| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.04.2025 | Faume's €8 Million Leap: The Future of Second-Hand Fashion | In the bustling heart of Paris, a fashion revolution is brewing. Faume, a startup specializing in second-hand luxury fashion, has just secured €8 million in funding. This financial boost aims to propel its growth across Europe, particularly... |
| 11.04.2025 | From Lacoste to Victoria Beckham – Faume raises €8 million for second-hand fashion market | Paris-based Faume, a second-hand platform for fashion and luxury brands, has announced a new €8 million funding round to accelerate its expansion in Europe, especially in the Italian and British markets, where they have just launched a part... |
| 28.03.2025 | Tencent invests $1.25B in Ubisoft, Poland's dynamic tech ecosystem, and Ex-employees accuse Raydiant of dodging labour laws in Europe | This week we tracked more than 55 tech funding deals worth over €2.1 billion, and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most im... |
| 20.03.2025 | Moonwatt: €8 Million Raised For Advancing Sodium-Ion Energy Storage Systems | Moonwatt – an energy storage company founded by seasoned professionals with a track record at global leaders like Tesla, EDF, Siemens, Scatec, and Freyr Battery – announced it has raised €8 million to unlock the true, 24/7 power of solar wi... |
| 05.03.2025 | Flow48, UAE-based fintech company has secured $69 million in a Series A funding round | UAE-based fintech company Flow48 has secured $69 million in a Series A funding round, combining debt and equity, to enhance its SME financing solutions across emerging markets.
The round was led by Paris-based venture capital firm Breega, w... |
| 28.02.2025 | Flow48: Fueling SME Growth in Emerging Markets with $69M Series A Funding | In the bustling world of fintech, Flow48 has just made waves. The Turkish startup has secured a hefty $69 million in Series A funding. This infusion of capital is a game-changer for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging mark... |
| 27.02.2025 | Flow48 raised $69 M Series A debt, equity funding | The $69 million Series A funding round for Flow48, a leading fintech that is revolutionizing SME lending in emerging markets, was successfully closed. Breega led the round, which consists of both debt and equity. Other investors include 212... |
| 25.02.2025 | Flow48 Raises $69M in Series A Funding | Flow48, a Dubai, UAE-based fintech improving SME lending across emerging markets, raised $69M in Series A funding.
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The round was led by Breega and with participation from 212, Speedinvest, Daphni, Endeavor Catalyst, Evolutio... |
| 18.11.2024 | Pruna AI raises $6.5 million to make AI development faster, cheaper and greener | Pruna AI, a platform that allows ML teams to simplify code and streamline models, has raised $6.5 million in a seed funding round led by EQT Ventures with participation from Daphni, Motier, and Kima, along with support from high profile ang... |
| 17.10.2024 | CHF 2.8 million to improve eCommerce recommendations |
Albatross solves a well-known problem that businesses face today: high churn due to outdated, uninspiring recommendations, leading to missed revenue and unhappy users. Traditional recommendation systems struggle to adapt to rapidly evolvin... |
| 07.10.2024 | Voltfang's €8.8 Million Boost: A Leap Towards Sustainable Energy Storage | In a world increasingly driven by the need for sustainable solutions, Aachen-based Voltfang has made headlines by securing €8.8 million in a Series A funding round. This significant investment, led by the Dutch venture capital firm FORWARD.... |
| 04.10.2024 | Aachen-based Voltfang secures €8.8 million Series A to accelerate growth in green energy storage | Voltfang, a leading innovator in green energy storage solutions, announced the successful closing of its Series A financing round, raising €8 million, plus €800k in secured grants. The round was oversubscribed and led by Dutch deeptech vent... |
| 15.08.2024 | ZOE: Science And Nutrition Company Raises $15 Million (Series B Extension) | Science and nutrition company ZOE announced new investment from Coefficient Capital. The New York based investment firm is investing $15 million and is adding ZOE to its lineup of technology-enabled consumer brands that it believes have the... |
| 12.03.2024 | Kolet makes travel eSIM cards easier to navigate | Kolet is a new French startup created by four experienced co-founders in the French tech ecosystem who want to make it easier to stay connected when you travel. The company has crafted an interesting distribution strategy for travel eSIM ca... |
| 05.12.2023 | Carbon Maps, an environmental accounting startup for the food industry, gets new backers | Carbon Maps is a relatively new entrant in the carbon and environmental accounting space as it is less than one year old. But the French company has already secured $7.6 million in funding (€7 million) following the startup’s €3 million see... |
| 02.02.2023 | Il mercato del Venture Capital a gennaio 2023 | Gli investimenti nel mercato del Venture Capital (VC) in Europa, nel corso del 2022, sono diminuiti rispetto all’anno record 2021, passando da 108,9 miliardi di euro a 91,6 miliardi di euro. Dati e grafico PitchBook
Con questo articolo ina... |
| 02.12.2022 | Gut nutrition startup Zoe Health adds £25 million to its series B raise | Zoe Health, a UK-based personalised nutrition testing app that's conducting a large-scale nutrition science study group, has announced a £25 million ($30.7 million) series B extension, bringing its total funding to $83.7 million.
