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 39 of 46 portfolio companiesClimate Tech ×13Cleantech ×12Energy ×9SaaS ×9AI & Machine Learning ×8Circular Economy ×6Digital Health ×6FoodTech ×5
HQs:France×24Belgium×1Brazil×1Germany×1United Kingdom×1Netherlands×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 16 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×102 founders×53 founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 13 founders with education data
IPSA, école d'ingénieurs de l'air et de l'espace ×2The University of Salford ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 12 founders with career history
AUDI AG ×2
Investments · 46 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathTaiSan develops sodium batteries and works with operators, OEMs and research institutions to deploy them into vehicle fleets.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechEnergyHardwareNew Materials
Co-investorsAdelineEIT InnoEnergyEos AdvisoryMercia VenturesTSP VenturesHeartfelt Capital
Ed.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 LearningEdTechParis, FR
Cédric BIGNON(Founder)
Co-investorsKima Ventures
Alpagga is a B2B marketplace and service provider specializing in professional kitchen equipment sales, maintenance, and financing for restaurants, food trucks, and catering businesses across France.
B2B MarketplacesFoodTechSaaS
Bordan Petrynka(Founder)inGeoffrey TAIEB(Founder)in
Co-investorsAcurio VenturesFJ LabsKima Ventures
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
Co-investorsClover
Apryl (Progyny Global) offers a fertility benefits platform that connects employees with fertility experts, clinics, and treatments including IVF, egg and sperm freezing, surrogacy, adoption, and menopause management.
Digital HealthFemTechHR Tech
Co-investorsAuxxoJazzya InvestmentsMyelin VCAtlantic LabsBreegaCrista Galli Ventures+1 more
Blify is an AI-based corporate learning and enablement platform that delivers personalized training directly inside workplace tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and WhatsApp, without a separate LMS login.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechHR Tech
Tristan Vié(Founder)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesBetter Angle
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-investorsVentech
Chilli is a mobile app and social platform that lets users follow "impact creators", take quick actions (under 30 seconds) on causes such as climate justice, oceans, forests and human rights, and donate to fund creators' work.
Climate TechImpact & Social GoodSocial
Xavier Durand(Founder)inJulien Le Drogo(Founder)in
Co-investorsNewfund CapitalSatgana
ClimeFi provides financing and investment solutions for carbon dioxide removal projects to accelerate the global transition to net-zero.
Climate TechFintechImpact & Social Good
Sebastien Dewarrat(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsENGIE New VenturesRedstoneUnruly Capital
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 MaterialsErkrath, DE
Andreas Bremen(Co-founder)inOrlando Kleineberg(Co-founder)inWilli Peter(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)EvercuriousVCHEC Paris IncubatorVentech
Dift is a fundraising platform that lets individuals set up charity fundraising pages ("cagnottes") in a few clicks to support verified nonprofit associations, with tax receipts and transparent donations.
Climate TechFintechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Frédéric Mazzella(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsDaphniOneRagtime
Co-investorsAQUITI Gestion
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
Enrise helps property owners and asset managers transform unused spaces like parking lots and rooftops into on-site solar energy production for self-consumption, reducing energy costs and carbon footprint while ensuring regulatory compliance.
CleantechEnergyPropTech
Co-investorsSET VenturesRing Capital
Gaetan Depaepe(Founder)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesRethink VenturesWind Venture
Estuaire provides environmental impact data for aviation, analyzing around 40 million commercial and business flight trajectories per year combined with weather, aircraft, and payload data to measure CO2, contrails, NOx, and aircraft lifecycle effects.
Paris, FR
Carolina Placencia(Founder)Maxime Meijers(Founder)
Co-investorsSatgana
FairCraft develops lab-grown leather produced from cells and proteins through a material discovery platform, offering an animal-free alternative with low environmental impact.
BiotechClimate TechDeep TechNew MaterialsParis, FR
Haïkel Balti(CEO)inCesar Valencia Gallardo(CTO)in
Co-investorsBlue Wire CapitalEntrepreneur FirstJoyance PartnersKindred VenturesSocial StartsCAP HORN VC+1 more
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)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesIlluminate FinancialSpeedinvest
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 TechPropTechMarseille, FR
Martin Guillaume(Founder)
Inarix uses computer vision to provide instant crop and grain quality analysis, enabling decision-making across the agriculture value chain.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningFoodTech
Pierre Chapelle(Founder)in
Co-investorsAnkaa VenturesNewfund Capital
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
Moonwatt develops energy optimization and management software for grid-scale operations, leveraging renewable energy storage systems.
CleantechCloud ComputingEnergyHardwareSaaSDiemen, NL
Zukui Hu(Founder)in
Co-investorsDaphniLEA PartnersFounders FutureKima Ventures
MORFO restores tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems on degraded land, combining a data and predictive-model layer (MORFO Ri) with field execution methods such as drone seeding, direct seeding, mechanical and manual planting, plus long-term monitoring.
Rio de Janeiro, BR
Co-investorsTeampact.ventures
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
Co-investorsBleu Capital
Co-investorsSista
Poppins operates a peer-to-peer rental marketplace where individuals, professionals, and local shops in the same neighborhood lend and rent everyday objects, with booking, owner messaging, and a guarantee system handled in one app.
Circular EconomyConsumerMarketplaces
Co-investorsKima VenturesBNP Paribas DéveloppementEurazeoKurma PartnersVerve Ventures
Pyxo provides a reusable packaging (réemploi) solution that retail and foodservice chains integrate into their customer journeys, without an upfront deposit for the retailer.
Circular EconomyFoodTechRetail Tech
Benjamin Peri(Founder)inFrançois des Beauvais(Founder)in
Co-investorsFive Seasons VenturesEurazeoEvolem
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
Co-investorsPolytechnique Ventures
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
Co-investorsGOLDWIN VENTURE PARTNERS
Sirona builds modular Direct Air Capture systems that use solid sorbents to remove CO2 from the air, then hands the captured CO2 to partners who inject it into basalt rock for permanent mineralized storage.
CleantechClimate TechHardwareBrussels, BE
Thoralf Gutierrez(Founder)
Co-investorsSatganaSyndicate One
SpotLight provides sparse seismic monitoring for carbon capture and storage (CCS/CCUS) projects, using a single seismic source and receiver to detect subsurface changes such as CO2 presence, pressure, and fluid movement.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyMassy, FR
Elodie Morgan(Founder)in
Co-investorsEmerald Technology Ventures AgPhaze Ventures
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
Tilt Energy operates an AI platform that forecasts electricity consumption and aggregates and orchestrates connected devices (heating, cooling, EV chargers) to synchronize demand with market signals and monetize electrical flexibility.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy
Co-investorsDaphni
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
Co-investorsAlven
VorteX-io provides real-time hydrological monitoring services for water bodies using a network of measurement stations to track water height, velocity, and flow.
Climate TechData & InfrastructureIoT
Co-investorsDaphniSeventure Partners
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Chilli · wcti12.com · Jul 28, 2026
Moonwatt · moonwatt.com · Apr 21, 2026
Blify · pulse2.com · Mar 18, 2026
ClimeFi · esgnews.com · Dec 22, 2025
Enrise · costar.com · Jul 15, 2025
Poppins · arabfounders.net · May 7, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has AFI Ventures made?
- AFI Ventures has 45 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- 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.
- Who does AFI Ventures co-invest with?
- AFI Ventures most often shares deals with Kima Ventures, Daphni, Satgana, among 41 tracked co-investors.
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