Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey. The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors; backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth. Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset. Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Alexis Robert

Partner

Jean de La Rochebrochard

Partner

Past deals in Crowdfunding

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.

Easop

Seed Round in 2022
Fast & cost-efficient solution to compliantly offer and manage equity incentives to your employees, contractors and advisors all around the world.

Kiln

Venture Round in 2022
Kiln creates an enterprise-level pledge platform and provides one-click pledge services for encrypted assets. It develops validator-independent APIs and services to enable multi-provider staking. Digital assets can be staked wherever they are held, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. As the industry evolves and the need to integrate multiple stakeholder players becomes apparent, Kiln is in an excellent position to act as an aggregator and accelerate it. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

SUN ZU Lab

Seed Round in 2022
SUN ZU Lab is an independent provider of liquidity analytics for crypto professionals. Clients can use SUN ZU Lab's liquidity analytics to determine whether their order book is strong on its own and in comparison to key competitors. With a clear and demonstrable value proposition, clients are better equipped to serve existing investors and attract new ones. SUN ZU Lab's mission is to increase transparency in the thriving crypto-sphere through groundbreaking analytics solutions.

Circular

Series A in 2022
Circular is designed specifically for in-house recruiters within fast-growing tech companies, it is the go-to recruitment network for finding the talent that trusted peers wish they could hire. With Circular, in-house recruiters can hire up to 10x faster by harnessing a network of 6,000 like-minded peers – all benefiting from the recommendation effect: filling their hard to fill tech roles, by recruiting from, and recommending, peer approved talent, at scale. Circular was established in July, 2018 by Pedro Torrecillas and Teo Ruiz in Madrid, Spain.

LaCollection

Seed Round in 2022
LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

Collective

Seed Round in 2021
Collective.work provides a complete digital infrastructure dedicated to teams of independent workers and builds the SaaS-enabled marketplace to allow any independents to create and run collectives with a professional back-office and access opportunities.

Essor

Venture Round in 2021
Essor focuses on business tasks such as acquisitions, investments, sourcing, and marketing, allowing third-party seller brands from diverse marketplaces to reach global scale growth. Essor’s brand portfolio today includes a broad range of rapidly growing health & wellness and lifestyle brands like Boka, ZitSticka, Puracy, OTOTO Design, FreshCap, Iron Flask, Fullstar, numnum, Key Nutrients, and Viking Revolution that are sold on Amazon, Direct to Consumer channels, and through national retailers like Target, CVS, and Walmart.

Vibely

Seed Round in 2020
Vibely empowers creators to lead vibrant communities, with intimate events, vibrant discussions, shared resources, and exciting challenges.

Helios.do

Seed Round in 2020
Leading sustainable banking alternative - 100% transparent and dedicated to limite climate change

Lizza

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Marketplace for e-commerce brands and content creators.

Pony

Venture Round in 2019
Pony is the first shared micro-mobility scheme to decentralise ownership of its vehicles, because they believe shared vehicles should belong to the people who use them. They let any of their users acquire & share their ponies, ensuring that the profits remain in the local economy.

Flashbreak

Series A in 2019
Flashbreak is the first platform for "Casual Game" Competitions. It's basically bringing eSports to casual games. Every day at 5pm PST, hundreds of users join a live show on Flashbreak’s app. The host introduces a game, and then kicks-off 3 rounds of competition of 90 seconds each. The competition is commented on live and frenetically by the host, while hundreds of players compete in real-time to achieve the best score. The top 200 players split the prize money. Shows start every weekday at 5pm, 5:15pm, 5:30pm and 5:45pm EST. Each show features a different game and lasts 10 minutes. New games are featured every week.

Powder

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Powder is a startup that helps to share video clips of favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them.

Flashbreak

Seed Round in 2018
Flashbreak is the first platform for "Casual Game" Competitions. It's basically bringing eSports to casual games. Every day at 5pm PST, hundreds of users join a live show on Flashbreak’s app. The host introduces a game, and then kicks-off 3 rounds of competition of 90 seconds each. The competition is commented on live and frenetically by the host, while hundreds of players compete in real-time to achieve the best score. The top 200 players split the prize money. Shows start every weekday at 5pm, 5:15pm, 5:30pm and 5:45pm EST. Each show features a different game and lasts 10 minutes. New games are featured every week.

comet

Seed Round in 2017
Comet is a platform created in September 2016 that seamlessly matches the best hard-skill Freelancers to top companies. These experts want to work as Freelancers and companies won’t survive without them. Their goal is to satisfy both sides: relevant and prompt skills for companies, security and inspiring projects for Freelancers. They screen and evaluate the best tech and data talents to build an interactive community. We're developing a smart product, powered by strong algorithms, to enhance their user experiences.

