OSS Ventures Fund

France

Series A

About OSS Ventures Fund

Paris-based venture studio raised a €40M first close for a €75M follow-on vehicle, led by Decathlon Pulse and Teknor Apex, to scale its portfolio of ~30 B2B industrial software startups.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionFrance

Funding StageSeries A

Industry Focus

Ai Ml

Enterprise Software

Manufacturing

Saas

Investor Signals Profile

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Sweet Spot

Day-zero founders tackling deep manufacturing or industrial intelligence

industrial intelligence

manufacturing tech

deep tech / hard tech

company building / co-founder model

B2B / enterprise

Bullish Signals

Leading industrial intelligence fund in 5 yearsexternal

Hands-on co-founder model from day zeroexternal

Strong industry partner network in manufacturingexternal

Proprietary 6-variable scientific validation frameworkexternal

Multiple ventures built, factories empoweredwebsite

Thousands of factory visits + user interviewswebsite

Win-win-win: fund + founders + industry partnerswebsite

Discovery = permanent strategic layer, not phasewebsite

Daily active users metric tracked — real tractionwebsite

Portfolio actively growing, factories visited scalingwebsite

Transform approach: co-found with founders dailywebsite

Validates 6 fundamentals: problem, users, mechanism, solution, economics, GTMwebsite

Outsized impact: millions saved, supply chains stabilizedwebsite

Contrarian Signals

Narrow focus: manufacturing onlyexternal

Very early stage — high uncertaintyexternal

GP details not publicly disclosedexternal

Hardware + software complexity slows discoverywebsite

Manufacturing: risk-averse, multi-level decision chainswebsite

Structural barriers: weak experimentation culture in manufacturingwebsite

High cost of wrong discovery in manufacturingwebsite

Founder Do's

Target manufacturing / industrial problems

Embrace scientific discovery methodology

Seek co-founder-style VC partnership

Show rigor on GTM + economic logic

Come pre-idea or day zero stage

Founder Don'ts

Avoid if pure software, no industrial angle

Don't skip problem validation fundamentals

No solo execution without discovery mindset

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Fund Overview

Fund Size€40M

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