Maxime Cardinal

Partner

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 France
12
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7
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1
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4
Late stage
4y
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Board observer
Jul 2025
At Gobano Robotics, we develop cutting-edge AI robotic models to automate the most dexterous tasks. We deliver tailored models with the speed, accuracy, and reliability industry demands.
Investor
Jun 2025
VSORA – Redefining AI Inference for Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure VSORA is a French fabless semiconductor company pioneering ultra-efficient, high-performance AI inference processors for cloud and data center environments. Purpose-built to overcome the memory wall and the escalating energy demands of modern AI workloads, VSORA’s flagship chip Jotunn8 delivers breakthrough throughput, ultra-low latency, and exceptional performance-per-watt—enabling cloud providers to scale AI services more sustainably and cost-effectively. Jotunn8 is Europe’s first HBM-equipped inference processor, leveraging an advanced chiplet architecture and CoWoS packaging to support massive bandwidth, linear scalability, and reliable deployment of large models in production environments. From sovereign AI clouds to hyperscale inference clusters, VSORA empowers operators to run more AI workloads with fewer servers, lower power consumption, and drastically reduced total cost of ownership. With a leadership team boasting over 25 years of silicon innovation and a proven exit, VSORA is driving the next wave of efficient AI compute—built for scale, built for sustainability, and built for the future of cloud AI. Learn more at vsora.com
Board Observer
Nov 2024
mirSense is a French high tech company specialized in QCL (Quantum Cascade Laser) based solutions addressing the defense and industry/environment markets. The mirSense offer splits into three product lines : - uniMir: DFB Lasers (for spectroscopy) - powerMir: high power Lasers (for defense and security) - multiSense: OEM Laser gas analyser (for industry/environment) mirSense patented QCL technologies bridge the gap between high performance, miniaturization and cost effectiveness.
late stageSemiconductors
Board Member
Nov 2023
We build heat engines that allow the industry and the electrical grid to stop polluting at scale in a cost-effective way.
Board Member
Oct 2023
Jimini is a VC-backed start-up, developing cutting-edge AI technologies for law firms and large companies, enabling unprecedented access to the law. In other words, Legal AI that benefits everyone !
Board Member
Apr 2023
Transition écologique, augmentation des prix de l’énergie, nouvelles réglementations… de nouveaux défis simposent aux flottes et complexifient leur gestion. Cest pourquoi nous avons créé Qivia : une carte et plateforme unique pour simplifier la gestion de vos flottes et aborder sereinement lavenir.
Board Member
Nov 2022
Goodvest fait fructifier votre épargne en alliant investissement responsable, recherche de rendement et transparence. Faites une simulation sur goodvest.fr
Board Member
Nov 2022
Hyperplan software, powered by remote sensing data and cutting-edge AI, offers the easiest and fastest access to relevant insights. An easy-to-deploy and user-friendly interface that transforms parcel-level data into actionable decisions in daily operations. Comprehensive Visibility on Agricultural Production: From parcel-level to national scales, access field boundaries, crop rotations, yield estimates, and quality risk assessments. Real-Time Crop Monitoring: Analyze and compare vegetation status, phenology, and mechanical events with unprecedented reliability.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Chez Galam Robotics, nous avons lobjectif de bouleverser les usages grâce à une toute nouvelle technologie : la robotique modulaire. Nous sommes convaincus que cette innovation va transformer radicalement de nombreux métiers, du stockage en espace contraint jusquà lexploration de milieux inconnus, et nous souhaitons être les acteurs de cette révolution à venir. Aujourdhui, notre solution de stockage robotisée et modulaire s’adresse aux gérants de stocks en milieu urbain qui souhaitent optimiser leur capacité de stockage tout en maximisant leurs flux d’entrées/sorties. Notre solution est : - Ultra-compacte - Rapide - Adaptable a tout local - Connectée en permanence Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur www.galam-robotics.com
Board Member
Jun 2022
Mithril Security helps software vendors deploy AI SaaS to security-demanding organizations. We do it thanks to our secure enclave deployment tooling, which provides SaaS on-prem levels of security and control for customers. #DataSecurity #AIIntegration #SaaS #Enclaves #ConfidentialComputing #AISaaS
Investor
May 2022
