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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...

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...

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...

“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. ...

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, Fresha, Smartness, Mercanis, ...

Check this out! 🛒 Congratulations to Akeneo, 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...

What if impact were tied to carry, not just conversation? Last week, our own Rémi Said joined Thomas Viguier on the aulium podcast to discuss how our Impact Strategy works in practice. “Impact” is easy to say. Making it measurable is harder. In the episode, Rémi...

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. ...

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...

11:11, we made our wish! Agicap, Akeneo, Ornikar, Papernest, Shippeo, and Upsun made it into the 2026 cohort of La French Tech 120, with Alan, Ecovadis, and Pennylane getting a special mention in the Next40! The 7th promotion of the...

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...

‘German businesses need to work twice as hard if they want Africa to need them.’ Our own Tidjane Dème appeared on Le Podkast with host Hélène Kohl to share his insights on Germany’s investment in Africa. Tidjane explained the country’s ‘invisible’ presence in the African tech ecosystem and ...

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, ...

The best things in life are free…lancers! Madrid-based Shakers 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...

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

It’s an acquired skill! 💥 Four of our portfolio companies recently made an acquisition! - Channable acquired Metrion - Ornikar acquired En Voiture Simone - Shippeo acquired Logward - Yoco made its first acquisition with Dyner AI

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...

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, Mercia Ventures, and Octopus Ventures in this company that is swiftly gaining momentum in a complex...

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, Motier, Kima as well as leading angel investors Guillaume Lample and...

Let’s make some noise four (😉) them! Exein, Shakers, Smartness and Ukio all made it into the Sifted 100: Southern Europe Leaderboard ranking! The Southern European Tech Scene has never felt this lively, but these companies are livelier than most; ranking among...

‘The bar is being raised ten times over’ Our own Simone Riva answered Alice Chamber’s questions in the Technology Magazine, giving his perspective on ‘How AI is Rewriting the VC Playbook for Software Investing’ It’s never been faster or cheaper to build software. The...

A decade in the making. A new chapter begins. 🦄 Fresha just crossed the $1B valuation mark, following an $80M growth investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund. Founded in 2015 with a simple idea, to build software that beauty, wellness and self care...

Critical infrastructure organisations running complex, high-risk field operations need jobs done right, first time, every time. But too often frontline work is taken up by time-consuming admin, and delayed reporting means the sites that pose the most risk don’t receive...

Obsession with solving the problem. That’s what matters. Our own Alison Imbert discussed ‘The new Seed filter: what investors look for beyond the demo,’ with Cate Lawrence from Tech.eu. With AI having made the creation of polished demos, sleek interfaces and convincing...

We had a sixth sense about them… Papernest, Pennylane, Joko, Agicap, Epsor, and Mooncard all made it into the Fintech 100 of 2026! Last year saw a fragile economy and a developing regulatory environment that fundamentally questioned the...

Spring is in full swing, and so are we! 🌼 We’ve seen growth all around, and with it sprouts our May Newsletter! 🌱 From record-breakers to award winners, we’ve compiled some amazing achievements from our portfolio. Here’s the rundown; - Smartness smashed Italian funding...

This otter makes a splash! 🦦 Opsmill just closed $14M Series A round led by IRIS with participation from BGV, Serena, and us. Born from the founders’ first-hand frustration with IT infrastructure lagging decades behind, OpsMill’s unique Infrahub...

‘Underdogs bite harder!’ 🐕 Smartness has just completed a €47 million Series B round led by United Ventures and CDP Venture Capital with our participation in the largest round ever completed in Italy for a vertical SaaS company! Founded in 2020, Smartness offers hoteliers...

Throwback Thursday! Two weeks ago, our own Alison Imber took the main stage at Go Entrepreneurs in Paris, at La Défense Arena. Alongside Roxanne Varza (Station F) and Marie Ekeland (2050) in a panel moderated by Charlie Perreau (Les Echos), the conversation...