Venture Capital
daphni is a Paris-based Venture Capital (VC) firm. Our VC-as-a-platform combines an accessible community of +300 experts and a digital platform to engage our founders and share deal flow.
We invest in early-stage startups with strong international ambitions like Back Market or Swile.
Our portfolio
The founders we support are building products that can change the way we all live. Curious on what the future might look like? Check out our portfolio companies! And discover “Living DA life!”
health
Lifen wants to deploy the first open Patient Relationship Management Platform
Proptech
Witco is a B2B2C SaaS platform centralizing dozens of internal & external building services in a single app.
foodtech
Swile, the card and app at the center of employee engagement
circular economy
Backmarket allows customers to buy quality secured, refurbished electronic products.
Insurtech
Welfaire is an insurance wholesaler providing brokers with digital products to target self-employed workers.
Impact Marketing
Dift (ex-Captain Cause) is a marketing tool for companies that wish to build loyalty or reward their customers, employees or partners, through the support of positive impact projects.
transportation
Fretlink connects shippers and carriers over a trustful, efficient and innovative platform
Carbon Accounting
Carbon Maps is a comprehensive, science-based, data-driven climate management platform for the food industry.
Ethnic Food
Waysia (ex-Alorsfaim) is a food delivery platform founded in France. It‘s a platform created in order to make asian food and consumers life easier and more convenient.
mobility
Trusk offers seamless delivery of heavy items for retail shops and end-customers
Wallet marketing & engagment
Badge is an AI-powered membership platform for brands, groups, and communities built on Google and Apple wallet.
Entertainment
Animaj’s mission is to empower the young generation to make their world more colorful by delivering exciting and engaging stories that inspire them to dream, explore, and create.
insurance
Leocare is the first multi-service, fully-mobile and fully flexible neoinsurance for housing, car, motorbike and smartphone.
music | ai
Antescofo enables you to play any instrument as if were in a concert hall, with an orchestra accompanying you and following your rhythm
personal care/home care
Agua Blanca is a marketplace for clean HomeCare and PersonalCare products
Digital Wallet
NG Cash is revolutionizing the financial market and showing that the New Generation is already here and wants a bank made for them.
Less optimizes city transportation by developing a short distance C2C carpooling solution (EXIT. Acquired by Blablacar)
green mobility
Fifteen (ex-Zoov) offers a sustainable, data driven and connected e-bike sharing solution
Circular economy
Underdog allows people to purchase pre-owned home appliances, checked by professionals with a warranty
foodtech
Beendi offers easy to make, plant-based meals to customers aiming to eat healthy food with a vegetarian orientation
fintech
Memo Bank develops banking services for SMBs with an offer built around data and management of financial flows
edtech
Holberton trains the next generation of full stack software engineers, which is paid for once the graduate enters the workforce
SaaS to collect ESG/Sustainability data
The Apiday platform helps companies easily collect all ESG data in one place, automate ESG reporting and certification processes, and collaborate with third parties.
upcycling
Hubcycle avoids huge wastage by converting plant-based industrial side-streams into competitive, innovative & strategic raw materials for personal care and food.
Food / Impact
Fresh supply chain management SaaS platform for retailers.
assistance
Double gives busy people back 2 hours of their time every day, and empowers them to focus on what they do best.
culture
Keakr offers an app for urban music lovers; a music and video pocket studio and social network
Subscription SaaS
Subscribfy allows e-commerce retailers to offer credit-based subscriptions to their devoted consumers.
AI
Modjo increases sales teams performance with its conversational analysis platform
Unoccupied offices renting
Sora is a platform that aims to optimize office space occupancy through flexible and affordable offerings.
nutrition
ZOE is a nutritional science company on a mission to help everybody eat with confidence
fintech
Shine offers the perfect freelance co-pilot with the mission of making it easy to be an independent worker
quantum
Pasqal develops Quantum Computer based out of Neutral atoms. Quantum Computers are one of the cornerstone in the transition towards a carbon neutral economy.
AI engagement & conversion
Using Albatross, companies can seamlessly deploy advanced AI solutions to generate inspiring user experiences and increase conversions, engagement, and loyalty.
social network
Gabsee offers the app July, which allows teenagers to enter a virtual world and build real friendships
agritech
Agricool offers healthy and locally produced fruits and vegetables in urban areas through highly efficient vertical farming solutions
Circular economy
Geev offers a marketplace for people to give away and find goods for free, based on geolocalisation
ai/health
Epigene allows smart aggregation of genomic data for drug discovery in oncology
AI powered profit platform for e-commerce
Dema is an AI-powered profit management layer for e-commerce, delivering real-time actionable insights to help teams manage profitable growth.
proptech
Hemea connects homeowners wishing to renovate their homes with top architects and contractors and supports them throughout the process
HR
Butterfly offers real-time leadership training to managers based on team feedback and surveys
proptech
Masteos is a full-stack real estate agency that focuses on all the steps of rental investment for investors, from finding the housing to managing the rental process.
foodtech
Pazzi offers fully-automated robots cooking tasty pizzas in less than four minutes
Retail | Metaverse
Immersive virtual stores for the fashion and retail sectors.
Retail / e-commerce
Prediko is the solution that helps brands plan, order, and finance their inventory.
AI / blockchain
Starton is building the tools to enable any developer, individual and company to build blockchain applications at scale, simply and fast, without any expertise of blockchain technologies.
AI chip
AnotherBrain drives the third generation of AI
Finance
Flow48 is a fintech providing upfront financing to companies with predictable revenues.
traveltech
CozyCozy offers an unbiased solution to book accommodation with a wider market offering
data intelligence
Foxintelligence offers real-time, transaction based intelligence for retailers, based on electronic receipts
Circular fashion
Faume is the one-stop-shop solution for brands to launch a second-hand offer and free themselves from all the technological and logistical constraints linked to the implementation of a second-hand infrastructure.
HR
Comet offers a freelance marketplace for engineers, connecting companies with qualified tech talent
Battery storage
Voltfang requalifies electrical vehicle batteries after their first life in the EV into storage systems, which can store renewable energies in a sustainable way.
Fintech
Just aims to create the new online shopping standard. The company makes the online shopping experience frictionless and gives e-merchants relevant tools to compete with giants such as Amazon.
AI
H is working on frontier action models, to boost the productivity of workers.
circular economy
Save market provides a Platform for buying back computer equipment from companies, gives electronic products a second life and fights against waste.
AI video
Context is able to decrypt any video media and turn it into homogeneous, granular and verified data at scale
Entertainment
Poolday.ai is the UGC platform that puts you in control of your online content.
HR & gaming
Goshaba offers an HR tool to qualify candidates’ soft skills through gamified and cognitive tests
Carbon-free industrial heat
Airthium is a deeptech company that develops industrial heat pumps capable of breaking the limits of existing models to decarbonize the industry.
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Chronicles
Discover the daphni venture capital chronicles : news, announces, new company…
Redefining Success: Arthur Auboeuf’s Journey from Profit to Purpose
In a world where “billionaire culture” seems to reign supreme,
Big cheers to HUBCYCLE on their €15M round! 🎉
With new funding led by ETF Partners (including Remy de Tonnac), Hubcycle is all set
A heartfelt conversation with humanitarian Patrick Brissonneau
🎙️ We are delighted to announce the release of a new
VC Platform
We’ve built a digital platform to make us more effective, collaborative & transparent in our investment process. It connects your startup with our community from the moment you apply.
daphni team
We are an alliance of mutants: our Venture Capital is composed with investors, community builders, platform makers and content producers. Our diversity offers a unique multi-angles perspective. Our common ambition: make you succeed worldwide.