# Top 30 Beauty Startup Investors in France in May 2026 ## Otium Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia ## Eutopia VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce Eutopia is a fund for consumer startups. We back founders who are rethinking the way we eat, shop, sleep and feel. We are backing 26 startups ## Hexa - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS. ## Newfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Guillaume Gibault - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics Guillaume Gibault - Founder @ Le slip Francais ## Prisma Media - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gennevilliers, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Beauty, Delivery, Cosmetics Prisma Media was founded in 1978 under the leadership of Axel Ganz, sent to Paris by the German publisher Gruner + Jahr, to launch a French version of GEO. In March 1979 GEO 1 launch Prisma signed arrives on newsstands. Adapted from its German counterpart, the success was immediate; two months after its launch, the monthly already has more than100,000 subscribers. With a portfolio of 26 titles and over twenty websites, the group is present in the main segments of the mainstream press magazine (female, kitchen, TV, celebrities, discovery, economy. Sales leadership, added to the power of its digital media brands, Prisma Digital ensures optimum potential audience Bimedia print-web of nearly 35 million people each month, or 70% of the population. ## Région Sud Investissement - Type: VC Fund - Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning Région Sud Investissement is an investment Firm. ## Elaia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Seventure Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in information and communication technology, and life sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with€ 660 million under management as of December 31, 2016. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors. ## Marc Simoncini - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Finance, Audio Marc Simoncini is the Owner of Jaina Capital and was a Co-founder and CEO at Meetic. ## Firstminute Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community. ## Raise Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Financial Services Raise Ventures is a Venture Capital structure dedicated to innovative startups in France and Europe. ## ACG Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology Smalt Capital anciennement ACG Management, est un acteur majeur depuis plus de 20 ans ## Pertinence Invest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Villeurbanne, Rhone-Alpes, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, CRM Pertinence Invest is an investment Firm that works with tech start ups. ## Angelsquare - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Karot Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Robotics, Cosmetics, E-Commerce Karot Capital : Investissements Early Stage dans l'Innovation, pour des entrepreneurs ambitieux et sans filtre sectoriel. ## Connect Pro - Type: VC Fund - Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics Connect Pro creates value by structuring, strengthening, and revitalizing the regional and local economic fabric, through deep and lasting involvement with SMEs. It was founded in 2007 and is based in Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. ## BNP Paribas - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software BNP Paribas provides banking, financing, investment, savings, and protection solutions. Their investment services include businesses that provide savings, investment, and protection services. They provide financing and investment services to retail customers, associations, businesses, and corporations. ## Xavier Niel - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Bpifrance - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Be Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Louvain-la-neuve, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Early stage Entrepreneurs Coaching and FinancingOne of Europe's leading Business Angels Networks. We connect innovative growth companies to equity finance and coaching by experienced angel investors. The network is 250 members strong and has been assisting innovative entrepreneurs to find financing for more than 10 millions Euros in thelast 4 years. ## Alven - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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 ## Thibaud Elziere - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders. ## Serena - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Conegliano Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Video, Beauty, Mobile Conegliano Venture is a New York-based venture capital firm that serves customers in the United States. ## Etoile ID - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics Étoile ID is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital investments, buyins, and leveraged buyouts. It seeks to invest in all the industries. The firm prefers to invest in France. It invests between €0.5 million ($0.67 million) and €2.5 million ($3.34 million) in companies with enterprise values between €8 million ($9.17 million) and €80million ($91.73 million) and revenues up to €100 million ($131.41 million). The firm generally invests for a period between five years and seven years. It takes a minority stake, between 10% and 30% in its portfolio companies while making growth capital investments. The firm invests out of balance sheet. Étoile ID was founded in 1985 and is based in Paris, France. ## Audacia Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Beauty, Rental, Fashion Audacia Capital is a Dubai based focused investment bank with a primary focus on private equity. ## M Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Software M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM. A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth. In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies. ## Frederic Montagnon - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013. ## Bertrand Jacquelot - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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