About Pleiade Venture
Pleiade Venture is a venture capital firm founded in 1999. It is primarily based out of Brittany, France. As of Oct 2024, Pleiade Venture has invested in 44 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in France based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Retail and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Rivrs Overall, Pleiade Venture portfolio has seen 8 acquisitions including key companies like TokyWoky, Travelaer and Quable. A lot of funds co-invest with Pleiade Venture, with names like Credit Agricole sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Pleiade Venture has team of 13 people including 7 partners.Key Metrics
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Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Pleiade Venture's List of Top Investments
Pleiade Venture has a portfolio of 44 companies. Their most notable investments are in Sensefuel and 3DRudder.Their portfolio spans across France, United States, China and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Retail, Consumer and 19 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Pleiade Venture:
1. Primaa
Primaa is a developer of AI-based software for automated and accurate histological diagnoses. The software is designed to assist pathology diagnosis. The product is based on image processing and artificial intelligence.
Key facts about Primaa
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $15.7M
- Employee Count: 34 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Super Capital, Elaia and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Oct 29, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Multi-asset end-to-end Liquidity Management System for financial institutions. This includes their Liquidity Management System application stack that covers end-to-end processes covering aggregating, connecting, crossing trades, and also facilitates order management, price distribution and trade routing. sProducts offered by smartTrade include smart-FI for fixed income investment solution and LiquidityFX for trading currents sports, forwards, swaps and precious metals.
Key facts about smartTrade Technologies
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: Aix en provence (France)
- Stage: Late Stage
- Employee Count: 299 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: HarbourVest Partners, Keensight Capital and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Apr 03, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. TokyWoky
On-demand crowdsourced customer service platform. It allows website visitors to communicate and engage with other customers and resolve the issues or queries. It provides a dashboard that allows users to measure customers by analyzing metrics including answer rate, the volume of content created, number of experience points distributed, satisfaction rate, and revenue.
Key facts about TokyWoky
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $769K
- Employee Count: 10 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Pleiade Venture, SAP.iO and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Dec 14, 2015, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. Rivrs
Key facts about Rivrs
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Rennes (France)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $4.42M
- Employee Count: 76 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Pleiade Venture, Roblox and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Oct 03, 2024, $*****
5. Per Angusta
Per Angusta is a provider of SaaS-based procurement performance management software. Its features include procurement performance measurement and management, collaboration and accountability, risk and vendor quality identification, sourcing prioritisation, forecasting and communication. Its clients include Monoprix and Heineken.
Key facts about Per Angusta
Pleiade Venture's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Pleiade Venture has invested in 44 companies over the last 15 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Rivrs and most recent follow-on round was in Per Angusta.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Pleiade Venture's Investments by Stage
Pleiade Venture has made 8 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.68M and 6 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $4.21M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 8 |
Series A | 6 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pleiade Venture's Investments by Sector
Pleiade Venture has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Vertical SaaS, High Tech, Retail and Transportation and Logistics Tech. Notably, it has invested in 32 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 32 Tech companies, 22 Software companies and at least 12 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
High Tech | 3 |
Retail | 3 |
Transportation and Logistics Tech | 3 |
Others | 20 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pleiade Venture's Investments by Geography
Pleiade Venture has made most investments in France (11), followed by United States where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
France | 11 |
United States | 2 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Pleiade Venture's recent investments
Pleiade Venture has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Pleiade Venture:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Oct 03, 2024 | France | Series A | 6027 | [+1] | |
Aug 29, 2023 | France | Series A | 6743 | - | |
May 17, 2022 | United States | Seed | 9961 | [+3] | |
Nov 30, 2021 | France | Seed | 6057 | [+1] | |
Sep 17, 2020 | France | Series A | 8162 | [+1] |
Acquired companies in Pleiade Venture's Portfolio
8 companies from Pleiade Venture's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Quable in Dec 2024 by Ibexa for $*****.Here are Pleiade Venture's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 17, 2024 | - | - | 3710 | |
Feb 21, 2024 | - | - | 7946 | |
Aug 26, 2019 | Mar 29, 2017 | Series A | 7230 | |
Oct 16, 2017 | - | - | 8960 | |
Mar 22, 2016 | - | - | 3974 |
Team profile of Pleiade Venture
Pleiade Venture has a team of 13 members including 7 Partners and 3 Principals located in France and United Kingdom. Pleiade Venture's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Pleiade Venture:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | Paris | - | ||
Partner | Paris | - | ||
Partner | Paris | - | ||
Partner | Paris | - | ||
Partner | London | - | - | |
Partner | Paris | - | ||
Partner | Paris | - | - | |
Principal | Paris | - | ||
Principal | Brest | - | ||
Principal | - | - |
Co-investors of Pleiade Venture
Over the past 15 years, 35 investors have co-invested in Pleiade Venture's portfolio companies. This includes only funds.
- Invested before Pleiade Venture: Finorpa, Kima Ventures and 1 other have invested in rounds before Pleiade Venture. There is 1 company where Finorpa has invested before Pleiade Venture and 1 company where Kima Ventures has invested before Pleiade Venture.
- Top Co-investors of Pleiade Venture: 23 investors entered a company along with Pleiade Venture. These include investors like Credit Agricole (2 companies).
- Invested after Pleiade Venture: A total of 9 investors have invested in Pleiade Venture's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Hi Inov (1 company), Zenium Technology Partners Limited (1 company) and Serena (1 company).
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