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Critical Path Ventures
Venture capital
Critical Path Ventures invests in innovative scientific research projects, funding startups created by researcher-entrepreneurs from the seed stage, often as a co-investor. It selects on average six projects per year, mainly in physics, medicine, biotechnology and robotics, while supporting industrial development and job retention in France.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeeptechphysicsmedicinebiotechnologyroboticsearly-stage
Your fit with Critical Path Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsCritical Path Ventures lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (44%), AI & Machine Learning (13%) and Robotics & Hardware (13%). 100% of its companies are based in France. It invests most often alongside Agoranov, iBionext and 360 Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Critical Path Ventures, 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 Critical Path Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 16. 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 20% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 40% |
| Growth | 20% |
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 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 4 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 58th | 20% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 19% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 78th | 44% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 44% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 13% | 18% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 13% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 4% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Gaming | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Agoranov | 2 |
| iBionext | 2 |
| 360 Capital | 1 |
| Adelie | 1 |
| BGF | 1 |
| BNP Paribas Développement | 1 |
| Bosch Ventures | 1 |
| British International Investment | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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 Critical Path Ventures 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 Critical Path Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 2 Jul 2026 | Series B | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 12 May 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 29 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 24 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Critical Path Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Critical Path Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrainEver is a biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of novel therapies for patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| eMyosound develops non-invasive ultrasound elastography for cardiac diagnostics | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Enchanted Tools designs and deploys social robots to assist, engage, and inspire people in various environments, including healthcare and hospitality | Robotics & HardwareHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| HighLife Medical develops a transcatheter solution for mitral valve replacement to treat mitral regurgitation | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| ID4us verifies the human, not only the credential, using biometric and physiological signals for high-assurance authentication. | CybersecurityHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ilion Water Technologies develops and implements pressure-free desalination technology | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| MAG4Health develops a compact system to improve brain care using quantum-based technology for non-invasive detection of brain functional disorders | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Milla Group develops and produces autonomous electric vehicles and intelligent platforms for sustainable, inclusive, and sovereign mobility | Mobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Nio Robotics designs full-stack skilled robot operators for autonomous infrastructure operations | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds robotic arms to power up daily life and assist with arm mobility | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Prophesee brings pioneering Event-Based Vision technology, software and AI together to turn scene dynamics into information machines can act on | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| RDS combines biosensor technologies with digital and predictive medicine to create patient monitoring solutions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| Sonomind treats depression using ultrasound neuromodulation. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Seed · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Spoon.ai provides a real-time emotional animation engine and cross-platform SDKs to make AI more intuitive and engaging through expressive 3D character interfaces. | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Superbranche develops a new approach based on physics to fight against difficult-to-treat tumors. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| VSORA designs and produces AI inference chips | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Jul 2026Series B | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- critical-path.fr
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 16
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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