Marie Geneste

Partner at Sistafund

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
VC🌍 France
15
Total investments
0
Early stage
9
Mid stage
4
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

14 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2023
HappyPal est la solution qui souffle un vent de modernité sur l’expérience des avantages et la rend enfin accessible à tous. 🚀 HappyPal permet aux entreprises de toutes tailles de mettre en place un programme d’avantages 100% digital et personnalisé, en un temps record et avec un minimum de gestion ! Et pour les bénéficiaires, c’est un compagnon bien-être & fun au quotidien, avec notamment : - Une expérience 100% digitale, intuitive et mobile-first - Des subventions enfin lisibles et faciles à dépenser, qui collent aux nouveaux usages de consommation, pour démocratiser laccès au sport, à la culture, aux voyages... - Des réductions exclusives, négociées auprès des meilleures marques et services La solution a déjà séduit près de 600 entreprises dont RATP, Doctolib, Spotify, Microsoft, Krys Group, Porsche, Booking, Withings, et compte plus de 200 000 utilisateurs.
Investor and Board member
May 2023
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences (ToU) is an official German state-recognized university, dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders & change makers. We elevate flexible & future proof learning through: * Fully remote programs, curated by industry experts. * A schedule that aligns to your work & life terms. * Access to a well-connected, global community of impact-driven professionals. * 100% focus on skills that matter, emphasizing Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology. * Fully accredited programs at German quality & innovation standards. * Radically accessible tuition models. Make change happen with our specialized Degree & Certificate Programs: * Impact MBA * Master * Bachelor * Certificates * Short Courses Upskill today, lead the change tomorrow! Find out more:
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2023
>> N’ayez plus peur d’être lu << Lorsque votre communication écrite vous fait parfois perdre en crédibilité, MerciApp vous apporte la garantie que vos écrits respectent les règles de style, dorthographe et de grammaire élémentaires. >> Valorisez votre expertise << Avant d’envoyer un e-mail, de publier un contenu ou de partager un document contractuel, utilisez MerciApp pour avoir l’assurance de mettre en valeur votre savoir-faire. >> Adoptez la référence << Nous nous appuyons sur les fruits de 30 années de recherche en ingénierie linguistique et sur des moteurs d’analyse performants approuvés par plus de 200 000 professionnels de l’écrit.
Investor
Apr 2022
Female Invest is on a mission to close the financial gender gap. By creating a safe space and a trusted source for knowledge, we’re democratizing investing for everyone globally. Our edtech platform has paying members in 100+ countries and our book Girls Just Wanna Have Funds is a global bestseller.
Investor and Board Observer
Apr 2022
👉🏻 Chez hupso on veut s’attaquer à un problème qui ne date pas d’hier : la pénurie de main-dœuvre. D’un côté il y a des entreprises qui n’arrivent pas à recruter, et de l’autre des milliers de travailleurs au chômage ou qui ne trouvent plus de sens dans leur emploi actuel. Alors on a ciblé des métiers en tension ; ces métiers indispensables sans qui la société ne peut fonctionner (et pour lesquels les entreprises n’arrivent pas à recruter) et on a créé des formations diplômantes accessibles à tous. 🔥🔥 Parce que dans ces métiers, le chômage n’existe pas. 👊 On le dit d’ailleurs haut et fort sur notre page d’accueil de site : “Bienvenue dans un monde sans chômage”. On s’engage jour après jour à faire réussir nos apprenants. On souhaite aussi, à notre échelle, faire bouger les lignes du marché de l’emploi et revaloriser les métiers en tension. Et on continue à produire des contenus sur les métiers en tension et de créer de nouvelles formations. +3000 apprenants chaque année, 18 formations aux métiers en tension, 85% d’employabilité sous 3 mois hupso, devenir indispensable. 🏆 Lauréat #Impact120 pour notre engagement social. 🚀 Envie de nous rejoindre ? - Nos offres demploi sont ici : https://bit.ly/hupso-recrute - Vous êtes un professeur et souhaitez accompagner nos apprenants au quotidien ? Contactez notre équipe pédagogique sur pedagogie@hupso.co - Vous êtes une entreprise ou un acteur de lemploi ? Contactez nous sur emploi@hupso.co
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2022
The first healthcare platform dedicated to sharing knowledge and experience between healthcare players. #health #medicaleducation French startup created in 2016, Invivox has allowed more than 44,000 healthcare professionals to be trained in 2020. Our primary mission: To democratize and facilitate access to knowledge in healthcare to improve the quality of patient care worldwide. Our vision: To become the reference for knowledge sharing between healthcare players. If you would like to know more about our offer, visit: https://invivox.com/ #NeverStopSharing
