French Tech Funding Wire November 22: Faircraft, Solteo, Arenametrix & More!
📇 Company: Faircraft
🔍 Description: Developing lab-grown leather using patented tissue engineering techniques for sustainable, high-quality leather goods.
💻 Website: https://faircraft.bio/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount raised: €15 million
🏦 Investors: Kindred Ventures, Cap Horn, BPI, Sake Bosch, Entrepreneur First, Alliance for Impact, Heirloom
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Haïkel Balti, César Valencia Gallardo
🗞️ News: https://www.maddyness.com/2024/11/21/faircraft-boucle-une-serie-a-pour-sindustrialiser/
📇 Company: The Exploration Company
🔍 Description: Developing reusable and refillable spacecraft "Nyx" for low-Earth orbit and lunar exploration.
💻 Website: https://www.exploration.space/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux, Munich, Houston, Turin
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount raised: €150 million
🏦 Investors: Balderton Capital, Plural, Bessemer Venture Partners, NGP Capital, French Tech Souveraineté, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Bayern Capital, EQT Ventures, others
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Hélène Huby and a team of former Airbus and ArianeGroup engineers
🗞️ News: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/tec-raises-160m-to-develop-reusable-space-capsule
📇 Company: MicroOLED
🔍 Description: Specializes in high-resolution, low-power OLED microdisplays for AR/VR and wearable technologies.
💻 Website: https://microoled.net
📍 HQ City: Grenoble
🧗 Round: Private
💰 Amount raised: Not disclosed
🏦 Investors: Applied Ventures (Applied Materials' venture arm)
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Not disclosed
🗞️ News: https://tech.eu/2024/11/21/applied-ventures-backs-microoled-in-advancing-arvr-technology/
📇 Company: GreenGot
🔍 Description: A green financial institution focused on funding ecological transition projects.
💻 Website: https://www.greengot.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Crowdfunding
💰 Amount raised: Targeting €2 million
🏦 Investors: Community-driven crowdfunding supported by VC funds
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Maud Caillaux, Andréa Ganovelli, Fabien Huet
📇 Company: Solteo
🔍 Description: SaaS platform for renewable energy installers, enhancing solar project management.
💻 Website: https://www.solteo.fr
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €1.5 million
🏦 Investors: Axeleo Capital, Kima Ventures, Campus Fund, and angel investors
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Manon Hias, Alexandre d'Auvigny, Kévin Bée
📇 Company: Hoji
🔍 Description: Startup studio focused on environmental transition for industries.
💻 Website: https://hoji.fr
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €8.5 million
🏦 Investors: Banque des Territoires, Greenpact, ACI, family offices
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Emmanuel Gonon, Stéphane Folliet, Laurent Geray, Jean-Christophe Berne
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7264559578988642304/
📇 Company: Freqens
🔍 Description: Advanced intelligence platform that transforms B2B negotiations, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently
💻 Website: https://www.freqens.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: SEED
💰 Amount: €2.73M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures; Financière Saint James; Motier Ventures; Better Angle; Purple; Seedcamp; Notion Capital; Roxanne VARZA; Alexandre Berriche; Mark Ransford; Alexandre Yazdi; Will Neale; Maxime Brousse; Jonathan Widawski.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Maxime Liebens, Richard Gozlan and Alexandre Barreira
🗞️ News: https://www.maddyness.com/2024/11/21/b2b-freqens-leve-3-millions-deuros-pour-aider-les-entreprises-a-acheter-au-juste-prix/
📇 Company: Arenametrix
🔍 Description: Fan Relationship Management & Revenue Optimization Platform
💻 Website: https://arenametrix.com/en/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: EARLY VC
💰 Amount raised: €8.0M
🏦 Investors: Newfund; Reflexion Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Ludovic Bordes; Ludovic Bordes; Kévin Vitoz
🗞️ News: https://startup-in-europe.com/2024/11/arenametrix-raises-8-million-euros-to-develop-its-crm-dedicated-to-the-cultural-and-sports-sectors/
📇 Company: Ikonisys
🔍 Description: Providing fully-automated slide handling, slide scanning, and real-time image capture and analysis for microscopy
💻 Website: http://ikonisys.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: PRIVATE PLACEMENT
💰 Amount raised: €0.2M
🏦 Investors: N/A
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Michael Kilpatrick
🗞️ News: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241118467529/en/Ikonisys-Completed-a-Capital-Increase-Through-a-Private-Placement/
📇 Company: Primaa
🔍 Description: Developing AI-based software for histological diagnoses, improving a vital step in the detection of cancer
💻 Website: https://www.primaalab.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: EARLY VC
💰 Amount raised: €5.0M
🏦 Investors: Cenitz; Leia Capital
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Stéphane Sockeel; Stephane Sockeel; Fanny SOCKEEL MASSART; Marie Sockeel
🗞️ News: https://www.frenchweb.fr/primaa-leve-5-millions-deuros-et-mise-sur-une-detection-ultra-ciblee-des-cancers/449926
📇 Company: ChapsVision
🔍 Description: Building software solutions that empower businesses and organisations by putting their data at the heart of customer engagement
💻 Website: https://www.chapsvision.com/
📍 HQ City: Suresnes
🧗 Round: LATE VC
💰 Amount raised: €85.0M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance; Tikehau Capital; Jolt Capital; Qualium Investissement; GENEO Capital Entrepreneur
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Olivier Dellenbach
🗞️ News: https://sifted.eu/articles/chapsvision-85m-fundraise-interview
📇 Company: Linkup
🔍 Description: Connects AIs to the internet
💻 Website: http://linkup.so
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: EARLY VC
💰 Amount raised: €3.0M
🏦 Investors: Kima Ventures; Seedcamp; Y Combinator; Axeleo Capital; Financière Saint James; Motier Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Boris Toledano; Philippe Mizrahi; Denis Charrier
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/motierventures_b2b-procurement-ai-activity-7265278325814702080-U2xO/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
📇 Company: Eden AI
🔍 Description: Develops an aggregator of artificial intelligence solutions for developers.
