# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in France in October 2023

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 46
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

## Elaia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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.

## Alven
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

## Serena
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Serena invests in bold ventures and provides them with an unrivaled level of expertise and operational resources.
In ten years, the firm has already contributed to the emergence of many success stories (Aramisauto - Acquired by PSA, The Fork - acquired by TripAdvisor, Cheerz -acquired by Cewe), and has currently 40 handpicked startups in itsportfolio such as Dataiku, Evaneos, Malt, iBanFirst, CybelAngel, or Lifen.

## Axeleo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Axeleo is the leading Enterprise Technology acceleration platform (both VC and Accelerator), backed by a partnership of over 60 entrepreneurs and executives, and the French Tech Acceleration Fund.

## Angelsquare
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

## Xavier Niel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Isai
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.

## Innovacom
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Telecommunications

For over eighteen years, Innovacom has helped launch innovative telecommunication and information technology startups such as Business Objects, Cobalt Networks, Gemplus, Infovista, Intershop, Kelkoo, LastMinute.com, Micronas, Soitec, and Tumbleweed.

## CapHorn Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

CapHorn Invest is an independent Venture Capital Firm launched in 2010. The company invests in B2B digital companies. CapHorn Invest currently manages 180 million euros across two funds and has a portfolio of more than 20 companies. They invest in B2B startups that drive digital transformation. They mainly focus on Series A & B in roundsranging from 2 to 20M€.

## 360 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Early stage european VC investing on ClimateTech, DeepTech, Mass Consumption and Business Automation.

## Hi Inov - Dentressangle
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Hi inov is a regulated Venture capital management company dedicated to early stage investment in B2B digital start-ups. We have €165M under management. They are 7 investors based in Paris, Lyon and Munich and also have an operating team.Hi Inov supports young and innovative digital BtoB companies from their very beginnings, and stimulates theirlong-term growth to help them become tomorrow’s leading companies.

## Starquest Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

Starquest Capital is a venture capital firm based in France that helps accelerate the growth of entrepreneurs.

## Breega
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

## XAnge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

For 20 years, XAnge has been a key venture capital fund in Europe. With 70 startups in its portfolio, XAnge invests early in innovative tech companies.

## Bertrand Diard
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Machine Learning

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries.
Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

## Omnes Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.

## Ventech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

## GO CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rennes, Bretagne, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

GO CAPITAL is a management company approved by the AMF and a member of AFIC. It is based in Rennes, and manages more than 130 million of assets by investing primarily in western France in innovative companies with high growth potential.

## Newfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Hexa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.

## Aglaé Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages.
Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

## BNP Paribas Développement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

BNP Paribas Développement is the investment arm of BNP Paribas that specializes in SME development. It specializes in second stage, mezzanine, bridge, acquisition, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalization, special situations, and privatizations transactions.The firm considers investments in manufacturing, service industries,medicine, electronics, energy, chemistry, new materials, industrial automations, industrial goods and services, transportation, consumer goods, commerce and distribution, buildings and public works, wholesale retail, biotechnology, telecommunications, and information technology sectors.BNP Paribas Développement was established in 1988 and is based in Paris, France.

## Karista
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.

## KREAXI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Limonest, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care

Kreaxi is a management company specializing for over 30 years in investing in the capital of innovative and technological startups with high potential.

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies:
- Sqreen (exited to Datadog)
- Meero ($290M in funding)
- Algolia ($184M)
- Alkemics ($54M)
-Builder ($29M)
- Verve ($28M)
- Fox Intelligence (€18M)

## Daphni
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.

## Crédit Mutuel Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Crédit Mutuel Innovation is the evergreen venture capital entity of Crédit Mutuel Equity (€3.5 billion in capital). We invest €1-20M in life science, digital and deeptech companies from seed to growth stages.We help bold and ambitious entrepreneurs to develop their strong growth potential with our worldwide enterprise ecosystem (our 350+portfolio companies, our abroad subsidiaries, 150+ largest global corporates and the best-in-class experts). Because it takes more than 5 years to build a Unicorn, we invest our own equity and ensure durable partnerships with visionary leaders.Today, the 350 companies in which we have invested generate a cumulative annual turnover of €50bn and create more than 250,000 jobs.

## Ace Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Cyber Security

Ace invests with a sector-focused approach, active in Industrials and Technology. The firm builds partnerships with large corporates (including Airbus, Safran, Dassault Aviation, Thales, EDF, Naval Group, Sopra Steria), which invest in its funds and maintain an ongoing dialogue with the firm, enabling Ace to take a differentiated approach toinvesting.
Ace provides capital for businesses going through transformation, with the ability to invest with a variety in growth, buyout, and restructuring situations. We focus on companies with a proven expertise in their market, and with high and resilient intrinsic value, but which require transformation to deliver on their potential. We act as a strategic partner to management as we transform operations, and restructure/grow the business both organically and through external growth.
Ace is active throughout Europe and North America. The firm has offices in Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Montreal, and accesses the global network of Tikehau Capital offices (London, Milan, Madrid, Brussels, New York, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul).
Investment strategies overview:
- Growth Capital: investment in high/hyper growth companies raising money in Series A through C, active in the Cybersecurity and Digital Trust verticals
o Investment amount: up to €50m
o Sector of focus: Technology (e.g. Cybersecurity, Digital Trust)
- Support Capital: development capital / special opportunities (minority or control) investments in companies requiring capital to stabilise and or grow operations
o Investment amount: up to €50m
o Sector of focus: Industrials (e.g. Aerospace, Defence)
- Platform Capital: development capital / special opportunities (minority or control) investments in companies requiring capital to stabilise and or grow operations
o Investment amount: €50-200m
o Sector of focus: Industrials (e.g. Aerospace, Defence)

## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

## Idinvest Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

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.

## SIDE Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales

## Investisseurs privés
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Blanquefort, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Investisseurs privés

## Financiere Saint James
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Internet

Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.

## OneRagtime
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence

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?

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Demeter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the energy and ecological transition. They invest from 500 K€ to 30 M€ to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

## Nicolas Douay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Fashion

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris

## Fly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Fly is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems. We invest from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe.

## Supernova Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Software

we believe that top scientists and ambitious entrepreneurs can build a world where cutting-edge technologies shape the next generation of industry leaders.

## Aster
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Energy, Solar

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

## MAIF Avenir
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, FinTech

MAIF Avenir is a French VC firm investing in post-seed to series B startups founded by French entrepreneurs.

## Florian Douetteau
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Florian is Dataiku’s chief executive officer. Florian started his career at Exalead, an innovative search engine technology company. There, he led an R&D team of 50 brilliant data geeks, until the company was bought by Dassault Systemes in 2010 for $150 million. Florian was then CTO at IsCool, a European leader in social gaming, where hemanaged game analytics and one of the biggest European cloud setup. Florian also served as freelance Lead Data Scientist in various companies, such as Criteo, the European Advertising leader.

## 42CAP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

42CAP is a seed stage investment firm based in Munich, Germany.
They initially invest € 0.5 to 1.5m in seed-stage tech- and data-driven companies across Europe with global ambition.With eCircle they previously built one of Europe’s largest SaaS companies and sold the profitable business to Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in 2012.

## Siparex Groupe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology

Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon.It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of theindependent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.

## Cyril Vermeulen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS

Cyril Vermeulen is a French web entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded the auFeminin.com Group, #1 women property online worldwide and was in charge of Business Development until the company was acquired by German media group Axel Springer. He was also in charge of SmartAdServer, the auFeminin adserving subsidiary, a european leader ofthe adserving technologies.Cyril has invested in a large number of start-ups in Europe and the US.

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