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French Tech Funding Wire November 15: OpenAirlines, Elicit Plant, Agicap & More!

French startups that raised money the week of November 10 to November 15 also include Prelude, Liberlo, Money Walkie, Meet My Mama, Wyden, Alentis Therapeutics, Omaha Insights Trace For Good, IADYS, and AdipoPharma.

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📇 Company: OpenAirlines
🔍 Description: OpenAirlines is a provider of eco-flying software solutions aimed at reducing fuel consumption and CO₂ emissions in the aviation industry.
💻 Website: https://www.openairlines.com
📍 HQ City: Toulouse
🧗 Round: Funding round led by Eiffel Investment Group
💰 Amount raised: Nearly €45 million
🏦 Investors: Eiffel Investment Group, Mirova, with the Caisse de Retraite du Personnel Navigant Professionnel de l’Aéronautique Civile (CRPN) expected to join by the end of the year
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Alexandre Feray
🗞️ News: OpenAirlines has secured close to €45 million to advance sustainable aviation solutions, focusing on enhancing their SkyBreathe® platform, which utilizes AI and machine learning to optimize fuel consumption and reduce CO₂ emissions. | EU-Startups


📇 Company: FASST
🔍 Description: FASST is a leading provider of digital acceleration solutions for insurers, offering a SaaS platform to improve sales performance, time-to-market, regulatory cost management, and underwriting processes through an omnichannel approach.
💻 Website: fasst.io
📍 HQ City: Angoulême, France (with offices in Paris and Bordeaux)
🧗 Round: Series (Led by Revaia and Bpifrance Large Venture)
💰 Amount Raised: €27 million
🏦 Investors: Revaia, Bpifrance (Large Venture fund), AG2R LA MONDIALE, Malakoff Humanis, Digital Insure, Covea, M Capital fund, Nouvelle Aquitaine Co-Investment (NACO)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Xavier Favre and Yasser Echoukry
🗞️ News: Next-gen insurtech solutions provider FASST raises €27M for digitalisation of industry


📇 Company: Polar Analytics
🔍 Description: Polar Analytics is a centralized platform that assists e-commerce merchants in leveraging their first-party data to make more informed decisions. It integrates seamlessly with e-commerce platforms like Shopify, providing in-depth analysis of acquisition costs and marketing campaign performance, particularly across channels such as email.
💻 Website: polaranalytics.com
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount Raised: €18 million
🏦 Investors: Point Nine, Frst Capital, Chalfen Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: David Dokes and Charbel Seif
🗞️ News: Polar Analytics lève 18 millions d’euros pour aider les commerçants à exploiter leurs données


📇 Company: Prelude
🔍 Description: Prelude offers fraud-resistant SMS verification solutions, acting as an independent broker to identify cost-effective routing options and reduce verification costs.
💻 Website: https://prelude.so
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €7.6 million
🏦 Investors: Singular, Seedcamp
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Matias Berny, Quentin Le Bras
🗞️ News: Prelude secured €7.6 million to expand its fraud-resistant SMS verification services across Europe and North America, aiming to enhance mobile-first onboarding solutions. | EU-Startups


📇 Company: Liberlo
🔍 Description: Liberlo is a platform dedicated to alternative medicine, connecting users with certified practitioners and offering a unique third-party payment option to simplify reimbursements.
💻 Website: https://liberlo.com
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Not specified
💰 Amount raised: €2.2 million
🏦 Investors: Not specified
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Not specified
🗞️ News: Liberlo raised €2.2 million to structure a care pathway for alternative medicine, aiming to enhance accessibility and reimbursement processes for patients. | FrenchWeb


📇 Company: Money Walkie
🔍 Description: Money Walkie provides a contactless wallet designed to teach children financial autonomy, featuring a mobile app for parents to manage allowances and monitor spending.
💻 Website: https://moneywalkie.com
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Not specified
💰 Amount raised: €4 million
🏦 Investors: BPCE, M6, with a portion reserved for crowdfunding via Sowefund
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Raphaël Leprette, Clémence Coursimault
🗞️ News: Money Walkie raised €4 million and opened its capital to the public to promote financial autonomy among children, aiming to transform the pocket money experience. | Maddyness


📇 Company: Meet My Mama
🔍 Description: Meet My Mama is a catering platform that showcases the culinary talents of women from around the world, offering immersive culinary experiences and supporting chefs in professionalizing their skills.
💻 Website: https://meetmymama.com
📍 HQ City: Paris, France
🧗 Round: Not specified
💰 Amount raised: €3 million
🏦 Investors: Kimpa, Fair Equity, BNP Paribas, Olympe Capital, Groupe Up
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Youssef Oudahman, Donia Souad Amamra, Loubna Ksibi
🗞️ News: Meet My Mama raised €3 million to help chefs professionalize, aiming to scale their platform and integrate new features for clients and chefs. | Maddyness


📇 Company: Elicit Plant
🔍 Description: Elicit Plant is an agritech company developing biostimulants that reduce water consumption in plants by approximately 20%, enhancing their resistance to environmental stress.
💻 Website: https://elicit-plant.com
📍 HQ City: Saint-Christoly-de-Blaye, France
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount raised: €45 million
🏦 Investors: Carbyne Partners, Sofinnova Partners, ECBF, BPI EcoGreenTech
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jean-François Déchant
🗞️ News: Elicit Plant raised €45 million to expand its biostimulant products that reduce plant water consumption and to develop new solutions for crops like vines and potatoes. | Maddyness


📇 Company: Wyden
🔍 Description: Wyden is a leader in digital asset trading technology for financial institutions, offering a full-cycle trading platform that integrates with asset custody, banking, and portfolio management systems to simplify trading processes.
💻 Website: http://www.wyden.io
📍 HQ City: Zurich, Switzerland (with offices in New York and Singapore)
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount raised: €15.4 million
🏦 Investors: Truffle Capital, PostFinance, SBI Sygnum, FiveT Fintech, C3 Venture Capital (existing investor)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Andy Flury
🗞️ News: The funding will accelerate Wyden's expansion into regulated markets worldwide, enhance product development, and grow its client base, including banks and brokers across various regions.


