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"The investment went against all my instincts."
That's how our Partner @ImbertAlison remembers leading Partech's €1M seed round in @joko_fr back in 2019. Consumer apps were hard, cash back was an unsexy category, and none of the three founders came from retail or payments.
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Moving and Shaking for this week’s Startup Spotlight! 💃
The traditional tech outsourcing model is slow and frustrating, providing little pay and no security to the senior tech professional. It’s no longer suited for the modern needs for fast-paced, AI native experts.
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Limite 1B - Violetto solves competition-level math better than systems tens of times its size. 🧮
It comes from @paradigmainc, a Rome-based company that joined our Seed portfolio this year, and is out today under an Apache 2.0 license.
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The Exploration Company, @helloxfarm, and KoRo all made the @Sifted 100 DACH & CEE ranking, which tracks the region's fastest-growing startups and scaleups by revenue growth over the last three financial years, spanning 25 countries.
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Giving software teams control over their AI agents!
@Upsundotcom has launched Upsun Dispatch™, a software factory built to bring AI agents and cross-functional teams into one governed development process.
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Brazil is becoming an even bigger part of the @xfarm.ag’s story. 🌱
The company has joined forces with Sibium Analytics, adding 8 million tracked hectares to its platform and strengthening its presence in Brazil's sugarcane and bioenergy sectors.
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Building the security layer for Physical AI 🛡️
Today, @Exein.io announced a $270M funding round at a $1.7B valuation, marking a major milestone in the company's journey.
As AI moves beyond the cloud and into robots, vehicles, industrial systems, and critical infrastructure,
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Helping banks take ownership of AI! 🤖
Congratulations to the newest addition to our portfolio, @SynapseEgypt, who has just raised $13M in Series A funding!
Founded by Ahmed Abaza and Galal Elbeshbishy, Synapse helps banks and other regulated financial institutions build, ...
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Leaving no crumbs. Just empty packs. 🍪
Time for a new #StartupSpotlight! This week we're featuring KoRo, the Berlin-born brand turning familiar staples, think nut butters, dried fruit, spreads and snacks, into products people discover, talk about and buy again.
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The Exploration Company has raised a $450M Series C, the largest ever announced by a European space company. 🚀
“Everyone on Earth depends on infrastructure in space, yet the ability to reach, supply and return from orbit remains rare,” said Hélène Huby, Founder and CEO.
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Chapters worth revisiting #10📖
In March, our first Impact Fund reached its final close at €300M, one of the largest debut impact-growth funds Europe has seen.
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Chapters worth revisiting #9📖
littlefish recently joined the Africa portfolio with a $9.5M Series A round.
While many fintechs set out to compete with banks, Brandon Roberts and Neha Kumar chose a different path: helping banks better serve small businesses.
They built...
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Chapters worth revisiting #8📖
Back in H1, Qevlar AI, the autonomous AI x SOC platform, joined the Venture portfolio with a $30M Series A round.
Founder Ahmed Achchak joined our own Réza Malekzadeh on the EUVC podcast to explain the need for AI in cybersecurity to...
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.@_Breedr raised a $27M Series B round led by our Impact team! 🐄
The platform brings cattle intelligence to every head, for its entire life.
Ian Wheal grew up on a cattle farm in Australia and wanted to bring value back to the people who raise the cattle. So, he ...
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Chapters worth revisiting #7📖
In March, @chooseHappyPay joined the Africa portfolio with a $5M Seed round.
Most BNPL models make money when consumers borrow. Wesley Billett, Mark Geary, and the Happy Pay team built a model that ties advertising spend directly to completed...
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Chapters worth revisiting #6📖
Healthcare has no shortage of software, but it does have a coordination problem.
Christoph Lippuner and Mikael Landau made this key observation and decide to build Semble to fix exactly that, connecting every stage of the patient journey...
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Chapters worth revisiting #5📖
It hasn’t been long since NPco joined the Seed portfolio with a €6M pre-Seed round, and we’re still celebrating!
Founded by Emmanuel Menier and Matthieu Nastorg, NP Co is building an AI-native simulation software, helping industrial engineers...
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Chapters worth revisiting #4📖
It’s been a few weeks, and we’re still thinking about @Skelloapp receiving a €200M investment from Bridgepoint Group.
Since day one, Quitterie Mathelin-Moreaux and Emmanuelle Fauchier-Magnan have built for the people who keep Europe running: ...
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Chapters worth revisiting #3📖
In June, Flease joined our Impact portfolio with a €13M round.
Founded in 2021 by childhood friends Vincent Dreyfus and Constantin Eliard, Flease is rethinking corporate fleet leasing with refurbished vehicles, flexible contracts, and a...
