About
Family Ventures is an International community of family investors. Like- minded people who belong to entrepreneurial families who have created, grown, transmitted businesses for generations.
Philosophy
Investing is no longer just about financial performance — it is about conviction, meaning, and the people you stand beside.
Family Ventures was built on a simple but powerful conviction: families and individuals who have created and grown businesses across generations are uniquely positioned to back the next generation of international leaders.
Leveraging the multiple families’ entrepreneurial experiences, industry expertises and deep network to early growth stage visionary founders capable to transform entire industries and our European SMEs.
What we share is a relationship to long-term value creation, to entrepreneurial risk, and to the discipline of family governance.
Investment thesis
Strategic context
The world stands at a crossroads. Technological independence, energy security, industrial resilience — the next decade will define the balance of power for the decade ahead. Family Ventures channels family capital toward the founders, sectors and companies that build that future. Our ambition: Supporting the Transformation of our European Industries and Mid-Sized Companies.
Five Investment Verticals :
Software, automation, digitalization
Software, automation, digitalization — the productivity layer of every modern company.
Robotics, sensors, embodied AI
Robotics, sensors, embodied intelligence, data centers and cooling — where software meets the physical world.
Sovereignty, cyber, dual-use
Cyber, dual-use, defense tech. Sovereignty is built by those able to protect it.
Transition, mobility, circular economy
Transition, mobility, circular economy — the infrastructure of a sovereign, resilient energy base.
Health, education, entertainment
The future of health, education and entertainment — backing what shapes the next generation.
3 Stages :
Early growth — backing visionary founders
We back early-growth companies with proven product-market fit and €500K+ ARR, across our five sovereign verticals. Always with a lead investor, syndicated alongside families and operators.
Ticket
€500K — €1M
Geography
60% Europe · 40% International (US, Israel, UK)
Late stage extension — discounted access
Acquisition of secondary positions in fast-growing tech, unicorns and blue chips. We purchase shares at a discount from early employees or founders, leveraging the network to access deals reserved for top-tier institutionals.
Ticket
€1M — €3M
Geography
60% Europe · 40% International (US, Israel, UK)
Buyout & recovery — the real economy
Investment in profitable family-held SMEs and small-caps that want to accelerate expansion through innovation, external growth or transmission. The economic backbone of the real economy, accompanied with the patience and discipline of family capital.
Ticket
€1M — €3M
Geography
60% Europe · 40% International (US, Israel, UK)
Portfolio
A curated portfolio of international companies, selected by our Partners' Committee, invested through regulated French SPVs, and supported with hands-on board participation.
Battery monitoring software for EV fleets
Latest updateQ1 2026 reporting · partnership with BMW & Crédit Agricole
AI microbiome intelligence platform
Latest updateSeries A in finalization · $500K top-up by FV
French fintech revolutionizing employee benefits
Latest updateLate-stage secondary entry · 2026
Detect and slow cognitive decline 50+
Latest updateSeries A round in progress
Cognitive science-based learning platform
Latest updateMarch 2026 update available
SaaS for real-estate decarbonation & circularity
Latest updateQ1 2026 reporting
VIP ticketing & hospitality management
Latest updateQuarterly reporting published
Audit & accounting automation
Latest updateMonthly newsletter · March 2026
Precision airflow technology for sensors
Latest updatePrecision airflow deployment update — Q1 2026
Community
Connecting Top families with Top Founders ! Collective Governance by 30 Family Peers. Growing community of 400+ international visionary family peers and industry experts. Trusted and like-minded DNA across different family businesses, values, geographies, industries, generations and cultures.
Behind every General Partner lies a family business, an industrial heritage, and a network built through decades of operating experience. Founders we back gain more than funding — they gain direct access to a thousand-strong community of international leaders, customers, partners, and decision-makers.
Founding Partner & CEO
Family business peer. Serial tech entrepreneur and innovation leader since 20 years. Today channels family capital toward the energy, climate and impact transitions.
Founding Partner & Managing Director
Background in marketing, digital strategy and partnerships across large corporates and startups. Accompanies portfolio companies on strategic growth.
