Break the mold! That’s this year’s theme at AVCA Conference and VC Summit and a question the African venture ecosystem has been wrestling with for years. On April 27 at 10:35, our own @tidjane.bsky.social will take the stage alongside:

An existential threat to businesses and the economy. Payt, in collaboration with Ipsos bva, has just released its exclusive analysis of the impact of commercial payment delays, and the results are sobering. 53% of company directors, more than half, have seen the stability of...

PARIMA has just made history! Global leader in cell-cultivated food, PARIMA, announce that it's the first company in the world to obtain regulatory approval for not one, but two different animal species! These include its cultivated duck and cultivated...

We’re approaching the end lap! 🏎️ The Automobile Club de France and ESSEC Automobile Club have partnered up to hold the 9th Edition of the Grand Prix ACF AutoTech rewarding the most innovative international and French startups devoted to the automotive sector. The final round will be judged...

Now more than ever, it is crucial to plan for when and how to exit in the world of VC startups. With the number of acquisitions having reached its lowest since 2020 and IPOs becoming more and more marginal, it has never been more important to learn from the concrete...

300 million racing enthusiasts want to get better at driving but don't know how. Educational content isn't specific enough and professional coaches are expensive. This is where Track Titan, the biggest learning and social platform for racing enthusiasts around the world, takes the wheel (😉).

“Few people have an interest in opening this Pandora’s box” Our own Emmanuel Delaveau joins Ludovic Phalippou and Geoffroy De Cooman on the Finscale podcast to discuss private equity IRRs with host Solenne Niedercorn. Inspired by Ludovic Phalippou’s article ...

Every large product team today is battling an obvious, decade-long problem: designer-developer handoff. Because developers and designers have been living in their codebase and Figma silos, product development is a very inefficient process, slowed down by bureaucracy, processes, documentation, etc.

Hyground just raised a €3M pre‑seed round to build the sovereign SRE agent for enterprise operations. 🎉 Hyground is the AI SRE Agent, which goes beyond on-call incident resolution. It is designed specifically for teams operating complex software systems such as DevOps and Site Reliability

A big day for the connective tissue that keeps Africa’s merchant economy moving! littlefish has raised a $9.5M Series A round led by us, with participation from TLcom Capital LLP, Flourish Ventures and Proparco. 🎉 From Johannesburg, littlefish has quietly become the operating system behind the

Happy Pay raises $5M Seed Round led by us🚀 We’re thrilled to announce our investment in Happy Pay, the South African fintech building the region’s first ad‑subsidised payments network, enabling zero‑cost, interest-free BNPL for consumers while helping merchants drive conversion, bigger baskets,

Earlier this week, we were thrilled to announce the final close of the Partech Impact Fund at €300M, one of Europe’s largest debut impact-growth funds! 🎉 This fund is dedicated to scaling impact‑native European B2B tech companies transforming global value chains across clean production,

Google, Amazon, Apple, and co have large internal AI resources and have the ability to ship camera-based products with great AI features. But there are many companies outside of Big Tech building great products, often at great price points, that struggle to add accurate and efficient AI ...

It’s out! VivaTech’s Top 100 Rising European Startups 2026 is live. We’re proud to have collaborated with VivaTech on this year’s list, shining a spotlight on the early-stage teams shaping the next wave of innovation across Europe. And 12 Partech portfolio companies made the cut!

TBT to last Thursday in London! We brought together Executives and C‑levels from across our portfolio for our first Leadership Circle with Overtime Leader. It was an intimate and energising session focused on one big challenge every founder and operator knows too well: leading confidently through..

A €500M deal. A unicorn milestone. That’s Brevo. Recently featured on the podcast Generation Do It Yourself (hosted by Matthieu Stefani), Armand Theberge, cofounder of Brevo, shared the story behind one of Europe’s most disciplined and resilient SaaS journeys: from a web agency launched in ...

