Participated · Equity · Apr 2026

Plume builds a platform that centralises more than 150 continuously updated geographical datasets and deploys AI agents that reason over thousands of unstructured documents to produce territorial site intelligence. Its system synthesises structured geospatial layers (grid capacity, protected areas, zoning, land parcels) and unstructured regulatory information (municipal deliberations, permit histories, environmental studies) to accelerate prospecting, permitting and grid connection. According to the company and its clients, Plume enables site analyses up to 20 times faster and three times more accurate versus traditional manual processes. Founded by Edouard Labarthe (ex-Palantir) and Marc Watine (ex-Harvard researcher) and incubated by Y Combinator, Plume is deployed in France, Spain, Romania and the Czech Republic and aims to expand to Italy and the U.S. in 2026. The company is using the new funding to expand the team, enter new markets and develop advanced AI features such as stakeholder mapping, competitive intelligence and automated permit application drafting.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

Genomines is a Paris-based metal extraction company pioneering plant-based "phytomining" to produce battery-grade nickel. Its proprietary platform engineers hyperaccumulator plants that absorb and concentrate nickel from soil, after which the biomass is processed into high-purity metal. This approach promises faster production cycles, cost reductions, and dramatically lower carbon emissions compared with conventional mining. Early commercial partners include Hyundai Motor Group and Jaguar Land Rover, underscoring industrial demand for cleaner nickel. With the new capital, the team plans full-scale field demonstrations of nickel production and the negotiation of large offtake contracts to secure long-term revenue streams. To date, Genomines has raised $62 million, comprising a $5 million seed round, $12 million in non-dilutive funding from BPI France programs, and the latest $45 million Series A.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

Founded in 2023, Paris-based Spore Biotechnologies (branded Spore.Bio) builds full-stack platforms that combine proprietary biophotonics hardware with machine-learning models to identify microbes at the single-cell level in real time. Traditional microbiological assays take five to twenty days and require off-site labs; Spore’s solution offers immediate, on-site diagnostics by capturing visible, UV, and near-infrared spectral fingerprints from samples and analyzing them with a foundational model trained on millions of images. The technology integrates with an in-house dashboard that gives manufacturers continuous, traceable insight into microbial activity. To accelerate scientific discovery, the company has created Spore.Labs, an AI-native research arm that will publish open datasets and collaborate with academic and clinical partners. Spore.Bio has raised €29.9 million ($35 million) in equity financing to date, including a €22 million Series A led by Singular in February 2023. The company has begun hiring aggressively, expecting to add 30 scientists by 2026. Its new funding and access to Google Cloud resources further strengthen its R&D and commercialization roadmap.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

Osium AI builds AI tools to speed materials innovation by predicting physical properties and optimizing formulations, shortening the feedback loop between formulation and testing. The startup’s proprietary technology helps industrial customers refine new materials while avoiding trial-and-error mistakes. Founders Sarah Najmark and Luisa Bouneder bring experience from Google X, robotics, and industrial data products and currently comprise the company’s two-person team. Osium AI has raised a $2.6M seed round and is beginning to turn pilot contracts into commercial business. Several industrial companies are already testing the solution, and the startup is in talks with about 30 potential clients across industries such as aeronautics, construction, packaging, textiles and smartphones. Early users reported the solution can accelerate development and analysis by a factor of 10, and the company plans to ramp up hiring to scale delivery.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

Koyeb offers a serverless platform built on high-performance micro-virtual machines that lets developers run applications, APIs and databases without rewriting code. The platform is language-agnostic and supports git-based, Dockerfile and container-registry deployments. Built-in features include a native continuous deployment pipeline, global load balancing across an extensive edge network, private networking and multiregion deployments across three continents. Koyeb supports horizontal scaling and connection protocols such as HTTP/2, gRPC and WebSocket. It provides developer tooling including the Koyeb API, CLI and infrastructure-as-code providers for Terraform and Pulumi, plus documentation for a self-service experience. The company was founded in Paris in 2020 and recently raised new funding to advance the platform. Koyeb builds a serverless data-processing engine that ingests, processes and stores data across multiple cloud providers. It provides the serverless "glue" to mix-and-match cloud-native APIs and storage services. Users can run workflows on schedules or trigger them by events; everything scales automatically and billing stops once a workflow is complete. Koyeb supports many storage providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Wasabi, Backblaze B2 and object storage from DigitalOcean, Linode, Scaleway and Vultr. The platform also lets customers deploy custom Docker containers and push functions from GitHub to build custom processing functions. The company announced a $1.6M (€1.4M) pre-seed round.