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 Recruiting

Muzzo

Seed Round in 2021
Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace that focuses on enhancing the talent acquisition process. It offers an intelligent platform designed to match employers with suitable headhunters. Utilizing a sophisticated matching algorithm, Muzzo scans job offers and generates a list of top-performing recruiters tailored to specific job categories, considering factors such as location, experience level, and proven success rates. This approach aims to streamline the recruitment process, allowing businesses to identify and engage qualified candidates more efficiently.

Badakan

Debt Financing in 2020
Badakan SAS operates a human resource recruitment and employment platform designed to connect businesses in the hospitality and logistics sectors with qualified professionals for short-term labor needs. Established in 2015 and based in Levallois-Perret, France, the platform facilitates the hiring of various roles, including waitstaff and divers, while providing essential operational and administrative services such as contract management, invoicing, and payroll processing. By streamlining the planning and staffing process, Badakan enables hotels, restaurants, bars, caterers, and other establishments to efficiently manage their short-term assignments, ensuring rapid access to competent personnel when urgent labor demands arise.

eLamp

Venture Round in 2020
eLamp is a skill management and staffing platform founded in 2015 and based in Lille, France. The company offers a comprehensive solution that helps organizations identify and manage their employees' skills in real time. By serving as a Skill Data processor, eLamp facilitates workflows related to project staffing, certifications, internal mobility, training, and workforce planning. Its platform includes tools for advanced search, resume generation, and reporting, allowing businesses to effectively manage their operational knowledge from a centralized location. With API and SaaS interfaces, eLamp ensures that data remains current and analyzable, acting as a common language across various tools and processes.

Welcome to the Jungle

Series B in 2019
Welcome to the Jungle is a multi-channel media company focused on empowering individuals to enhance their professional lives. The company offers a diverse range of high-quality content, including articles, videos, podcasts, and events, aimed at helping young professionals re-evaluate their relationship with work. In addition, Welcome to the Jungle operates a comprehensive website featuring over 3,300 detailed company profiles that provide valuable job search information, such as employee statistics, gender distribution, and average age. This platform serves as an innovative job board, specifically catering to small and medium-sized enterprises, thereby facilitating meaningful connections between job seekers and potential employers.

My Coach Football

Series A in 2019
My Coach Football allows you to manage and organize the daily operations of your football team, day after day, season after season. Designed to answer amateur and professional coaches’ needs, the platform centralizes all of your squad’s information and allows to gain time and efficiency. In a single click, you can manage players and their personal information, the preparation of training and games, but also individual and collective statistics. Season after season, you keep all those data and hence enjoy an optimum tracking of your team’s progression.

TalentSoft

Series D in 2019
TalentSoft SA is a developer of cloud-based talent management software, founded in 2007 and based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that support various aspects of talent management, including employee recruitment, performance appraisal, career development, learning, and compensation management. Its software facilitates multilingual employee portals, enhances employer branding, and allows for the customization of appraisal documents and development plans. Additionally, TalentSoft promotes internal mobility and provides tools for effective workforce and competency planning. The company has established a global presence with subsidiaries and partnerships across Africa, North America, Asia, and Europe, demonstrating its commitment to international growth. TalentSoft’s innovative approach and strategic collaborations with major technology firms, such as Microsoft, have solidified its position as a leader in the SaaS-based talent management sector.

Bruce

Series A in 2018
Bruce SAS is a Paris-based company that specializes in a mobile application designed to connect job seekers with interim employment opportunities. Established in 2016, Bruce operates a digital recruitment platform that utilizes advanced matching algorithms to align candidates with available positions based on their skills and preferences. The platform facilitates real-time connections between job seekers and companies, enhancing the recruitment process. It also supports video interviews and electronic contract signing, streamlining the hiring process for both parties. By leveraging innovative technology, Bruce aims to optimize the job market, enabling businesses to find qualified professionals quickly and allowing job seekers to discover suitable employment opportunities efficiently.

Staffmatch

Venture Round in 2018
Staffmatch SAS, founded in 2015 and based in Clichy, France, operates as a digitized temporary employment agency that modernizes the traditional recruitment process. By combining automated technology with a face-to-face approach, Staffmatch enhances the experience for both clients and temporary workers. The company's platform connects unemployed individuals with job opportunities across various sectors, including hospitality, logistics, and transport. Staffmatch's software enables businesses to efficiently fill vacancies while allowing job seekers to find positions that match their skill sets. This streamlined process aims to improve both the cost and experience of recruitment for all parties involved.

Welcome to the Jungle

Series A in 2018
Welcome to the Jungle is a multi-channel media company focused on empowering individuals to enhance their professional lives. The company offers a diverse range of high-quality content, including articles, videos, podcasts, and events, aimed at helping young professionals re-evaluate their relationship with work. In addition, Welcome to the Jungle operates a comprehensive website featuring over 3,300 detailed company profiles that provide valuable job search information, such as employee statistics, gender distribution, and average age. This platform serves as an innovative job board, specifically catering to small and medium-sized enterprises, thereby facilitating meaningful connections between job seekers and potential employers.

Javelo

Seed Round in 2018
Javelo is a company that offers a goal management application aimed at enhancing employee engagement and providing transparent performance measurement. Its platform supports human resources departments by offering a range of tools, including evaluation and appraisal, employee engagement features, 360-degree feedback, objective tracking, and employee surveys. This comprehensive approach enables businesses to monitor employee performance more effectively and improve talent retention through streamlined management processes.

