Participated · Series A · Sep 2021

Getfluence is a Toulouse-based adtech platform that serves as a go-between for brands and media outlets, managing branded editorial content on a single platform. The company standardises campaign terms and workflows across publishers to shorten the process of arranging editorial campaigns. Content is managed directly on the Getfluence platform, and the startup provides campaign measurement and analytics for advertisers. Getfluence has established partnerships with over 10,000 European media outlets and has surpassed 1,000 customers; clients include Samsung, Uber, and dentsu. With an established presence in France, Spain, and Italy, the company has consolidated its positioning and branding to support expansion into the UK and London. Financially, Getfluence closed a €5 million Series A to support these growth plans.

Participated · Series B · Feb 2021

Sesamm provides an NLP-driven platform (flagship product: TextReveal) that ingests and analyzes textual data from news portals, NGO reports and social networks to surface ESG, reputational and risk insights. Customers can access the service via an API or a web dashboard with visualizations, alerts and system integrations for use cases such as supply-chain monitoring, due diligence and share-of-voice analysis. The company applies its models to a 20 billion-article data lake spanning 100+ languages and fine-tunes pre-trained large language models on its annotated datasets. Notable clients include Carlyle Group, Natixis, Tokio Marine and Unigestion, and some investors in the recent round are also customers. Sesamm faces competition from well-funded players such as AlphaSense, Dataminr and FactSet/Truvalue Labs. The company raised €35 million in its latest round to support international expansion, particularly into the U.S. and Asian markets. SESAMm develops analytics and investment signals by analysing billions of web articles and messages with natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Its products include the NLP platform TextReveal and the quantitative data‑science platform SignalReveal, which address the alpha research value chain. The company serves major hedge funds, banks and asset-management clients and counts The Carlyle Group among customers that moved from pilot to scale. SESAMm was founded in 2014 and has a team of more than 50 people across offices in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Tunis and Metz. Recent hires and board advisors have been added to support strategic decision‑making and North American expansion. The company plans to use new capital to grow headcount, expand in Europe, Asia and North America, continue R&D in ML/NLP, develop AI-enabled research tools and dashboards, and enter private-equity deal sourcing and portfolio management use cases.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2017

Founded by Mohamed Gastli and Syrine Chaalala, Paris- and Tunis-based nextProtein upcycles low-value agricultural and food byproducts into three core offerings: nextMeal protein powder, nextOil insect oil, and nextGrow organic fertilizer. The company relies on Black Soldier Fly larvae and a rigorously optimized feedstock recipe—tested across more than 100 ingredients—to achieve competitive feed conversion ratios while keeping CAPEX and OPEX low. Its products aim to replace resource-intensive commodities such as fishmeal and soy, offering a circular, lower-carbon alternative for global animal-feed supply chains. Proceeds from its latest raise will finance construction of a second, large-scale facility in Tunisia that is designed to output 12,000 tons of insect-based ingredients annually, including 2,500 tons of protein powder. Management believes achieving industrial scale and cost parity will move insect protein from niche to mainstream adoption. The company’s capital-efficient model and continuous R&D give it confidence to compete on both cost and reliability with traditional feed ingredients.