Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2010, known for its active engagement in early-stage investments. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage companies, primarily focusing on the technology sector while also exploring a diverse range of other industries such as e-commerce, health, and fintech. Kima Ventures typically invests between €0.15 million and €5 million in its portfolio companies, often as a significant minority shareholder. The firm emphasizes collaboration, frequently co-investing alongside business angels and other venture capital funds. With a commitment to supporting ambitious founders, Kima Ventures aims to streamline the fundraising process, enabling entrepreneurs to concentrate on growth and execution. Over the past five years, Kima Ventures has invested in over 400 startups across 24 countries, establishing a reputation as one of the world's most active early-stage investors. The firm operates from its headquarters in Paris and maintains an additional office in London.

Jeanne Cluset

VC Associate

Xavier Niel

Founder

Alexis Robert

Partner

Past deals in Social Media

ScorePlay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
ScorePlay is an innovative media asset management platform specifically designed for football clubs. Utilizing artificial intelligence and computer vision, the platform automatically reviews and tags raw photo and video content, which is then stored in a centralized cloud hub. This allows for efficient organization and easy retrieval through a powerful search engine. In addition to streamlining content management, ScorePlay enables clubs to provide selected stakeholders—including players, sponsors, media, and fans—secure access to a curated library of content. This functionality not only enhances the distribution of media assets but also supports marketing teams in classifying and monetizing their visual content effectively.

Vibely

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a social networking platform designed to create communities and make friendships. The company's platform arranges self-organized local events, casual meetups, and parties while monetizing them with participation fees and membership dues, enabling influencers to increase engagement with followers.

Vibely

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a social networking platform designed to create communities and make friendships. The company's platform arranges self-organized local events, casual meetups, and parties while monetizing them with participation fees and membership dues, enabling influencers to increase engagement with followers.

PixelMe

Seed Round in 2018
PixelMe SAS is a Paris-based company that operates an online platform designed for generating and analyzing link advertisements. Founded in 2018, the platform allows users to shorten links while integrating retargeting pixels, enabling marketers to effectively track engagement and measure clicks. Additionally, PixelMe provides a UTM builder tool, facilitating the inclusion of tracking parameters in links to assess the effectiveness of various campaigns. By adding retargeting pixels to shared links, the platform empowers users to create custom audiences and serve targeted ads on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Ads, thus enhancing their marketing efforts and driving traffic to third-party sites.

SoundCharts

Series A in 2017
SoundCharts S.A.S. is a data analytics and workflow management platform focused on the music industry. Founded in 2014 and based in Paris, France, it aggregates online music consumption data, allowing users to track social networks, charts, playlists, and airplay information. The platform offers real-time notifications and daily reports, providing insights into airplay statistics, social media progress, and chart positions. SoundCharts monitors radio airplay across multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia. Its comprehensive tools, which include a database, mobile apps, and an API, help artists and music professionals manage projects, generate reports, and scout talent more effectively.

Artzstudio

Seed Round in 2017
OMG Digital creates digital editorial brands for African millennials. It has been hailed as the "Buzzfeed of Africa" for its millenial-targeted content. Like BuzzFeed and other similar companies, OMG Digital monetizes through digital marketing. Currently 80 percent of its ad sales are from banner ads, but as in other markets, its advertisers are seeing a smaller return on investment and looking for alternatives that are more suited to mobile screens (about 90 percent of OMG Digital’s users access its content through mobile devices, in particular Android smartphones). About 60 percent of OMG Digital users are between 18 to 24 years old and one of its value propositions is helping overseas companies figure out how to reach young African consumers in different markets (for example, in some countries Twitter is more popular than Facebook, so localized strategies need to take that into account). OMG Digital has already partnered with Coca Cola, Huawei, KFC, Philips, Pringles, and several of Africa’s largest telecoms, including MTN, on marketing campaigns and sponsored content.

