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Insights, points of view and updates from the collective.
2026
- Investments
Matr raises 1.5 million euros in Seed to democratise predictive AI
Founded in 2025, Matr announces a 1.5 million euro Seed round led by Seed4Soft.
- The collective
Seed4Soft welcomes four new members
Four B2B software executives and entrepreneurs join the collective, which now counts twenty-seven members.
- The collective
Seed4Soft turns 15 and opens a new chapter
Founded in March 2011, Seed4Soft is a club of software experts with an unmatched depth of experience in the B2B software sector.
2025
- Exits
Elevo and Assessio join forces to transform HR Tech in Europe
Elevo takes a key step in its growth: the French company specialising in talent management joins the Assessio group.
- Investments
Dastra announces a 4.3 million euro funding round
To accelerate its technological and commercial progress in Europe, Dastra, a company publishing a SaaS solution for data governance management.
- Investments
KAI, a specialist in generative AI for companies, announces a funding round of 600,000 euros from the business angel network Seed4Soft
How do you exploit thousands of internal documents when they are obsolete, inconsistent or impossible to find?
2024
- Portfolio
Dastra: "We offer scalable tools suited to the new challenges facing companies and DPOs"
Paul-Emmanuel Bidault, co-founder and CEO of Dastra, explains on BFM how the publisher helps organisations keep their regulatory compliance simple.
- Investments
The startup BSPORT raises 30 million euros to digitalise gyms
Founded in 2019, the French startup Bsport is establishing itself as a key player in the digitalisation of gyms and the wellness sector.
- Investments
Trace for Good announces a 3.5 million euro funding round
Trace for Good, a French company specialising in supply chain traceability for consumer goods, has just announced a funding round of 3.5 million euros.
- Investments
Lokki, the all-in-one platform for equipment renters, announces a Series A funding round of 6.3 million euros.
Lokki, the all-in-one platform for equipment renters, announces a Series A funding round of 6.3 million euros.
- Investments
Jus Mundi raises 20 million euros to power its international legal assistant built on generative AI
With its library of legal information, Jus Mundi has won over law firms and companies engaged in international projects, in the United States in particular.
- Investments
Gravite closes a first funding round to strengthen its technology and support its growth
Gravite.io is pleased to announce that it has closed its first funding round, barely a year after launching.
2022
- Investments
Lokki raises 4 million euros to make renting a simpler experience than buying
The startup Lokki is bringing sports equipment rental to a wider public, and has just closed a seed round of 4 million euros with the fund Racine² operated by Serena and Makesense.
- Investments
UNICO raises 1.5 million euros to accelerate its growth and equip more than 400 organisations by 2024.
UNICO announces a first funding round of 1.5 million euros from several business angels to let it accelerate the commercial growth of its B2B.
- Exits
Cegid announces the acquisition of the startup Wittyfit
Wittyfit lets organisations measure, analyse and act on job satisfaction, engagement and employee follow-up in order to steer collective performance.
- Investments
GDPR: Dastra raises 1 million euros to strengthen its technology and accelerate its European roll-out
Four years after the GDPR came in, cases of non-compliance keep multiplying.
- Investments
Seed4Soft, lead investor in LeanPay's funding round, which raises 1.1 million euros.
The observation is simple and unanimous: cash is the number one priority for SMEs.
- Portraits
Why Eric Boustouller, former president of Microsoft Western Europe, is joining C4 Ventures
Eric Boustouller is one of the long-standing figures of the tech ecosystem. A 1986 graduate of Sciences-Po in Paris.
- Portfolio
Lokki joins the Mapping of French impact startups ♻️ 🇫🇷
The aim of the mapping is simple, according to Grégoire Souloy, who compiled it:
2021
- Investments
AddWorking raises 6 million euros
AddWorking, a subcontractor management solution, has closed a 6 million euro funding round led by iXO Private Equity, a leading regional private equity firm.
- Exits
CodinGame and CoderPad merge to become the world leader in tech recruitment
CodinGame, the French platform for recruiting developers and assessing technical skills online, announces its merger with CoderPad.
- Investments
Elevo announces a 6M€ funding round
Elevo, the HR platform that puts collaboration back at the heart of the company by improving the employee experience, has raised 6M€ in a round led by Elaia.
- Investments
Jus Mundi raises 8.5 million euros to establish its AI in international law
Case law, treaties, charters. The Paris legaltech offers free access to a database of 43,000 documents centred on international arbitration.
- Investments
Seed4Soft lead investor in Lokki's funding round
Founded in 2019 by Raphaël Masbou, Benoit Prigent and Jeremy Masbou, Lokki has completed a first funding round of 500,000 € from Seed4Soft, Super Capital.
2020
- Investments
Seed4Soft, lead investor in BSport's funding round, the complete marketing and management platform for fitness studios
The Paris startup announces a funding round of 800,000 € arranged by French Funding.
- Investments
Seed4Soft, lead investor in Doqboard's funding round, the healthtech clinical study solution for doctors
The Normandy startup announces a funding round of 360,000€ from local and national backers to
- Portfolio
Olivier, the one who did not want to waste the crisis
In 1987, when Olivier left business school, he was already passionate about technology: computing, as people called it then.
