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 Machine Learning
Lingua Custodia
Grant in 2024
Lingua Custodia SAS is a Fintech company specializing in machine translation solutions tailored for the financial sector. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France, the company initially focused on providing specialized machine translation services. It has since expanded its offerings to include a suite of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as Speech-to-Text automation, document classification, and data extraction from unstructured documents. Lingua Custodia's platform supports various document types, including fund prospectuses, annual reports, and equity research, enabling financial professionals to streamline their translation processes. The company serves a diverse clientele, including investment houses, banks, and language service providers, delivering superior quality through advanced machine learning algorithms specifically designed for the financial domain. Its innovative technology has received recognition and awards within the industry, underscoring its commitment to enhancing translation efficiency for finance-related documents.
Siello
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Siello is a company dedicated to enhancing the real estate transaction process through advanced artificial intelligence solutions. The platform provides a range of services, including customer data qualification, property inspection, estimation, and market research, all aimed at empowering real estate agents to make informed decisions. By leveraging AI, Siello ensures a seamless customer experience with real-time tracking and personalized AI assistants. Their approach is entirely digital, supplemented by a human element to maintain transparency and simplicity in transactions. This combination allows Siello to streamline the complexities of real estate dealings, making them faster and more efficient for all parties involved.
FlexAI
Seed Round in 2024
Unlocking the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure
Surge
Grant in 2024
Surge is a biotechnology company dedicated to enhancing surgical outcomes for patients. It has developed an advanced immunological model known as Surge2surgery, which predicts postoperative infections. This innovative platform integrates a single-cell analysis of the immune system conducted prior to surgery with clinical data, utilizing a proprietary machine-learning algorithm. By examining millions of immune cells from a small blood sample, Surge's technology simulates surgical trauma in a controlled environment, allowing for improved predictions and potentially better patient care.
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
BrightClue
Seed Round in 2024
At heart of the French Artificial Intelligence ecosystem, BrightClue is the outworking of a strongly-held conviction: AI has the power to transform industrial data into knowledge. We supply major Manufacturers with AI solutions to leverage the full potential of their in-house technical databases. Our solutions use models built on artificial neural networks to analyze Manufacturers' technical data, extracting knowledge that unlocks in-house potential.
AQEMIA
Series A in 2024
AQEMIA is a pharmatech company focused on drug discovery, utilizing a platform that integrates machine learning with quantum-inspired physics. This innovative approach allows for the efficient identification of new drug candidates aimed at specific therapeutic targets. By employing advanced algorithms, AQEMIA's platform is capable of predicting the interactions and affinities between potential drug molecules and their targets. This methodology not only accelerates the drug discovery process but also contributes to a growing pipeline of viable drug candidates for various medical applications.
Poolside
Seed Round in 2023
Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure. It aims to unlock humanity's potential by pursuing AGI for software creation, with the fundamental belief that the transitional path for humanity to AGI is by building specific capabilities instead of a general-purpose approach. It also helps users utilize the power of software creation and understand future systems.
Craft AI
Venture Round in 2023
Craft AI enables companies to create high-performance AI agents, customized to their needs and within a framework of trust. Easily combine any language model with a variety of tools to automate a wide range of tasks. We help our customers boost their teams' productivity with generative AI, while guaranteeing strict data confidentiality and total technological sovereignty. Choose high-performance, responsible AI with Craft AI.
IA Medical
Seed Round in 2023
IA Medical transforms raw data into intelligent patient knowledge. Its algorithms help to understand patient data, from diagnosis to follow-up, to support them with its conversational agents but also to set up a hybrid solution of cognitive and behavioral therapies.
Fari Analytics
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fari Analytics democratises access to the possibilities of data analysis and AI. The company's solution is built on current, anonymised data, whether it originates from an ERP, CRM, or BI platform.
XXII
Series A in 2023
XXII is a technology company with over 50 employees that specializes in the design, development, and marketing of a SaaS platform known as XXIICORE. This platform is focused on deploying and configuring algorithms specifically for video stream analysis. XXII's solution has gained traction among various sectors and local authorities, enabling users to leverage video analysis to enhance operational performance. Clients benefit from the ability to create new tools and applications using the company’s algorithms, which facilitate real-time video analysis and offer measurable advantages in their operations.
