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Top 25 Early stage venture capital investors based in France
RevenueBase identified 274 early stage venture capital investors headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 3,170 professional contacts across them, including 571 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers early stage venture capital investors 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 28, 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 venture capital investors 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Serena is one of Europe's leading investment firm, with €1bn under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 28, 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accompagner les équipes fondatrices, dérisquer l’investissement, recruter les meilleurs talents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Réseau Entreprendre Occitanie Garonne est une association de chefs d’entreprise expérimentés qui s’engagent bénévolement pour accompagner les entrepreneurs de demain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “emlyon venture labs accompagne les entrepreneurs et intrapreneurs ambitieux de l'idée à l'hyper-croissance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Source Ventures is a micro VC Pre-Seed and Seed Fund dedicated to tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Agoranov is an incubator for innovative startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Premier réseau de business angels dédié au financement de jeunes entreprises stratégiques.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm with over $500m under management and a successful track record of backing more than 130 startups over 20 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Better Angle is an early stage investor founded by experienced entrepreneurs who became business angels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vous souhaitez créer, reprendre ou faire grandir votre entreprise?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Escalator n’est pas un incubateur comme les autres!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accompagnement de projets de création d'entreprises technologiques innovants” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Accélérateur M est une incubateur/accélérateur de jeunes entreprises innovantes (startups) permettant de structurer et d'accélérer leur développement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 venture capital investors. 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 venture capital investors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early stage venture capital investors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name early stage venture capital investors. 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 venture capital investors based in France at a glance
As of Sep 28, 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 274 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 venture capital investors, 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 venture capital investors”. 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 venture capital investors), 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 venture capital investors, 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, 571 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 28, 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 venture capital investors by metro
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 venture capital investors, 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 venture capital investors are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 274 early stage venture capital investors 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 venture capital investors?
Paris leads with 113 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (9) and Bordeaux (8).
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 571 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 274 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 28, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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