Jodel

Series A in 2017
Jodel is a platform that enables its users to discover, follow and participate in the most relevant conversations with people nearby. Share and catch-up on news, events, local stories and jokes faster than ever! On Jodel, you can post messages and photos known as “Jodels” in real-time. By voting on other people's posts, you have the power to decide what your area is talking about. Collect Karma points and become a master in jodeling! No sign-up or profile necessary.

AlloMedia

Angel Round in 2015
Allo-Media, founded in 2011, is a French technology company focused on enhancing customer engagement and loyalty through its innovative solutions. The company specializes in connecting businesses with potential clients via various online directories, such as Allo-Médecins.fr and Allo-Réparateurs.fr. After two years of research and development, Allo-Media launched a performance-based solution that integrates online visibility with phone call tracking to generate qualified leads for local professionals. Utilizing proprietary AI Vocal Cookie technology, Allo-Media transforms customer calls into actionable marketing insights, classifying conversations to extract valuable customer data related to profiles, needs, and complaints. Through continuous technological advancements, Allo-Media provides intelligent call-tracking solutions that leverage voice recognition and semantic analysis, tailored to various business sectors, thereby facilitating better connections between prospects and businesses.

Visage

Seed Round in 2015
Visage Software, Inc. operates a web-based content creation platform designed for marketers and creators to develop customized graphics, charts, reports, and dashboards that engage various audiences. Established in 2013 and based in California, Visage's platform allows users to create branded visual content that is optimized for distribution across relevant channels, ensuring brand consistency and operational efficiency. The platform supports the sharing of Visage Infographics by enabling users to assign access privileges and produce static files in multiple formats, thus facilitating effective communication and collaboration within organizations.
SimpleMail is a SaaS-based application that allows companies to create, send, and analyze their automated newsletters and emails with ease. It was launched by Kiwup in 2012.

Friend Trusted

Seed Round in 2014
Friend Trusted

DOZ

Seed Round in 2014
DOZ Marketing Software helps create an organic marketing campaign and to launch a customized timeline of tasks needed to achieve marketing goals.DOZ has vetted marketing professionals from around the world. DOZ automatically assigns the right experts to every task on custom, marketing campaign.DOZ helps websites to run more effective online marketing campaigns by managing natives industry experts and marketing professionals.

Vigiglobe

Series A in 2014
VIGIGLOBE helps companies to leverage the power of social media content in real-time! VIGIGLOBE offers a SaaS Solution called WIZR™ powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms in order to answer to issues like online-reputation, competitive intelligence or Social CRM in real-time. VIGIGLOBE is also the leader in real-time Social DooH . The company’s service offering enables CMOs and Digital agencies to make real-time innovative marketing become a reality! VIGIGLOBE’s unique selling points are numerous: - Real-time is part of our DNA: we collect, process and display data in real-time. - We do not stop at counting messages. We offer genuine qualitative insights to our customers thanks to our expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Web semantics. - Our solutions enable our clients to publicly integrate our analytical indicators on any display (mobile, web, TV broadcast or even Digital Signage). - Our IT infrastructure has been carefully thought in order to absorb a deluge of data (e.g. Twitter only generates 7,500 messages per second). We have been able to process global events like the Olympic Games, US elections or the Super Bowl. - We evolve in a multi-lingual environment (6 most commonly used languages in Europe and Arabic). We have been appointed amongst only 18 companies in the world to be an official Media Technology Partner of Twitter and are also a Facebook Public Content Service partner. We recently joined the Microsoft ISV Partnership program. Our key clients include media companies, TV channels, polling institutes, market research agencies, brands and governmental institutions. The list is fast-growing, so join the crowd! More information on www.vigiglobe.com

Marquee

Seed Round in 2014
They are on a mission to empower marketing professionals to efficiently connect with their clients and colleagues, organize their jobs and scale their business. We do the heavy lifting so they can focus on what they do best. Together they form the strongest, biggest and most influential marketing group in the world and help the passionate ones fulfill their dreams.

