CEA Investissement

About The Fund

CEA Investissement, the corporate venture arm of Commissariat A? l'Energie Atomique (CEA), was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. The firm specializes in investing in companies operating in sectors such as education, life science, energy, microelectronics, and other related fields. Their investment portfolio ranges from microelectronics and life sciences to energy, materials, and industrial equipment. The corporate VC focuses on investing in startups involved in valorizing CEA technologies, with a keen interest in patent utilization and startup investments. CEA Investissement's goal is to make investments during the startup creation phase, nurturing scientific and commercial development of companies emerging from CEA's incubation policy or related to it through research contracts. They aim to gain financial returns on successes and maintain control, even indirectly, over CEA laboratory technologies. Their first seed fund, ATI (Amorage Technologique Investissement), was established in 2013 with CEA Investissement as the primary subscriber alongside Bpifrance and several industrial players, enhancing support for startups during their initial development phases. CEA Investissement has also partnered with Amundi (Crédit Agricole Group) to create Supernova Invest in 2017, a licensed management company by AMF, to expand the activity of funds of funds and support deep-tech startups from CEA or leading French laboratories at all developmental stages. CEA Investissement is currently present in several seed funds, including Supernova 2, Supernova Innovation 3, and the Supernova Ambition Industrie, a growth fund that concluded its final closing at €204M in 2023. These interventions in funds of funds allow CEA Investissement to support startups commercializing CEA technologies from their inception to growth capital stages. Since 1999, they have financed and supported around a hundred startups and follow the CEA's innovation strategy, which spans from research to industry applications. The fund's investment team is advised by Supernova Invest teams, which manage their investment portfolio according to decisions made by CEA Investissement's board of directors.