📇 Company: Alentis Therapeutics
🔍 Description: Alentis Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies targeting CLDN1 for the treatment of CLDN1-positive tumors and fibrosis.
💻 Website: https://www.alentis.ch
📍 HQ City: Basel, Switzerland (R&D site in Strasbourg, France)
🧗 Round: Series D
💰 Amount raised: €164.5 million
🏦 Investors: Jeito Capital, OrbiMed, Novo Holdings, Frazier Life Sciences, Longitude Capital, Catalio Capital, Piper Heartland Healthcare Capital, Avego Bioscience Capital, RA Capital Management, Morningside Venture Investments, BB Pureos, Bpifrance (InnoBio 2)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Dr. Roberto Iacone (CEO)
🗞️ News: The new funding will support clinical trials for Alentis' antibody-drug conjugates targeting CLDN1 in solid tumors, with studies commencing in 2025. The financing reflects ongoing support for innovative cancer therapies.


Omaha

📇 Company: Omaha Insights
🔍 Description: Normalized financial data and analytical tools for small businesses.
💻 Website: https://www.omaha-insights.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €3.5 million
🏦 Investors: Ventech, Axeleo Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jordan Alloun, Bryant Matthews
🗞️ News: Omaha Insights raises funding


Trace For Good co-founders Léa Gillet (left) and Laura Bréban

📇 Company: Trace For Good
🔍 Description: Traceability and data management software for food supply chains.
💻 Website: http://traceforgood.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount raised: €3.5 million
🏦 Investors: Seed4Soft, Hi Inov, Ankaa Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Léa Gillet
🗞️ News: Trace For Good funding details


📇 Company: IADYS
🔍 Description: Designs, develops and delivers Artificial Intelligence solutions.
💻 Website: http://www.iadys.com
📍 HQ City: Roquefort-la-Bédoule
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount raised: €10 million
🏦 Investors: Innovacom, Région Sud Investissement, GO Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Nicolas Carlési
🗞️ News: IADYS funding announcement


📇 Company: AdipoPharma
🔍 Description: Not specified.
💻 Website: http://adipopharma.com
📍 HQ City: Strasbourg
🧗 Round: Early VC
💰 Amount raised: Not specified
🏦 Investors: Sambrinvest, Okeanos, Good Growth Capital, Newton Fund
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Vincent Marion
🗞️ News: https://lifecarenews.in/french-biotech-company-adipopharma-secures-funding-to-initiate-clinical-trials-for-its-first-in-class-compound-for-insulin-resistance/


Agicap co-founders (left to right): Lucas Bertola (CTO), Sebastien Beyet (CEO), Clément Mauguet (Chief Expansion Officer)

📇 Company: Agicap
🔍 Description: A software adapted to all the SMEs for the management of cash flow.
💻 Website: https://agicap.com/fr/
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Series C
💰 Amount raised: €43.84 million
🏦 Investors: AXA Venture Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Sebastien Beyet, Sylvain Tessier
🗞️ News: Fintech startup Agicap has raised €45 million in a Series C funding round to enhance its treasury management platform and expand its international presence. | TechEU


📇 Company: ValueCo
🔍 Description: Solution for aggregating corporate ESG data to establish market trends.
💻 Website: https://www.valuecometrics.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €1.5M
🏦 Investors: 115k, Techstars, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mariem Mhadhbi, Mathieu Joubrel
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7263121091676487680/


📇 Company: PimpUp
🔍 Description: Online waste-prevention baskets ordering platform.
💻 Website: https://www.pimpup-antigaspi.fr/
📍 HQ City: Not specified
🧗 Round: Montpellier
💰 Amount Raised: €850,000
🏦 Investors: Business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Anaïs Lacombe and Manon Pagnucco
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7262766470550491138/


📇 Company: Ekip
🔍 Description: Meal ticket service.
💻 Website: https://www.ekip.app/
📍 HQ City: Annecy

🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €800,000
🏦 Investors: Share Invest, business angels, Family Offices
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Julien Derville and Sandrine Eklou


📇 Company: Doado
🔍 Description: Mobile app to prevent and reduce back pain.
💻 Website: http://doado.app/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €400,000
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance, Région Nouvelle Aquitaine, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Hadia Ripoll and Julien Legay


📇 Company: Gr33t
🔍 Description: Platform for employees to adopt more sober digital practices.
💻 Website: https://greet.lecko.fr/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €320,000
🏦 Investors: Business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Christophe Borée, Michel Ezran, Bastien Le Lann, and Delphine Wintenberger
🗞️ News: https://www.frenchweb.fr/gr33t-leve-320-000-euros-pour-transformer-les-pratiques-de-travail-en-entreprise/449865


📇 Company: Just
🔍 Description: One-click payment solution.
💻 Website: https://www.getjust.eu/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount Raised: €6.5M
🏦 Investors: Backed, Daphni, Otium Capital, Kima Ventures, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jeremy Pinto and Benjamin Cohen Aloro
🗞️ News: https://www.vestbee.com/blog/articles/paris-based-e-commerce-platform-raises-8-m-led-by-backed-vc

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