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RAISE RAISE

Partageons la réussite Founded in 2013 by Clara Gaymard and Gonzague de Blignieres, RAISE is a pioneer in engaged sustainable finance with its investment and innovation platform. We are a mission-driven company with a unique model of sharing success. RAISE has four investment strategies as well as our innovation activites, all connected by our endowment and philanthropic accelerator. RAISE Investissement Private Equity mid-cap investment strategy focused on French SMEs. RAISE Ventures Early stage Venture Capital from preseed to series B. RAISE REIM Value-add real estate investment strategy targeting assets in Paris. RAISE Impact Private Equity Impact investment strategy focused on …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Serena Serena

Serena was founded by entrepreneurs on the belief that your VC should work for you and not the other way around. Serena is one of Europe's leading investment funds, with €1bn under management. Founded in 2008 by Xavier Lorphelin, Marc Fournier, and Philippe Hayat, Serena finances and supports innovative start-ups from pre-seed to Series A, with initial checks ranging from €500k to €15m. Focus sectors: AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Internet Infrastructure, Impact. The portfolio includes successful exits such as The Fork (acquired by Tripadvisor), Aramis Auto (acquired by Peugeot), Cheerz (acquired by Cewe), iBanFirst (acquired by the Marlin fund) and …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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EU-Startups EU-Startups

EU-Startups.com is the leading online magazine about startups in Europe. Also check out our annual EU-Startups Summit! Menlo Media is the parent company of EU-Startups.com, the leading online publication about startups in Europe. In addition, Menlo Media organizes the annual EU-Startups Summit and focuses on FutureTravel.com and related projects.

Sectors: Media

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FoodTech Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté FoodTech Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Valuing and supporting the emergence and development of innovative solutions from the fork to the range. Large challenges are concerned today. How to help people better eat is a real problem, just like knowing how to feed the population in 2050. Thus, the FoodTech network aims to enhance a diet based on the pleasure, responsibility and accessibility triptych. For us, digital technology, new technologies and more broadly innovation are remarkable means to tend towards this vision by contributing to agricultural and food transitions, and to the evolution of practices. Our mission: to enhance and support the emergence and development of …

Sectors: French Tech Media

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XAnge XAnge

XAnge (xange.vc) is a leading European venture capital firm, Bcorp certified, based in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels. With €650M Assets under Management, the company invests in European early-stage innovative technology companies operating in the fields of Enterprise & Data, Fintech, and Deep Tech. Since its creation in 2003, XAnge has backed more than 200 fast-growing companies in their entrepreneurial journeys. The team works alongside visionary founders with strong values and international ambitions such as Ledger, Odoo, Lydia, or Believe Digital. Venture Capital, Digital, Social Impact, Fintech, BtoB, Cloud, Deep Tech, and Blockchain

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Ventech Ventech

We repeatedly take founders from 0 to billion-dollar exits across Paris, Berlin, Munich, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Asia. Founded on the core principle that the next wave of tech is born in the startup streets - the natural environment of tomorrow’s innovation superstars - Ventech has been a pioneer on the European venture capital scene for over two decades. We believe in being with founders early, not just in terms of capital but in ideas and dreams. Based out of Paris, Munich, Berlin, Helsinki, Stockholm, Shanghai and Hong Kong with €1bn raised to fuel globally ambitious entrepreneurs and their visions. Since …

Sectors: Finance

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Eurazeo Eurazeo

Eurazeo is a leading global investment group Eurazeo is a leading global investment company, with a diversified portfolio of €34.1 billion in assets under management, including nearly €24.1 billion from third parties, invested in 590 companies. With its considerable private equity, private debt as well as real estate and infrastructure asset expertise, Eurazeo accompanies companies of all sizes, supporting their development through the commitment of its nearly 410 professionals and by offering deep sector expertise, a gateway to global markets, and a responsible and stable foothold for transformational growth. Its solid institutional and family shareholder base, robust financial structure free …

Sectors: Finance

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Sofinnova Partners Sofinnova Partners

Sofinnova Partners is a leading European VC firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise. Sofinnova Partners is a hands-on company builder across the entire value chain of life sciences investments, from seed to later-stage. The firm actively partners with ambitious entrepreneurs as a lead or cornerstone investor to develop transformative innovations that have the potential …