Extracadabra

Venture Round in 2018
Extracadabra SAS, founded in 2015 and based in Paris, France, operates a mobile application that connects hospitality businesses, including restaurants, bars, caterers, and hotels, with temporary staff. The application allows restaurateurs and hoteliers to quickly find qualified employees, such as cooks, waiters, and maids, for short-term assignments. This platform addresses urgent staffing needs by enabling businesses to recruit extra service personnel on a temporary basis, facilitating a rapid response to fluctuating demands in the hospitality sector.

HireSweet

Venture Round in 2017
HireSweet SAS is a Paris-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence software designed to enhance the recruitment of software engineers. Established in 2016, the company offers a solution that scans various technical platforms, including GitHub and Stack Overflow, to identify qualified developers. By processing unstructured data such as profile descriptions, HireSweet categorizes candidates based on their skills, project experience, and adaptability, enabling companies to make informed hiring decisions. Its clientele includes notable organizations like Doctrine, eFounders, Deezer, Nokia Health, Sqreen, and CallDesk. Through its innovative approach, HireSweet empowers tech companies to regain control of their hiring processes and effectively connect with top engineering talent.

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 headquartered in Metz, France. As a subsidiary of Groupe MENWAY SAS since 2008, the company specializes in providing tailored human resources solutions to address various HR challenges for businesses and employees alike. Menway offers a diverse range of skills and services designed to meet the specific needs of its clients in the recruitment sector.

Easyrecrue

Series C in 2017
EasyRecrue is a leading European company specializing in video pre-screening for recruitment, established in 2013. With over 400 clients, including prominent brands like Dassault Aviation and Louis Vuitton, the company employs around 60 people across five countries. EasyRecrue offers a software-as-a-service platform that streamlines the recruitment process by replacing traditional telephone pre-screening with pre-recorded video interviews. This approach allows human resources professionals to enhance their efficiency and broaden their talent pool, ensuring that promising candidates are not overlooked. The platform enables companies to assess applicants asynchronously, optimizing the time spent on pre-screening while focusing on the candidates' personality traits, ambition, and motivation. By integrating this innovative method into their recruitment strategies, organizations can improve the overall quality of their hiring processes.

Target First

Series A in 2016
Target First S.A.S. is a company based in Plérin, Bretagne, France, that specializes in developing predictive customer relationship solutions. Since its incorporation in 2011, the firm has focused on enhancing customer engagement through various communication channels, including chat, audio, and video. Its behavioral targeting engine identifies users who require assistance in real-time, facilitating immediate interaction via click-to-chat, click-to-call, and other messaging options. Target First aims to create personalized navigation experiences for users on mobile devices, tablets, and computers, ensuring that customers receive timely support tailored to their needs.

Cooptalis

Venture Round in 2015
Cooptalis is a recruiting agency based in Lille, France, established in 2012. The company specializes in international human resources, offering a range of services designed to facilitate the recruitment process for both clients and applicants. Cooptalis organizes on-site recruiting interventions, assists clients with mobility processes, and provides support in preparing and following up on relocation files. Additionally, the agency offers counseling services for partners moving to foreign countries, conducts technical tests for pre-selected candidates, and arranges mandatory training programs as prerequisites for employment. Through these services, Cooptalis aims to enhance the international development of human resource strategies for its clients.

Easyrecrue

Series B in 2015
EasyRecrue is a leading European company specializing in video pre-screening for recruitment, established in 2013. With over 400 clients, including prominent brands like Dassault Aviation and Louis Vuitton, the company employs around 60 people across five countries. EasyRecrue offers a software-as-a-service platform that streamlines the recruitment process by replacing traditional telephone pre-screening with pre-recorded video interviews. This approach allows human resources professionals to enhance their efficiency and broaden their talent pool, ensuring that promising candidates are not overlooked. The platform enables companies to assess applicants asynchronously, optimizing the time spent on pre-screening while focusing on the candidates' personality traits, ambition, and motivation. By integrating this innovative method into their recruitment strategies, organizations can improve the overall quality of their hiring processes.

TalentSoft

Series B in 2013
TalentSoft SA is a developer of cloud-based talent management software, founded in 2007 and based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that support various aspects of talent management, including employee recruitment, performance appraisal, career development, learning, and compensation management. Its software facilitates multilingual employee portals, enhances employer branding, and allows for the customization of appraisal documents and development plans. Additionally, TalentSoft promotes internal mobility and provides tools for effective workforce and competency planning. The company has established a global presence with subsidiaries and partnerships across Africa, North America, Asia, and Europe, demonstrating its commitment to international growth. TalentSoft’s innovative approach and strategic collaborations with major technology firms, such as Microsoft, have solidified its position as a leader in the SaaS-based talent management sector.

TalentSoft

Venture Round in 2012
TalentSoft SA is a developer of cloud-based talent management software, founded in 2007 and based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions that support various aspects of talent management, including employee recruitment, performance appraisal, career development, learning, and compensation management. Its software facilitates multilingual employee portals, enhances employer branding, and allows for the customization of appraisal documents and development plans. Additionally, TalentSoft promotes internal mobility and provides tools for effective workforce and competency planning. The company has established a global presence with subsidiaries and partnerships across Africa, North America, Asia, and Europe, demonstrating its commitment to international growth. TalentSoft’s innovative approach and strategic collaborations with major technology firms, such as Microsoft, have solidified its position as a leader in the SaaS-based talent management sector.

Keycoopt

Seed Round in 2012
Keycoopt is a web-based startup focused on recruitment through employee referrals. It has developed a platform that enables companies to recruit managers by leveraging recommendations and professional networks. By providing human resource services and advice, Keycoopt helps organizations identify and access effective strategies for finding suitable candidates. The company's approach emphasizes the importance of professional expectations and relationships, facilitating a more efficient recruitment process.
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