Daphni

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Venture Capital

We’re a mission-driven venture capital firm certified B Corp. Our proprietary digital and AI platform, Flamel, and our community of 400 experts are two key pillars that help us — and the companies we back — scale with purpose and impact.

We invest in European early-stage startups with strong international ambitions like Back Market, Hubcycle, Swile and Moonwatt.

Our portfolio

Our ambition is not just to build great companies.

We invest in 1000x individuals — those rare minds who don’t just create products, but create movements. The visionaries, pioneers, and changemakers who don’t settle for incremental progress — they aim for exponential transformation. A 1000x individual doesn’t just build a company. They redefine industries. They rewrite the rules. They push humanity forward. Because the future isn’t rewritten by institutions — it’s rewritten by people.

circular economy

Backmarket allows customers to buy quality secured, refurbished electronic products.

foodtech

Swile, the card and app at the center of employee engagement

Proptech

Witco is a B2B2C SaaS platform centralizing dozens of internal & external building services in a single app.

health

Lifen wants to deploy the first open Patient Relationship Management Platform

Batteries

Moonwatt aims to develop, manufacture and sell an innovative battery storage product to be installed on solar power plants.

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.

Circular economy

Geev offers a marketplace for people to give away and find goods for free, based on geolocalisation

nutrition

ZOE is a nutritional science company on a mission to help everybody eat with confidence

ai/health

Epigene allows smart aggregation of genomic data for drug discovery in oncology

Unoccupied offices renting

Sora is a platform that aims to optimize office space occupancy through flexible and affordable offerings.

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.

EXIT

Less optimizes city transportation by developing a short distance C2C carpooling solution (EXIT. Acquired by Blablacar)

Subscription SaaS

Subscribfy allows e-commerce retailers to offer credit-based subscriptions to their devoted consumers.

EXIT

foodtech

Pazzi offers fully-automated robots cooking tasty pizzas in less than four minutes

EXIT

AI video

Context is able to decrypt any video media and turn it into homogeneous, granular and verified data at scale

AI engagement & conversion

Using Albatross, companies can seamlessly deploy advanced AI solutions to generate inspiring user experiences and increase conversions, engagement, and loyalty.

Circular economy

Underdog allows people to purchase pre-owned home appliances, checked by professionals with a warranty

EXIT

HR & gaming

Goshaba offers an HR tool to qualify candidates’ soft skills through gamified and cognitive tests

AI

H.ai is working on frontier action models, to boost the productivity of workers.

foodtech

Beendi offers easy to make, plant-based meals to customers aiming to eat healthy food with a vegetarian orientation

EXIT

social network

Gabsee offers the app July, which allows teenagers to enter a virtual world and build real friendships

retail/fashion/e-commerce

Stockly connects e-commerce websites with a global inventory so that they never run out-of-stock

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.

upcycling

Hubcycle avoids huge wastage by converting plant-based industrial side-streams into competitive, innovative & strategic raw materials for personal care and food.

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.

HR

Comet offers a freelance marketplace for engineers, connecting companies with qualified tech talent

Retail / e-commerce

Prediko is the solution that helps brands plan, order, and finance their inventory.

Travelers data-provider

Kolet is a flexible data provider for international travelers through e-SIMS with a fully online distribution.

proptech

Hemea connects homeowners wishing to renovate their homes with top architects and contractors and supports them throughout the process

Energy

Epyr develops thermal energy storage systems for decarbonization.

mobility

Trusk offers seamless delivery of heavy items for retail shops and end-customers

assistance

Double gives busy people back 2 hours of their time every day, and empowers them to focus on what they do best.

Carbon Accounting

Carbon Maps is a comprehensive, science-based, data-driven climate management platform for the food industry.

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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 / 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.

EXIT

personal care/home care

Agua Blanca is a marketplace for clean HomeCare and PersonalCare products

EXIT

transportation

Fretlink connects shippers and carriers over a trustful, efficient and innovative platform

Finance

Flow48 is a fintech providing upfront financing to companies with predictable revenues.

