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💥New investment – Cybersecurity💥 🎉 The Bpifrance French Tech Accélération team is delighted to announce its participation in the €5M fundraising of CyGO Entrepreneurs, a #cybersecurity #startupstudio, alongside BNP Paribas Développement and Business Angels including cyber entrepreneurs. 🚀 CyGO Entrepreneurs, led by Laurent Hausermann and Aurélie Clerc, is the first European studio focusing on cybersecurity. Leveraging on its Founding Partners experience and industry network, the Studio plans to co-found a dozen start-up with the aim of becoming European flagships. Those Start-up will be cofounded alongside an entrepreneurial CEO – CTO duo. 🔍 The studio's objective is to launch start-up with a strong internationnal DNA which develop innovative and trustworthy software solutions. 🚀 They aim to contribute to the strengthening of European independence regarding cybersecurity by competing with American and Israelian technologies. 👉 Find out more: press release link in comments Aurélie Clerc Laurent Hausermann Rémi B. Thierry ROUQUET Christophe Dumoulin Pascal Eymin David Dupré Bpifrance Pierre GILLET Océane Fleury BNP Paribas Développement Patrice Vandenbossche Stéphane Sarotte Malte Pollmann DEGROUX BRUGÈREJérémie SWIECZNIK Quentin Bechert CHABRERIE BAERT ASSOCIES Christophe Baert #France2030 #Cybersecurity #Innovation #DigitalTransformation

🔔 NEWSLETTER FTA 🔔  🚀 French Tech Accélération PORTFOLIO NEWS 🚀   - Plasana Medical appears on Le Point’s 2025 Inventors winners list, among a hundred French scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs. Co-created by Antoine Rousseau – research director at CNRS – within the venture studio Technofounders in 2022, the French startup develops an innovative medical device to treat chronic wounds with a new technology of cold plasma spray. Yves Matton antoine rousseau Pierre Le Blainvaux Olivier Le Blainvaux - May Health announced the appointment of Colby Holtshouse as its new president and CEO. Having already held executive positions in the women’s health sector, Colby will bring her expertise to the Paris- and California-based start-up, which was co-developed by the venture studio MD Start II and has completed a $25M Series B in 2024, alongside Bpifrance. The company develops its Ovarian Rebalancing technology to restore ovulation for women with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome). Antoine Papiernik Robert Auerbach, M.D. Anne Osdoit Tim Lenihan Gerard Hascoët Cécile Dupont Redon Jean-François Morin Antoine Mérien - Bpifrance strengthens its partnership with the Institut Pasteur, which had started with the creation of Argobio Studio, through its fund Bpifrance Life Sciences Venture (InnoBio) 2 in 2021. This cooperation falls within the Plan Deeptech and aims to promote the Institut Pasteur’s research studies and to enhance the creation of spinoffs. Yves Ribeill, Caroline Demangel, Hélène Asnagli, Liliane GOETSCH . PhD Dr Isabelle Buckle     🌐 French Tech Accélération ECOSYSTEM NEWS 🌐   - US GenLab Venture Studio and German DCSO Deutsche Cyber-Sicherheitsorganisation GmbH joined forces to launch a cyber venture studio. Leveraging both companies’ expertise in AI and cybersecurity threats, the new US-based studio is to deploy next-generation Agentic AI cyber defense.   - French venture studio Hexa secured 29M€ fundings alongside four European banks, to achieve their goal of launching and scaling 30 new startups by 2030. A week prior, Hexa announced its first investment through its new Hexa Scale branch. Founded in 2023, Hexa Scale aims to help companies find their way back to a growth path, and they recently invested 5M€ in US Saas platform Veevart.   - A trio of German entrepreneurs and investors have teamed up to launch a new venture studio in Berlin: MVP Founders. The studio wants to be selective and to build two to three companies annually across a range of industries.    - Sofinnova Partners exceeded their fundraising target as they launched their 165M€ biotech acceleration fund, Biovelocita II. Following Biovelocita I’s success, the Italian fund aims at the whole European biotech ecosystem to help create, develop, and manage new biotech startups.     Pierre GILLET Océane Fleury Valentine Eustache  ⬇ The links to the articles are in the 1st comment #startupstudio #venturestudio #venturebuilder #vc

𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝗻. Here’s why—and how you can avoid being one. Venture studios face one challenge above all: solving their cold start problem. In a recent deep dive with dear friend Matthew Burris, we debated the biggest myths, mistakes, and realities about how startup studios get built, funded, and (sometimes) become sustainable businesses. Here's the unfiltered truth about what actually matters in this space—and what’s just noise. Curious? outcomes are in the deep-dive; here's what we discussed: 💡 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. 🚧 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳. 💰 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱. 🔄 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗵𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀. 📉 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 🌱 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀? 𝗥𝗮𝗿𝗲. Spoiler: Venture studios aren’t shortcuts. They’re long games requiring relentless focus, adaptability, and grit. Check out our full breakdown on cracking the model. Cheers, your friends at Builders 🖖🏻 Chime in! T. A. McCann Barry O'Reilly Marc Wesselink Denis Jeliazkov Attila Szigeti Max Pog John Carbrey Wenyi Cai Miles D. John-Erik Hassel Alper Celen Garrett Viggers

📢🚀 Find out more about Kanopee – from the French Tech Accélération Fund Portfolio. Founded at the end of 2021 by Renaud Sornin and Nicolas BARBET, Kanopee is a venture studio based in Lyon, which focuses on PropTech and the Trusted Third-party sector. Renaud Sornin has worked 20 years in the sector (notably at Bouygues Construction), 10 of which as the cofounder and CEO of OFA Attestation Légale, which was acquired in 2022 by its British counterpart Fortius Construction Line to form the Once For All group. In 2018, he launched a venture building activity within OFA, which enabled the development of 10 startups. After the acquisition, Renaud partnered with Nicolas Barbet (ex-sales director at OFA) to launch Kanopee, a venture builder with an initial 7-startup portfolio (all spun off from OFA), and accelerate the construction industry’s digitalization. The operating team has since been joined by Romain BENOIT (ex-CEO France at OFA) and Gloria López Montiel (ex-Product Manager at OFA) as partners in 2024. Kanopee raised 11M€ in 2023 among 36 investors to create and develop a dozen startups in 5 years. To operate the studio, they work with a robust and committed ecosystem comprised of corporates like SMABTP, OFA Group, PARIS-OUEST CONSTRUCTION, and small local SMEs (which all are Kanopee’s LPs). At the same time, the two cofounders launched the endowment fund Kanopee Partage to support the construction sector’s transition and projects with high environmental and societal impact. The venture builder leads a dedicated industrial community with which it has leveraged its trademark “pioneers method” to create and accelerate 17 startups, among which: - Subclic (2017) develops a subcontracting management SaaS for SMEs in the construction industry. The platform has 50,000 daily users and 40,000 companies have already subscribed. - Lowit (2020) contributes to tertiary buildings’ energy transition with a Saas for energy efficiency. - Conformitee (2019) raised 1,5M€ (among Bpifrance, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, and Crédit Agricole Centre-est) to develop a trusted third-party SaaS for standardized KYC, and has become the first French “RegTech”.   - Cygogn (2021) leverages AI to develop the digitalization of administrative work through email automation. - BLIC (2021) built a solution to simplify deliveries on construction and industrial sites. With its intelligent delivery box, Blic addresses both efficiency and ecological issues on site.   Frédéric VION Benjamin Guy Thomas Lagier Julien Gallois Frédéric Maï Hugo Simon-Chautemps Anis Dhahbi Olivier Berger Thomas MOURAND Pierre GILLET Océane Fleury Valentine Eustache #startupstudio #venturestudio #venturebuilder #vc

