Karista
karista.vc Direct investor
Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2001, investing in Health, DeepTech, and Digital sectors across Europe. It typically leads rounds from seed to Series B+ and supports companies from inception to growth.
Karista is a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 2001. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series B, in health, DeepTech, digital and NewSpace. 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We often are the first investor on board and typically lead rounds at early and growth stages.”
— Karista, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Europe
- Founded
- 2001
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Karista publishes it
- Olivier Dubuisson Managing Partner
- Catherine Boule Managing Partner
- Yvan-Michel Ehkirch Managing Partner
- Baudouin Hue Partner
- Benjamin Zerbib Partner
- Agathe Biard Chief Compliance Officer
- Emmanuel Daugeras Partner
- Tom Beauvironnet Investment Manager
- Alexandra Desproges Office Manager
- Amine Benmoussa Partner
- Alain Gavin Venture Partner
- Anna Casal Head of Communication
Names and roles exactly as listed on karista.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 45 co-investors found.
- Kima Ventures 3 shared companies: beev.co, cozycozy.com, sevenhugs.com
- Sofinnova 2 shared companies: dbv-technologies.com, tissium.com
- 360 Capital 2 shared companies: exotrail.com, navya.tech
- Demea Invest 2 shared companies: nexdot.fr, algaia.com
- Omnes Capital 1 shared company: tissium.com
- BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij) 1 shared company: samantree.com
- XAnge 1 shared company: samantree.com
- EIT Urban Mobility 1 shared company: beev.co
- SideAngels 1 shared company: beev.co
- Golub Growth 1 shared company: talend.com
and 35 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Karista publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.karista.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.karista.vc/aboutfounded
- https://www.karista.vc/teampeople
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Record 928 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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