# Top 50 Medical Device Startup Investors in France in May 2026

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 14
- 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.

## Karista
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 11
- 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.

## Sofimac Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Clermont-ferrand, Auvergne, France
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing

Acteur incontournable du capital risque de proximité, SOFIMAC PARTNERS accompagne depuis maintenant plus de 30 ans les PME régionales dans le financement de leur développement à moyen / long terme. Répondant à la problématique de sous capitalisation des PME françaises, SOFIMAC PARTNERS intervient en fonds propres aux côtés des chefsd’entreprises quelle que soit leur problématique : Création, Développement, Transmission. Gérant 200 M€ d’actifs au travers de 16 fonds (FCPR, FCPI, SCR, FIP,…), notre groupe réalise ses investissements sur une grande variété de secteurs, couvrant aussi bien les activités traditionnelles que technologiques (chimie verte, éolien, chaudronnerie aéronautique, e-commerce, édition de logiciel, médecine nucléaire etc…)

## Seventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## GO CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rennes, Bretagne, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Kurma Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Kurma Partners is a management company based in Paris, specializing in the financing of innovation in healthcare and biotechnology, from pre-creation to development capital. Kurma Partners, which manages the Kurma Biofund I, II funds and the Kurma Diagnostics fund, is one of the main players in the financing of therapeutic and medical innovationsin Europe, particularly through links with many institutes. research and prestigious hospitals.

## Sofinnova Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise.

## Omnes Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Crédit Agricole
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

Credit Agricole is a banking corporation with focuses on corporate and investment banking, retail banking, and savings management. Crédit Agricole Group is a responsible, helpful bank serving 49 million customers, 7.4 million mutual shareholders, and 1.2 million shareholders. Crédit Agricole Group supports its customers in their plans and projectsin France and around the world, through its operations in all segments of the market including insurance, real estate, payment systems, asset management, leasing and factoring, consumer finance, and corporate and investment banking.
Crédit Agricole also stands out for its dynamic, innovative corporate social responsibility policy serving the economy. This policy is based on a pragmatic approach that permeates throughout the entire Group and engages all its employees. Its recent inclusion in the Vigeo-NYSE Euronext extra-financial indices is recognition of this engagement.

## Idinvest Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## IRDI
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

IRDI Gestion is a private equity and venture capital institution.

## M Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## WiSEED
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Biotechnology

Wiseed is a crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest in SMEs and enterprises. The platform offers investments for startups, real-estate firms, social innovation and renewable energy projects, and agriculture firms. It was founded in 2008 by Nicolas Seres and Thomas Merquiol and is based in Toulouse.

## Angels Santé
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Puteaux, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Angels Santé is a networking site for investors and companies in the health sector.

## Elaia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Finovam Gestion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Villeneuve, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Medical Device

Finovam Gestion is an investment company approved by the AMF which takes minority stakes in innovative SMEs with high growth potential.The company, which manages €50M, invests in companies that have developed innovative offers in the following target sectors: Information and Communication Technology, Health and Biotechnologies, Agro-resources andEcotechnologies.Finovam Gestion has built solid relationships with the ecosystem of entrepreneurship (Industrials, Poles of Competitiveness, Incubators, Accelerators, Universities, and Research Centers) in all the sectors that we target in order to be able to source and do emerge the best companies.Among our investors (LPs), we can count BPI France, manufacturers (ADEO, LESAFFRE, TEREOS), banks (BNP Paribas, Caisse d´Epargne, Crédit Agricole) and the Haut de France and Grand-Est regions.

## Galia Gestion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## Nord France Amorcage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, 3D Technology

Nord France Amorçage is a regional co-investment fund, exclusively supported by the Hauts-de-France Region. This seed fund has been involved since 2013 in financing innovative businesses that create jobs and add value to the region. In 6 years, NFA has more than 50 participants spread across the region.

## Inserm Transfert Initiative
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

Inserm Transfert Initiative is a seed stage life science vehicle currently managing about €4.2M for the financing of new biotech companies. Inserm Transfert Initiative is the new investment vehicle of INSERM in France.

## Crédit Mutuel Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## BNP Paribas Développement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Auriga Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Since 1998, AURIGA PARTNERS, an independent Venture Capital firm, has been managing several early stage funds specializing in Information Technology and Life Sciences.

## Pontifax
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics

Pontifax is a healthcare-dedicated venture capital firm.The fund focuses on innovative bio-pharma opportunities.

## Supernova Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## ACG Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Smalt Capital anciennement ACG Management, est un acteur majeur depuis plus de 20 ans

## AQUITI Gestion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Manufacturing

Acteur incontournable du capital-investissement en Nouvelle-Aquitaine

## Sham Innovation Santé
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical Device, Medical

Relyens is the leading European mutual group specialising in risk management services for health and social care professionals as well as for local authorities.

## iBionext
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Medical Device, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

iBionext is a unique healthcare fund created within a proven breakthrough innovation accelerator.
Their companies are based in a single location named “Passage de l’innovation” in Paris, France. Over the past 4 years, we have created 7 companies that have raised over 250M € and created 103 highly qualified jobs.

## Newfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Cap Innov'Est
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Illkirch-graffenstaden, Alsace, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

Cap Innov’Est is a 36M€ tri-regional fund dedicated to investments in young innovative start-ups. Cap Innov’Est was launched in July 2014 and has already invested in 13 start-ups. Cap Innov’Est is supported by Fonds National d’Amorçage, the 3 Regions Alsace, Bourgogne and Franche-Comté, SAFIDI, caisses d’épargne d’Alsace etBourgogne/Franche-Comté, BNP Paribas et CIFC

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Sodero Gestion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Telecommunications

Sodero Management has 70 million of capital it intends to finance for SMEs. These funds come from the Caisse d'Epargne and Caisse des Depots et Consignations, firstly, of Brittany and Pays de la Loire, on the other. But also individuals from which € 26m was raised in 5 years through FIP (Local Investment Fund sold each year by the SavingsBank from November). And local savings will directly feed the local economy while enjoying immediate tax benefits.

## Medevice
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical Device, Health Care, Medical

Medevice focuses on investing in Medtech and e-health innovation projects. Its team has extensive experience in the fields of medical technology and e-health. The firm is composed of entrepreneurs specialized in healthcare and who have created and/or worked in healthcare companies. This not only allows them to better understand the potentialof the projects presented but also to better support the companies when they face challenges.

## Mérieux Equity Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care

Mérieux Equity Partners (“MxEP”) is a management company dedicated to venture, growth and LBO investments in the healthcare and nutrition sectors. MxEP actively supports entrepreneurs and industrial companies with differentiated products and services, by providing privileged access to its expertise and international network. MxEP
currently managesmore than €600m AUM and has recently launched a new vehicle MP3 of €350m dedicated to growth/LBO.

## Pays de la Loire Participations
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Electronics

Pays de la Loire Participations provides finance innovation, productivity and development, especially in a banking context that is increasingly constrained by standards and regulations.The Pays de la Loire region has created the "Pays de la Loire Participations" co-investment fund (PLP) intended for small and medium-sized companieswishing to strengthen their equity. By investing alongside private professional investors, it facilitates risk taking and helps anchor long-term skills on the territory and promotes job creation and wealth.With 14 million euros in capital (20 million in the long term), entirely contributed by the Region, the "Pays de la Loire Participations" fund co-invested an average of around 2.5 million euros annually. average of € 180 K per company. Its intervention as a co-investor is crucial because it allows the VSE / SME beneficiaries to obtain from private financiers and banks, 4 times the funds contributed by Pays de la Loire participations.

## UI Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology

Since 1967, the UI brand embodies a partnership with companies. Actor of the economy, UI has accompanied more than 120 SMEs over the last fifteen years, investing more than 550m € and giving substance to their development projects. Combining experience and corporate culture, UI has established itself as an involved and independent partner, able tocount on its shareholder leaders to favor, independently, the sustainable performance of the SMEs it accompanies.

## A Plus Finance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Telecommunications

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

## Happy Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Sensor, Internet

Happy Capital is a crowdfunding platform that offers a variety of projects users can invest in.

## Altur Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Medical Device, Hardware

Founded in 2006, Altur Investissement is a development capital company that invests and disinvests directly or in co-investment. It is a partnership limited by shares governed by the provisions of article L. 226-1 et seq. Of the French Commercial Code, listed on the regulated market of Euronext in Paris.Altur Investissement has opted for thelegal and fiscal regime of SCR (Venture Capital Companies), which allows it to be exempt from corporate income tax on all current income and capital gains on the sale of its portfolio securities. , provided that 50% of its net book value consists of equity securities or equity securities or giving access to the capital of a company on a constant basis.
As for the shareholders of the SCR, their tax system is also attractive: it allows individuals resident in France to benefit from a total exemption from the taxation of capital gains on the sale of shares held for at least 5 years ( except social levies, CSG / RDS) and a total exemption from the taxation of dividends.Altur Investissement's mission is to support, as the only investor or investor of reference, the fast-growing SMEs. Essentially unlisted, Altur Investissement accompanies these companies with significant potential and participates in their development so that they become leaders in their sectors.
Altur Investissement is positioned in the following five sectors of specialization:Health
Outsourced services
Specialized distribution
Industry
Hotel

## BNP Paribas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## European Investment Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

## Norgine Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Uxbridge, Hillingdon, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Norgine Ventures was started in 2012 to diversify Norgine’s activities and foster innovation in the healthcare sector. Norgine Ventures provides debt and debt-like financing to innovative, fast-growing companies in the fields of healthcare and life sciences, in Europe and the US. Norgine Ventures is backed by Norgine, a fully integrated, private,European healthcare company with over 110 years of experience in the pharma space.Norgine Ventures has full access to Norgine’s technical capabilities for evaluating investment opportunities, although the business is aimed at achieving a financial return rather than funding opportunities of strategic interest to Norgine.To date, Norgine Ventures has invested in a number of businesses, including specialty pharma, diagnostic and medical device companies, at various stages of their life cycle, both in Europe and in the US.

## IXO Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology

The private equity fund focused on adding high value.IXO Private Equity is a private equity management company recognized, approved and authorized by the Financial Market Authorities (AMF) operating under the number GP03018.IXO Private Equity is the most important independent regional private equity General Partner in France.The companymanages French General Private Equity Investment Funds (known in France as F.C.P.R.), Local Private Equity Investment Fund (known in France as F.I.P.), and Private Equity Investment Funds for Innovation (F.C.P.I.) to meet the equity needs for the best companies in Western and Southern France.

## Fly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Siparex Groupe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Karot Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## IT-Translation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

IT-Translation: investor and co-founder of digital technology start-ups developed from research

## NBGI Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

NBGI Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on investing in seed, early, and middle stage medical technology companies. It was established in 2001 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

## Ace Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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)

## TRAIL SOLUTIONS PATRIMOINE
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Medical Device, Electronics

Le site officiel de Sigma Gestion, Paris.

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