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Elaia Digital Venture Fund V

Geography: France
Stage: Pre-Seed
Fund size: €120M
Focus: AI/ML, Biotech, Cybersecurity and Deep Tech
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Elaia Digital Venture Fund V

French VC's fifth flagship fund targeting 10-15 European B2B startups per year with strong IP foundations. Backed by Bpifrance (France 2030), BNP Paribas, and MACSF. First investments in Mimic Robotics and Linkup.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionFrance

Funding StagePre-Seed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

Biotech

Cybersecurity

Deep Tech

Enterprise Software

Manufacturing

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Deep tech PhD founders scaling AI agents for critical infrastructure

deep tech

PhD founders

early stage

Europe

AI agents

fusion energy

climate tech

agentic deployment

frontier AI

full stack support

lab-to-market

scientific entrepreneurship

Bullish Signals

Active at major EU tech conferencesexternal

Bullish on PhD-to-founder pipelineexternal

Portfolio co. named Scaling Europe Top 50linkedin

Backing AI voice agents at scalelinkedin

GetVocal: fastest-growing EU tech companieslinkedin

Portfolio: Proxima €411M Series A, fusion baseloadlinkedin

Fusion + climate infrastructure strategic thesis activelinkedin

Portfolio-wide agentic deployment at AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI scalesocial

Deep partnerships: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIAsocial

Technical founder events in London with AI/ML leaderssocial

Full stack investor: inception to leadership supportwebsite

Partner from day one, innovation in labswebsite

Pre-seed to pre-IPO scientific expertise + business acumenwebsite

Contrarian Signals

Fundraising market strongly bifurcatingexternal

Founder Do's

Come from PhD / deep tech background

Move fast — top deals close in days

Show clear differentiation early

Build AI-native, voice/agent infrastructure

Solve baseload/critical infrastructure problems

Deploy agents at enterprise scale (AWS, Anthropic)

Engage full lifecycle support: inception to leadership

Bridge lab science to market scalability

Founder Don'ts

Don't expect slow, drawn-out processes

Don't lack technical depth

Don't ignore agentic governance/breakage patterns

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size€120M

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Xavier Lazarus, Samantha Jerusalmy

AlexisPartner

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