Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures, established in 2010, is a Paris-based venture capital firm with an additional office in London. It specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing primarily on technology companies across Europe, with a particular emphasis on France. Kima Ventures invests up to €0.15 million initially, with follow-on investments ranging from €0.5 million to €5 million. The firm prefers to be a significant minority shareholder and often co-invests with business angels and venture funds. Kima Ventures is known for its active investment approach, backing 2-3 startups per week globally, and providing founders with funding, network, and operational support to drive growth. The firm, founded and backed by Xavier Niel, has invested in over 400 startups across 24 countries in the last five years.

Jeanne Cluset

VC Associate

Alexis Robert

Partner

Past deals in Digital Marketing

FullEnrich

Seed Round in 2025
FullEnrich is a business-to-business (B2B) data enrichment platform that specializes in finding and verifying contact information for leads. Its platform enables users to discover email addresses and phone numbers of prospects, offering features like waterfall enrichment and spreadsheet uploads. This allows businesses to create targeted lists and enhance their outreach efforts.

Fullwhere

Seed Round in 2024
Developer of a consumer response application designed to capture online customer feedback. The company's software helps businesses collect, centralize, analyze, distribute and automate opinions on all public or private platforms and existing channels, enabling clients to manage their online reputation, improve findability on search engines and achieve a customer-centric approach to their business.

MoSo

Seed Round in 2023
MoSo assists content creators in realizing their maximum potential and expanding their businesses on all social media channels.

MarketLeap

Seed Round in 2023
MarketLeap is an innovative company that is transforming the e-commerce landscape with its advanced operating system tailored for digitally native brands. Founded by former Amazon executives, MarketLeap addresses the challenges that brands face in maximizing their revenue on various e-commerce marketplaces. The company offers a comprehensive, AI-driven platform that simplifies the complexities of selling across multiple channels, allowing brands to expand their global presence with minimal time, effort, and investment. By leveraging automation and artificial intelligence, MarketLeap enables brands to efficiently scale their operations and navigate the fragmented e-commerce environment, fostering growth and success in the digital marketplace.

Abyssale

Seed Round in 2021
Abyssale is a company specializing in banner creation, offering a range of services designed to streamline and enhance the production process. Their platform automates the creation of banners, allowing users to generate designs quickly and efficiently. Key features include creative automation, hyper-personalization, workflow automation, and scalable design templates that ensure brand consistency. Additionally, Abyssale provides tools for video integration, HTML5 support, personalized images, editing capabilities, spreadsheet management, image forms, API integrations, QR code generation, A/B testing, and analytics to help clients optimize their banner campaigns. The company's services are aimed at enabling clients to produce a variety of banners with ease, fostering better collaboration and creative freedom.

Audion

Seed Round in 2019
Audion, founded in 2018 by Arthur Larrey and Kamel El Hadef in Paris, specializes in developing a proprietary platform designed to automate, customize, and measure digital audio marketing. Its technology enables podcast editors to dynamically insert advertisements tailored to the local context in real-time personalized audio advertising on podcasts.

Akeneo

Series C in 2019
Akeneo is a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) solutions, specializing in enhancing product information management (PIM) for merchants and brands. The company provides a platform that centralizes and harmonizes marketing and technical information for product listings, enabling retailers to deliver consistent and enriched experiences across various sales channels, including eCommerce, mobile, print, and retail points of sale. Akeneo's solutions improve the quality and accuracy of product data while simplifying the management of product catalogs. By offering validation workflows and data quality insights, Akeneo helps brands create meaningful connections with their customers.

PixelMe

Seed Round in 2018
PixelMe is a developer of a link management platform designed to enhance audience targeting for marketers. The platform allows users to incorporate retargeting pixels into every link shared across social media and other channels, facilitating the delivery of tailored advertisements on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Ads to individuals who engage with those links. This capability enables marketers to effectively track campaign performance and drive traffic to third-party platforms, while also fostering a deeper understanding of their audience's behavior. By sharing insights into its operations, PixelMe aims to provide transparency about its journey and the value it offers to its users.

Pricemoov

Seed Round in 2018
Pricemoov is a Paris-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in advanced price management and optimization solutions. Its online platform leverages data science and automation to analyze sales history and current bookings, providing insights into customer demand. By integrating seamlessly with existing information systems, Pricemoov collects and analyzes business data to forecast demand and determine optimal pricing strategies. The platform caters to both B2B and B2C businesses, helping them enhance their digital commerce operations and maximize revenue potential through intelligent pricing. With a focus on user experience, Pricemoov empowers sales teams to adapt to market dynamics effectively.

