Bpifrance

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.

Marion Aubry

Investment Director

Emmanuel Audouard

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 Social Media

KohortPay

Pre Seed Round in 2024
KohortPay is a gamified social checkout tool that boosts influencer value, doubling conversion and reducing customer acquisition expenses. KohortPay streamlines collaboration, payments, and savings for both retailers and their customers by applying referral rewards to a purchase, even days after it's completed.

Live Me Up

Seed Round in 2024
Live Me Up app available in one-click on the Shopify app store. It offers consumers all the necessary tools to launch and grow. Based on an entirely different interactive consumer experience, it is a sales accelerator. In a live stream, a host shows viewers products while engaging in conversation with a community of viewers who can buy the thing being shown. Sales happen in real-time or during replays.

Frenchfounders

Venture Round in 2023
FrenchFounders, Inc., established in 2014 and headquartered in New York, specializes in serving the needs of French-speaking entrepreneurs and executives through a comprehensive networking platform. The organization facilitates business intermediation, investment opportunities, and career coaching, connecting a community of over 7,000 founders, including 4,000 club members, across four continents and 15 cities. FrenchFounders hosts more than 450 events annually, providing a physical and digital meeting space for individuals and companies. By fostering collaboration among startups, large corporations, investment firms, and other businesses, FrenchFounders enables its members to exchange ideas, forge valuable connections, and enhance their business growth.

Goamigo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Goamigo is a platform designed for influencers to create and promote vacation experiences to their followers. It provides technological solutions that empower opinion leaders to curate personalized trips, allowing them to connect with their communities through shared adventures. By offering turnkey travel packages, Goamigo enables users to embark on unique experiences alongside their ambassadors, fostering a sense of camaraderie among like-minded travelers. The platform focuses on transforming travel into memorable events that reflect the passions of the influencers and their audiences.

Unipile

Seed Round in 2023
Unipile is a developer of a multi-channel communications platform that consolidates various messaging services, including emails, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook Messenger, and SMS, into a single inbox. This integration enables users to manage their messages quickly and effectively, eliminating the clutter of multiple communication channels. The platform is designed to streamline daily work by ensuring that all incoming messages are processed, scheduled, and archived, helping users to maintain organization and reduce inbox overload. Unipile aims to enhance user productivity and promote a sense of serenity in managing communications.

WeLinQ

Pre Seed Round in 2023
WeLinQ is an online platform that provides free consultation services and easy messaging with therapists. They provide a practical substitute for in-person therapy with advantages including anytime messaging, adaptable scheduling, simple therapist switching, and the capacity to take part in sessions from any location.

Refer

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Refer enables startups and investors to leverage their networks through intros.

Evaneos

Venture Round in 2022
Evaneos is an online platform that enables travelers to create customized trips by connecting them with local agents in their chosen destinations. Founded by Eric La Bonnardière and Yvan Wibaux, the platform collaborates with tourism professionals, known as Destination Management Companies, who provide expert advice and assistance. Evaneos aims to foster a positive impact on local cultures and economies by ensuring that travelers' expenditures directly benefit these communities. This approach not only promotes ethical travel but also allows for unique, personalized experiences that reflect the local heritage and environment.

Cocoon-Immo

Seed Round in 2022
Cocoon-Immo provides social media, online advertising, community management, and digital communication services. Their services include search engine optimization, visibility management, communication management, strategy management, automated communication management, and document management.

Konect

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Konect helps users to create their own website and centralises all online content in one place and makes easy to share with community.

JVWEB

Venture Round in 2021
JVWEB is a digital marketing agency that specializes in search engine advertising (SEA), search engine optimization (SEO), and social media advertising. The company provides a variety of services designed to enhance online visibility and profitability for organizations. These services include Google search and shopping, lead generation, social ads, display ads, and web marketing training. By utilizing advanced methods and tools, JVWEB aims to optimize search results and improve advertisement effectiveness, helping clients strengthen their branding and expand their customer base.

JVWEB

Debt Financing in 2021
JVWEB is a digital marketing agency that specializes in search engine advertising (SEA), search engine optimization (SEO), and social media advertising. The company provides a variety of services designed to enhance online visibility and profitability for organizations. These services include Google search and shopping, lead generation, social ads, display ads, and web marketing training. By utilizing advanced methods and tools, JVWEB aims to optimize search results and improve advertisement effectiveness, helping clients strengthen their branding and expand their customer base.