The fundin... |
| 14.09.2022 | France’s Devialet amps up with €50 million in new funds | French audio engineering company and producer of some of the world’s most interesting and dare I say iconic speaker systems, Devialet has secured €50 million via existing investors Crédit Mutuel Equity and Bpifrance via the Large Venture Fu... |
| 13.06.2022 | Masteos rings up €40 million for rental real-estate investments | Paris-based Masteos has raised €40 million in a Series A investment round, just 9 months since bringing home €15 million in a seed round provided by Daphni. The new figures on the balance sheet are slated to be used to further fuel the comp... |
| 17.03.2022 | Galion.exe is a new Paris-based seed fund | There’s a new seed fund in town, but with a familiar name. Galion, a collective of tech entrepreneurs who network and learn from each other, is launching an investment arm called Galion.exe. They have already raised €30 million ($33 million... |
| 09.03.2022 | Fifteen pedals in €40 million to gear up for European expansion | With a new name and a big funding up its sleeves, French self-service bike company Fifteen is adding on to the list of e-bike players which have raised big money in the recent times owing to the mobility and ridesharing boom in Europe. The ... |
| 09.02.2022 | French platform Starton picks up €3.8 million to train blockchain developers | Paris-based startup simplifying access to blockchain Starton has raised €3.8 million to develop its product, strengthen its teams, and train the developers of tomorrow.
The round saw the participation of Speedinvest, Daphni, Kima Ventures, ... |
| 18.05.2021 | Paris-based refurbished electronics marketplace Back Market raises $335 million in Series D round | Parisian refurbished electronics marketplace Back Market has raised $335 million in a Series D round led by General Atlantic. The round also saw participation from Generation Investment Management, as well as existing investors Goldman Sach... |
| 11.05.2021 | Personalized nutrition startup Zoe raises $20m Series B for at-home testing kits | A new class of startups is taking Hippocrates’ creed of letting ‘food be thy medicine’ to heart.
The functional ingredients and personalized nutrition space is heating up as consumers see the benefits of gleaning additional health and welln... |
| 30.03.2021 | Stockly lets e-commerce websites sell out-of-stock items from a shared inventory | Meet Stockly, a French startup that keeps the inventory of various e-commerce websites in sync. When you see an out-of-stock item on an e-commerce website, chances are you leave that website and try to find the same item on another site.
If... |
| 25.03.2021 | Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company | Holberton, the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S., Europe, LatAm and Europe, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding roun... |
| 05.01.2021 | Стартап-экосистема Парижа
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Что дальше?... | Стартап-экосистема Парижа |
| 05.01.2021 | Startup ecosystem of Paris
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What’s next? | Startup ecosystem of Paris |
| 25.09.2020 | Tech startups weekly: In-play ad startup funding, new €99,999,999 fund, TransferWise’s 70% revenue growth, and more | Undoubtedly, there has been an increase in funding activities across Europe as the tech startup ecosystem here seems to be eager to pick up the slack after the COVID slump. Several tech startups have started focusing on growing and taking t... |
| 25.03.2020 | Self-reporting app tracking COVID-19 symptoms in UK sees 750K downloads in 24 hours | One of the big challenges (among many) with the coronavirus pandemic is that overwhelmed health services do not always know how best to deploy the limited resources they have to meet the demand of people falling ill with COVID-19. For examp... |
| 23.03.2020 | Guidance For Startups/VCs From VCs Around The Globe During COVID-19 | Ed Zimmerman |
| 07.11.2019 | The 10 most active investors in food tech in Europe in 2019 | At a time when technology has touched almost everything in our day to day lives, the food industry is one that remains untapped in many markets. However, it has gradually picked up pace just like the other sectors. Several companies have fo... |
| 17.06.2019 | Robot chefs that can serve 5m types of pizza: France’s Pazzi raises $11m+ Series A | The French robotic pizzeria Pazzi has raised over $11 million of Series A funding. The Series A funding round was led by the Singaporean investment fund Qualgro, its first investment in Europe. The round includes funding from Eutopia, Parte... |
| 17.06.2019 | Robot Chefs That Can Serve 5m Types of Pizza: France’s Pazzi Raises Over $11m Series A | The French robotic pizzeria Pazzi has raised over $11 million of Series A funding. The Series A funding round was led by the Singaporean investment fund Qualgro, its first investment in Europe. The round includes funding from Eutopia, Parte... |
| 29.09.2018 | Ne-Yo wants to make Silicon Valley more diverse, one investment at a time | Dressed in a Naruto t-shirt and a hat emblazoned with the phrase “lone wolf,” Ne-Yo slouches over in a chair inside a Holberton School classroom. The Grammy-winning recording artist is struggling to remember the name of “that actor,” the on... |
| 09.04.2018 | Holberton raises $8M for its full-stack engineering school | Over the course of the last few years, the Holberton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Engineering has made a name for itself as one of the more comprehensive coding schools. The two-year program trains full-stack engineers with a focus on ... |
| 16.10.2017 | Butterfly Raises $2.4 Million in Seed Funding | Butterfly, an employee intelligence and management coaching software, announced that it has raised a $2.4 million seed round investment from leading venture capital firms and angel investors.
