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Supernova Invest

In March 2017, after 18 years of activity, the venture capital activity of CEA Investissement and its team were transferred into a newly created independent venture capital firm, Supernova Invest. Supernova Invest combines Amundi the European leader in asset management and the CEA Europe’s most innovative research institute, both being shareholders of Supernova Invest.
FB

Francois Breniaux

Investment Director

DB

Damien Bretegnier

Investment Manager

PC

Pascal-André Chenal

Associate

Julien Cristiani

General Partner

MG

Marine Glon

Investment Director

DH

David Hansen

Investment Director

Celia Hart

General Partner

Etienne Moreau

Partner

Regis Saleur

CEO, Managing Partner

RS

Romain Sautrau

Investment Director

RS

Remi Spagnol

Investment Director

Pierre-Emmanuel Struyven

Chairman, Managing Partner

Grégoire Viot

CFO

49 past transactions

dessIA

Series A in 2021

Zéro-Gâchis

Venture Round in 2021
Zero-Hash aims to reduce food waste by helping supermarkets manage their unsold.

SCINTIL Photonics SAS

Venture Round in 2022
SCINTIL Photonics is a fabless company that develops silicon photonic integrated circuits. SCINTIL solutions combine the best of Silicon (Si) and Indium Phosphide (InP) materials using wafer-scale bonding of InP on Si and rely on commercial silicon foundry processes to build fully integrated photonic circuits (comprising multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors).

MicroOLED S.A.S.

Series A in 2020
MicroOLED S.A.S. engages in the design and development of organic light emitting diode technologies. It offers micro displays for use in video glasses for mobile HDTV, viewfinders for cameras, and professional and medical applications. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Grenoble, France. As of June 16, 2010, Microoled S.A.S. operates as a subsidiary of PHOTONIS SAS.

FIPSICO

Venture Round in 2021
HNL, Heart Never Lies, is an emotional technology Company with a patented algorithm allowing Networks, Platforms, Content Owners, Brands and Manufacturers the ability to capture an individual’s emotional response to set tasks or cross-platform media experiences. We are a globally patented technology, with roots coming from the medical industry, which is today used in Hospitals all over the world, allowing anaesthetists to gauge, monitor and mange patient pain levels whilst unconscious and in surgery.

Ynsect

Series C in 2020
SAS Ynsect operates as a biotech company. The company designs, builds, and operates insect production and processing facilities for the production of feed for fish and poultry. The company engages in bioconversion of organic resources by insects, and their processing into nutrients for feed applications such as proteins, lipids etc., and non-food applications, which includes polysaccharides and derivatives, organic fertilizers, bioenergy etc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Evry, France.

Diabeloop

Series B in 2019
Diabeloop SAS designs and develops electronic artificial pancreas. Its device is composed of a continuous glucose sensor which monitors the patient’s glycemia and sends data to a smartphone-like terminal which controls a connected insulin pump by ordering the optimal amount of insulin to deliver. The company's device is used to reduce hypoglycemia and complications associated with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabeloop SAS was founded in 2015 and is based in Grenoble, France.

iFollow SAS

Series A in 2021
iFollow SAS develops and manufactures support robots for logistics and food industry. The company offers iLogistics, an autonomous navigation and logistics trolley for warehouses; iRetail, a smart cart for stores offering up-to-date knowledge and guidance about the products in the store; and an autonomous robot for the preparation of food orders and packaging. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Meudon, France.

Terakalis

Series A in 2022
Terakalis is the result of a technological partnership started in 2012 with the Charles Coulomb laboratory (L2C), a mixed CNRS-University of Montpellier unit. The field of TeraHertz electromagnetic waves (100 Ghz-10THz) is at the heart of this collaboration.

TRAXENS SAS

Venture Round in 2022
TRAXENS delivers the world's most exhaustive, precise and timely information on containers and container transporters allowing all stakeholders in multi-modal transport to improve costs, optimize investment, and offer premium services. To attain this performance TRAXENS led a 3-year R&D program to develop specific technology required to produce cost effective, durable and autonomous devices for a wide range of container data capture and real-time transmission of this data from anywhere on the globe.

Micropep Technologies

Series A in 2021
Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact. The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.

Cairdac

Series A in 2022

Alice & Bob

Series A in 2022
Alice & Bob manufactures quantum computers to help industries and researchers solve the problems. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.