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Hexa Hexa

Startup studio empowering founders to build exceptional companies in AI, health, B2B SaaS, fintech, and more. Hexa is a startup studio. It all started in 2011 with startup studio eFounders, which pioneered a new way of entrepreneurship, became a reference in the B2B SaaS world, and launched over 50 companies including 3 unicorns (Front, Aircall, Spendesk). In 2022, eFounders became Hexa, to scale our ambitions further and launch startups in new verticals: AI, web3, fintech, future of work, health. With Hexa, we’re on a mission to democratize a new way for entrepreneurship, one centered around building companies in teams. 📈 …

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Incubateur Telecom Eurecom Sophia Antipolis Incubateur Telecom Eurecom Sophia Antipolis

Innovate and undertake in a digital world. The digital incubator, Télécom ParisTech Eurecom Entrepreneurs, installed in the heart of the Sophia Antipolis technopole, has supported innovative and digital projects for more than 12 years. The one who has established himself as "the digital incubator" supported more than 80 projects that created 75 companies and more than 350 jobs. Project leaders, for most engineers from or not from Télécom ParisTech, come to find a place to exchange, to be supported in the launch of their project. This means for the incubator to help them know and segment their market, build a …

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Y Combinator Y Combinator

Make something people want. Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 4,500 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

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Linkera Linkera

Support for fundraising and transfer/acquisition - Startups and VSE/SMEs valuation - UGAP rating Linkera is the essential solution dedicated to the optimization of acquisition and business transfer. The platform allows you to connect owners of potential businesses and buyers. Each month, it presents companies and assets worth millions of euros to nearly 2,000 users. Innovation, entrepreneurship, rating, financial advice & amp; Extra-financial, investment, algorithm, data, ugap, valuation, fundraising, sales, acquisitions, financing, startups, TPE, and SMEs

Sectors: Consulting

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Bpifrance Bpifrance

Bpifrance account, the public investment bank. Bpifrance, public investment bank, supports businesses, from priming to stock market quotes, from credit to equity. A privileged interlocutor, Bpifrance offers in each region financing or investment solutions adapted to each stage of business life. Bank partner of entrepreneurs, Bpifrance supports them sustainably to support their growth and competitiveness. The teams are at the heart of the regions, throughout the territory, through more than 50 regional locations. Financing of SMEs, business creation, international development, investment, creation/transmission, innovation, support, acceleration, and export guarantee

Sectors: Bank

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Sifted Sifted

The leading media brand empowering startup Europe | Backed by the Financial Times. Sifted is the critical friend of the European startup ecosystem – providing startup founders, senior management teams, investors and service providers with the curated insights, in-depth analysis and networking opportunities they need to grow their business. Whatever your role is within the ecosystem, however you like to stay up to speed, we've got something for you: 🗞️ Sifted Daily: Our daily newsletter is the essential morning read for founders, investors and corporates who want a quick digest of the news that matters 🔎 Sifted Pro: Our premium …

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Startup Wise Guys Startup Wise Guys

Global accelerator funds for passionate B2B startup founders! We are a diverse team of tech lovers, mentors, experts, and founders ourselves bound together by our passion to support founders on their entrepreneurial journey. We help to solve key challenges at every stage Dare to dream global. We’re a startup accelerator like no other, our optimized approach puts early stage startups on the map and catapults them into worldwide success. Startup Wise Guy’s origins began in Europe’s tech-savvy startup capital, Estonia. Since 2012, we have used our carefully curated expertise, skills and funding to skyrocket hundreds of emerging early stage startups …

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FoodHack FoodHack

Where Food & FoodTech professionals come to get the inside scoop on industry news and meet partners, friends, mentors, investors - and everything in between. From our weekly newsletter, to our ambassador run Meetups and our annual FoodHack Summit - our goal at FoodHack is to make it easier for purpose driven food founders to access the funding, network and knowledge they need to successfully launch and scale their business. meetups, community building, food education, food entrepreneurs, conferences, Swiss startups, Food tech, Food & beverages, entrepreneurship, food hackathon, corporate innovation, foodpreneur, food innovation, food industry, open innovation, food startups, trends …

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