What: Guided Energy, a SaaS to automate electric vehicle fleet operations.
Why: To help commercial vehicle fleets optimize fleet management from charge management and dispatch through to reporting and expense management.
Funding: €4.8 million
Who: Co-Founders Anant Kapoor & Eric Daoud
Investors: Sequoia Capital, Dynamo Ventures, Business Angels
What's Next: The capital will be used to further fuel growth, with plans to onboard and expand a client roster that already includes Sixt and Addison Lee.
What: Geev, an App for peer-to-peer donations.
Why: To help build a world in which sharing reinvents individuals' relationships with consumption.
Funding: €4.5 million
Who: Co-Founders Florian Blanc & Hakim Baka
Investors: Daphni, Omnes, BNP Paribas Developpement, NACO, Team for the Planet & various Business Angels.
What's Next: The new money will be used to fuel the startup's growth, launch new features, enhance the user experience and the Geev+ subscription offering, and develop "Geev Pro," its professional offer.
What: Hymag'In, a manufacturer of ferrites.
Why: To eliminate electromagnetic interference in electronic devices.
Funding: €2.2 million
Who: Co-Founders Camille Crouzet & Philippe Le Bouteiller
Investors: Badge, Défense Angels, Paris Business Angels, Arts et Métiers Business Angels, Grenoble Angels, Itera Invest
What's Next: The funding will be used to continue the industrialization of its production and accelerate its commercial development in France and internationally.
What: Live me up, a video integration platform for e-commerce websites.
Why: To allow e-commerce businesses to showcase their products interactively and engagingly by integrating commerce videos into their websites.
Funding: €1.6 million
Who: Co-Founders Guillaume Faure & Alexandre Maes
Investors: American investors and long-time partners such as Bpifrance and CIC Lille
What's Next: The cash will be used to boost LiveMeUp's commercial expansion in France, the UK, and the US and to develop other cutting-edge technologies to serve the e-commerce sector better.
What: WeSur, an insurance advice and distribution platform that guides policyholders in choosing and managing their insurance.
Why: To democratize access to insurance and revolutionize the customer experience in the sector.
Funding: €1 million
Who: Co-Founders Geoffrey Morin & Jérémie Bugard
Investors: Business Angels; Pierre Cazaux, Stéphane Gorre and Yonathan Benzaquen & Wilco
What's Next: The insurtech will use the new funding to fuel its growth.
What: Allaw, a legaltech platform acting as an intermediary between legal professionals (lawyers, notaries, and judicial officers) and individuals.
Why: To facilitate access to legal services for French citizens while also supporting the work organization of professionals in the sector.
Funding: €500,000
Who: Co-Founders Ludovic & Germain Stang
Investors: 2 Business Angels & Delambre
What's Next: The startup will hire new talent to support its growth ambitions, and new features are also expected to be added to the platform by the end of the year.
