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 Smart Cities
My Digital Buildings
Debt Financing in 2024
My Digital Buildings is a software platform for producing and analyzing geographical building data, including 3D point clouds, 2D blueprints, BIM models, and virtual tours.
Up&Charge
Seed Round in 2024
Up&Charge specializes in automated induction charging stations that offer a wireless electric charging solution for electric vehicles. The company’s technology facilitates cable-free charging through an induction system, enabling users to recharge their vehicles without the need for supervision. These self-service charging stations operate around the clock, providing convenience and accessibility for electric vehicle owners. Additionally, Up&Charge's design preserves sidewalk space, making it a practical option for urban environments.
Enerdigit
Venture Round in 2024
EnerDigit is an energy management company that specializes in the valuation of consumer erasures, focusing on providing flexibility within the electricity network. It operates as a demand response operator, helping large electricity consumers adjust their consumption patterns to alleviate pressure on the electrical grid during peak demand periods. By remunerating manufacturers for shifting their electricity usage by a few hours each year, EnerDigit enables industrial clients to contribute to the balance of the network and avoid potential blackouts caused by demand spikes. The income generated from this shift can reach up to 5% of an industrialist's electricity bill, making it a beneficial arrangement for both the company and its clients. Through its services, EnerDigit actively participates in the energy transition and the development of smart grids.
OSS Ventures
Series B in 2024
OSS Ventures, founded by Renan Devillières in 2018, is a startup studio and venture capital firm based in Paris, France. Its mission is to bolster the French industry through technological, environmental, social, and societal transitions. Since its inception, OSS Ventures has established 15 startups primarily in France, with a few international ventures, and has invested in four additional startups. The firm's investment focus includes sectors such as manufacturing and technology, encompassing areas like coding, the sharing economy, open-source solutions, smart sensors, big data, robotics, additive manufacturing, and blockchain.
TerriFlux
Seed Round in 2024
TerriFlux develops an environmental resource management platform for managing material, energy, monetary, and environmental flows, providing modeling and simulation services to inter-municipal bodies and associations.
Angell
Seed Round in 2023
Angell is a manufacturer of electric bicycles focused on transforming urban mobility. The company offers one of the lightest e-bikes on the market, featuring a rounded aluminum frame and a carbon rim for an ultra-light structure. Its innovative design includes a smart cockpit with a touchscreen that displays essential information such as battery level, speed, distance traveled, weather, pollution levels, and riding modes. Additionally, Angell's e-bike is equipped with a sophisticated safety system that provides vibrating navigation assistance, a fall alert, and an anti-theft alarm. By integrating advanced technology into its bicycles, Angell aims to enhance the everyday life of urban commuters.
Mob-Energy
Series A in 2023
Mob-Energy is a privately held company founded in 2018 and based in Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The company specializes in developing innovative mobile charging solutions for electric vehicles. Its autonomous charging robots are designed to optimize existing infrastructure by storing energy in second-life batteries installed in parking facilities. These robots can autonomously move to vehicles that request a charge, providing a convenient and efficient way for clients to power their parked cars. Through its technology, Mob-Energy aims to enhance the accessibility and usability of electric vehicle charging systems.
Citron
Venture Round in 2023
Citron is a technology company focused on digitizing energy management for businesses, communities, and property owners. They provide a software-as-a-service platform that automates energy and technical management for buildings, offering insights and data collection related to real estate performance and energy transitions. By addressing measurement, analysis, optimization, and regulatory compliance, Citron helps its clients enhance both their economic and environmental performance. Their expertise spans all energy-related aspects of buildings and transport, enabling customers to develop effective energy policies and improve overall operational efficiency.
Anyos
Seed Round in 2023
Anyos is a manufacturing company specializing in the development, installation, and maintenance of charging stations for electric vehicles. The company focuses on providing comprehensive charging solutions, including the installation of digital charging systems and ongoing maintenance services. By offering a complete electric charging infrastructure, Anyos aims to support the growing demand for sustainable transportation options and facilitate the transition to electric mobility.
