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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 41 of 47 portfolio companiesClimate Tech ×16Cleantech ×14SaaS ×11AI & Machine Learning ×10Energy ×9Circular Economy ×7Digital Health ×6Impact & Social Good ×6
HQs:France×26Belgium×1Brazil×1Germany×1United Kingdom×1Netherlands×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 28 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×202 founders×63 founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 36 founders with education data
Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers ×3CentraleSupélec ×3Stanford University ×3emlyon business school ×2ESSEC Business School ×2HEC Paris ×2IPSA, école d'ingénieurs de l'air et de l'espace ×2Lycée Sainte-Geneviève ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 30 founders with field-of-study data
Business & Management ×10Engineering ×9Finance & Accounting ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×4Computer Science ×3Economics ×3Life Sciences ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 35 founders with career history
Too Good To Go ×3AUDI AG ×2Climate House ×2McKinsey & Company ×2Pepperminds Belgium ×2Tesla ×2Time for the Planet ×2
1 founders hold a PhD · 4 hold an MBA (of 36 with degree data)
Investments · 47 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32024 · 22022 · 16 dated
Qivia develops fleet management software for European businesses aiming to reduce fuel consumption and emissions through better fleet operations.
Climate TechEnergyLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaS
Thibault Rossi(Founder)in
Co-investorsPolytechnique VenturesAxeleo CapitalSequoia Capital
TaiSan 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+1 more
Alliance for Impact (AFI) is a pre-seed and seed investor supporting early-stage, impact-driven companies through its fund AFI Ventures, which invests tickets of €150k to €500k in one to two companies per month.
Impact & Social Good
Co-investorsBleu CapitalEvercuriousVC
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)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesRing Capital
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 VenturesDelivery Hero 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-investorsCloverRedstoneRing Capital
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-investorsAtlanticAuxxoJazzya InvestmentsMyelin VCSie VenturesVentech+4 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
Julien Haure(Founder)in
Co-investorsVarsity VCVentechFounders FutureGrand Sud Ouest Capital
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-investorsBerliner Volksbank VenturesENGIE New VenturesRedstoneTane FundUnruly 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 is a wellness benefits platform that reimburses individuals for access to wellness practices including meditation, soft physical activities, natural supplements, and therapeutic services.
Digital HealthFemTechHealthtechInsurTechWellness & Fitness
Enrise designs and installs solar photovoltaic systems on rooftops and parking canopies for businesses to consume green energy on-site, with options to store or resell surplus power.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyPropTech
Co-investorsRing CapitalSET Ventures
Gaetan Depaepe(Founder)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesRethink VenturesWind Venture
EQ Earth has developed a standard for high-integrity nature-based carbon projects, setting eligibility criteria, monitoring protocols, and verification processes for forest conservation and land restoration.
CleantechClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Thibault Sorret(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsnoa
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
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+2 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 FinancialPoint NineSpeedinvest
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)in
Highcast provides AI-powered software for industrial manufacturers to optimize electricity costs and manage energy procurement by calculating real-time total cost of electricity (CTE) and simulating production scenarios.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise Software
VivienFlore
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 VenturesLabel InvestmentsNewfund 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
Co-investors360 Capital
Kor provides next-generation preventive health check-ups that use scientific and technological advances to detect and prevent diseases before they manifest, targeting individuals seeking proactive health management.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessFrance, FR
Khadija Benmansour(Founder)in
Moonwatt develops energy optimization and management software for grid-scale operations, leveraging renewable energy storage systems.
CleantechCloud ComputingEnergyHardwareSaaSDiemen, NL
Co-investorsDaphniLEA PartnersFounders FutureKima Ventures
MORFO provides land rehabilitation and environmental compliance services for mining and industrial sites in Brazil, handling site assessment, restoration planning, and audit-ready documentation to meet regulatory requirements.
AgTechCircular EconomyCleantechClimate TechImpact & Social GoodRio de Janeiro, BR
Pascal Asselin(Founder)in
Co-investorsTeampact.venturesDemeter
Nepsis helps renewable energy developers scale projects while maintaining profitability.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergySaaS
Constantin Wolfrom(CEO & Founder)in
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 CapitalWest Web ValleyKima VenturesUI Investissement
Paladin is an HR platform aimed at human resources teams.
HR TechSaaS
Co-investorsC2 VenturesHyde Park Venture PartnersThe 98Westbound Equity Partners
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
Lucie Basch(Cofondatrice)inFranco Prontera(Cofondateur)inJonas Mallisse(Cofondateur)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesBNP Paribas DéveloppementEurazeoKurma PartnersVerve Ventures
Prolong develops software solutions for after-sales services, helping brands implement care and repair programs to extend product lifespans and promote sustainable consumption practices.
AI & Machine LearningCircular EconomyEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaS
Tanguy Frécon(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Pyxo offers a platform for managing reusable food containers, letting businesses lend, track, and secure their container fleet through QR code scanning or SMS.
Circular EconomyFoodTechRetail TechSaaS
Benjamin Peri(Founder)inFrançois des Beauvais(Founder)in
Co-investorsFive Seasons VenturesEurazeoEvolem
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
Cédric Vanhoeck(Founder)in
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)in
Co-investorsSatganaSyndicate OneXAnge8VCGlobal Founders CapitalGreatPoint Ventures+3 more
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 provides a software platform that automatically orchestrates and optimizes energy consumption across buildings and facilities, without impacting occupant comfort or requiring capital investment.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaS
Romain Serres(Founder)in
Co-investorsDaphniBalderton CapitalTq Ventures Llc
Verley Food addresses the global dairy protein deficit by promoting a diversified protein mix that combines conventional farming, precision fermentation proteins, and plant-based products.
AgTechBiotechClimate 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
Guillaume Valladeau(Founder)in
Co-investorsDaphniSeventure Partners
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Optimiz ConstructionTo be announced
Exits · 1
1 acquisitionsAprylacq. by Progyny
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesJinko · thebambooworks.com · Sep 14, 2026

Paladin · ibtimes.com.au · Sep 11, 2026

Annette · midlands103.com · Sep 3, 2026

Tilt · thehindubusinessline.com · Sep 1, 2026

Chilli · wcti12.com · Jul 28, 2026
Finres · auth.startupintros.com · Jul 13, 2026
Bohr Energie · pulse2.com · Jul 12, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has AFI Ventures made?
- AFI Ventures has 47 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 3 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 44 tracked co-investors.
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