Bpifrance is a financial institution dedicated to supporting companies throughout their development stages, particularly those preparing for stock market listing and seeking credit equity. The organization provides a range of financial solutions, including financing, innovation assistance, and capital investment. By integrating various entities such as OSEO and CDC Entreprises, Bpifrance aims to deliver tailored financial support that addresses the specific needs of businesses. The institution is committed to fostering innovation and helping companies transition toward sustainable growth, ensuring they are well-equipped to face future challenges.
Director of Transverse Venture Capital Investments Division
Benoit Barteau Ph.D
Investment Director
Nicolas Berdou
Investment Director, Defense Expert
Clarisse Blandin
Investment Director
Elyssa Maufras du Châtellier
Investment Director
Edouard Combette
Investment Director
Charlotte Corbaz
Investment Drector - Large Venture
Sofia Dahoune
Associate
Nicolas Dardenne
Senior Investment Director, Normandy (Caen Rouen)
Arnaud Despoisse
Director of Occitanie Participations
Nicolas Dufourcq
CEO
Mailys Ferrere
Director of Large Venture Investments
Romain Fourcade
Investment Director
Paul-Francois Fournier
Executive Director, Innovation Department
Vanessa Giraud
Director of Environmental Impact Funds
Alessandro Gonella
Director
Gwenael Hamon
Investment Director
Laurent Higueret
Senior Investment Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences - Large Venture Fund
Veronique Jacq
Head of Digital Venture team
Louis Janneau
Investment Director and Fund Manager
Magali Joessel
Director of Funds
So-Yeon Koo
Senior Investment Manager
Jérôme Langlade
Investment Director Aquitaine / Limousin / Poitou-Charentes
Eric Lefebvre
Director
Stephane Lefevre-Sauli
Senior Investment Director
Arnaud Legardeur
Investment Director
Olivier Martinez
Investment Director
Serge Mesguich
Director of FIT
Louis Molis
Investment Director
Jean-Francois Morin
Investment Director
Sébastien Moynot
Director
Adrien Muller
Investment Director
Adrien Neel
Investment Director
Axel Piriou
Director of Investments
Olivier Rameil
Senior Investment Director / VC seed
Vincent Roque
Director
Thibaut Roulon Ph.D
Investment Director
Gilles Schang
Deputy Managing Director
Bruno Villeneuve
Associate
Jean-Marie Fougeray
Senior Investment Director, Brittany
Laure Michel
Investment Director
Past deals in Embedded Software
Swan
Series B in 2025
Swan is a European fintech company that specializes in embedded finance, providing an online banking platform for businesses to create and manage their bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and based in Paris, Swan enables companies to integrate banking features, such as accounts, cards, and payments, into their own products through simple APIs. The platform processes over 200 million euros in transactions monthly for more than 60 companies across ten European countries. As a licensed financial institution and a principal member of Mastercard, Swan is regulated by the ACPR. The company was co-founded with the startup studio eFounders and has received growth capital from prominent venture capital investors. Swan is led by a team of fintech experts with extensive industry experience.
Keysom
Seed Round in 2024
Develops RISC V based processor architectures that are automatically built from the application source code and dynamically reconfigurable.
Eyco
Series A in 2024
Eyco specializes in designing and manufacturing smart circuits, playing a significant role in the European microelectronics sector. The company produces hardware components for digital applications, focusing on high-tech solutions that operate with minimal environmental impact. Eyco's commitment to sustainable practices enables clients to implement secure digital applications while promoting environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. Through its advanced industrial machinery, Eyco ensures efficient mass production tailored to client specifications, contributing to the evolving landscape of electronics.