COMIN
Pre Seed Round in 2023
COMIN is a ride-hailing solution redefining urban mobility with a fair, sustainable, and collaborative model.
Knap
Venture Round in 2022
Knap is a company that specializes in connected shopping cart and retail services, focusing on enhancing the shopping experience in supermarkets. They offer a smart shopping cart that allows customers to bypass traditional checkout lines, thereby streamlining the purchasing process. This cart unlocks through a mobile application, which also verifies product information for self-checkout. By providing innovative technological solutions, Knap aims to automate and secure the shopping experience while addressing issues related to fraud. Additionally, the company supports both internet shopping and the transition to phygital retail environments, ensuring a seamless integration of physical and digital shopping experiences.
Kumulus Water
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kumulus Water is a forward-thinking water utility company focused on providing accessible, sustainable, and economical drinking water solutions. The company specializes in manufacturing machines that convert atmospheric humidity into fresh, mineralized drinking water, utilizing solar power to enhance efficiency. Kumulus offers decentralized, fully autonomous systems that allow users, including families, industries, and hotels, to access clean drinking water remotely through digitally connected devices. This innovative approach aims to address global water scarcity challenges while promoting environmental sustainability.
Adeunis
Grant in 2021
Adeunis specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of connected objects and Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) based radio frequency transmission solutions for use in sectors including smart building, remote energy data management, industrial optimization, connected agriculture, transport, infrastructure, sport, services, etc. Also, the group designs and develops customized radio solutions tailored to the specific needs of customers. The group's activity is organized around 3 families of products: long-range radiofrequency transmission modules; ready-to-use wireless transmission systems: radio modems, radio frame transmitters and receivers, wireless communication gateways, telemetry systems, data retrieval systems, radio temperature transmitters, remote controls, etc. ; wireless communication systems: audio conferencing systems and portable radio terminals for secure and confidential communications in noisy or harsh environments, sold under Vokkero brand.
Adeunis
Post in 2021
Adeunis specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of connected objects and Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) based radio frequency transmission solutions for use in sectors including smart building, remote energy data management, industrial optimization, connected agriculture, transport, infrastructure, sport, services, etc. Also, the group designs and develops customized radio solutions tailored to the specific needs of customers. The group's activity is organized around 3 families of products: long-range radiofrequency transmission modules; ready-to-use wireless transmission systems: radio modems, radio frame transmitters and receivers, wireless communication gateways, telemetry systems, data retrieval systems, radio temperature transmitters, remote controls, etc. ; wireless communication systems: audio conferencing systems and portable radio terminals for secure and confidential communications in noisy or harsh environments, sold under Vokkero brand.
WeMaintain
Series B in 2021
WeMaintain is a tech-enabled lift maintenance company founded in 2017, with operations in Paris, London, and Singapore. The company offers a platform designed to simplify elevator management for building owners and managers. By combining the expertise of lift engineers with proprietary technology, WeMaintain provides real-time data and cross-equipment insights that help reduce costs, improve performance, and minimize energy consumption. The platform supports not only elevators but also escalators, fire safety systems, and automatic doors, enhancing overall equipment reliability while reducing downtime and operational incidents.
EasyMile
Series B in 2021
EasyMile SAS, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toulouse, France, specializes in autonomous vehicle technology and smart mobility solutions for urban and suburban environments. The company manufactures driverless electric vehicles, notably the EZ10, which facilitate transportation for passengers and goods in various settings, including residential areas, business parks, and campuses. EasyMile collaborates with major manufacturers to enhance their vehicles with advanced safety features and innovative technology designed for immediate deployment. Its client base includes prominent transport operators, city authorities, airports, corporations, and educational institutions. In addition to its presence in France, EasyMile has offices in Singapore and Denver, and it works with value-added resellers in regions such as Japan and the Middle East. The company aims to revolutionize traditional transportation methods by providing new mobility options that are efficient and safe.