Mitoo

Seed Round in 2014
Mitoo Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a mobile application designed for players, teams, clubs, leagues, and governing bodies within the realm of team sports. The platform serves as a social hub and management tool, facilitating the organization and management of recreational sports activities. It enables users, including players, parents, and league organizers, to easily access and manage sports-related data and information, thereby streamlining communication and coordination within the sports community. Through its innovative approach, Mitoo aims to enhance the overall experience for all participants in the world of sports.

Vigiglobe

Seed Round in 2014
VIGIGLOBE helps companies to leverage the power of social media content in real-time! VIGIGLOBE offers a SaaS Solution called WIZR™ powered by proprietary machine learning algorithms in order to answer to issues like online-reputation, competitive intelligence or Social CRM in real-time. VIGIGLOBE is also the leader in real-time Social DooH . The company’s service offering enables CMOs and Digital agencies to make real-time innovative marketing become a reality! VIGIGLOBE’s unique selling points are numerous: - Real-time is part of our DNA: we collect, process and display data in real-time. - We do not stop at counting messages. We offer genuine qualitative insights to our customers thanks to our expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Web semantics. - Our solutions enable our clients to publicly integrate our analytical indicators on any display (mobile, web, TV broadcast or even Digital Signage). - Our IT infrastructure has been carefully thought in order to absorb a deluge of data (e.g. Twitter only generates 7,500 messages per second). We have been able to process global events like the Olympic Games, US elections or the Super Bowl. - We evolve in a multi-lingual environment (6 most commonly used languages in Europe and Arabic). We have been appointed amongst only 18 companies in the world to be an official Media Technology Partner of Twitter and are also a Facebook Public Content Service partner. We recently joined the Microsoft ISV Partnership program. Our key clients include media companies, TV channels, polling institutes, market research agencies, brands and governmental institutions. The list is fast-growing, so join the crowd! More information on www.vigiglobe.com

WHATT, INC

Seed Round in 2014
WHATT, INC created 3 mobile social apps available on the App Store. MyTape is a video blogging app that let users easily shoot and share videos instantly with their followers and the world. Whoo Messenger is a messaging app that let Facebook friends message each other anonymously, send fun photos and voice messages to each other and play together guessing who message them. Whatt is a mobile social application for iPhone that allows users to easily share text-based status updates with their friends. WHATT, Inc. is the first company to focus exclusively on text updates by removing all unwanted or distracting content from the important messages that friends want to share together.

FanBread

Convertible Note in 2014
FanBread is a technology company that transforms the way media brands are developed by offering solutions for content creation, distribution, and monetization. Founded in 2014 and based in Santa Monica, California, the company leverages data and predictive analytics to connect emerging media brands with suitable freelance content creators. This platform streamlines collaboration, enabling the production of high-quality original content tailored to specific audience needs. Through its innovative approach, FanBread aims to enhance the efficiency of media brand management in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Smore

Seed Round in 2014
Smore is an online platform that facilitates the creation of visually appealing newsletters and flyers, catering primarily to educators, small businesses, nonprofits, and individuals. The platform offers built-in tools that simplify the process of spreading messages while providing access to real-time performance statistics and social sharing capabilities. With over 2 million users generating more than 100,000 newsletters each month, Smore enhances communication consistency and accountability, ultimately transforming audience engagement with content. By enabling users to effectively design and distribute their communications, Smore helps them achieve their online marketing objectives and make a significant impact on their business goals.

AlloMedia

Angel Round in 2014
Allo-Media, founded in 2011, is a French technology company focused on enhancing customer engagement and loyalty through its innovative solutions. The company specializes in connecting businesses with potential clients via various online directories, such as Allo-Médecins.fr and Allo-Réparateurs.fr. After two years of research and development, Allo-Media launched a performance-based solution that integrates online visibility with phone call tracking to generate qualified leads for local professionals. Utilizing proprietary AI Vocal Cookie technology, Allo-Media transforms customer calls into actionable marketing insights, classifying conversations to extract valuable customer data related to profiles, needs, and complaints. Through continuous technological advancements, Allo-Media provides intelligent call-tracking solutions that leverage voice recognition and semantic analysis, tailored to various business sectors, thereby facilitating better connections between prospects and businesses.

