Kima Ventures

Kima Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments across various sectors, with a particular emphasis on technology. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Paris, France, the firm also operates an office in London, United Kingdom. Kima Ventures is recognized as one of the most active early-stage investors globally, typically investing in two to three startups each week. The firm aims to support ambitious founders by providing not only financial backing but also a network and resources to facilitate growth. Kima Ventures often acts as a lead investor, making quick decisions to streamline the fundraising process, allowing entrepreneurs to concentrate on building their businesses. Over the past five years, Kima has invested in more than 400 startups in 24 countries, reinforcing its commitment to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.

Alexis Robert

Partner

Past deals in Social Media

MoSo

Seed Round in 2023
MoSo assists content creators in realizing their maximum potential and expanding their businesses on all social media channels.

Zealy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Zealy is an online platform focused on enhancing the growth and engagement of web3 communities. It provides various tools and features aimed at improving community interaction and participation. The platform supports applications such as onboarding for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), whitelisting for token sales, and facilitating knowledge sharing among members. By enabling users to learn from each other and collaborate effectively, Zealy aims to activate and expand web3 communities, fostering a more engaged and informed user base.

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.

Vibely

Seed Round in 2020
Vibely is a social networking platform that focuses on empowering creators to foster vibrant communities. It facilitates the organization of self-directed local events, casual meetups, and engaging discussions, allowing influencers to deepen connections with their followers. By monetizing these activities through participation fees and membership dues, Vibely not only enhances community interaction but also provides creators with a means to generate revenue. The platform is designed to encourage collaboration and resource sharing among users, thereby enriching the overall experience of community building.

klassroom

Seed Round in 2020
Klassroom is an educational technology platform that enhances communication between parents and teachers, facilitating remote learning, video conferencing, and homework management. Designed with educators in mind, the app allows teachers to quickly create classes and invite parents to engage through a class feed featuring announcements, assignments, multimedia content, and events. With over 90% of parents actively using the platform, Klassroom fosters strong parent-teacher relationships by enabling direct communication while respecting teachers' time. The platform supports multiple languages, translating posts and messages into 100 languages, and accommodates visually impaired users, ensuring inclusivity for all families. Founded in 2016 by Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg, Klassroom has seen rapid adoption in thousands of classrooms across 30 countries, achieving high satisfaction ratings by closely aligning with teachers' needs.

Bodyguard

Seed Round in 2020
Bodyguard is a cloud-based platform that specializes in monitoring and moderating social media content to protect individuals and businesses from toxic behaviors online. By combining AI technology with human oversight, Bodyguard swiftly identifies and removes harmful content, fostering safer online environments. The solution seamlessly integrates with various social networks and platforms, offering 24/7 protection that helps safeguard brand image and enhance user experiences. This approach enables clients to effectively manage their online communities, ensuring a more positive and secure digital space while protecting their reputation and revenue.

Wenabi

Seed Round in 2019
Wenabi is a Paris-based platform founded in 2016 that aims to enhance employee engagement through volunteer work and corporate social responsibility initiatives. The platform facilitates connections between companies and organizations within the social and solidarity economy, allowing businesses to identify and collaborate with associations and social entrepreneurs that align with their values and local needs. By utilizing an algorithm, Wenabi matches companies with relevant social initiatives, promoting positive community impact. Its software as a service (SaaS) model enables companies to create and manage their own events, fostering a culture of engagement and volunteerism among employees.

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.

PixelMe

Seed Round in 2018
PixelMe is a developer of a link management platform designed to assist marketers in building custom audiences. The platform adds retargeting pixels to every link shared across social media and other channels, allowing users to serve targeted ads on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google Ads to individuals who click on those links. This functionality enables marketers to effectively track the performance of their campaigns and drive traffic to third-party platforms. By providing insights into link performance and audience engagement, PixelMe aims to enhance the efficiency of digital marketing efforts.

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.

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.

Brut

Series A in 2018
Brut is an international video content publisher that specializes in short-form news and feature-based content. Covering a diverse range of topics, including politics, technology, social justice, and culture, Brut aims to inform and engage audiences worldwide. With a substantial presence on multiple social platforms, the company generates over 500 million views each month and reaches more than 150 million viewers globally. Operating from offices on two continents, Brut publishes content daily in three languages, making it a prominent player in the digital media landscape. Its focus on delivering timely news through engaging video clips allows audiences to stay updated on current events and relevant issues.

Jodel

Series A in 2017
At Jodel, we're more than just a social media app. Jodel enables the users to discover, follow, and participate in real-time in the most relevant conversations with people nearby. You can connect with people who share your interests, discover new places, and express yourself freely. Jodel has millions of active users across the Nordics, DACH and middle-east and continue to expand globally. No sign-up or profile necessary.

