ALBAREST PARTNERS
Developing human capital and providing operational support for management.
Founded at the end of 2019, ALBAREST PARTNERS is an independent management company based in Lyon, dedicated to the small-cap universe. It raised €114m from its first professional private equity fund.
Its investment strategy is focused on supporting the transfer of SMEs operating in all business sectors in the south-east of France via primary, majority-owned operations with little or no intermediation. A medium-term shareholder resolutely committed to building for the long term, ALBAREST PARTNERS places the development of human capital at the heart of its project and its approach. As a responsible investor, ALBAREST PARTNERS promotes ambitious shareholder support, in particular by providing a Chief Financial Officer, reducing the carbon footprint of its holdings and sharing value creation with all employees.
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YESPARK
Parking space rental and electric recharging platform
Created in 2014 by Thibaut Chary and Charles Pfister, Yespark is the specialist in long-term parking space rental in France and Italy. YESPARK enables social landlords, commercial property lessors, public car park operators, hotels and private individuals to make the most of their properties by marketing their vacant parking spaces. The company has over 60,000 parking spaces and has recently expanded into the deployment of electric charging stations. Yespark’s ambition is to be the leading solution for intelligent parking for all mobility actors.
THIBAUT CHARY and CHARLES PFISTER – Co-founders
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ELDO
Digital solutions for construction professionals and brands
Founded in 2017 by two brothers, Jean-Bernard and Hugo Melet, ELDO supports more than 10,000 professionals and 100 home improvement brands in their digitization.
The company has developed a SaaS marketing platform dedicated to construction professionals. The product suite allows them to digitalize their communication and commercial management in order to enhance their know-how, be visible, save time and better handle the requests of individuals.
The energy renovation and home improvement sector is a key issue in France and in Europe. Eldo is a major player in the market and is one of the partners who accompany the digital transition of construction professionals, allowing them to meet the new expectations of brands and individuals.
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POSOS
Helping healthcare professionals provide better care by providing the most appropriate medical knowledge
Founded in 2017, POSOS has developed a therapeutic decision support tool that simplifies medical information searches for healthcare professionals. Its use is mainly via a mobile application allowing prescriptions to be scanned directly. The platform then highlights contraindications between drugs and offers corrective alternatives. Contributing to the digitization of the medical sector, POSOS aims to improve the quality of medical service and reduce the mental burden of medical staff.
Co-founders: Benjamin GRELIÉ and Emmanuel BILBAULT
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WANDERCRAFT
Exoskeleton for personal mobility
Founded in 2012, Wandercraft is a pioneer in walking robotics. The company’s ambition is to restore the ability to walk for disabled people through an exoskeleton. The product developed, under the trade name “Atalante”, is the world’s first exoskeleton able to generate its own balance, without the necessity to stabilise oneself with crutches.
The vision of the founders is to develop a new personal exoskeleton for use in the city and at home for people with reduced mobility.
JEAN-LOUIS CONSTANZA – NICOLAS SIMON – MATTHIEU MASSELIN, CO-FOUNDERS.
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GENEO
Specialist operational support fund
Respectively founded in 2017 and 2022, GÉNÉO CAPITAL ENTREPRENEUR and GÉNÉO MEZZANINE are funds dedicated to the mid-cap market. Their distinctive characteristic is that they target companies that have never undergone a financial operation and whose capital is still mainly held by family shareholders.
Their added value ties in with operational support from the investment team and their network of experts and entrepreneurs, and a ‘patient capital’ approach unfettered from the time constraints of traditional funds. GÉNÉO CAPITAL ENTREPRENEUR and GÉNÉO MEZZANINE invest between €1 and €15 million in minority operations.
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SEPROLEC
Specialist in the manufacture of high value-added electronic boards and assemblies
Founded in 1973 and based in Vire in Normandy, SEPROLEC is an EMS subcontractor specializing in the manufacture of complex electronic boards and assemblies, in small and medium series. With a team of 140 people, SEPROLEC supports designers of professional and industrial electronics in the development of products with high added value, offering prototype manufacturing, advice on industrialization, design and manufacture of functional testing, integration and logistics services.
