Cleo Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($300K–$1.0M Checks)
Cleo Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in AI / ML, SaaS, Security. The firm typically writes $300K–$1.0M checks and has 11 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $300K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 11 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $2.5B
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, SaaS, Security
Last verified: 2026-10-25
Pre-Seed, Seed
$300K – $1.0M
$2.5B
11+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
An AI-native venture fund that writes €300k–€1m checks at pre-seed and seed, often before product-market fit. The firm explicitly backs AI-native companies, including an AI publishing platform and studio for kids animation IPs, which makes it highly relevant to motion-capture cleanup and animation tooling.
How Cleo Ventures invests
Cleo Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, SaaS, Security.
Cleo Ventures typically writes checks of $300K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $2.5B in assets under management. Our records include 3 funds raised by the firm.
Cleo Ventures has backed 11 companies in our records, including Stealth, AMI Labs, MatX.
Partners & Team
Unknown
GP
Maxime is co-founder and General Partner of Cleo. Before that, he was a Principal at Balderton, leading its efforts in France and investing in companies like GitGuardian, Kili Technology, Sweep, Photoroom, and Numeral. Earlier in his career, he built convai, a conversational AI startup where he served as CTO. Maxime holds an MSc in Data Science from Centrale Paris.
Antoine is co-founder and General Partner of Cleo. He was most recently Partner at Breega, leading pre-seed and seed investments across Western Europe. Earlier in his career, he served as COO of Green-Acres, a real estate platform he helped scale to €6m ARR and co-founded a fintech platform, Bizzdata. Antoine holds an MSc in Computer Science from Centrale Nantes and MSc in BA from HEC Paris.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Cleo Ventures Fund III
Cleo Ventures Fund II
Cleo Ventures Fund I
Portfolio Companies (11)
Other
Stealth
Full-stack research infrastructure operated by an in-house-trained AI scientist that automates the entire research cycle
AMI Labs
New breed of AI systems understanding the real world
MatX
Hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models
Fintool
AI Equity Analyst
DeepIP
AI patent copilot
Animaj
AI publishing platform and studio for kids animation IPs
Linc
AI-native Payroll engine
Metomic
Protect sensitive data in your SaaS applications
Zeliq
AI sales agent / sales SaaS platform for revenue intelligence
GitGuardian
Code and secrets security platform
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, SaaS, Security — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $300K – $1.0M check.
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