daphni: venture capital mutants

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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 it out right here our portfolio companies ! And discover "Living DA life!"

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health

Lifen wants to deploy the first open Patient Relationship Management Platform

foodtech

Swile reinvents the corporate lunch time experience

recycling

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

nutrition

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

circular economy

Backmarket allows customers to buy quality secured, refurbished electronic products

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

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

ecommerce

Jane de Boy is a multi-channel boutique embodying a casual high end vision of fashion within 4 physical shops and an e-commerce website

mobility

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

health

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

AnotherBrain drives the third generation of AI

market intelligence

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

agritech

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

social network

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

insurtech

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

culture

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

mobility

Zoov offers a sustainable, data driven and connected e-bike sharing solution

coming soon

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edtech

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

fintech

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

hr | gaming

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

transportation

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

ecommerce

Made.com disrupts high-end furniture stores by integrating the value chain from manufacturing to online retail platform in order to avoid third-parties sticking points

ecommerce

Adore Me is an e-commerce startup that disrupted the lingerie industry by creating fast-fashion, affordable, inclusive intimates

edtech

Epic! is the Leading Digital Library for Kids 12 & Under considered as the “Netflix for books”

foodtech

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

fintech

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

circular economy

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

proptech

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

e-commerce

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

sound systems

Devialet is an innovative provider of amplified audio solutions with cutting-edge technologies

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

edtech

Ornikar is the first French online driving school providing tutorials for the traffic laws and offering a platform to connect candidates with independent driving teachers

assistance

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

foodtech

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

ecommerce

Typology is a skincare and bodycare DNVB that wants to deliver what consumers are craving for : ethics, authenticity and transparency

transportation

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

coming soon

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recycling

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

traveltech

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

adtech

Mediarithmics offers a full stack trading platform to capture data marketing value for advertisers, media publishers and data owners

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

Job Board

We invest in new usage

We invest in european DNA companies

We are sector, industry and model agnostic

We like singular projects

We believe there is no planet B

Daphni T.e.a.m

We are an alliance of mutants: investors, community builders, platform makers and content producers. Our diversity offers a unique multi-angles perspective. Our common ambition: make you succeed worldwide.

About us

Community

We are not just a team. We are a team of teams. Incredible people all around the world are committed to helping you succeed. You came for daphni, you get the whole daphnipolis, our community of game changers. They will become your secret superpower!

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Platform

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Dedication

We are very proud to be part of the below initiatives, and hope to grow and develop them further.

Build da city. for good through social engagement

Mission:

Increase Diversity in Venture Capital

Mission:

Close the funding gap in France.

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Mission:

WakeUp Café supports inmates who are motivated to reach a sustainable reintegration into society.

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Mission:

Bringing together the tech startup community to help children in need by supporting literacy charity Room to Read.

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Mission:

Streamline and push for circular economy systems to better conserve natural resources and find alternative solutions to materials used in boating.

Mission:

Climate Change is threatening the existence of human life on this planet. We have to start acting on our own and use our influence and network to make a contribution to the fight against climate change.

Mission:

Create highly employable tech talent and inspired entrepreneurs in refugee areas through innovative tech education

Chronicles

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Daphni is a French SAS with a capital of €290.000 registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under the number 811 341 924. Daphni’s headquarters are located at 87 rue Réaumur, 75002 Paris. Daphni is registered with the AMF under the number GP-16000002, dated 28/01/2016. Daphni has an AIFM agreement.

Daphni is supported by InnovFin Equity, with the financial backing of the European Union under Horizon 2020 Financial Instruments and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) set up under the Investment Plan for Europe. The purpose of EFSI is to help support financing and implementing productive”investments in the European Union and to ensure increased access to financing

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