Emblem
Venture capitalParis · Pre-Seed–Series A · 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
Emblem focuses exclusively on pre-seed company building, backing Europe's earliest-stage founders. Drawing on the team's experience as entrepreneurs, VCs, business angels and investment bankers, the firm offers pragmatic, hands-on support during the first phase of a startup's journey. It embraces a high-risk/high-reward approach and prizes flexibility on deal terms — equity stake, board seat, lead/co-lead/follower role and check size are all negotiable. A central priority is helping portfolio companies graduate to Series A, and the firm emphasizes staying close, honest and impactful with founders while giving them direct access to decision-makers.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 37 of 56 portfolio companiesSaaS ×25AI & Machine Learning ×20Enterprise Software ×12Developer Tools ×8Fintech ×8Future of Work ×6E-commerce ×4HR Tech ×4
HQs:France×6United States×4United Kingdom×3Denmark×2Sweden×2Spain×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 19 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×94+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with education data
KTH Royal Institute of Technology ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 13 founders with career history
CERN ×2
Investments · 56 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 12 dated
The company builds mobile-first business software for field workers and mobile teams, offering an AI-powered suite of apps for tasks like CRM, invoicing, and expense management focused on the real economy.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSParis, US
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersKima VenturesSnowball
Acadian Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the Future of Work, investing in companies such as Nomi Health, Oyster, SmartRecruiters, Degreed, and Utmost.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
Jason Corsello(Founder & General Partner)inThomas Otter(General Partner)in
Co-investorsConnecticut InnovationsPeakFELIX CAPITALNotion CapitalUgly Duckling Ventures
Alrik provides software for logistics and construction-material transport that gives sales and procurement teams live ETAs, proof of delivery, and Scope 3-ready emissions reporting for each order or project.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Nici Sundén-Cullberg(Founder)inAxel Enblad(Founder)in
Co-investorsPeople VenturesPi Labs
Altrove uses physics-based AI and lab automation to design and manufacture substitutes for critical inorganic materials, aiming to develop alternatives faster than conventional R&D.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareNew MaterialsParis, FR
Thibaud Martin(CEO)inJoonatan Laulainen(CTO)in
Co-investorsContrarian VenturesCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Entrepreneur FirstAlvenBpifrance
Gilion provides non-dilutive debt funding of €0.5–5m to European startups, with interest-only payments for the first two years followed by a four-year repayment period.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAlliance VCAlliance VentureKima Ventures
Bemakers provides a digital platform enabling beverage brands to manage direct distribution and sales across European markets while handling regulatory compliance, customs, and logistics.
B2B MarketplacesDirect to ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSCopenhagen, DK
Morten R. Stengaard(Co-founder & CEO)
Claap automatically captures and structures sales conversation data from calls, filling CRM fields with AI-generated insights on objections, pain points, and deal progression for revenue teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsKima VenturesRoosh Ventures
Corti provides healthcare-native APIs and an AI platform for developers building clinical applications, offering medical speech-to-text, text generation, medical coding, and an agentic framework through a single API (Symphony).
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsDigital Health
Andreas Cleve(Founder)in
Co-investorsbyFoundersNordic MakersAtomico
Lovable is an AI-powered platform that enables users to build web applications and websites through conversational chat interactions with artificial intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSDover, US
Fabian Hedin(Executive Officer, Director)inAnton Osika(Executive Officer, Director)inAndy Toung(Executive Officer)
BoardBenjamin Fletcher(Director)Matt Murphy(Director)
Co-investors83NorthAccelAIX VenturesAnthropy PartnersBalderton CapitalbyFounders+28 more
Evy provides embedded insurance and product protection services (covering damage and theft, e.g. for bikes and devices) that businesses can offer to their customers across web, in-store, and API channels.
FintechInsurTechSaaSParis, FR
Shana Azria(Founder)Tanguy Le Stradic(Founder)
Co-investorsKima VenturesLa FamigliaSequoia CapitalGlobal Founders Capital
Finematter is a curated online marketplace that connects buyers with independent fine jewellers globally, offering handcrafted pieces, bespoke design services, and repair and remodeling of existing jewellery.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesLondon, GB
Co-investorsRedrice Ventures
Gladia provides a speech-to-text (STT) API supporting 100+ languages, with features such as native code-switching mid-sentence, accent resilience, and inline translation returned alongside transcripts.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Jean-Louis Quéguiner(Founder)
Co-investorsKima VenturesRoosh VenturesIlluminate FinancialXTX Markets
GOALS is a competitive multiplayer football (soccer) video game focused on skill-based gameplay, from kick-offs to goal celebrations.
