Hi Inov SAS

Hi Inov SAS is a regulated venture capital management firm based in Paris, with additional offices in Lyon and Munich. Specializing in early-stage investments, it focuses on B2B digital startups, particularly in the technology sector, including areas such as SaaS software, e-commerce, and digital media. With €165 million under management, Hi Inov typically invests between €0.5 million and €4 million in companies that have minimum revenues of €0.5 million. The firm aims to acquire a capital share of 15% to 35% and often seeks a board seat, positioning itself as a leader or co-leader. Founded in 2012, Hi Inov is committed to fostering the growth of innovative digital businesses, guiding them from their inception towards becoming future industry leaders.

Clément Schott

Analyst

61 past transactions

Zelros

Series A in 2021
Zelros provides a SaaS-based artificial intelligence platform for insurers. Its platform also understands the profile of customer and recommends the products, arguments, and prices; and is used for claims process automation, such as claim filing, missing information in complex case, processing time, and other applications. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Paris, France.

LuckyLoc

Series A in 2016
LuckyLoc is the service that allows the French to rent a car to 1 euro. Luckyloc launched Expedicar. com to continue the car transport revolution by allowing individuals to call on community members to move their own vehicles.

Platform.sh

Series D in 2022
Platform.sh SAS operates a Platform-as-a-Service hosting platform. The company offers platform enables users to deploy various PHP or Node.js, and Ruby or Python application; create a multi-technology cluster; provide automated continuous deployment high availability hosting; and manage from development to production and scaling. It serves primarily site owners, agencies, and developers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France. Platform.sh SAS operates as a subsidiary of Commerce Guys SAS.

Famoco

Series B in 2017
Famoco SAS provides a mobile/android-based NFC reader to facilitate the development of contactless usages. The company offers a professional and B2B-oriented device as a smartphone to deploy business applications; and an Android operating system. It also provides a management suite that offers centralized over-the-air device management services. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Schaerbeek, Belgium; and Hong Kong, China.

Ninox

Venture Round in 2022
Ninox empowers line-of-business teams to automate backoffice workflows without the help of a developer. With this No-Code approach we help more than 2.800 companies across all industries to digitize business proceses. The market for no- and low-code application platforms grows rapdily and is expected to reach $27B in 2022. Leading vendors are Mendix, Outsystems and Appian. Though they manage to reduce time and effort to build custom business applications by factor 10 to 15, established products require extensive training and are sold at a price point that makes their introduction a strategic decision. Ninox is different: Combinig the smooth onboarding of modern productivity apps with the high flexibility of application platforms, we level the ground for a much broader adoption.

Deepki

Series C in 2022
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.

Commerce Guys SAS

Private Placement in 2018
Commerce Guys SAS develops open-source e-commerce solutions. The company offers Drupal Commerce, an open-source content management system for merchants, agencies/developers, and technology partners worldwide. It also offers services, such as consulting, expert development, support, hosting, and training services; digital commerce and productivity solutions; and managed commerce, including site development and dashboard setup, hosting on a commerce platform, and ongoing support and advisory services. Commerce Guys SAS was founded in 2008 and is based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

DataHawk

Series A in 2021
DataHawk Technologies SAS designs and develops keyword research and market analysis enterprise software solutions. Its product offers tracking keywords ranks, actionable insights and recommendations, products metrics, and sales estimates. It offers white labeling services. The company’s product offers an Amazon analytics tool for professional sellers, vendors, brands, and agencies. DataHawk Technologies SAS was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.

Deepomatic

Private Placement in 2019
Deepomatic empowers businesses by delivering tailor-made computer vision AI to ensure that they get the most out of their images. We have created a platform that allows our customers to tackle their image-related problems by building and deploying custom AIs. Customers simply upload their images, train their model through manual annotation and active learning and then deploy their API. We work with companies in a variety of industries such as automotive, healthcare, security, fashion or construction.

Styla.com

Series B in 2019
Styla GmbH offers content marketing services using digital storytelling and content commerce software. It enables businesses to create visually stunning stories in a magazine appeal without any layout work or HTML effort that users can seamlessly shop from a deep ecommerce integration. The company is based in Germany.

