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Elaia

Founders Philippe Gire Xavier Lazarus

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Total investments 187
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 124
Rounds per year 8.50
Lead investments 50
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Exits 25
Key employees 14
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • Internet
Summary

Elaia is the famous VC, which was founded in 2002. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Paris. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Criteo, NTRglobal, Ornikar. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - France.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Elaia, startups are often financed by Wilco, AGORANOV, Partech. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bpifrance, Kima Ventures, Iris Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Partech, Bpifrance, Intel Capital.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Elaia works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.

This organization was formed by Philippe Gire, Xavier Lazarus. Besides them, we counted 11 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nijta

$2M12 Mar 2024 Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Vibe

Advertising
Internet
Marketing
$22M29 Feb 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Composable Prompts

$4M27 Feb 2024 -

Aqemia

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Quantum Computing
$35M30 Jan 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Phospho

Information Technology
Software
$1M17 Jan 2024 -

SUN ZU Lab

Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
$2M16 Jan 2024 -

Tabnine (formerly Codota)

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
$25M08 Nov 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Fentech

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
$1M18 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

HarfangLab

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$29M09 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
News
Cryptosense Raises $4.8M in Funding

– Cryptosense, a Paris, France-based cryptography lifecycle management platform, raised $4.8m in funding.
– The round was led by Amadeus Capital Partners with participation from BGV and Elaia Partners.
– The company intends to use the funds to hire senior-level staff across the product and engineering teams, develop its partner program, and further expand operations across the U.S.

Mablink Bioscience Raises €4M in Seed Funding

– Mablink Bioscience is a Lyon, France-based company developing antibody-drug conjugates (ADC).
– The company raised €4M in a seed financing round.
Elaia Partners led the round with participation from Pertinence Invest 2 (Sofimac Innovation advised by Mérieux Equity Partners), Sham Innovation Santé (advised by Turenne Capital), Fondation Fournier-Majoie, Simba Santé (Angelor) and Crédit Agricole Création.
– The new investment will be used to move forward its ADC pipeline.

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Total investments 187
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 8.50
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 50
Follow on index 0.33
Exits 25
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Nijta

$2M12 Mar 2024 Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Vibe

Advertising
Internet
Marketing
$22M29 Feb 2024 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Composable Prompts

$4M27 Feb 2024 -

Aqemia

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Machine Learning
Pharmaceutical
Quantum Computing
$35M30 Jan 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Phospho

Information Technology
Software
$1M17 Jan 2024 -

SUN ZU Lab

Cryptocurrency
Information Technology
$2M16 Jan 2024 -

Tabnine (formerly Codota)

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
$25M08 Nov 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Fentech

Artificial Intelligence
Big Data
$1M18 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

HarfangLab

Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$29M09 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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