Poool

Seed Round in 2017
Poool is the Audience Conversion Platform to help Content Producers convert their audience into leads, members and subscribers. Our products: Paywall. Registration Wall. Cookie Wall. Subscription Platform. 3 reasons to choose Poool: #1 You will launch quickly: you'll be up and running in < 30 days, with some of our clients achieving it just 10 days after our onboarding call. #2 You’ll achieve a positive ROI fast: in under 90 days, you'll reach positive ROI and sustain this in the long run. #3 Poool is built for growth: start with a single conversion strategy, iterate and test different wall scenarios with deep granularity at article, device, source and user engagement level to continuously optimize long-term performance. Poool's impact on your bottom line is high, fast and continuous: — +9 pts consent rate won back in 5 weeks. — 2x logged-in traffic in 5 months. — 200% increase in conversion rate in 5 weeks.

Pay By Group

Seed Round in 2016
Pay By Group's white-label checkout solution is the fastest way for any merchant to integrate group-payment and installment capabilities into their online checkout. Our clients span travel, e-commerce, and healthcare and love the fact we increase conversions by 27% or more for this highly lucrative business segment.

Costockage

Series A in 2016
Costockage is invented the concept of personal custody, expanding the scope of the collaborative economy to storage.

Mapme

Seed Round in 2015
Mapme is the first platform that empowers any organization or leader to leverage crowdsourcing to visualize all the interconnected layers of a community. The outcome is a unique user experience that drives engagement and promotes the community. The company was founded at the end of 2014 by Ben Lang, Amir Zucker and Philippe Lang.

CodersClan

Seed Round in 2015
CodersClan is a community-driven marketplace for getting code tasks done, making software outsourcing easy. They provide clients with a streamlined process for their software development needs, minimizing any outsourcing overhead.

Trusting Social

Seed Round in 2015
Trusting Social is an AI Fintech company that enables financial inclusion through AI and AGI-enabled products. Our credit scores based on proprietary machine learning algorithms and access to alternative data allow financial institutions to lend to the underbanked segments. We operate in four markets- Vietnam, Indonesia, India and the Philippines

Final

Seed Round in 2015
Final is an Oakland-based startup focused on combating fraud online and offline, while giving consumers more control over their spending. The credit card startup provides its users with a physical card and a mobile application that protects the user’s account from fraud, theft, breaches, and card cancellation. Through its application, the company allows its users to give a credit card number to each merchant or a disposable one-time use number for one-off purchases, and provides view of transactions and buying habits. Founded in 2014, Final is a venture-backed company that went through Y Combinator in Winter 2015.

EquityZen

Seed Round in 2014
Since 2013, the EquityZen marketplace has made it easy to buy and sell shares in the private companies shaping the future. EquityZen brings together investors and shareholders, providing liquidity to early shareholders and private market access to accredited investors. With low investment minimums through our funds and with more than 37,000 private placements completed across 400+ companies, EquityZen leads the way in delivering “Private Markets for the Public”.

Mainframe

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Mainframe — A decentralized network for censorship-resistant message routing. The need for a privacy and security focused communications ecosystem has never been higher. Distrust and centralized powers abound, with third parties monopolizing users’ information and governments imposing surveillance tactics on citizens inside and outside their borders. Each takes advantage of the same decades-old architecture on which the entire Internet is built. The Mainframe network is the messaging layer for the new web. This goes beyond human-to-human messaging. There are many use-cases and applications for reliably, privately, and securely routing data packets through the Mainframe peer-to-peer network. Mainframe is resistant to censorship, surveillance, and disruption. With the exception of a catastrophic asteroid event or an aggressive alien invasion, the Mainframe network is simply unstoppable. We build with five fundamental principles as our guide.

CodersClan

Seed Round in 2014
CodersClan is a community-driven marketplace for getting code tasks done, making software outsourcing easy. They provide clients with a streamlined process for their software development needs, minimizing any outsourcing overhead.

Cobalt

Seed Round in 2014
Cobalt infuses pentesting with speed, simplicity, and transparency. Our award-winning Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) model empowers organizations to keep pace with modern software development lifecycles in an agile world. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on Cobalt’s SaaS platform and closed community of more than 400 testers. We deliver pentests that support business drivers, maximize internal resources, and create stronger security programs so that organizations can maintain their competitive edge and velocity of innovation.

FanBread

Convertible Note in 2014
FanBread disrupts how media brands are built by introducing technology solutions that enable efficient content creation, distribution, and monetization. Its platform utilizes data and predictive analytics to match new media brands to the most relevant freelance content producers and facilitates the collaboration required to create high-quality original content. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

MyCrowd

Seed Round in 2014
MyCrowd is an on-demand testing platform for websites and mobile apps. By leveraging crowdtesting, MyCrowd is able to deliver self-service and on-demand testing that is fast, accurate and cost effective.

Pay By Group

Seed Round in 2014
Pay By Group's white-label checkout solution is the fastest way for any merchant to integrate group-payment and installment capabilities into their online checkout. Our clients span travel, e-commerce, and healthcare and love the fact we increase conversions by 27% or more for this highly lucrative business segment.

