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Frenchfounders

27 W 20th Street, Suite 800, New York, NY, 10011, United States

Overview

Frenchfounders has been meeting the challenges of French speakers since 2014, offering solutions ranging from business intermediation, investment to career coaching. Frenchfounders is active on 4 continents, 15 cities and over 450 events per year. By positioning itself as the physical and digital meeting point for a community of over 7,000 Founders, including 4,000 Club members, Frenchfounders brings together the international community of French speakers in two ways: individuals and companies. FrenchFounders was founded by Vincent Deruelle and Benoit Buridant in 2014 and is headquartered in New York.

Total investments
9
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
7

Sector focus

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Investment portfolio

  • Fairly Made

    Led · Equity · Apr 2025

    Fairly Made provides a SaaS platform that enables brands to assess environmental and social impacts across their product supply chains. A key feature is the creation of digital passports that report raw material origins, manufacturing processes, and the environmental footprint of each item. The platform combines traceability, ecodesign, and consumer transparency to help brands implement sustainable practices at scale. The company counts clients such as Versace, LVMH, Paul Smith, SMCP, ba&sh, Another Tomorrow, A.P.C., and Courrèges. Fairly Made opened an office in Milan in 2023 and is pursuing international expansion. The new €15M investment will be used to further develop the SaaS platform, expand its team of experts, and accelerate global growth.

  • Flitter

    Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

    Flitter offers a digital, usage-based pay-by-mile car insurance product that can deliver up to 50% annual savings for customers and provides high coverage with digital-first customer support. The company has built a connected-car offering that lets vehicles with embedded communication systems report mileage automatically. Founded in 2022 in Paris by Hajer Gorgi, Jérémy Steinberg, and Arnaud Dumora, Flitter has tripled its policyholder base to over 30,000 customers in the past year. The startup emphasizes cost-efficient innovation and aims to reach profitability by the end of 2024. With the new funding, Flitter plans to double its team to about 40 employees and bolster its tech, operations, and customer-service functions. The company positions itself as an alternative to traditional car insurers by targeting changing mobility habits of French households.

  • Sizzle

    Participated · Seed · Sep 2023

    Sizzle is a free AI-powered learning app and chatbot that provides step-by-step solutions and tutoring for math, physics, chemistry and biology word problems across middle school, high school, AP and college levels. The app leverages third-party large language models such as OpenAI’s as well as models developed in-house and reports an AI accuracy rate of 90%. Recent features include a grading capability that reviews uploaded homework, a regenerate-steps option, a multiple-answers chooser, and the ability to upload photos of assignments. Since launching in August, Sizzle has accumulated over 20,000 downloads and maintains an average 4.6-star rating on both the App Store and Google Play. The team includes former employees from Meta, Google, X and Twitch. Sizzle is currently free to use; the company plans to introduce a premium offering and in-app purchases while keeping the step-by-step solver free. The company says it will use recent funding to expand its team and develop additional product features in the coming months.

  • Worldia

    Led · Series B · May 2023

    Worldia is a Paris-based traveltech company whose proprietary platform enables travel distributors and suppliers to build, plan and book personalised, connected trips. The platform combines a curated product catalogue and tailor-made services across more than 80 global destinations. Worldia recently finalized a new version of its platform and aims to scale its model to €1 billion GMV. Planned product and operations enhancements include expanded third-party connectivities, new AI-powered features, operations improvements and additional at-destination services. The company has expanded beyond France into Germany, Belgium and Spain and completed an initial pilot in the US. To support global expansion, Worldia raised €25 million in a Series B to accelerate making its technology available to travel operators across Europe and North America.

  • Pickme

    Participated · Equity · Dec 2022

    Pickme builds a network of pick-up and drop-off points that lets customers have packages delivered to participating neighbors rather than traditional pick-up locations or home delivery. Individuals register availability and set a maximum number of packages they can handle; when they accept packages they receive a small payment (less than €1 per package). The startup has signed partnerships with carriers including DHL, GLS, Colissimo and Geodis. Pickme reports 96,000 account registrations and processes about 30,000 packages per month. Its service is positioned as an alternative to retail pick-up points and competitors such as Welco, and is particularly useful in rural areas, where 30% of its network members live. The model can shorten delivery trips and reduce CO2 emissions compared with individual home deliveries.

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