French Tech Funding Wire November 8: Cintoo, Alpagga, Billy & More!

📇 Company: ZE Energy
🔍 Description: Independent renewable energy producer specializing in hybrid solar power plants that combine photovoltaic energy with battery storage solutions. Majunke
💻 Website: https://ze-energy.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Growth Equity
💰 Amount raised: €54 million
🏦 Investors: Amundi Energy Transition; Demeter (Climate Infrastructure Fund); Sorégies; Marguerite; HTGF; ZE WAY INVEST
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Mathieu Lassagne
🗞️ News: ZE Energy raises €54 million from Amundi Energy Transition, Demeter, and Sorégies

📇 Company: Cintoo
🔍 Description: Offers the industry’s most comprehensive scan-BIM platform to compare a scan and a BIM model or a scan to a scan
💻 Website: http://cintoo.com/
📍 HQ City: Biot-Sophia Antipolis, France, and Miami
🧗 Round: Series B
💰 Amount raised: €37.0 million
🏦 Investors: Partech; Amavi Capital; Armilar Venture Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Dominique Pouliquen; Denis Thibaudin; Leonardo H. Fonteles; Anis Meftah; Rob Rasnic
🗞️ News: Cintoo secures €37 million in Series B funding

📇 Company: Alpagga
🔍 Description: Your go-to platform for safe buying and selling of new and used catering equipment
💻 Website: https://alpagga.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: EARLY VC
💰 Amount raised: €6.0 million
🏦 Investors: 50 Partners; FJ Labs; Ring Capital; Acurio Ventures
👨💼👩💼 Founders: N/A
🗞️ News: Alpagga raises €6 million to extend the lifecycle of restaurant equipment

📇 Company: Billy
🔍 Description: A live event ticketing platform built for the benefit of artists, organizers, and their communities.
💻 Website: https://billyapp.live/
📍 HQ City: Levallois-Perret
🧗 Round: EARLY VC
💰 Amount raised: €3.1 million
🏦 Investors: Accel; Stake Capital; Izun Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Robin Champseix; Etienne Vaast
🗞️ News: Billy raises €4 million for its ticketing solution for event creators

📇 Company: Cominty
🔍 Description: AI for Work specializing in work optimization
💻 Website: http://cominty.ai
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: SEED
💰 Amount raised: €1.2 million
🏦 Investors: Adnexus
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Fariha Shah; Moustapha Ebnou

📇 Company: OuiLive
🔍 Description: HR gamification platform for employees
💻 Website: https://www.ouilive.co/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €1.5 million
🏦 Investors: The Moon Venture; Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Augustin Bernard; Olivier Houyvet

📇 Company: Theremia
🔍 Description: AI-driven platform to design drug derivatives with improved efficacy and tolerability across diverse demographics.
💻 Website: https://theremia.health/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €3 million
🏦 Investors: Eurazeo; Salica Investments; Entrepreneur First; Bpifrance; Business Angels
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Iris Maréchal; Chloé Geoffroy
🗞️ News: Paris-based Theremia secures €3 million to advance personalised medicine

📇 Company: Siit
🔍 Description: AI-powered internal support platform for employees
💻 Website: https://www.siit.io/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Seed
💰 Amount raised: €5 million
🏦 Investors: StageOne Ventures; Seventure Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Anthony Tobelaim; Chalom Malka; Dimitri Cabete Jorge
🗞️ News: Siit raises €5 million to improve employee support with AI

📇 Company: SKEZI
🔍 Description: Publisher of e-health solutions, the platform is customizable and secure for the collection of e-PRO or e-cohorts.
💻 Website: http://skezi.eu/
📍 HQ City: Annecy
🧗 Round: Early Stage
💰 Amount raised: €1.9M
🏦 Investors: Bpifrance, business angels

📇 Company: Nénès Paris
🔍 Description: Personalize jewelry creation platform
💻 Website: http://nenes-paris.com/
📍 HQ City: Paris
🧗 Round: Early Stage
💰 Amount raised: €1.5M
🏦 Investors: Business Angels

👨💼👩💼 Founders: Arnault Daubresque,

📇 Company: BiblioOnDemand
🔍 Description: Digital library
💻 Website: https://www.biblioondemand.com
📍 HQ City: Lille
🧗 Round: Early
💰 Amount raised: €1M
🏦 Investors: IRD Invest, Finovam Gestion
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Marie-Delphine Foudriat
🗞️ News: https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/biblioondemand-leve-1-million-deuros

📇 Company: inHeart
🔍 Description: AI-driven digital twin of the heart
💻 Website: https://www.inheartmedical.com/
📍 HQ City: Bordeaux
🧗 Round: Early Stage
💰 Amount raised: €750,000
🏦 Investors: SWEN Capital Partners
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Todor Jeliaskov, Jean-Marc Peyrat
🗞️ News: https://www.inheartmedical.com/news/inheart-closes-750keu-funding-with-swen-capital-partners

📇 Company: UV Boosting
🔍 Description: Exclusive and patented solution to stimulate the natural defenses of plants thanks to UV-C flashes.
💻 Website: https://uvboosting.com/
📍 HQ City: Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche
🧗 Round: Series A
💰 Amount raised: €6.9M
🏦 Investors: Kubota, TechnoFounders, Business Angels
🗞️ News: https://www.farm-connexion.com/2024/10/28/kubota-entre-au-capital-de-uv-boosting-specialiste-de-la-stimulation-par-uv-c/

📇 Company: Verkor
🔍 Description: Lithium batteries for EVs.
💻 Website: http://verkor.com/
📍 HQ City: Grenoble
🧗 Round: Late Stage
💰 Amount raised: Undisclosed
🏦 Investors: US industrial battery manufacturer EnerSys and Dutch banking and financial services firm ING Group
👨💼👩💼 Founders: Benoit Lemaignan, Christophe Mille, Sylvain Paineau, Philippe Chain, Gilles Moreau
🗞️ News: https://renewablesnow.com/news/energy-storage-firm-verkor-attracts-enersys-ing-as-investors-873095/