Top 35 Android Startup Investors in France in October 2023
Top 35 Android Startup Investors in France in October 2023
| Investor | Android France investments |
|---|---|
| Xavier Niel | 4 |
| Jean-David Blanc | 2 |
| Kima Ventures | 2 |
| Griffin Gaming Partners | 2 |
| HCVC | 2 |
| Charles-Henri Prevost | 1 |
| Angelsquare | 1 |
| Solomon Hykes | 1 |
| Jaina Capital | 1 |
| Lerer Hippeau | 1 |
| KREAXI | 1 |
| Newfund | 1 |
| Tony Jamous | 1 |
| A Plus Finance | 1 |
| Turenne Capital | 1 |
| Naxicap Partners | 1 |
| Idinvest Partners | 1 |
| Paca Investissement | 1 |
| Galia Gestion | 1 |
| Romain Cottard | 1 |
| Aquitaine Creation | 1 |
| Alto Invest | 1 |
| Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
| Limousin Participations | 1 |
| Sebastien Romelot | 1 |
| Daniel Marhely | 1 |
| Maxime Prades | 1 |
| Finapère Capital | 1 |
| Educapital | 1 |
| Olivier Thomas | 1 |
| OneRagtime | 1 |
| Niji | 1 |
| ACI | 1 |
| NJJ Capital | 1 |
| SEB Alliance | 1 |
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Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
- Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
Jean-David has always been a tremendous entrepreneur since he started his first company at the age of 16. At that time, he created an interactive service company (Concerto Telematique) for brands such as Coca Cola, Marlboro or Renault. In 1993, he created AlloCine, an internet multimedia movie guide service which rapidly became France #1destination for movies, cinema and entertainment and one of France’s most famous internet success stories. AlloCine was sold to Vivendi in 2001. Prior co-founding Molotov with Pierre Lescure in 2015, he invested in several successful companies such as Meetic, Amalto technologies, Restopolitan, Veoprint, Square Inc. or The Cools.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- ZenGo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
- Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
- Aula — Aula is a social learning platform built for education. Aula replaces emails and learning management systems (e.g. Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L) with digital infrastructure designed to encourage conversation and participation. A digital campus that complements an institution’s physical campus, Aula enables new ways to teach, learn, and createcommunity.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
- OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
- Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
Griffin Gaming Partners is a leading venture capital firm singularly focused on investing in the global gaming market.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- EloElo — Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free
- HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
- Million Victories — Million Victories is a small independent game studio created in July 2017 and based in Lyon, France. We set out to create challenging, dynamic and most of all fun MMO games on mobile. Our first game is available in few countries in early access:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.millionvictories.games.millionlords
HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Antaris — The Antaris Open Space platform simplifies the design, simulation, manufacturing and operation of satellites.
- Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
- Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.
Charles-Henri Prevost - General Partner @ Blisce
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series C, Secondary Market
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Keecker — The first voice-enabled robot that moves entertainment, communication and safety into every room of your home.
- Candid — Transform your smile, and your health, with Candid.
- Hubble Contacts — Hubble is the best place to buy affordable contacts and glasses online with free shipping. Personalize your contact lens subscription and shop our eyegasses and sunglasses for all your vision needs.
AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
- Orosound — Orosound is a tech company with a unique expertise in audio. Learn more about our technologies and our headsets, designed and made in France.
- Remotebase — Remotebase | Hire silicon valley caliber developers remotely | Remote software engineers jobs
Solomon Hykes is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Docker and the creator of the Docker open source initiative. In his role at Docker, Solomon is focused on building a platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, run and orchestrate distributed applications. A Forbes 30 under 30 and YCombinatoralumni, Solomon led dotCloud as Chief Executive Officer through five years of fundraising, business operations and product launches before focusing entirely on Docker. Prior to dotCloud, Solomon held engineering, IT infrastructure management and software development roles at CEIS and SmartJog.
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- Software, Cloud Computing, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
- Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
- Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
Jaina Capital is a venture capital firm that offers seed- and early-stage investment services to firms in the internet, IT, communications technology, and environmental industries. It was founded in 2010 by Marc Simoncini and is based in Paris.
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- Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Epic — Fuel curiosity & reading confidence
- Algama — Algama harvests the potential of algae to create food that's good for both people and the planet.
