Bpifrance

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

Paris, France

Total investments

1329

Average round size

17M

Portfolio companies

1042

Rounds per year

110.75

Lead investments

206

Follow on index

0.21

Exits

96

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologyE-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSManufacturingMedical

Summary

In 2012 was created Bpifrance, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Maisons-alfort. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France.

The overall number of key employees were 57.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Bpifrance, startups are often financed by Xavier Niel, Sofinnova Partners, Iris Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Omnes Capital, Hi Inov - Dentressangle, Elaia. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Alven Capital, Omnes Capital, Auriga Partners.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are SaaS, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Doctolib, Symphony Communication Services Holdings, ManoMano. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.

Opposing the other organizations, this Bpifrance works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Bpifrance is 100-500 millions dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Investor highlights

Geo focus
France

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
1329
Lead investments
206
Exits
96
Rounds per year
110.75
Follow on index
0.21
Investments by industry
  • Software (237)
  • Biotechnology (176)
  • Health Care (172)
  • Information Technology (149)
  • Manufacturing (98)
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Investments by region
  • France (1222)
  • United States (44)
  • Switzerland (11)
  • Belgium (5)
  • Canada (3)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
8
Number of Decacorns
8
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
26M
Group Appearance index
0.78
Avg. company exit year
20
Avg. multiplicator
0.92
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Maddie 02 May 2023 Seed 1M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
YesWeHack 11 Jun 2024 Information Technology, Cyber Security, Security Late Stage Venture 30M Ile-de-France, Paris, France
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