Visiblee

Seed Round in 2016
Visiblee Inc. is a lead generation company that specializes in identifying individual decision-makers who visit websites, thereby enhancing B2B conversion rates. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, Visiblee utilizes a script installed on client websites to gather information about visitors, including IP addresses, cookies, and metadata. This approach allows businesses to transform anonymous website visitors into qualified leads, ultimately supporting sales teams in their efforts to increase revenue. Visiblee's technology is developed by Salezeo, which operates additional offices in Paris, the UK, and Spain, further expanding its reach in the lead generation market.

Swipii

Seed Round in 2016
Swipii Labs Ltd., established in 2012 and headquartered in Glasgow, UK, operates a customer loyalty and marketing platform tailored for small businesses. The company offers tools to enhance online reviews, attract new customers, and track customer data. Its key services include digital loyalty programs, email marketing, and loyalty technology solutions, enabling customers to collect points and earn rewards. Swipii aims to empower local businesses with technology to compete on par with global brands, helping consumers discover local offers, save money, and share them with their community.

Zenchef

Series B in 2015
Zenchef is a digital marketing platform designed to support restaurants in enhancing their online presence across France, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Founded in 2010 and based in Paris, the company, formerly known as 1001 Menus SAS until its rebranding in 2015, offers a comprehensive suite of tools for restaurant owners. With over 7,000 clients in 15 countries, Zenchef provides an all-in-one solution that enables restaurateurs to manage their reservations, create websites, and digitalize menus without relying on intermediaries. The platform facilitates various aspects of customer experience management, including online reservations, digital payments via QR codes, customer reviews, and marketing campaigns, thus allowing restaurant owners to maintain their independence while improving customer engagement and loyalty.

TrafficAvenue

Seed Round in 2015
Traffic Avenue is a real-time advertising trading platform that utilizes Real-Time Bidding (RTB) standards, allowing advertisers and publishers to automate the buying and selling of traffic with precise targeting. The platform offers high-quality advertisements from various global brands and networks, enabling publishers to enhance their revenue by up to 80% by directing only the most valuable traffic through Traffic Avenue. Its proprietary algorithm evaluates each visitor in real time, providing publishers with the ability to fine-tune their offerings. For advertisers, Traffic Avenue delivers extensive audience engagement through innovative retargeting technology, which is currently patent pending. Overall, the platform facilitates a programmatic advertising exchange, empowering users to create and manage their campaigns effectively without the need to adjust their budgets.

haystagg

Seed Round in 2015
Haystagg, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in real-time bidding and predictive ad targeting solutions for display advertising. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, with an additional office in Europe, Haystagg focuses on helping marketers in sectors such as automotive, retail, and service providers effectively engage their target audiences online and on mobile devices. The company's platform employs advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze billions of ad impressions daily, optimizing bidding strategies to align with clients' marketing goals. Haystagg's innovative technology ensures continuous improvement and real-time adjustments, allowing for the delivery of highly targeted advertising campaigns.

Lucky Cart

Venture Round in 2015
Lucky Cart, established in 2010, is a Paris-based technology company that specializes in promotional campaign management for online retailers. It offers a platform that enables personalized promotions, optimizes promotional investments, and provides performance measurement. Lucky Cart's services, which include 'Promogaming' allowing customers a chance to win back their entire shopping cart, have been adopted by over 150 clients across Europe, including prominent retailers like Cdiscount, Intermarché, and The Body Shop. The company aims to enhance promotional campaign performance while reducing costs.

Vonjour

Seed Round in 2014
Vonjour, headquartered in Santa Monica, specializes in customer communication software. Its platform facilitates seamless, real-time interactions between businesses and customers via text messaging, enabling companies to manage inquiries efficiently and respond promptly with personalized support.

haystagg

Seed Round in 2014
Haystagg, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in real-time bidding and predictive ad targeting solutions for display advertising. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, with an additional office in Europe, Haystagg focuses on helping marketers in sectors such as automotive, retail, and service providers effectively engage their target audiences online and on mobile devices. The company's platform employs advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze billions of ad impressions daily, optimizing bidding strategies to align with clients' marketing goals. Haystagg's innovative technology ensures continuous improvement and real-time adjustments, allowing for the delivery of highly targeted advertising campaigns.

