We’re a venture capital firm partnering at (pre)seed stage with entrepreneurs in France, Denmark & Sweden. We’re currently investing out of our first €75m fund, which was launched at the beginning of 2023. Our investors include the Danish sovereign fund (Vaekstfonden), Edenred (a French Euronext-listed corporation), several prestigious European family offices and 70+ French & Nordic Tech entrepreneurs (including the founders of 3shape, Akeneo, Botify, Dixa, Falcon, Kantox, Peakon, PeopleDoc, Planday, Pleo, Qonto, Silae, Spendesk, Swile, Tiller, Zendesk, etc.).
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2023
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed
Portfolio 36
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 11.08.2026 | Palette | palette.team | $3.46M | Denmark |
| 31.10.2025 | Altrove | altrove.ai | $13.98M | France |
| 22.10.2025 | Volta | voltasoftware.com | $12.15M | France |
| 23.09.2025 | Pillar | pillar.io | $17.84M | Italy |
| 14.07.2025 | Opper AI | opper.ai | $3M | Sweden |
| - | Ontruck | ontruck.com | $62.04M | United Kin... |
| - | Alrik | alrik.com | $9.05M | Sweden, St... |
| - | Claap | claap.io | $3M | France, Il... |
| - | All Gravy | allgravy.com | $6.11M | Denmark |
| - | Clustree | clustree.com | $10.8M | France, Il... |
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Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.08.2026 | Palette Raises €3M in Pre-Seed Funding | Palette, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based provider of an operating system platform, raised €3M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Ugly Duckling Ventures with participation from Emblem, Acadian Ventures, and others The company intends to u... |
| 11.08.2026 | Palette raises €3M pre-seed to develop an OS for AI-native teams | Copenhagen-based AI software startup Palette has raised €3 million in pre-seed funding to expand its platform for teams adopting AI across their organisations. The round was led by Ugly Duckling Ventures, with participation from Emblem, Aca... |
| 24.05.2026 | Pivot: $40 Million Series B Raised For Enterprise AI Procurement Operating System | Pivot announced it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the total amount raised since the company’s founding in 2023 to $70 million. The oversubscribed round was led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with parti... |
| 31.10.2025 | Paris-based Altrove raises $10M to accelerate AI-designed alternatives to critical materials | Paris-based deeptech Altrove has raised $10 million in seed funding to scale production of AI-designed, sustainable alternatives to critical materials such as rare earths. The round was led by Alven, with participation from Bpifrance’s Digi... |
| 27.10.2025 | Volta: €11 Million Raised To Advance AI-Based Transformation Of European B2B Commerce | Volta, a French-Italian startup building an AI-powered commerce platform for B2B distributors and suppliers, announced today that it has secured €11 million in funding, including a recent €5 million extension to its prior round. This fundin... |
| 22.10.2025 | Volta raises €5M led by RTP Global to revolutionize B2B commerce with AI | Volta, a French–Italian startup, has raised €5 million in a round led by RTP Global. Pascal Houillon, former CEO of Cegid and Sage, joined the round alongside existing investors Emblem, Robin Capital, and Founders Future. Coming less than a... |
| 23.09.2025 | Pillar Closes €3.2M in Pre-Seed Funding | Pillar, a Milan, Italy-based fintech startup dedicated to digitalizing the financial management of construction companies, raised €3.2M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Emblem, and included international VCs such as Pareto (USA), P... |
| 23.09.2025 | Pillar closes €3.2M to revolutionize financial management for construction companies | Milan-based Pillar, a fintech digitizing construction finance, has closed a €3.2 million pre-seed round. Emblem led the investment, joined by international backers Pareto, Plug and Play, and Kima Ventures, as well as Italian investors B Her... |
| 11.09.2025 | Opper AI acquires FinetuneDB for AI model tuning | Opper AI, a UK-based startup focused on production-grade reliability for generative AI systems, has acquired FinetuneDB, a platform known for its streamlined approach to dataset curation and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). Whil... |
| 16.07.2025 | Opper AI Secures Funding: Paving the Way for Reliable Enterprise AI | Opper AI, a Swedish startup, just secured €2.5 million in pre-seed funding. This capital fuels its mission to make AI infrastructure genuinely reliable. Their Task Completion API offers a structured path for developers. It transforms unstab... |
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