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💡 Sustainability Spotlight: Pricing HUB As part of our 2023 Sustainability report, we’re highlighting Elaia portfolio companies that are making a difference through commitment to ESG principles. Pricing HUB's mission is to help retailers and e-commerce leaders protect their margins by putting the customer at the centre of the pricing decision. Pricing HUB has developed an Environmental Responsibility Action Plan to focus on training, suppliers & carbon neutrality. Read more about Pricing HUB's ERA plan here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eijY8TxQ Jerome Laurent Aurélie Noblet Guillaume Tujague Xavier Casellato

🛠️ We were glad to contribute to First Momentum Ventures' #DeepTechHardwareNapkin - thanks TechCrunch (and Anna Heim) for featuring us in your reporting! Hear more from Elaia Investment Director, Clément Vanden Driessche, and Associate, Julien Macquet, about what deep tech VCs refer to as the Series A hurdle for hardware startups and why this requires a strategic approach to raising substantial capital. Read the full piece here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eYQwDR3v

💥 We are so excited to share three promotions in the Elaia team! You might know them for their professional achievements, but we also know them as bi-cultural authors, athletes and food lovers. First up, Emmanuel Perez-Duarte, Elaia’s CFO, is named Partner! With over a decade of experience in finance and operations, Emmanuel joined Elaia in 2018 as CFO and became General Secretary in 2022. His nomination to Partner is a recognition of the infrastructure and financial operational excellence he has developed at Elaia . Franco-Mexican and a novel writer, Emmanuel is our go-to literary recommender for all things sci-fi. Next up, our Chief of Staff Justine Guers adds Head of Strategic Projects to her mission, reflective of her work ethic and pivotal role in executing the strategic partnership between Lazard and Elaia alongside Xavier Lazarus. A graduate of HEC, Justine was previously Chief of Staff at LumApps. Justine takes her famous work ethic from the office to the mountains. A true mountaineer, from skiing to cycling, if she’s not in the office, you can find her in the Alps! Wrapping it up, Elaia CMO, Louisa Mesnard, is now also our Head of Sustainability. This newly created role is a recognition of her internal efforts to develop and lead Elaia’s sustainability practice alongside our internal ESG committee over the past few years. As the former co-founder of Citron, Louisa is not only Franco-Irish, she also has the best restaurant recommendations in town, not to mention every beach town with wind for kite-surfing! 🎉 Please join us in celebrating this news!

💡Sustainability Spotlight: SESAMm As part of our 2023 Sustainability report, we’re highlighting Elaia portfolio companies that are making a difference through commitment to ESG principles. 🌱 SESAMm’s mission is to transform the ESG industry by bringing more transparency to the market and help companies monitor for positive impact and align with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They have developed an NLP algorithm that intelligently reads through billions of articles, blogs, etc. to provide accurate insights to top financial institutions worldwide on ESG and positive impact indicators. Read more about SESAMm’s ESG roadmap here 👉https://lnkd.in/e3Z2yGJE Pierre RINALDI Sylvain Forté Florian AUBRY

Curious about what pitches deep tech VCs want to hear? Sifted spoke with Elaia Investment Director, Clément Vanden Driessche, to learn more about what Elaia is looking for in deep tech pitches (hint: it’s all about unleashing compute power!) Clément emphasizes the need for advancements in quantum and photonics to boost AI performance while minimizing energy consumption. As AI integration grows, innovative compute power solutions will be key. Read more in Sifted (thanks Daphné Leprince-Ringueté): https://lnkd.in/e9ZkBMhp

🏅Thank you Dealroom.co for including Elaia in your list of the Top AI investors in Europe. AI now accounts for 18% of VC funding in Europe. Sustained by the new wave of GenAI, European AI and GenAI investment represented $25B between 2022-2024 and continues to rise. France has emerged as an AI powerhouse in Europe, accounting for 30% of VC AI funding in 2024. At Elaia, we’re proud to support AI-driven startups across a variety of industries. Congrats to the #ElaiaFamily included in this report: AQEMIA, FlexAI, H Company, Mitiga Solutions and Shift Technology. Read the full 2024 AI Europe Report 👉 https://lnkd.in/dCWHucs8

🌊 Elaia Co-founder and Managing Partner Xavier Lazarus has been named to Maddyness's #MAD50. In partnership with Banque Richelieu, the #MAD50 highlights rising stars in the domain of AI - we're excited to be included in such good company! Read the full article ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eGbZm9gc

🚀Thrilled to share that Elaia Partner, Samantha J., has been re-elected to the board of France Digitale! A big thank you to the French ecosystem for their support for Sam's re-election! #JouonsCollectif

📣 Xavier Lazarus, Alexandre Margoline and Anna Vershebeniuk are partnering to build Lazard Elaia Capital. We’re excited to announce that Alexandre Margoline and Anna Vershebeniuk will join Xavier Lazarus, to build #LazardElaiaCapital (LEC) as it plans to launch its first European growth tech fund. Alongside Elaia Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Xavier Lazarus, Alexandre and Anna will join LEC as Partners, bringing 50+ combined years of international expertise and a complementary VC, growth and buyout track record as they look to launch LEC’s first European growth tech fund subject to regulatory approvals. Alexandre Margoline brings 20 years of investment experience across growth and buyout globally. Over the past seven years, Alexandre built and led global private equity leader Permira’s team in France as a Partner, investing across Tech, Healthcare and Consumer businesses. Anna joins LEC from Headline, where she was responsible for building out the firm’s late-stage investment practice in Europe and establishing Headline’s London office. Anna has spent time with General Atlantic in London and Thrive Capital in New York, where she focused on late-stage software and internet opportunities. 💥Please join us in welcoming them onboard! Read more on our Medium ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epavbKJZ Lazard Frères Gestion Lazard

🧪As a tech-intensive investment firm, we know that research drives innovation. Elaia Managing Partner & Co-founder, Xavier Lazarus, has been selected by Sylvie Retailleau, ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche and Roland Lescure, the minister of industry, to act as an advocate for researchers and PhDs in the corporate sphere. Read more about the initiative in L'Etudiant ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gPJbx-rf