French Tech Funding Wire January 10: Usual, Syroco, Happydemics & More!
📇 Company: CyGO Entrepreneurs
🔍 Description: Entrepreneurial platform supporting local initiatives.
💻 Website: https://www.cygo-entrepreneurs.com
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €5M
🏦 Investors: BNP Paribas; Malte Pollmann; France 2030
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Laurent Hausermann, Aurélie Clerc
🗞️ News: FrenchWeb
📇 Company: AYDO
🔍 Description: Platform to supercharge structured product investments.
💻 Website: https://aydofinance.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: VAeX Capital Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Arthur Teixeira
🗞️ News: Silicon Luxembourg
📇 Company: rBlox
🔍 Description: Provides software solutions for property management.
💻 Website: https://rblox.io/
📍 HQ City: Issy-les-Moulineaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €50K
🏦 Investors: Startup Wise Guys
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Cécile Caroun Gul
🗞️ News: LinkedIn
📇 Company: Hexalean
🔍 Description: Solutions for energy-efficient heating and cooling systems.
💻 Website: https://www.hexalean.com/
📍 HQ City: Confrançon
🧗 Round: Growth Equity VC
💰 Amount Raised: N/A
🏦 Investors: Origine Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Fabrice Lacour
🗞️ News: Fusacq
📇 Company: Data Inceptio
🔍 Description: Training and consulting in data, blockchain, and AI.
💻 Website: https://www.data-inceptio.com
📍 HQ City: Carquefou
🧗 Round: N/A
💰 Amount Raised: €80K
🏦 Investors: Justcloudit
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Olivier Lagrandeur
📇 Company: NomadHer
🔍 Description: Mobile app empowering female solo travelers with safety and support.
💻 Website: https://www.nomadher.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.14M
🏦 Investors: Korea Credit Guarantee Fund; K Bridge Investment
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Hyojeong Kim
📇 Company: Usual
🔍 Description: Innovative protocol redefining finance with transparency and inclusivity.
💻 Website: http://usual.money
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €9.09M
🏦 Investors: Wintermute; Fasanara Capital; Coinbase Ventures; Binance Labs; LeadBlock Partners; Amber Group; Krypital Group; Galaxy
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pierre Person; Adli Bataille; Hugo Sallé Chou
🗞️ News: Finyear
📇 Company: Syroco
🔍 Description: Syroco EfficientShip is a software platform that builds digital twins of ships using physics modeling, data, and AI.
💻 Website: https://syro.co
📍 HQ City: Marseille
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €7.50M
🏦 Investors: Seventure Partners; Alter Equity
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Florent Boutellier; Bertrand Diard; Yves de Montcheuil; Olivier Taillard
🗞️ News: Maddyness
📇 Company: Happydemics
🔍 Description: Providing technology for marketing research.
💻 Website: http://happydemics.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount Raised: €13.00M
🏦 Investors: Adelie Capital; Wille Finance
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Tarek Ouagguini
🗞️ News: Silicon Canals
📇 Company: Mirabelle
🔍 Description: Specializing in reverse mortgages and life annuities for retirees.
💻 Website: https://www.mirabelle.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.00M
🏦 Investors: Inter-Invest; MINDSTONE
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Hugo Jenny; Bastien Davalos
🗞️ News: Finyear
📇 Company: ïkos Bordeaux
🔍 Description: A cooperative initiative transforming discarded items into valuable resources through solidarity-based reuse.
💻 Website: https://ikos-bordeaux.fr/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Late VC
💰 Amount Raised: €4.00M
📇 Company: Evergaz
🔍 Description: French and European biogas greentech, providing solutions for sustainable energy.
💻 Website: http://evergaz.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Late VC
💰 Amount Raised: €60.00M
🏦 Investors: SWEN Capital Partners; Meridiam
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Andre May
🗞️ News: Meridiam
📇 Company: Wise Trail Running
🔍 Description: Co-creating trail clothing that doesn’t harm the planet.
💻 Website: https://www.wisetrailrunning.com/
📍 HQ City: Annecy
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount Raised: €3.00M
🏦 Investors: Axelle Nardoux
👨💼👩💼 Founders: N/A
🗞️ News: Endurance
📇 Company: SkyVisor
🔍 Description: Inspection and automatic monitoring by drones for industrial infrastructures such as wind turbines and electrical installations.
💻 Website: http://www.skyvisor.fr/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.20M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; Ile-de-France (Paris Region); Tomcat Invest
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Paul Fontaine; Fabien Sauvage
🗞️ News: Pulse 2.o
📇 Company: Ecosystem Restoration Standard
🔍 Description: A new carbon standard to measure and verify impacts on climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods.
💻 Website: https://ers.org/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €5.00M
🏦 Investors: LocalGlobe; noa; AENU
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thibault Sorret
🗞️ News: Carbon Herald
📇 Company: Coave Therapeutics
🔍 Description: Clinical-stage biotechnology company developing gene therapies for ocular and central nervous system diseases.
💻 Website: http://coavetx.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €32M
🏦 Investors: Novo Holdings; Bpifrance; Invus; UI Investissement
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Rodolphe Clerval
🗞️ News: Forex TV
📇 Company: Spareka
🔍 Description: Online marketplace offering spare parts for home appliances.
💻 Website: https://www.spareka.fr/
📍 HQ City: Montreuil Île-de-France
🧗 Round: Series C
💰 Amount Raised: €2.5M
🏦 Investors: Sowefund
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Geoffroy Malaterre
🗞️ News: Maddyness
📇 Company: Matchers
🔍 Description: HR training programs platform.
💻 Website: matchers.fr
📍 HQ City: Montpellier
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €1.2M (including €0.5M debt)
🏦 Investors: Sofilaro
👨💼👩💼 Founders:
🗞️ News: LinkedIn
📇 Company: DeepHawk
🔍 Description: AI software for industrial quality control.
💻 Website: https://deephawk.ai/
📍 HQ City: Cesson-Sévigné
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €600K
🏦 Investors: The Moon Venture
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Gilles Allain, Tomas Crivelli
🗞️ News: LinkedIn
📇 Company: VBTech
🔍 Description: Brain digital twin technology for neurological interventions.
💻 Website: https://vb-tech.eu/
📍 HQ City: Aix-en-Provence
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €500K
🏦 Investors: Rise Partners; Business Angels