Locuta
Seed Round in 2023
Locuta specializes in developing callbot solutions that automate customer interactions through conversational AI. Their technology enables efficient handling of customer inquiries across multiple languages, utilizing advanced dialogue management based on machine learning. By analyzing production audio recordings, Locuta identifies the potential for automation within customer call centers, enhancing service efficiency. The company offers a range of virtual agents, including call bots, chatbots, and messaging bots, which seamlessly integrate with telephone platforms and customer relationship management systems. This allows these virtual agents to address customer questions, support requests, and manage operations within e-commerce environments, thereby improving the overall customer experience.
Meelo
Series A in 2022
Meelo is a SaaS solution to facilitate, secure, and automate customer onboarding, fight against fraud and the risk of non-payment. It offers open data and AI to identify new customers and predict the behavior. It's a modular solution to fight against fraud and the risk of unpaid.
DeepLife
Series A in 2022
DeepLife is a biotech company based in Paris, France, founded in 2019. It focuses on developing digital twins of cells to enhance drug discovery processes. By utilizing deep learning techniques on multi-omics data, DeepLife models cellular behavior and simulates responses to various genetic screenings, such as siRNA and CRISPR-Cas9. This approach allows the identification of new drug targets, biomarkers, and potential drug candidates, enabling a better understanding of drug resistance and sensitivity. The company's mission is to advance systems biology and facilitate the transition of laboratory discoveries to clinical applications. DeepLife collaborates with academic institutions to leverage expertise and drive innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry, ultimately aiming to match the right drug to the right patient.
Contentsquare
Series F in 2022
Contentsquare is an AI-powered platform that provides rich and contextual insight through customer behaviors, feelings, and intent. The platform helps brands to transform their businesses digitally using digital experience analytics that allows them to take action through enterprise scale and build customer trust with security, privacy, and accessibility.
Sensivic
Seed Round in 2022
Sensivic specializes in developing real-time intelligent audio detection technology aimed at enhancing security and video surveillance systems. The company offers a range of products, including sound event detectors, automatic detectors for power tools, audible incivility detectors for enclosed spaces, sound shock detectors, and gunshot detectors. These products are designed for integration into control panels, providing improved efficiency and performance for existing indoor and outdoor protection systems. Sensivic's innovations serve various sectors, including communities, businesses, and institutions, by leveraging advanced techniques in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and edge computing to elevate security measures.
Koliving
Seed Round in 2022
Koliving is a proptech company that provides a platform for renting homes and apartments quickly and securely. The platform offers a comprehensive listing of available rental properties while ensuring the verification of landlords' identities and the authenticity of their accommodation details. Using artificial intelligence, Koliving analyzes documents submitted by potential tenants to streamline the rental process. The company focuses on managed co-living spaces for medium to long-term rentals, facilitating access to instant services for both professional real estate agents and tenants.
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
GitGuardian
Series B in 2021
GitGuardian is a cybersecurity platform specializing in Non-Human Identity security, providing comprehensive solutions for secrets detection in code and infrastructure-as-code security. The platform utilizes machine learning algorithms to monitor version control systems, DevOps tools, and configurations in real-time, effectively identifying exposed sensitive information and misconfigurations across both public and private repositories. With over 600,000 developers utilizing its services, GitGuardian offers tools for detection, remediation, and proactive prevention of data leaks, helping organizations mitigate risks that could lead to significant financial losses. Additionally, the platform features capabilities such as Honeytoken technology, enhancing security enforcement and monitoring. GitGuardian is recognized as a leading security application on the GitHub marketplace, underscoring its commitment to safeguarding sensitive data in the software development process.
askR.ai
Seed Round in 2021
askR.ai develops an artificial intelligence-powered data assistant chatbot designed to facilitate data-related inquiries for businesses. This innovative tool constantly analyzes data and filters relevant information for users, allowing them to interact seamlessly with their company's data. By leveraging advanced AI algorithms, askR.ai enhances decision-making processes and optimizes operational efficiency. Additionally, the company offers a virtual coaching solution called Kaptain Charlie, which assists retail managers in improving store performance. Co-developed with input from over 60 regional directors, Kaptain Charlie aligns underperforming locations with their more successful counterparts, enabling managers to implement timely and effective strategies to boost revenue.
