daphni
Venture capital · Paris, France · Europe
daphni is a venture capital firm that has backed over 100 startups since 2016 and manages nearly €1B in assets. It runs three active funds with distinct strategies covering a Europe generalist fund, a worldwide digital retail fund supported by Carrefour, and a France-focused fund for entrepreneurs with underrepresented backgrounds.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsdaphni lists 96 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 28 funding rounds, 11 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 64% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (11%) and Healthcare & Biotech (11%). 70% of its companies are based in France. It invests most often alongside Agoranov, AFI Ventures and AIC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name daphni, 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 daphni's whole history. Rounds on record name 28 companies; its own site lists 96. 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 rounddaphni does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 7% |
| Seed | 64% |
| Series A | 18% |
| Series B | 11% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 9 | 3 |
| '26 | 17 | 8 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 95th | 96 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 18 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 71% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 94th | 24% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 10th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 95th | 10 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 11% | 6% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Agoranov | 12 |
| AFI Ventures | 4 |
| AIC | 4 |
| Aglaé Ventures | 4 |
| Cathay Innovation | 4 |
| Galion.exe | 4 |
| OVNI Capital | 4 |
| Serena | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9599%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company11%
- 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 daphni head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with daphni| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 22 Jun 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 26 May 2026 | Seed Led |
Round details for daphni
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in daphni's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
96 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airthium develops containerized heat pumps for industrial process heat | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | 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 | |
| Animaj builds global kids' franchises for the digital generation, creating stories and content for children and families worldwide. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Ankar works with world-leading R&D organizations to bring their institutional knowledge and the world’s technical intelligence to every R&D decision. | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | May 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| AnotherBrain creates Organic AI, a new kind of artificial intelligence inspired from how the human brain works. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Apiday empowers investors and companies to turn ESG obligations into strategic value, driving measurable impact and long-term performance. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Certo provides AI compliance agents for consumer products to automate compliance with global regulations | ConsumerAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Astral Systems provides irradiation services and produces medical isotopes among other things. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Back Market sells reconditioned tech products. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces industrial ingredients with microorganisms using an AI-powered bioproduction platform. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Butterfly delivers actionable insights and engagement tools to reduce turnover, increase productivity and improve employee well-being | Human Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbon Maps provides a sustainability AI platform for food and consumer packaged goods companies to track and manage their carbon emissions | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Código provides an end-to-end Solana AI development platform with features such as cloud-native IDE, intelligent code generation, and live collaboration | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Comet is a technology consulting firm that provides independent consultants in tech, data, and AI to help clients with their projects. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Cominty develops and provides an Agentic AI Operating System for businesses to deploy production-ready AI agents into their products or internal workflows | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company allows users to search and compare vacation rentals, Airbnb, B&B, and hotels. | Legal & ComplianceReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Dema tracks a website and connects it with stock, ads, orders, costs, and returns to provide actionable commerce data | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dift is a platform where people collect funds for various causes. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- daphni.com
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 22 Nov 2021
- Companies checked
- 96
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