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Top 25 Early-stage investment firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 380 early-stage investment firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 4,502 professional contacts across them, including 1,127 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers early-stage investment firms 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 14, 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 early-stage investment firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 394 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Soutien à la création reprise d'entreprise - Accompagnement des porteurs de projets - Formation modulaire, Etude de Marché, Stratégie commerciale, business plan, Comptabilité…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “50 Partners is a leading startup accelerator in France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2009 by three historical stakeholders-the European Metropolis of Lille, the Hauts-de-France Region, and the City of Lille-EuraTechnologies is a leading startup and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Live for Good est une association qui vient en aide, depuis 8 ans, aux jeunes entrepreneur·es à impact positif développant des projets innovants au service du monde de demain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Serena is one of Europe's leading investment firm, with €1bn under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Au sein de Groupe Mentor, nous envisageons un monde entrepreneurial où l'innovation et la croissance durable sont stimulées par un mentorat personnalisé et tourné vers l'avenir.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec près de 200 membres investisseurs actifs, Paris Business Angels (PBA) est un leader en France du financement des start-ups en phase d'amorçage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Quest accueille, finance et accompagne les dropouts français les plus déterminés, qui ont un « Why » profond avec leur projet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De l’émergence au développement, France Active donne aux entrepreneurs engagés les moyens d’agir sur leur territoire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elaia is a full stack tech and deep tech investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Né d’une feuille blanche début 2012, Capital Croissance revêt une dimension entrepreneuriale forte : les associés ont fédéré une communauté de plus de 450 investisseurs privés…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EMZ is a leading European investment firm with offices in Paris, Munich and Amsterdam.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2001, Truffle Capital is an independent, European venture capital firm focused on disruptive technologies in IT (FinTech and InsurTech) and Life Sciences (BioTech and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Daphni is a European VC firm that invests in user-oriented startups with European DNA and strong international ambitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Digital Africa investit et accompagne les entrepreneurs tech africains qui œuvrent chaque jour, au service de l’impact, pour le continent!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “XAnge is a BCorp-certified early-stage investment fund managing €800 million, with offices in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Started in 2008 by and for founders, Newfund Capital is an early-stage VC firm active in France and in the USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accompagner les équipes fondatrices, dérisquer l’investissement, recruter les meilleurs talents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Provence Business Angels est une association (loi de 1901) qui a vu le jour en septembre 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IRIS is a European Venture capital and Growth equity firm investing exclusively in technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Initiative Pays d'Aix accompagne les créateurs et repreneurs d'entreprises dans leurs démarches et peut faciliter l’obtention des financements nécessaires à la réalisation de leur…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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: early-stage investment firms. 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 early-stage investment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early-stage investment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name early-stage investment firms. 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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Early-stage investment firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 14, 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 380 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 early-stage investment firms, 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 “early-stage investment firms”. 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 early-stage investment firms), 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 early-stage investment firms, 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, 1,127 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 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Early-stage investment firms by metro
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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 early-stage investment firms, 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 early-stage investment firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 380 early-stage investment firms 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?
BGE, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most early-stage investment firms?
Paris leads with 192 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (14) and Bordeaux (10).
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 1,127 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 380 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 14, 2026.
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