The compound network
Founders define the vision. Operating partners help execute it. 35 family General Partners around the world help scale it. When we invest, our network moves with the company — from board discussions to key hires, from strategic introductions to customer acquisition. The relationship extends far beyond capital.
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Learning Expeditions to VivaTech, monthly committees, live chats with founders, on-site portfolio visits, private dinners, the annual Summer Event. The Family Ventures network is built through gatherings.
Curated tours by our GPs across selected innovations. Founder pitches, network gatherings, family-friendly format.
Full
Quarterly update with the Actasys founder. Industry insights on precision airflow and commercial deployment.
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Operational language intelligence for defense, security and space. Family Ventures' new investment opportunity.
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On-site visit at BIB Batteries' development centre. Meet the team, see the technology, understand the unit economics.
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Monthly Partners gathering. New deal validation, portfolio reporting, strategic discussions on the second half of 2026.
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The annual gathering of the Family Ventures network. Three days, families, founders, operators. The event where the network becomes a community.
By invitation onlyFollowing its initial $400K investment in December 2025, Family Ventures has committed an additional $500K as HelloBiome finalizes its $1M Series A round.
Following its initial $400K investment in December 2025, Family Ventures has committed an additional $500K as HelloBiome finalizes its $1M Series A round.
Our portfolio company BIB Batteries announces a major distribution and integration partnership with BMW and Mercedes-Benz on its battery monitoring software.
Family Ventures has joined the BSA-AIR round in WeGrow, an enterprise AI/SaaS platform deployed across 120 countries with Nestlé, LVMH, Mars, HP and Diageo as clients.
Family Ventures has joined the BSA-AIR round in WeGrow, an enterprise AI/SaaS platform deployed across 120 countries with Nestlé, LVMH, Mars, HP and Diageo as clients.
Our portfolio company BIB Batteries announces a major distribution and integration partnership with BMW and Mercedes-Benz on its battery monitoring software.
Our portfolio company Five Lives is hiring across science and operations as it accelerates its clinical research on cognitive decline.
Five new GPs join Family Ventures by cooptation. Three industrial families from France and Germany, one Swiss operator, one fintech founder from London.
Five new GPs join Family Ventures by cooptation. Three industrial families from France and Germany, one Swiss operator, one fintech founder from London.
Our portfolio company Five Lives is hiring across science and operations as it accelerates its clinical research on cognitive decline.
Maddyness profiles Family Ventures and its model of family-coopted investing, examining how the next wave of international VC is being shaped by industrial heirs and operators.
Maddyness profiles Family Ventures and its model of family-coopted investing, examining how the next wave of international VC is being shaped by industrial heirs and operators.
Our 2025 annual review is now available to the network. ~€10M deployed, 9 portfolio companies, 35 General Partners, 300+ investors across 8 countries worldwide.
Our 2025 annual review is now available to the network. ~€10M deployed, 9 portfolio companies, 35 General Partners, 300+ investors across 8 countries worldwide.
Founder voices
The founders we back gain a committee that challenges them, a board that shows up, and a network of operators and families that moves with the company.
Family Ventures didn't just write a check — they opened their industrial network. Within months we were talking to exactly the partners we needed.
David Menicovich
Founder & CEO · Actasys
What sets Family Ventures apart is proximity. The committee challenges you, the partners introduce you, and you feel the whole network moving with you.
Karine Joyeux
Founder & CEO · Elika Team
From our first live chat to our Series A, Family Ventures has been a steady, hands-on partner — present in the boardroom and well beyond it.
Elsa Jungman
Founder & CEO · HelloBiome
Beyond capital, they bring operators who have built before. That experience around the table changes how fast you can move.
Séverin Groisne
Founder & CEO · Evenizer
Next Gen
Not a course, but an immersion.
The Next Gen gains direct access to the rhythm of the network: founder events, portfolio reviews, partner gatherings, and the collective intelligence that emerges from active collaboration. Learning happens through proximity, participation, and exposure to real decisions.
Meet the founders we back. Sit in on live chats, attend portfolio updates, listen to how the next generation of international companies actually gets built.
Be at the table when investment decisions are discussed. See how risk, conviction and diligence come together in real time, alongside experienced family investors.
Meet other Next Gens from the network — peers who will run, fund and build the companies of the next decade. A circle that grows with you.
