Ring Capital

What is Ring Capital?

Ring Capital is a Paris-based venture capital firm specialized in accelerating the growth of digital start-ups.

Their investment focus spans a broad range of industries, including Software, Information Technology, Education, AgroTech, FinTech, Energy, IoT, CleanTech, Artificial Intelligence, HealthTech, Blockchain, Future Of Work, Food & Beverage, Medical Devices, Healthcare, and Women Focused initiatives.

They embrace a strategy of investing in technology and digital companies with a minimum annual turnover of 5 million Euros, by acquiring minority stakes typically ranging from 3 million to 15 million Euros. Ring Capital's investment range is quite broad, offering minimum investments of 200,000 Euros to a maximum of 20,000,000 Euros, with their optimal investment 'sweet spot' being around 5,000,000 Euros.

They cater to different funding stages including Seed, Pre-seed, as well as Series A and B rounds, reflecting their role as a versatile and dynamic VC fund.

Ring Capital's operations are headquartered at 2 rue Favart, 75002 Paris, suggesting a strategic location within one of Europe's leading hubs for innovation and technology. On their website, they articulate a vision that revolves around fostering a low-carbon economy and supporting innovative and inclusive services. They showcase a commitment to exploring sustainable agricultural practices and direct their capital towards solutions that tackle major social and environmental challenges.

Boasting 420M assets under management and investment in over 40 portfolio companies across 7 countries, Ring Capital makes it clear that impact investing is at the core of their mandate.

They extend support to companies at varying maturity levels, from pre-seed to growth, in both conventional sectors and non-profit models, operating in Europe and internationally. Their open ecosystem approach is instrumental in addressing vital issues and aims at constructing a future that aligns impact with business performance.

The firm maintains 100% of their funds dedicated to impact and actively engages in community building among stakeholders and partners to reinforce their positive impact mission.

What they say:

We invest from Seed to growth. We actively direct capital towards vital solutions tackling major social and environmental challenges. We help entrepreneurs and enterprises grow by fostering both impact and business performance.

What we look for: We invest in companies tackling environmental and social issues through our investment vehicles.- Growth Fund : Mature companies, more than €10m revenues. Minority stake. Ticket: 5 - €20m- Series A fund : Venture stage, revenues ~1m. Minority stake. Ticket: €500k to €3m- Seed Fund : Minority stake.Ticket : 150-300k

How we help: - Strong Impact expertise- Large network- Operating Partners