Customs4trade (C4T)

Series C in 2021
Customs4trade’s (C4T) unique team of customs experts and best-of-breed technology engineers has developed CAS, a one-of-a-kind software solution that automates customs and trade compliance. CAS is a collaborative hub, designed to manage regional and worldwide customs and trade compliance quickly and accurately, within one single platform. By automating all import and export processes, C4T clients experience faster time to market, eliminate customs duty and administration costs, and gain strategic visibility into their customs operations. Built on the Microsoft Azure platform and delivered as a Service (SaaS), CAS provides clients with continual updates and feature enhancements, including the incorporation of any changes to legislation and compliance regulations—along with Azure’s signature accessibility, scalability, and security. With hundreds of thousands of EU companies bracing for Brexit, forward-thinking customs managers are turning to C4T to prepare their organisations for a seamless transition.

Commanders Act

Series B in 2014
Since 2010 Commanders Act helps companies from all industries to do data driven marketing optimization. Customer data can be collected and integrated cross-device and cross channel and is available in real-time for all online and offline measures to optimize campaigns, do personalization and trigger marketing solutions. The control over customer and prospect data remains in the hands of our customers. The exhaustive cookie/consent management to be EU-GDPR compliant is combined with Tag Management, a CDP/DMP as well as an Attribution Management Solution to Optimize each step of the customer journey.

Ermeo

Seed Round in 2018
At Ermeo, they are in daily contact with many manufacturers, from various sectors, to help them achieve operational excellence by standardizing their business processes while creating more collaboration between their teams and with their customers. Through their Connected Operator Platform, they provide their customers with the best possible operational experience. From improving security and field operator collaboration to increasing productivity, data quality and value, their solution enables their customers to solve their main challenges, from the simplest to the most complex.

Prevision.io

Seed Round in 2017
Prevision.io provides an automated machine learning platform to generate and deploy highly accurate predictive models on cloud or on premises. You can use the enterprise-grade platform without any prior technical knowledge or infrastructure and build standalone models using only your enterprise data. Whether you are a data scientist or a business analyst, you can use Prevision.io to increase the productivity of your projects, reduce time spent in implementation, and access detailed explanations of models’ decisions on the platform itself. Prevision.io's clients have successfully deployed models for multiple use cases including sales and promotions forecasting, churn prediction, supply chain optimization, predictive maintenance, buildings energy consumption forecasting, prediction of credit recovery.

Zelros

Private Placement in 2018
Zelros provides a SaaS-based artificial intelligence platform for insurers. Its platform also understands the profile of customer and recommends the products, arguments, and prices; and is used for claims process automation, such as claim filing, missing information in complex case, processing time, and other applications. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Paris, France.

InterCloud

Series B in 2017
As the European leader of Software-Defined Interconnectivity, InterCloud is disrupting the way organizations are connecting the Cloud. By providing Connectivity as Code, we offer them an unparalleled way to extend their confidence end-to-end with visibility and control on their resources. Global multinationals like SNCF, Schneider Electric, Veolia, and more, have placed their trust in InterCloud to deliver an appropriate cloud connectivity solution to satisfy security and compliance needs in relation to the hybridisation of their business applications. That is why major Cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, IBM, SAP, Oracle, Outscale and Alibaba have opted for InterCloud’s platform. Between you and the Cloud

Platform.sh

Series B in 2014
Platform.sh SAS operates a Platform-as-a-Service hosting platform. The company offers platform enables users to deploy various PHP or Node.js, and Ruby or Python application; create a multi-technology cluster; provide automated continuous deployment high availability hosting; and manage from development to production and scaling. It serves primarily site owners, agencies, and developers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France. Platform.sh SAS operates as a subsidiary of Commerce Guys SAS.

Famoco

Series A in 2015
Famoco SAS provides a mobile/android-based NFC reader to facilitate the development of contactless usages. The company offers a professional and B2B-oriented device as a smartphone to deploy business applications; and an Android operating system. It also provides a management suite that offers centralized over-the-air device management services. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Schaerbeek, Belgium; and Hong Kong, China.

Customs4trade (C4T)

Series B in 2020
Customs4trade’s (C4T) unique team of customs experts and best-of-breed technology engineers has developed CAS, a one-of-a-kind software solution that automates customs and trade compliance. CAS is a collaborative hub, designed to manage regional and worldwide customs and trade compliance quickly and accurately, within one single platform. By automating all import and export processes, C4T clients experience faster time to market, eliminate customs duty and administration costs, and gain strategic visibility into their customs operations. Built on the Microsoft Azure platform and delivered as a Service (SaaS), CAS provides clients with continual updates and feature enhancements, including the incorporation of any changes to legislation and compliance regulations—along with Azure’s signature accessibility, scalability, and security. With hundreds of thousands of EU companies bracing for Brexit, forward-thinking customs managers are turning to C4T to prepare their organisations for a seamless transition.