- Vuble — Vuble (formerly Mediabong) is an ad tech video startup disrupting the media buying market by offering a unique AI based full stack platform, guaranteeing performance and users attention. VUble's vision is to open a new chapter of digital video advertising with its attention planning solution, helping brands, agencies and publishers to improvetheir ROI and to respect as well the end user's experience.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
- Advocate — Advocate will help Americans engage with federal agencies through a scalable technology-enabled services platform to provide disabled Americans with a transparent, hassle-free way to receive the government benefits they deserve. We believe that the application process for these benefits should be easy and the financial support accessible to allqualified claimants
- Teleskope — Teleskope is a modern data protection platform that automates data security, privacy, and compliance at scale.
Kreaxi is a management company specializing for over 30 years in investing in the capital of innovative and technological startups with high potential.
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Italy, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Cilkoa — The barrier solution for paper packaging. Oxygen & water vapor dual-barrier property. Resistance to water & grease. Virtuous life cycle
- ShowYou — They are developing the first digital solution dedicated to real estate developers for the management of acquisition modifying works (TMA). They created the first configurator in interactive plans allowing the customer to study his own modifications under the control of the promoter. With SHOW YOU: - save time - clarify and make the work morereliable - improve the satisfaction of your customers
- Ciliatech — Ciliatech is a medtech company specialized in ophthalmology, develops a new class of implant to address the increasing need to treat glaucoma durably and with very minimal adverse effects.
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- REEV — REEV motorizes medical orthoses to help millions of people affected by gait disorders to walk, stand, sit and climb stairs with greater ease every day.
- Greenscope — Greenscope is a company and investor-focused ESG management solution. Greenscope has enabled us to implement a new process for collecting and analyzing ESG data.
- Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date.Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributedtalent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.
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- Software, Developer APIs, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Clearword — Clearword unlocks fundamentally new ways for organizations to communicate and collaborate, using tools they already use. Collaborative Agendas, Automatic Meeting Minutes in a Searchable Library.
- Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
- Lune Climate — Lune Climate claims delivering climate impact initiatives is seen as a cost center and huge undertaking. However, Lune aims to provide API and software tools to simplify the ability for businesses to integrate climate impact into their customer experience, starting with carbon emissions calculations and carbon removal.
A Plus Finance, which is headquartered in Paris (France), is an independent trust company specialising in the management of Common Investment Fundsfor Innovation (FCPI) and Proximity Investment Funds (FIP). A Plus Finance is involved in all innovative sectors, particularly in the IT, media and security fields.The A Plus Finance team includesfinanciers and entrepreneurs, thus providing companies with both an awareness of the daily constraints of management and a long-term perspective on the development of their business. Managing funds amounting to nearly €220m, A Plus Finance invests between €1 million and €4 million per project.per
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- Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Futura gaia — Futura gaïa is a food production company.
- Gaiago — Gaiago is an agtech company that produces soil improvement tools.
- La Belle Vie — La Belle Vie is an online grocery based in Paris, France. It sells basic groceries, organic stuff, meat, fish and vegetables. It has developed all its tools from scratch, including its ERP, a warehouse management service and a delivery management service.