💻 Website: htpts://www.edenai.co
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €3 million
🏦 Investors: Galion.exe, business angels including Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Sébastien Pahl (Docker), and Alix de Sagazan.
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Taha Zemmour
📇 Company: Metron
🔍 Description: A SaaS environment dedicated to energy management for industrial groups, democratizes data to allow the entire company to participate in the joint project to reduce energy. carbon impact of its activities.
💻 Website: https://www.metron.energy/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount raised: €12.5M
🏦 Investors: Get, BNP Paribas, Climate Investment, Vertigo
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Vincent Sciandrac; David Tagliabue
🗞️ News: https://tech.eu/2024/11/22/metron-secures-12-5m-for-industrial-energy-management/
📇 Company: Pruna AI
🔍 Description: AI model optimization with a powerful engine for enhanced performance and efficiency.
💻 Website: http://pruna.ai/
📍 HQ City: Munich and Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €6.2M
🏦 Investors: EQT, Daphni, Motier Ventures, Kima Ventures, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Bertrand Charpentier (French founder); Stephan Günnemann; Rayan Nait Mazi (Paris based); John Rachwan
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/motierventures_ai-machinelearning-optimization-activity-7264236995546157056-fzrx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
📇 Company: AIA Sports
🔍 Description: The first solution for the analysis of data by athletes for athletes, AIA Sports produces and disseminates statistics that are accurate and understandable to all.
💻 Website: https://www.aiasports.fr/
📍 HQ City: Bidart
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €1.5M
🏦 Investors: Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Thomas Lièvremont
📇 Company: Haiku
🔍 Description: AI and data for lawyers
💻 Website: https://haiku.fr/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €900,000
🏦 Investors: Newfund, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Jean Marcel Touzet; GUILLAUME PELLION
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7264928407895916544/
📇 Company: Lium
🔍 Description: Lium helps security and safety teams in sensitive sites to better protect their infrastructure and manage emergency situations (fires, unannounced leaks and spills, human threats, etc.).
💻 Website: https://www.lium-tech.com/
📍 HQ City: Avignon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €800,000
🏦 Investors: Valeureux, AVA Capital, Aerospace Angels, Bpifrance, BNP, CIC
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Guilain Yvon and Thomas Fattore
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lium-tech_cest-dingue-une-lev%C3%A9e-de-fonds-qui-activity-7264185653989367808-MY9s/?originalSubdomain=fr
📇 Company: ValueCo
🔍 Description: Innovative solution to measure the financial impact of ESG commitments.
💻 Website: http://valuecometrics.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €1.5M
🏦 Investors: 115K, Techstars, business angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mathieu Joubrel; Mariem Mhadhbi
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mathieu-joubrel_esg-sustainable-transparent-activity-7264918452455325696-fhum/
📇 Company: Deblock
🔍 Description: A current account integrated with a non-custodial wallet.
💻 Website: https://deblock.com/
📍 HQ City: Lille + London
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €16M
🏦 Investors: Hoxton Ventures, Headline, 20VC, Chalfen Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Adriana Restrepo; Jean Meyer; Mario Eguiluz Alebicto; Aaron Beck
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7183368893132886016/
📇 Company: Upfund
🔍 Description: Optimizes real estate decisions with ultra-precise geospatial insights using data and AI.
💻 Website: https://www.upfundpro.com
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €1.3M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance, Maroc Numeric Fund,
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mehdi Bakkali; Bereme Lardjane; Mohamed Ali Ag Ibrahim
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7265369504392654849/
📇 Company: Vibly
🔍 Description: A student communication platform
💻 Website: https://www.vibly.fr/
📍 HQ City: Lyon
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €700,000
🏦 Investors: Business angels, Bpifrance, CIC
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Arthur Benard, Maxime Peigney, and Théo Scamps
🗞️ News: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7264653096595738625/
📇 Company: Zen Modular
🔍 Description: Digital modular building design platform
💻 Website: https://zen-modular.com/
📍 HQ City: Thiers
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: Unicraft, Kanopee
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Pascal Chazal
🗞️ News: https://www.zen-modular.com/news/zen-modular-leve-1-million-deuros-et-sassocie-a-quatre-leaders-de-la-construction-modulaire-pour-revolutionner-le-secteur-du-batiment