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 Human Resources
RSight
Debt Financing in 2024
RSight offers each customer, candidate, and partner with a one-of-a-kind and best-in-class recruitment, onboarding, and working experience. The company, above and beyond the current industry possibilities in providing enhanced service to recruiting organizations and individuals. The company is elevating the recruitment experience and interaction by providing recruitment experience for each client, candidate, and partner.
Stern Tech
Seed Round in 2024
We created a revolutionary SaaS platform for human behavior analysis: AI x Psychology to understand human behavior in real time. Use cases: Marketing, Education, eMeetings, Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, Sport. See our partnership with Renault and STMicroelectronics : https://stern.consulting/sterntech-h1stvision.mp4
RSight
Debt Financing in 2023
RSight offers each customer, candidate, and partner with a one-of-a-kind and best-in-class recruitment, onboarding, and working experience. The company, above and beyond the current industry possibilities in providing enhanced service to recruiting organizations and individuals. The company is elevating the recruitment experience and interaction by providing recruitment experience for each client, candidate, and partner.
Revoltrain
Seed Round in 2023
Revoltrain is an innovative online education platform focused on job training and skill development. The company specializes in creating schools that address contemporary topics, equipping learners with the skills needed for promising career opportunities. By offering remote programs, Revoltrain ensures that participants receive personalized support and guidance from experienced instructors. This tailored approach enables professionals to find freelance jobs that align with their individual skills and knowledge, helping them secure employment quickly and effectively.
Welcome to the Jungle
Series C in 2023
Welcome to the Jungle is a multi-channel media company focused on enhancing professional lives through a variety of high-quality content, including articles, videos, podcasts, and events. The company aims to inspire young professionals to rethink their relationship with work while providing valuable resources for job seekers. Its content-rich website features over 3,300 detailed company profiles, offering insights such as employee demographics and company statistics to aid prospective candidates in their job searches. Additionally, Welcome to the Jungle operates an innovative job platform designed to assist small and medium enterprises in their hiring processes. This platform includes tools for resume screening and application tracking, helping employers find and onboard both skilled and unskilled workers effectively.
Figures
Seed Round in 2022
Figures offers a real-time compensation intelligence platform tailored for the startup and scale-up market, with a focus on European venture-backed companies. The platform provides reliable data on compensation and gender diversity, enabling clients to access comprehensive salary information categorized by job title and seniority level. Clients can filter this data based on company headcount and funding status, allowing for meaningful comparisons and insights. By streamlining the process of gathering and analyzing compensation data, Figures helps companies save time and make informed decisions regarding employee remuneration.
CiviTime
Seed Round in 2022
CiviTime specializes in a collaborative business game aimed at assessing and enhancing employee engagement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies. The company offers customizable services tailored to meet the specific needs of each client, allowing organizations to gain comprehensive visibility into the impacts of their investment decisions. This approach enables businesses to refine their CSR strategies and effectively communicate their initiatives, ultimately fostering a more engaged workforce and promoting responsible corporate practices.
PayFit
Series E in 2022
PayFit is a technology company that specializes in simplifying and automating payroll and human resource processes for small and medium-sized businesses. Its software streamlines payroll management and handles social statements while providing a flexible HR system to monitor working hours, onboarding, leave requests, and expense reports. By offering a comprehensive online platform, PayFit enables businesses to manage all payroll and HR information efficiently and effectively. The company also supports the digital transformation of organizations through an expanding array of product features and services, complemented by the assistance of payroll experts to enhance user experience.
Stern Tech
Seed Round in 2022
We created a revolutionary SaaS platform for human behavior analysis: AI x Psychology to understand human behavior in real time. Use cases: Marketing, Education, eMeetings, Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, Sport. See our partnership with Renault and STMicroelectronics : https://stern.consulting/sterntech-h1stvision.mp4
Léa et Léo
Debt Financing in 2021
Since 2007, the Léa & Léo Group has been working for the development of children and parents. With a crèche network spreading all over France, the Léa & Léo Group supports businesses and communities by providing concrete solutions tailored to the needs of employees and users. Groupe Léa & Léo offers a set of solutions adapted to your company or your community and assists you in the development and management of your Human Resources or Early Childhood policy: • Creation and management of inter-company and collective crèches, • Reservation of seats in a collective structure created and managed by Léa & Léo • Find places for employees throughout France thanks to our partner network.
PayFit
Series D in 2021
PayFit is a technology company that specializes in simplifying and automating payroll and human resource processes for small and medium-sized businesses. Its software streamlines payroll management and handles social statements while providing a flexible HR system to monitor working hours, onboarding, leave requests, and expense reports. By offering a comprehensive online platform, PayFit enables businesses to manage all payroll and HR information efficiently and effectively. The company also supports the digital transformation of organizations through an expanding array of product features and services, complemented by the assistance of payroll experts to enhance user experience.
iziwork
Series B in 2021
Iziwork is a technology-driven startup based in Clichy, France, that specializes in temporary employment services through its innovative online platform. Founded in 2018, the company aims to enhance the temporary work experience by providing job-seekers and enterprises with a streamlined alternative to traditional staffing agencies. The platform employs an AI-based system to match workers with suitable assignments, facilitating onboarding and personnel management via a mobile application. Temporary employees benefit from features such as instant payment options, a paid time savings account, personalized training and e-learning opportunities, and access to medical teleconsultation. By offering personalized support and flexible work opportunities, Iziwork helps businesses lower their operational costs while connecting them with skilled and independent professionals.
