About us

Scientipôle Capital is an early stage investor, which takes advantage of 10 years’ experience in the Paris Saclay area. Paris Saclay is located on the west part of the Gross Paris.

Our coordinates :

503 Rue du Belvédère

91400 Orsay

Mission

Scientipôle Capital invests in the innovative tech-based startups, at early stage. Team keeps a close relationship during the entire investment period to help entrepreneurs to succeed in all areas of management
Scientipôle Capital is focused on innovative technologies developed in the Paris-Saclay area:
• Solutions for the industry 4.0 : digital technologies, industrial technologies
• Green tech applications to support energy and ecological transitions - smart grid, smart city
• Health / medtech (except drugs) ...

History

Scientipôle Capital, created in 2006, is a holding compliant with French Autorité des marchés financiers, with the objective to become an evergreen fund , thanks to a special French tax status (SCR - venture capital company).

Scientipôle Capital shareholders are institutional shareholders, involved in the economic development of Paris Saclay area and Ile-de-France area : Region Ile de France, regional banks (Banques Populaires Rives de Paris et Val de France, Crédit Agricole, Caisses d’épargne Ile-de-France), BPI France, Revital Emploi, Malakoff Mederic and Alizé Innovation.

So far, Scientipôle Capital has invested in 34 innovative tech based startups based in Ile de France area (of which 17 are growing) , and sold 9 of them to European industrial or financial partners.

Investments

Scientipole Capital invests alone or alongside other investors (financial or corporate funds, business angels, …)
Our investments range from of K€ 200 to M€ 1 (in equity or convertible bonds), issued in single or multiple rounds.
Our evergreen strategy is tailored to fulfil the specific needs of young technological companies.
The team has an active participation in the company’s management governance (board of directors / supervisory boards) in order to provide operational guidance.
Thanks to its network of experts, Scientipôle Capital is able to provide expertises and advises in certain specialized fieldsof interest.

Team

The team has a solid background to finance   innovative startups and to provide taylored support (finance, sales, engineering, marketing, IP, HR, …). It has developed close and steady relationships with a very supportive ecosystem in Paris Saclay  (incubators, accelerators, clusters, university and R&D centers, banks, business angels …). Scientipôle capital has a competitive advantage to source the best innovative projets and can provide support in almost all components  to lead entrepreneurs to success.

Since january 2021, Auriga Partner manages Scientipole Capital.

Jacques Chatain
Chairman
Alain Blanchard
President of the board

Alain Blanchard
President of the board
Sébastien Descarpentries

Managing Partner at Auriga Partners
Sébastien Descarpentries
Florence Cadereau
Secretary General

Florence Cadereau
Secretary General
Geoffroy Rosset

Partner at Auriga Partners
Geoffroy Rosset
Jean-Pierre Humbert
Founder

Co-founder of Scientipôle Capital - Chairman (2008-2020).
Former HR Manager at HP France and CEO at Agilent Technologies.

Jean-Pierre Humbert
Founder
Nathalie Ricoeur-Nicolaï
Founder

Co-founder of Scientipôle Capital - Executive director (2006-2020).
Former Deputy Director of and economic and financial resarch at CDC IXIS (Caisse des dépôts).
PhD in economy.
AMF Certification.

Nathalie Ricoeur-Nicolaï
Founder
Frédéric Zampatti
Founder

Investment Director (2016-2020) at Scientipole Capital.
Deputy CEO of Nutrivercell.
Project manager at Genopole.
Graduated from Toulouse Business School.
Certification AMF

Frédéric Zampatti
Founder

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A territory

On the outskirts of Paris, Scientipôle Capital benefits from the exceptional environment of the Paris-Saclay region.

 

This centre of scientific and technical excellence will eventually concentrate 20 to 25% of French research and is one of the top 8 clusters in the world.

 

It brings together university and Grandes Ecoles academic research centres (Université Paris Saclay, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Centrale-Supelec, HEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure,…), as well as the R&D centers of large high-tech companies (le CEA, Renault, PSA, Air Liquide, Thalès, Safran, Sanofi, Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent, Danone, EDF, Horiba…).

 

This area of innovation is now home to 25,000 companies, of all sizes, benefiting from a complete ecosystem conducive to their development (competitiveness clusters, accelerators, incubators,…) It is booming: a large number of companies are created each year in the region, including a large proportion of innovative startups.

 

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503 Rue du Belvédère
91400 Orsay

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contact@scientipolecapital.fr

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