Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2010, known for its active engagement in early-stage investments. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage companies, primarily focusing on the technology sector while also exploring a diverse range of other industries such as e-commerce, health, and fintech. Kima Ventures typically invests between €0.15 million and €5 million in its portfolio companies, often as a significant minority shareholder. The firm emphasizes collaboration, frequently co-investing alongside business angels and other venture capital funds. With a commitment to supporting ambitious founders, Kima Ventures aims to streamline the fundraising process, enabling entrepreneurs to concentrate on growth and execution. Over the past five years, Kima Ventures has invested in over 400 startups across 24 countries, establishing a reputation as one of the world's most active early-stage investors. The firm operates from its headquarters in Paris and maintains an additional office in London.

Jeanne Cluset

VC Associate

Xavier Niel

Founder

Alexis Robert

Partner

Past deals in Recruiting

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.

Reflect

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Reflect develops a HR tech software that integrates with users' HRIS systems, retrieves and cleans the data, and generates automated dashboards and indicators. Access best-in-class historicized KPIs, dig deep into your data and give visibility and transparency to all in a business intelligence tool that can be used without any technical knowledge.

Napta

Series A in 2022
PickYourSkills is a SaaS solution helping companies to find the best match between their projects and their employees.

Circular

Series A in 2022
Circular is an online community based in Madrid, Spain, that facilitates connections between startups and qualified candidates. The platform enables startups to refer candidates they did not hire to other companies within the community, thereby streamlining the recruitment process and reducing costs. In addition to this referral system, Circular allows individuals to search for employment opportunities across various capacities, helping them find suitable positions within the startup ecosystem. Formerly known as The Hiring Circle, Circular aims to enhance the efficiency of hiring by leveraging community resources.

Unlock

Seed Round in 2021
Unlock is a video-based platform that specializes in enhancing talent engagement through a comprehensive human resource management system. The platform consolidates candidate data from various sources, allowing companies to streamline their hiring processes. By providing analytics and suggesting effective strategies, Unlock helps organizations nurture relationships with prospective applicants, ultimately reducing the time and cost associated with recruitment. The unique experiences offered by Unlock aim to improve team dynamics and foster a more engaging work environment.

LaPieza

Seed Round in 2021
LaPieza.io is the first intelligent HR platform (ATS) specialized in eliminating recruitment biases to help companies recruit better.

Oyster

Seed Round in 2020
Oyster is a software-based employment platform that addresses the challenges of international hiring. Founded in 2019, the company aims to simplify the process of hiring and managing a global workforce. Its platform allows businesses to hire talent from anywhere in the world while ensuring compliance with local payroll regulations and providing competitive benefits. By removing barriers to employment, Oyster facilitates access to full-time job opportunities for individuals globally, promoting a more inclusive workforce. The company's mission is to transform the traditional hiring model, making it easier for companies to connect with skilled professionals, regardless of their geographical location.

Napta

Seed Round in 2019
PickYourSkills is a SaaS solution helping companies to find the best match between their projects and their employees.

Joinery

Seed Round in 2018
Joinery is an online apartment renting platform designed to facilitate direct connections between apartment seekers and outgoing tenants, bypassing traditional brokers. By enabling a peer-to-peer rental experience, Joinery allows prospective tenants to find available homes directly from those who are vacating, streamlining the rental process. This approach not only simplifies the search for housing but also fosters a more personal and direct exchange of information between tenants.

Joinery

Seed Round in 2018
Joinery is an online apartment renting platform designed to facilitate direct connections between apartment seekers and outgoing tenants, bypassing traditional brokers. By enabling a peer-to-peer rental experience, Joinery allows prospective tenants to find available homes directly from those who are vacating, streamlining the rental process. This approach not only simplifies the search for housing but also fosters a more personal and direct exchange of information between tenants.

Welcome to the Jungle

Series A in 2018
Welcome to the Jungle is a multi-channel media company focused on empowering individuals to enhance their professional lives. The company offers a diverse range of high-quality content, including articles, videos, podcasts, and events, aimed at helping young professionals re-evaluate their relationship with work. In addition, Welcome to the Jungle operates a comprehensive website featuring over 3,300 detailed company profiles that provide valuable job search information, such as employee statistics, gender distribution, and average age. This platform serves as an innovative job board, specifically catering to small and medium-sized enterprises, thereby facilitating meaningful connections between job seekers and potential employers.

