Citizen Capital

Citizen Capital is a Paris-based private equity investment firm that targets high growth small and medium companies that address the needs of underserved population in health, education and other social sectors. Citizen Capital has signed the Principles for Responsible Investment and is a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force.
VA

Vedrenne Antoine

Partner

PO

Pierre Olivier Barennes

CEO

PB

Pierre-Olivier Barennes

Co-Founder and General Manager

MB

Mehdi Belkahla

Associate

DR

Diane Roujou de Boubée

Investment Director

FC

François-Henri Champagne

Associate

LM

Luis Marini-Portugal

Partner

OM

Olivier Mougenot

Partner

Laurence Méhaignerie

Chairman

JP

Jonathan Piquet

Director

FV

Flora Velle

Associate

Past deals in Non-Profit

Lalilo

Series A in 2019
Lalilo is a literacy web-based app for K-2 teachers willing to differentiate reading instructions. It builds a revolutionary A.I-based learning software that helps every child learn how to read, while also empowering teachers to personalize learning in classrooms. The Lalilo website is accessible on tablets, iPads, and computers. Lalilo was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lalilo

Seed Round in 2019
Lalilo is a literacy web-based app for K-2 teachers willing to differentiate reading instructions. It builds a revolutionary A.I-based learning software that helps every child learn how to read, while also empowering teachers to personalize learning in classrooms. The Lalilo website is accessible on tablets, iPads, and computers. Lalilo was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

365talents

Series A in 2021
365Talents, SAS develops a solution for human resource teams for skills, staffing, and mobility management. The company offers 365Talents, which is a human resource software as a service (Saas) application that helps in employee skills detection, resource management for projects and missions, measurement of the alignment of organization goals and employee skills, and internal mobility and recruitment. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Lyon, France.

Telegrafik

Venture Round in 2017
Telegrafik proposes Internet-of-Things solutions for the SMART CARE market. Telegrafik developed a smart care software platform which transforms home sensors’ data into added value services, such as smart alerting and smart monitoring.

OpenClassrooms

Series B in 2018
OpenClassrooms designs and develops an online Web platform known as Site du Zéro and the collection Livre du Zéro. It offers online educational courses accessible to all. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, France.

Clever Connect

Series B in 2021
Founded in France, the CleverConnect Group supports companies at all stages of their recruitment through sourcing tools, qualification of applications and retention of employees. Its mission is to help companies find the best talent by offering an exceptional recruitment experience. This pooling of forces from Meteojob and Visiotalent was carried out with the aim of bringing together the two most innovative HR brands currently on the market.

OpenClassrooms

Series A in 2016
OpenClassrooms designs and develops an online Web platform known as Site du Zéro and the collection Livre du Zéro. It offers online educational courses accessible to all. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, France.

Certideal

Series A in 2020
Fondé en 2015, Certideal est le site de vente de smartphones reconditionnés destinés aux particuliers. Il promet à chaque client un achat high-tech durable et serein. Ainsi, chaque article disponible sur le site est testé et certifié conforme par la cellule d’experts techniques de Certideal. Celle-ci vérifie que l'aspect esthétique de l’appareil correspond bien aux photos, qu’il n’est pas blacklisté par les opérateurs et examine 30 points de contrôle techniques (Micro HP, Wifi, bouton Home, connecteur de charge, prise Jack,...). Véritable tiers de confiance, Certideal s’engage à n’envoyer un produit à son acheteur que si et seulement si celui-ci a été approuvé par son atelier d’experts. https://certideal.com/ Certideal is a France-based company that was founded in 2015 by Yoann Valensi and Laure Cohen.

Juice Wireless

Series C in 2007
Juice Wireless is a provider of mobile social networking technology and services, head-quartered in Los Angeles, Califoria. Juice's technology enables multimedia exchange and social networking aggregation between multiple mobile platforms and online services. The company's current flagship consumer offering, JuiceCaster - a multimedia sharing and social networking utility - is distributed by AT&T, Nokia, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Alltel, US Cellular, Cricket, Bouygues Telecom and Turkcell. In September 2008, Juice Wireless announced Flutter - a picture messaging and location sharing application for the iPhone. Flutter ranked 8th most popular social networking app on the iPhone and garnered wide press coverage for “doing what Apple didn't ... giving iPhone 3G users some picture messaging love.” (San Francisco Chronicle) CEO, Amir Hosseinpour, has stated in November 2008 that the company will announce its next generation mobile social networking platform and a deal with one of the world's largest carriers in February 2009. Juice Wireless faces stiff competition as a plethora of companies are in the market of mobile content delivery: [Radar](http://radar.net/), [Avot Media](http://www.avotmedia.com/), and [Treemo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/treemo) are a few.

Brainshark

Series C in 2005
Brainshark is the leading sales enablement company that helps businesses harness the power of content to drive sales productivity. Empower sales teams with dynamic content that can be created quickly, imported easily, and accessed anywhere. Prepare your teams with on-demand training that accelerates onboarding and keeps existing reps up-to-speed and in-the-know. Hone performance with sales coaching that ensures reps make the most of every buyer interaction. Arm reps with the right content and resources for any selling situation – both in and out of Salesforce – to better engage buyers and close more deals. And use data to track sales content effectiveness, and make smarter decisions. Brainshark helps you do it all. Thousands of companies – including more than half of the Fortune 100 – rely on Brainshark to improve sales productivity and increase the impact of their sales, marketing and training communications. Learn more at www.brainshark.com. BrainShark was founded by Joe Gustafson in 1999 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

R-PUR

Venture Round in 2019
R-PUR SAS designs and manufactures R-PUR Nan, an anti-pollution mask for runners, cyclists, and bikers. The company also offers R-PUR mobile app that enables to track the wear of the filter and when to replace it. It serves customers online. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.

Deepki SAS

Series B in 2019
Deepki engages in data analysis serving energy efficiency to detect energy savings on hundreds of buildings at the same time. Vincent Bryant and Emmanuel Blanchet founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Paris in France.

Certideal

Seed Round in 2017
Fondé en 2015, Certideal est le site de vente de smartphones reconditionnés destinés aux particuliers. Il promet à chaque client un achat high-tech durable et serein. Ainsi, chaque article disponible sur le site est testé et certifié conforme par la cellule d’experts techniques de Certideal. Celle-ci vérifie que l'aspect esthétique de l’appareil correspond bien aux photos, qu’il n’est pas blacklisté par les opérateurs et examine 30 points de contrôle techniques (Micro HP, Wifi, bouton Home, connecteur de charge, prise Jack,...). Véritable tiers de confiance, Certideal s’engage à n’envoyer un produit à son acheteur que si et seulement si celui-ci a été approuvé par son atelier d’experts. https://certideal.com/ Certideal is a France-based company that was founded in 2015 by Yoann Valensi and Laure Cohen.

Deuxièmeavis.fr

Venture Round in 2018
Deuxièmeavis.fr is a Medical startup.

Make.org

Seed Round in 2017
Make.org is a one-of-a kind company that generates substantial revenues whilst having a positive impact on society. It aims to reactivate democracies by engaging citizens in collaborative transformative actions. On the platform, citizens offer political and civic-themed proposals and vote on them. The company is tech-oriented at its core, focusing on its data-science capabilities to generate terabytes of qualified data. It has already generated over 200K contributions per month on average and has secured dozens of corporations for its great cause initiative. The Make.org model combines a highly profitable growth profile with significant social impact, and is backed by an exceptional management team. It has the capacity to leverage data whilst respecting its values of neutrality, transparency and security. Make.org is set to disrupt the European pollster market.