Muzzo
Seed Round in 2021
Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace that specializes in talent acquisition by connecting employers with headhunters. The platform utilizes a sophisticated matching algorithm to analyze job offers and generate a list of the most suitable recruiters based on various criteria, including location, experience level, and performance history. This approach allows businesses to efficiently find qualified candidates, significantly reducing the time spent on recruitment.
Bloom
Seed Round in 2021
Bloom has created a method for investigating social networks using social inference. This new generation of biomimicry algorithms provides significantly more scope, relevance, and impact than the keyword-based method.
Mindee
Series A in 2021
Mindee specializes in providing artificial intelligence solutions tailored to enhance business operations. The company has developed an API platform that automates workflows by standardizing the document processing layer. Utilizing machine learning, Mindee's technology automatically detects and extracts information from various document types, adapting to diverse workflows to address document-based use cases in real-time. Their expert team supports clients throughout the entire process, from prototyping to production and training, ensuring a seamless integration of advanced technologies into existing business structures.
AQEMIA
Series A in 2021
AQEMIA is a pharmatech company focused on drug discovery, utilizing a platform that integrates machine learning with quantum-inspired physics. This innovative approach allows for the efficient identification of new drug candidates aimed at specific therapeutic targets. By employing advanced algorithms, AQEMIA's platform is capable of predicting the interactions and affinities between potential drug molecules and their targets. This methodology not only accelerates the drug discovery process but also contributes to a growing pipeline of viable drug candidates for various medical applications.
Contentsquare
Series E in 2021
Contentsquare is an AI-powered platform that provides rich and contextual insight through customer behaviors, feelings, and intent. The platform helps brands to transform their businesses digitally using digital experience analytics that allows them to take action through enterprise scale and build customer trust with security, privacy, and accessibility.
dessIA
Series A in 2021
DessIA is a developer of augmented engineering software that leverages artificial intelligence to streamline product development. The company's platform assists engineers and architects by automating tasks in the early stages of design, generating numerous architectural options, and identifying optimal configurations that align with sustainability and profitability goals. By addressing complex engineering challenges, DessIA enables automotive and mechanical engineers to enhance their efficiency and explore innovative solutions, ultimately reducing lead times and increasing profit margins.
Potions
Seed Round in 2021
Potions specializes in enhancing e-commerce performance through its innovative cookieless personalization technology. By leveraging a data analysis platform, Potions meticulously organizes and schedules product listings to ensure that each visitor encounters the most relevant items according to their behavior and business rules. The company’s behavioral targeting technology further refines the shopping experience by delivering tailored pop-ups to the most engaged visitors at critical moments in their purchasing journey. This approach is designed to boost revenue by optimizing conversion rates, average basket sizes, and customer acquisition costs, all while maintaining user privacy without the use of cookies.
DiagRAMS Technologies
Seed Round in 2021
DiagRAMS Technologies offers predictive maintenance solution for AI industry.
SESAMm
Series B in 2021
SESAMm is a fintech company focused on leveraging big data and artificial intelligence to enhance investment strategies. The firm specializes in analyzing vast amounts of web content through natural language processing and machine learning to generate analytics and investment signals. Its platforms, TextReveal and SignalReveal, provide comprehensive solutions for alpha research, catering to both fundamental and quantitative investment needs. With a team of 90 professionals located in cities such as Paris, New York, and Tokyo, SESAMm collaborates with prominent hedge funds, banks, and asset management firms globally. Additionally, the company emphasizes responsible and sustainable investing, offering insights that assist private equity firms, asset managers, and corporations in effectively managing their assets.