Madeinvote

Seed Round in 2020
Madeinvote is a company based in Bordeaux, France, founded in 2016, that specializes in online consumer research services. It offers valuable insights into various aspects such as customer knowledge, brand reputation, satisfaction levels, competitive analysis, and employer branding. By leveraging the internet and social media, Madeinvote captures consumer feedback in real-time, enabling brands and organizations to make informed strategic decisions. Its targeted research capabilities allow for the creation of audience samples based on specific geographical and marketing criteria, ensuring that the insights gathered are relevant and precise.

Brevo

Series B in 2020
Brevo is a developer of a cloud-based digital marketing platform designed to assist businesses in enhancing customer engagement. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Paris, France, the company provides an all-in-one suite that caters specifically to the marketing needs of small and medium-sized businesses, particularly in challenging markets. Brevo's platform covers the entire marketing process, from newsletter creation to analysis and reporting tools, as well as targeting modules. This enables businesses, e-commerce sellers, and agencies to foster customer relationships through comprehensive digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation, setting it apart from solutions aimed at enterprise-level clients.

Whyse

Seed Round in 2019
Whyse has created an online platform designed to facilitate feedback and knowledge sharing among professionals within the same industry. This platform enables businesses to connect employees from various companies, enhancing their ability to exchange insights and experiences. By fostering collaboration and building a trust network, Whyse aims to empower communities to provide and receive peer feedback, ultimately increasing the likelihood of success for participating organizations.

Glose

Venture Round in 2018
Glose is an innovative reading platform designed to enhance the reading experience by making it more efficient, personal, and social. It allows users to discover, purchase, and engage with ebooks on both web and mobile devices. The platform fosters interaction among readers by enabling them to connect, share annotations, and discuss their insights within the margins of the ebooks they read. Users can follow other readers, view their current selections, and benefit from a community of like-minded individuals, which enriches their reading experience. Glose aims to create a more dynamic and engaging way for readers to enjoy books while synchronizing their progress across various devices.

Elium

Venture Round in 2018
Elium Tech, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Montpellier, France, operates a unified programmatic advertising platform that specializes in video advertising solutions. The company provides marketers with a self-service interface for managing campaigns across various channels, including Desktop, Mobile, Social, TV, and Digital out-of-Home (DooH). Elium facilitates seamless integration with multiple buying platforms, ad servers, and data management systems, enabling users to optimize their media trading decisions through data consolidation and automation. The platform employs artificial intelligence to enhance campaign efficiency, allowing for better and quicker decision-making in advertising. Elium also maintains offices in Paris and London, further expanding its reach in the advertising technology market.

InMemori

Seed Round in 2018
Inmemori is a digital service designed to assist families and friends in commemorating their loved ones after a loss. It provides an online tribute platform where users can create dedicated pages to share funeral information, memories, and tributes. This service allows communities to communicate and pay their respects in a centralized and respectful manner. Inmemori enables users to receive condolences, memories, and photographs via email or text, fostering a supportive environment during difficult times. With over one million users worldwide, Inmemori helps facilitate meaningful connections among those grieving, ensuring that cherished memories can be easily shared and celebrated.

Tracktl

Seed Round in 2018
Tracktl is a music solution tailored for events and venues, aimed at enhancing brand identity and improving customer experiences through curated playlists. It allows venue managers to create, manage, and play music that aligns with their audience's preferences. The platform includes interactive features such as a social jukebox, social wall, and promotion manager, enabling customers to engage with the music actively. Users can connect to the venue's playlist via their smartphones, vote on songs, and add their favorite tracks, fostering a collaborative and personalized atmosphere. Tracktl's services support venue operators in delivering customized experiences while also gathering valuable data to enhance customer retention.

iAdvize

Series C in 2017
iAdvize is the leading conversational commerce platform in Europe and is used in 40 different countries. Their platform enables businesses to engage their customers and prospects, whether they’re on the website or on social media, from one chat, voice and video messaging solution. Visitors can get real-time advice from customer service associates but also from advocates, members of the brand community via ibbü – their on-demand pool of experts. Each conversation handled by one of ibbü’s savvy enthusiasts generates £119 of business on average, compared to £91 by internal customer service agents – generating £58 ROI for every £1 invested.

