Results

As the French leader and pioneer in the upcycling market, Hubcycle confirms its exponential growth with a third fundraising round of 15 million euros. This is a significant step in a food sector facing the need for sustainable transition and rising raw material costs. The startup turns waste into new, competitive, and sustainable food ingredients, already preventing more CO2 emissions than the largest active carbon capture plant today.

The company is becoming the archetype for 2.0 plant-based brands - delivering great taste, clean ingredients, and fair pricing that customers actually love. Today, we're happy to share a 25M€ raise to capitalize on its recent acceleration and build the largest plant-based deli brand. Bleu Capital is a pround pre-seed backer. We're now tripling down on the company with this round.

Nova Carbon is on a roll. With a new lab, a machine ready for production, multiple contracts signed and 3 key hires made over the summer, the company is building momentum. The next few months will focus on throughput optimization and developing a range of semi-finished products.

8090 Industries has done the incredible job of building a base of over 20 industrial conglomerates to fund the pioneers of the next industrial revolution. We're happy to join this LP group by backing the fund's latest decarbonization vehicle.

Backing companies that redefine sustainable progress requires more than just capital—it demands expertise in non-equity financing. Few understand this better than Third Sphere. They’re not just investing; they’re building a platform that turns theory into action, driving real, impactful change.

Founded in 2023, Nova Carbon leverages 10 years of R&D from the MANIFICA research project. Their IP unlocks improved mechanical performance by preserving the fiber’s length, at a competitive price, and can be scaled effectively using off-the-shelf parts.

We’ve built and invested across two surges, and now is the time to evolve towards the third one. We believe that the systems of production behind our society will need to shift to adapt to the urgency of our climate crisis, and that these systems have the largest potential impact. “Progress” means a paradigm shift, implying technology going much further than the current status quo to drive true change without compromising on recently secured gains. Read more on our 'vision' page.

Bleu Capital's portfolio companies LA VIE™ and HUBCYCLE scooped up spots on the Impact40 list released last night at ChangeNOW (top French companies in the climate space). 5.6Bn raised, 120 companies, 3.1Bn in aggregated revenue last year.... We're happy to see the French climate ecosystem thriving and growing.

Kiliba announced today the launch of its latest product, the smartletter. It's the second brick towards building a fully autonomous engagement suite for e-commerce managers. The vision: Unlocking truly 1:1 customer communication, at scale, across platforms. And waving goodbye to complex scenarios and static emails that previous emailing solutions have popularized. A true next step.

For Days is on a mission to end clothing waste by plugging customers and retailers into the financial benefits of circularity. Last year alone, 300K Take Back Bags where sold on the For Days platform. The newly released currency aims to build a unified rewards system where customers who participate in the Take Back bag Program earn Trashie Cash, which can be used across marketplaces from Sephora to Uber Eats and Trip Advisor

The hub has become an integral part of our commitment to network access, and we’re happy to count the founders of DataHawk, mediarithmics, Contentsquare, Malou and Kiliba amongst its members. Through it, founders can open the door to 25,000 leaders in the French diaspora and 120 partner companies.

It comes on the heels of its groundbreaking crowdfunding initiative in France, achieving its goals in just over an hour and becoming the most successful of its kind to date. La Vie's ham, launched late last year, comes in two flavors (smoked and nature).

Hubcycle turns industrial side-streams into strategic (and sexy) ingredients. Plant-based side-streams account for 85% of total industrial food wastage, an immense reservoir of unused resources that the company taps into. Hubcycle creates new value chains based on side streams, and everybody benefits from that: clients, consumers, and the planet too.

Launched during the pandemic, Malou’s software suit acts as the restaurant's AI-CMO, helping restaurateurs come online, manage their online presence, and build stellar digital reputations to survive and grow. A complete support that has become essential for more than 2000 restaurant owners today, spread across 12 countries. Alongside henQ and value-add angels like Bertrand Jelensperger and Jim Texier, we’re excited to participate in a $10M round designed to accelerate Malou’s deployment in France and abroad and to enrich the product’s core features.

This strategic move positions Mediarithmics as the next European leader in retail + media, serving esteemed clients like Fnac Darty, Valiuz , Decathlon , La Redoute, and Franprix all under one roof. The acquisition also brings crucial capabilities in conversion attribution and merchandising to its existing audience management suite. With this, we proudly cross the 12Me ARR mark.

Both companies are already giants in their sectors—Contentsquare with expertise in digital experience analytics, and Heap representing Silicon Valley's best in product analytics. “Joining the Contentsquare group is an exciting opportunity for Heap. Together we will shape this category, becoming the benchmark for experience analytics,” said Ken Fine, CEO at Heap.

The plant-based pork producer is back in action, and their recent keynote had even more announcements and updates than the latest iPhone release . - The ham, a Bleu favorite, delicious and healthy, crafted from only 6 ingredients and already available in stores. - A new dark kitchen to promote plant-based food items all across France. - A crowdfunding campaign.

This move includes anomaly detection for performance, improvements in listing creation, and organic search optimization for Walmart and Amazon. DataHawk's 2023 reorganization around three key pillars - Connections, Analytics, and Intelligence - reflects a strategic move to address retailers' needs more effectively. Going beyond: Firms with a data extraction stronghold, like DataHawk, are leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop more efficient generative tools on the applicative layer, creating a powerful competitive advantage.

The acquisition will combine Skip’s self-checkout systems with Standard AI’s cashier-less technology. This move paves the way for consumers to fully embrace autonomous checkout experiences with a more progressive onramp to the technology.