Iktos
Debt Financing in 2021
Iktos is a French company focused on artificial intelligence and robotic solutions for medicinal chemistry and drug design. It offers a proprietary generative AI technology that optimizes molecule design for small molecule discovery projects, significantly enhancing productivity in pharmaceutical research and development. Iktos provides its innovative solutions through its SaaS platforms, Makya™ for generative drug design and Spaya™ for retrosynthesis, while also engaging in strategic partnerships with pharmaceutical companies to accelerate drug discovery. Additionally, Iktos has developed an AI-driven synthesis automation platform, Iktos Robotics, which expedites the Design-Make-Test-Analyze cycle in drug development. The company is also advancing its own pipeline of drug candidates aimed at oncology and autoimmune diseases. In March 2023, Iktos secured a significant financing round, and in July 2024, it enhanced its capabilities by acquiring Synsight, which adds a biology platform for discovering drugs targeting Protein-Protein and RNA-Protein interactions.
Ekimetrics
Venture Round in 2020
Ekimetrics is a global consulting firm based in Paris, France, specializing in industrialized corporate data science solutions. The firm combines consulting expertise with advanced data science and technology to enhance company performance, growth, and profitability. Ekimetrics develops tailored solutions that deliver significant impact in under six months, focusing on areas such as data transformation, marketing performance, customer intelligence, pricing strategies, process optimization, and broader data solutions. Through its team of data scientists, the company emphasizes ethical and conscious practices in data and artificial intelligence, enabling clients to improve their marketing and operational performance while revitalizing their business models.
GrAI Matter Labs
Venture Round in 2020
GrAI Matter Labs, based in Paris with additional offices in Eindhoven and Silicon Valley, specializes in developing ultra-low power, programmable neuromorphic computing technology. The company focuses on creating brain-inspired chips that utilize spiking neural networks to enhance sensor analytics and machine learning capabilities, particularly for devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). These processors are designed to enable autonomous navigation for vehicles, robots, and drones, while also integrating intelligent AI into smart homes, smartphones, and wearable health monitoring devices. Founded in 2016, GrAI Matter Labs aims to optimize energy usage and improve efficiency in AI applications, providing solutions that allow machines to act and react in real time. The company seeks to redefine AI interactions, making them more intuitive and human-like.
Preligens
Series A in 2020
Preligens develops advanced artificial intelligence technology aimed at enhancing operational decision-making for defense and intelligence sectors. By automating the analysis of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) workflows, the company leverages machine learning and computer vision to aggregate data from multiple intelligence sources, including imagery, electromagnetic signals, and open-source information. This approach enables intelligence agencies to gain critical insights into mission areas, facilitating rapid decision-making and improving situational awareness. Preligens' innovative solutions empower analysts to take informed actions, ultimately contributing to a safer world.
Ponicode
Debt Financing in 2020
Ponicode is a developer-focused platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to streamline the testing of JavaScript code. The platform allows users to quickly set up and utilize its tools within their existing integrated development environments (IDEs) without altering their workflows. Ponicode simplifies the process of creating, modifying, and visualizing unit tests, enabling developers to generate and maintain automated test files with ease. By handling essential yet time-consuming technical tasks, such as configuration and framework selection, Ponicode allows clients to concentrate on their core business activities while ensuring efficient and effective code testing. The tool operates unobtrusively in the background, transforming the experience of testing JavaScript code into a more manageable and efficient process.
Contentsquare
Series D in 2020
Contentsquare is an AI-powered platform that provides rich and contextual insight through customer behaviors, feelings, and intent. The platform helps brands to transform their businesses digitally using digital experience analytics that allows them to take action through enterprise scale and build customer trust with security, privacy, and accessibility.
CybelAngel
Series B in 2020
CybelAngel is a cybersecurity startup specializing in data leak detection to help companies secure sensitive information. The company identifies both stolen and accidentally leaked data, primarily arising from third-party partners and suppliers. Its unique solution scans the visible, deep, and dark web, as well as connected storage, a common source of negligent leaks. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, CybelAngel's approach ensures rapid and accurate identification of data breaches. Smart algorithms filter alerts based on client priorities, while cyber analysts compile detailed reports for each incident, providing essential information for swift remediation. This comprehensive service aims to protect organizations' reputations, competitiveness, and overall data security.