Gaming
Co-investorsMoonfire VenturesNorthzone
Gourmey produces cultivated meat, with its first product being a lab-grown foie gras aimed at fine-dining chefs and restaurants.
BiotechClimate TechFoodTech
Co-investorsAir Street CapitalBig Idea VenturesJoyance PartnersKeen Venture PartnersPoint NineHeartcore Capital
happn is a location-based dating app that connects people who have crossed paths in real life.
ConsumerSocial
Hyperline offers a CPQ (configure, price, quote) product that connects with its billing engine, letting sales teams create quotes, capture signatures, and move signed deals into billing from within their CRM.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintechSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsAdelieIndex VenturesKima Ventures
Co-investorsMoonfire VenturesSpice Capital
Konvu builds AI agents for autonomous vulnerability management, covering the full lifecycle from prevention and detection through triage, remediation, and verification, initially for code and expanding to cloud and infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Benoit Larroque(Director)inLucas Masson(Director)in
BoardPaul Bleicher(Director)in
Light is a finance operating system that unifies the general ledger with native accounts payable, accounts receivable, spend, procurement, and multi-entity reporting, using AI agents to automate finance tasks.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsBalderton CapitalCherry VenturesEntrée CapitalAtomico
LumApps is an AI-powered employee hub that combines internal communication, workflow automation, microlearning, and integrations with tools like Microsoft 365, Google, ServiceNow, and Workday into one platform.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaS
Elie Mélois(Founder)in
Co-investorsIris CapitalGoldman Sachs
Ontruck offers an AI technology layer that connects to transport management systems to optimize road freight operations, including smart pricing, route planning, and shipment forecasting.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesLogistics & Supply Chain
iñigo juantegui(Founder)in
Co-investors42CAPAcurio VenturesClimate InvestmentPoint NineCathay Innovation
Palette Cloud operates a housing/living platform for the real estate industry, offering services to real estate operators as well as tenants, unified through its "Palette ID" (OpenID) system.
PropTechSaaS
Co-investorsZ Venture CapitalAcadian Ventures Management, LlcUgly Duckling Ventures
Palette is a project management and collaboration platform for creative and video production teams, offering frame-by-frame drawover, real-time boards, timelines, version tracking, and task management tied to assets and reviews.
Future of WorkMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Co-investorsSTARTUP IGNITION VENTURESAcadian Ventures Management, LlcUgly Duckling Ventures
Peakon (Workday Peakon Employee Voice) is an AI-powered employee listening platform that collects and analyzes staff feedback to help organizations measure engagement, forecast turnover, and support leadership development and DEI efforts.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsBalderton CapitalMoonfire Ventures
Dalma provides pet health insurance that reimburses veterinary expenses (consultations, surgery, medication, dental care, lab tests, vaccines, etc.) with no deductible, most claims paid within seconds to two days.
Digital HealthFintechInsurTech
Co-investorsFrstProject A VenturesAnterra Capital
Phacet provides an AI agent platform that automates financial and business processes like invoice verification, month-end close, and supplier review by connecting to existing enterprise tools without requiring migration or code.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Nicolas Marchais(Co-Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsRobin Capital
Pillar builds software combining operations, administration, and embedded financial services for construction companies, including financing and AI-driven tools.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
GabrielPaoloLorenzo
Co-investorsItalian Angels for GrowthItalian Founders FundAnalog VenturesAndreessen HorowitzCrucible CapitalGallery
Pivot offers a source-to-pay (S2P) procurement platform that covers strategic sourcing, intake requests, approval and invoice validation workflows, vendor management, AP automation, global vendor payments, and spend analytics.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSParis, FR
Marc-Antoine Lacroix(Founder)in
Co-investorsForestay CapitalNotion CapitalVisionaries Club
Planday is a workforce management platform that handles scheduling, employee management, payroll tracking, and team communication for businesses across hospitality, healthcare, retail, and other sectors.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaSLondon, GB
Mikkel Lomholt(Co-founder)Anders Frederiksen(Co-founder)
Co-investorsLeadX Capital PartnersMetro Group
Secret Escapes negotiates exclusive rates for curated luxury hotels and holiday packages available exclusively to members in the UK and abroad.
E-commerceMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality
Co-investorsIndex VenturesOctopus Ventures
Sorare operates a fantasy football game built around officially licensed digital player cards.
Nicolas Julia(Co-founder & CEO)inAdrien Montfort(Co-founder)in
Co-investors4M HoldingAccelBessemer Venture PartnersConsenSys MeshFabric VenturesIsomer Capital+7 more
AI-powered accounting software with intelligent agents.
AI Debugger for low-level code.