HireSweet

Venture Round in 2017
HireSweet SAS is a Paris-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence software designed to enhance the recruitment of software engineers. Established in 2016, the company offers a solution that scans various technical platforms, including GitHub and Stack Overflow, to identify qualified developers. By processing unstructured data such as profile descriptions, HireSweet categorizes candidates based on their skills, project experience, and adaptability, enabling companies to make informed hiring decisions. Its clientele includes notable organizations like Doctrine, eFounders, Deezer, Nokia Health, Sqreen, and CallDesk. Through its innovative approach, HireSweet empowers tech companies to regain control of their hiring processes and effectively connect with top engineering talent.

Comet

Seed Round in 2017
Comet SAS operates an online platform that connects technology and data freelancers with companies seeking their expertise. Founded in 2016 and based in Paris, France, the platform utilizes advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to evaluate and match freelancers to organizational needs effectively. Comet aims to provide a beneficial experience for both freelancers and companies, ensuring that businesses have access to the required skills while offering freelancers engaging projects with a sense of security. By fostering an interactive community of skilled professionals, Comet enhances the recruitment process in the tech and data sectors.

Upcall

Seed Round in 2017
Upcall, Inc. is a company that specializes in an outbound calling platform designed for business professionals, non-profits, and individuals worldwide. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, with a headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Upcall provides tools and services that help companies acquire, qualify, engage, and retain customers through effective phone calls. The platform offers 24/7 access to thousands of vetted callers, call campaign management tools such as script templates and analytics, and seamless integrations with existing workflows like Slack and Salesforce. Upcall's services enhance lead generation and customer engagement by enabling real-time communication, performance tracking, and budget monitoring, thus helping businesses optimize their outbound calling efforts. The company is also recognized for its participation in the esteemed Y Combinator accelerator program.

Andjaro

Seed Round in 2017
Andjaro is a software platform designed to enhance workforce management in medium and large organizations, particularly those with operations across multiple locations. The platform facilitates the mapping, reallocation, and load balancing of internal staff, enabling companies to utilize available and willing employees from different sites instead of relying on costly temporary or fixed-term contract workers. This approach not only reduces expenses significantly, with clients reportedly saving over €15 million, but also allows employees to gain experience in various parts of the organization through temporary relocations. By providing comprehensive visibility into available resources, Andjaro helps managers address staffing gaps, absences, or overstaffing efficiently, fostering a more interconnected and satisfied workforce. The platform has successfully facilitated over 120,000 staff movements to date.

Reelevant

Seed Round in 2016
Reelevant SAS, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in live email intelligence technology. The company addresses the limitations of traditional email marketing, which often results in irrelevant messages that fail to engage recipients. By analyzing the context and behavior of each email opener, Reelevant delivers real-time, personalized content that resonates with individual preferences and intent. This innovative approach allows for the automatic generation of "on-demand" content at the moment an email is opened, transforming the email experience into one that is more engaging and relevant. Reelevant positions itself as a pioneer in creating unexpected and meaningful interactions within the inbox, aiming to redefine how marketing messages are perceived and received.

Radius Agent

Seed Round in 2015
Radius Agent is a tech platform built to empower real estate agents to run their businesses more effectively and increase their earnings. Products include a referral marketplace of over 70,000 members real estate agents; Radius Assist, a lead qualification concierge and Radius Agent Realty, a virtual brokerage offering. Radius Agent is funded by AngelPad, NFX, Sierra Ventures, Cota Capital, Innospring, Kima Ventures and some great angel investors.

CodersClan

Seed Round in 2015
CodersClan is a community-driven marketplace for getting code tasks done: making software outsourcing easy. CodersClan provides clients with an easy and streamlined process for their software development needs minimising any outsourcing overhead that exists today. Their goal is to make code outsourcing as seamless as possible for both customers and coders and effectively turn it from an occasional chore to a day-to-day frequent process. CodersClan community is thousands of developers strong, consisting of top Stack Overflow and GitHub coders.

