Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey. The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors; backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth. Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset. Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Kima Ventures

The Family is building the largest and most sophisticated service infrastructure for startups in Europe. Their model is to take 5% equity for free in exchange of long-term support. Today, they have a portfolio of 200+ active companies in London, Paris and Berlin, including Captain Train (acquired by Trainline), Algolia and Payfit.

The Family

In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office: * Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...) * Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer Goods companies  In 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms: * Otium Venture became frst * Otium Brands became Eutopia

Otium Capital

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a business.  Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

Accel

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business. Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France.

Bpifrance

Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in SMEs and manages a diversified portfolio of assets. With its expertise in private equity, real estate, and private debt, the group supports companies of all sizes in their development commitment through the commitment of its 235 professionals. It provides companies with the necessary investments needed to realize their growth potential. The firm was founded in 1969 and is based in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

Eurazeo

Frst is a seed-stage venture firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.

Frst

General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.

General Atlantic

PayFit

PayFit offers technology that simplifies and automates payroll and HR processes for small and medium-sized businesses. It provides users the visibility and automation they need to easily manage payroll, with the support of payroll experts. The company supports the digital transformation of businesses through a growing range of product features and services.

<div>PayFit integrates HR management software and payroll under one platform. The platform’s  benefits, onboarding, expenses, and shift management, in addition to payroll. The platform also provides compliance services and remains up to date on regulatory changes. </div>

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

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 PayFit integrates HR management software and payroll under one platform. The platform’s  benefits, onboarding, expenses, and shift management, in addition to payroll. The platform also provides compliance services and remains up to date on regulatory changes. 
 
 
 The company focuses on small and medium enterprises, with its clientele reported in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK. As of January 2022, PayFit reports more than 6,000 clients across a client employee base of 150,000. The platform’s subscription pricing starts at USD 39 per user per month. 
 
 
 In its most recent funding round in January 2022, PayFit raised EUR 254 million (approx. USD 289 million) in a 
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 The unicorn round followed 70% year-over-year growth in annual recurring revenue in 2021. PayFit is expected to use the fresh funds to diversify its product portfolio, expand headcount, improve third-party product integrations and customer service, and increase its footprint across Europe.
 
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Blueboard is a company working on employee rewards and recognition systems for employee engagement. The company was founded in 2014 and employs a staff of 150+ as of February 2022. The company recorded revenue of USD 13 million in 2019, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 80% since 2017.As of February 2022, Blueboard serves more than 300 enterprise clients spanning over 70 countries. The platform is used by companies such as Ubisoft, Pinterest, and Otis.In September 2020, Blueboard raised USD 9.3 million in Series A funding led by Origin Ventures. The funds will be used for the company's plans to enter new markets, enhance functionality to serve enterprise clients, and boost hiring for its engineering team, which is expected to double over the next six months.

Blueboard

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 ActivTrak is a cloud-based productivity monitoring software provider. The platform offers data and analytics which can be used to detect workplace productivity gaps. The platform collects data from employee activity logs and computer screenshots. ActivTrak also facilitates a range of tasks for admins such as blocking websites, flagging suspicious activities, IP address connections, and monitoring web, and app traffic.
 
 
 The company claims it has grown more than 200% since March 2019, with a 60% increase in year-over-year (YoY) annual recurring revenue (ARR) from January 2019 to January 2020. The company operates a subscription model which includes a freemium plan and paid plans starting at USD 7.2 per user per month. As of April 2021 the company has over 8,000 customers and more than 250,000 users on its freemium plan across more than 90 countries. 
 
 
 In November 2020, ActivTrak raised USD 50 million in a Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures with participation from Elsewhere Partners. Sapphire Ventures CEO and managing director joined ActivTrak’s board as part of the deal. The new proceeds were earmarked for scaling global sales and marketing campaigns, expansion of its platform using artificial intelligence (AI) driven analytics, and improving integration with its technology partners.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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ActivTrak

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 inFeedo is a people predictive analytics company based in India. The Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2013 is currently focused on “Amber” (launched in 2016), an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled bot that helps manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and get a pulse on company culture in real time. 
 
 
 The company claims it has achieved annual revenue of USD 1.6 million as of November 2020, with more than 175 customers and 300,000+ users across 60 countries as of March 2022. Its clients include GE Healthcare, Puma, Tata Group, and Lenovo.
 
 
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inFeedo

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 Donut provides solutions to keep employees engaged with casual conversations. Its first product, Intros, makes connections between teammates via Slack to emulate quick meetups and in-person introductions at work, which are now virtual. 
 
 
 Donut’s new product, Watercooler, launched in October 2020. It attempts to reinvent the micro-interactions between employees at the office watercooler online. The product will integrate with Slack, where a newly-designated channel for Watercooler will be created. The product will post questions automatically within the customers’ desired frequency and pre-selected topics.
 
 
 The company claims it has supported four million connections (one million since the Covid-19 pandemic) across its 12,000 customers, including companies such as Okta, Zapier, Slack, The New York Times, and Invision.
 
 
 Donut announced a USD 12 million funding round along with its new product, Watercooler. The funding was led by Accel, with participation from Bloomberg Beta, FirstMark, Slack Fund, and multiple angel investors. The company uses a freemium subscription model with paid plans starting at approximately USD 2 per user per month.
 
 
 The company announced that the USD 12 million raised, which was accumulated over multiple rounds before the Covid-19 pandemic, will be used for product development.
 
 
 
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Donut

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 Matter is an employee feedback platform founded by Brett Hellman. Hellman was the founder of messaging app &ldquo;Hall&rdquo;, which was founded in 2011 and later sold to Atlassian for USD 20 million in 2015.
 
 
 Matter uses 360-degree feedback to evaluate skills in employees which are linked to career success. The platform links skills such as influence, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, and multitasking to evaluations. Matter is currently available in beta.
 
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Matter

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Employee and performance management solutions use AI/Ml to infer engagement insights and sentiment analysis

Offers tools for companies to hire contractors globally, and conduct employee and performance management

Companies that offer the entire spectrum of HR tools including payroll processing benefits, onboarding, compliance, analytics, scheduling etc

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