Elaia Partners is an independent VC firm focused on Tech-intensive BtoB startups.Elaia Partners manages around $1bn, and invests in high-growth startups offering ground-breaking technologies, products and softwares. The fund focuses on early-stage investments (pre-seed to series B), from the initial financing rounds through to their emergence as global leaders. The investment team brings together decades of expertise in both VC and digital technologies and aims at playing an active role alongside entrepreneurs.Elaia's diversified portfolio includes companies such as Mirakl, Criteo, IbanFirst, FlexAI, Traefik Labs, Shift Technology, Vibe.co, Alice&Bob, SeqOne, Aqemia, SESAMm, The Hotels Network, Holded, etc.More information on https://www.elaia.com/

France Invest is a professional organisation bringing together nearly 400 French management companies and some 180 consulting firms.France Invest resolutely promotes their work in supporting unlisted companies and their central role in a vibrant economy. France Invest’s members enable institutional and private investors to support developing businesses or to finance infrastructure that improves the lives of French people.As a forum for discussion, reflection and the promotion of best practices within the financial ecosystem, France Invest especially supports the initiatives of its members and those of the businesses they assist in favour of job creation and the transition to more sustainable and fairer growth.

Invest Europe is the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors. It aims to make a constructive contribution to policy affecting private capital investment in Europe. Invest Europe guides the industry’s professional standards, demanding accountability, good governance and transparency from our members.

FlexAI unlocks the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure. The company eliminates the challenges of running AI workloads seamlessly across diverse hardware architectures. This empowers developers of AI products and services to leverage a wider range of available computing power without needing to modify their code. Their workloads will simply run on the chosen hardware. By optimizing the utilization of all available computing resources, not just GPUs, FlexAI can maximize efficiency and minimize failures. This leads to more accurate predictions of workload completion times and a significant reduction in wasted energy due to failed processes.

SESAMm enables companies to extract critical insights from the internet with AI. We provide ESG, sentiment, and thematic analytics by analyzing over 20 billion articles and messages using natural language processing. Our clients are major private equity firms, asset managers, index providers and global corporations.

From big brands to small local businesses, Vibe.co empowers all marketers to advertise on TV with an easy-to-use, self-serve ad platform.

Europe's fastest growing recruitment platform for tech hire

Agriconomie.com is a marketplace specialized in agricultural supplies (fertilizers, seeds, spare parts…). Agriconomie aims at becoming the one stop shop for farmers, offering all they need to run their agri business at a same place and at a right price.

Pandacraft offers a new youth media, with manual educational activities for children in the form of crafts, games, apps.

An ecosystem of media & technologies with the aim to connect print readers with the world's largest brands through an application

tinyclues develops predictive CRM solution with maths.The Tinyclues SaaS solution identifies, amongst your customers contacts, who is most likely to buy it next.

Acquired by Seedtag

Acquired by Smartclip, part of RTL Group

Leader of prerecorded and live video interview solutions in France, EasyRECcrue develops and markets innovative SaaS recruitment solutions.

Wyplay provides software solutions to Operators for innovative TV experiences

Cryptosense creates security analysis software with a particular focus on cryptographic systems.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sandboxaq-acquires-cryptosense-to-accelerate-delivery-of-security-solutions-to-global-organizations-301623840.html

Allmyapps is the 1st App Store for Windows

M&A Associate – Small & Mid Caps – TMT (Paris, France)- Covered industries: Mostly Internet, Media, Software, Video Games- Covered transactions : M&A, fund raising, IPOs, Capital (re)structuringSome transactions: sale of Les Numériques to FLCP (Fabrice Larue Capital Partners) (Feb 2014), acquisition of Cameleon Software by PROS holdings (Jan 2014), acquisition of ESR by Osiatis (Nov. 2012), sale of Le Jardin de Catherine to Mr Bricolage (July 2012), advisory of LeGuide.com in its acquisition by Lagardère (May 2012), Acquisition of Ciao (Microsoft) by LeGuide.com (Dec 2011), IPO of LeadMedia (July 2011), IPO of ConcoursMania (May 2011), sale of Modelabs to Bigben Interactive (May 2011)

- Covered industries: Internet, Media, Video Games & Stock-picking- Initiation of coverage and regular coverage of c. 15 stocks: Hi-Media, Rentabiliweb, Meetic, auFeminin.com, LeGuide.com, Dreamnex, HighCo, Gameloft, Bigben Interactive, Guillemot, HF Company,…

- Creation and update of valuation models- Co-writing of 10 broker notes – o/w Bonduelle, Ubisoft, Faiveley, Virbac, Vetoquinol,... – and sector reviews (waste recycling, radio)- Analyst meetings, roadshows and Cheuvreux Small & Mid Caps conferences

- Realisation of 300 portfolio analysis (150 to 50.000 thousands €)- Realisation of weekly and monthly arbitrage recommendation notes