Insurtech

Welfaire is an insurance wholesaler providing brokers with digital products to target self-employed workers.

HR

Butterfly offers real-time leadership training to managers based on team feedback and surveys

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.

AI

Pruna makes any AI model faster, cheaper, smaller, greener on any hardware. Pruna addresses a critical issue in AI: creating models that are both fast and cost-effective for widespread use, enabling clients to deploy machine learning models effortlessly.

insurance

Leocare is the first multi-service, fully-mobile and fully flexible neoinsurance for housing, car, motorbike and smartphone.

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.

EXIT

data intelligence

Foxintelligence offers real-time, transaction based intelligence for retailers, based on electronic receipts

EXIT

fintech

Shine offers the perfect freelance co-pilot with the mission of making it easy to be an independent worker

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.

EXIT

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.

EXIT

edtech

Holberton trains the next generation of full stack software engineers, which is paid for once the graduate enters the workforce

Food / Impact

Fresh supply chain management SaaS platform for retailers.

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.

Entertainment

Poolday.ai is the UGC platform that puts you in control of your online content.

Conversational AI

The Conversational AI Platform For Enteprise Sales and Marketing

fintech

Memo Bank develops banking services for SMBs with an offer built around data and management of financial flows

AI chip

AnotherBrain drives the third generation of AI

Wallet marketing & engagment

Badge is an AI-powered membership platform for brands, groups, and communities built on Google and Apple wallet.

EXIT

agritech

Agricool offers healthy and locally produced fruits and vegetables in urban areas through highly efficient vertical farming solutions

EXIT

culture

Keakr offers an app for urban music lovers; a music and video pocket studio and social network

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.

Retail | Metaverse

Immersive virtual stores for the fashion and retail sectors.

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.

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

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.

traveltech

CozyCozy offers an unbiased solution to book accommodation with a wider market offering

AI

Modjo increases sales teams performance with its conversational analysis platform

green mobility

Fifteen (ex-Zoov) offers a sustainable, data driven and connected e-bike sharing solution

“Daphni introduced us to big brands on the market such as Dyson and Bosch, through which we could expand our offering and increase our sales. By doing so, we also opened up for more European markets leading to accelerated growth”
Thibaud Hug de Larauze
Founder of Back Market
“Daphni makes a difference to you as a Founder: their support can provide valuable resources, expertise, and networking opportunities to help your company grow and succeed.”
Paul Berloty
Founder of Modjo
“daphni team and its community have had a structuring impact on key milestones of our development. Their friendly and constructive collaboration are very valuable”
Jean-Daniel Guyot
Founder of MemoBank
“With Daphni, it is not about money, it is about partnership. The Daphni team is very collective and you can leverage the 25 people in the organisation with diverse backgrounds and experience, including entrepreneurial, to help you scale.”
Eliott Jabès
Founder of Stockly
“Co-investors commitment, independent board member appointment, customer introduction, friendly support are part of the valuable achievements of Daphni team”
Eliane Lugassy
Founder of Witco
“Daphni will simply be your most bullish partner.”
Sixte de Vauplane
Founder of Animaj
“Daphni's team understands very well their work is more than financial support. They are thoughtful and support their founders every step of the way.”

Chronicles

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venture capital platform

Flamel

We’ve created our proprietary technology platform: Flamel. At its core, Flamel was designed to support entrepreneurs by connecting them with the best contacts, and providing them with meaningful market insights. It also helps us source and prioritise the companies we want to reach out to, organise dealflow, enhance day to day productivity, and leverage data to make informed decisions quickly.

daphni team

At daphni, we don’t just invest — we build bridges. We are mutants — restless, adaptive, always evolving. We landed in 2015, questioning what venture capital should be. Now, 10 years later, we’re taking off. Our team is active, pulling together founders, investors, institutions, thinkers, and pioneers to reshape the trajectory of the future.

Marc
Simoncini

Managing Partner

Aurélie
Van Peteghem

Head of Community

Pierre-Yves
Meerschman

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Claire
Tanguy

Chief Legal Officer

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