Here are ten of the top active family offices from our database that are based in France, along with their websites:
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Mobilis Family Office (Lille)
Mobilis is the family office of the Mulliez family, which over more than 80 years has built a federation of over 200 companies in retail, restaurants, textiles, and real estate. Together with an investment fund, this group employs around 600,000 people in more than 35 countries, and Mobilis gives the collective entrepreneurial project long-term support. -
Chalus Chegaray et Compagnie (Le Havre)
Chalus Chegaray et Compagnie, known as 3CIE, is a family investment holding founded in Le Havre in 1890 by Antonio Chegaray. Today led by his great-grandson Vianney de Chalus, the company backs entrepreneurs with capital and strategic guidance to help their projects grow faster. -
AKITUA (Lyon)
Active since 2005, AKITUA invests across venture and startups, private equity, private debt, real estate, and listed companies, with more than 120 early stage investments to date. It operates in Europe and North America, provides management services to its subsidiaries, and sits on the boards of some of the companies it backs. -
Marco & Co (Angers)
Marco & Co is the family office of the Picot family, started by Emmanuel Picot, entrepreneur and founder of Evolis. It backs founders at pre-seed, seed, and Series A who want to improve human, animal, and plant well-being, acting as a hands-on partner with advice, expertise, and network access. -
Sofival (Paris)
Sofival is an independent family group whose historical activities are tied to the mountains. Its portfolio is highly diversified, built through direct investments, co-investments, and partnerships with funds. -
Otium Capital (Paris)
Otium Capital is an international family office created by Pierre-Edouard Sterin, founder of the Smartbox group. It manages over $1.4bn across some 100 investments, with investment theses that include venture tech, industrial venture and growth, leisure, and real estate. -
Motier Ventures (Paris)
Motier Ventures manages the tech startup investments of the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group. The office provides agile and patient capital, writing angel checks of up to 300k euros in a company's early days and following with up to 3m euros in later rounds. -
Financiere Saint James (Paris)
Financiere Saint James is the family office of Michael Benabou, co-founder of vente-privee.com. It backs innovative companies in the digital and technology world with a sector agnostic approach, and also makes diversified real estate investments for wealth management purposes. -
Caravelle (Paris)
Caravelle is the family office of the Martel family and a diversified industrial group based in Paris. It invests its own funds to support French SMEs with 50m to 300m euros in turnover as they grow in France and internationally, drawing on more than 25 years of investing experience. -
Tethys Invest (Paris)
Tethys Invest is the direct investment vehicle of Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and Jean-Pierre Meyers. Created in 2016 as a subsidiary of Tethys, the largest shareholder of L'Oreal, it makes direct long-term investments in entrepreneurial companies.
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