AFI Ventures
Impact investorParis · Pre-Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
AFI Ventures focuses on backing early-stage impact entrepreneurs at the seed and pre-seed level, spanning themes from climate action to healthy living. It invests up to €500k in one or two companies per month, both inside and outside its own network. Founders gain access to the Alliance for Impact community of impact-driven founders and business angels to support growth toward Series A and beyond. The firm emphasizes an agile, fast-tracked investment process and a custom framework for tracking and promoting portfolio companies' impact.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 31 of 46 portfolio companiesCleantech ×11Climate Tech ×9Energy ×8AI & Machine Learning ×7SaaS ×7Circular Economy ×5Digital Health ×5Wellness & Fitness ×5
HQs:France×16Brazil×1Germany×1United Kingdom×1Netherlands×1
Investments · 46 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathEd.ai offers an AI grading tool for handwritten mathematics assessments, letting teachers grade a full class set in under 15 minutes and identify where students struggle with concepts like polynomial operations and proof logic.
AI & Machine LearningEdTech
Annette is a subscription weight-loss coaching program that combines nutritional, behavioral, and physical-activity support with an app, dietitians available by chat, and referral to independent physicians who can evaluate eligibility for GLP-1 obesity treatments.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
Bohr Energie offers software for energy producers to monitor production and profitability in real time, track market conditions, and generate custom reports with in-house production and price forecasting models.
CleantechEnergySaaS
Co-reactive develops a carbon mineralization process that converts CO2 and silicate feedstock minerals into CO-SCM, a carbon-negative Supplementary Cementitious Material used to make lower-carbon cement and concrete.
CleantechClimate TechNew Materials
Andreas Bremen(Co-founder)Orlando Kleineberg(Co-founder)Willi Peter(Co-founder)
Elsee offers a subscription that reimburses women's health and wellness expenses, covering online programs and partner services purchased through its partner network.
Digital HealthFemTechWellness & Fitness
Developing lab-grown leather using cellular biology to create low-environmental-impact materials for a range of uses.
finres develops climate and agricultural risk assessment tools and data platforms for farmers, financial institutions, and development organizations to support agricultural productivity and adaptation.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningClimate TechData & Infrastructure
Florent Baarsch(Fondateur & CEO)
Green PRAXIS is a digital laboratory that combines data science with environmental engineering to convert satellite imagery, land use, and species datasets into regulator-grade diagnostics, biodiversity scores, and environmental risk profiles for individual sites or large portfolios.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechPropTech
Jinko builds personalized patient support programs co-created with doctors, patient associations, and the pharmaceutical industry, pairing patients with dedicated coordinating nurses and a national network of 200+ certified supportive-care practitioners.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
Kor is a proactive-health platform that analyzes over 400 data points per person (biological, clinical, symptoms, history, lifestyle) to calculate scientifically validated risk scores and deliver a personalized action plan reviewed by its physicians, with year-round follow-up.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & Fitness
Nepsis is AI-powered software for renewable energy developers that manages project finance workflows from structuring to financial close, integrating with Excel models to propagate assumptions, generate documents, track tasks, and run coherence checks across contracts and data rooms.
AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaS
Nova Carbon develops sustainable carbon fiber materials and intermediate composite formats (tapes, mats, preforms) designed for industrial manufacturing processes including infusion, prepreg, and thermoforming.
Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials
Qivia is a fleet management platform that unifies mobility payments (fuel, public charging, tolls, parking, washing), vehicle telematics data, driver and mission management, and the transition to electric vehicles, including automated reimbursement of home charging and workplace charger installation via partners.
EnergyMobility & TransportationSaaS
Resortecs provides pre- and post-consumer textile waste management services and design-for-disassembly technology, connecting brands, sorters, and recyclers to make textile recycling easier.
Advanced ManufacturingCircular EconomyCleantechNew Materials
Marketplace optimizing the management of food overstocks.
Tantor is a licensed mandataire home-care service that matches families with vetted, trained live-in aides (auxiliaires de vie) supervised by dedicated nurses, providing personalized in-home support for elderly, post-hospitalization, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and disabled individuals.
B2B MarketplacesDigital HealthWellness & Fitness
Marketplace for 2nd hand catering equipment
Verley is a biotech company using precision fermentation to produce dairy protein ingredients that replicate the proteins found in cow's milk with a lower environmental footprint.
BiotechClimate TechFoodTechLyon, FR
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesMoonwatt · moonwatt.com · Apr 21, 2026
ClimeFi · esgnews.com · Dec 22, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does AFI Ventures invest at?
- AFI Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is AFI Ventures's typical check size?
- AFI Ventures typically writes checks of $108K – $550K.
- What sectors does AFI Ventures focus on?
- AFI Ventures focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AgTech, Circular Economy, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Construction Tech, Digital Health, EdTech, Energy, FemTech, FoodTech, Impact & Social Good, New Materials, Wellness & Fitness.
- Where is AFI Ventures located?
- AFI Ventures is headquartered in Paris, FR.
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