# Top 50 Renewable Energy VC (Venture Capital) Funds in France in May 2026

## Demeter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Paca Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Manufacturing

Paca Investissement is specializes in investing in startups and developmental stages. The fund invests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region.

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 8
- 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.

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

## Demeter Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Electronics

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

## GO CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rennes, Bretagne, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Elevation Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Advertising

The management company of the Inter Invest Group.

## 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).

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

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

## BNP Paribas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

BNP Paribas Private Equity brings together the third party private equity teams of BNP Paribas Investment Partners. As of September 2008, this activity has EUR 817 million of assets under management, spread out over five different types of vehicles: funds of funds and investment management mandates, innovation funds (FCPI), local investment funds(FIP ISF), unlisted small cap funds and feeder funds.The asset management activities are supported by:- A strategy and development arm dedicated to the creation of new activities both in and outside France using BNPP IP's global network.- A comprehensive fund administration service.

## Amundi Private Equity Funds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

Amundi Private Equity Funds, an Amundi asset management subsidiary, specialises in private equity and unlisted infrastructure investments. Combining a wealth of expertise in all aspects of asset management built up over more than 10 years, Amundi provides both institutional and individual investors with a wide spectrum of investmentopportunities, ranging from direct fund investments in unlisted French and foreign companies to dedicated mandates and funds-of-funds for multi-management private equity and infrastructure investments. With more than 60 professionals based in Paris, Bucharest, Cairo, Casablanca, Tunis and Warsaw, Amundi Private Equity Funds assists companies at all stages of their development, the key objective being to offer fund subscribers yields in line with the best in the industry. At 31 December 2009, French and international subscribers had committed more than €3.7 billion to Amundi Private Equity Funds, making it a leading private equity player. The company owes its solid foundations to its positioning as part of a leading third-party asset management group of companies and to its membership of two international banking groups.

## WiSEED
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

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

## Conseil Plus Gestion
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy

Conseil Plus Gestion is an entrepreneurial investment management company based in Aix en Provence.

## Sofilaro
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Manufacturing

Sofilaro is an investment arm of Crédit Agricole S.A. specializing in late venture, mature, growth capital, buyouts, and middle market investments. 

## Sofimac Investment Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Clermont-ferrand, Auvergne, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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…)

## Banque des Territoires
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Cyber Security

Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.

## M Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Xerys
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Consumer Electronics, Health Care

Xery is a portfolio management Company specializing in Venture Capital - Biotech, Medtech, Cleantech, Technology

## 123Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Computer, Biotechnology

123 Venture offers funds of funds to both institutional investors as well as individual investors. 123Venture has successfully built a network of leading private equity managers in France and Europe.
123Venture also invests directly in companies, typically alongside other private equity fund managers (co-investments) with whom they have made fundinvestments.
If you are an institutionnal investor, you can have access to our know how through our funds of funds or through managed accounts. 123Venture’s dedicated programs can be tailored to meet a broad range of client-defined objectives.

## Investisseurs privés
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Blanquefort, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Investisseurs privés

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

## Gravitation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Energy, Robotics, Electronics

Gravitation is the investment holding company of Charles Beigbeder. The company is stage agnostic.

## IDIA Capital Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing

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## Rhone-Alpes Creation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Environmental Engineering, Software, Biotechnology

Rhone-Alpes Creation is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in software and biotechnology.

## Banque Populaire Atlantique
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Rental, Chemical

Banque Populaire Atlantique is committed to a digital innovation approach to its employees and customers.

## True Green Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Westport, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy

Founded in July 2011, True Green Capital Management LLC is a privately owned, specialized energy infrastructure asset management firm based in Westport, Connecticut.

## Banques Populaires
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Montigny-le-bretonneux, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Analytics

Banque Populaire is witness to its humanistic values and its willingness to place the client at the heart of the practice of its business.

## Siem Offshore Contractors
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leer, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Wind Energy

Siem Offshore Contractors is a well-known installer of subsea inter-array cables and provides repair and maintenance services to the global offshore renewable energy market. It employs approximately 100 people. The vessels, Siem Aimery and Siem Moxie, are owned by Siem Offshore Rederi AS.

## Accurafy 4
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services

Accurafy 4 (A4) is an alternative investment fund managed by Accurafy Advisory (GP) and its four partners. Established in November 2017, it is based in Luxembourg and operates in the venture capital market for fast growing companies.
Thanks to dedicated compartments for each club deal, A4 segregates risk and performance and brings each opportunityto qualified investors (LPs) to beneficiate from its cost-efficient structure.
A4 and the GP invest in tech companies driven by disruptive approaches and resilient management team, with revenue traction and scalable model.
A4 boasts an effective hands-on approach close to founders while maintaining a very low-fee level to bring value and find appropriate exit scenario.

## CapHorn Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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€.

## Stellantis Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Robotics, CleanTech, Automotive

Stellantis Ventures will focus on early and later-stage startup companies developing cutting-edge technologies that could be deployed in the automotive and mobility sectors in areas such as sustainability.

## Kerogen Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Oil and Gas, Energy Efficiency

Kerogen Capital is an independent private equity fund manager specialising in the international oil and gas sector.

## Norrsken VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

## Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Focus: Energy, Life Science, Pharmaceutical

Crédit Agricole Alpes Provence is a regional cooperative bank that offers a wide range of banking services.

## Cap Création
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Hydroponics, Renewable Energy

 Cap Création

## 2C Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Internet, Software

2C Invest is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, startups, early venture, mid venture, late venture, and buyout investments. 

## Frst
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Frst is a seed-stage VC firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.

## FEI-OGEF
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy

FEI-OGEF helps tackle this challenge by providing local currency financing solutions to companies bringing affordable solar energy to communities living off the grid in the region.

## Sowefund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Environmental Consulting, Retail, Renewable Energy

Sowefund is a investment platform in supporting innovative companies in their search for financing.

## Equinor Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Oil and Gas

Equinor Ventures invests in and supports innovative companies to shape the future of energy.

## OnCapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Transportation, Public Transportation

investment advisory company

## Ace Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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)

## R2V
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Wireless, Biopharma

A co-sponsored fund .

## HCVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing

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.

## ITOCHU Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Financial Services, E-Commerce

The history of ITOCHU Corporation (hereinafter "ITOCHU") dates back to 1858 when the Company's founder Chubei Itoh commenced linen trading operations. Since then, ITOCHU has evolved and grown over 150 years into a sogo shosha, engaging in domestic trading, import/export, and overseas trading of various products such as textiles,machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. In addition, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields.

## Nord France Amorcage
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Positron Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Nuclear, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

Positron Ventures is a venture capital firm.

## Hitachi Zosen Corp.
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Osaka, Osaka, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Energy, Industrial, Wind Energy

Design and construction of environmental systems, industrial plants, water treatment system, industrial machinery, process equipment, infrastructure-related equipment,
disaster prevention systems, and precision machinery.

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