Board Member
Dec 2021
Supermood is the first engagement and happiness at work platform! - SuperScore : Measure your teams engagement with a simple barometer - SuperFeedback : Collect and analyze useful feedback and make better HR decisions - SuperLike : Boost recognition in your teams, one like at a time Thanks to Supermood, you get qualified and quantified data that you can use to take the best decisions with confidence. Based on your data, we push you personalized HR recommendations from our experts. Our surveys are beautiful (80% response rate) ! So, improve your company culture, get the best candidates, reduce your turnover and increase your employees productivity ! Setup takes 10 minutes, first results after one week and the value lasts forever. This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship ✨ https://supermood.fr hello@supermood.fr + 33 1 42 33 99 49
Investor
Jun 2021
A global payments network built on modern bank rails. Banked powers real-time payments for consumers, businesses and banks, improving the customer experience, payment security, business efficiency and cost effectiveness - a better way to take payments and make payments. Get in touch today to learn more: https://banked.com/forms/contact-form For businesses: A new payment method offering your customers a fast and secure way to pay directly using their bank. Payments arrive to your bank account instantly and in full, helping with cash flow and reconciliation. Making payments as a business is also faster and secure. Banked payments allow the transaction costs to be significantly lower than other payment methods, reduce fraud costs and are simple to integrate with modularised capabilities tailored to your business. From payment links and checkout buttons to value add services for rewards and refunds, Banked has an end to end experience to suit your business. For consumers: A faster, simplified payment experience at checkout or wherever you need to pay. No need for card details or payment information to be stored on browsers or with merchants, making sure that your data and privacy is kept safe and secure. No hassle of account set up and delivering direct communication with your bank allowing you to check funds as you pay. #API #Webdev #Ecommerce #retail #checkout #openbanking #fintech #payments
Investor and Board Observer
Dec 2020
Buybox is the go-to gift card solution guaranteeing e-commerce and retail brands an omnichannel customer acquisition channel with a quick and demonstrable ROI. At Buybox, we believe that brands should focus on two key aspects: customer experience and revenue generation. The gift card is a powerful tool that perfectly meets both of these. We found that the gift card project was often complex for brands. This is why we offer a 360 solution and global support that allows e-retailers and retailers to set up an efficient, effective and growth-oriented gift card program. Based in Toulouse and Madrid, BuyBox has existed since 2010 and has just over 35 employees. More than 400 leading brands in their verticals (Sephora, Galeries Lafayette, Airbnb, E.Leclerc, Zalando, Netflix, Back Market, Orchestra, Deliveroo) use Buybox to turn their gift card program into a success.
Investor
Aug 2019
Description Avrios is an award-winning fleet management software. Founded in 2015 in Zurich by a team of serial entrepreneurs, Avrios currently manages the fleet of more than 1.000 customers in Europe and is one of the fastest growing companies in the SaaS space. Our SaaS platform helps companies provide tailored transportation to its employees and thus enables them to attract top talent while keeping their transportation expenditures under control. Fuelled by a passionate, driven and hard-working team, backed by leading venture capital investors and supported by a high calibre board of directors, Avrios is looking to continue this growth journey and help hundreds of thousands of people in Europe move seamlessly. For more information visit us at: http://www.avrios.com/
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Andjaro is a 360° total staffing platform to urgently find available staff in private and public organisations.
Investor and Board observer
Apr 2019
Fretlink connecte les chargeurs industriels au plus grand réseau de transporteurs régionaux d’Europe, à travers un nouveau standard d’organisation du transport.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
LaunchPad is now Harver. Harver is the industry leading hiring solution helping organizations optimize their talent decisions. Rooted in over 35 years of rich data insights backed by I/O psychology and cognitive science, Harver delivers a suite of automated solutions that enables organizations to engage, hire, and develop the right talent in a fast and fundamentally less biased way. Having processed over 100 million candidates, Harver provides trusted, data-driven, and adaptable offerings, including assessments, video interviews, scheduling, and reference checking. Harver has helped more than 1,300 customers, including Booking.com, Peloton, Valvoline, and McDonald’s, take the smart path to the right talent.
