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Karista

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Blurb

VC firm with a focus on early-stage innovative companies with high-growth potential in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace.

HQ Location

France

Founded

2001

Employees

1 - 10

Total funding raised

Not available

Last Funding Event

Not available

Smart insights

  • Catherine Msc (Chief People Officer) worked at Lilium as Head of People Business Partnering for 1.5 years (2021 - 2022)
  • Val Miftakhov (Founder & CEO) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of R&D, Google for Work Incubation, for a total of 4 years (2012 - 2016)
  • 6m headcount growth: 25%
  • 1Y headcount growth: 94%
  • Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 5.3 employees/$M

Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in ambitious entrepreneurs. For the past 20 years, we have been backing and guiding more than 100 companies from inception to success in Health, Digital, and Technology. Because we believe that investment is not only about money but mainly about people, we provide support to our founders and entrepreneurs very early-on.



We come from different backgrounds and bring various skills to help nurturing our portfolio companies on many levels. We are currently deploying three European early stage funds: our Karista’s Fourth Fund, the Paris Region Venture Fund sponsored by the Paris Region and the European Commission, and our SpaceTech fund sponsored by CNES and focusing on NewSpace.