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Cathay Innovation
Venture capital · Paris, France · Europe
Cathay Innovation is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm founded in Paris in 2015 as part of the Cathay Capital family. It invests in startups and connects them with Fortune 500 corporate partners through a platform for startup-corporate collaboration.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsCathay Innovation lists 95 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 13 funding rounds, 5 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Growth, 46% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (26%), AI & Machine Learning (20%) and Healthcare & Biotech (9%). 37% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Aglaé Ventures, Fluent Ventures and HV Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cathay Innovation, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cathay Innovation's whole history. Rounds on record name 13 companies; its own site lists 95. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundCathay Innovation does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 23% |
| Series A | 15% |
| Series B | 15% |
| Growth | 46% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 8 | 5 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 95th | 95 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 59th | 23% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 78th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 38th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 99th | 17 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 26% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
| Cybersecurity | 3% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Aglaé Ventures | 5 |
| Fluent Ventures | 5 |
| HV Capital | 5 |
| Alven | 4 |
| Battery Ventures | 4 |
| Draper Associates | 4 |
| Korelya Capital | 4 |
| Partech | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9297%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company33%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cathay Innovation head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cathay Innovation| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 12 Aug 2026 | Series C+ Led | |
| 11 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 May 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Series B | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 8 Jan 2026 | Series A Led |
Round details for Cathay Innovation
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cathay Innovation's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
95 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacum provides a business planning platform that connects actuals, assumptions, and plans for finance and business teams. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aerobotics helps fruit growers, packers and marketers forecast yields using accurate size, color and quality measurements from smartphone imagery. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AI Rudder provides conversational AI solutions for customer interaction and contact center automation | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Akua provides financial infrastructure and payment processing services | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Alma provides payment in installments for customers of online and offline merchants. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
FintechFintech | Portfolio page | |||
| Ami runs a team of agents to catch bugs and improve code quality, all on your desktop. | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Amilabs delivers AI solutions for various industries and companies. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| AMI Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that understand the real world and can reason, plan, and make predictions | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| AnotherBrain creates Organic AI, a new kind of artificial intelligence inspired from how the human brain works. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is advancing the next generation of medicines using generative AI and deep physics | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Atlas provides a geographic information system (GIS) that connects data and builds live maps for organizations | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Aura provides digital protection services to keep individuals and families safe from online security risks and identity theft. | CybersecurityFintech | Portfolio page | ||
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| The company operates a B2B marketplace connecting retailers to original products from large brands for resale. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
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| Bioptimus trains foundation models to learn the dynamics of human biology and predict outcomes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company designs chips for smart home and IoT solutions | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- cathayinnovation.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 10 Jun 2021
- Companies checked
- 95
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