Bpifrance

Bpifrance Financement S.A. is a French financial institution that provides a wide range of financing solutions and support services for businesses at various stages of their development. Established in 1980 and based in Maisons-Alfort, France, the company offers medium to long-term loans, export insurance, real estate and equipment leasing, and working capital loans. Bpifrance also invests in startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and mid-cap companies through direct investments and fund management activities. Additionally, it provides consulting services for executives and training for CEOs, aiming to facilitate innovation and growth. Bpifrance was formed from the merger of several entities in July 2013, including OSEO, CDC Entreprises, and FSI, to enhance its role in supporting the financing of the French economy.

Laurent Arthaud

Managing Director

Marion Aubry

Investment Director

Emmanuel Audouard

Director of Cross-Functional Investments Venture Capital

Elyssa Maufras du Châtellier

Investment Director

Charlotte Corbaz

Deputy Director of the Large Venture Fund and Deputy Managing Director

Sofia Dahoune

Associate

Vanessa Giraud

Managing Director

Laurent Higueret

Senior Investment Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences - Large Venture Fund

Hortense Jacon

Investment Associate

Veronique Jacq

Head of Digital Venture team

So-Yeon Koo

Senior Investment Manager

Eric Lefebvre

Director

Arnaud Legardeur

Investment Director

Serge Mesguich

Director

Louis Molis

Investment Director

Adrien Neel

Investment Director

Gilles Schang

Deputy Director

Tuan Tran

Investment Director / VC

Past deals in Finance

Silvr

Series A in 2022
Silvr provides financial services tailored for e-merchants who lack access to traditional bank credit and prefer not to pursue fundraising. The company specializes in revenue-based financing, which aligns repayments with the performance of the businesses they support. By offering funding for both operational growth and marketing expenditures, Silvr enables entrepreneurs in the e-commerce space to enhance their productivity and efficiency. This approach allows clients to focus on scaling their businesses without the burden of conventional financing constraints, thereby facilitating their path to success.

Swan

Series A in 2021
Swan is an online banking platform based in Paris, France, founded in 2019. It provides businesses with the ability to create bank accounts, manage transactions, and access essential financial data. The platform includes features such as issuing master cards and generating International Bank Account Numbers (IBANs). Swan's embedded finance solution allows businesses and organizations to integrate banking services seamlessly through a simple API, enabling the development of custom financial tools. By offering a comprehensive toolkit, Swan empowers companies to deliver banking services on demand, enhancing their financial operations.

Younited

Venture Round in 2021
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

iBanFirst

Private Equity Round in 2021
iBanFirst is a financial services provider that offers a comprehensive platform for foreign exchange payments and transfers, catering specifically to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) globally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, with additional offices in Paris, Dijon, and Antwerp, the company focuses on facilitating multicurrency transactions. iBanFirst’s platform provides real-time competitive exchange rates, currency market alerts, and organized accounting, ensuring transparency without hidden fees. By leveraging a secure API, it allows clients to efficiently manage international payments and pay beneficiaries in their local currencies, creating a streamlined payment experience that serves as a viable alternative to traditional banking solutions.

Sis ID

Series A in 2021
The My Sis ID platform is the first community of financial departments that preserves transfer fraud by pooling banking identities and their control costs.

Swan

Seed Round in 2020
Swan is an online banking platform based in Paris, France, founded in 2019. It provides businesses with the ability to create bank accounts, manage transactions, and access essential financial data. The platform includes features such as issuing master cards and generating International Bank Account Numbers (IBANs). Swan's embedded finance solution allows businesses and organizations to integrate banking services seamlessly through a simple API, enabling the development of custom financial tools. By offering a comprehensive toolkit, Swan empowers companies to deliver banking services on demand, enhancing their financial operations.

iBanFirst

Series C in 2020
iBanFirst is a financial services provider that offers a comprehensive platform for foreign exchange payments and transfers, catering specifically to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) globally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, with additional offices in Paris, Dijon, and Antwerp, the company focuses on facilitating multicurrency transactions. iBanFirst’s platform provides real-time competitive exchange rates, currency market alerts, and organized accounting, ensuring transparency without hidden fees. By leveraging a secure API, it allows clients to efficiently manage international payments and pay beneficiaries in their local currencies, creating a streamlined payment experience that serves as a viable alternative to traditional banking solutions.

Pixpay

Series A in 2020
Pixpay is a financial application specifically designed for teenagers aged 10 to 18, addressing the challenges they face in a cashless society where traditional banking options are typically unavailable. The platform provides online banking services that include a mobile bank account and a payment card, allowing users to manage their finances with parental oversight. Through Pixpay, teenagers can earn, spend, and save money digitally, as well as track their spending and receive discounts from popular brands. This innovative tool empowers young users to gain financial literacy while offering parents the ability to monitor and guide their children's financial activities.

FinKey

Seed Round in 2019
FinKey SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Lyon, France, is a digital platform that assists start-ups and small businesses in identifying suitable financing options for their projects. The company offers a comprehensive database of public and private financing sources, streamlining the process of securing funding. In addition to its core financing services, FinKey also provides advisory services related to mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyout transactions, primarily serving clients in the information technology, software, cloud technology, and SaaS sectors.

Younited

Series F in 2019
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

Monemprunt

Seed Round in 2018
Monemprunt.com is a digital brokerage firm specializing in real estate credit, founded in 2016 and based in Rennes, France. The platform operates as a direct exchange between borrowers and banks, offering a streamlined and online process for securing competitive loan rates. Monemprunt.com aims to simplify the mortgage application journey by providing borrowers with the tools and advice needed to manage their loan applications independently. The firm negotiates favorable terms on behalf of its clients, ensuring a faster response time and centralized information to aid decision-making. Catering to both individuals and professionals, Monemprunt.com addresses the evolving needs of a tech-savvy clientele seeking efficient financing solutions for their real estate projects.

