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Sofimac Innovation

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Total investments 21
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 19
Rounds per year 0.81
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.10
Exits 1
Key employees 6

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Electronics
  • Industrial
  • Biotechnology
Summary

In 1998 was created Sofimac Innovation, which is appeared as VC.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Exeliom, Igyxos, eLichens. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Electronics, Information Technology.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The top activity for fund was in 2018.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Sofimac Innovation, startups are often financed by Sofimac Partners, Cru00e9dit Agricole, Bpifrance. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bpifrance, Cemag Invest, BNP Paribas Du00e9veloppement. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GLIMPS

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$7M13 Apr 2021 France, Brittany, France

AcuSurgical

Health Care
Medical Device
$6M18 Feb 2021 Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Stirweld

Industrial Automation
Industrial Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
$2M17 Feb 2021 France, Brittany, France

ELWAVE

Industrial
Manufacturing
Robotics
Semiconductor
$2M20 Jan 2021 Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Antaios

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$11M16 Dec 2020 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Vulkam

Industrial Engineering
$4M04 Feb 2020 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Beekast

B2B
Collaboration
Human Resources
Information Technology
Internet
Market Research
SaaS
Software
Training
Video Conferencing
$5M01 Jan 2020 Ile-de-France

Diabeloop

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$36M02 Dec 2019 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Igyxos

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$8M21 Mar 2019 France, Centre-Loire Valley
News
Nestwave Secures €2.4M Financing Round

– Nestwave is a Paris, France-based provider of low-power geolocation IP and cloud services for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
– The company secured a €2.4m round of financing.
– Backers included the European Innovation Council, the European Commission’s newly established venture capital fund, and current investors Sofimac Innovation (Paris, France) and The Faktory Fund (Liege, Belgium).
– The new investment will be used to further accelerate the rollout of its hybrid-signal global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and cellular positioning technologies.

AcuSurgical Raises €5.75M in Series A Financing

– AcuSurgical, a Montpellier, France-based company focused on robotic microsurgery, raised €5.75m in Series A financing.
– The round was led by Mérieux Equity Partners (via OMX Europe Venture Fund) and Supernova Invest (via Supernova 2 Fund), with Sofimac Innovation (via Pertinence Invest 2 Fund) and IRDI Capital Investissement (via Irdinov 2 and Inn’Vest PME Occitanie Est Funds) participating.
– The company intends to use the funds to conduct clinical trials and reach regulatory approval with vitreo-retinal surgery as the first indication.

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Total investments 21
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.81
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.10
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

GLIMPS

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Network Security
Software
$7M13 Apr 2021 France, Brittany, France

AcuSurgical

Health Care
Medical Device
$6M18 Feb 2021 Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Stirweld

Industrial Automation
Industrial Engineering
Industrial Manufacturing
$2M17 Feb 2021 France, Brittany, France

ELWAVE

Industrial
Manufacturing
Robotics
Semiconductor
$2M20 Jan 2021 Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Antaios

Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$11M16 Dec 2020 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Vulkam

Industrial Engineering
$4M04 Feb 2020 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Beekast

B2B
Collaboration
Human Resources
Information Technology
Internet
Market Research
SaaS
Software
Training
Video Conferencing
$5M01 Jan 2020 Ile-de-France

Diabeloop

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Medical
Medical Device
$36M02 Dec 2019 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Igyxos

Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical
$8M21 Mar 2019 France, Centre-Loire Valley
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