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.

Evaneos

Series C in 2016
Evaneos is an online platform that enables travelers to create customized trips by connecting them with local agents in their chosen destinations. Founded by Eric La Bonnardière and Yvan Wibaux, the platform collaborates with tourism professionals, known as Destination Management Companies, who provide expert advice and assistance. Evaneos aims to foster a positive impact on local cultures and economies by ensuring that travelers' expenditures directly benefit these communities. This approach not only promotes ethical travel but also allows for unique, personalized experiences that reflect the local heritage and environment.

Sociallymap

Venture Round in 2016
Sociallymap is a social media software for automation marketing. It enables agencies, major accounts, SMEs, and TPEs to feed their social networks automatically, relay content already on the web, streamline publications between different networks, and more. Sociallymap was launched in February 2013.

Synthesio, an Ipsos Company

Venture Round in 2015
Synthesio, named the Global Leader by an Independent Research Firm in two reports, provides brands and agencies around the world with the social listening tools and audience insights they need to measure the impact of social and mainstream media conversations. Synthesio’s Social Intelligence Suite surfaces strategic insights from the most extensive collection of customer data on the market and can visualize qualitative and quantitative data in an array of formats. Teams across the enterprise can leverage dashboards, pre-built personas, customizable reports, and social media command center displays to extend the benefits of Social Intelligence throughout an organization. Synthesio has offices in New York, Paris, London, Singapore, and Brussels.

Smiile

Seed Round in 2015
Smiile is an innovative social network that facilitates sharing on a daily basis. As an enhancer of better living together and local mutual support, this social network has created concrete solutions to facilitate the daily act of sharing. Thanks to him, the inhabitants of the same district or the same city can exchange objects or services with complete confidence. It generates savings and provides many participatory services. True connector, Smiile brings together all the actors of the local life on one and the same platform: inhabitants, communities, businesses, associations, collaborative actors.

iAdvize

Series A in 2015
iAdvize is the leading conversational commerce platform in Europe and is used in 40 different countries. Their platform enables businesses to engage their customers and prospects, whether they’re on the website or on social media, from one chat, voice and video messaging solution. Visitors can get real-time advice from customer service associates but also from advocates, members of the brand community via ibbü – their on-demand pool of experts. Each conversation handled by one of ibbü’s savvy enthusiasts generates £119 of business on average, compared to £91 by internal customer service agents – generating £58 ROI for every £1 invested.

Augure

Series E in 2015
Augure by Launchmetrics' software and social data help brands and agencies to bridge the gap between traditional PR and Influencer Marketing. Every day, more than 1,000 Communication, PR, and Public Affairs teams use the Publisher platform to engage relevant influencers, manage their campaigns, improve efficiency and increase their presence in the media and on social networks. The Augure by Launchmetrics' data services team compliments the Publisher software as the people behind the technology, offering consulting services that help clients to make sense of the data and apply it to their Influencer Marketing strategies. Founded in 2002 in Paris, Augure operates in Europe and Latin America. Its clients include Orange, Thales, AG Insurance, Pierre & Vacances, Château de Versailles, Amalthea, Hill+Knowlton and many others that span across the corporate sector.

Demooz

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Demooz is a company that facilitates product trials through a community-based consumption platform. It allows potential buyers to experience products in real conditions by connecting them with current owners of the items they wish to purchase. This approach enables customers to make informed decisions based on firsthand reviews from actual users. By utilizing this collaborative marketing and sales service, Demooz enhances the online shopping experience, allowing consumers to buy with confidence while helping retailers improve their customer acquisition strategies.

JVWEB

Venture Round in 2014
JVWEB is a digital marketing agency that specializes in search engine advertising (SEA), search engine optimization (SEO), and social media advertising. The company provides a variety of services designed to enhance online visibility and profitability for organizations. These services include Google search and shopping, lead generation, social ads, display ads, and web marketing training. By utilizing advanced methods and tools, JVWEB aims to optimize search results and improve advertisement effectiveness, helping clients strengthen their branding and expand their customer base.

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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