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Top 25 Corporate venture arms based in France
RevenueBase identified 140 corporate venture arms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,436 professional contacts across them, including 388 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers corporate venture arms headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest corporate venture arms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Serena is one of Europe's leading investment firm, with €1bn under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded on the core principle that the next wave of tech is born in the startup streets - the natural environment of tomorrow’s innovation superstars - Ventech has been a pioneer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Asterion Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on systemic impact across Europe, with offices in Paris and Amsterdam and active venture partners in Brussels and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Create and invest alongside bold entrepreneurs to develop tomorrow’s leaders Inspired by the vision and values of its founder, Pierre-Édouard Stérin, Otium perpetuates its mission…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Moon Venture, c’est le Venture Capital qui finance les startups, en amorçage et en Série A, et qui les accompagne dans leur hypercroissance grâce à une équipe opérationnelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accompagner les équipes fondatrices, dérisquer l’investissement, recruter les meilleurs talents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Revaia is a leading technology investor, partnering with mission-driven entrepreneurs with global ambitions and sustainable leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Source Ventures is a micro VC Pre-Seed and Seed Fund dedicated to tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Premier réseau de business angels dédié au financement de jeunes entreprises stratégiques.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe Bakjy, société d'investissement basée à Paris, Nice et Rennes, intervient comme opérateur immobilier spécialisé dans le Commerce, le Résidentiel et la Donnée.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “blisce/ – based in Paris and New-York - is a technology investment firm backing founders reshaping industries from early to IPO.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 2016, Angelsquare accompagne les meilleurs entrepreneurs dans leurs opérations stratégiques, de la première levée de fonds à la cession de leur entreprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Educapital is the largest European Impact VC fund backing tech entrepreneurs shaping the future of education and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Xerys invests in companies that are at the forefront of technology innovation in their industry, with a clearly defined strategy, supporting management teams and entrepreneurs who…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 2012 par une communauté de scientifiques et d’entrepreneurs pour soutenir et garantir la croissance des entreprises et financer les challenges technologiques de demain!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kerala has developed the concept of "Cofounding Investor", partnering with top entrepreneurs from their startup inception, bringing a massive support with a specific focus on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Gjoa, we support entrepreneurs and investors on their strategic projects.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’ADN de TKT Holding : innover, entreprendre, accompagner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sopra Steria Ventures is a strategic Corporate Venture Capital supporting Sopra Steria group’s positioning as a Tech leader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Build Collective, led by Tony Fadell, is a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs working on foundational deep technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Polytechnique Ventures is the seed fund of Ecole Polytechnique, created in 2020.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Green est le cercle où les meilleurs investisseurs rencontrent les meilleurs fondateurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Techmind is a firm created in 2018, dedicated to Venture Capital investment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Group Ott was established out of the collective ambition of investors experienced in the business and finance industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The world produces a handful of world-class entrepreneurs a year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: corporate venture arms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names corporate venture arms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of corporate venture arms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name corporate venture arms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Corporate venture arms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 140 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among corporate venture arms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “corporate venture arms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names corporate venture arms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among corporate venture arms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 388 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Corporate venture arms by metro
- Corporate venture arms in Paris82
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names corporate venture arms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many corporate venture arms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 140 corporate venture arms headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Serena, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most corporate venture arms?
Paris leads with 82 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (5) and Toulouse (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 388 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 140 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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