About Pays de la Loire Participations
Pays de la Loire Participations is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of Nantes, France. As of Dec 2025, Pays de la Loire Participations is an active investor, having invested in 81 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in France based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Life Sciences. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Miura Simulation Overall, Pays de la Loire Participations portfolio has seen 7 acquisitions including key companies like GO CAPITAL, Sensorwake and Case Law Analytics. A lot of funds co-invest with Pays de la Loire Participations, with names like ABAB sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Pays de la Loire Participations has team of 2 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 1 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Deals in last 12 months
Pays de la Loire Participations' List of Top Investments
Pays de la Loire Participations has a portfolio of 81 companies. Their most notable investments are in Xenothera and Octopize.Their portfolio spans across France, Spain and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Life Sciences and 27 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by Pays de la Loire Participations:
1. Beem
Residential solar panel manufacturer and monitoring solution provider. It offers a self-consumption solar kit that can be installed at the customer's house. It also offers a smartphone app that monitors the energy production and consumption.
Key facts about Beem
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Roubaix (France)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $31.8M
- Employee Count: 71 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: 360 Capital Partners, Kima Ventures and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, May 31, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. GO CAPITAL
Key facts about GO CAPITAL
- Founded Year: 2003
- Location: Rennes (France)
- Stage: Acquired
- Employee Count: 59 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Pays de la Loire Participations
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Shopop
Offers a crowdsourced delivery platform for local shops. Deliveries are executed by a crowd-sourced fleet of independent delivery agents. It also provides e-commerce plugins for delivery management which can be integrated with online stores.
Key facts about Shopop
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Nantes (France)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $30M
- Employee Count: 202 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: GO CAPITAL, Arkea Capital and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Dec 06, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Skeepers
Provider of customer experience management solutions. The platform leverages ML and blockchain technologies and helps businesses in collecting customer reviews, generate insights into it to improve and monitor customer experiences. Also, automation solutions offered by the platform enable recognition and relevance of customers.
Key facts about Skeepers
Key facts about Omega Systems
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: Reading (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Employee Count: 210 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Revelstoke Capital Partners, Pfingsten Partners and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Jan 16, 2025, $*****
Pays de la Loire Participations' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Pays de la Loire Participations has invested in 81 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 2 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Miura Simulation and most recent follow-on round was in XSun.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2021 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2017 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Pays de la Loire Participations' Investments by Stage
Pays de la Loire Participations has made 27 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.64M, 12 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $3.34M and 1 investment in PE stage.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 27 |
Series A | 12 |
PE | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pays de la Loire Participations' Investments by Sector
Pays de la Loire Participations has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Sustainability Tech, Energy Tech and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 41 Tech companies, 39 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 27 Software companies and at least 14 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 9 |
High Tech | 7 |
Sustainability Tech | 6 |
Energy Tech | 5 |
Consumer | 4 |
Others | 40 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pays de la Loire Participations' Investments by Geography
Pays de la Loire Participations has made most investments in France (39), followed by Spain where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
France | 39 |
Spain | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pays de la Loire Participations' recent investments
Pays de la Loire Participations has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Pays de la Loire Participations:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Dec 17, 2025 | Spain | Seed | 9058 | [+3] | |
Jun 03, 2025 | France | Seed | 2699 | ||
Aug 02, 2024 | France | Series A | 8336 | ||
May 03, 2024 | France | Seed | 2378 | [+2] | |
Nov 28, 2022 | France | Seed | 1889 | [+2] |
Acquired companies in Pays de la Loire Participations' Portfolio
7 companies from Pays de la Loire Participations' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Case Law Analytics in Oct 2023 by LexisNexis for $*****.Here are Pays de la Loire Participations' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 09, 2023 | Jul 11, 2019 | Seed | 3394 | |
Feb 06, 2022 | - | - | 7662 | |
Jan 25, 2022 | May 2015 | Seed | 4785 | |
Dec 23, 2021 | Jan 01, 2014 | Series A | 9270 | |
Jun 18, 2020 | - | - | 7396 |
Team profile of Pays de la Loire Participations
Pays de la Loire Participations has a team of 2 members including 2 Partners located in France. Pays de la Loire Participations' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Pays de la Loire Participations
Over the past 13 years, 65 investors have co-invested in Pays de la Loire Participations's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Pays de la Loire Participations: Europa, GO CAPITAL and 8 others have invested in rounds before Pays de la Loire Participations. There are 2 companies where Europa has invested before Pays de la Loire Participations and 1 company where GO CAPITAL has invested before Pays de la Loire Participations.
- Top Co-investors of Pays de la Loire Participations: 44 investors entered a company along with Pays de la Loire Participations. These include investors like ABAB (5 companies).
- Invested after Pays de la Loire Participations: A total of 11 investors have invested in Pays de la Loire Participations's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include West Web Valley (2 companies), Bpifrance (2 companies) and EIC Fund (2 companies).
Recent News related to Pays de la Loire Participations
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Miura Simulation Raises €2M in FundingFinSMEs•Dec 17, 2025•Caisse D Epargne, Pays de la Loire Participations, Centrale Innovation, Arts and Crafts Business Angels and 6 others
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Etteliot, durable toilet designer, raised € 1.4 millionOuest-France•Sep 23, 2024•Etteliot, Pays de la Loire Participations
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France-based D-ICE Engineering secures €6M to decarbonise the maritime and offshore industriesSilicon Canals•Aug 02, 2024•D-ICE Engineering, SWEN Capital Partners, La Banque Bleue, Credit Agricole and 1 other
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VoltR raises €4 million to industrialise the refurbishment of lithium batteries in EuropePR Newswire•Jun 24, 2024•VoltR, Paysdelaloire, Exergon, C4 Ventures and 3 others
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French startup VoltR gets charged with €4M to recondition old lithium batteriesSilicon Canals•May 03, 2024•VoltR, C4 Ventures, Exergon, Pays de la Loire Participations
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Data anonymization: 1.5 million euros for the Nantes startup OctopizeFrenchWeb•Sep 15, 2021•Octopize, Pays de la Loire, Pays de la Loire Participations, Crdit Agricole and 1 other