Prove & Run
Series A in 2023
Prove & Run has been created with the idea that large scale deployment of connected objects will become a target for remote cyber-attacks and that the technologies in use in the mobile industry were insufficient to answer to the challenge. When designing connected objects, security engineers can in effect rely on three pillars: (1) Secure elements or hardware coprocessors; (2) Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) or secure OSs; (3) Hardware - or software-based hypervisors. In order to resist to sophisticated remote attacks, the last two need to be formally proven so as to be as close as possible to zero-bugs. This is what we have done at Prove & Run with ProvenCore, a formally proven secure OS and ProvenVisor a next generation secure hypervisor. In most cases using of single instance of ProvenCore on a given connected object will be sufficient to protect against hackers with multi-million dollar budgets.
Swan
Series B in 2023
Swan is a European fintech company that specializes in embedded finance, providing an online banking platform for businesses to create and manage their bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and based in Paris, Swan enables companies to integrate banking features, such as accounts, cards, and payments, into their own products through simple APIs. The platform processes over 200 million euros in transactions monthly for more than 60 companies across ten European countries. As a licensed financial institution and a principal member of Mastercard, Swan is regulated by the ACPR. The company was co-founded with the startup studio eFounders and has received growth capital from prominent venture capital investors. Swan is led by a team of fintech experts with extensive industry experience.
Primo1D
Venture Round in 2021
Primo1D, founded in August 2013 and headquartered in Grenoble, France, specializes in embedding intelligence into objects and materials through its innovative E-Thread® yarn. This advanced yarn incorporates miniature electronic components, allowing it to be seamlessly integrated into various materials. The technology enables businesses to enhance product security by facilitating tracking and monitoring, thereby addressing anti-theft and anti-counterfeiting concerns. Primo1D aims to provide valuable solutions that increase the added value of products for its clients in the evolving landscape of connected objects.
CORE for Tech
Venture Round in 2021
Core for Tech is a deep technology company focused on enhancing driver safety by measuring and predicting drowsiness while driving. Utilizing advanced technology that analyzes heart rate variability through native sensors or retrofit systems in vehicles, Core for Tech transforms this data into actionable insights about a driver's fatigue levels. By detecting drowsiness at an early stage, before it becomes visibly apparent, the company aims to provide timely information that enables drivers to make informed safety decisions. Through its innovative approach, Core for Tech seeks to contribute significantly to road safety and reduce the risks associated with driver fatigue.
Swan
Series A in 2021
Swan is a European fintech company that specializes in embedded finance, providing an online banking platform for businesses to create and manage their bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and based in Paris, Swan enables companies to integrate banking features, such as accounts, cards, and payments, into their own products through simple APIs. The platform processes over 200 million euros in transactions monthly for more than 60 companies across ten European countries. As a licensed financial institution and a principal member of Mastercard, Swan is regulated by the ACPR. The company was co-founded with the startup studio eFounders and has received growth capital from prominent venture capital investors. Swan is led by a team of fintech experts with extensive industry experience.
Luos
Grant in 2021
Luos is a developer of an open-source architecture aimed at enhancing the design, testing, and deployment of embedded applications. The company's innovative software facilitates the use of microservices in embedded systems by integrating all components and functions of electronic devices into a cohesive system image. This approach allows for the creation of drivers and embedded applications through a straightforward embedded C/C++ code API. By streamlining the development process, Luos enables developers and CTOs to efficiently design and implement embedded solutions, making hardware development as agile as software.
Luos
Seed Round in 2021
Luos is a developer of an open-source architecture aimed at enhancing the design, testing, and deployment of embedded applications. The company's innovative software facilitates the use of microservices in embedded systems by integrating all components and functions of electronic devices into a cohesive system image. This approach allows for the creation of drivers and embedded applications through a straightforward embedded C/C++ code API. By streamlining the development process, Luos enables developers and CTOs to efficiently design and implement embedded solutions, making hardware development as agile as software.
Luos
Grant in 2021
Luos is a developer of an open-source architecture aimed at enhancing the design, testing, and deployment of embedded applications. The company's innovative software facilitates the use of microservices in embedded systems by integrating all components and functions of electronic devices into a cohesive system image. This approach allows for the creation of drivers and embedded applications through a straightforward embedded C/C++ code API. By streamlining the development process, Luos enables developers and CTOs to efficiently design and implement embedded solutions, making hardware development as agile as software.