Extrality
Seed Round in 2020
Extrality develops a platform aimed to offer rapid numerical simulations by machine learning. It was formed in 2019 and based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
Bleckwen
Series A in 2019
Bleckwen is a fintech company founded in 2016 and based in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, specializing in machine-learning solutions for fraud prevention in the banking sector. The company offers an advanced fraud detection platform that utilizes AI to enhance the security of banking transactions. This platform is designed to optimize the detection of irregularities, adapt to emerging fraud schemes, and monitor system performance. By employing explainable machine learning models, Bleckwen enables banks to reduce customer friction while improving fraud detection and overall banking security. With a focus on real-time Big Data processing and a customer-oriented approach, Bleckwen leverages its industry expertise to help financial institutions safeguard their operations.
CybelAngel
Series A in 2018
CybelAngel is a cybersecurity startup specializing in data leak detection to help companies secure sensitive information. The company identifies both stolen and accidentally leaked data, primarily arising from third-party partners and suppliers. Its unique solution scans the visible, deep, and dark web, as well as connected storage, a common source of negligent leaks. By combining artificial intelligence with human expertise, CybelAngel's approach ensures rapid and accurate identification of data breaches. Smart algorithms filter alerts based on client priorities, while cyber analysts compile detailed reports for each incident, providing essential information for swift remediation. This comprehensive service aims to protect organizations' reputations, competitiveness, and overall data security.
Prevision.io
Seed Round in 2017
Prevision.io SAS is a Paris-based company that offers an automated machine learning platform designed to generate and deploy predictive models for various applications. Founded in 2016, the platform enables users, including data scientists and business analysts, to create highly accurate models without requiring extensive technical knowledge or infrastructure. It facilitates predictive maintenance, sales forecasting, supply chain optimization, and energy consumption analysis. By leveraging data analysis and machine learning algorithms, the platform helps organizations make informed decisions that impact their strategic business cases. Prevision.io also provides tools for analyzing trends, predicting inventory consumption, and automating tasks such as email classification and quality control. Its services cater to a wide range of sectors, including finance, marketing, energy, and banking.
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.
Otherwise
Seed Round in 2017
Otherwise is France's first collaborative (peer-to-peer) insurance broker. Their platform gathers people with a common need for coverage in a brand new way. Using behavioral analysis – with the support of community management and machine learning, they enable their members to drastically reduce their overall cost of insurance.
Preligens
Seed Round in 2016
Preligens develops advanced artificial intelligence technology aimed at enhancing operational decision-making for defense and intelligence sectors. By automating the analysis of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) workflows, the company leverages machine learning and computer vision to aggregate data from multiple intelligence sources, including imagery, electromagnetic signals, and open-source information. This approach enables intelligence agencies to gain critical insights into mission areas, facilitating rapid decision-making and improving situational awareness. Preligens' innovative solutions empower analysts to take informed actions, ultimately contributing to a safer world.
Vigiglobe
Series A in 2014
Vigiglobe specializes in social media analytics, providing a platform that helps companies enhance their marketing campaigns through real-time insights. Their flagship product, WIZR™, utilizes proprietary machine learning algorithms to address challenges such as online reputation management, competitive intelligence, and social customer relationship management. Vigiglobe stands out in the realm of real-time Social Digital Out-of-Home (DooH) advertising, allowing clients to integrate analytical indicators across various media formats, including mobile, web, and digital signage. The company's infrastructure is designed to handle vast amounts of data, processing high-volume events like the Olympics and national elections. With a focus on qualitative insights rather than mere message counts, Vigiglobe operates in a multilingual environment and has established partnerships with major platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Their client base includes media companies, television channels, market research agencies, brands, and government institutions, reflecting a rapidly growing demand for their innovative solutions.
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