- Investments
Contentsquare, a new French unicorn with a 190 million dollar round
ContentSquare, a startup Seed4Soft backed at seed stage in 2012, has just announced a 190 million dollar Series D, in order.
- Investments
Jus Mundi raises one million euros to make international law and arbitration easily accessible and understandable.
Jus Mundi, the search engine specialising in international law and arbitration, has announced the closing of a first seed funding round of one million euros.
2019
- Investments
Seed4Soft announces an investment in Wittyfit, a platform to improve your employees' job satisfaction
Wittyfit, publisher of a SaaS platform that improves team engagement and supports company transformation, announces a first funding round from Seed4Soft.
- Investments
Elevo, a platform to simplify employee follow-up, raises 1 million euros
Elevo, which develops a solution for HR directors, has raised 1 million euros from Seed4Soft and business angels, notably Patrick Bertrand.
- The collective
Seed4Soft joins the partners of the Microsoft for Startups programme
Microsoft puts startups at the heart of its value proposition and offers them support suited.
- Investments
ContentSquare raises 60 million dollars to accelerate internationally
ContentSquare, a startup Seed4Soft backed at seed stage in 2012, has just announced a 60 million dollar round to accelerate its international expansion.
- Investments
Seed4Soft invests in AddWorking, to simplify how companies manage external resources
AddWorking raises 1.2 million euros to accelerate its growth
2018
- Investments
Seed4Soft announces an investment in Elevo, to reinvent performance reviews and talent management
Seed4Soft invests in Elevo, leader of a new generation of talent management solutions.
- Portfolio
Q°emotion, the startup using emotions to bring the customer experience back to life
Our emotions are fundamental to our human relationships, whether personal (family, social) or professional (brand and consumer relations).
- Portfolio
How two Frenchmen want to break the monopoly of online booking platforms with blockchain
Well versed in blockchain and cryptocurrencies, the pair formed by Vidal Chriqui, a graduate of the École des Mines de Paris, and Hervé Hababou.
- Investments
Content Square closes a $42 million funding round
The French digital experience optimisation platform secures funds to continue its expansion in the United States and Europe
2017
- Portraits
#Interview: Jacques Sebag on his experience as an investor at Seed4soft
In 2011, after holding responsibilities at several software publishers in France and in the United States, I took over the leadership of DenyAll.
- Portraits
#Interview: Hervé Couturier on his experience as an investor at Seed4soft
To sum up my career in a few words, I started at IBM, continued at S1, then Business Objects and SAP, and finally Amadeus.
- The collective
Download the SaaS Guidelines by Seed4Soft
Faced with the proliferation of software offerings in SaaS mode –Software as a Service– and the massive adoption of the cloud by companies.
- The collective
Workshop run by Seed4soft at the Fund Me Day organised by Tech in France at Station F on 20 November 2017
To mark the release of the “SaaS Guidelines by Seed4soft”, we will be at the Fund Me Day organised by Tech in France at Station F on 20 November.
- Portraits
#Interview – Philippe Gluntz on his experience as an investor at Seed4soft
At the moment I am a business angel in around thirty companies.
- The collective
Draw inspiration from 10 remarkable US stories, written by Franck Delorme, president of Seed4soft
Drawing on his experience in the sector, Franck Delorme, president of Seed4soft, venture capitalist, entrepreneur and software expert.
- Investments
Artificial intelligence: Q°emotion, Seed4soft's second investment of the year
Using the emotions customers express to improve engagement and limit churn
- Portfolio
ClarityAd is now called Confiant!
ClarityAd has rebranded: the company is now called Confiant, and keeps the same team behind its ad-quality technology.
- Investments
Digital/Mobile Optimization Platform ContentSquare Raises $20 Million in Funding for Global Expansion
ContentSquare, an experience optimization platform for online and mobile businesses, announces today the completion of $20 million in Series B funding.
- Investments
Cozy Cloud: a 4 million euro funding round to support its growth. The startup accelerates its development with MAIF and Innovacom
The startup Cozy Cloud completes a second funding round of 4 million euros from MAIF (through its investment fund MAIF Avenir) and Innovacom.
2015
2014
- Investments
Seed4Soft invests in Cozycloud
Innovacom and Seed4Soft fund the development of Cozy Cloud, a breakthrough solution for bringing your personal data back in house
- Investments
Seed4Soft invests in ClarityAd
New York/Paris, 5 June 2014 – ClarityAd, a specialist in automating the operational processes of digital advertising.
2013
- Investments
Seed4Soft invests in Codingame
Founded 10 months ago, CodinGame, the Montpellier startup specialising in innovative solutions for assessing the skills of.
- Portfolio
Content Square named Startup of the Year by AFDEL
At its new year reception held on Tuesday 15 January 2013, the French Association of Software and Internet Solutions Publishers (AFDEL) gave an award.
2012
- Investments
Seed4Soft invests in Content Square
Content Square, a company specialising in the ergonomics of websites and e-commerce, the analysis of user behaviour and how visitors perceive a site.
- The collective
How to benefit from the services Seed4Soft offers
Your project will be studied in detail by our selection committee and, to be shortlisted, will have to pass the following selection stages successfully:
2011
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