Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm that funds seed and early-stage technology startups globally, with a strong focus on Europe and France. The firm typically participates in rounds from seed to Series A, often as a lead investor, and aims to be a significant minority shareholder while co-investing with angels and other funds. It supports portfolio companies with a network of founders and experts to accelerate growth, speed fundraising, and help teams scale. Kima emphasizes rapid decision-making and founder-aligned support, viewing fundraising as one step in a broader journey. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Paris and maintains an office in London, reflecting its European reach and global activity, and it has backed hundreds of startups across multiple countries.

Jeanne Cluset

Associate

Xavier Niel

Investor

Alexis Robert

Partner

Jean de La Rochebrochard

Managing Partner

Past deals in Language Processing

PyannoteAI

Seed Round in 2025
Pyannote AI specializes in conversational speech technology, specifically offering a state-of-the-art speaker diarization platform. This platform employs artificial intelligence to analyze and segment multi-speaker audio conversations, enhancing transcription accuracy. It identifies individual speakers, removes silent sections, reduces background noise, and focuses on relevant audio parts. This enables businesses in customer support, sales, and internal communications to generate minutes, summaries, and follow-up actions efficiently.

Pruna AI

Seed Round in 2024
Pruna AI is a technology company that specializes in optimizing artificial intelligence models. Its core product is an AI optimization engine, designed to enhance the efficiency and scalability of machine learning models. This engine optimizes inference, execution kernels, and graph structures, enabling clients to deploy AI models faster, more cost-effectively, and sustainably across various applications like computer vision, natural language processing, and generative AI. Notably, Pruna AI's technology can be integrated locally in one line of code on any AI model and hardware, making it highly versatile and user-friendly.

Linkup

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Linkup is a technology company that develops an AI platform enabling large language models and AI agents to efficiently access, search, and interact with web content. This is achieved through APIs, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate web content into AI applications. The platform aims to create a digital infrastructure where AI agents can act as primary users, processing and interacting with the web in optimized ways, and providing clients with a specialized search engine that delivers content from premium sources, minimizing inaccuracies and hallucinations.

Composable Prompts

Seed Round in 2024
We aim to revolutionize the way applications interact with content. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT have fundamentally changed our interaction with textual data, we believe in taking a step further. Composable Prompts ensures that every business, regardless of its scale or domain, can leverage the native data processing capabilities of LLMs in the most efficient way possible. We've built the API Studio for LLMs, a comprehensive toolkit for designing, deploying, and operating business-specific APIs. Our suite offers a structured, domain-specific approach, shifting from rudimentary, text-based interactions to a world of structured, efficient, and integrated content processing. Our Core Offerings: Interaction Designer: Crafting intuitive prompt templates and robust data schemas. Prompt Assistance: Using LLMs to enhance prompt design and offer improvement suggestions. API Service: Seamlessly integrating LLMs into your applications and business processes. Cache Service: Ensuring optimal performance by intelligently storing and reusing Interaction Results. Collaboration & Optimization Tools: From sharing prompt segments to monitoring performance, we have developers covered.

Meilisearch

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Meilisearch develops an open-source search engine API platform. It offers fast, customizable searching and indexing capabilities, utilizing algorithms and natural language processing for relevant results.

Localize

Seed Round in 2015
Localize Corporation is a localization solution provider that specializes in translating websites and SaaS platforms. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Localize offers a no-code translation tool that allows businesses to easily translate their web applications, dashboards, and API documentation. Utilizing a JavaScript code solution, it automatically detects website content and loads it into a user-friendly dashboard, streamlining the workflow for translation and deployment. This efficient approach significantly reduces the time required to implement multilingual support, enabling companies to expand into new markets and enhance customer experiences around the world.

AmigoCAT

Seed Round in 2013
AmigoCAT is a technology startup developing an innovative computer-assisted translation tool designed for professionals. The company aims to enhance the translation process by incorporating user-friendly features into an online platform, catering specifically to translators' needs. AmigoCAT's tool leverages a vast global translation memory containing over 70 billion words across multiple languages, enabling real-time collaboration and compatibility with diverse file formats. Backed by Kima Ventures, AmigoCAT seeks to revolutionize the translation industry by offering a modern, efficient solution for its users.

Sparkup

Seed Round in 2012
Founded in 2009, Sparkup specializes in developing innovative educational devices. Its flagship product is a book-reading device designed for children, featuring proprietary visual recognition technology that reads books aloud in pre-recorded voices. Users can download professionally recorded audio files or record their own voices to enhance the reading experience.
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