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ARIA

25 Rue de la Ville l'Evêque, Paris 8, Ile-de-France, 75008, France

Overview

On a mission to help small businesses grow exponentially with Payment-terms-as-a-Service. At Aria, we believe that: - When payments go fast, businesses grow fast - it’s that simple! - Managing payments and credits at scale is the way for endless growth - our API offers high stability and extensible limits - The service and support of our teams is just as important as the financing solution we provide - we’re not just another tech product Aria was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.

Total investments
5
Lead investments
3
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
2

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • Livespace

    Led · Equity · Mar 2024

    Livespace offers a cloud-based B2B process-focused CRM platform providing task and sales automation for professionals. The company focuses on helping sales departments organize and optimize the sales process and serves over 1,000 companies. Livespace was founded in 2013 by Marcin Stanczak, Michal Skurowski, and Michal Szkodzinski. In March 2024 the company secured approximately €2.3M (PLN 10 million) in funding to support further product development, infrastructure scaling, and international expansion. The investment came from INventures and ARIA Fund; INventures is a Poznań-based private equity firm founded in 2016 and ARIA is an independent PE/VC fund manager focused on early-growth, post-product high-tech scale-ups. The funding is intended to accelerate product development, scale infrastructure, and underpin Livespace's international growth plans.

  • Inuru

    Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

    Inuru develops cost-efficient OLED micro-lighting, electro-lighting labels and digitally printed lighting films (including self-powered Embeddable Lighting Films) aimed at interactive labelling and product illumination. The company holds a portfolio of 25 patents and supplies customers such as CEACO, Displate, Cattier and Coca‑Cola, and has launched an OLED-infused game board set sold at Walmart. Inuru has completed an automated production line near Berlin to lower manufacturing costs and scale output. Its strategic focus is on intelligent medication labelling to improve adherence and on expanding into the entertainment and FMCG sectors. Management expects triple-digit revenue growth this year and is evaluating multiple financial avenues, including the prospect of an IPO, to support rapid scaling and geographic expansion.

  • Nethone

    Led · Series A · Jul 2021

    Nethone builds a proprietary Know Your User (KYU™) profiling technology to prevent online account takeovers. Its user profiling analyzes more than 5,000 attributes, combined with machine learning and a specialized team of data scientists. The company targets global customers facing fraud and equips them with tools to detect and block malicious actors. Nethone is led by Hubert Rachwalski (CEO), Aleksander Kijek (CPO) and Mateusz Czech (COO) and is based in Warsaw, Poland. It raised $6.7M in a Series A and plans to use the proceeds to accelerate go-to-market efforts and further strengthen its technology. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article. Nethone provides KYU (Know Your User) solutions that profile users and apply machine learning to automatically detect suspicious activity in online transactions. Its product suite includes fraud-prevention tools, real-time adaptive segmentation and customer retention capabilities, and behavioral analysis for banking to prevent account takeover. The company serves large travel and e-commerce customers globally, with clients including the eSky group, Brazilian airline Azul, Polish Airlines LOT and ING Group. Established in 2016 by Daftcode, Nethone operates internationally and entered the Plug & Play program in early 2019. In April 2019 it closed its first external financing, raising over $1M from Innovation Nest. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and grow in new markets.

  • Sundose

    Participated · Series A · May 2021

    Sundose is a European D2C e-commerce platform that delivers personalized, home‑delivered supplements. Its product offers dynamic formulations that can be regularly adjusted based on an individual’s lifestyle, life stage and evolving medical history. The company is led by Michał Gołkiewicz and Tomasz Styk and began operations in Poland in 2017, later entering Germany and the UK in 2020. In 2021 Sundose raised a US$6m Series A round to support growth. The company plans to use the funds to further develop its personalization engine, scale production and expand its operations to serve customers in more European markets.

  • Senuto

    Led · Equity · Feb 2020

    Senuto provides AI-based technology to analyse SEO data and offers tools to automatically plan article content using specific keywords. The platform monitors 19 million phrases and 7 million domains and is used by all major publishers in Poland as well as leading online stores, marketplaces, price‑comparison sites and SEM/SEO agencies. In Poland more than 900 companies and 14,000 users rely on its solutions. Founded in 2015 and based in Warsaw, the company employs 23 specialists in SEO, big data and data mining. Senuto plans to expand across Europe—targeting the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Sweden and Norway—while building a larger team and further developing its technology. After the recent round the company is valued at €7 million and intends to promote greater use of machine learning in SEO.

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