Led · Seed · Nov 2025

Founded in Saint-Malo in 2024, Elefantia combines artificial intelligence with human guidance to help individuals, especially seniors, capture and preserve their life stories. Its mobile application prompts users with tailored questions, records their answers, and automatically converts the conversations into structured biographies. Complementing the software, Elefantia has built a community of in-home assistants called “Elefantos” who reassure and guide customers through the storytelling process; the network counts 50 Elefantos today with an ambition to reach 500. The company positions itself as the future French leader in memory preservation and personal narratives. Proceeds from its recent financing will be used to strengthen internal teams, increase brand awareness, and initiate international expansion. No revenue or user numbers were disclosed, but the business is clearly in an early commercial phase. The hybrid human-plus-AI approach differentiates Elefantia in the rapidly growing digital legacy market.

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.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Estaly, founded in 2022, offers product protection sold through merchants for a variety of products. The company is live in France and Belgium and currently works with over 300 merchants. Its core product is merchant-distributed product protection covering multiple product types. Estaly has raised €3.6 million in seed funding from OneRagtime, CDG Invest, and about 20 angel investors. The startup plans to expand into Spain and Italy next year.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

Hive is a Geneva-based distributed cloud provider that aggregates latent computing resources via products such as hiveNet, hiveDisk, and hiveCompute. The platform lets users store files on hiveDisk, contribute unused hard drive capacity to hiveNet to lower subscription costs, and provides additional CPU, GPU, or NPU capacity for workloads such as GenAI inference, video processing, and 3D modelling. Hive’s Joint Development Partner (JDP) program develops cloud innovations for businesses leveraging GenAI LLM computations. Founded by David Gurlé, the company has amassed over 25,000 active users and contributors from 147 countries since October 2023. Hive raised €12M in a Series A round led by SC Ventures with participation from OneRagtime and other private investors. The company intends to use the funds to grow its team and global presence, with a focus on expanding into enterprise markets starting with startups and SMBs.

Led · Series A · Feb 2024

Groover launched in 2018 to help independent artists overcome promotion barriers by letting them submit tracks directly to individual curators who provide feedback and can amplify songs. The platform has about 3,000 curators and Groover sets the price for each curator; each transaction is split 50/50 between the curator and Groover. If a curator does not listen within seven days the artist is refunded, and roughly 90% of requests receive responses within that timeframe. Founders include CEO Romain Palmieri and two co‑founders who built the service from their own music-industry experience. Groover’s business model is pay-per-submission, positioning itself as a lower-cost alternative to traditional PR while giving curators paid access to new music. The company plans product additions such as coaching and promotion resources and is focused on expanding further into the U.S., its largest market. Groover is a Parisian musician-focused platform that opens direct channels between new or undiscovered artists and music curators and industry professionals. Founded in 2018 by musicians Romain Palmieri, Dorian Perron, and Rafael Cohen, the company publicly launched in January 2019 and has built a community of more than 70,000 independent artists across 100+ countries. To date, over one million tracks on the platform have received feedback from a vetted cadre of music curators and professionals. Groover launched an accelerator program in 2021 and uses a scoring algorithm to surface top acts, while partnering with media outlets and services including funding, NFT monetization, publishing-rights tracking, and distribution. The company reports an organic growth rate of 75%. It raised $7 million in the latest round, which is expected to be used to accelerate global expansion and aggressive hiring. Including this round, Groover has brought total capital to about $8.7 million. Groover built a platform that links musicians with labels, media and influencers who provide feedback and promotional support; users pay €2 per influencer contacted. The founders launched the company in 2018 after surveying artists and have grown to list about 3,000 artists. Around 30% of registered artists are already represented by a label. Musicians on the platform have received 49,161 pieces of feedback and had their music picked up 15,100 times by blogs, radio stations, reviews and labels. Groover’s matching system recommends the most relevant contacts and the company plans to improve that matching using the new funding. The startup is also using the funds to raise brand awareness through the organisation of musical appointments and is gaining traction in Belgium and Canada.