💥 Offre de stage Analyste Venture Capital – Juillet 2025 (6 mois) 💥 Le fonds Bpifrance French Tech Accélération recherche son/sa futur.e stagiaire analyste VC pour une période de 6 mois à partir de juillet 2025. 👉🏻 FTA investit dans des startup studios deeptech à fort potentiel de croissance. Ces structures ont pour objectif de créer des jeunes pousses développant des technologies de rupture, issues des travaux de recherche des laboratoires publics. 🚀 Le fonds finance en capital-risque les startup studios et permet ainsi d’accélérer et de dérisquer les phases de création et de développement de startups innovantes. 💯 En rejoignant l’équipe FTA, vous accompagnerez l’équipe du fonds dans l’analyse des opportunités d’investissements et dans la gestion de son portefeuille. Vous participerez à la totalité du processus d’investissement et acquerrez des connaissances techniques dans des secteurs variés. Vous trouverez la fiche de poste en commentaire (CV à envoyer avec l'objet "Candidature Stage FTA" à l'adresse mail suivante : valentine.eustache@bpifrance.fr) N’hésite pas à contacter les stagiaires FTA : Valentine Eustache Anna Lou Bardon Jeanne Ducrocq Anna Poty Blaise Balaresque Juliette Giraud Camille Schlotterer Diane Bruneau Axelle Cassé Nous avons hâte de recevoir votre candidature ! #recrutement #stage #innovation #VC #capitalrisque #deeptech #startups #startupstudio #Bpifrance #venturebuilder

🔔 NEWSLETTER FTA 🔔  🚀 French Tech Accélération PORTFOLIO NEWS 🚀   - Argobio Studio and the Institut Pasteur launched Enodia Therapeutics, a French biotech company which has already received Pfizer x BioLabs’ prestigious Golden Ticket Award and is developing small molecule inhibitors. By leveraging AI, the startup is dedicated to block and degrade disease-causing proteins for treating cancer, inflammatory diseases and viral infections. Yves Ribeill, Pr Caroline Demangel, Hélène Asnagli, Aurore Hick, Liliane GOETSCH . PhD Dr Isabelle Buckle - Héméra partners with Mayaj, an entrepreneurs’ association in Bordeaux, to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the area. The company also opened its 8th coworking space in Périgord Noir, at Castrum de Belvès. Julien Parrou-Duboscq Camille Schaefer - Venture builder Technofounders reports great news from its portfolio: The SpaceTech startup ION-X received its first signal from space: in the frame of the ESA Edison mission, they confirmed their thruster onboard a spacecraft orbiting the Earth is well and working. In AgTech, UV Boosting received really good results from the Institut français de la vigne et du vin, which prove the efficiency of their innovative and sustainable solution for plants with UV stimulation. Pierre Le Blainvaux Olivier Le Blainvaux Thomas Hiriart Baptiste Rouesné 🌐 French Tech Accélération ECOSYSTEM NEWS 🌐   - The Paris Brain Institute’s incubator iPEPS The Healthtech Hub recently launched a startup studio to bridge the gap between research and entrepreneurship. The new studio wants to transform laboratory discoveries and neuroscience projects into concrete innovations to treat neurodegenerative diseases and mental health. The iPEPS relies on the solid and international ecosystem of the Brain Institute and on the philanthropic fund NeurAL.   - New venture builders were launched in the US in the past weeks: GenLab Venture Studio, a Silicon Valley leading innovator in AI and energy technologies, announced the creation of a venture builder to promote innovation in energy storage solutions and AI infrastructure. On the opposite coast, the venture builder Terrarium was launched by Company Ventures. The New York studio aims to incubate up to ten startups in HealthTech over the next three years.   - Maddyness published a new article on the venture studio model to pursue its series “What are Venture Studios?”, introducing Sparkling Partners - B Corp™. Founded in 2014 in Lille, the studio gathers a portfolio of about 20 companies and follows a non-specialized approach to create innovative and niche startups.     Pierre GILLET Océane Fleury Valentine Eustache  ⬇ The links to the articles are in the 1st comment #startupstudio #venturestudio #venturebuilder #vc