While people can send money across borders, they are often excluded from spending tools, savings, and credit systems. Kredete is here to tackle this problem, and was built by immigrants for immigrants who understand the everyday challenges of building credit, sending... (1/11)

📢 Just 9 days remaining to submit your application and pitch your startup in Paris! 📢 On March 25th, we’re thrilled to be teaming up with PeakBridge and @parisantecampus.bsky.social to convene France’s most promising health and nutrition innovators alongside investors... (1/5)

Same week. Same skyline. Two very different moments. 🌆 Last week, our portfolio companies Brevo and FYLD lit up Nasdaq’s screens in New York. One just exited our portfolio. One just entered it. Brevo, Europe’s leading customer engagement platform,... (1/6)

[email protected], the website translation tool trusted by over 45,000 clients worldwide, just announced the second edition of its international expansion program, Next Market Accelerator! 🚀 Following a successful first edition of the Go Global Program with measurable results... (1/8)

Big news from @joinprolific.bsky.social : the first episode of “The Frontier” is live! Prolific’s new podcast series involves long-form conversations with AI researchers working at the frontier, including interviews with scientists or engineers doing original work at the intersection... (1/4)

Congratulations to our latest portfolio addition FYLD, the AI-powered frontline intelligence platform for the global infrastructure sector, for securing a $41M Series B round! 🚀 Led by Energy Impact Partners with participation from us, the raise comes as FYLD... (1/7)

AI is moving fast. Infrastructure isn’t. AI agents are increasingly handling real-world tasks, but most services are still designed for human users, not machines. The result? Fragile workarounds and broken workflows. @alpic-ai.bsky.social bridges this gap. (1/10)

Meet Rivage, the newest addition to our Seed portfolio! 👋 The France-based payroll software for accounting firms just announced their €2.6M pre-Seed round led by Partech. Founded in July 2025, Rivage is developing an open, interoperable payroll software... (1/8)

Love is in the air – and so is our February newsletter! 💌 Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve gathered some exciting news from the past month to share some portfolio love! 💗 From a new chapter for AB Tasty to almost $400M raised in total, here’s a short recap... (1/4)

👑 Promotion season has arrived 👑 We’re thrilled to announce three promotions across three of our fund strategies at Partech! 💫 - Pauline Lissavalid is promoted to Principal on our Impact Team - Louis Dessal is promoted to Senior Associate on our Growth Team (1/3)

🔥 New event just dropped 🔥 Our portfolio company @alpic-ai.bsky.social is organizing the first conference dedicated to MCP in France on February 5th, and it’s a must-attend for teams building with AI-native products and workflows. (1/4)

More deals. More funding. Still not equal. In African tech, gender disparities are still one of the most persistent structural challenges, even as funding activity rebounded in 2025. Our 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report shows a more nuanced picture than the... (1/5)

Our 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report includes, among other deep dives, a sector breakdown, highlighting where momentum is building across the ecosystem. So, let’s take a closer look... In 2025, African tech sectors remained dominated by Fintech and Cleantech,... (1/8)

Have you read our 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report yet? Today we’ll take a look at country-specific funding trends across both equity and debt deals. Africa’s tech capital continues to concentrate, but equity and debt are doing so in different ways. 🔀 (1/8)

Africa does not simply follow global venture cycles. We explore this dynamic in our 2025 Africa Tech Venture Capital Report which was released last week, offering a data-driven view into how Africa’s tech ecosystem continues to evolve. (1/6)

African tech is charting its own course. 🛣️ In 2025, while global venture capital largely converged on AI, Africa followed a very different path: one shaped by local economic realities and long-term needs. With the release our 2025 Africa Tech Venture... (1/10)

Major inflection point for digital experience optimization! 🚀 Our portfolio company AB Tasty, a leading experimentation and personalization platform, today announced that they entered into a definitive agreement with VWO, the global experience and conversion... (1/7)

