Raise Ventures
138 bis, rue de Grenelle, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75007, France
Overview
Raise Ventures is a Venture Capital structure dedicated to innovative startups in France and Europe.
- Total investments
- 31
- Lead investments
- 9
- Investments · 12mo
- 5
- Active investors
- 6
Investment portfolio
- EVA
Led · Equity · Apr 2026
EVA operates virtual reality arenas focused on esports under the name Esports Virtual Arenas. The company is positioning itself for international growth and has sought outside capital to finance that expansion. In April 2026 EVA opened its capital to Raise Invest, which invested €35 million. The available reporting does not disclose operational metrics such as revenue, users, or prior funding rounds. The new capital is explicitly earmarked to support EVA's expansion into international markets.
- Homaio
Led · Seed · Mar 2026
Founded in 2023 by Valentin Lautier, Homaio operates a platform that structures financial securities physically backed by carbon allowances to give retail investors access to emissions allowance markets. Since its public launch in September 2024, the platform has gained thousands of users across 30 countries. Homaio partners with financial and institutional service providers, including Aether Financial Services (AFS), to protect investors against counterparty risk. The company plans to expand its product scope from European carbon allowances (EUAs) to international emissions pricing and electrification-linked products. Financially, Homaio completed a €3.6M Seed round in March 2026, bringing total funding to over €5M.
- Alinia AI
Participated · Seed · Dec 2025
Alinia AI develops an API-based platform that embeds real-time auditing, guardrails and risk controls into AI workflows, with initial focus on banking and wealth management use cases. Its Guardrails API includes modules such as Investment Guard for MiFID II compliance and a multilingual Hallucination Detector that can be tuned to varying risk thresholds. The system is already deployed at Santander Group and Origin Financial, demonstrating early enterprise adoption. Founded by former Twitter, IBM and Hugging Face engineers Ariadna Font Llitjós and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, the company operates out of New York and Barcelona. Alinia differentiates itself from competitors by targeting nuanced, jurisdiction-specific infractions rather than generic content filtering. The team plans to expand AI engineering, research, sales and customer-success headcount across Europe and the U.S. to meet demand. Over the next three years, management aims to position Alinia as the core compliance infrastructure for AI agents across regulated industries. To date, the company has raised $7.5 million in seed financing to fund product enhancement and large-scale deployments.
- nextProtein
Participated · Series B · Nov 2025
Founded by Mohamed Gastli and Syrine Chaalala, Paris- and Tunis-based nextProtein upcycles low-value agricultural and food byproducts into three core offerings: nextMeal protein powder, nextOil insect oil, and nextGrow organic fertilizer. The company relies on Black Soldier Fly larvae and a rigorously optimized feedstock recipe—tested across more than 100 ingredients—to achieve competitive feed conversion ratios while keeping CAPEX and OPEX low. Its products aim to replace resource-intensive commodities such as fishmeal and soy, offering a circular, lower-carbon alternative for global animal-feed supply chains. Proceeds from its latest raise will finance construction of a second, large-scale facility in Tunisia that is designed to output 12,000 tons of insect-based ingredients annually, including 2,500 tons of protein powder. Management believes achieving industrial scale and cost parity will move insect protein from niche to mainstream adoption. The company’s capital-efficient model and continuous R&D give it confidence to compete on both cost and reliability with traditional feed ingredients.
- WAAT
Participated · Equity · Sep 2025
WAAT specialises in designing, installing and operating EV charging stations in private environments such as residential blocks and commercial sites. Its end-to-end offering spans site audit, installation, maintenance and a proprietary MyWAAT application that lets users monitor and pay for charging sessions. The company is scaling a smart-charging platform that will soon incorporate artificial intelligence to optimise energy use and act as an “energy coach” for drivers. By 2030, WAAT plans to deploy 250,000 active charging points, consolidate its leadership in the condominium segment and expand aggressively into broader commercial real estate across Europe. The business currently employs roughly 300 people across 20 French locations and reports annual revenue of about €70 million with positive EBITDA for the last three years. With a focus on lowering carbon footprints and promoting city health, WAAT positions itself as an impact-driven, profitable growth company ready for European expansion.