Paris · Pre-Seed–Series B · 7 people tracked
Also known as Frist · Otium Venture
Investment thesis
Frst positions itself as a Day One investor built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, aiming to back a small number of exceptional founders each year. It commits capital at the very inception of a company, frequently before the business exists, has a product, or a team, and moves quickly, making most decisions in two meetings within 48 hours. The firm emphasizes being a responsive, reliable and knowledgeable partner with aligned interests, seeking relationships expected to last around a decade. Its average first check is roughly $2m with significant variance.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 26, 2026.
Team · 7 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
4 people who came through Frst went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 40 of 46 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×29SaaS ×16Enterprise Software ×13Fintech ×7Biotech ×4Cybersecurity ×4Deep Tech ×4Developer Tools ×4
HQs:France×19United States×8Switzerland×1United Kingdom×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 27 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×93 founders×54+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 23 founders with education data
HEC Paris ×8École Polytechnique ×7ESCP ×3Lycée Henri IV ×3Sciences Po ×3Ecole normale supérieure ×2EPITECH - European Institute of Technology ×2Lycée Sainte-Geneviève ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 27 founders with career history
Apple ×2École normale supérieure ×2ETH Zürich ×2UC Berkeley ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
2 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 26 with degree data)
Investments · 46 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 22024 · 12016 · 17 dated
San Diego, US
Etienne Jambou(Executive Officer, Director)Martin Poix(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAdrien Vielliard(Director)
Board seatBruno RaillardPierre Entremont· per SEC Form D · $1.5M raise · filed Mar 2016
San Francisco, US
Board seatPierre Entremont· per SEC Form D · $19.4M raise · filed Mar 2026
Elastics is an AI trading terminal for prediction markets that unifies research, execution, and portfolio management across venues like Polymarket and Kalshi.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Szymon Pawicain
Owkin develops AI Scientist, an autonomous AI system that uses biological large language models and multimodal patient data to accelerate drug discovery for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechDigital HealthHealthtechSilicon Valley, FR
Thomas Clozel(Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer)inGilles Wainrib(Co-Founder and Former Chief Scientific Officer)in
Co-investorsBridford Investments (Bridford Group)Cathay InnovationF-Prime CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Alpha Intelligence CapitalOTB Ventures+1 more
Poolside builds open-weight foundation models and agentic coding models, including the Laguna family, along with the systems and infrastructure needed to train, refine, and improve these models.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Jason Warner(Founder & CEO)inEiso Kant(Founder)
Co-investors7GC & CoAbstraction CapitalAir Street CapitalB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBain Capital Ventures+24 more
Opio builds autonomous AI agents that analyze general ledger and accounting data to produce reconciled, source-linked financial outputs for transaction services and financial due diligence teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Helical AI provides a virtual AI lab platform for drug discovery, tuning bio foundation models to a customer's own biology and orchestrating them into ranked, mechanistically grounded target and biomarker candidates.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Doctrine is a secure legal research and document workspace that combines public legal data with users' own documents and integrates into everyday tools like Microsoft Word, SharePoint, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsKima VenturesSummit PartnersXavier Niel
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Paris, FR
Arnaud D(Founder)Robin Costé(Founder)Sebastien D(Founder)
Co-investorsKima Ventures
Attention provides AI-driven meeting analytics and coaching for sales teams, with direct integration into Microsoft Teams for recording, transcription, and performance analysis of sales conversations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Anis Bennaceur(Founder)inMatthias Wickenburg(Founder)in
Co-investorsMGV.VCAglae VenturesAlvenRTP Global
Attention provides AI-powered sales tools for revenue teams, automating CRM data entry and providing real-time sales coaching to improve call outcomes and rep productivity.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Anis Bennaceur(Founder)inMatthias Wickenburg(Founder)in
Co-investorsAglae VenturesAlvenEniac VenturesRTP Global645 VenturesLiquid Ventures
Bioptimus is an AI-first biotech company developing a universal AI foundation model that connects biology across scales, from molecules and cells to tissues and whole organisms, to support biomedical research and innovation.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtechParis, FR
Eric Durand(Founder)Felipe Llinares-López(Co-founder & VP of AI)Rodolphe Jenatton(Co-founder & CTO)Zelda Mariet(Co-founder & VP of Research)Jean-Philippe Vert(Co-founder & CEO)inDavid Cahané(Co-founder & General Manager)
Co-investorsAndera PartnersCathay InnovationFELIX CAPITALHeadlineHeadline Growth Management, LLCHitachi Ventures+3 more
Orus is a digital insurance platform offering professional liability coverage and business protection policies tailored to self-employed workers and small businesses, with streamlined underwriting and dedicated customer support.