AlloMedia

Seed Round in 2014
Allo-Media, founded in 2011, is a French technology company focused on enhancing customer engagement and loyalty through its innovative solutions. The company specializes in connecting businesses with potential clients via various online directories, such as Allo-Médecins.fr and Allo-Réparateurs.fr. After two years of research and development, Allo-Media launched a performance-based solution that integrates online visibility with phone call tracking to generate qualified leads for local professionals. Utilizing proprietary AI Vocal Cookie technology, Allo-Media transforms customer calls into actionable marketing insights, classifying conversations to extract valuable customer data related to profiles, needs, and complaints. Through continuous technological advancements, Allo-Media provides intelligent call-tracking solutions that leverage voice recognition and semantic analysis, tailored to various business sectors, thereby facilitating better connections between prospects and businesses.

One Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
One Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that develops a mobile application designed to facilitate social networking by connecting users with shared interests. The app notifies individuals when others nearby, who have also downloaded the application, share similar interests. By leveraging information from users' social media profiles, the app enhances the interaction experience by helping users discover and engage with like-minded individuals in their vicinity.

Ku

Seed Round in 2013
Ku is a mobile social networking platform based in Ramat Gan, Israel, that allows users to create and share short, three-line notes known as haikus. The app, available for iOS devices, enhances traditional social media by enabling users to express their thoughts in a compact format, often accompanied by images. Users can engage with each other by liking and commenting on these haikus, which can be shared directly within the app or exported to popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Ku, formerly known as Heyku, focuses on fostering creative expression and connecting users through the art of poetry.

Friend Trusted

Seed Round in 2013
Friend Trusted

SmallRivers

Venture Round in 2013
SmallRivers develops web services that are facilitating the interconnection of people around shared interests. SmallRivers is a privately held startup incorporated in Switzerland (Lausanne) and located on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL campus, Scientific Park.

Paper.li

Seed Round in 2013
Paper.li is a marketing software as a service (SaaS) platform that helps individuals and small businesses build their digital presence. It offers an easy-to-use tool for curating content based on users' interests, which can be added to personal websites, shared on social media, or included in newsletters. The platform also provides resources and tips from marketing professionals to inspire users to create original content. Priced at $12.99 per month, Paper.li aims to empower users in managing their personal brands effectively in an increasingly digital world. By facilitating content collection and audience engagement, Paper.li positions itself as a leader in the emerging field of personal marketing.

Start A Fire

Seed Round in 2013
Start A Fire is a developer of a social attribution platform designed to enhance the visibility of individuals and brands on social media. The platform automatically adds a branded badge featuring content recommendations to every link shared, promoting users' social presence and facilitating content distribution. By connecting their social media management accounts, users can streamline their promotional efforts, allowing the platform to manage the rest. This automation enables users to increase their brand reach and discover relevant content more effectively with each shared link.

Fanzy

Seed Round in 2013
Fanzy is the world's most proven social loyalty and referral platform. Fanzy enables brands to attract and reward top social fans who create buzz and share links to website revenue events. Fanzy gamifies the experience of being a fan by rewarding fans for their social activity around brands, TV shows, films, celebrities, sports teams, athletes and more. As Fanzy fans generate buzz for brands, they unlock real life rewards, social achievements and are ranked for each Fanzy they join based on Fanzy's proprietary FanScore. Fanzy currently drives amplification of marketing messages on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. Over 25,000 Facebook Pages are using Fanzy, including MTV shows like Pimp my Ride and Awkward, musicians including Nicki Minaj, LMFAO and Janis Joplin, sports teams the Detroit Pistons and Sacramento Kings, movies including Drive and brands including Smirnoff's, Spotify, Ford, Microsoft, Dairylea, Living Social, Hotels.com, APB Reloaded, TF1 and the NRJ Awards. Fanzy offers several tiers of service including fully white-labeled applications. White-labeled applications enable brands to reward fans for any online or offline action.