Tribe

Seed Round in 2016
Tribe is a live multiplayer gaming platform. Tribe offers users a way to instantly hang live with up to 8 of friends at once. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Side

Seed Round in 2016
Side is an online platform designed to connect students with job opportunities that fit around their academic commitments. Established in 2016 and based in Paris, France, the platform facilitates collaboration between students and companies through a location-based job board and comprehensive management tools, which streamline administrative tasks such as invoicing, payments, and worker monitoring. Side serves a diverse range of businesses, including well-known names like HelloFresh and Uber, facilitating both short-term and longer-term assignments. Since its inception, Side has experienced rapid growth, managing thousands of job placements monthly across France and the UK, with plans for further expansion into new cities and industries. The company has raised a total of $7.2 million in funding from prominent investors, supporting its mission to efficiently match temporary workforce needs with qualified candidates.

Gitter

Seed Round in 2015
Gitter is a chat and networking platform that helps its users manage, grow, and connect with communities through messaging, content, and discovery. The platform also provides integrations with GitHub, Trello, Jenkins, Travis CI, Heroku, Sentry, BitBucket, HuBoard, Logentries, Pagerduty, and Sprintly. Its mission is to connect developers, helping them form deep relationships with one another and the technologies they use. Gitter is operated from London, United Kingdom.

Mapme

Seed Round in 2015
Mapme is an innovative platform that enables organizations and leaders to create interactive maps, allowing them to visualize the interconnected layers of their communities. Founded in 2014 by Ben Lang, Amir Zucker, and Philippe Lang, the platform leverages crowdsourcing to enhance user engagement and facilitate the sharing of geographic information. By assisting companies in crafting maps tailored to specific interests and topics, Mapme fosters an engaging user experience and promotes community involvement. The platform simplifies the process of map creation, enabling organizations to narrate visual stories effectively and connect with their audiences.

Popchef

Seed Round in 2015
PopChef launched at Paris Founders Event Winter 2015 and they were curious to get some updates on this flavourful, fairly-price, conscious business, but firstly let’s find out how everything started out and the obstacles these three young entrepreneurs faced along the way.

Vouchr

Seed Round in 2014
Vouchr Ltd. is a Toronto-based company that operates as a social gifting community, enabling users to create personalized gift certificates through its Vouchr app. Launched in 2012, the app allows users to design vouchers for friends on Facebook by selecting specific details such as the gift type, location, recipient, and adding images and descriptions. Vouchr focuses on enhancing consumer payment experiences by integrating features like photos, videos, and social interactions into its platform. This innovative approach transforms traditional peer-to-peer transactions, remittances, and gift card experiences, providing a secure and interoperable payment tool. As a result, Vouchr not only facilitates personal gifting but also empowers brands and payment companies to engage their audiences effectively in a digital landscape.

Friend Trusted

Seed Round in 2014
Friend Trusted

Cursogram

Angel Round in 2014
Cursogram is a platform for online training video: software, professional design & editing, business, creativity, marketing and social media. Academic education for all ages. Video Courses: 3D and CAD, Photography, Video, Audio, Business Skills, Design, Creativity, Programming, Security, Marketing, Social Media. The video courses are taught by the best teachers.

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.

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., based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile application designed for players, leagues, clubs, and governing bodies involved in team sports. The platform serves as a comprehensive social hub and management tool, allowing recreational sports teams, players, and league organizers to efficiently manage their teams and access vital information. By providing a centralized space for various stakeholders in the sports community, Mitoo aims to enhance communication and streamline organizational processes within the realm of sports.

Vigiglobe

Seed Round 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.

One

Seed Round in 2014
One Inc. operates a mobile application called One, designed to facilitate social networking by connecting users based on shared interests. The app utilizes information from social media platforms like Facebook, along with location tracking, to notify users when others nearby have similar interests. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, One Inc. aims to enhance social interactions by providing a platform that fosters connections among users in their vicinity.

Friend Trusted

Seed Round in 2013
Friend Trusted

Start A Fire

Seed Round in 2013
start A FIRE enables individuals and brands to promote their social presence and content over any link they share. start A FIRE is fully automated, signup, connect your social media management account and it will take care of all the rest. It automatically adds a badge with your content and brand to every link you share.

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.

Blottr

Venture Round in 2013
Blottr is a people powered news service that enables anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them, from mobile to web instantly. Having many people contribute to the same story is a powerful way of reporting and consuming news.

Blottr

Seed Round in 2013
Blottr is a people powered news service that enables anyone to capture, report and collaborate on news as it happens around them, from mobile to web instantly. Having many people contribute to the same story is a powerful way of reporting and consuming news.

