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Top 24 Early-stage venture firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 290 early-stage venture firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 2,903 professional contacts across them, including 979 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers early-stage venture 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 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 24 largest early-stage venture firms 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 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hexa is a startup studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elaia is a full stack tech and deep tech investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ring Capital actively directs capital towards vital solutions tackling major social and environmental challenges, and helps entrepreneurs and companies grow by fostering both…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 19, 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seventure Partners is a long term equity investor that actively supports innovative companies aiming at generating positive impacts on Humankind, Society, Sustainability and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Supernova Invest is a European multi-stage VC firm with currently €850m AUM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SHARPSTONE a développé une approche originale et innovante en combinant une offre de conseil, SHARPSTONE Advisory (financement de l’innovation) et une offre d’investissement…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IRIS is a European Venture capital and Growth equity firm investing exclusively in technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Hydatis, We Leverage Data and Digital to Build the Next Game-Changing Startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Village by CA Paris est l’antenne parisienne du plus grand accélérateur de startups en Europe, un réseau présent dans 47 lieux en France et à l’international, qui accompagne en…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe the next Tech Leaders will be European At Korelya Capital, we believe digital investment opportunities can trigger growth and social progress in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Better Angle is an early stage investor founded by experienced entrepreneurs who became business angels.” 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: early-stage venture 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 venture firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of early-stage venture 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 venture 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 venture firms 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 290 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 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 venture 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 venture 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 venture 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, 979 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
- 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 firms by metro
- Early-stage venture firms in Paris189
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 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 venture firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 290 early-stage venture 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?
Serena, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most early-stage venture firms?
Paris leads with 189 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (9) and Bordeaux (7).
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 979 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 290 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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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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