Inria Participations
Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay, Île-de-France, 78153, France
Overview
Inria, the French National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics, promotes scientific excellence for technology transfer and society. Research at Inria is organised in project teams which bring together researchers with complementary skills to focus on specific scientific projects. With this open, agile model, Inria is able to explore original approaches with its partners in industry and academia and provide an efficient response to the multidisciplinary and application challenges of digital transformation.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 7
Sector focus
- Computer
- Continuing Education
- Education
- Higher Education
- Professional Services
- STEM Education
- Training
Investment portfolio
- Probabl
Participated · Seed · Oct 2025
Founded in 2023 as an Inria spin-out, Probabl develops an open-source platform that lets data scientists inspect model assumptions, quantify uncertainty, and deploy probabilistic forecasts with scikit-learn familiarity. The company complements its free tooling with Skore, a premium product that adds version control, monitoring, optimisation, and other lifecycle-management features for enterprise data-science teams; Skore is currently in pilot testing with select clients. Probabl positions itself as a transparent, customisable bridge between academic research and production-grade AI systems, leveraging its founders’ deep involvement in the core scikit-learn project. Recent funding will be used to expand engineering and product headcount across Europe, improve real-time forecasting accuracy and interpretability, and grow the user community through training and certification programmes. The company also plans to evolve Skore into a comprehensive ML lifecycle management suite aimed at large enterprises. To date, Probabl has raised approximately €18.5 million in total funding.
- PoliCloud
Participated · Seed · Jun 2025
PoliCloud develops next-generation, sovereign distributed cloud infrastructure that combines its own micro‑data centers and hardware with Hivenet’s distributed storage and computing software to provide secure storage and HPC. The company emphasizes eco‑responsibility, affordability, wide availability, and decentralised edge computing to meet enterprise, public institution, and SME needs. PoliCloud’s operating model uses proprietary, optimized designs to lower costs while delivering high performance and resilience versus hyperscaler centralised data centers. The company cites rising global cloud growth (~20% annually) and accelerating AI adoption as drivers of demand for affordable, scalable compute. PoliCloud launched in February 2025 at the World AI Cannes Festival with support from the five cities of the Alpes‑Maritimes. The new funding will support team expansion and global growth, with particular focus on serving public sector clients across Europe.