ShoorK

Seed Round in 2012
ShoorK, the first fully integrated solution for measuring Facebook Fan Pages, you can finally measure the performance of your Facebook actions, improve customer relations and offer more services to your Fans.

Storific

Angel Round in 2012
When Square meets Foursquare: Storific is the first social ordering kiosk right in customers' pockets

InfluAds

Seed Round in 2011
InfluAds is an cross-channel advertising network providing quality sites with quality audiences an disintermediated solution to promote an borderline obsession about Quality Ads and a better User Experience without Clutter.

YellowBrck

Seed Round in 2011
YellowBrck is a location-based social network created for moms and dads on the go. Parents can easily share their activities and locations with friends and other parents, as well as score special savings incentives from retailers. YellowBrck emphasizes the social aspect, allowing parents to meet up with nearby parents, keep tabs on what activities their friends are doing, and discover family-friendly places in their neighborhood. An impromptu playdate at the park or a last-minute trip to the museum is easily shared on YellowBrck for others to join in.

IFrame Apps

Seed Round in 2011
Iframe Apps operates an online platform that offers Facebook applications designed for businesses to enhance fan engagement and promote their brands. Founded in May 2011, the company specializes in providing third-party applications tailored to meet the marketing needs of various organizations on social media. Through its offerings, Iframe Apps aims to help businesses effectively connect with their audience and leverage the power of Facebook for brand promotion.

Beevibes

Seed Round in 2011
Beevibes has developed a service that recommends branded content to Internet users. We offer advertisers an engaging new way to deliver impacting brand campaigns on a premium publisher network. Our semantic targeting tech, combined with an exclusive in-content format delivers above standard visibility and engagement results.

Storific

Seed Round in 2011
When Square meets Foursquare: Storific is the first social ordering kiosk right in customers' pockets

SmallRivers

Seed Round in 2010
SmallRivers develops web services that are facilitating the interconnection of people around shared interests. SmallRivers is a privately held startup incorporated in Switzerland (Lausanne) and located on the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL campus, Scientific Park.

Mashed Pixel

Seed Round in 2010
Mashed Pixel develops applications that enhance everyday life by integrating social networking with hardware solutions. The company's focus is on creating lifestyle applications that replace single-function gadgets, facilitating a more mobile living experience for users. By improving interaction through its social-networking platform, Mashed Pixel enables businesses to effectively promote their products and services while fostering communication with existing customers. This approach helps clients expand their customer base and builds connections within the global community. Ultimately, Mashed Pixel is dedicated to transforming innovative ideas into practical tools that enrich users' lives.

StatusNet

Seed Round in 2010
StatusNet, Inc. is a Quebec-based company headquartered in Montreal that specializes in developing open-source microblogging software known as StatusNet. The software allows users to create their own microblogging services, similar to traditional blogging platforms. One of the most recognized implementations of this software is Identi.ca. StatusNet aims to provide both public and private microblogging solutions, adopting a strategy akin to that of WordPress. Additionally, the company's platform facilitates interaction among microbloggers and offers features for generating tailored reports and monitoring business status in real-time. This enables organizations to efficiently collect and organize information, enhancing their microblogging experience.

StatusNet

Seed Round in 2009
StatusNet, Inc. is a Quebec-based company headquartered in Montreal that specializes in developing open-source microblogging software known as StatusNet. The software allows users to create their own microblogging services, similar to traditional blogging platforms. One of the most recognized implementations of this software is Identi.ca. StatusNet aims to provide both public and private microblogging solutions, adopting a strategy akin to that of WordPress. Additionally, the company's platform facilitates interaction among microbloggers and offers features for generating tailored reports and monitoring business status in real-time. This enables organizations to efficiently collect and organize information, enhancing their microblogging experience.
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