Financière Saint James
2 rue Alfred de Vigny, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75008, France
Overview
Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.
- Total investments
- 20
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Cleo Labs
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Cleo Labs, founded by Naomie Halioua and Anaelle Guez, has developed an AI-driven platform that continuously monitors regulatory developments across jurisdictions and delivers structured insights and real-time alerts with business impact analysis. The platform generates tailored regulatory checklists for each product and market and supports both pre-launch and ongoing compliance workflows, enabling teams to process larger volumes of requirements without adding resources. Cleo positions itself in the regtech space, targeting companies selling physical products internationally and aiming to reduce time to market and earlier risk identification. With the newly raised €1.5M, the company plans to enhance platform capabilities, expand features, and accelerate commercial growth in Europe while preparing for further international expansion including the United States. The articles do not disclose revenue, users, or prior funding metrics.
- autone
Participated · Series A · Oct 2024
Autone builds an inventory-planning and demand-forecasting platform that helps mid-market retailers and premium fashion brands forecast demand, support sales, and reduce waste and manual tasks. Founded in 2020, the product can project a brand’s assortment over the next 12 months and enable variable supply-chain decisions, such as purchasing raw materials in one month instead of three to lower inventory risk. The alpha was developed by the co-founders while at Alexander McQueen after discovering teams relied on Excel and operated in silos. Autone now counts customers including Courrèges, Roberto Cavalli, Stussy, and Zadig & Voltaire. The company positions itself against incumbents such as Anaplan, BlueYonder, and Relex. It targets mid-market and premium brands that lack the IT firepower of retail giants and often depend on legacy software. autone is a London, UK–based SaaS platform that optimizes inventory management for retail brands. The platform leverages data analytics to help businesses make optimal decisions quickly and to reduce stock-outs and excess inventory. Founded in 2021 by Adil Bouhdadi and Harry Cheslaw, autone focuses on maximizing growth for customers through inventory optimization. The company raised €4.2M in a seed round in October 2023 to support its growth. autone plans to use the funding to expand its reach in strategic markets, accelerate product development, and strengthen partnerships. Its product is positioned for retail brands seeking to improve inventory decisions via a SaaS inventory-management solution. Autone offers an end-to-end operational decision platform that provides retailers and consumer goods companies with decision recommendations on inventory, demand, supply planning, pricing elasticity and analytics operations. The platform is designed to be user-friendly, collaborative and to help customers navigate supply chain challenges. Autone targets luxury and broader consumer goods retailers seeking to optimise operations and pricing. The company plans to use the funding to supercharge business acceleration and expand its core tech team, customer success and marketing in line with its go-to-market strategy. Financially, Autone closed a €1.7M pre-seed round in June 2022 to support these initiatives.
- DinMo
Participated · Equity · Oct 2024
DinMo provides a composable Customer Data Platform that leverages customers' existing cloud data warehouses to make customer data accessible, orchestrate omnichannel journeys, and apply predictive analytics. The platform includes AI-powered capabilities such as Product Recommendations, Churn Prediction and Lifetime Value Estimation designed to simulate the work of data scientists and machine-learning engineers. DinMo emphasizes fast deployment of its AI models (stating models can be deployed within 24 hours) and deeper integrations with cloud platforms including Google Cloud, Snowflake and Databricks. The company targets mid-market D2C customers and lists clients such as Galeries Lafayette, Interflora, Manor and Ankorstore. Founded in 2022, DinMo has grown its team from 3 to 18 employees and plans to reach 25 by the end of H1 2025, while expanding its footprint with a new London office and plans for further expansion across Europe and into the US. The recent €5 million raise will be used to accelerate product development—particularly AI and machine-learning features—and to broaden integrations and go-to-market efforts. DinMo is a data warehousing startup that launched its platform in early September to tackle customer data siloes. Its product focuses on translating CRM customer profiles into warehouse-ready formats using data segmentation and "visual audience" tags alongside online analytics tools. The segmentation feature preserves customer profile fidelity inside the warehouse and simplifies audience creation for marketing teams. DinMo positions itself as an easier-to-implement alternative to complex, expensive CRM-led solutions and highlights privacy-law advantages. The company plans to use the new funding to hire additional product engineers to accelerate product development. DinMo completed a €1.6 million seed round to support these efforts.
- Phacet
Participated · Seed · Sep 2024
Phacet builds personalised AI solutions and a central platform designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises identify high-impact use cases and co‑build AI applications alongside Phacet’s engineers. Customers attend an AI Bootcamp on Phacet’s platform and collaborate with the team to integrate customised applications into operations, ensuring data connectivity and cost control through a single supplier. The company emphasises augmenting human work by automating repetitive tasks while enabling employees to focus on higher-value activities. Phacet has already deployed solutions for European clients such as Smartbox across e-commerce, retail, finance and customer service. The startup aims to complete a range of ready-to-use AI applications across sectors including e-commerce/retail, industry, finance and services by 2025. The company positions itself as a partner helping SMEs move from AI interest to practical implementation.
- Spiko
Participated · Seed · Jun 2024
Spiko provides tokenised fund infrastructure that enables overlooked small and medium-sized businesses to earn yield on idle cash by investing in short-term sovereign debt such as Treasury Bills. The company acts as a transfer agent on a blockchain ledger, removing legacy custodial middlemen to reduce costs and enable 24/7 cash-equivalent transfers worldwide. Its architecture also supports stablecoin flows so customers can fund with digital currency and withdraw in fiat, or vice versa. Spiko’s main funds hold Treasury Bills issued by major Eurozone governments or the US Treasury, assets the company positions as highly liquid and low-risk. In its first 12 months Spiko reached $400M in AUM and has processed more than $900M in working capital from over 1,000 businesses, with a projection to exceed $1B in AUM by year-end. The company has signed partnerships with Fygr and Memo Bank and plans to accelerate distribution and product expansion to tap large treasury-management channels over time. Spiko, co‑founded in 2023 by Paul‑Adrien Hyppolite and Antoine Michon, claims to be the first provider to offer fully tokenized Money Market Funds (MMFs). Its digital assets leverage Ethereum and Polygon blockchains and the company says tokenized shares of its MMFs (USTBL and EUTBL) are now available. The platform enables issuance, settlement, and custody of securities—starting with mutual fund (UCITS) shares—on blockchain rails, with 24/7 transferable shares and compatibility with standard Web3 wallets. Spiko reduces minimum investments for individual retail investors to $1,000 or €1,000 to broaden access to low‑risk MMFs. Shareholders of the funds can participate in governance and elect board members, and the funds are operated with third parties including CACEIS (custody and fund administration), Twenty‑First Capital (asset management) and PwC (audit). The company positions itself to lower costs and streamline capital markets infrastructure by migrating conventional assets onto distributed ledger technology.