makesense SEED

What is makesense SEED?

makesense SEED is a venture capital fund that focuses on financing and supporting visionary projects addressing urgent social, societal, and environmental problems, with the ambition to generate a significant impact on society. They operate on the principle that a large number of solutions exist, but too few reach a level of deployment significant enough to profoundly transform society.

Their approach is to finance innovations that take care of life in its entirety and contribute to creating a just and sustainable society. The fund acts both as a financier and an accompanier, offering tailor-made support to funded projects. This support, provided by the accelerator team, is crucial to help entrepreneurs overcome deployment challenges. makesense SEED develops various investment tools to cover the needs of impact entrepreneurs at different stages of maturity, growth models, or legal structures.

Their funding facilities include pre-seed support for young French startups developing innovative products or services addressing little-explored social, societal, or environmental needs, with funding ranging from 100K to 600K euros. In the seed and pre-seed phases, they invest in promising projects related to physical activity, sustainable lifestyles, education, and the preservation of the environment and health, with a fund operated by makesense and Serena, offering funding from 500K to 4M euros.

For Series A, they partner with Bpifrance and the Paris Mayor's Office to provide Parisian projects with a 30,000 euro grant and incubation at makesense. makesense SEED proudly presents their portfolio of impact-driven projects, each aiming to reinvent a value chain, tackle environmental or social issues, and create a durable, inclusive society.