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Isai

Founders Christophe Raynaud Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux Jean-David Chamboredon Ouriel Ohayon Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet Stephane Treppoz

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Total investments 138
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 81
Rounds per year 9.86
Lead investments 36
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.41
Exits 13
Key employees 14
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Information Technology
  • SaaS
Summary

Isai appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in France. The main department of described VC is located in the Paris.

The current fund was established by Christophe Raynaud, Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux, Jean-David Chamboredon, Ouriel Ohayon, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Stephane Treppoz. Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 26 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. Comparing to the other companies, this Isai performs on 16 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight BlaBlaCar, Vade Secure, Evaneos. The fund has no specific favorite 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. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - France. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Isai, startups are often financed by Wilco, AGORANOV, NUMA. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Serena, Bpifrance, Alven Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Serena, Alven Capital, XAnge.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Naboo

Hospitality
Human Resources
Software
$8M05 Feb 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Flowdesk

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$50M18 Jan 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Hiboo

Construction
Hardware
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Logistics
Software Engineering
$10M12 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

blackshark.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Mapping Services
Smart Cities
$15M16 Nov 2023 Graz, Steiermark, Austria

Kestra Technologies

Big Data
Data Integration
Open Source
Software
$3M05 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

MerciApp

Apps
Software
$5M03 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ondorse

Software
Web Development
$4M27 Sep 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Pricemoov

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Machine Learning
Retail
SaaS
Software
$10M12 Apr 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

DataDome

Analytics
Cyber Security
E-Commerce
Internet
SaaS
Software
$42M30 Mar 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
News
Wecasa raises $17.7 million for its home care and wellness marketplace

– French startup Wecasa has raised a $17.7m funding round.
– Blisce is leading the funding round with existing investors Serena, ISAI and Frédéric Mazzella also participating.
– The company has been building a marketplace for home care and wellness.
– The startup originally specialized in hairdressing at home. It then added massage, beauty treatments, housekeeping, babysitting and sports coaching.
– The company is mostly active in France, it expanded to London in April 2021. Up next, Wecasa expects to launch its service in a couple of new European markets as soon as next year.

DataDome Closes $35 Million in Series B Funding to Lead the Global Battle Against Bad Bots and Online Fraud

– DataDome secured a $35m Series B investment.
– The funding round was led by New York-based Elephant, with participation from DataDome’s existing investor ISAI.
– The cash infusion will enable DataDome to aggressively scale its global sales, marketing, delivery and R&D teams, and puts the company on track to deliver on its ambition to double its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and its customer base.
– More than 50% of this growth will come from the US.
– Observing a 47% increase of bot fraud attacks against digital businesses over the past 6 months, DataDome secures its customers against online fraud.
– This includes web scraping, account takeover, Layer 7 DDoS, and payment fraud.

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Total investments 138
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 9.86
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 36
Follow on index 0.41
Exits 13
Group Appearance index 0.80

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Naboo

Hospitality
Human Resources
Software
$8M05 Feb 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Flowdesk

Cryptocurrency
Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
$50M18 Jan 2024 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Hiboo

Construction
Hardware
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Logistics
Software Engineering
$10M12 Dec 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

blackshark.ai

Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles
Computer Vision
Geospatial
Machine Learning
Mapping Services
Smart Cities
$15M16 Nov 2023 Graz, Steiermark, Austria

Kestra Technologies

Big Data
Data Integration
Open Source
Software
$3M05 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

MerciApp

Apps
Software
$5M03 Oct 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Ondorse

Software
Web Development
$4M27 Sep 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Pricemoov

Artificial Intelligence
B2B
Machine Learning
Retail
SaaS
Software
$10M12 Apr 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France

DataDome

Analytics
Cyber Security
E-Commerce
Internet
SaaS
Software
$42M30 Mar 2023 Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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