Side Capital

SIDE supports ambitious founders of startups tech & digital are the first stage in their history. SIDE acts as sole investor in seed rounds from 300 K € to 600 K €. SIDE offers fair and equitable deals in a fast and agile approach to the founders.

Renaud Guillerm

Managing Partner

55 past transactions

PayLead

Private Placement in 2018
Paylead SAS operates as a financial technology company. It owns and operates an online platform allows financial institutions to provide merchant funded offers to their online customers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bordeaux, France.

Hubware

Private Placement in 2018
Hubware’s “Professional Assistance as a Service” platform uses machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to help customer service teams train bots to do specific customer service tasks simply and quickly. Hubware provides the full-stack tech solution to remove the complexity of deploying artificial intelligence. Moreover, the hands-on client teams control the assistant's tasks learning process. By creating the human/professional assistant “dream team”, companies are able to drive productivity gains and offer premium customer service.

Welyb

Seed Round in 2021
Bien plus qu'un service d'automatisation comptable, Welyb est la première solution intelligente et collaborative entièrement dévolue aux experts-comptables. La mission de la start-up est de les suivre dans leur transformation digitale et de faciliter ce processus en leur proposant un espace en ligne qui permet de regrouper l’ensemble des informations et outils nécessaires à la gestion de leurs dossiers clients. La solution souhaite répondre à tous les besoins des professionnels du chiffre pour les aider à vaincre les ubérisateurs de la comptabilité.

Adrenalead

Private Placement in 2020
Adrenalead SAS provides digital marketing services. It offers audience retargeting and audience extension. The company offers digital platform solutions, including web push commerce, e-commerce and retail, and publishers and media. It offers integration, segmentation, personalization, planning, automating, geomarketing, statistical tools, behavioral targeting, predictive targeting, and CRM onboarding. Adrenalead SAS was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Lyon, France.

PayLead

Series A in 2020
Paylead SAS operates as a financial technology company. It owns and operates an online platform allows financial institutions to provide merchant funded offers to their online customers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bordeaux, France.

JulieDesk

Seed Round in 2016
Julie Desk is a virtual assistant that uses artificial intelligence to schedule meetings and appointments of a user. It allows users to schedule, cancel, and create events, and send invitations via e-mail. It also enables them to set working hours, appointment types, preferred addresses, and more. Julie Desk was launched in October 2014.

Weglot

Seed Round in 2017
Weglot SAS provides a solution to translate API that integrates into website and delivers it in various languages. It creates, develops, sells, manages, presents, and delivers an online translation solution. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Paris, France.

Groupcorner

Venture Round in 2016
Groupcorner is the first European site that allows all types of groups to find the ideal accommodation. Present in 30 countries, this service combining technology and human support, is aimed at businesses as well as associations, travel agencies and individuals. The simple and intuitive platform allows you to book accommodation for groups needing more than 10 rooms. Today Groupcorner already offers more than 11,500 listed accommodations in Europe, from the most luxurious to the most economical. This extended offer makes it possible to find a tailor-made solution, adapted to each request, even complex. The service responds to group requests as well as hotel needs, rarely structured to meet a broad target.

Zest HACCP

Venture Round in 2018
Zest HACCP helps food professionals, especially supermarkets, to manage the use-by dates and to comply with European health standards. The solution is already deployed throughout France with over 1200 active licenses. Large food groups use it daily: Intermarché, Netto, Carrefour, Eurasia, Monblanc, Korian, etc.

Groupcorner

Series A in 2018
Groupcorner is the first European site that allows all types of groups to find the ideal accommodation. Present in 30 countries, this service combining technology and human support, is aimed at businesses as well as associations, travel agencies and individuals. The simple and intuitive platform allows you to book accommodation for groups needing more than 10 rooms. Today Groupcorner already offers more than 11,500 listed accommodations in Europe, from the most luxurious to the most economical. This extended offer makes it possible to find a tailor-made solution, adapted to each request, even complex. The service responds to group requests as well as hotel needs, rarely structured to meet a broad target.

SAS AGAH

Private Placement in 2018
SAS AGAH operates an online platform for booking hotels in France. The company connects hotels with people looking for a group accommodation for business events and seminars, associations, school or student trips, sport teams, incentives, music groups, family or friends gathering, and sightseeing. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in St Bonnet De Joux, France.

Emprunte Mon Toutou

Private Placement in 2019
Emprunte Mon Toutou SAS develops and operates a platform that enables dog owners connect with dog lovers who want to take care of the dog. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Monstock

Series A in 2020
Monstock is a mobile solution for inventory and flow management. Monstock is a mobile application for quick and easy stock management, helping companies to digitalise without hassle and at a rate consistent with their means.

