A dedicated initiative for stellar tech entrepreneurs serving Europe and the US

The Global Champions stream looks primarily at American and European software tech startups with hypergrowth potential in core areas of expertise of Orange and beyond. This includes mature startups looking for access to European markets, as well as scale up startups showing vast potential for synergies with the group.

Investment focus

Geographies: Europe and the US
Sectors: Networks & IT, Digital enterprise, Cybersecurity, Fintech, E-Health, B2C&Marketplace, Content, Gaming & VR
Stages: Growth - Series B and above
Ticket size: up to 20M€

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Socium

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19/11/2024

Orange Ventures MEA Seed Fund invests in Socium

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28/04/2022

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Middle East & Africa Seed Challenge

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17/11/2020

Announcing results

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Youverify joins our portfolio

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10/03/2020

Orange Ventures leads $1.5m investment round in Youverify

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10/02/2020

OV co-leads pre series A of the Pan African Ed Tech & online Marketplace

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01/07/2019

Our take on today’s ecosystem & key driving forces behind it

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Moja Ride

Moja Ride

Mobility as a service platform that enables users of transportation services such as cabs, buses and minibusses to pay for their rides with a payment card or directly with their phone without using cash

 

mojaride.net

SudPay

SudPay

A fintech startup from Senegal focusing on Payment and Tax collection services

https://sud-pay.com/

Terragon

Terragon

Terragon is Africa’s leading data and marketing technology company that aggregates and enriches consumer data; providing robust insights that allows Businesses to engage with their customers in a more meaningful and targeted manner.

Terragon is bridging the gap by deploying thier marketing cloud platform which enables data partners such as MNOs organize and monetize their subscriber data on one hand, and on the other allows advertisers (ie Businesses) to effectively target prospective customers both online and offline; using AI and analytics.

Sayna

Sayna

SAYNA is a mobile video game designed to teach digital professions, which uses algorithms to automatically connect learners to IT micro-tasks requested by international companies.

Sayna

Sayna

Waspito

Waspito

Connecting all players of the African healthcare ecosystem for information and digital services sharing

https://www.waspito.com/

PayJoy

PayJoy

PayJoy is a digital platform that allows people with limited or no access to credit to pay for a smartphone in regular installments. Payjoy’s software platform provides a unique and disruptive way of making smartphone ownership more affordable for the Next-Billion consumers: the platform’s device-management software installed on smartphones transforms them into software-enabled collateral that allows third-party institutional lenders to finance the smartphone upfront and consumers to pay in monthly installments.

https://www.payjoy.com/

Traace

Traace

Traace helps companies of any size and scale to take control of their #carbonfootprint . With its comprehensive, simple and engaging platform organizations can face the climate challenge and effectively reduce their carbon emissions.

Created in 2020 by Thomas Guyot, Rodolphe Denieau & Patrick Nollet, Traace today counts numerous big customers among users of their solution like Sodexo, Siemens, E.Leclerc 

 

https://en.traace.co/

 

Traace

Traace

KissKissBankBank

KissKissBankBank

KissKissBankBank Technologies is the French leader in crowdfunding. The young start-up offers three online platforms, each in response to different funding requirements: KissKissBankBank offers individuals the possibility of helping artists or young designers finance their projects in exchange for non-financial compensation; Hellomerci is the leading player in peer-to-peer lending for solidarity projects and associations; and Lendopolis is an innovative platform for loans to companies from individuals and corporations, compensated with annual interest rates of between 5% and 12%. In a fast-growing crowdfunding market throughout Europe, KissKissBankBank draws on collective intelligence and web-based solidarity to respond quickly and efficiently to individuals’ or businesses’ financing requirements. Orange Digital Ventures is the lead investor in a programme to raise 5.3 million euros in KissKissBankBank alongside Xange and private investors. These resources will enable the start-up to accelerate its growth in the highly dynamic French crowd-lending market.

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/

Chain

Chain

Chain enables to create, manages and transfers digital assets through the Blockchain’s technology. The company’s platform includes also a whole set of tools for developers to create pilot services over the Blockchain (SDK, API, sandbox).

http://www.chain.com/

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If your startup
- matches one of our investment streams
- is tackling fundamental challenges using technology
- has reached its market fit and secured revenues
- has a large addressable market and high growth potential on an international scale

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