UroMems

Series B in 2021
UroMems SAS designs, develops, and commercializes implantable medical devices. It manufactures MyoElectroMechanical System, an implantable, electronic artificial urinary sphincter (eAUS) for patients who suffer from severe urinary incontinence which increases the urethral pressure when the patient is engaged in a physically demanding activity and decreases the pressure when the patient's activities do not require high compression on the tissues. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Grenoble, France.

Adionics

Seed Round in 2021
Adionics provides desalination supply chain. The company offers AquaOmnes, a technology that instead removes the salt out of salty water, leaving water behind; and Flionex, an ion-absorbing liquid technology that is used to bind salts. It serves municipal water, power, oil and gas, and chemicals markets. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Paris, France.

Aleph Zero

Seed Round in 2022
Aleph Zero is a peer-reviewed DAG platform that is scalable, fast, and developer-friendly. It is a proof-of-stake public blockchain with private smart contracts built by a world-class team that aims to reach mass adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology. The company's ecosystem consists of the consensus and is capable of synchronizing with other blockchains and running smart contracts, as well as a truly trustless universal wallet — which they call Common.

UroMems

Series B in 2020
UroMems SAS designs, develops, and commercializes implantable medical devices. It manufactures MyoElectroMechanical System, an implantable, electronic artificial urinary sphincter (eAUS) for patients who suffer from severe urinary incontinence which increases the urethral pressure when the patient is engaged in a physically demanding activity and decreases the pressure when the patient's activities do not require high compression on the tissues. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Grenoble, France.

Smartway

Series A in 2021

Diabeloop

Series C in 2022
Diabeloop SAS designs and develops electronic artificial pancreas. Its device is composed of a continuous glucose sensor which monitors the patient’s glycemia and sends data to a smartphone-like terminal which controls a connected insulin pump by ordering the optimal amount of insulin to deliver. The company's device is used to reduce hypoglycemia and complications associated with Type 1 Diabetes. Diabeloop SAS was founded in 2015 and is based in Grenoble, France.

Blue Valet, SAS

Venture Round in 2018
Blue Valet, SAS provides online valet booking services at airports and train stations in France. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mérignac, France.

Micropep Technologies

Series A in 2022
Micropep Technologies developes a non-GMO new generation of bioherbicides and biostimulants. Micropep, founded in 2016 in Toulouse, focuses on bioherbicides and biostimulants. The company uses plants’ natural molecules, called “micro-peptides”, to temporarily control expression of their genes and regulate plant growth but leaving their DNA intact. The company currently works on four development programs: germination, flowering, growth, and weed control.

UnitySC

Venture Round in 2022
NAWATECHNOLOGIES, Société anonyme designs, develops, industrializes, and commercializes products based on organized nanostructures to enable improvements in materials and devices dedicated to energy, transportation, and environment markets. The company offers multifunctional materials and energy storage devices. NAWATECHNOLOGIES, Société anonyme was founded in 2013 and is based in Aix-en-Provence, France.
NAWATECHNOLOGIES, Société anonyme designs, develops, industrializes, and commercializes products based on organized nanostructures to enable improvements in materials and devices dedicated to energy, transportation, and environment markets. The company offers multifunctional materials and energy storage devices. NAWATECHNOLOGIES, Société anonyme was founded in 2013 and is based in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Newsbridge

Series A in 2022
Newsbridge develops contribution and image processing solutions. It produces content for TV channels, production houses, and agencies; and provides contribution and AI-based video indexing tools for publishers and broadcasters. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Boulogne- Billancourt, France.

FIPSICO

Seed Round in 2021
HNL, Heart Never Lies, is an emotional technology Company with a patented algorithm allowing Networks, Platforms, Content Owners, Brands and Manufacturers the ability to capture an individual’s emotional response to set tasks or cross-platform media experiences. We are a globally patented technology, with roots coming from the medical industry, which is today used in Hospitals all over the world, allowing anaesthetists to gauge, monitor and mange patient pain levels whilst unconscious and in surgery.