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Chapters worth revisiting #2📖
We can’t stop thinking about @heyfresha becoming a unicorn in May with an $80M investment from KKR.
5 million appointments a month. $15B in annual GMV. Profitable, and still growing north of 60% a year. A decade after William Zeqiri and...
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Chapters worth revisiting #1 📖
August so often sweeps us away, but not this time! This month, stay tuned because we’ll be looking back at 10 achievements from 2026 so far that deserve a little more love!
And we’re starting strong with Alassio (ex Rivage)!
Payroll is one...
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On the ground and on the move!
Our Africa strategy backs ambitious founders from seed to growth in building the technology infrastructure powering the next chapter in African markets.
Since January, two companies joined the portfolio, we dropped our yearly Africa Report, ...
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Planting the next generation of industry leaders. 🌱
Our Seed strategy backs ambitious founders at the earliest stages, helping turn bold ideas into companies with the potential to reshape entire industries.
Since January, we've welcomed four new companies to the portfolio...
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Catch Simone on the Startuprad.io podcast:
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Our Venture team has already got a lot under their belt this year! ⚡
Our Venture strategy backs European companies at Series A and Series B and provides hands-on support in building the next generation of category-defining technology.
Since January, they've racked up some...
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Six months into the year and the Impact team has gone all out! 🫨
Our one-of-a-kind Impact strategy scales European B2B tech companies transforming global value chains across clean production, sustainable agriculture, construction, mobility, education, and digital health.
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Fighting fire with fire! 🔥
Our own Réza Malekzadeh and portfolio founder Ahmed Achchak joined Andreas Munk Holm on the EUVC podcast to discuss how AI is reshaping cybersecurity and how dynamic, AI-accelerated solutions, such as @QevlarAI, are responding.
Cyberattacks are...
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Happy Friday, Happy Pay! 🛍️
This week’s #startupspotlight is all about Happy Pay!
South-Africa based @choosehappypay is one of the first closed-loop commerce ecosystems that connects discovery, advertising, payments and financing into a single platform. It’s built for...
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Easy Peasy! 🫛
@epeas_news closed a $22M funding round by Crédit Mutuel Innovation with support from @EUeic, @@WEntreprendre_, KBC Focus Fund, Otium, @nomainvest , The Faktory, and Invest BW.
Today its ultra-low power management products enable electronic devices to operate...
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A company’s story isn’t over when the final chapter is closed… 📖
Pierre Marin, CEO and cofounder of Rockfi, joined @AndréaBensaid, CEO at @AgenceEskimoz on the @Lbtofficiel podcast to share his personal experience of exits and what they’ve taught him.
Before founding...
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means balancing “art” (judgment, timing, hands-on support) with “science” (governance, capital, processes). That, paired with tying our carry to impact KPIs, is how we bridge impact and returns.
Watch the full episode in French here !👇
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For your Friday listening! 🎧
Our own Rémi Said joined Benjamin Wattine on the @Sowefund ‘Entretien avec un VC’ podcast to break down how our Impact Growth strategy reconciles impact with returns!
Operating in the European gap in the market for Impact Growth companies...
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From lab-grown to industry-grown! 🔬
PARIMA, in collaboration with Vow, has just demonstrated ton-scale production of cultivated duck in a single 22,000 litre production run.
The production run achieved a 99% cost reduction vs earlier processes, and crucially, it ran at...
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Arrivals, expansion, and fresh perspectives. 💥
This last month’s been pedal to the metal, and we’ve assembled all the latest into our Newsletter. In a glance;
Flease joined the portfolio, @Shakersworks expanded into France, we won the 2026 Venture Fund Award, and lots more.
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A historic step, ten years in.
Bridgepoint Group is investing €200M in @Skelloapp to accelerate its mission with frontline teams across Europe.
From day one, Skello has built for the people who keep the real economy running: those in restaurants, hotels, construction...
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Time for a new #StartupSpotlight! This week, we're featuring @QevlarAI, the AI SOC platform for Self-Improving Defense trusted by 1,500+ organizations.
Founded in 2023, Qevlar’s platform autonomously investigates every alert, connects related activity into a single incident...
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market understanding, and survivability without external capital come first. Meaningful venture capital follows.
Watch episode 2/2 here: 👇
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Smaller markets, bigger ambitions. 🌍
Our own Simone Riva made a double feature on the StartupRad.io podcast. In the second episode, he discussed ‘European Venture Capital: Efficiency, IPOs, and AI Defensibility.’
As Simone explains, smaller markets can be turned...
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that can prepare a startup to raise VC.
