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Brighteye Ventures

34 rue de Montpensier, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75001, France

Overview

Brighteye Ventures is a Paris-based education technology venture capital firm. Brighteye Ventures looks for exciting start-ups at the intersection of learning, entertainment, and creativity to empower and expand the frontiers of human potential. They are the leading EdTech venture capital fund in Europe. Leveraging deep experience and relationships in tech, education, media, and VC. Investing at Seed and Series A stages, we help portfolio companies refine a product, build partnerships, and scale across geographies. They are looking for entrepreneurs that use technology and industry knowledge to build competitive businesses that can become global leaders.

Total investments
50
Lead investments
25
Investments · 12mo
6
Active investors
5

Sector focus

  • EdTech
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • imagi

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    Imagi builds classroom tools and curriculum to teach K–12 students coding, basic computer skills and AI literacy, and it partners with tools like Lovable to provide controlled, teacher-managed access to vibe coding. The platform screens every prompt and generated response and asserts compliance with COPPA, FERPA and GDPR to avoid retaining student data or allowing partners to train on student activity. Imagi trains teachers on using AI and computational tools so they can confidently teach students how to build with AI rather than just consume it. Since launching in 2018, the company says it has reached more than 700,000 students across 140 countries. OpenAI provided $1 million in credits to enable free access to the Imagi x Lovable tool for schools. Imagi plans to use fresh capital to expand into more K–12 schools, grow district sales efforts, hire staff, add product features and launch a new platform next month.

  • Sherpa

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    Sherpa builds an AI operating system that manages the full lifecycle of external work — from request to payment — bringing contractors, freelancers, consultants, service providers and AI agents into a single operating model. The platform provides a unified framework for onboarding, compliance, performance management and oversight so organisations can govern both human and AI-driven work. Sherpa positions its product as infrastructure for work orchestration as enterprises combine employees, external workers and AI agents. The company aims to help enterprises and managed service providers streamline processes while maintaining control over data, governance and compliance. Sherpa was founded by Tristan Deschler, Tim Altpeter and Max Lang and is based in Germany. It recently raised $2.2M in a pre-seed round to fund enterprise deployments, integrations and compliance work.

  • Coachbetter - You are the game

    Participated · Series A · May 2026

    Coachbetter develops a platform aimed at replacing manual, analog club processes—like spreadsheets and WhatsApp coordination—with a central operating system for youth and amateur soccer clubs. Its product focuses on simplifying administrative processes, centralizing communication between coaches, parents and officials, and digitally organizing training and match operations. The company positions the platform to reduce background operational complexity so clubs can focus more on training and development. With the newly raised $8.2M Pre-Series A, Coachbetter plans to expand its engineering and product teams and further enhance platform capabilities. It also intends to work more closely with professional organizations such as City Football Group and Borussia Dortmund and to scale into additional markets and club structures. The involvement of both venture investors and soccer personalities is presented as a signal of growing market importance and operational proximity to customers.

  • NEX Health Intelligence

    Led · Seed · May 2026

    NEX Health Intelligence builds predictive analytics intended to identify where drug‑resistant infections are likely to spread inside hospitals. The company’s technology is described as forecasting in-hospital transmission of antimicrobial‑resistant infections. TFN reported that NEX Health Intelligence raised €1M in new funding. The article does not provide revenue, user, or other operating metrics. No information on valuation, investor identities, or prior funding rounds was disclosed in the report.

  • Gyver

    Led · Seed · May 2026

    Gyver builds AI-powered workforce infrastructure and a conversational hiring platform aimed at electricians and industrial employers, seeking to replicate referral and word-of-mouth hiring processes. The company plans to expand beyond recruitment into upskilling, learning and workforce productivity tools for electricians. Its long-term roadmap includes providing modern technical tools for electrical design and PLC workflows to boost productivity across skilled trades. Gyver positions itself against a backdrop of growing demand for skilled blue-collar workers in Europe, where industry estimates project an additional 5.8 million workers will be needed by 2030. The startup was founded by Francesco Defendi, Leo Acciarri and Mattia Zarrelli and recently closed a €1.4M pre-seed round to fund product development and growth.

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