AdPushup

Angel Round in 2014
AdPushup is a New Delhi-based startup that specializes in online advertising revenue optimization. The company has developed a platform that enables web publishers and bloggers to create and test various ad placements, sizes, and types. This innovative A/B testing platform helps clients enhance advertisement viewability, effectively monetize visitors who use ad blockers, and gain actionable insights through comprehensive analytics. By leveraging these tools, AdPushup empowers its clients to maximize their advertising revenue and achieve optimal results from their advertising strategies.

Cursogram

Angel Round in 2014
Cursogram is an online training video platform that specializes in offering a diverse range of courses aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills across both technical and creative domains. The platform provides high-quality video courses in areas such as software development, professional design and editing, photography, audio production, business skills, and social media marketing. Cursogram's curriculum is designed to cater to learners of all ages, featuring instruction from experienced educators who are experts in their respective fields. By focusing on practical skills relevant to the business world, Cursogram enables users to effectively manage projects and leverage social networks, thereby fostering personal and professional growth.

MailLift

Seed Round in 2014
MailLift Inc., established in 2013 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, specializes in providing handwritten letter services for businesses. Its software enables companies in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia to automate personalized handwritten letters, enhancing customer engagement and retention. MailLift's platform offers customization options, including templates, recipient selection, and personalization, with each letter handwritten by a real person. The company also provides consulting services, such as copywriting classes and API integration setup. MailLift serves a diverse range of clients, including SaaS companies, Inc. 5000, and Fortune 500 enterprises, with over 1,000 businesses trusting its services.

FanBread

Convertible Note in 2014
FanBread is a technology company that transforms the way media brands are developed by offering solutions for content creation, distribution, and monetization. Founded in 2014 and based in Santa Monica, California, the company leverages data and predictive analytics to connect emerging media brands with suitable freelance content creators. This platform streamlines collaboration, enabling the production of high-quality original content tailored to specific audience needs. Through its innovative approach, FanBread aims to enhance the efficiency of media brand management in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

SalesFloor.it

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.

Rivalfox

Seed Round in 2014
Rivalfox is a company that specializes in providing competitive intelligence through its cloud-based digital platform. The platform continuously monitors competitors' activities and delivers comprehensive reports with actionable business insights. This SaaS solution automates the process of competitor tracking, replacing manual efforts with on-demand reports and analysis. By leveraging Rivalfox's tools, businesses can quickly understand which marketing tactics are most effective for their target audience in real-time, thereby enhancing sales strategies.

Smore

Seed Round in 2014
Smore is a company that offers an online platform designed for creating visually appealing newsletters and flyers. It provides users with built-in tools that facilitate the dissemination of information while ensuring effective communication. Smore's platform is tailored for a diverse range of clients, including educators, small businesses, nonprofits, and individuals, enabling them to enhance their online marketing capabilities. Users benefit from real-time performance statistics and features that promote social sharing, allowing them to measure the impact of their communications and achieve their business objectives effectively.

Shopistan

Seed Round in 2013
Shopistan is a provider of e-commerce services that aims to support retailers in Pakistan by offering a comprehensive omnichannel platform. This platform includes a cloud-based omni-channel engine that integrates offline, online, and mobile sales channels, allowing for real-time synchronization of inventory and sales across multiple physical locations and e-commerce platforms. Shopistan enables innovative commerce solutions such as click & collect and location-based deals while remaining compatible with various ERP and POS systems. Additionally, the company provides a digital wallet and a conversational commerce bot, facilitating brands in reaching global markets and enhancing customer engagement. By simplifying integration processes and focusing on an efficient technological framework, Shopistan empowers retailers to optimize their operations and drive revenue growth.

Pixalate

Series A in 2013
Pixalate, Inc. is a global intelligence platform specializing in fraud protection and data analytics for the advertising industry. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, the company provides a suite of solutions designed to combat various forms of advertising fraud, including cookie click fraud, domain masking, and device click fraud. Pixalate's offerings include network and campaign analytics, real-time campaign tracking, and a comprehensive rating system for programmatic advertising, which encompasses domain quality and seller quality ratings. The company also delivers threat intelligence services, hardware appliances for fraud prevention, and mobile seller rankings. Serving a diverse clientele that includes publishers, supply-side platforms, demand-side platforms, and advertising networks, Pixalate aims to enhance transparency and trust in programmatic advertising across multiple channels and devices.

