Elaia Digital Venture Fund V

France

Pre Seed

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.

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

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

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)

Founder Don'ts

Don't expect slow, drawn-out processes

Don't lack technical depth

Don't ignore agentic governance/breakage patterns

Key GPs & Partners

Alexis

Partner

deep tech focusmarket insightpanel speaker

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Fund Overview

Fund Size€120M

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Website

Key People

Xavier Lazarus, Samantha Jerusalmy

AlexisPartner

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