 that specializes in sponsorship management and partnership solutions for enterprise B2B companies. It provides a platform that enables users to efficiently manage sales partnerships by identifying prospect and customer overlaps through secure connections to shared customer relationship management systems. One of its key offerings, the MANAGE tool, facilitates the submission of sponsorship requests, collaboration on decision-making, and management of existing sponsorship relationships. Partnered aims to simplify and enhance the productivity of partner collaborations, making it easier for sales teams to work together and gain insights into how partnerships impact their sales pipeline.

iSale

Seed Round in 2012
iSale is a provider of a cloud-based mobile guided selling platform designed for both B2B and B2C businesses. The solution empowers salespeople by equipping them with real-time access to comprehensive product knowledge, ensuring they can effectively engage customers. By integrating securely with corporate ERP and CRM systems, iSale keeps catalogs, pricing, inventory, and promotional materials updated, facilitating a smoother sales process. The platform leverages historical sales data to guide sales personnel on customer targeting and product recommendations, ultimately enhancing profitability and reducing logistical errors. Clients have reported significant improvements in revenue from new models and overall profitability. iSale's leadership team comprises industry experts with extensive technical and business acumen, positioning the company at the forefront of sales innovation.

Saygent

Seed Round in 2011
Saygent's voice response & analysis SaaS allows companies to get superior customer insights at scale. Saygent automatically interviews thousands of customers and analyzes their responses for meaning and sentiment without using the expensive call centers or costly IVR systems. Saygent takes only 2 minutes to set up, and within hours, you get rich dashboard with actionable results. You quickly get a sense of the the most important trends and can listen to specific important calls of champions or detractors.

SureVisit

Seed Round in 2010
SEO Coach removes the need for prior SEO knowledge or experience when optimising a site. Their patented technology walks users through every step, including automatically selecting the best search topics to focus on, structural and geographic optimisation and most importantly authoring quality, semantically relevant content that will be both of interest to their site visitors and as well as boosting their ranking on search engines. Users receive real-time suggestions when creating their site, embedding SEO into site creation. They are targeting small local business websites, that despite having the same needs as enterprises, have been largely neglected when it comes to digital marketing solutions (a recent survey by the Boston group found only 3% of SMB marketing budget made it online.) Their technology can be used by SMBs who are "DIYing" it or by service providers' fulfillment teams, allowing them to scale SEO for their customers to provide a high value service and improve retention.

Lengow

Series A in 2010
Lengow is an e-commerce automation software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider that assists brands and distributors in managing their product distribution across various online channels. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Nantes, France, the company enables online retailers to centralize, optimize, and track their product catalogs across marketplaces, comparison shopping engines, affiliate networks, and social media platforms. Since its international expansion began in 2012, Lengow has established dedicated teams in Paris and operates in over 40 countries, supporting more than 38,000 websites. The platform facilitates the efficient delivery of product information across more than 1,800 marketing channels, helping merchants improve their online visibility and sales performance.

Kwaga

Seed Round in 2009
Kwaga is a startup focused on enhancing email functionality through semantic technology. Its primary product, Evercontact, serves as an email assistant that automatically updates and organizes address books by analyzing signature blocks in emails and extracting contact details from web browsing. Evercontact is compatible with various platforms, including Gmail, Google Apps, and Outlook, as well as CRM systems. By streamlining the management of contacts, Kwaga aims to improve the efficiency of email communication for its users.
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