SEPROLEC serves SME customers and major contractors in the fields of industry, IOT, defence, medical and transport.
PHILIPPE MASSELIN, CEO
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YOTTA SMART INDUSTRY
Yotta is the first development capital company dedicated to the Industry of the Future
YOTTA SMART INDUSTRY is a YOTTA CAPITAL PARTNERS fund, an AMF-approved management company specializing in development capital and buyout. With 25 years of experience, its hybrid team is made up of recognized private equity professionals and very high industrial profiles. Committed to the environment, YOTTA CAPITAL PARTNERS, via SMART CAPITAL INDUSTRY, invests in French industrial SMEs and offers them active support on their challenges of modernization, growth and decarbonization, thus helping them to cross the stage of the 4 e industrial Revolution.
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SWEN
Investment fund dedicated to renewable gases
The SWIFT (SWEN Impact Fund for Transition) 1 and 2 funds are assigned to financing gas production infrastructure based on renewable energies, with a view to decarbonising the French energy mix. CEO Olivier Aubert has put together a team of investment directors to invest in methanisation, renewable hydrogen and gas refuelling facilities for the maritime and land transport sectors.
As the management company that owns SWIFT 1 and 2, SWEN CAPITAL PARTNERS is a leading player in responsible investment in the non-listed sector, with almost €5 billion in assets under management and/or advised in Europe.
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ENTREPRENEUR INVEST
Secondary fund
The ENTREPRENEURS & OPPORTUNITES professional private equity fund is a secondary fund (which offers to directly repurchase shares already issued in growth companies) created by ENTREPRENEUR INVEST, an AMF-accredited independent management company specialised in non-listed investments, owned and managed by its founders.
A major player in equity and bond financing for SMEs, ENTREPRENEUR INVEST manages more than €1.2 billion and has financed more than 200 companies since it was founded.
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ARKÉA CAPITAL
One of the only funds in France to be associated with an endowment fund
In its capacity as Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group’s private equity subsidiary, ARKÉA CAPITAL allows entrepreneurs, family offices and institutional investors to co-invest with it, via ARKÉA CAPITAL 2 (a professional private equity fund), in unlisted French SMEs and mid-caps in all business sectors.
In addition to the investment vehicle, ARKÉA CAPITAL seeks to develop and spearhead a genuine entrepreneurial ecosystem around ARKÉA CAPITAL 2, within which investors and companies can exchange and pool their expertise and resources for the benefit of regional development.
ARKÉA CAPITAL 2 is unique in that it is linked to an endowment fund dedicated to local development and employment. Each subscription to the ARKÉA CAPITAL 2 fund contributes 5% of the amount subscribed to the PHINOE philanthropic structure. ARKÉA CAPITAL also gives 30% of the management fees received back to PHINOE.
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BH Technologies
Intelligent management of public lighting and waste collection
Taïsei Miura, CEO
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RECIF TECHNOLOGIES
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Lengow
E-merchant connection platform
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Educapital II
Edtech & Future of Work Fund pioneer in Europe
Educapital was created by Marie-Christine Levet and Litzie Maarek in 2017, with the strong belief that innovation would play a key role in addressing the many challenges facing education and the world of work – growing inequalities in the school system, declining standards, teacher shortages, widening skills gap.
Educapital’s objective is to invest in European companies that innovate in the education sector, from early childhood to vocational training and the future of the world of work, in order to create European champions of Edtech and the Future of work.
This new €150M Educapital II fund becomes the first impact fund (article 9 SFDR) in its sector.
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KLAXOON
Champion of hybrid collaborative work
KLAXOON develops tools that enable teams to work together more effectively. With the Workshop Platform, KLAXOON has designed an ultra-simple platform to conduct collaborative workshops anytime and anywhere, synchronously or asynchronously and on any screen size.
It brings together a unique set of features in a single space: Virtual whiteboard, integrated video conferencing, automatic reports, interactive sequenced presentations, and much more: Project management, client or team meetings, training, ideation, design thinking, etc. All businesses, all departments, and all organizations can adopt it very easily.
HERVÉ SIMONIN, CEO.
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ANDJARO
The right person. At the right time.