Diota

Series B in 2019
Diota is a provider of Augmented Reality software solutions dedicated to industry. Strong technological innovations along with business-oriented solutions make of the company a key player of the digital factory and industrial competitiveness, notably in the aircraft, railway, shipbuilding, automotive, oil & gas and chemical industries,in France and Europe. Among Diota’s major references are Safran Group, Dassault Aviation, DCNS, SNCF, PSA Group, Renault, Volkswagen, Daimler, Air Liquide, Total, Bouygues Construction…

Robocath

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2009 by Philippe Bencteux, MD, Robocath designs, develops and commercializes robotic solutions to treat cardiovascular diseases. As an active player in the evolving medical robotic industry, these innovative solutions aim to make medical procedures safer, thanks to reliable technologies, while complementing manual interventions. R-One™ is the first solution developed by Robocath. It uses a unique technology that optimizes the safety of robotic-assisted coronary angioplasty. It is designed to operate with precision and perform specific movements creating better interventional conditions. Thanks to its open architecture, R-One™ is compatible with market leading devices and cath labs. Robocath aims to become the world leader in vascular robotics and develop the remote treatment of vascular emergencies, guaranteeing the best care pathway for all.

CarThera

Series B in 2018
CARTHERA SAS designs and develops therapeutic ultrasound-based medical devices for treating brain disorders. The company’s devices include SONOPROBE, which is used for treatment of brain disorders including brain tumors, epilepsy, metastases, and meningioma and SONOCLOUD, an intracranial ultrasound implant that is used to increase the intracerebral bioavailability of chemotherapy in the treatment of primary brain tumors. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Remedee

Series A in 2019
Remedee is a new concept of "e- drug" for pain management. This innovative wearable, is based on an breakthrough technology that stimulates the release of endorphins in the brain. After 6 years of research in the medical department of the French Army and at CEA-Clinatec, we demonstrated a significant reduction of pain perception and the feasibility of making this technology mobile and available to everyone. Remedee adresses the 20% of worldwide population suffering from chronic pain.
NAWATECHNOLOGIES, Société anonyme designs, develops, industrializes, and commercializes products based on organized nanostructures to enable improvements in materials and devices dedicated to energy, transportation, and environment markets. The company offers multifunctional materials and energy storage devices. NAWATECHNOLOGIES, Société anonyme was founded in 2013 and is based in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Ynsect

Series C in 2020
SAS Ynsect operates as a biotech company. The company designs, builds, and operates insect production and processing facilities for the production of feed for fish and poultry. The company engages in bioconversion of organic resources by insects, and their processing into nutrients for feed applications such as proteins, lipids etc., and non-food applications, which includes polysaccharides and derivatives, organic fertilizers, bioenergy etc. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Evry, France.

Keranova S.A.

Venture Round in 2019
KERANOVA is a dynamic start-up specializing in innovative medical technologies. We design and develop surgical equipment for various ophthalmologic indications involving the anterior segment of the eye. Our teams are working on novel surgical instruments that use a unique patented technology that represents a major advance in ophthalmic procedures.

Microphyt

Venture Round in 2019
Microphyt SPAS produces and sells microalgae and other photosynthetic micro-organisms for beauty care and food complement, food, health, and energy markets. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Baillargues, France.

TRAXENS SAS

Series C in 2019
TRAXENS delivers the world's most exhaustive, precise and timely information on containers and container transporters allowing all stakeholders in multi-modal transport to improve costs, optimize investment, and offer premium services. To attain this performance TRAXENS led a 3-year R&D program to develop specific technology required to produce cost effective, durable and autonomous devices for a wide range of container data capture and real-time transmission of this data from anywhere on the globe.

SCINTIL Photonics SAS

Seed Round in 2019
SCINTIL Photonics is a fabless company that develops silicon photonic integrated circuits. SCINTIL solutions combine the best of Silicon (Si) and Indium Phosphide (InP) materials using wafer-scale bonding of InP on Si and rely on commercial silicon foundry processes to build fully integrated photonic circuits (comprising multi-wavelength lasers, waveguides, wavelength filters, and photodetectors).

Terakalis

Seed Round in 2018
Terakalis is the result of a technological partnership started in 2012 with the Charles Coulomb laboratory (L2C), a mixed CNRS-University of Montpellier unit. The field of TeraHertz electromagnetic waves (100 Ghz-10THz) is at the heart of this collaboration.