Swan
Seed Round in 2020
Swan is a European fintech company that specializes in embedded finance, providing an online banking platform for businesses to create and manage their bank accounts. Founded in 2019 and based in Paris, Swan enables companies to integrate banking features, such as accounts, cards, and payments, into their own products through simple APIs. The platform processes over 200 million euros in transactions monthly for more than 60 companies across ten European countries. As a licensed financial institution and a principal member of Mastercard, Swan is regulated by the ACPR. The company was co-founded with the startup studio eFounders and has received growth capital from prominent venture capital investors. Swan is led by a team of fintech experts with extensive industry experience.
Syntony GNSS
Venture Round in 2019
Syntony GNSS specializes in software-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology, leveraging over 15 years of research and development in collaboration with industry leaders. The company was established to meet the demand for customized projects that require advanced GNSS expertise, particularly in developing simulators using software-defined radio. This innovative approach offers notable advantages, including flexibility, upgradability, and cost-effectiveness. Syntony's product lineup includes simulators, recorders, and players, as well as software-based GNSS receivers. Their technology is designed to provide precise location services for autonomous vehicles and is adaptable to meet the evolving needs of clients in aeronautics, space, and defense sectors, facilitating the location of satellites, aircraft, launchers, and trains, as well as emergency call location services.
Cartesiam
Venture Round in 2018
Cartesiam SAS is a French company founded in 2016, specializing in artificial intelligence software for microcontrollers. Based in Toulon, the company has developed NanoEdge AI, a technology that enables machine learning and data analysis directly on microcontrollers. This innovative approach allows devices to become smart, intuitive, and self-contained, enhancing their functionality while minimizing energy consumption. Cartesiam's team consists of mathematicians, engineers, data scientists, and other professionals who are dedicated to addressing key challenges in creating a more secure and efficient environment through advanced analytics and simplified deployment of AI solutions.
Presto Engineering
Venture Round in 2018
Presto Engineering, Inc. is a provider of outsourced development operations for semiconductor and Internet of Things (IoT) device companies. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company specializes in turn-key solutions that encompass radio-frequency (RF), mixed-signal devices, and comprehensive semiconductor testing and analysis services. Its offerings include wafer fabrication, back-end processing, and various backend packaging services. Additionally, Presto Engineering provides extensive product engineering, debugging, and release acceleration services, which cover testing, reliability assessments, and yield enhancement. The company serves a diverse range of sectors, including medical, automotive, industrial, and communications. With additional offices in France, Thailand, and Taiwan, Presto Engineering aims to help clients minimize overhead, reduce risk, and expedite their time-to-market.
CORE for Tech
Venture Round in 2018
Core for Tech is a deep technology company focused on enhancing driver safety by measuring and predicting drowsiness while driving. Utilizing advanced technology that analyzes heart rate variability through native sensors or retrofit systems in vehicles, Core for Tech transforms this data into actionable insights about a driver's fatigue levels. By detecting drowsiness at an early stage, before it becomes visibly apparent, the company aims to provide timely information that enables drivers to make informed safety decisions. Through its innovative approach, Core for Tech seeks to contribute significantly to road safety and reduce the risks associated with driver fatigue.
Kalray
Venture Round in 2018
Kalray S.A. is a French company that specializes in low-power and time-critical processor solutions, focusing on high-performance, data-centric computing markets. The company is known for its patented manycore array processors, particularly the MPPA processor family, which enables real-time processing and server acceleration. Kalray's product offerings include a range of data center solutions such as the Kalray Target Controller for optimized NVMe storage, TurboBoost for secure communications, and various software development kits that facilitate programming with standard languages. Additionally, the company provides PCIe acceleration boards for applications in storage, networking, and cryptography. Kalray serves diverse industries including autonomous vehicles, aerospace, artificial intelligence, and data networking. Founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the French CEA research lab, Kalray is headquartered in Montbonnot Saint Martin, France.