ForePaaS

Series A in 2017
ForePaaS SAS designs and develops automated cloud based platform that links applications and data management. It provides platform-as-a-service which allows users to build and deploy application on the cloud based platform. The platform allows users to connect with multiple data points, and provides data model abstraction and automated data processing. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. It has additional office in San Francisco, California.

Prevision.io

Series A in 2020
Prevision.io provides an automated machine learning platform to generate and deploy highly accurate predictive models on cloud or on premises. You can use the enterprise-grade platform without any prior technical knowledge or infrastructure and build standalone models using only your enterprise data. Whether you are a data scientist or a business analyst, you can use Prevision.io to increase the productivity of your projects, reduce time spent in implementation, and access detailed explanations of models’ decisions on the platform itself. Prevision.io's clients have successfully deployed models for multiple use cases including sales and promotions forecasting, churn prediction, supply chain optimization, predictive maintenance, buildings energy consumption forecasting, prediction of credit recovery.

Ermeo

Private Placement in 2018
At Ermeo, they are in daily contact with many manufacturers, from various sectors, to help them achieve operational excellence by standardizing their business processes while creating more collaboration between their teams and with their customers. Through their Connected Operator Platform, they provide their customers with the best possible operational experience. From improving security and field operator collaboration to increasing productivity, data quality and value, their solution enables their customers to solve their main challenges, from the simplest to the most complex.

Platform.sh

Series C in 2018
Platform.sh SAS operates a Platform-as-a-Service hosting platform. The company offers platform enables users to deploy various PHP or Node.js, and Ruby or Python application; create a multi-technology cluster; provide automated continuous deployment high availability hosting; and manage from development to production and scaling. It serves primarily site owners, agencies, and developers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Paris, France. Platform.sh SAS operates as a subsidiary of Commerce Guys SAS.

Glopal

Series A in 2023
Glopal S.A.S provides advanced international marketing solutions for ecommerce retailers. It offers services, which includes international marketing, translation, international SEO, localization, international payments, and international shipping services. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Kenjo

Series A in 2023
Kenjo GmbH develops a Software-as-a-Service human resources (HR) software for HR administration, recruiting, and employee development. Its platform features include automated notifications, time off management, attendance management, payroll repots, reports and analytics, digital HR, and streamline recruitment software; and onboarding streaming, meetings organization, employees surveys, performance reviews, and goals and OKRs visualization. The company serves clients in Germany and internationally. Kenjo GmbH was formerly known as Org OS GmbH. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany with an operation in Madrid, Spain.

Prevision.io

Private Placement in 2020
Prevision.io provides an automated machine learning platform to generate and deploy highly accurate predictive models on cloud or on premises. You can use the enterprise-grade platform without any prior technical knowledge or infrastructure and build standalone models using only your enterprise data. Whether you are a data scientist or a business analyst, you can use Prevision.io to increase the productivity of your projects, reduce time spent in implementation, and access detailed explanations of models’ decisions on the platform itself. Prevision.io's clients have successfully deployed models for multiple use cases including sales and promotions forecasting, churn prediction, supply chain optimization, predictive maintenance, buildings energy consumption forecasting, prediction of credit recovery.

Deepomatic

Series A in 2019
Deepomatic empowers businesses by delivering tailor-made computer vision AI to ensure that they get the most out of their images. We have created a platform that allows our customers to tackle their image-related problems by building and deploying custom AIs. Customers simply upload their images, train their model through manual annotation and active learning and then deploy their API. We work with companies in a variety of industries such as automotive, healthcare, security, fashion or construction.

Styla.com

Private Placement in 2019
Styla GmbH offers content marketing services using digital storytelling and content commerce software. It enables businesses to create visually stunning stories in a magazine appeal without any layout work or HTML effort that users can seamlessly shop from a deep ecommerce integration. The company is based in Germany.

Allocab

Series A in 2016
Allocab SAS operates an online chauffeur driven car and moto-taxi booking service. The company also provides its services through a mobile application. Allocab SAS was founded in 2011 and is based in Paris, France.