InsurTech
Côme Dartiguenave(Founder)in
Co-investorsNotion CapitalSingular
Comand AI builds Prevail, an AI-native operating workspace for defense and security headquarters that integrates across C2 platforms to support military planning tasks such as mission analysis and terrain analysis while keeping officers in command.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTech
Marie I(Founder)Quentin Le Pape(Founder)Loïc Mougeolle(Founder)in
Co-investorsExpeditions
Command AI (formerly CommandBar) built in-app user assistance software, including a command palette, product tours, surveys, and an AI copilot that helped users navigate web applications.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
James Evans(Founder)inVinay Ayyala(Founder)inRichard Freling(Founder)in
Co-investorsAsymmetric Capital PartnersY CombinatorKima Ventures
Condor provides an operating system for enterprise energy management, helping organizations monitor, forecast, and optimize energy procurement and consumption using AI-driven strategies.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnergyEnterprise SoftwareParis, FR
Jean Costa de Beauregard(Founder)inClément Grivel(Founder)inFlorian Pérocheau(Founder)in
Co-investorsAgoranovKima VenturesY Combinator
Polar Analytics is a unified data and analytics platform for consumer and e-commerce brands, consolidating marketing and store data from multiple channels into dashboards and reports.
Data & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing TechParis, FR
Charbel Seif(Founder)David Dokes(Founder)in
Co-investorsPoint Nine
Electra operates a network of fast-charging stations for electric vehicles across Europe, aiming to remove adoption barriers by making EV charging convenient and time-efficient for motorists.
CleantechEnergyMobility & Transportation
Aurelien de Meaux(Founder)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesLowercarbon CapitalSnowflake VenturesBHP VenturesBreakthrough Energy VenturesCapricorn Investment Group+6 more
Escape provides an offensive security platform that continuously maps an organization's attack surface and identifies vulnerabilities the way attackers would, integrating directly into engineering workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Tristan Kalos(Founder)inAntoine Carossio(Founder)in
BoardOlivier Pomel(Co-founder & CEO)Renaud Deraison(Co-founder & CEO)
Co-investorsKima VenturesY CombinatorTiny Supercomputer Investment CompanyBalderton CapitalIris CapitalFramework Ventures+1 more
Fakto builds procurement and spend-control software that reconciles supplier invoices against contractual references to detect billing errors, indexation drift, tariff misapplications, and uncontracted rates.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Benjamin Mai(Founder)Charles Cazals(Founder)Nicolas Vecchioli(Founder)in
FlexAI operates a control plane for AI workloads that unifies inference, fine-tuning, and pre-training across different runtimes, models, and accelerators.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsParis, FR
Brijesh Tripathi(Founder)
Co-investorsAlpha Intelligence CapitalHeartcore CapitalElaiaPortage Ventures
Flexion is building an autonomy software stack for humanoid robots, covering command, control, manipulation, and locomotion across different hardware and tasks.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsZurich, CH
Nikita Rudin(Co-founder & CEO)inDavid Höller(Co-founder & CTO)Julian Nubert(Co-founder)Fabian Tischhauser(Co-founder)Marco Hutter(Co-founder)David Hoeller(Founder)
Co-investorsMoonfire VenturesNVenturesProsus Venturesredalpine
Freeda AI reviews construction project drawings and documents against applicable compliance requirements, using AI to flag issues and generate tailored compliance reports.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaS
Co-investorsBrick Mortar VenturesAlven
Freeda is an AI tool that reviews construction project drawings and documents against applicable regulatory requirements and produces compliance reports with visual annotations and plain-language explanations.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaSParis, FR
Charles Albert Desbaux(Founder)
Helical offers an AI platform for drug discovery that tunes bio foundation models to a customer's own biology and lab data, orchestrating them into ranked, mechanistically grounded candidate shortlists for target identification and biomarker discovery.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Rick Schneider(Founder)
Co-investorsGradient VenturesBoxGroupredalpine
Huscarl provides actuarial advisory and risk management services to large corporations, helping them optimize their insurance coverage and manage enterprise risk similar to captive insurance companies.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTechSan Francisco, US
Alex Musy(Founder)inPaulien Jeunesse(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
KelAI develops an AI system that automatically discovers, tests, and validates trading signals for hedge funds and institutional investors, integrating fragmented research workflows into a single autonomous engine.
FintechNew York City, US
Jeremie Cohen(Founder)inGeraldine de Gunzburg(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsY Combinator
Maki provides an AI hiring platform that orchestrates the recruitment process end to end—from intake and skills or voice screening to assessment, interview co-piloting, and hire recommendations—layered on top of a company's existing ATS.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSParis, FR
Benjamin Chino(Founder)inHR Tech SaaS Benjamin Chino(Founder)Maxime Legardez(Co-Founder & CEO)inPaul-Louis Caylar(Co-Founder & COO)in
Co-investorsPICUS CAPITAL
Orasio develops European video AI that analyzes video feeds in real time and retrospectively to detect suspicious behavior, incidents, and anomalies and generate contextual alerts, with natural-language search.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityGovTech
Co-investorsExpeditions
Parallel develops AI agents for hospital administrative workflows, specifically automating medical coding tasks to increase coding speed and accuracy while integrating with existing hospital systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechParis, FR
Paul Lafforgue(Founder)in
Co-investorsFirst Round CapitalIndex VenturesY CombinatorAbstract VenturesKhosla VenturesKleiner Perkins+3 more
Parallel operates AI-driven simulation games and extraction shooter games set in the Parallel Universe.