Participating in the oversubscribed round are: D... |
| 16.10.2017 | Butterfly Raises $2.4 Million in Seed Funding | Butterfly, an employee intelligence and management coaching software, announced that it has raised a $2.4 million seed round investment from leading venture capital firms and angel investors.
Participating in the oversubscribed round are: D... |
| 06.10.2017 | Butterfly nabs $2.4M seed round to improve managers with targeted tips | Nobody likes corporate trainings. Nobody.
In fact, one of life’s puzzles that eludes me most is how a person could enjoy corporate trainings enough to spend their time designing and running them. Perhaps only with disdain for the status quo... |
| 11.07.2017 | French fintech startup Shine completes a €2.8 million financing round | Shine, a company that provides an administrative and financial management platform for freelance workers, raised €2.8 million from Daphni, Kima Ventures, and several business angels in a recent financing round.
Shine offers freelancers a mu... |
| 10.07.2017 | French e-commerce company Foxintelligence raises €6 million in funding | Foxintelligence, a French e-commerce company, raised €6 million in funding. The investors included Daphni, Global Founders Capital, eFounders, Partech Ventures, Iron Capital, Kima Ventures, LeStudio VC as well as several business angels.
Fo... |
| 20.04.2017 | French tech: A hot spot for entrepreneurs, 15 years in the making | Presented by La French Tech
If you ask a passerby about France, you are likely to get bombarded with clichés — you’ll get the wine, the cheese and the baguette thrown back at you within 30 seconds. If you’re lucky, you may get something on ... |
| 22.01.2017 | France, The New Wave of Venture Capital Funds | France is emerging as one of the most active European countries in terms of venture capital investment activity.
A trend confirmed by the latest official data available. During the first half of 2016, €5.5 billion were invested in more than... |
| 01.12.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Smart Food Packaging, Robotic Weeding Tech, Indoor Ag, more | ItemMaster, a smart food packaging company, raised a $7.5 million Series A funding led by New Jersey-based growth equity firm Edison Partners. Early-stage venture capital firm Chicago Ventures, which led the startup’s seed round, also parti... |
| 28.11.2016 | Tech.eu Podcast #65: Skyscanner acquired by Ctrip, Latvia’s new startup law, spotlight on Agricool and more | The Tech.eu podcast is a weekly show where Robin Wauters and Roxanne Varza discuss the most interesting stories from the European technology scene.
You can find the latest episode below. Subscribe to the podcast today and don’t miss new epi... |
| 18.10.2016 | Newly Formed Daphni Launches €150M Venture Capital Fund | Daphni, a Paris, France-based newly formed venture capital firm, is launching a €150m fund.
LPs in the fund include Bpifrance, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Société Générale, Fnac-Darty, Nokia, SWEN Capital Partners, ProBTP, MAIF, entrepreneurs and ... |
| 16.10.2016 | VC firm Daphni announces its first $165 million fund | Paris-based VC firm Daphni is announcing its inaugural fund for seed and Series A investments. The team will manage a $165 million fund (€150 million) and try some new things when it comes to venture capital in Europe.
On paper, Daphni look... |
| 02.11.2015 | Identikits Of The European Unicorns | Willy Braun Contributor
Willy Braun is a co-founder of daphni.
French Tech has never been in such good health: Showroomprivé and Deezer just announced their IPO, Leetchi its trade sale to Crédit Mutuel Arkéa group and several startups have ... |
| - | French proptech Witco launches in the UK with $14 million in new funding | Parisian proptech Witco (formerly known as MonBuilding) has raised $14 million in new funding and in so much, launched operations in the United Kingdom. Not unlike a number of competitors, Witco uses a centralised app to manage building ser... |
| - | Palaiseau-based atomic-level quantum processor builder Pasqal raises €25 million in Series A round | Just south of Paris, Palaiseau-based quantum processor maker Pasqal has raised €25 million in Series A round in a round led by go-to quantum computing fund Quantonation and the Defense Innovation Fund, managed by Bpifrance on behalf of the ... |
| - | French platform Starton picks up €3.8 million to train blockchain developers | Paris-based startup simplifying access to blockchain Starton has raised €3.8 million to develop its product, strengthen its teams, and train the developers of tomorrow.
The round saw the participation of Speedinvest, Daphni, Kima Ventures, ... |
| - | Masteos rings up €40 million for rental real-estate investments | Paris-based Masteos has raised €40 million in a Series A investment round, just 9 months since bringing home €15 million in a seed round provided by Daphni. The new figures on the balance sheet are slated to be used to further fuel the comp... |
| - | Paris-based refurbished electronics marketplace Back Market raises $335 million in Series D round | Parisian refurbished electronics marketplace Back Market has raised $335 million in a Series D round led by General Atlantic. The round also saw participation from Generation Investment Management, as well as existing investors Goldman Sach... |
| - | Fifteen pedals in €40 million to gear up for European expansion | With a new name and a big funding up its sleeves, French self-service bike company Fifteen is adding on to the list of e-bike players which have raised big money in the recent times owing to the mobility and ridesharing boom in Europe. The ... |