Fingertips

Venture Round in 2017
Fingertips provides is an entire ecosystem to enhance the quality of life of the elderly or people with disabilities. Their objective is to allow these persons to choose home-care instead of hospital stays, and to provide comfort, safety and social interactions to them. Simultaneously, they reduce the costs by eleminating the unnecessary hospital stays.

It's My Car

Private Placement in 2018
It's My Car SAS, through its platform, carries out advertising campaigns. It offers motorist to choose the campaigns and stick the sticker on the vehicle. Further the company also pays in cash, vouchers, or branded products to the brand ambassadors. It's My Car SAS was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Vincennes, France.

Extracadabra

Private Placement in 2019
Extracadabra offers Restaurateurs and Hoteliers a free application allowing them to find almost instantaneously an employee (cook, waiter, maid ...) for a few hours, a few days or in CDD / CDI.

Sportbudiz CO SAS

Private Placement in 2020
Sportbudiz CO SAS develops a mobile application for booking sports and lifestyle activities. The company offers ActivCorner, which allows the employees to book yoga, cross training, reflexology, boxing, fitness, massage, skydiving, cardio training, sports, free fall, body care, and pilates activities. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Paris, France.

wenabi

Seed Round in 2019
Wenabi is a platform as a means to promote volunteer work at companies. It is a SaaS platform enabling companies and their employees to have a positive impact on the world. Wenabi was launched at the beginning of 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

Adrenalead

Seed Round in 2020
Adrenalead SAS provides digital marketing services. It offers audience retargeting and audience extension. The company offers digital platform solutions, including web push commerce, e-commerce and retail, and publishers and media. It offers integration, segmentation, personalization, planning, automating, geomarketing, statistical tools, behavioral targeting, predictive targeting, and CRM onboarding. Adrenalead SAS was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Lyon, France.

LiveTonight

Venture Round in 2022
LiveTonight is the referencing platform for live music events and DJ sets in bars.

Agilitest

Seed Round in 2021
Featuring a unique approach to functional test automation, Agilitest offers a comprehensive view on the quality of software at all times – on web, desktop, mobile and webservice technologies alike. In a context where Agile teams and DevOps integration are becoming the norm, Agilitest provides all software testers – whether they have a technical background or not – with an intuitive and robust way to create, maintain and execute automated functional tests.

Potions

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of data analysis solutions designed to boost e-commerce website revenue. The company uses edge computing technology to analyze the behavior of users to offer them a personalized experience without cookies, enabling clients to optimize their conversion rate, average basket, and acquisition cost.

My Auto Specialist

Seed Round in 2018
My Auto Specialist is a used home inspection service that aims to help automotive market professionals in their digital transition. According to a TNS SOFRES survey, 38% of French people will buy their vehicle online by 2020 and 60% of them want a return to their old car. By helping to control the cost of refurbishing the vehicle without moving the customer, My Car Specialist offers automotive professionals an indispensable solution to their successful digital transition.

Monstock

Private Placement in 2020
Monstock is a mobile solution for inventory and flow management. Monstock is a mobile application for quick and easy stock management, helping companies to digitalise without hassle and at a rate consistent with their means.

TeamBrain

Private Placement in 2018
TeamBrain develops an artificial intelligence based knowledge platform. The company provides an online platform that enables users to ask and answer questions. It can be used for sourcing product information, customer relationship management, project management, staff training, and client support. TeamBrain was founded in 2013 and is based in Paris, France.

ActivCorner

Venture Round in 2020
ActivCorner is a Parisian start-up that provides 360 ° support to companies of all sizes in their wellness, sport, health and cohesion initiatives for their teams. We offer an innovative and comprehensive solution, with flexible, scalable and adaptable support with the real intention of improving the Quality of Life at Work by offering a modular turnkey service. The concept is simple: create a framework that is simple to adopt, easy to deploy, having a real impact on the teams, their cohesion and with real follow-up on their health. We create solutions adapted to each company, from the large group, to co-working spaces, to start-ups. We derive our satisfaction from knowing that if we are successful, people will be healthier, more fulfilled.

wenabi

Private Placement in 2019
Wenabi is a platform as a means to promote volunteer work at companies. It is a SaaS platform enabling companies and their employees to have a positive impact on the world. Wenabi was launched at the beginning of 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

JulieDesk

Venture Round in 2017
Julie Desk is a virtual assistant that uses artificial intelligence to schedule meetings and appointments of a user. It allows users to schedule, cancel, and create events, and send invitations via e-mail. It also enables them to set working hours, appointment types, preferred addresses, and more. Julie Desk was launched in October 2014.

KOBUS SAS

Private Placement in 2019
KOBUS SAS develops and manufactures chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment used for research and development, pilot and manufacturing of semiconductor, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and photovoltaic devices. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France. As of April 4, 2018, KOBUS SAS operates as a subsidiary of Plasma-Therm LLC.

