Led · Seed · Feb 2023

Unikbase offers a digital-twin tokenisation platform that creates digital passports for valuable objects by loading digital twin data into an NFT. Each token is designed to contain condition data, a 3D scan and prior-owner details, and the platform enforces a single Unikbase duplicate per object to prevent tampering. The product primarily targets insurers working with auction houses, second-hand antiques and other purveyors of high-value goods, and also addresses lifecycle services such as storage, transport, financing and resale. The company has 10 employees dispersed across Europe and Asia and applies a €2,000 upper limit on insurance policies eligible for its product. Unikbase closed a €2 million seed funding round led by Weber Investissements, with additional French and U.S. investors participating off‑record. It has announced a partnership with European insurer Coste Fermon to develop an "ultra-simplified insurance underwriting offering," with the contract due in April. The startup was started last year by a team with expertise in art and fashion retail, logistics, cybersecurity and blockchain, and said it will use investor expertise to accelerate integration, grow the team and develop its business model.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2019

InterCloud is a Paris-founded (2010) provider of software-defined cloud interconnection (SDCI) and private connectivity solutions that optimize, automate and secure end-to-end access to cloud applications and data. Its platform leverages advanced network management, a robust connectivity backbone, and partnerships with major cloud service providers to guarantee performance, security and control. The company positions itself as a pioneer in the SDCI market and serves large European enterprises with global cloud connectivity services. InterCloud plans to expand its services offering, accelerate R&D, strengthen partnerships, and pursue growth via acquisitions. The company also intends to grow its international sales force, beginning in Europe with around fifty sales staff planned for 2022. The latest financing brings its total funding to €138 million and will be used to finance external growth and further product development. InterCloud provides a Software-Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) platform that delivers fully managed, end-to-end turnkey services to interconnect multi-cloud resources at scale. Its platform offers enterprise-grade solutions with advanced security and performance functions, giving customers greater visibility, control and confidence over cloud application traffic. InterCloud works with global enterprises to deploy resources across multi-cloud environments and counts clients such as Airbus, Schneider Electric and Sodexo. The company emphasizes a turnkey managed service model that simplifies infrastructure and converges telecom, IT and security through open, automated software solutions. The recent €22 million financing led by Orange Digital Ventures will bolster its financial position to support commercial expansion. Management says proceeds will accelerate European deployment and the development of new services and international growth. InterCloud provides enterprises with a cloud delivery platform that enables control over the global delivery of their cloud applications. The platform specializes in cloud connectivity for SaaS platforms such as Salesforce, PaaS platforms such as Microsoft Azure, and IaaS such as Amazon Web Services. The company was co-founded by Jerome Dilouya (CEO), Antoine Valat (General Manager) and Benjamin Ryzman (CTO). InterCloud is headquartered in Paris, France. The company raised €10m in funding and intends to use the proceeds to continue to expand its customer base and grow operations. InterCloud offers enterprises a unique, dedicated connection to major cloud providers (Salesforce, Microsoft, AWS) that guarantees quality of service, security, and access control. The company operates its own global network to provide private end-to-end connectivity so customer data does not transit the public Internet. InterCloud already serves more than 30 clients, including Schneider Electric and Société Générale, and is present in Europe, Asia and the United States. Over the past 12 months the company reported steady revenue growth of nearly 10% per month. The new funding is intended to accelerate international expansion and strengthen R&D to deliver additional optimization, security and application-visibility services. Management plans to double its client portfolio next year and to hire new experts over the coming 15 months to support that expansion.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2017

Younited is a fintech focused on originating personal and consumer loans, primarily in France and Italy. The company runs a digital lending platform that allows it to extend unsecured consumer credit while funding the loans through a mix of retail deposits and structured finance facilities. Its strategy includes regularly refinancing its loan book via public asset-backed securities (ABS) transactions. By combining retail funding with capital-markets instruments, Younited aims to grow its lending capacity and capture market share from traditional banks. Management believes this approach will benefit from Europe’s push to expand credit availability and deepen the securitisation market. The firm’s latest financing underscores its intention to maintain a flexible balance sheet and diversify funding sources.

Participated · Series B · Apr 2016

Lendix operates an online lending marketplace that matches individual and institutional lenders with companies applying for loans, combining algorithmic credit scoring with human underwriting. The company has built an intelligence tool called Iris to aggregate and parse European open-company data for credit insights and potential fraud detection. Lendix currently serves borrowers and lenders in France, Spain and Italy and has opened local offices in Madrid and Milan. The platform already hosts a mix of users and institutional investors, which the company says makes it easier to launch new markets. Lendix aims to speed up lending decisions (currently delivering rates within 48 hours, targeting half a day) and to differentiate from traditional banks. The company plans rapid geographic expansion across Continental Europe over the coming year. Lendix operates a loan marketplace focused on financing European small and medium-sized enterprises. The platform offers loans ranging from €30,000 to €5 million. Led by founder Olivier Goy and COO Patrick de Nonneville, Lendix uses institutional vehicles to fund originated loans. A prior €90m vehicle closed in July 2017 and lent to nearly 250 European SMEs. The new financing vehicle increases Lendix’s capacity to support the growth of more than 600 SMEs. As part of its rollout, €120m of the new vehicle is already committed and the first loans from it will be made in February. Lendix operates a marketplace that matches individual lenders with small and medium companies, typically managing medium-term loans of 3 to 6 years with annual returns of 4–9% for lenders. In its first year the platform managed $22.5 million (€20 million) in business loans and the average amount lent per loan is about €220. Lendix recently acquired competitor Finsquare, giving it the ability to manage short-term loans in addition to its existing medium-term offerings. The company says some investors have committed additional capital to deploy on the platform, and it plans to use funding to finance more deals. Lendix intends to expand into other European countries, starting with Spain and Italy, and will pursue the required licenses for each market. The startup is positioning itself as a simpler, faster alternative to traditional banks for SMEs and is exploring product ideas such as automated reinvestment, tiered loan portfolios, and a secondary matching market for selling positions.