Badakan
Debt Financing in 2020
Badakan is a human resources management platform designed to streamline the process of connecting restaurants, hotels, bars, and skilled professionals. The platform offers a comprehensive solution for managing short-term assignments, allowing organizations to oversee every aspect from profile selection to payroll editing. By facilitating staffing, planning, and the production of administrative documents, Badakan enables businesses to optimize team organization through efficient online planning alternatives. This flexibility and efficiency make it an immediate solution for businesses looking to enhance their workforce management.
eLamp (acquired by 360Learning)
Venture Round in 2020
eLamp identifies all the skills of a company in real time. By becoming its Skill Data processor, eLamp facilitates and feed with data all concerned workflows: mobility, staffing, training, performance. Its API and SaaS interfaces guarantee up-to-date and analyzable data, to become the common language between all tools and processes.
Combo
Venture Round in 2019
Combo is a staff planning and staff management software.
Welcome to the Jungle
Series B in 2019
Welcome to the Jungle is a multi-channel media company focused on enhancing professional lives through a variety of high-quality content, including articles, videos, podcasts, and events. The company aims to inspire young professionals to rethink their relationship with work while providing valuable resources for job seekers. Its content-rich website features over 3,300 detailed company profiles, offering insights such as employee demographics and company statistics to aid prospective candidates in their job searches. Additionally, Welcome to the Jungle operates an innovative job platform designed to assist small and medium enterprises in their hiring processes. This platform includes tools for resume screening and application tracking, helping employers find and onboard both skilled and unskilled workers effectively.
PayFit
Series C in 2019
PayFit is a technology company that specializes in simplifying and automating payroll and human resource processes for small and medium-sized businesses. Its software streamlines payroll management and handles social statements while providing a flexible HR system to monitor working hours, onboarding, leave requests, and expense reports. By offering a comprehensive online platform, PayFit enables businesses to manage all payroll and HR information efficiently and effectively. The company also supports the digital transformation of organizations through an expanding array of product features and services, complemented by the assistance of payroll experts to enhance user experience.
Staffmatch
Venture Round in 2018
Staffmatch operates as a digitized temporary employment agency that automates the recruitment process while maintaining a personal touch often lost in digital platforms. The company has developed recruitment software designed to connect unemployed individuals with job opportunities, specifically in sectors such as hospitality, distribution, logistics, and transport. This innovative tool allows clients to efficiently fill vacancies, while providing job seekers with the ability to find temporary contracts that align with their skill sets. By enhancing both the experience for customers and the process for temporary workers, Staffmatch streamlines recruitment in a competitive job market.
Welcome to the Jungle
Series A in 2018
Welcome to the Jungle is a multi-channel media company focused on enhancing professional lives through a variety of high-quality content, including articles, videos, podcasts, and events. The company aims to inspire young professionals to rethink their relationship with work while providing valuable resources for job seekers. Its content-rich website features over 3,300 detailed company profiles, offering insights such as employee demographics and company statistics to aid prospective candidates in their job searches. Additionally, Welcome to the Jungle operates an innovative job platform designed to assist small and medium enterprises in their hiring processes. This platform includes tools for resume screening and application tracking, helping employers find and onboard both skilled and unskilled workers effectively.
88Jobs
Seed Round in 2017
88JOBS is an innovative recruitment platform specialized in Chinese bilingual jobs
Menway
Venture Round in 2017
Menway is a manpower recruitment firm founded in 2002 and based in Metz, France. As a subsidiary of Groupe MENWAY SAS since 2008, the company specializes in providing tailored human resources solutions to address various employment challenges. Menway serves both businesses and employees, offering a diverse range of skills to meet specific HR needs.
United Heroes
Series A in 2016
United Heroes is the European leader in driving Employee Engagement in the workplace leveraging sense of community and belonging. Created in 2014 and part of the ‘HR Tech’ solutions, this app helps companies to engage all their employee profiles, regardless of their job or geographical location. Since its inception, United Heroes has worked with +1000 organisations (Paris 2024, PwC, LVMH, Orange, Toyota, L'OCCITANE...) and with them raised over €5 million in donations to charities. In total, more than 3 million users in 150 countries have used United Heroes solutions. United Heroes now has 70 employees based in Paris and Madrid, and is looking to expand into other European markets.
Cooptalis
Venture Round in 2015
Cooptalis operates as a recruiting agency. The company assists clients and applicants in the areas of international human resources (HR) matters. It organizes recruiting interventions to meet the applicants on-site; assists clients in the process of mobility, preparation, and follow-up of their files; provides counselling towards partner who is moving into foreign country
Keycoopt
Seed Round in 2012
Keycoopt is a web-based startup that focuses on recruitment through employee referrals. It provides a platform designed to facilitate the recruitment of managers by leveraging recommendations from existing employees. The company offers services for in-house recruitment, tapping into professional networks to help organizations identify and connect with suitable candidates. Keycoopt aims to enhance the hiring process by providing effective tools and human resource consulting, thus enabling companies to find the right talent more efficiently.
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