Board Observer
Sep 2018
Zenchef is an all-in-one marketing SaaS that helps restaurants attract customers and increase loyalty. Go to zenchef.com to discover solutions dedicated to restaurant owners: website creation, booking management software, email campaigns, reviews management, e-reputation and more!
late stageRestaurants
Experience · 21 entries
All (21)
Investments (15)
Board (12)
2025
Partner
Sep 2025
We are a new generation of venture capital funders backing exceptional female founders and gender-balanced teams. SISTAFUND is a pan-European VC fund backing female founders and gender-balanced teams, building companies that challenge the status quo. With €70 million, SISTAFUND will be deployed from pre-seed to Series A, mainly in France and Europe, with some investments in the U.S. SISTAFUND’s ambition is twofold: Drive the performance of backed companies, since start-ups founded or co-founded by women are 2.5 times more profitable investments than others (BCG study, 2018). Accelerate a new generation of diversified leaders, by supporting start-ups with at least one female co-founder We focus on four key themes: Fintech, Healthtech, Frontier tech and, Sustainability startups. SISTAFUND I is a Professional Private Equity Investment Fund (FPCI) reserved for qualified investors. The Funds Management Company, SUNSHINE, is a SAS with a registered office at 1-3 rue dEnghien, 75010 Paris, RCS Paris n°983 158 023, approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers as a portfolio management company under the number GP-20240015 since July 23rd, 2024.
2023
Investor and Board Member
Oct 2023
HappyPal est la solution qui souffle un vent de modernité sur l’expérience des avantages et la rend enfin accessible à tous. 🚀 HappyPal permet aux entreprises de toutes tailles de mettre en place un programme d’avantages 100% digital et personnalisé, en un temps record et avec un minimum de gestion ! Et pour les bénéficiaires, c’est un compagnon bien-être & fun au quotidien, avec notamment : - Une expérience 100% digitale, intuitive et mobile-first - Des subventions enfin lisibles et faciles à dépenser, qui collent aux nouveaux usages de consommation, pour démocratiser laccès au sport, à la culture, aux voyages... - Des réductions exclusives, négociées auprès des meilleures marques et services La solution a déjà séduit près de 600 entreprises dont RATP, Doctolib, Spotify, Microsoft, Krys Group, Porsche, Booking, Withings, et compte plus de 200 000 utilisateurs.
Investor and Board member
May 2023
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences (ToU) is an official German state-recognized university, dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders & change makers. We elevate flexible & future proof learning through: * Fully remote programs, curated by industry experts. * A schedule that aligns to your work & life terms. * Access to a well-connected, global community of impact-driven professionals. * 100% focus on skills that matter, emphasizing Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology. * Fully accredited programs at German quality & innovation standards. * Radically accessible tuition models. Make change happen with our specialized Degree & Certificate Programs: * Impact MBA * Master * Bachelor * Certificates * Short Courses Upskill today, lead the change tomorrow! Find out more:
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2023
>> N’ayez plus peur d’être lu << Lorsque votre communication écrite vous fait parfois perdre en crédibilité, MerciApp vous apporte la garantie que vos écrits respectent les règles de style, dorthographe et de grammaire élémentaires. >> Valorisez votre expertise << Avant d’envoyer un e-mail, de publier un contenu ou de partager un document contractuel, utilisez MerciApp pour avoir l’assurance de mettre en valeur votre savoir-faire. >> Adoptez la référence << Nous nous appuyons sur les fruits de 30 années de recherche en ingénierie linguistique et sur des moteurs d’analyse performants approuvés par plus de 200 000 professionnels de l’écrit.
2022
Investor
Apr 2022
Female Invest is on a mission to close the financial gender gap. By creating a safe space and a trusted source for knowledge, we’re democratizing investing for everyone globally. Our edtech platform has paying members in 100+ countries and our book Girls Just Wanna Have Funds is a global bestseller.
Show all 21 entries ↓
Investment activity
2018–2023 · 15 investments
201822019420201202122022320233
Recent (last 2 years)Earlier