Watch episode 1/2 here: 👇
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Watch out for the champagne mode! 🍾
Our own Simone Riva made a double feature on the StartupRad.io podcast! In the first episode, they unpacked ‘When European Startups Should Raise Venture Capital.’
He explains how venture capital can produce the...
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“The bottleneck didn’t disappear, it simply moved”
Over the last three months, we surveyed nearly 50 portfolio companies on their AI implementation then convened more than 80 founders and operators for five councils and an AI Summit in SF to make sense of what we found.
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@Plumerai, @QevlarAI, @Rockfi, and @Shakersworks!
We’re delighted to see your work recognized and excited to continue collaborating.
Many thanks again to Private Equity Magazine for having organized the event.
Onwards and upwards! 🤩
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Blast from the (near) past!
Two weeks ago, we won the 2026 Venture Fund Award at the 21st edition of Private Equity Magazine’s Soirée des Grand Prix!
Our Venture portfolio has made some major momentum this year. Looking at you @Exein_io, @heyfresha, Smartness, Mercanis,
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Check this out! 🛒
Congratulations to @Akeneopim, which acquired @Pricing_Hub, a pricing software for retailers and e-commerce powered by machine learning!
As AI-driven discovery and agentic transactions reshape ecommerce, product data is increasingly central to pricing and...
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What if impact were tied to carry, not just conversation?
Last week, our own Rémi Said joined Thomas Viguier on the @aulium_tv podcast to discuss how our Impact Strategy works in practice.
“Impact” is easy to say. Making it measurable is harder.
In the episode, Rémi...
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Driving industries forward! 🚗
Congratulations to the newest addition to our portfolio, Flease, who just raised €13M led by our Impact team!
Founded in 2021, Lyon-based Flease offers refurbished vehicle leasing for enterprise fleets on flexible 1–50-month contracts.
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Emerging markets have lacked access to the savings and lower environmental impact of refurbished tech for too long.
That’s why Revibe built the go-to market for refurbished tech across emerging markets!
But beyond its prices of up to 70% cheaper than new, the platform...
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11:11, we made our wish!
@agicapfrance, @akeneopim, @ornikar, @papernest, @shippeoFRA, and @upsundotcom made it into the 2026 cohort of @FTGrandParis 120, with @avec_alan, @ecovadis, and @pennylane_tech getting a special mention in the Next40!
The 7th promotion of the...
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What a night for us!
Yesterday evening, we had the privilege of attending the 21st edition of Private Equity Magazine’s Soirée des Grand Prix, bringing together leaders of private equity, venture capital, finance and ESG.
We are honored therefore to have won the 2026...
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‘German businesses need to work twice as hard if they want Africa to need them.’
Our own @Tidjanedeme joined Suzanne Tisserand from the European Council on Foreign Relations and Lucia Weib from Table Media on Le Podkast with host @helkohl. The conversation centred...
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Giving it 110%!
@Vivatech 2026 are pulling out all the stops to mark their 10th edition! With over 15,000+ startups attending from 170+ countries, this isn’t one to miss.
We’ve already got your Wednesday the 17th planned with our own Boris Golden, ...
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The best things in life are free…lancers!
Madrid-based @shakersworks just announced its expansion into France, adding to its rapidly growing reach across Spain, Portugal, and Italy!
Founded in 2021, Shaker’s platform replaces traditional IT outsourcing by connecting...
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June started hot! ❤️🔥
From new companies to unicorns to acquisitions, we’ve compiled plenty of amazing achievements from our portfolio into our monthly Newsletter.
Here’s the rundown:
- Semble raised €35M Series C
- NPCo raised €6M pre-seed
- OpsMill raised $14M Series A
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It’s an acquired skill! 💥
Four of our portfolio companies recently made an acquisition!
- @channable_en acquired Metrion
- @Ornikar acquired @Envoituresimone
- @ShippeoFRA acquired Logward
- @Yoco_ZA made its first acquisition with Dyner AI
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IT and network teams deserve better.
They’ve had to face fragile automation stacks, disconnected tooling, and scattered data for too long, and few tools have gotten to the root of the infrastructural issue. This can have major trickle-down effects that can cost the average...
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Just what the doctor ordered! 🏥
Congratulations to the newest addition to our portfolio, Semble, who just closed a €35M Series C round!
We invested together with @Revaia_cap, Mercia Ventures, and @OctopusVentures in a company that is swiftly gaining momentum in a complex...
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The sky is not the limit! 💫
Congratulations to the newest addition to our portfolio, NPCo, who just closed a €6M pre-seed round led by us.
This round saw participation from 1st Kind, @Motierventures, Kima as well as leading angel investors Guillaume Lample and...
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