ANDJARO is the substitute worker management solution that allows large private and public organizations to find personnel in a hurry. Unexpected absences, fluctuations in business level: Understaffing situations are inevitable and take up to 2 hours of the day-to-day life of managers and HR managers. To guarantee operational continuity, ANDJARO provides a real-time view of all the people available internally and externally, by skills and geolocation, to mobilize them. From describing an assignment to its administrative management, the replacement process is simplified, accelerated and digitized. With ANDJARO, it takes an average of 25 seconds for a manager to respond to a short-term need!
Since 2015, ANDJARO has been revolutionizing the HR/Tech ecosystem and is committed to sustaining the job market. Building on its growth and impact, ANDJARO was named a “Cool Vendor” in the Gartner 2021 Human Capital Management report, and a “Solid Performer” in the Fosway 9-Grid™ 2021 for Cloud HR.
ANDJARO fills 300,000 staffing needs each year, which represents more than €20 million in savings on the temporary and fixed-term contract budgets of its multi-industry clients.
QUENTIN GUILLUY, CEO.
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SPLIO
Leader in intelligent CRM
Part of the MARTECH company, headquartered in Paris, SPLIO has 250 employees, including 90 in Product and R&D, and four offices in Europe and MEA. The company acquired TINYCLUES in 2023 to embed its predictive marketing into SPLIO’s CRM and thus establish itself as the European leader in intelligent CRM.
SPLIO transforms Marketing Automation into intelligent CRM so that brands can straightforwardly orchestrate hyper-personalised marketing on a large scale, thanks to AI.
Its portfolio of 500 corporate customers, ranging from medium-sized businesses to major groups operating in diverse industries (retail, catering, telecom, travel, hotels, leisure, etc.), includes LE SLIP FRANÇAIS, CYRILLUS, COJEAN, MICROMANIA, FNAC-DARTY, ACCOR, SNCF CONNECT, ORANGE and SAMSUNG.
Helmed by CEO Mireille Messine and Co-CEO Grégory Chapron, SPLIO is a French scale-up with an annual recurring revenue of more than €30 million. The company’s investors include SOFIOUEST, RING CAPITAL, BPI-FAN, OMNES, SEVENTURE, AMUNDI PEF, BNP PARIBAS DÉVELOPPEMENT and SWEN.
Jean-Philippe Baert, CEO
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Santé Académie
Training for healthcare professionals
Founded in 2020 by Stanislas de Zutter, Félix Levious and Jessym Reziga, Santé Académie is a Lyon-based startup that is rethinking the codes of continuing education for healthcare professionals by offering a collaborative, asynchronous and 100% digital learning experience, adapted to the practice and constraints of healthcare professionals. Its film-quality video training solution is accessible to doctors, nurses, nurses’ aides, pharmacists and medical assistants, whether they are self-employed or in hospital, throughout France, directly via the web or on a mobile application.
Santé Académie includes more than 60 training courses, conducted with the best national experts in their fields. Today, more than 20,000 healthcare professionals and renowned institutions (GHU Paris, Hôpital des Armées, etc.) have already been trained with Santé Académie, with a user satisfaction rate of 95%.
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SELLSY
Customer-oriented management software
SELLSY offers a sales management software solution that lets companies monitor the key indicators of their business. It includes a CRM, a sales management tool, purchasing management, inventory monitoring, team time management, and bank reconciliation. More than 3,000 customers trust SELLSY. The company has developed integrated but modular software, available in SaaS mode (with a minimum 12-month subscription). The company earns 95% of its revenue from this format, with the rest being training in the application, or very occasional customization requests for certain larger companies.
FRÉDÉRIC COULAIS, CEO.
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LOCALA
Optimising the impact of advertising to drive in-store traffic and generate additional sales
For over 10 years, Locala has been developing an omnichannel platform for major retailers, restaurants and car dealerships. With its proprietary data combining online and offline consumer behaviour, Locala enables 500 brands worldwide to evaluate the performance of their stores against their local competitors in real time. Marketers can then identify the best consumer customers in their vicinity, generate incremental traffic to the outlet and measure the return on investment to reach the maximum potential of each outlet. Founded in 2012, the company has a workforce of over 150 employees and currently covers more than 50 markets via its offices in the US, Europe, Asia and the United Arab Emirates.