Turenne Capital is an independant private equity management company, with 4 offices in France : - Paris - Lyon - Marseilles - Lille (joint-venture). Since 1999, Turenne Capital has been taking significant minority or majority equity stakes alongside entrepreneurs who operate SMEs with revenues ranging from €5 million to € 100 million. Itinvests between €1 million and €10 million per transaction. Turenne Capital manages/advises more than € 500 million. 32 people, among which 21 investors work in the Group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turenne Capital est une Société de gestion indépendante spécialisée en capital investissement. Turenne Capital accompagne depuis 1999 des entrepreneurs dans leur développement et la transmission de leur société et est implantée à : - Paris - Lyon - Marseille - Lille (filiale) Les tickets d'investissement vont de '1 à 10 millions d'euros en minoritaire et majoritaire dans des PME de 5 à 100 M€ de Chiffre d'affaires. Le Groupe Turenne Capital compte 32 professionnels dont 21 investisseurs, et gère/conseille plus de 500 M€ confiés par des institutionnels et des particuliers.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- France, Poland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ecodrop — Ecodrop is the solution for construction waste
- Innoskel — Innoskel is a pioneering bioscience platform company developing transformative therapies for the unmet needs of individuals with rare bone disorders Initially the Company is developing a gene therapy for a group of diseases known as type II collagen disorders, whilst also expanding the use of its technology and know-how to target and treat
- PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides a pioneering next generation sequencing (NGS) approach to biologics characterization and release testing
Naxicap Partners is a financial partner responsible, active and present along with its holdings. Their concept of partnership is to provide their participants and their managers substantial support in periods of expansion as in times of difficulty, with lines of action to be effective and practical.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Retail
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MYRE — With 17 years of professional experience, Deborah (founder) has devised a tailor-made tool adapted to the new challenges of an industry still waiting to be modernized, allowing real estate players to focus on tasks with high added value. MYRE help Asset Managers in taking the control of their datas (financials, legal,...) in the asset lifecycle.We provide Financials analysis and modeling capabilities, advanced dataroom, Debt management, Real Estate Master data management in an inclusive way with all the stakeholders (PM, brokers, bank, ...)MYRE is based on twofold expertise of both technology and real estate business needs.
- Dog Chef — Dog Chef is an exhibit supplier of homemade and natural food for dogs across the region.
- Witco — Witco is an app that centralizes all the services that power a great work experience. We provide flexible workplaces & coliving solutions.
Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
- Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
- BreezoMeter — BreezoMeter offers personalized air quality & pollen data as well as active fire alerts with worldwide coverage & accuracy down to the street level.
Paca Investissement is specializes in investing in startups and developmental stages. The fund invests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region.
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- Software, Internet, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- GANGZ — Gangz is the first digital platform for talent recruitment: Models, hosts, extras and actors.
- SailEazy — The SailEazy community offers all sailing enthusiasts the choice of freedom. A shared professional fleet, bases between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean ... discover a disruptive and innovative way of navigation. Throughout the year, 7 days / 7 and 24 hours a day, you can book and discover the high-performance sailboats of a professionalfleet, entirely managed by SailEazy. Subscriber, or punctual browser, autonomous or not, you have the choice. You freely determine your niche of reservation, without constraint time or duration, you choose your base of departure and your sailboat, according to your program (short exit, cruise, regatta, coastal, wide ...). Hourly pricing includes a 360 ° service keychain beyond the cost of the lease, including insurance, fuel, cleaning and equipment. Compulsive veiled, expert or contemplative, all members of the community have their way of navigating.
- C4Diagnostics — C4Diagnostics developed a fast, reliable detection of microorganisms. Our Click-chemistry technology is at the core of our portfolio of diagnostic tests.
Galia Gestion is a private equity and venture capital firm. GALIA Gestion is a “management company” approved by the AMF, with majority shareholder Alliance Entreprendre.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wizaly — Optimize the ROI of your marketing mix based on our 100% data driven view of the performance of your marketing channels.Unlock the Power of Marketing Analytics at Wizaly.com: Optimize Your Marketing Campaigns, Maximize ROI, and Understand the Customer Journey. Discover actionable insights and data-driven strategies to drive your business forward. Start your journey to marketing success today!
- Agenium — Agenium offers career perspectives in an international and tech environment. They offer this through the specific expertise of their business units. They offer solutions to the business and of the defense, industry, and space sectors.
- Germitec SAS — Germitec is a healthcare company that designs, Commercialize UV-C disinfection systems for hospital hygiene system.
Romain Cottard started his career in the strategy department of Schneider Electric's IT Business Unit (American Power Conversion) based in the US, where he worked on M&A opportunities and corporate alliances. He then joined Global Equities Corporate Finance in 2012 and worked on 50+ fundraising and M&A deals in fields includingsoftware, online and mobile marketing, media, e-commerce, IT and telecom. As of 2018, Romain works as a Partner at Ader Finance. Romain is a graduate of EMLYON Business School.
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- B2B, Real Time, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PayFit — Paying employees has never been easier. PayFit allows SMEs to easily manage the pay and leave of their employees.In 2015, the observation was simple: no employer was satisfied with the solutions used to manage the pay of its employees. No solution allowed a company to manage payroll quickly and without prior expertise. No solution answeredautomatically and securely to the French administrative complexity. There was no solution to centralize all the issues related to employee management on a single tool. No solution offered an intuitive and user-friendly interface for the employer but also for the employee.
