Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures, established in 2010, is a Paris-based venture capital firm with an additional office in London. It specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing primarily on technology companies across Europe, with a particular emphasis on France. Kima Ventures invests up to €0.15 million initially, with follow-on investments ranging from €0.5 million to €5 million. The firm prefers to be a significant minority shareholder and often co-invests with business angels and venture funds. Kima Ventures is known for its active investment approach, backing 2-3 startups per week globally, and providing founders with funding, network, and operational support to drive growth. The firm, founded and backed by Xavier Niel, has invested in over 400 startups across 24 countries in the last five years.

Jeanne Cluset

VC Associate

Alexis Robert

Partner

Past deals in Language Processing

PyannoteAI

Seed Round in 2025
Pyannote AI specializes in conversational speech technology, specifically offering a state-of-the-art speaker diarization platform. This platform employs artificial intelligence to analyze and segment multi-speaker audio conversations, enhancing transcription accuracy. It identifies individual speakers, removes silent sections, reduces background noise, and focuses on relevant audio parts. This enables businesses in customer support, sales, and internal communications to generate minutes, summaries, and follow-up actions efficiently.

Pruna AI

Seed Round in 2024
Pruna AI is a technology company that specializes in optimizing artificial intelligence models. Its core product is an AI optimization engine, designed to enhance the efficiency and scalability of machine learning models. This engine optimizes inference, execution kernels, and graph structures, enabling clients to deploy AI models faster, more cost-effectively, and sustainably across various applications like computer vision, natural language processing, and generative AI. Notably, Pruna AI's technology can be integrated locally in one line of code on any AI model and hardware, making it highly versatile and user-friendly.

Linkup

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Linkup is a technology company that develops an AI platform enabling large language models and AI agents to efficiently access, search, and interact with web content. This is achieved through APIs, allowing developers to seamlessly integrate web content into AI applications. The platform aims to create a digital infrastructure where AI agents can act as primary users, processing and interacting with the web in optimized ways, and providing clients with a specialized search engine that delivers content from premium sources, minimizing inaccuracies and hallucinations.

Composable Prompts

Seed Round in 2024
We aim to revolutionize the way applications interact with content. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT have fundamentally changed our interaction with textual data, we believe in taking a step further. Composable Prompts ensures that every business, regardless of its scale or domain, can leverage the native data processing capabilities of LLMs in the most efficient way possible. We've built the API Studio for LLMs, a comprehensive toolkit for designing, deploying, and operating business-specific APIs. Our suite offers a structured, domain-specific approach, shifting from rudimentary, text-based interactions to a world of structured, efficient, and integrated content processing. Our Core Offerings: Interaction Designer: Crafting intuitive prompt templates and robust data schemas. Prompt Assistance: Using LLMs to enhance prompt design and offer improvement suggestions. API Service: Seamlessly integrating LLMs into your applications and business processes. Cache Service: Ensuring optimal performance by intelligently storing and reusing Interaction Results. Collaboration & Optimization Tools: From sharing prompt segments to monitoring performance, we have developers covered.

Meilisearch

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Meilisearch is a developer of an open-source search engine API platform that offers a fast, powerful, and customizable solution for search functionality. The platform is designed to deliver a relevant search experience by leveraging advanced algorithms and natural language processing capabilities. It effectively handles challenges such as typos, synonyms, and n-grams, making it adaptable to various languages. Meilisearch aims to provide an accessible alternative for organizations seeking to enhance their search capabilities and improve user engagement and conversion rates.

Localize

Seed Round in 2015
Localize Corporation is a localization solution provider that specializes in translating websites and SaaS platforms. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, California, Localize offers a no-code translation tool that allows businesses to easily translate their web applications, dashboards, and API documentation. Utilizing a JavaScript code solution, it automatically detects website content and loads it into a user-friendly dashboard, streamlining the workflow for translation and deployment. This efficient approach significantly reduces the time required to implement multilingual support, enabling companies to expand into new markets and enhance customer experiences around the world.

AmigoCAT

Seed Round in 2013
AmigoCAT is a technology startup developing an innovative computer-assisted translation tool designed for professionals. The company aims to enhance the translation process by incorporating user-friendly features into an online platform, catering specifically to translators' needs. AmigoCAT's tool leverages a vast global translation memory containing over 70 billion words across multiple languages, enabling real-time collaboration and compatibility with diverse file formats. Backed by Kima Ventures, AmigoCAT seeks to revolutionize the translation industry by offering a modern, efficient solution for its users.

Sparkup

Seed Round in 2012
Sparkup Ltd. is an innovative company that develops the Sparkup Magical Book Reader, a device designed to enhance children's reading experiences. This device clips onto picture books and reads them aloud in a user's voice, allowing for a personalized storytelling experience. Users can record their own readings in various languages or download professionally recorded stories complete with sound effects from the company's website. Sparkup serves a diverse clientele, including families, schools, libraries, and special needs communities across the United States. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Tel Mond, Israel, Sparkup utilizes proprietary visual recognition technology to facilitate reading and comprehension, making it easier for children to engage with texts in a digital age. The company's offerings are available for purchase online.
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