At Spinergie, were dedicated to revolutionizing the maritime sector through solutions to digitalize operations, tackle carbon emissions, and streamline related costs. With over 100 clients worldwide, including charterers, vessel managers, engineering and services companies, we are an international company serving various industries such as offshore, shipping, and marshaling port markets. Combining maritime expertise from our analyst teams with cutting-edge technologies based on data science research to build robust AIs and models enables us to propose high-quality data intelligence and relevant, actionable insights. Our innovative, data-driven approach empowers maritime businesses, supporting decision-making from strategic planning to flawless execution. We guarantee top-class data openness through an easy and secure data journey, including API integration and several entry points or export format possibilities. Join us in shaping a more sustainable world: spinergie.com/demo
Directeur d'investissements
Mar 2022
Polytechnique Ventures is the seed fund of Ecole Polytechnique, created in 2020. Financed by the Alumni, the fund accompanies and invests in start-ups from the Ecole Polytechniques innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. We target companies that will provide powerful solutions to the challenges of the transition to tomorrows world. We support start-ups emanating from the Ecole Polytechnique ecosystem: founded by one or more Ecole Polytechnique alumni, incubated at Ecole Polytechnique or emanating from the schools laboratories. Our investment strategy is focused on early stage financing, in co-investment, with average initial tickets of €250K to €500K in pre-seed and seed, followed by reinvestments in series A (average ticket per company of about €2.5m). We give priority to ambitious deep tech teams, able to transform the industrial sectors they target. We cover a wide range of sectors, derived from the Schools areas of technological excellence: energy, climate and environment; mobility, transport and aerospace; biomedical engineering and health; industry 4.0 and robotics; IoT and digital applications; digital economy; cybersecurity; new materials; finance ... We are focused on the values of proximity, notably with entrepreneurs and the Ecole Polytechnique ecosystem; of experience through the Alumni network and the X community; and of generosity from all stakeholders to the community built around the fund. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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2025
Board observer
Jul 2025
At Gobano Robotics, we develop cutting-edge AI robotic models to automate the most dexterous tasks. We deliver tailored models with the speed, accuracy, and reliability industry demands.
Investor
Jun 2025
VSORA – Redefining AI Inference for Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure VSORA is a French fabless semiconductor company pioneering ultra-efficient, high-performance AI inference processors for cloud and data center environments. Purpose-built to overcome the memory wall and the escalating energy demands of modern AI workloads, VSORA’s flagship chip Jotunn8 delivers breakthrough throughput, ultra-low latency, and exceptional performance-per-watt—enabling cloud providers to scale AI services more sustainably and cost-effectively. Jotunn8 is Europe’s first HBM-equipped inference processor, leveraging an advanced chiplet architecture and CoWoS packaging to support massive bandwidth, linear scalability, and reliable deployment of large models in production environments. From sovereign AI clouds to hyperscale inference clusters, VSORA empowers operators to run more AI workloads with fewer servers, lower power consumption, and drastically reduced total cost of ownership. With a leadership team boasting over 25 years of silicon innovation and a proven exit, VSORA is driving the next wave of efficient AI compute—built for scale, built for sustainability, and built for the future of cloud AI. Learn more at vsora.com
2024
Board Observer
Nov 2024
mirSense is a French high tech company specialized in QCL (Quantum Cascade Laser) based solutions addressing the defense and industry/environment markets. The mirSense offer splits into three product lines : - uniMir: DFB Lasers (for spectroscopy) - powerMir: high power Lasers (for defense and security) - multiSense: OEM Laser gas analyser (for industry/environment) mirSense patented QCL technologies bridge the gap between high performance, miniaturization and cost effectiveness.
late stageSemiconductors
2023
Board Member
Nov 2023
We build heat engines that allow the industry and the electrical grid to stop polluting at scale in a cost-effective way.
Board Member
Oct 2023
Jimini is a VC-backed start-up, developing cutting-edge AI technologies for law firms and large companies, enabling unprecedented access to the law. In other words, Legal AI that benefits everyone !
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