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CHRISTOPHE COLLET, CEO.
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OCUS
Authentic and powerful visual content for brands and businesses
OCUS digitalizes the professional photography industry with a cloud-based image and video production platform. The company hosts a community of over 30,000 photographers. Through its API integration system, OCUS directly collects orders from its customers and puts them in touch with the right photographer thanks to a matching solution. The service is then delivered, within a very short time, after reprocessing and validation internally and then with the customer. OCUS offers several different packages whose price varies according to the technology used and the volume ordered.
THIBAUD LEMONNIER, CEO.
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BRUCE
Future leader in digital temporary labor in France
BRUCE has developed a digital solution for temporary labor, which is fully automated, ensuring responsiveness, cost optimization and intelligent matching between talent/candidates and employers. With French accreditation as a “temporary employment company,” it connects companies and talent in real time via a totally automated path: Candidate profile, rating by previous employers, video chat/interview with the employer, electronic signature of contracts and instantaneous hiring notification. The company pays itself like a temp agency by earning a margin between the selling price of the service provided by the temp and the compensation that person earns.
ADRIEN MOREIRA, CEO.
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PHENIX
Leader in the intelligent management of unsold goods
PHENIX is a company that specialises in the recycling of unsold goods, mainly food. Via a dedicated app and marketplace, it connects those who have too much (in particular supermarkets and industrial players) with those who don’t have enough, whether they be charities or consumers looking to enhance their purchasing power, in several European countries.
PHENIX has convinced most of the major retail brands to take the zero waste route. Its clients also include many wholesalers, manufacturers and more than 20,000 independent retailers looking to give a second life to their products at the end of their life cycle. It works with a network of some 3,000 partner associations, and its general-public mobile app has already won over 5 million users.
JEAN MOREAU, CEO.
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AGORIZE
World leader in innovation and talent engagement challenge platforms
AGORIZE offers technical solutions and support to large corporations, mid-size companies and incubators to carry out innovation challenges for their strategic, innovation and HR needs (recruitment, team creativity, group work, etc.) In addition to the technical solutions offered, the company relies on a community of developers, students, startups and incubators/accelerators, bringing together nearly 5 million people worldwide. This enables us to set up challenges that mobilize internal resources (employees) and/or external resources (customers of the company and the community).
Yohann Melamed, CEO.
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MAKE.ORG
Civic participation to serve society
MAKE.ORG is an independent French company that uses technology for the benefit of civic action (“civic tech”). For this purpose, it has developed participative solutions that enable citizen involvement on a massive scale in projects in which all the stakeholders are aligned. They have since established themselves as the benchmark solutions not only for local, national and European public authorities, but also for major companies and, more broadly, all those involved in civil society.
MAKE.ORG supports public authorities in the implementation of major debates at a local, national or European level, and in participative management of public action.
MAKE.ORG also supports major causes of general interest, working with hundreds of civil society organisations to solve social or environmental problems: combating violence against women and children, the future of young people, care for the elderly, access to culture, disability, food, the environment, local areas, etc.
Lastly, MAKE.ORG supports companies and brands in their responsible transformation through the extensive collaboration of employees and customers.
AXEL DAUCHEZ, CEO.
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CLERVER CONNECT
Suite of innovative recruitment solutions
CLEVER CONNECT’s mission is to enable each candidate to find job offers that match their needs.
To do this, the company helps companies (SMEs, ETIs and large accounts in FRANCE and EUROPE) to build the best online recruitment pathways thanks to its various AI-based solutions.
CLEVER CONNECT’s solutions optimize all stages of the journey: ATTRACT qualified candidates to job offers, CONVERT them efficiently into applications thanks to simplified paths and quickly ASSESS their motivation and their soft and hard skills for recruitment.
The company, which has 240 employees in 4 countries, welcomes 10 million candidates to its solutions each year and helps more than 2,000 clients to be more connected to their talent.
MARKO VUJASINOVIC, CEO.
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BOUGE TA BOITE
Developing the place and impact of women in the economy
After creating the “Femmes de Bretagne” business start-up support network in 2014, followed by its national counterpart “Femmes des territoires”, in 2016 Marie Eloy founded BOUGE TA BOITE (literally, “boost your business”), a business network for working women managers, aimed at concurrently developing their leadership sales and skills.
