Limousin Participations

Limousin Participations is an investment vehicle managed by SOFIMAC Partners, focusing on investing in companies within the life sciences, energy, media, distribution, and services sectors in the New Aquitaine region of France. The firm specializes in seed and start-up investments, early, mid-venture, late venture, emerging growth, growth capital, and buy-outs, with a preference for industrial services and biotechnology industries. Limousin Participations typically invests up to €0.5 million per transaction in partnership with other investors, acquiring minority stakes up to 40 percent through equity and quasi-equity investments. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Limoges, France, the firm aims to exit its investments within five to seven years.

11 past transactions

SMUGGLER

Venture Round in 2014
SMUGGLER is an entertainment company providing commercial and music production services.

Cerinnov

Venture Round in 2011
Cerinnov is a specialist in innovative solutions for the production of production equipment.With numerous worldwide patents, CERINNOV bases its development on a human, flexible and innovative team and spreads more and more internationally. CERINNOV is at the forefront of technological change through constant investment in innovation and associates with your economic performance in a sustainable way. Actor of the European Pole of Ceramics (Pole of Competitiveness), the company puts at your service the competences and the scientific support of the laboratories and centers of transfer. CERINNOV's key know-how and their applications in cross-functional areas ensure a personalized, flexible and sustainable solution for each of your projects. In March 2017 CERINNOV acquired Ceramifor. With a know-how of more than 30 years and with almost 80% of market share in Portugal, Ceramifor has delivered since its origin more than 5,000 ovens around the world. The company addresses a variety of sectors including the arts of the table, sanitary or technical ceramics.

SNAPP'

Seed Round in 2008
Specialized in mobile app development, Snapp’ provides packaged m-Commerce and m-Loyalty solutions to retailers and around-the-corner shops. FidMe mWallet - Snapp’ provides the first mobile wallet solution in the world embedding big-box retailer barcode loyalty cards and around-the-corner shop stamp cards. Already used by 1.5 million consumers, FidMeTM is available in 19 languages on every mobile OS and includes 4,900 loyalty programs in 80 countries. FidMe won 9 awards since 2012

Blue Valet

Venture Round in 2018
Blue Valet, SAS provides online valet booking services at airports and train stations in France. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mérignac, France.

Goomeo

Angel Round in 2011
Goomeo develops and provides web floor plans and event mobile applications for organizers.Its main product, GoomeoEvents, is a web platform, which allows professional organizers, to create themselves, in quick and easy way,multi-platform mobile apps, dedicated to their events. It’s an all in one plug&play solution. You just have to input your data once to get your event’s application, available on iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone.

Leukos

Venture Round in 2013
Leukos is a company born from XLIM research institute, a mixed research unit (UMR 7252) from the French CNRS and the University of Limoges, France. The company was founded by pioneers of supercontinuum generation to develop brand new compact supercontinuum lasers based on their expertise in nonlinear optics.Leukos has extended its technological know-how by acquiring HORUS LASER, a French company with expertise in sub-nanosecond microchip lasers.

Innovative Energy

Venture Round in 2013
Innovative Energy produces power based on renewable biomass resources. It is is committed to large-scale production of renewable biomass resources using environmentally friendly and sustainable production and conversion systems.Innovative Energy also involves in wind turbine manufacturing, wind farm development, air cargo, infrastructure projects, logistics and supply chain, and real estate businesses. It is based in Limoges, France.

Glycode

Series B in 2010
Glycode SAS, a biotechnology company, operates in the field of protein glycosylation in France. It provides and licenses GlycodExpress, a yeast based technological platform for the production of recombinant therapeutic glycoproteins for therapeutic purposes, such as antibodies, EPOs, and growth factors, as well as allows humanization of N-glycosylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The company also offers on-demand production and purification services, from the conception and synthesis of optimized expression vectors for protein expression in glycoengineered yeasts to the early steps of production process. Glycode SAS serves biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Uzerche, France.

Sanilea

Venture Round in 2015
SARL Sanilea develops healthcare application software. Its platform provides health establishments, transport professionals, and patients. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Limoges, France.

LOGIDOC-Solutions

Series A in 2008
LOGIDOC-Solutions, publisher french software, designs and markets innovative solutions since 2005 adopted in all sectors (banking, insurance, government, industry). The software that they design enables users to manage all outgoing mail from their workstation, without changing habits, improving productivity and reducing the direct and indirect costs.

Kamax

Venture Round in 2018
SAS KAMAX Innovative System develops polarimetric scanners for histological slides. It offers K-probe, a polarimetric scanner for histological slides that is used to evaluate certain optical properties of fibers. The company also provides software and customized services. Its products are used by companies, hospitals, clinical laboratories, and research laboratories in cosmetic, health, and materials applications. SAS KAMAX Innovative System was founded in 2013 and is based in Limoges, France.