• Uzaje

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

  Uzaje offers industrial-scale cleaning and reuse solutions for food containers and bottles across collective and commercial catering, manufacturers, and retailers. The company operates two cleaning centres (Neuilly-sur-Marne, 2021; Avignon, 2022) and has cleaned nearly 3.5 million containers, preventing about 250 tonnes of single-use packaging waste. As an ESUS Social and Solidarity Economy company, Uzaje has generated over 40 jobs and holds certifications including B Corp and Solar Impulse. Uzaje plans to expand nationally and into Europe, with a new site planned in Strasbourg in H1 2024 and three additional cleaning centres announced for Grand Est, Région Sud, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine. On the financing side, the company completed a new €11M funding round and has previously raised €4M in January 2022; it has also run a crowdfunding campaign that raised over €600k and is working with banking partners on multi-million euro loans and receiving public grants from ADEME.

• Anotherway

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

  Anotherway, founded in 2018 by Samuel Olichon and based in Marseille, develops zero-waste household and personal-care products. The company launched with a Bee Wrap and now offers a catalogue of 25 products across hygiene, kitchen and home-care categories, selling about 300,000 units over four years. Production is positioned in Europe (100%), with 75% made in France and 36% made locally in Marseille, and the company holds B Corp certification. Anotherway is already distributed in roughly 1,000 retail points including Biocoop, Marcel & Fils, Bio c’bon and So bio, and plans to enter the grande distribution via the Ya.qa brand in November. The team comprises 24 employees; the recent financing is intended to fund product development, expand retail distribution and continue commercialization. Future plans include moving textile production fully to France and switching to glass containers for its packaging.

• Oxatis

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2016

  Oxatis provides cloud e-commerce solutions and operates more than 10,000 active e-commerce sites. The company trades under the Actinic brand in the UK, the Xopie brand in Spain and MYTHO in Italy. It has raised €5 million from Arkea Capital alongside prior backers A Plus Finance and OMNES CAPITAL. The capital is intended to accelerate its European expansion. Oxatis says it aims to quadruple its turnover in the coming five years by doubling down on the four markets it currently operates in. No other financial metrics were disclosed in the article. Oxatis offers a software-as-a-service ecommerce platform used by about 7,300 online retailers. Its customers have sold more than €200 million worth of products through the platform, and the company reported 28% growth in 2013. Oxatis plans to double turnover in the next three years and to expand headcount—from 65 today to 90–100 by year-end and by 80 hires over three years (50 in France, 30 elsewhere in Europe). The company will use new funding to boost R&D and add 60 new features to its platform. Oxatis operates under the Actinic brand in the UK after acquiring the British company, and it has offices in Marseille (headquarters), Paris, Surrey (UK) and Barcelona. It is active in Spain and Italy and is exploring strategic acquisitions in Spain, Italy, France and Germany. Oxatis provides a SaaS e-commerce platform that supplies the tools needed to set up and manage merchant websites, including online software, shopping basket, hosting, secure payment, order management, inventory management, domain names and integrations with major market players. Founded in 2001 and based in Marseille, the company serves the French-speaking countries of Europe as well as Spain, Italy, the UK and Canada. The new €4m financing will be used to develop its platform concept and to extend its offering to complementary businesses within its ecosystem. Crédit Agricole Private Equity and existing investor A Plus Finance provided the funding. The company did not disclose operating metrics in the article.

• ACCO Semiconductor

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2016

  Acco Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company that develops CMOS RF front-end components for mobile devices and IoT. It focuses on critical RF front-end components including Multi-mode Multi-band Power Amplifiers (MMPA) manufactured in standard high-volume bulk CMOS processes. The company has developed and patented RF front-end technology for mobile communications devices, including power amplifiers and antenna switches that use standard CMOS processing. Led by President and CEO Greg Caltabiano, Acco is accelerating its business into various brands of LTE smartphones across several countries in Asia and Europe. The company intends to use the funds to launch a new generation of industry-standard RF front-end CMOS solutions, support R&D for next-generation products, and add incremental local support for its customer base. Acco is based in Sunnyvale, California and Paris, France.

• Conztanz

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2015

  Conztanz provides management software and services to airlines and airports, offering tools to solve loyalty issues, increase customization and boost revenues per passenger. Its core products include ConztanzONE, an integration platform that centralizes airline data, and ONEapps, a marketplace of applications such as CXMapp, BIapp and CREWapp. The company is developing multi-service IT integration between passenger service systems (PSS) and CRM systems and building a contextual marketing component (CXMapp) for real-time customer profiling. Conztanz was created in July 2013 and is based in Sophia-Antipolis. The company posted turnover of €2m in 2014. It intends to use the new funding to finance R&D activity and business development.

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