Step-In

Seed Round in 2013
Step-In is a technology company that focuses on enhancing the retail experience through its innovative mobile-to-store solution. The company has developed a mobile application designed to reward customers upon entering participating retail locations. This functionality is facilitated by ultrasonic emitting devices strategically placed at store entrances and shelves, ensuring accurate tracking of customer presence. Step-In's platform aims to optimize client acquisition techniques, providing businesses with expert advice on diverse marketing strategies, including email marketing and social media campaigns. Through these offerings, Step-In helps retailers attract new customers and maximize the effectiveness of their outreach efforts.

NextUser

Seed Round in 2013
NextUser is a marketing technology company that develops an open marketing platform designed to unify disparate data sources and marketing tools. By integrating websites, mobile applications, and various marketing channels, NextUser enables businesses to create personalized marketing strategies that enhance customer engagement. The platform addresses critical challenges such as fragmented user information and the lack of a cohesive communication strategy across channels. It centralizes user data from internal databases, CRMs, email, and social media, allowing marketers to build comprehensive user profiles for both anonymous and identified visitors. This integration facilitates improved decision-making and strategic marketing automation, ultimately helping clients maximize their return on investment by effectively converting potential customers into actual ones.

Paper.li

Seed Round in 2013
Paper.li is a Personal Marketing SaaS platform that provides individuals and small businesses with a user-friendly marketing tool to enhance their digital presence. The service curates relevant content daily based on users' interests, which can be integrated into personal websites, shared on social media, or included in newsletters. Additionally, Paper.li offers resources and tips from marketing professionals to inspire users in creating original content. With a subscription model priced at $12.99 per month, the platform aims to empower users to manage their personal brand effectively, keeping them engaged with their audience across various channels.

Akeneo

Seed Round in 2013
Akeneo is a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) solutions, specializing in enhancing product information management (PIM) for merchants and brands. The company provides a platform that centralizes and harmonizes marketing and technical information for product listings, enabling retailers to deliver consistent and enriched experiences across various sales channels, including eCommerce, mobile, print, and retail points of sale. Akeneo's solutions improve the quality and accuracy of product data while simplifying the management of product catalogs. By offering validation workflows and data quality insights, Akeneo helps brands create meaningful connections with their customers.

Start A Fire

Seed Round in 2013
Start A Fire is a developer of a social attribution platform designed to enhance the online presence of individuals and brands. The platform allows users to promote their social media content seamlessly through the links they share. By simply signing up and connecting their social media management accounts, users can automate the process of including a branded badge and content recommendations with every shared link. This functionality not only helps in increasing brand visibility but also facilitates the discovery of relevant content, effectively boosting user engagement and reach across social platforms.

Leanplum

Angel Round in 2013
Leanplum Inc. is a mobile marketing platform that specializes in enhancing engagement for brands through a unified, multichannel approach. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, London, Bulgaria, and Amsterdam, Leanplum enables businesses to optimize their mobile applications and marketing efforts. The platform offers a range of services including messaging, automation, app editing, personalization, A/B testing, and analytics, allowing product teams to conduct real-time optimization tests and analyze results effectively. Renowned global brands such as Tinder, Grab, Tesco, and Zynga utilize Leanplum to orchestrate integrated campaigns that foster customer loyalty and drive growth. By transforming data into actionable insights, Leanplum helps companies understand user needs, delivering relevant experiences that enhance brand engagement and establish long-term customer relationships.

Pixalate

Seed Round in 2013
Pixalate, Inc. is a global intelligence platform specializing in fraud protection and data analytics for the advertising industry. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, the company provides a suite of solutions designed to combat various forms of advertising fraud, including cookie click fraud, domain masking, and device click fraud. Pixalate's offerings include network and campaign analytics, real-time campaign tracking, and a comprehensive rating system for programmatic advertising, which encompasses domain quality and seller quality ratings. The company also delivers threat intelligence services, hardware appliances for fraud prevention, and mobile seller rankings. Serving a diverse clientele that includes publishers, supply-side platforms, demand-side platforms, and advertising networks, Pixalate aims to enhance transparency and trust in programmatic advertising across multiple channels and devices.