Bankofpoker

Seed Round in 2013
1er site de Poker au monde 100 % gratuit avec des centaines de parties par jour et des gains d'argent réel jusqu'à 1 000 € …

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.

Planet Soho

Series A in 2012
Planet Soho is the place small office / home office (SOHO) businesses, micro-businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers worldwide come together to grow and flourish. Planet Soho addresses the business needs of SOHOs, offering a powerful suite of free web-based tools to help SOHOs operate, a business-advice blog, and a directory of over one million small businesses. With over one million SOHOs on board, Planet Soho is leveraging the power of economy of scale to bring exclusive features to members, thereby giving SOHOs the kinds of advantages previously only available to big corporations. Planet Soho is bringing SOHOs together to connect, collaborate, and create a new global micro-economy. Planet Soho is based in San Francisco.

State.it

Seed Round in 2011
State.it is an opinion network that captures, interconnects, and organizes people's opinions and conversations based on shared tastes, no matter where they originate. They connect content and communities around shared interests in a simple and engaging interface.

Visual Revenue

Seed Round in 2011
Founded in 2010, Visual Revenue, Inc. develops a real-time predictive analytics platform aimed at enhancing editorial decision-making in data-driven newsrooms. This platform supports human editors by providing tools that improve their judgment and decision-making capabilities without replacing them. By offering real-time recommendations and measurements of social media success, Visual Revenue enables media organizations to better manage content and increase audience engagement across their digital platforms. Each feature is tailored to simplify the complexities of content management while preserving the unique editorial voice of publishers. In 2013, the company was acquired by Outbrain.

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 sell a platform of Facebook applications for businesses to engage fans and promote their brand. Iframe Apps SAS, was founded in May 2011. The company sell third party facebook Apps for business.

Star Stable

Seed Round in 2011
Starstable.com is an online horse game offered in three languges that is owned and operated by Star Stable Entertainment AB (SSE), formerly known as World of Horse Craft AB (WOH). SSE was founded in 2010 by Ola Ahlvarsson and Johan Edfeldt. That year the rights and ownership of the Star Stable brand was acquired by SSE and the development of Star Stable Online began. The company is dedicated to producing games for girls. SSE is owned by the Founders, Kima Ventures, Medge Consulting and additionally by a number of key partners and private investors.

EcoMom

Angel Round in 2010
ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices. ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions about the products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families. ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living. ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless.

Planet Soho

Seed Round in 2010
Planet Soho is the place small office / home office (SOHO) businesses, micro-businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers worldwide come together to grow and flourish. Planet Soho addresses the business needs of SOHOs, offering a powerful suite of free web-based tools to help SOHOs operate, a business-advice blog, and a directory of over one million small businesses. With over one million SOHOs on board, Planet Soho is leveraging the power of economy of scale to bring exclusive features to members, thereby giving SOHOs the kinds of advantages previously only available to big corporations. Planet Soho is bringing SOHOs together to connect, collaborate, and create a new global micro-economy. Planet Soho is based in San Francisco.

Mashed Pixel

Seed Round in 2010
Mashed Pixel develops applications that simplify our everyday lives. By pairing social-networking applications for SmartPhones, along with hardware, Mashed Pixel seeks to replace single-function gadgets—getting consumers one-step closer to mobile living. We are constantly dreaming up life-changing ideas, then building the tools to bring those ideas to life. Our lifestyle applications target the global community, and we're bringing everyone closer—one idea at a time.

Mimesis Republic

Seed Round in 2010
Mimesis Republic designs, develops and operates Mamba Nation, a next generation social gaming experience for teenagers & young adults. Mamba Nation allows users to play with their friends through a variety of mobile and web games & participate in a unique and compelling 3D social world experience. Mimesis Republic is a French company founded by Nicolas Gaume and Sebastian Lombardo in 2007 and based in Paris and Bordeaux. The company is funded by private investors, including Artemis and Verlinvest. Mimesis-Republic team and management have a 20-year track-record of development of entertainment blockbusters and online services.

iAdvize

Seed Round in 2010
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.

StatusNet

Seed Round in 2009
[StatusNet, Inc](http://status.net/) is a Quebec corporation headquartered in Montreal with staff around the world. It develops the Open Source microblogging software, StatusNet. The best-known site running the software is [Identi.ca](http://identi.ca). Anyone can download StatusNet and run their own microblogging service, much like they can with traditional blogging platforms such as Wordpress or MoveableType. The company is pursuing a WordPress-like strategy by offering a cloud service for public and private microblogging sites.
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