🔔 NEWSLETTER FTA 🔔 🚀 French Tech Accélération PORTFOLIO NEWS 🚀   - The FTA team participated in the €5M fundraising of CyGO Entrepreneurs, the first studio specializing in cybersecurity in Europe, alongside BNP Paribas Développement and Business Angels. The venture studio plans to address the growing cyber threats in Europe by co-founding a dozen startups with a strong international DNA. Aurélie Clerc Laurent Hausermann - 4Elements raised 27.4M€ to nurture the next champions of the European climate transition. This first funding round, led by Bpifrance French Tech Accélération alongside the Fonds Européen d’Investissement and Greenpact, will enable the studio to finance a dozen high-impact projects. 4Elements already has 3 portfolio startups: Bluefins, Cedrus Solutions, and netcarbon. Jean-Baptiste GOFFART Cedric Favier - OSS Ventures’s startup Kraaft raises 13M€ Series A to “Transform construction operations through AI-powered collaboration”. This funding round, led by Dawn Capital, will strengthen Kraaft’s growth and accelerate its market penetration across Europe. Renan Devillieres Marc Negre Thomas Reygagne Cédric Boidin - The venture studio Imagination Machine experienced two major changes in its portfolio: Good Steps joins forces with Sami to create the European champion in ESG and carbon management. With Sami, the startup reaches a decisive milestone and will pursue its work in accelerating the sustainable transition. UNIQUE HERITAGE MEDIA acquires Les Mini Mondes, the startup developed by Marine Bocabeille and Quentin Ory, which is already inspiring thousands of children with its growing phenomenal franchise. Rob Spiro Emilie Abel Alexandre Meyer François Le Quéméner   🌐 French Tech Accélération ECOSYSTEM NEWS 🌐   - The British venture studio Founders Factory and accelerator Blue Action joined forces with the Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies to launch a Canadian OceanTech accelerator. This pilot accelerator will support eight British Columbia-based blue economy startups.   - Redesign Health, a New York City-based venture builder, partners with Sanabil Investments to launch a healthcare venture studio in Saudi Arabia. The new studio aligns with Saudi Vision 2030 and aims to jointly create at least 20 healthcare startups in the kingdom. Redesign Health has already supported founders in launching more than 60 healthtech companies and announced in December 2024 the closing of a $175 million investment for a new fund. It includes participation from Declaration Partners, Euclidean Capital, and True North Advisors. Pierre GILLET Océane Fleury Valentine Eustache ⬇ The links to the articles are in the 1st comment #startupstudio #venturestudio #vc

🔔Portfolio Update : 4Elements🔔

If you’re thinking about investing in a venture studio, There’s huge potential. But some red flags could make or break your investment. From unclear visions to weak networks,  Knowing what to watch out for can save you a lot of  trouble. 🚩 Scroll through and check out the full list of what to look for before putting your money down. P.S. I share daily insights on Venture Studios. Follow  Matthew Burris for more tips and resources!

90% of startups fail. (Venture Studios even the odds) Common reasons include:  - No product-market fit   - Running out of cash   - Weak founding teams   - Scaling too soon   - Poor execution  But this is where Venture Studios are rewriting the rules.  What makes them different?  1. Built-in expertise   Venture studios bring in seasoned operators who’ve built and scaled before.  2. Shared resources   From legal to HR to marketing — everything is ready to go.  3. Data-driven validation   Ideas are pressure-tested before they hit the market.  4. Founder support   Founders aren’t starting alone. They’re co-building with experts.  5. Reduced risk   Failures are anticipated early, minimizing time and financial loss.  Venture studios don’t just launch startups.   They create ecosystems where startups thrive.  P.S. I’m sharing daily Venture Studio insights, stats, and resources every weekday (MON-FRI 7:30AM EST) Make sure to follow (Matthew Burris) if you’d like to learn more about studios