Renaissance Factory

Seed Round in 2013
Renaissance Factory is a consulting firm that assists startups and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) in revitalizing or digitizing their businesses. They offer strategic guidance, helping clients define or refine their strategies, marketing approaches, and even facilitate pivots when necessary. Their approach combines analytical thinking with creative problem-solving to ensure practical solutions. Additionally, Renaissance Factory connects clients with a network of experienced entrepreneurs who can provide operational support and investment opportunities for collaborative projects.

Zenchef

Seed Round in 2012
Zenchef is a digital marketing platform designed to support restaurants in enhancing their online presence across France, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Founded in 2010 and based in Paris, the company, formerly known as 1001 Menus SAS until its rebranding in 2015, offers a comprehensive suite of tools for restaurant owners. With over 7,000 clients in 15 countries, Zenchef provides an all-in-one solution that enables restaurateurs to manage their reservations, create websites, and digitalize menus without relying on intermediaries. The platform facilitates various aspects of customer experience management, including online reservations, digital payments via QR codes, customer reviews, and marketing campaigns, thus allowing restaurant owners to maintain their independence while improving customer engagement and loyalty.

Shopping Mail

Seed Round in 2012
Shopping Mail, a Société par Actions Simplifiées founded in 2010 and based in Paris, France, specializes in internet advertising campaigns focused on online retail. The company has developed an online coupon exchange platform that facilitates the sharing of discount coupons among e-merchants through transactional emails. This platform creates a network of online retailers, allowing them to efficiently exchange coupons and enhance promotional efforts, ultimately benefiting both merchants and consumers.

DeckDAQ

Seed Round in 2011
DeckDAQ Ltd. is an online platform that allows fans to collect and trade virtual goods associated with their favorite brands. Founded in 2011 and based in Herzliya, Israel, the company connects fans to third-party games and brands' e-commerce shops while also facilitating interactions with the physical world through QR codes. By gamifying the collectible experience, DeckDAQ encourages fans to engage more deeply with brands, allowing them to collect, trade, and socialize with others who share their interests. The platform also assists brands in monetizing their digital assets, transforming existing images and content into valuable, collectible virtual goods.

Movable Ink

Series A in 2011
Movable Ink is a digital marketing service headquartered in New York City that specializes in transforming data into real-time, personalized content for customer engagements. Recognized as one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the United States, Movable Ink has received accolades from various organizations, including Inc. Magazine and Built In NYC, for its workplace culture and growth. With a workforce of over 600 employees, the company serves a global client base across North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Movable Ink's platform integrates seamlessly with existing marketing technologies, allowing clients to activate any relevant data and generate tailored content based on customer interactions. This capability enhances marketing performance by streamlining workflows and improving agility in campaign execution.

InfluAds

Seed Round in 2011
InfluAds is an cross-channel advertising network providing quality sites with quality audiences an disintermediated solution to promote an borderline obsession about Quality Ads and a better User Experience without Clutter.

IFrame Apps

Seed Round in 2011
Iframe Apps is a company that offers a platform of Facebook applications designed to help businesses engage with their audience and promote their brands effectively. Founded in May 2011, Iframe Apps specializes in providing third-party applications that enhance user interaction on social media. The company focuses on delivering tools that enable businesses to leverage the power of Facebook to reach and connect with fans while strengthening their online presence. Through its innovative solutions, Iframe Apps aims to facilitate business growth and customer engagement in the digital landscape.

Adyoulike

Pre Seed Round in 2011
Adyoulike is an omnichannel digital advertising marketplace that specializes in native advertising solutions. The company has developed an advanced platform that integrates advertisements directly into editorial content, providing a seamless advertising experience for users. By leveraging technology such as artificial intelligence and semantic targeting, Adyoulike enables clients to access high-quality ads tailored to their specific needs. The platform offers unique ad formats and bespoke services, helping clients optimize their advertising strategies and achieve desired outcomes. Adyoulike connects top-tier media with innovative advertising approaches, positioning itself as a leader in the digital advertising space.

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.

Captalis

Seed Round in 2009
Captalis Brasil Ltda. is a financial service company based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that operates a network of online portals designed for users to search for information on financial products. The company focuses on connecting banks and insurance companies with potential clients through targeted online marketing campaigns, facilitating client acquisition in the digital sphere. By leveraging its expertise in online marketing, Captalis aims to enhance the visibility and outreach of financial institutions, ultimately driving business growth for its partners.
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