Skillup

Venture Round in 2022
Skillup has designed the new @Tripadvisor for professional trainings hosting over 20k trainings and 50k reviews. It aims at helping HR services to find the adequate trainig for employees.

360Learning

Series B in 2019
360Learning empowers Learning and Development teams to drive culture and growth through Collaborative Learning. Our learning platform combines collaborative tools with the power of an LMS, enabling high-growth companies to unlock learning based on collective expertise instead of top-down knowledge. 360Learning is the easiest way to onboard new employees, train customer-facing teams, and develop professional skills–all from one place. 360Learning powers the future of work at 1,200 organizations, including Toyota, Criteo, and Airbus. Founded in 2012, 360Learning has raised $41 million with 180 team members across New York, Paris, and London.

Deepki

Private Placement 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.

InterCloud

Private Placement in 2019
As the European leader of Software-Defined Interconnectivity, InterCloud is disrupting the way organizations are connecting the Cloud. By providing Connectivity as Code, we offer them an unparalleled way to extend their confidence end-to-end with visibility and control on their resources. Global multinationals like SNCF, Schneider Electric, Veolia, and more, have placed their trust in InterCloud to deliver an appropriate cloud connectivity solution to satisfy security and compliance needs in relation to the hybridisation of their business applications. That is why major Cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, IBM, SAP, Oracle, Outscale and Alibaba have opted for InterCloud’s platform. Between you and the Cloud

Deepomatic

Venture Round in 2021
Deepomatic empowers businesses by delivering tailor-made computer vision AI to ensure that they get the most out of their images. We have created a platform that allows our customers to tackle their image-related problems by building and deploying custom AIs. Customers simply upload their images, train their model through manual annotation and active learning and then deploy their API. We work with companies in a variety of industries such as automotive, healthcare, security, fashion or construction.

Swoopin

Seed Round in 2021
COURSIERPRIVE.COM reviewing codes of logistics of the last kilometer with its delivery service the same day.

Loyalty Prime

Series B in 2020
Loyalty Prime is a leading international provider of innovative customer loyalty solutions for enterprise clients. With our award-winning SaaS Loyalty Platform, we help companies around the world create the leading loyalty programs in their industry.

Loyalty Prime

Private Placement in 2018
Loyalty Prime is a leading international provider of innovative customer loyalty solutions for enterprise clients. With our award-winning SaaS Loyalty Platform, we help companies around the world create the leading loyalty programs in their industry.

InterCloud

Series C in 2019
As the European leader of Software-Defined Interconnectivity, InterCloud is disrupting the way organizations are connecting the Cloud. By providing Connectivity as Code, we offer them an unparalleled way to extend their confidence end-to-end with visibility and control on their resources. Global multinationals like SNCF, Schneider Electric, Veolia, and more, have placed their trust in InterCloud to deliver an appropriate cloud connectivity solution to satisfy security and compliance needs in relation to the hybridisation of their business applications. That is why major Cloud vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Salesforce, ServiceNow, IBM, SAP, Oracle, Outscale and Alibaba have opted for InterCloud’s platform. Between you and the Cloud

creads

Series B in 2016
Creads is an advertising agency based on principles of crowdsourcing. Over 50,000 designers are gathered across the world to create the perfect design for brands such as logo design, name and slogan conception, web and print design.

Luzmo

Series A in 2023
Cumul.io is a cloud analytics platform for business experts & SaaS companies to integrate intuitive yet powerful data visualization into their daily lives.

360Learning

Private Placement in 2019
360Learning empowers Learning and Development teams to drive culture and growth through Collaborative Learning. Our learning platform combines collaborative tools with the power of an LMS, enabling high-growth companies to unlock learning based on collective expertise instead of top-down knowledge. 360Learning is the easiest way to onboard new employees, train customer-facing teams, and develop professional skills–all from one place. 360Learning powers the future of work at 1,200 organizations, including Toyota, Criteo, and Airbus. Founded in 2012, 360Learning has raised $41 million with 180 team members across New York, Paris, and London.

Zelros

Series A in 2018
Zelros provides a SaaS-based artificial intelligence platform for insurers. Its platform also understands the profile of customer and recommends the products, arguments, and prices; and is used for claims process automation, such as claim filing, missing information in complex case, processing time, and other applications. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Paris, France.