GRAPHEAL
Seed Round in 2021
Grapheal is a Medtech startup focused on developing embedded and wearable biosensors that leverage graphene transistors for enhanced functionality. Their devices are designed to be minimalistic and digital, enabling the dosing of biomarkers and detection of pathogens through a smartphone interface. By integrating advanced sensing nanomaterials with wireless connectivity and data analysis capabilities, Grapheal's biosensors facilitate field diagnostics and remote patient monitoring. This approach aims to make healthcare more accessible and accurate, allowing medical professionals to effectively monitor patient progress and healing.
Peas&Love (Urban farm Company SA)
Seed Round in 2021
Our mission is to help cities to become greener, more sustainable, more human. By installing our farms, we provide eco-systemic services to cities, improving their quality of life and creating social interactions. We want to extent our farms, and from there become the urban farming glocal leader; delivering a positive and healthy experience that will dramatically improve our clients lives.
Ryax Technologies
Venture Round in 2019
Ryax Technologies SAS specializes in infrastructure software aimed at facilitating the development of smart services within the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Founded in 2017 and based in Saint-Fons, France, the company focuses on enabling complex computations of live data across various hybrid infrastructures, including edge, fog, and cloud environments. Their software emphasizes advanced resource management, allowing for efficient allocation and deployment tailored to specific application needs. Ryax Technologies also prioritizes security and data privacy, featuring configurable encrypted communications and management tools for data transport. Additionally, their solution supports seamless stream processing across infrastructures and provides an adaptable software development kit (SDK) for various programming languages, thereby simplifying application development and enhancing operational efficiency in sectors such as the Industrial Internet and Smart City initiatives.
Agricool
Series B in 2018
Agricool, founded in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru, aims to provide local, tasty, and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables by transforming shipping containers into urban farms. These innovative farms are designed to optimize growing conditions, utilizing advanced technology to enhance productivity and sustainability. Agricool's farming methods are significantly more efficient than conventional agriculture, achieving up to 120 times greater productivity and reducing water usage by over 90%. The farms operate entirely on renewable energy, ensuring an environmentally friendly approach to food production. Currently, Agricool cultivates strawberries in Paris and Dubai, with aspirations to expand its offerings to a wider variety of fruits and vegetables, contributing to the urban farming movement and addressing global food needs.
e-attract
Funding Round in 2018
E-attract develops software and data solutions related to residential mobility. As data and territories experts, we help public and private operators such as regional government, cities, employers, but also actors from real estate, energy, transport and bank sectors. In response to our vision, our mission is to help tomorrow’s territories to become user-centric, and especially: • Durably improve citizens’ life and help them in their key choices. In a word: make their life easy. • Create a personalized citizen-territory relationship thanks to data, in order to develop smarter territories and to put citizens at the core of territorial decision making. The first application developed by e-attract is vivrou.com. This web application accompanies the citizens in their choice for the best place to live, giving them access to all necessary and relevant information so they can make better choices according to their needs. Each of us has constraints, desires and needs, based on their age, personality or family situation. Vivrou.com will match the detailed description of the territories and the user’s profile.
Qucit
Venture Round in 2018
Qucit, also known as Quantified Cities, focuses on enhancing urban living through data and artificial intelligence. Recognizing the challenges posed by growing urban populations, the company develops a logistics optimization platform that supports shared mobility systems. By utilizing a data-driven approach, Qucit automates vehicle deployment and rebalancing, thereby optimizing operational costs and resource allocation for urban operators. The platform also models human behaviors using diverse urban data, helping to streamline shared mobility solutions. Ultimately, Qucit aims to empower cities to manage the increasing demand for services effectively, contributing to more livable and sustainable urban environments.