Federation Entertainment

Venture Round in 2018
Federation Entertainment is a fully-integrated television studio focusing on the creation, production, financing, and distribution of original productions for the global marketplace. The company was founded Founded in 2014.

Studeal

Venture Round in 2018
La plateforme de bons plans étudiants et de gestion d'associations étudiantes. The platform of good student plans and management of student associations. Studeal allows Students to take advantage of good plans and discounts for students. Student associations to easily manage the different poles of their association, Companies to promote and disseminate their special offers students.

Kyriba

Series E in 2017
Kyriba Corp. develops cloud-based treasury management software solutions tailored for CFOs, treasurers, and financial professionals. The company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides visibility and reporting to help optimize cash management, control bank accounts, manage liquidity, and ensure compliance. Kyriba's solutions include tools for financial risk management, working capital optimization, and a global multi-bank payment system for treasury and supplier payments. Additionally, Kyriba facilitates bank relationship management, payment management, and trade solutions to enhance operational efficiency. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba serves a diverse clientele ranging from mid-sized organizations to Fortune 500 companies, with offices in major global cities, including New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, and Dubai. The company focuses on automating financial operations, reducing the risk of fraud, and enabling better decision-making through advanced analytics.

Younited

Series F in 2017
Younited SA is a financial technology company that operates an online platform designed to connect individual lenders with borrowers, facilitating financial transactions without the need for traditional financial intermediaries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France, Younited aims to provide credit with full transparency, allowing borrowers to share their testimonials and experiences. The company, previously known as PRET d'UNION S.A. until its rebranding in March 2016, focuses on creating a streamlined and direct lending experience for its users.

Famoco

Series B in 2017
Famoco SAS, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in providing mobile, Android-based NFC readers aimed at enhancing contactless transactions for businesses. The company develops secure, corporate-owned devices with zero-street-value, designed for privacy and remotely manageable through a single software platform. Famoco’s ecosystem allows organizations to deploy business applications efficiently while ensuring secure data capture for various functions, including mobile payments, public transport, identity verification, and workforce management. Clients can configure device profiles, push applications, and monitor device locations through Famoco's management suite. With operations extending to Schaerbeek, Belgium, and Hong Kong, the company has successfully deployed over 250,000 devices across more than 35 countries, supporting businesses in their digital transformation efforts.

Particeep

Venture Round in 2016
Particeep is a fintech that provides banks, asset management firms, insurances and their distributors an API technology, enabling them to distribute their financial products and services online. The company offers, in addition to its API integrating ready-to-use banking and insurance micro-services, white-label platforms to industrialise the online distribution of banking, insurance and investment products. Particeep is a young innovative firm, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Banque et Innovation Fintech and Open Banking awards, elected Future Fintech European Star 2016 (ICT Awards 2016) and selected by Challenges in the 2016 ranking of 100 startups to invest in

Kyriba

Series D in 2016
Kyriba Corp. develops cloud-based treasury management software solutions tailored for CFOs, treasurers, and financial professionals. The company offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides visibility and reporting to help optimize cash management, control bank accounts, manage liquidity, and ensure compliance. Kyriba's solutions include tools for financial risk management, working capital optimization, and a global multi-bank payment system for treasury and supplier payments. Additionally, Kyriba facilitates bank relationship management, payment management, and trade solutions to enhance operational efficiency. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba serves a diverse clientele ranging from mid-sized organizations to Fortune 500 companies, with offices in major global cities, including New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, and Dubai. The company focuses on automating financial operations, reducing the risk of fraud, and enabling better decision-making through advanced analytics.

Expensya

Seed Round in 2016
Expensya SAS is a company based in Paris, France, that specializes in developing multi-platform expense management software solutions. Founded in 2015, it provides a web application designed to streamline the management of professional expense reports. The Expensya application offers a range of features, including expense management, data export, accountant integration, archiving, email processing, mileage expense management, approval flow, cost accounting, and a statistics module. It is compatible with Android, iPhone, and Windows phone, making it accessible for users across different devices.

Famoco

Series A in 2015
Famoco SAS, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Paris, France, specializes in providing mobile, Android-based NFC readers aimed at enhancing contactless transactions for businesses. The company develops secure, corporate-owned devices with zero-street-value, designed for privacy and remotely manageable through a single software platform. Famoco’s ecosystem allows organizations to deploy business applications efficiently while ensuring secure data capture for various functions, including mobile payments, public transport, identity verification, and workforce management. Clients can configure device profiles, push applications, and monitor device locations through Famoco's management suite. With operations extending to Schaerbeek, Belgium, and Hong Kong, the company has successfully deployed over 250,000 devices across more than 35 countries, supporting businesses in their digital transformation efforts.

Finsécur

Venture Round in 2014
Finsécur S.A., established in 1989 and based in Paris, France, specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and maintenance of advanced fire safety systems. The company produces a wide range of products, including fire detectors, control panels, and alarm systems, such as home fire detectors, extinguishing systems, and technical alarm panels. Its offerings also encompass automatic sensors, sound diffusers, and visual signaling devices, catering to various sectors including clean rooms, computer facilities, agro-alimentary storage, telecommunications, airports, and military industries. Finsécur is recognized for its technological innovations and has received the BPI label Excellence, highlighting its status as a leader in the French high-tech industry.
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