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Top 25 Pre-seed venture capital firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 86 pre-seed venture capital firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 829 professional contacts across them, including 200 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers pre-seed venture capital 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 29, 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 pre-seed venture capital firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 107 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Serena is one of Europe's leading investment firm, with €1bn under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Source Ventures is a micro VC Pre-Seed and Seed Fund dedicated to tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Better Angle is an early stage investor founded by experienced entrepreneurs who became business angels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Un réseau engagé et solidaire de Startupers et d’Entrepreneurs de la Tech pour accompagner et financer les premiers pas des Startups de l’ouest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CREALIA® est un fonds d'amorçage : sa vocation est de financer la création d’entreprise innovante au travers d’un prêt d'honneur personnel à taux 0, l’objectif étant la réussite…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fondée par 12 entrepreneurs et professionnels de la finance, de la solidarité et du capital risque avec un engagement d’apporter un maximum d’impact, de transparence et de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Flag is your exclusive partner for your scale-up phase : Equity from pre-seed to Serie A; Non-dilutives fundings; Taxation for innovation; Part Time CFO.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Awake Partners is a Paris-based investment bank specializing in early-stage startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Polytechnique Ventures is the seed fund of Ecole Polytechnique, created in 2020.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One Green est le cercle où les meilleurs investisseurs rencontrent les meilleurs fondateurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are reinventing the seed investment industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fin'Up accelerates startups launch and growth through a co-founding approach:=>"Fin'Up Partners" provides financial and sales support to the founders =>"Fin'Up Invest" is the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “AVP (AXA Venture Partners) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth, technology-enabled companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2019, Obratori is the Corporate Venture Capital arm of L'Occitane Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are Resonance, a €50m VC fund investing between €500k and €5m at Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds in European tech firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Guépard Invest a été créé fin 2022 par un groupe de serial entrepreneurs et d’experts opérationnels de l’accompagnement des start-up, pour financer et accompagner les projets les…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a collaborative ecosystem of Experienced Founders, Corporate Leaders, Experts and Investors who support early-stage startups build their vision & strategy, unlock main…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At AFI Ventures, we are committed to backing the most promising seed & pre-seed impact entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of pre-seed venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name pre-seed venture capital 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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Pre-seed venture capital firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 86 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 pre-seed venture capital 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 “pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital 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, 200 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 29, 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.
Pre-seed venture capital firms 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 pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 86 pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital firms?
Paris leads with 56 headquartered companies, followed by Toulouse (2) and Aix En Provence (1).
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 200 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 86 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 29, 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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