Younited

Series C in 2013
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

Carta

Seed Round in 2013
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup.

AngelList

Seed Round in 2013
AngelList is a platform that connects startups, angel investors, and job-seekers, aiming to democratize the investment process. Founded in 2010 by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant and headquartered in San Francisco, AngelList facilitates fundraising, recruitment, and product launches for startups. The platform has a significant impact on the startup ecosystem, having funded numerous companies and made hundreds of thousands of introductions between job-seekers and startups. It operates several subsidiaries, including AngelList Venture and AngelList Talent, and has a portfolio that includes over 20 unicorns. Additionally, AngelList has supported the launch of more than 100,000 products, playing a crucial role in shaping the future of technology.

Boatbound

Seed Round in 2013
Boatbound operates as a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace, connecting over 13 million registered boat owners with pre-screened renters. This platform enables boat owners to offset their ownership costs by renting out their vessels, which can include options with onboard captains for those without boating experience. Boatbound is free to join, with no associated monthly or membership fees, allowing users to easily access a diverse range of boats for their water-based activities.

Start A Fire

Seed Round in 2013
start A FIRE enables individuals and brands to promote their social presence and content over any link they share. start A FIRE is fully automated, signup, connect your social media management account and it will take care of all the rest. It automatically adds a badge with your content and brand to every link you share.

Fanzy

Seed Round in 2013
Fanzy is the world's most proven social loyalty and referral platform. Fanzy enables brands to attract and reward top social fans who create buzz and share links to website revenue events. Fanzy gamifies the experience of being a fan by rewarding fans for their social activity around brands, TV shows, films, celebrities, sports teams, athletes and more. As Fanzy fans generate buzz for brands, they unlock real life rewards, social achievements and are ranked for each Fanzy they join based on Fanzy's proprietary FanScore. Fanzy currently drives amplification of marketing messages on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. Over 25,000 Facebook Pages are using Fanzy, including MTV shows like Pimp my Ride and Awkward, musicians including Nicki Minaj, LMFAO and Janis Joplin, sports teams the Detroit Pistons and Sacramento Kings, movies including Drive and brands including Smirnoff's, Spotify, Ford, Microsoft, Dairylea, Living Social, Hotels.com, APB Reloaded, TF1 and the NRJ Awards. Fanzy offers several tiers of service including fully white-labeled applications. White-labeled applications enable brands to reward fans for any online or offline action.

Boatbound

Seed Round in 2012
Boatbound is leading "pier-to-pier" boat rental marketplace. Now, over 13 million registered boat owners can offset their boat ownership costs by renting their boat to pre-screened, qualified renters on Boatbound. No experience is necessary, as many of our boats come equipped with Captains. Grab your friends, choose from all kinds of boats, and experience the water like never before. Boatbound is free to join and has no monthly or membership fees.

Younited

Series B in 2011
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

Kwarter

Seed Round in 2011
Kwarter is an interactive entertainment company that develops and publishes social mobile games, including Cards, Fancake, Fan Zone, Game On Football... They are made up of a diverse cast of characters who value teamwork, focus, coffee, and building things they can be proud of. They're channel surfers, gamers, thought leaders, world travelers, published writers, chefs, pilots, actors, and daredevils. During the week they come together to create innovative games.

Rewardli

Seed Round in 2011
Rewardli lets professionals and small business owners leverage the buying power in their social graph to get better deals and discounts on the products and services they buy. The company currently has "always-on" deals with over 60 national brands including Staples, FedEx Office, VistaPrint, GoDaddy, Expedia, Priceline and more. The percentage of money saved for a given user starts out at a base level and then increases as the members of their social graph are invited and start using the site.

DeckDAQ

Seed Round in 2011
DeckDAQ enables fans to collect and trade virtual goods of their favorite brands. By gamifying the world of ‘collectibles’, fans spend more time on the brand’s properties, collecting, trading and socializing with other fans who share the same passion for the brand. At the same time DeckDAQ helps brands monetize virtual goods by turning the brand’s existing digital assets (such as images) into valuable, collectable and tradable branded virtual goods.

Financetesetudes

Seed Round in 2011
Financetesetudes is a student loan broker, a company that mediates between students and banks. We ornanize a competition beetween the french banks in order to provide the best deals to the students. A loan is an investment for the future. In this sense it must be accessible to all and in the most effective and advantageous way possible. Launched in 2012 in France, Financetesetudes.com is the first online broker specialised in the Education market. Consequently, we bring a growing number of young clients to banks.

Younited

Seed Round in 2010
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

Leetchi

Seed Round in 2010
Founded in 2009 by Celine Lazorthes, Leetchi is a group payment application. Leetchi is an European service for online group money collection. Its easy and secure interface allows anyone to create a money pot and invite other participants with the aim to finance any type of project. With Leetchi money pot you can turn a projects into a reality from buying group gifts (for birthdays, leaving dos, weddings, baby showers etc.), organising events to supporting charitable causes and much more.
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