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Modeinspect raises a $3.4M Seed round to set a new standard for modern product design 💻 Led by us, with participation from Credo Ventures, @angelinvestberlin.bsky.social, and others, the round brings Modeinspect’s total funding to $4.2M. The company is eliminating the gap... (1/6)

New year, new newsletter! 🗓️ 2026 has arrived, and you know what that means...our January newsletter is here! 💥 Packed with exciting updates since the festive season, this newsletter features 1 portfolio addition, 2 impressive follow-on rounds, and much more! (1/4)

AI modelling, product research, and academic studies all hinge on one thing most platforms can’t guarantee: real, trustworthy human data. 👥 This is where @joinprolific.bsky.social comes in, the platform-model tech company filling a critical gap in AI and research by providing fast,... (1/11)

At Partech Growth, everything we do, from investing to operating and hands-on support, ladders up to the same goal: helping founders scale enduring, category-defining companies. 🪜 That’s exactly what our own Omri Benayoun explored in his conversation on the EUVC podcast,... (1/5)

🎧 Partech’s 2025 Podcast Picks: Part 2 We’re back with more conversations we bookmarked this year, focused on growth, product, go-to-market, and leadership at scale: - The secrets behind growth, with Jonathan Badoux (Ornikar, Icebreaker Podcast) - The story of... (1/4)

🎧 Partech’s 2025 Podcast Picks: Part 1 As the year slows down, we’re keeping the signal going. 🔊 Here are 5 podcast episodes that stood out to us this year: grounded conversations on deeptech, AI, fintech, and building at scale across markets: - A crash course in... (1/4)

How to rethink seed in an unpredictable market? Our Partner Alison Imbert was recently featured on The Startups Magazine and shared how seed investing is evolving and what it really means to take smarter risks in today’s environment. From backing conviction over... (1/4)

Major milestone for medtech 🩺 Huge congrats to our portfolio company AMBOSS, whose AI search agent for clinical care LiSA recently ranked #1 overall in an independent evaluation of clinical AI systems! This ranking comes from a new benchmark study carried out by... (1/5)

We’ve got some ex-cellent news for you! 😉 Our portfolio company Exein, the leading embedded cybersecurity company for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced €100M in new funding! The round was led by Blue Cloud Ventures, with participation... (1/6)

📢 2025 over and out! 📢 From exciting fundraising rounds, notable awards and recognitions to a whole repertoire of new companies, let’s take a look at the highlights of 2025! 🥳 New Chapters This year, we celebrated the full exit of 4 portfolio companies:... (1/9)

The agri-food sector remains one of the least digitized industries, still characterised by administrative chaos, fragmented tools, and limited integration between machines, sensors, and data sources. Farmers often rely on dozens of disconnected apps and manual... (1/12)

Craving something to listen to this festive season other than carols? 🎶 Our own Keji Mustapha was featured on the latest episode of the KLIMB podcast in conversation with Michael Saifoudine to discuss brand, trust, and VC, as well as how she is rewriting... (1/4)

🌱 ESG in action across our portfolio 🌱 This year’s Sustainability Report features two case studies highlighting founders who embed sustainability into the core of their business models: First up, we have Billogram from our Growth fund, the cloud-first customer... (1/7)

Just in time for giving season, we’ve got a newsletter-shaped gift under the tree waiting to be unwrapped! 🎄 1 huge exit, 2 portfolio additions, a green report, and many more portfolio news...Santa has certainly been generous this year! (1/5)

🗓️ Mark your calendars 🗓️ On December 10th, our portfolio company ai-coustics will be hosting the go-to event about Voice AI at Frontier Tower, San Francisco. Titled ‘The Audio Layer: Voice agents in the real world’, this intimate gathering is for those shaping... (1/7)

Track Titan is on track for success! 🏎 T️he AI-powered “Strava for motorsport” raised a $5M Seed round co-led by us and Game Changers Ventures, with participation from new and old high-profile investors including APX. Founded by gamer turned... (1/6)