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.

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Geographies: Europe
Sectors: Data & AI, Networks, B2B SaaS, Cybersecurity, Fintech, E-Health, Consumer, Media, Gaming, Impact
Stages: Growth - Series B and above
Ticket size: 3 to 20M€

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Orange Ventures MEA Seed invests in Nucleon Security

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19/11/2024

Orange Ventures MEA Seed Fund invests in Socium

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Sayna

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28/04/2022

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10/03/2020

Orange Ventures leads $1.5m investment round in Youverify

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Nucleon Security

Nucleon Security

Nucleon Security is a Zero Trust endpoint cybersecurity solution

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/

Brut.

Brut.

Leading global media brand for millennials and Gen Z, Brut. produces every day 100% video content aimed at new generations. Europe’s most powerful social media with 39 million unique viewers according to Tubular Audience Ratings, Brut. is building a unique community around the world through eight social media platforms, offering entertainment and news analysis according to a positive and committed editorial line focused on themes with high social impact.

Brut. contents are viewed in more than 100 countries, gather 300 million unique viewers worldwide per month, generated 20 billion views in 2020 and reached 1 billion users on Facebook this same year. Founded in 2016, Brut. is located in Paris and employs over 150 people.

 

https://www.brut.media/

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

Actility

Actility

Actility is a leading provider of network solutions and managed information systems for the Internet of Things (IoT), partnering with several leading carriers worldwide. They build a fully integrated software platform for nationwide IoT services, offering ready-to-go IoT connectivity, data and devices management solutions, plus a full set of ready-to-sell applications, in a unique combination of assets to federate this nascent ecosystem.

Actility.com

 

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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- has reached its market fit and secured revenues
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