Enerdigit
Venture Round in 2018
EnerDigit is an energy management company that specializes in the valuation of consumer erasures, focusing on providing flexibility within the electricity network. It operates as a demand response operator, helping large electricity consumers adjust their consumption patterns to alleviate pressure on the electrical grid during peak demand periods. By remunerating manufacturers for shifting their electricity usage by a few hours each year, EnerDigit enables industrial clients to contribute to the balance of the network and avoid potential blackouts caused by demand spikes. The income generated from this shift can reach up to 5% of an industrialist's electricity bill, making it a beneficial arrangement for both the company and its clients. Through its services, EnerDigit actively participates in the energy transition and the development of smart grids.
eLichens
Venture Round in 2018
eLichens is dedicated to providing comprehensive information about air quality through its innovative technology. The company specializes in developing low-power micro gas sensors and a connected station that integrates multiple sensors for monitoring and predicting air quality. This technology serves both indoor and outdoor applications, catering to industrial clients, smart city initiatives, and consumer markets. With a strong portfolio of patents and expertise, eLichens operates from offices in Grenoble, France, and Silicon Valley, California, aiming to enhance local air quality through its advanced solutions.
Stanley Robotics
Venture Round in 2017
Stanley Robotics SAS, established in 2015 and based in Paris, France, specializes in designing and developing an innovative outdoor valet parking robot named Stan. This autonomous platform enhances the parking experience for travelers at airports by allowing users to drop off their vehicles in secure, well-lit cabins. After confirming their booking and flight details, customers can proceed to catch their flights while Stan efficiently picks up and parks their vehicles in designated spots. The system is designed to integrate seamlessly with airport logistics, requiring minimal infrastructure changes. It prioritizes user experience by eliminating the need for customers to search for parking spaces or shuttle services, thus saving them time and effort. Furthermore, the user-friendly kiosks facilitate quick input of booking and flight information, accommodating those with reduced mobility, ensuring a secure and hassle-free parking experience.
Effigénie
Venture Round in 2017
Effigenie is the publisher of Effipilot software solution which reduces by over 20% the energy consumption of tertiary buildings and increases the occupants’ comfort.
PARKING+PLUS
Non Equity Assistance in 2016
PARKING+PLUS helps companies in parking related industries to boost their revenue and stay relevant in their business through innovative digital smart parking technologies. PARKING+PLUS is a technology company focused on delivering since 2014 digital platforms for companies in the parking industry eager to digitize their operations and for companies in the smart city-related areas that would like to expand their portfolio of services with smart parking and mobility related digital products. PARKING+PLUS ecosystem provides mobile technologies, web technologies and hardware devices that cover uses cases for both on-street and off-street parking spaces operations: surface parking, multi-level parking, event parking, marketplaces for parking spaces, office/residential parking, smart city projects.
eLichens
Venture Round in 2016
eLichens is dedicated to providing comprehensive information about air quality through its innovative technology. The company specializes in developing low-power micro gas sensors and a connected station that integrates multiple sensors for monitoring and predicting air quality. This technology serves both indoor and outdoor applications, catering to industrial clients, smart city initiatives, and consumer markets. With a strong portfolio of patents and expertise, eLichens operates from offices in Grenoble, France, and Silicon Valley, California, aiming to enhance local air quality through its advanced solutions.
Lucibel
Venture Round in 2013
Lucibel is a French company that specializes in designing and manufacturing advanced lighting products and solutions utilizing LED technology. Committed to sustainability and efficiency, Lucibel's offerings are not only energy-efficient but also integrate smart features that facilitate remote management. Their innovative lighting solutions enable real-time control and measurement, allowing light to interact dynamically with its environment. Additionally, Lucibel's technology supports new forms of data transmission and enhances user well-being, positioning the company at the forefront of the digital lighting era.
G2Mobility
Series A in 2013
G2mobility offers smartcharging solutions for electric vehicles with energy management systems. It was founded in 2009. G2mobility is based in Paris, France.
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