- Zenly — zenly your world
- Circle Medical — Circle Medical is an online medical clinic that provides a better primary care experience. Book a telehealth appointment with one of our doctors today!
Aquitaine Creation is a venture capital firm focused on the Asian private and public markets.
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- NFC, iOS, Apps
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- SNAPP' — 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 millionconsumers, 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
- Argolight — Argolight designs quality control solutions for fluorescence imaging systems for the field of life sciences, pharmaceutics, diagnosis, forensics, etc.
ALTO INVEST was founded by partners Antoine Valdes and Jean-François Paumelle, who have worked together since 1994 for one of Europe's largest financial institutions. Their team has managed several portfolios on behalf of institutional and private clients, and made more than 50 private equity investments in Europe, North America and Asia.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Funding Round, Convertible Note
- France, Martinique, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unow — Unow delivers tutored training programs on project management, soft skills and business skills. With a portfolio of 50+ training programs and a network of 100+ field experts, our goal is to improve team collaboration and productivity. Unow is headquartered in Paris, France.
- Karos — Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies.
- Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
Limousin Participations is an investment vehicle managed by SOFIMAC Partners. The firm focuses on investing in companies based in New Aquitaine region of France within the life sciences, energy, media, distribution and services sectors.
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- Software, NFC, iOS
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France
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- Glycode — 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 ofN-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 — Sanilea is specializing in the development and integration of innovative information systems for medical transport, Sanilea links health establishments and medical transporters. Since its creation in October 2013, Sanilea has been committed to supporting healthcare establishments in the development of a relevant medical transportation strategy. Thecompany has developed SpeedCall, the first internal and external transport control platform implementing an innovative turn-based algorithm, guaranteeing financial optimization and fair distribution. Sanilea is mobilized across the entire transport management chain by offering paramedics, SpeedTrack, a complete geolocation, regulation and invoicing solution. Innovation is in the DNA of Sanilea. The company is always ready to take up the digital challenge.
- Blue Valet — Blue Valet is a provider of valet parking-parking at airports and train stations.
CEO and co-founder at Phenix Groupe. Phenix is a street media company. Founded as a tech startup in 2012, Phenix has become one of the French's leading outdoor advertising groups and the largest independent company in the sector. Employing a total of 350 people, the Group generates €27 million in revenue.Through its family of entities andservices, Phenix is building the #1 French media targeting outdoor foot traffic in city centers and a full-stack technology platform. The group organizes its operations through three segments: - Digital outdoor: #1 DOOH street media in France with 1500+ digital screens proprietary network through more than 50 cities reaching 8+ millions people/week - Print outdoor & Marketing services: 50 000+ faces through more than 80 cities reaching 15+ millions people/week and state-of-the-art trade marketing services though 120 000+ point-of-sales per month - Technologies: 50 000+ professional users mainly in large corporations through its Phenix Technologies segment, which offers a broad set of applications and service offeringsInvestor in technology & social media startups including Artips, TVTime, Bubbles, Cenareo, Shapr, melty.Former investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Lazard Frères in Paris (2003-11).Prior to Lazard, Sebastien launched a first web startup called Jet Avenue as co-founder and CEO from 2001 to 2002.
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- Mobile Apps, Apps, Android
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shapr — Shapr is revolutionizing professional networking. Shapr was developed as a free tool to help professionals meet for inspiring conversations and meaningful collaborations. The app works through a smart algorithm, which combines geographic proximity, self-selected interests, and work experience to produce a daily, personalized selection of ten tofifteen people to meet. Users swipe through their daily batch of profiles anonymously and receive a match notification when interest to connect is mutual. The next step is to message within the app and set a time to meet for sharing ideas, inspiration and opportunities over coffee.Shapr first launched in the US in 2015 and has continued to amass a devoted following in cities including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Today, 70% of users are based in the United States with major traction also in France and Britain. Shapr users have started to pop up around the world, mostly hearing about the app through word of mouth.Shapr is the second entrepreneurial project initiated by Ludovic Huraux. His first company is Attractive World, the French leader in online premium dating that was newly acquired by the Affinitas group. Shapr is supported by a $7 million investment, raised from 80 private investors. Notable investors include Denis Dumont (Founder of Grand Frais), David Amsellem (Founder of the John Paul Concierge), Sébastien Forest (Founder Alloresto), Jean Romain Lhomme (former Head of Colony Capital Europe), Frédéric Mazzella and Nicolas Brusson (BlaBlaCar) and Gilles Mentré (managing Partner at Lazard).