Today, BOUGE TA BOITE brings together 1,800 “Bougeuses” (i.e. women “boosters”) who meet every 15 days in 115 French towns and cities, as well as organising monthly meetings in each French department. In addition, the network offers training, discounts and a very active digital community, with 30,000 messages exchanged every month.
Since 2020, based on its expertise in collective intelligence, BOUGE TA BOITE has developed, via BOUGE TON GROUPE, a range of tailor-made, Qualiopi-certified training courses for companies and local authorities seeking to facilitate women’s careers and develop professional equality. Delivering support to some 3,000 women, the training courses are geared towards efficiency and results. 92% of employees change their posture after the training, and 70% are mobile in their job. BOUGE TON GROUPE supports companies in the agri-food, media, finance and construction sectors, as well as committed local authorities in France and abroad.
MARIE ELOY, CEO.
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UPFACTOR
Raising building height for energy renovation
Based on a multi-trade expertise, UPFACTOR accompanies owners in their real estate projects of elevation, from detection to completion. UPFACTOR’s technology platform enables rapid, large-scale identification of elevation opportunities. Raising the height of a building allows for the financing of energy renovation work while at the same time offering new housing in the heart of urban centers to avoid the consumption of land. This solution is for local authorities, real estate companies, condominiums and social landlords.
DIDIER MIGNERY, CEO.
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NEOCASE
Specialist in the digitalization of HR and Finance processes and shared service centers
NEOCASE offers NEOCASE HR, an innovative HR Service Delivery cloud solution for SMEs and large groups with or without a shared services centre.
Using NEOCASE HR, Human Resources departments can digitise their service offering with collaborative management of requests, simple and flexible digitisation of processes (no code), and GDPR-compliant documentation management. Thanks to pre-delivered, customisable processes such as the employee pathway (including onboarding), the solution can be implemented quickly and easily. With NEOCASE, HR departments can deliver operational excellence that improves employee experience and satisfaction, while reducing costs and the risk of error.
Drawing on 15 years of experience, NEOCASE now manages the HR departments of over 150 major global companies, covering more than 6 million employees worldwide.
DIDIER MOSCATELLI, CEO.
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ANAXAGO
Real estate development capital investor
ANAXAGO offers private and professional investors the opportunity to invest in carefully selected projects. These include innovative companies in the proptech, fintech and healthcare sectors, as well as real estate development and renovation programs throughout France.
JOACHIM DUPONT, CEO.
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RING CAPITAL
Accelerating the development of France’s tech and digital mid-sized companies of tomorrow
Launched in 2017, RING CAPITAL is a private equity fund specializing in the financing of technology and digital companies. RING CAPITAL funds French tech and digital scale-ups to accelerate and internationalize the development of their business. The fund makes use of a complementary investment team that combines the experience of entrepreneurs, financiers and operational managers of fast-growing companies to help its portfolio companies execute their development plans. In addition, RING CAPITAL has organized a community of nearly 100 mentors among CEOs and CTOs of tech companies in Europe, Asia and the United States. The fund’s main investors are AG2R LA MONDIALE, BPIFRANCE, DANONE and TIKEHAU CAPITAL.
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WEST WEB VALLEY
Startup accelerator and seed fund
Founded in 2016, WEST WEB VALLEY is both a private startup gas pedal and a dedicated seed fund. Its objective: To help startups with strong growth potential emerge in western France and to support the digital transformation of companies in the five departments of Brittany. To do this, the fund provides financial support to startups in the Greater West of France (at least 2/3) and elsewhere. To date, WEST WEB VALLEY has supported more than 20 startups and has 16 portfolio holdings in which it has invested between €100K and €1M. The fund’s main investors are institutional investors (BPIFRANCE via the FRENCH TECH ACCELERATION fund), regional companies (ARKÉA), regional press groups (LE TÉLÉGRAMME and OUEST-FRANCE) and over 50 entrepreneurs. The WEST WEB VALLEY 1 & 2 funds are managed by the ÉPOPÉE GESTION management company.
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