AI & Machine LearningGaming
Parag Agrawal(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsBig Brain HoldingsCoinbase VenturesCollab+CurrencyParadigmWWVenturesAbstract Ventures+9 more
PayFit offers cloud-based payroll and HR software aimed at finance teams, automating tasks like RTI and pension submissions, expense management, custom reporting, and bulk employee payments.
FintechHR TechSaaS
Firmin Zocchetto(Co-founder)inGhislain de Fontenay(Co-founder)Florian Fournier(Co-founder)
Co-investorsAccelKima VenturesRuna CapitalSalica InvestmentsYOBE Ventures
Pelikan Mobility provides long-term leasing of electric utility vehicles combined with a fleet management software (FleetPilot) that optimizes vehicle transition timing, costs, and decarbonization trajectories for commercial fleets in France.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationParis, FR
David Salfati(Founder)
Co-investorsTechstarsPale Blue Dot
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-investorsEmblemProject A VenturesAnterra Capital
Piana offers an all-in-one fleet management platform that helps companies control fuel and charging expenses while reducing their fleet's carbon footprint.
CleantechMobility & TransportationSaaSParis, FR
James Heng(Co-Founder & Directeur Général)inJulien Cutolo(Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer)inMatthieu Coti(Co-Founder & Directeur Général)inMaxence Gournier(Co-Founder & President)in
Co-investorsF-LOG VenturesPICUS CAPITAL
Pigment offers an AI-based enterprise performance management (EPM) platform for business planning, forecasting, and reporting used by finance, sales, workforce, and supply chain teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSParis, FR
Eléonore Crespo(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Romain Niccoli(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Jay Peir(Chief Financial Officer)
Co-investorsFELIX CAPITALGreenoaksICONIQ GrowthICONIQIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Visionaries Club
Shippeo provides a real-time supply chain visibility platform that combines carrier network connections, AI enrichment, and data validation to deliver reliable shipment tracking and predictive ETAs.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechData & InfrastructureLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Lucien Besse(Founder)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesGaia VenturesGrand VenturesLFX Venture PartnersNGP CapitalWoven Capital+2 more
Riot is an employee security posture management platform that monitors and improves cybersecurity behaviors across workforces to defend against AI-powered threats.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSParis, FR
Benjamin Netter(Founder)in
Co-investorsFundersClubY CombinatorKima VenturesLeft Lane Capital
Spiko provides business treasury accounts that earn daily interest on idle cash while keeping funds accessible for withdrawal at any time.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Paul-Adrien(Founder)inPaul-Adrien Hyppolite(Founder)inAntoine Michon(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlockwallIndex VenturesKima VenturesWhite Star Capital
Uncovr builds a video-understanding foundation model that analyzes live surgical video to generate structured data for medical documentation and coding.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesNew York City, US
Ines Iraki(Co-Founder & CEO)inJohann Diep(Co-Founder & CTO)inEric Vibert, MD, PHD(Co-Founder & Medical Director)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstIndex Ventures
Yuma provides generative AI-powered customer support for e-commerce businesses.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBoston, US
Guillaume Luccisano(Founder)in
Co-investorsGradient VenturesPi CampusY Combinator
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioCommand AIacq. by Amplitude
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Attention · peakprosperity.com · Aug 16, 2026
Uncovr · eu-startups.com · Aug 3, 2026
Electra · electrek.co · Jul 21, 2026
Riot · respawn.outlookindia.com · Jul 19, 2026
Flex · finsmes.com · Jul 17, 2026
Attention · markets.businessinsider.com · Jun 29, 2026
Condor Energy · tipranks.com · Jun 23, 2026
AI for software development · datacenterdynamics.com · Jun 18, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Frst made?
- Frst has 37 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Frst invest at?
- Frst invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is Frst's typical check size?
- Frst typically writes checks of $2M.
- What sectors does Frst focus on?
- Frst focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Defense Tech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, HR Tech, InsurTech, LegalTech, Media & Entertainment, Mobility & Transportation, Retail Tech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Frst located?
- Frst is headquartered in Paris, FR.
- Does Frst lead rounds?
- Frst typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Frst co-invest with?
- Frst most often shares deals with Kima Ventures, Y Combinator, Cathay Innovation, among 72 tracked co-investors.
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Unknown Ventures is a venture studio based in Austin that provides funding and operational support to early-stage startups at the pre-seed to Series A stage. The firm backs founders seeking to create innovative solutions that improve human experience.
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Stride VC invests in seed-stage companies operating in the United Kingdom and France.
Global Founders Capital (GFC) is the global venture capital platform of Rocket Internet, investing early and across sectors in fast-growing technology companies.
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