- Tigerlily —
- TVShow Time — Your TV shows calendar
Daniel Marhely Co-Founded Blogmusik S.A. Daniel Marhely is Founder of Deezer S.A. and serves as its Director. In 2004, he co-founded the dating site Lovelee.com. In 2006, he developed the first version of Deezer, called Blogmusik, in Paris, with the objective of providing music lovers with unlimited access to audio content using streamingtechnology. He served as General Manager of Monster Capital.
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- Internet, Electronics, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States
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- Prizm — Prizm is a device that converts speakers into learning music players enabling all people to listen to music they like. The players adjust the music it plays according to the people in a room, their music tastes and habits, and current atmosphere. Prizm was launched by Olivier Roberdet and is based in Paris, France.
- Chefclub — Chefclub is a cooking channel that shows food videos on television and the Internet. The company is a multicultural team of talent from all around the world, with a passion for cooking. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.
- Omi — Omi platform is designed for today's marketer and requires no technical skills.
Maxime Prades is a Director of Product Management at Facebook. He attended ESCE International Business School.
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- Apps, File Sharing, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A
- France, United States
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- Zight (formerly CloudApp) — Record and share your screen effortlessly with Zight's screen recorder. Record your screen with or without a camera overlay and so much more.
- Zenly — zenly your world
Finapère capital is is the private equity and venture capital arm of APERE specializing in middle market, later stage, leveraged buyout, early venture, mid venture, OBO, MBO, bridge financing, recapitalizations, restructuring and growth capital transactions.
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- iOS, Travel, Android
- Seed
- France
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- Monument Tracker — Agen138 adalah situs judi slot online gacor hari ini yang sangat mudah maxwin terpercaya di indonesia dengan kemudahan transaksi
The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.
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- Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
- Hupso — Hupso trains you for the jobs of tomorrow. We enhance the value of essential trades through vocational training.
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
We are a venture capital platform that sources, finances and scales early-stage European start-ups. Our fully digitised investment process offers our exclusive community the freedom and flexibility to choose how they invest, on a deal-by-deal basis or via our funds. Are you looking to be funded? Are you looking to invest in exclusive start-ups?
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- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Spain
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- Benefiz — Maximisez la valeur des avantages sociaux. Pour vos collaborateurs, vos finances et votre croissance.
- Stokelp — Stokelp is the first overstock recovery marketplace dedicated to food manufacturers.
- Pickme — Pickme do magic by turning neighbors into local and social pickup point, for a seamless, efficient and sustainable post-purchase experience
Niji is a company dedicated to digital business transformation.
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- Apps, Android, Computer
- Series A
- France
ACI is a educational institution that teaches and certifies students in the business of sustainable concrete.
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- NFC, iOS, Apps
- Seed
- France
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- SNAPP' — 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 millionconsumers, 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
NJJ Capital is an investment vehicule of Xavier Niel
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- Apps, Android, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- France, Ecuador
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- Leviia — Leviia is the cloud storage company that fights to protect the environment and ensure reforestation.
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Zenly — zenly your world
SEB Alliance is the corporate venture capital arm of Groupe SEB that seeks to invest in start-up companies.
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- Software, Consumer Electronics, Hardware
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- France, China, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Click & Grow — The Click & Grow Smart Indoor Gardens are the most advanced and easiest indoor gardening solutions. Enjoy fresh herbs grown in your own indoor garden all year round.
- Aryballe Technologies — Aryballe Technologies was created in Grenoble/France by a team of scientists and entrepreneurs. As a technology platform their main objectives are to develop new generations of universal sensors which can be adapted to different applications.In parallel to their core hardware development activities they are also organized to handle thesoftware + database development and full manufacturing of their sensors and devices.
- Green Rice Technology — Green Rice Technology is Smart Home Devices Provider Company.
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