We’re a venture capital firm partnering at (pre)seed stage with entrepreneurs in France, Denmark & Sweden. We’re currently investing out of our first €75m fund, which was launched at the beginning of 2023. Our investors include the Danish sovereign fund (Vaekstfonden), Edenred (a French Euronext-listed corporation), several prestigious European family offices and 70+ French & Nordic Tech entrepreneurs (including the founders of 3shape, Akeneo, Botify, Dixa, Falcon, Kantox, Peakon, PeopleDoc, Planday, Pleo, Qonto, Silae, Spendesk, Swile, Tiller, Zendesk, etc.).
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2023
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed
Portfolio 35
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 31.10.2025 | Altrove | altrove.ai | $13.98M | France |
| 22.10.2025 | 301 Moved ... | voltasoftware.com | $12.15M | Italy |
| 23.09.2025 | Pillar | pillar.io | $3.74M | Italy |
| 14.07.2025 | Opper | opper.ai | $3M | Sweden |
| - | Ontruck | ontruck.com | $62.04M | United Kin... |
| - | Alrik | alrik.com | $9.05M | Sweden, St... |
| - | Claap | claap.io | $3M | France, Il... |
| - | All Gravy | allgravy.com | $6.11M | Denmark |
| - | Clustree | clustree.com | $10.8M | France, Il... |
| - | Andreas Th... | goals.co | $15M | Sweden, St... |
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| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Guillaume | Durao | Founder &a... | linkedin.c... | - | g*******e@... | - |
| - | Bénédicte... | de Raphéli... | Founder &a... | linkedin.c... | - | b*******e@... | - |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.10.2025 | Paris-based Altrove raises $10M to accelerate AI-designed alternatives to critical materials | Paris-based deeptech Altrove has raised $10 million in seed funding to scale production of AI-designed, sustainable alternatives to critical materials such as rare earths. The round was led by Alven, with participation from Bpifrance’s Digi... |
| 27.10.2025 | Volta: €11 Million Raised To Advance AI-Based Transformation Of European B2B Commerce | Volta, a French-Italian startup building an AI-powered commerce platform for B2B distributors and suppliers, announced today that it has secured €11 million in funding, including a recent €5 million extension to its prior round. This fundin... |
| 22.10.2025 | Volta raises €5M led by RTP Global to revolutionize B2B commerce with AI | Volta, a French–Italian startup, has raised €5 million in a round led by RTP Global. Pascal Houillon, former CEO of Cegid and Sage, joined the round alongside existing investors Emblem, Robin Capital, and Founders Future. Coming less than a... |
| 23.09.2025 | Pillar closes €3.2M to revolutionize financial management for construction companies | Milan-based Pillar, a fintech digitizing construction finance, has closed a €3.2 million pre-seed round. Emblem led the investment, joined by international backers Pareto, Plug and Play, and Kima Ventures, as well as Italian investors B Her... |
| 23.09.2025 | Pillar Closes €3.2M in Pre-Seed Funding | Pillar, a Milan, Italy-based fintech startup dedicated to digitalizing the financial management of construction companies, raised €3.2M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Emblem, and included international VCs such as Pareto (USA), P... |
| 11.09.2025 | Opper AI acquires FinetuneDB for AI model tuning | Opper AI, a UK-based startup focused on production-grade reliability for generative AI systems, has acquired FinetuneDB, a platform known for its streamlined approach to dataset curation and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). Whil... |
| 16.07.2025 | Opper AI Secures Funding: Paving the Way for Reliable Enterprise AI | Opper AI, a Swedish startup, just secured €2.5 million in pre-seed funding. This capital fuels its mission to make AI infrastructure genuinely reliable. Their Task Completion API offers a structured path for developers. It transforms unstab... |
| 14.07.2025 | Swedish startup Opper AI raises €2.5 million to make AI infrastructure as “reliable as Stripe” is for payments | Today, Stockholm-based Opper AI announced the launch of its Task Completion API, backed by an oversubscribed €2.5 million pre-Seed round to help developers move beyond one-off prompts and fragile prototypes, providing a path to launching AI... |
| 22.03.2023 | Emblem is the latest European seed fund in new wave of VC funds | If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Emblem said today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. And this is only its firs... |
| 22.03.2023 | Emblem's French-Nordic seed fund at €50 million first close | Emblem has announced its first close of its new French-Nordic seed fund at €50 million. It's planning a second close of €75 million in Q3 of this year. The Paris-based VC fund, founded by serial entrepreneur Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan an... |