Agorapulse

Private Placement in 2019
AgoraPulse is a leading Social Media Management platform that enables agencies, businesses and marketers to manage all their social media messages, schedule and publish content, identify key influencers, monitor social channels, and get stunning reports - all in one easy to use dashboard.

Agorapulse

Venture Round in 2019
AgoraPulse is a leading Social Media Management platform that enables agencies, businesses and marketers to manage all their social media messages, schedule and publish content, identify key influencers, monitor social channels, and get stunning reports - all in one easy to use dashboard.

Geolid

Series B in 2013
Geolid is a search optimization website with a primary focus on french consumers.

Geolid

Series C in 2015
Geolid is a search optimization website with a primary focus on french consumers.

Hiflow

Private Placement in 2019
Hiflow develops and provides a software platform to help industry players optimize vehicle deliveries. It also provides rent transportation services. The company was formerly known as Expedicar. Hiflow was founded in 2012 and is based in in Paris, France.

Limonetik

Series B in 2011
Smart Payment Engine

Commerce Guys

Series B in 2014
Commerce Guys are the creators of and experts in Drupal Commerce, the eCommerce solution that capitalizes on the virtues and power of Drupal, the premier open-source content management system. They focus their knowledge and expertise on providing online merchants with the powerful, responsive, innovative eCommerce solutions they need to thrive. Commerce Guys has been recognized numerous times in the industry for its work. Awards include Gartner’s Cool Vendor in E-Commerce, Microsoft BizSpark Award, E-Commerce Paris 2013 Grand Prize, and American and International Business Awards.

Deepki

Series A in 2016
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.

Per Angusta

Series A in 2020
Per Angusta is an agile procurement performance management platform that develops a SaaS to enhance the performance of procurement teams. It also offers a SaaS solution to help you build your procurement action plan, set objectives, measure performance, and communicate the value created throughout the organization. They also enable buying teams to achieve quantum in collaboration, agility, and accountability. Per Angusta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France.

Per Angusta

Private Placement in 2020
Per Angusta is an agile procurement performance management platform that develops a SaaS to enhance the performance of procurement teams. It also offers a SaaS solution to help you build your procurement action plan, set objectives, measure performance, and communicate the value created throughout the organization. They also enable buying teams to achieve quantum in collaboration, agility, and accountability. Per Angusta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France.

Deepki

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.

Acodis

Series A in 2023
turicode Inc. develops software as a service (SaaS) platform for document processing. Its software reads and understands documents such as PDFs, scans, and emails. The company’s MINT.extract platform helps companies and their employees to digitize document. It serves legal and tax, financial industry, healthcare, logistics, insurance, and archives industries. turicode Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Deepomatic

Series B in 2022
Deepomatic empowers businesses by delivering tailor-made computer vision AI to ensure that they get the most out of their images. We have created a platform that allows our customers to tackle their image-related problems by building and deploying custom AIs. Customers simply upload their images, train their model through manual annotation and active learning and then deploy their API. We work with companies in a variety of industries such as automotive, healthcare, security, fashion or construction.

DataHawk

Series A in 2021
DataHawk Technologies SAS designs and develops keyword research and market analysis enterprise software solutions. Its product offers tracking keywords ranks, actionable insights and recommendations, products metrics, and sales estimates. It offers white labeling services. The company’s product offers an Amazon analytics tool for professional sellers, vendors, brands, and agencies. DataHawk Technologies SAS was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.

awork

Series A in 2023
awork is a work management tool for creative teams.

Customs4trade (C4T)

Venture Round in 2023
Customs4trade’s (C4T) unique team of customs experts and best-of-breed technology engineers has developed CAS, a one-of-a-kind software solution that automates customs and trade compliance. CAS is a collaborative hub, designed to manage regional and worldwide customs and trade compliance quickly and accurately, within one single platform. By automating all import and export processes, C4T clients experience faster time to market, eliminate customs duty and administration costs, and gain strategic visibility into their customs operations. Built on the Microsoft Azure platform and delivered as a Service (SaaS), CAS provides clients with continual updates and feature enhancements, including the incorporation of any changes to legislation and compliance regulations—along with Azure’s signature accessibility, scalability, and security. With hundreds of thousands of EU companies bracing for Brexit, forward-thinking customs managers are turning to C4T to prepare their organisations for a seamless transition.