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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.

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

Lifen wants to deploy the first open Patient Relationship Management Platform

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

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

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

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

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

Modjo increases sales teams performance with its conversational analysis platform

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

Tilt is developing a platform that optimizes distributed energy resources to enable large-scale demand response, improve energy efficiency, and accelerate the transition to a 100% decarbonized energy system

The Conversational AI Platform For Enteprise Sales and Marketing

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.

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.

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

Dema is an AI-powered profit management layer for e-commerce, delivering real-time actionable insights to help teams manage profitable growth.

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

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

Kerys develops a secure virtualization technology for critical and regulated industries.

The AI enabled IP platform that augments innovation and guides IP investment decisions.

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

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

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.

Immersive virtual stores for the fashion and retail sectors.

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

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.

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

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

Antescofo enables you to play any instrument as if were in a concert hall, with an orchestra accompanying you and following your rhythm

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

Epyr develops thermal energy storage systems for decarbonization.

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

Fresh supply chain management SaaS platform for retailers.

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

NG Cash is revolutionizing the financial market and showing that the New Generation is already here and wants a bank made for them.

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

Voltfang requalifies electrical vehicle batteries after their first life in the EV into storage systems, which can store renewable energies in a sustainable way.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Marshmallow's goal is to build a global education brand that changes individual trajectories by leveraging the powerful combination of cognitive science and AI.

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

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

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

AnotherBrain drives the third generation of AI

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

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

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

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

Pasqal develops Quantum Computer based out of Neutral atoms. Quantum Computers are one of the cornerstone in the transition towards a carbon neutral economy.

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

The Apiday platform helps companies easily collect all ESG data in one place, automate ESG reporting and certification processes, and collaborate with third parties.

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

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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.

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

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

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Save market provides a Platform for buying back computer equipment from companies, gives electronic products a second life and fights against waste.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

EverDye is building the leading dyeing solution to transform textile sustainability

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

Airthium is a deeptech company that develops industrial heat pumps capable of breaking the limits of existing models to decarbonize the industry.

Relief is a solution to rationalize and standardize industrial’s quoting processes. Its promise is to empower industrials to improve margins by making quoting more data-driven.

Wilgo is an after-school platform combining AI and human guidance to help children manage time, master homework, and develop both academic and life skills.

Karavela is building a brain foundation model from large-scale MRI data to advance neurological diagnostics and enable portable brain-computer interfaces using cutting-edge deep learning.

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

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

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

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Agua Blanca is a marketplace for clean HomeCare and PersonalCare products

“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.”

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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

Venture Partner

Aurélie
Van Peteghem

Head of Community

Pierre-Yves
Meerschman

Co-founder & Managing Partner

Claire
Tanguy

Chief Legal Officer

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