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Top 15 Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders based in France
RevenueBase identified 42 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 511 professional contacts across them, including 129 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 15 largest venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 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 → | ||||
Partial 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 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WinEquity est un nouvel acteur de l’innovation qui place la mixité, facteur de surperformance démontré, au cœur de sa stratégie d’investissement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “France's 1st Student VC We back France's most ambitious young Founders.(students and young graduates) Our Founders get up to 200k euros in funding.(equity + non dillutive) Learn…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are reinventing the seed investment industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a new generation of venture capital funders backing exceptional female founders and gender-balanced teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 14 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kaukana Ventures brings assets and competences and an exceptional ecosystem to launch startups and take them to the next stages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Simplify understanding of-and access to-public and private funding mechanisms, with a particular focus on entrepreneurial ventures led by founders from diverse and alternative…” 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: venture capital firms for underrepresented founders. 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture capital firms for underrepresented founders. 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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Venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 42 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, 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 “venture capital firms for underrepresented founders”. 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders), 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, 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, 129 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.
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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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders, 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 42 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders 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 venture capital firms for underrepresented founders?
Paris leads with 31 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (2) and Boulogne-Billancourt (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 129 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 42 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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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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