Edenred Capital Partners
Corporate VCSeed–Late Stage · 2 people tracked
Investment thesis
Edenred Ventures is the independent venture capital arm backed by Edenred, a world-leading corporate benefits provider active in 45 countries serving 60 million users daily. Beyond capital, the fund aims to accelerate portfolio company growth by leveraging Edenred's global reach and local expertise across worker benefits, professional mobility, merchant services, and payments. The firm emphasizes the value of having a corporate venture investor on the cap table to help stakeholders achieve their goals, while maintaining independent venture capital governance.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's website
Co-founder of Edenred Ventures, joining Philippe Dufour after the Prepay Technologies exit to Edenred to combine innovation and venture within the Edenred ecosystem, establishing the fund in 2012.
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Co-founder of Edenred Ventures. Previously built Prepay Technologies, which was acquired by Edenred; his experience with GE Capital's support as a corporate investor shaped the vision for Edenred Ventures.
What they invest in
from 6 of 23 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×5SaaS ×5HR Tech ×2AI & Machine Learning ×1B2B Marketplaces ×1Data & Infrastructure ×1Fintech ×1FoodTech ×1
HQs:France×2United States×2Germany×1
Investments · 23 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAndjaro is a workforce management platform that enables real-time visibility and orchestration of available personnel across an organization's employment ecosystem, streamlining emergency staffing, replacement management, and administrative workflows.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS
Beamery provides an AI platform for workforce transformation that helps enterprises hire, redeploy, and reskill talent by connecting skills and task intelligence to real-time workforce data.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSUnited States, US
Abakar Saidov(Co-founder)Sultan Saidov(Co-founder)Michael Paterson(Co-founder)
Candex provides a platform to manage vendor engagement, tracking, and payment for organizations, eliminating manual administrative overhead in procuring and paying service vendors.
B2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York, US
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Edenred Capital Partners invest at?
- Edenred Capital Partners invests at the Seed, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Edenred Capital Partners focus on?
- Edenred Capital Partners focuses on Fintech, Mobility & Transportation.
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