CodersClan

Seed Round in 2014
CodersClan is a community-driven marketplace for getting code tasks done: making software outsourcing easy. CodersClan provides clients with an easy and streamlined process for their software development needs minimising any outsourcing overhead that exists today. Their goal is to make code outsourcing as seamless as possible for both customers and coders and effectively turn it from an occasional chore to a day-to-day frequent process. CodersClan community is thousands of developers strong, consisting of top Stack Overflow and GitHub coders.

Marquee

Seed Round in 2014
They are on a mission to empower marketing professionals to efficiently connect with their clients and colleagues, organize their jobs and scale their business. We do the heavy lifting so they can focus on what they do best. Together they form the strongest, biggest and most influential marketing group in the world and help the passionate ones fulfill their dreams.

Rivalfox

Seed Round in 2014
Rivalfox is a developer of a cloud-based digital competitive intelligence platform that focuses on enhancing sales strategies. The platform continuously monitors competitors' activities and delivers comprehensive reports that include actionable business intelligence and real-time analysis. By automating the competitor tracking process, Rivalfox provides marketers with immediate insights into effective marketing tactics, allowing them to quickly understand which strategies resonate with their target audience. This streamlined approach replaces the tedious manual tracking methods traditionally used, enabling businesses to make informed decisions based on up-to-date competitive data.

Immediately

Seed Round in 2013
Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce. Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, to sending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows. We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

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.

Assured Labor

Series A in 2013
Assured Labor, Inc. is a mobile recruitment company that connects employers with mid-to-low wage candidates through a user-friendly platform. Established in 2008, the company operates primarily in emerging markets where many users access the internet infrequently, but nearly everyone owns a mobile phone. Assured Labor's platform allows employers to post job descriptions online, while candidates can register to receive text messages about local job opportunities for which they are qualified. The company has successfully attracted a significant user base, with around 500,000 candidates and 16,000 employers, and its brands, EmpleoListo in Mexico and TrabalhoJá in Brazil, are experiencing rapid growth. By enhancing efficiency and transparency in labor markets, Assured Labor contributes to social and economic development in the regions it serves.

HireAthena

Seed Round in 2012
HireAthena, formerly known as BackOps, is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 that specializes in providing integrated accounting and HR services to startups, non-profit organizations, and small to medium-sized businesses. The company offers a comprehensive suite of back-office support, including payroll management, benefits administration, 401(k) plans, bookkeeping, tax services, and monthly financial reporting. By leveraging remote talent and advanced workflow software, HireAthena enables businesses to access these services in a streamlined, paperless environment, allowing entrepreneurs to concentrate on product development and customer engagement. The company's focus is on delivering efficient, on-demand support to enhance operational capabilities for its clients.

Whitetruffle

Seed Round in 2012
Whitetruffle, Inc. is a talent sourcing platform founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in matching technology that connects candidates with suitable job opportunities using advanced machine learning algorithms. Candidates can create profiles and receive notifications when companies express interest, while companies can post job openings, review candidate matches, and initiate contact. Whitetruffle's name reflects the concept of "white truffle hunting," likening the search for the ideal candidate to the pursuit of the rare and valuable white truffle found in specific regions of Italy and France. The platform aims to simplify the recruitment process by eliminating the need for extensive database searches and cold calling, thus providing a more efficient way for tech talent to find their ideal jobs.

organgir.am

Seed Round in 2010
Buid online directory : import from Google Apps for business, from spreadsheet or add people manually. Fit for companies from 20 people to 10 000. Draw org charts : easy to create, share and update. organigr.am is the perfect tool for knowing who's who in your company.

Assured Labor

Seed Round in 2010
Assured Labor, Inc. is a mobile recruitment company that connects employers with mid-to-low wage candidates through a user-friendly platform. Established in 2008, the company operates primarily in emerging markets where many users access the internet infrequently, but nearly everyone owns a mobile phone. Assured Labor's platform allows employers to post job descriptions online, while candidates can register to receive text messages about local job opportunities for which they are qualified. The company has successfully attracted a significant user base, with around 500,000 candidates and 16,000 employers, and its brands, EmpleoListo in Mexico and TrabalhoJá in Brazil, are experiencing rapid growth. By enhancing efficiency and transparency in labor markets, Assured Labor contributes to social and economic development in the regions it serves.
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