LiveTonight

Private Placement in 2020
LiveTonight is the referencing platform for live music events and DJ sets in bars.

Hubware

Seed Round in 2018
Hubware’s “Professional Assistance as a Service” platform uses machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to help customer service teams train bots to do specific customer service tasks simply and quickly. Hubware provides the full-stack tech solution to remove the complexity of deploying artificial intelligence. Moreover, the hands-on client teams control the assistant's tasks learning process. By creating the human/professional assistant “dream team”, companies are able to drive productivity gains and offer premium customer service.

Next stop

Seed Round in 2017
Next Stop is a collaborative platform for tailor-made trips.

Extracadabra

Private Placement in 2018
Extracadabra offers Restaurateurs and Hoteliers a free application allowing them to find almost instantaneously an employee (cook, waiter, maid ...) for a few hours, a few days or in CDD / CDI.

LiveTonight

Seed Round in 2020
LiveTonight is the referencing platform for live music events and DJ sets in bars.

Message In a Window

Seed Round in 2017
Message In A Window is a platform for organizing communication campaigns in shop windows, hotels and restaurants. The platform now offers more than 20,000 shop windows and has many Pernod-Ricard customers in Casio. The promise lies in the ability for brands to perfectly target businesses that will host their campaign thanks to an advanced search engine, of course to mount their campaigns in windows in 5 minutes from the platform (MW manages everything), and benefit from metrics unprecedented performance in offline. The positive effects for the brands are massive: qualified mass audience, generation of new commercial establishments, sales acceleration, etc. In short, a mini-revolution at the border of the media and retail.

Extracadabra

Venture Round in 2018
Extracadabra offers Restaurateurs and Hoteliers a free application allowing them to find almost instantaneously an employee (cook, waiter, maid ...) for a few hours, a few days or in CDD / CDI.

Kazaden

Seed Round in 2016
It's not easy to find activities and sports trips on the internet: a multitude of websites, scattered information, no direct booking online ... all the difficulties that make the preparation of stays and sports activities much less exciting! Launched at the end of 2014, Kazaden selects professionals from all over France who are handpicked to accompany outdoor sports enthusiasts (beginners or experienced) who want to experience new sports experiences in the mountains, at sea or in the air.

Demooz

Seed Round in 2017
Demooz lets you try a product in real conditions with a customer who owns the product you want to buy. Make your own review and share with a real final customer. Every time you want to buy an expansive product online, you need to be sure that the product will fit your needs. Why should you go to the store to see or try it ? Your neighbor has it !

PayLead

Seed Round in 2018
Paylead SAS operates as a financial technology company. It owns and operates an online platform allows financial institutions to provide merchant funded offers to their online customers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bordeaux, France.

MonSpecialisteAuto.com, SAS

Private Placement in 2018
MonSpecialisteAuto.com, SAS develops and provides an online platform for connecting individuals and professionals for buying and selling used vehicles. The company allows users to check the condition of vehicles and advise on the purchase of vehicle as per market price. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Puteaux, France.

Regaind

Seed Round in 2016
Regaind, SAS engages in sorting pictures. The company’s activities include reviewing, tagging, and rating images on various criteria. It offers its services worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Paris, France. As of March 31, 2017, Regaind, SAS operates as a subsidiary of Apple Inc..

SAS Happiness Project

Private Placement in 2018
SAS Happiness Project provides solutions to increase the productivity of employee of an organization in real time through a quiz. The head of the team sends quizzes to the required employee, after the employee has answered the questions on a secured server, the company then analysis the answers and sends aggregated results to the manager or the head of the team. Additionally, it also engages in providing coaching and advisory services at the end of the quiz. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Paris, France.

TeamBrain

Seed Round in 2018
TeamBrain develops an artificial intelligence based knowledge platform. The company provides an online platform that enables users to ask and answer questions. It can be used for sourcing product information, customer relationship management, project management, staff training, and client support.

Archidvisor

Private Placement in 2018
Archidvisor, SAS develops and operates platform for project developers and architects. atform allows individuals and professionals to compare architects to choose the professional best suited to their needs. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bordeaux, France.

Archidvisor

Venture Round in 2018
Archidvisor, SAS develops and operates platform for project developers and architects. atform allows individuals and professionals to compare architects to choose the professional best suited to their needs. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bordeaux, France.

Elqano

Seed Round in 2022
The story behind Elqano starts in a Coffee Conversation between two young professionals that wanted to shape the future of knowledge management. Yann and Guillermo were tired of spending half of their day looking for information stored in disorganized folders or overwhelmed email inboxes so they came out with a holistic platform that makes the right knowledge find straight away the right people.