CORE for Tech
Seed Round in 2018
Core for Tech is a deep technology company focused on enhancing driver safety by measuring and predicting drowsiness while driving. Utilizing advanced technology that analyzes heart rate variability through native sensors or retrofit systems in vehicles, Core for Tech transforms this data into actionable insights about a driver's fatigue levels. By detecting drowsiness at an early stage, before it becomes visibly apparent, the company aims to provide timely information that enables drivers to make informed safety decisions. Through its innovative approach, Core for Tech seeks to contribute significantly to road safety and reduce the risks associated with driver fatigue.
Snips
Series A in 2017
Snips is an artificial intelligence voice platform specializing in on-device voice recognition technology that prioritizes user privacy by processing voice data locally, without relying on cloud services. Founded in 2013 by three PhDs, the company provides enterprises and developers with offline conversational interfaces that enhance interactions with products. Its platform includes features such as hotword detection, speech recognition, natural language understanding, and dialog management, allowing businesses to tailor custom voice commands and gain insights into user context through data analysis. With a focus on low power consumption and compatibility with various hardware, Snips aims to simplify human-device communication and lead the embedded voice revolution. The company operates from offices in Paris, New York, and Tokyo.
Seamless Waves
Grant in 2016
Seamless Waves is a company specialized in the design and implementation of reconfigurable RF transceivers. These transceivers are capable of sweeping the frequency spectrum, identifying the least occupied frequency band and then establishing a communication using the wireless standard adapted to this band. Thanks to their highly efficient RF Analog-to-Digital converters, these transceivers achieve a very low power consumption that is well suited for portable devices. Seamless Waves is also a provider of silicon-proven Analog/RF Physical IPs and their virtual component models that can be used for early system integration.
Delfmems
Series C in 2014
Delfmems SAS, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, specializes in the development, manufacturing, and licensing of radio-frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) switching technology. The company focuses on small-signal switching applications, providing stand-alone single pole double throw switches suitable for automatic test equipment, instrumentation, mobile telecommunications infrastructure, as well as military and space applications. Delfmems' technology supports the creation of digital and variable capacitors, aiming to enhance connectivity and meet the growing data demands of next-generation 4G and 5G handsets. Their RF MEMS switching solutions deliver low voltage operation, high performance, and hot switching capabilities, enabling clients to achieve increased bandwidth and bit rates for handling substantial data volumes.
Delfmems
Series B in 2013
Delfmems SAS, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, specializes in the development, manufacturing, and licensing of radio-frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) switching technology. The company focuses on small-signal switching applications, providing stand-alone single pole double throw switches suitable for automatic test equipment, instrumentation, mobile telecommunications infrastructure, as well as military and space applications. Delfmems' technology supports the creation of digital and variable capacitors, aiming to enhance connectivity and meet the growing data demands of next-generation 4G and 5G handsets. Their RF MEMS switching solutions deliver low voltage operation, high performance, and hot switching capabilities, enabling clients to achieve increased bandwidth and bit rates for handling substantial data volumes.
Cortus
Private Equity Round in 2011
Cortus is a company specializing in intelligent processing and system-on-chip solutions tailored to customer needs. As a founding platinum member of the RISC-V Foundation, Cortus utilizes a diverse range of in-house intellectual property, including both proprietary and RISC-V instruction set architecture processors, analog circuits, and system-level components. Their offerings encompass interconnect IP, coherent caches, and a comprehensive software stack, including compilers and real-time operating systems. This enables Cortus to deliver complete hardware, software, and system-level solutions that provide clients with significant competitive advantages across various application domains, from banking and automotive systems to space applications. The company has developed complete systems-on-chip for various customers, including an IoT solution featuring a medium-range RF transceiver, a powerful microcontroller, and built-in security features, all designed for low-power, cost-effective applications. Cortus's IP has been integrated into over 6 billion devices, illustrating their extensive impact on the industry.
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