Prophesee SA

Series B in 2018
Prophesee SA develops machine vision sensors and systems for applications in the fields of machine vision. It serves clients in bio-medical and healthcare, gaming, industrial automation, instrumentation and lab, mobile and device, robotics, security and surveillance, video compression, aerospace and defense, and automotive markets. The company was formerly known as Chronocam SAS and changed its name to Prophesee SA in February, 2018. Prophesee SA was founded in 2014 and is based in Paris, France.

mirSense

Seed Round in 2018
mirSense technology is a developer and manufacturer of a new generation of ultra-compact gas sensors designed to offer lasers for the medium infrared. The company's Industrial Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) and QCL-based spectrometer modules provide very low detection levels for the control of gas emissions, detection of dangerous substances or the analysis of biological samples, enabling industries and defense sectors to get affordable quantum cascade lasers.

AcuSurgical

Series A in 2021
AcuSurgical is a startup developing a robotic assistant for vitreo-retinal surgery.

Aledia SA

Series C in 2018
Aledia SA develops and manufactures light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The company offers microwire LED chips based on a 3D architecture using gallium-nitride-on-silicon microwires. It provides its products for general lighting, automotive, and display applications. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Grenoble, France with subsidiaries in Malacca, Malaysia; and Palo Alto, California.

CAILabs

Series B in 2019
Cailabs is a French deep tech company, based in Rennes, which designs, produces and sells photonic solutions to fully exploit the industrial potential opened up by the shaping of light. Cailabs develops and produces a unique range of optical components based on its know-how and its patented technological innovations, in particular Multi-Plane Light Conversion (MPLC).

UPMEM SAS

Seed Round in 2017
UPMEM is implementing the first scalable, programmable and efficient Processing-In-Memory (PIM) solution for the datacenter. In server architectures, Big Data processing performance is limited by data movements. UPMEM solution accelerates 10+ times data-intensive applications with an innovative solution based on a large number of programmable co-processors located next to the data.

En Voiture Simone

Venture Round in 2018
In Simone Car, it's an online driving school that connects free-standing students with state-qualified teachers. We are very proud to accompany you since 2015 in your success at driving license.

Vulkam SAS

Series A in 2020
Vulkam SAS, a micro technology company, engages in the design, development, and production of amorphous metal parts. The company’s amorphous metals are primarily composed of zirconium, copper, hafnium, nickel, or titanium. Its products have applications in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, cryogenic, watches, jewellery, micro components, and micro fluids industries. Vulkam SAS was founded in 2017 and is based in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France.

NH TherAguix

Series A in 2019
NH TherAguix SAS, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, develops nanomedicines for cancer, combining imaging, and radiotherapy. It offers AGuIX, a nanoparticle that is designed to improve the localization of solid tumors and the outcomes of radiation therapy by intravenous injection; allows the radiation therapy treatment for patient to determine the optimal moment to perform the irradiation; and allows to treat radioresistant cancers and to minimize the radiation therapy secondary effects by decreasing the dose to healthy tissues. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Villeurbanne, France.

PowerUp SAS

Venture Round in 2020
PowerUp SAS manufactures smart battery chargers that determine for each charge the optimal voltage and power according to battery temperature, charge status, and level of degradation. The company offers battery management solution that allows for measurement of state of health of each battery; control and optimize the charge of each battery; and management of a fleet of batteries via web application. PowerUp SAS caters to battery powered railways, uninterrupted power supply systems, handling equipment, tools and autonomous robots, and electric vehicles. PowerUp SAS was founded in 2017 and is based in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.

iskn

Venture Round in 2018
iskn is a consumer electronics company that develops and markets the slate for smart drawing. iskn is the leading pioneer in AUGMENTED INTERACTION thanks to its technology representing 24 international patents based on 60 years of deep tech R&D expertise in magnetometry at the world-renowned CEA LETI. The company’s primary mission consists in enriching the experience and facilitate interaction with the digital world by bringing back emotion through the use of day-to-day physical objects. This has already come to life by turning any pencil into a digital one with the widely adopted SLATE, and the yet to come disruptive REPAPER graphic tablet.

BeFC Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells

Seed Round in 2020
BeFC Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells develops ecological devices. The company develops a paper-based, ultra-thin, flexible and miniature bioenzymatic fuel cell system. The company offers a sustainable and eco-friendly solution for practical energy generation for minimizing impact to environment. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Grenoble, France.