Creadev
Creadev is the investment firm created in 2002 by the Mulliez family (owners of Décathlon, Leroy Merlin, Auchan, etc.) to support and accompany high-potential SMEs. They leverage the capital and values of this entrepreneurial family to help growing companies emerge as leaders in the health, food, and climate sectors. Their strategy involves investing up to €250M annually across 5 to 10 companies with a positive impact in Europe, Africa, and the United States. The firm is deeply rooted in the Mulliez family's entrepreneurial heritage and aims to help entrepreneurs build unique and sustainable businesses.
Daphni
Daphni doesn't chase hype but focuses on real shifts across scientific, societal, and environmental landscapes. They invest in technologies that regenerate, include, empower, and scale across various sectors, including climate, deeptech, retail, and inclusion. Their core belief centers on talent being ubiquitous and access needing to be equally available, targeting innovators from various backgrounds, from rural areas to deeptech labs. They aim to meet founders where they are and help them reach their goals. Sustainability and impact are at the heart of their strategy, reflecting a long-standing commitment to ESG (Environment, Sustainability, Governance). As a B Corp certified company, their actions are guided by clear values and measurable objectives. This commitment is ingrained in their investment decisions and permeates their ecosystem, from portfolio companies to investors. Daphni employs different strategies with its active funds. The generalist fund focuses on disruptions with a positive social and environmental impact, with a strong science angle in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and life sciences. There's also a digital retail fund, supported by Carrefour, focuses on innovations in the retail space including e-commerce, future of grocery, data, financial services, robotics procurement, and impact. The Time4 fund is a project to support entrepreneurs with unique and underrepresented backgrounds, targeting all industries.
EDF Pulse Ventures
EDF Pulse Ventures operates as the strategic and financial partner for startups focused on the energy transition. The core thesis revolves around accelerating the electric revolution by identifying, professionalizing, and developing innovative solutions that contribute to producing more low-carbon electricity, developing flexible networks, and combating climate change. Innovation is considered essential to EDF's DNA and is seen as a necessity to address the climate crisis. The firm actively seeks to transform abundant innovation into powerful solutions, aligning with EDF's 80-year history of shaping a more sustainable future. The investment strategy appears to emphasize providing both financial backing and strategic guidance to startups that can significantly impact EDF's goals related to energy transition and the broader electric revolution.
Epopée Gestion
Epopée Gestion is a regional investment fund focusing on supporting entrepreneurs and local economies in France. They invest across multiple asset classes, including innovation and digital, transitions for SMEs/mid-sized companies, sustainable real estate, and infrastructure and climate. Their investment approach is characterized by providing expertise in strategic acceleration and internationalization, leveraging an experienced and accessible team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Epopée Gestion aims to foster the emergence of champions within their target regions, actively participating in the ecological transition while preserving the history and local character of the assets they invest. They appear to prioritize companies demonstrating collaborative approaches and innovative models, exemplified by their support for companies like Shopopop and Entech.