Fintech infrastructure for the B2C circular economy.
AI software to close down small and mid-sized companies quickly and accurately.
AI-first solution automating email marketing to boost revenue.
AI-powered demand response platform for industrial energy flexibility.
AI-powered platform for financial controlling.
Next-gen tools and services for occupational health and preventive care.
Payment infrastructure for MTOs to offer USD savings accounts with instant transfers.
AI-driven platform to simplify and accelerate large corporations' migration to SAP Hana.
AI multi-agent system to improve team performance.
Stoïk combines cyber insurance and security software to help companies manage and reduce their cyber risk exposure.
CybersecurityInsurTechParis, FR
Philippe Mangematin(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzOpera Tech VenturesMunich Re Ventures
AI-first solution automating email marketing to boost revenue.
Volta connects to a company's email inbox and ERP (SAP, Sage, Cegid, NetSuite) to automatically capture, structure, and process incoming quotes and orders arriving via email, PDF, or Excel, verifying prices, stock, and dates before an employee validates in one click.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsRobin CapitalRTP Global
WalkMe provides a platform that helps businesses improve software adoption, reduce support costs, and accelerate digital transformation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Rafael Sweary(Founder)in
Co-investors10DCrescendo Venture PartnersInsight PartnersMangrove Capital PartnersScale Venture Partners
Weld provides ETL (extract, transform, load) pipelines that move data from multiple SaaS tools into centralized destinations for analytics, AI, and operational workflows.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSCopenhagen, DK
Jonas Thordal(Co-founder)inKristian Barrett(Co-founder)
Co-investorsCherry VenturesFrontline Ventures
Wix is a website builder and domain registrar that enables users to create professional websites and online presence.
Creator EconomyDeveloper ToolsE-commerceSaaSTel Aviv, IL
Avishai AbrahamiNadav Abrahami(Founder)inGiora KaplaninGiora Kaplan (Gig)(Founder)inNir Zoharin
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersDag VenturesMangrove Capital Partners
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPillar · politico.com · Aug 30, 2026
Pivot · finance.yahoo.com · Aug 18, 2026
Light · theaiinsider.tech · Aug 17, 2026
Edit with · eu-startups.com · Aug 12, 2026
Acadian Ventures · finsmes.com · Aug 12, 2026
Palette · finsmes.com · Aug 12, 2026
Palette · finsmes.com · Aug 12, 2026
Weld · ftluptonpress.com · Jul 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Emblem made?
- Emblem has 53 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Emblem invest at?
- Emblem invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Emblem focus on?
- Emblem focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, SaaS, Sales Tech, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Emblem located?
- Emblem is headquartered in Paris, FR.
- Does Emblem lead rounds?
- Yes, Emblem leads investment rounds.
- Who does Emblem co-invest with?
- Emblem most often shares deals with Kima Ventures, Balderton Capital, Moonfire Ventures, among 84 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 11
Index Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that backs companies from Seed to IPO and beyond, including through its dedicated seed fund Index Origin.
Daphni is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage European startups across multiple sectors. The firm focuses on companies with European origins that pursue international growth opportunities.
Pareto Holdings is an early-stage investment and company-building firm headquartered in the United States that operates globally. It has never raised outside capital and is self-funded by design.
Voyager Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage entrepreneurs across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, focusing on the modern economy.
50 Partners is a French startup accelerator and investor run by entrepreneurs, operating multiple acceleration programs across tech, impact, health, and Web3, alongside dedicated funds.
Beyond is a venture firm that incentivizes limited partners and operators to contribute talent and expertise alongside capital, enabling portfolio companies to receive targeted value-add support from a distributed network of skilled individuals.
Karista is a French venture capital firm that invests in tech and early-stage companies, frequently leading funding rounds and supporting founders through strategic guidance and board involvement.
Leonis Capital is a research-driven venture capital firm that backs AI-native startups, positioning itself as the first institutional investor for technical founders.
Merian Ventures is an early-stage investment firm founded in 2015 that backs high-impact founders and aims to build a more diverse and innovative startup ecosystem. It invests across the US and UK with a focus on expanding access to opportunity and advancing innovation equality.
Sonorcap invests in entrepreneurs at the intersection of technology and retail, including retail tech, e-commerce, and logistics. The firm provides hands-on support and leverages its own retail operations to assist portfolio companies.
BNP Paribas Développement is an autonomous subsidiary of the international BNP Paribas banking group that has invested its own capital directly for over 38 years to support SME and mid-market enterprise development and succession, while also backing high-growth startups with innovative technology since 2016.
Firms observed investing alongside Emblem, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Emblem's recorded portfolio.
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