Founded by Emmanuel Darras (CEO) and Ludovic Dehon (CTO), startup Kestra provides enterprises with an event orchestration platform for defining, automating and managing complex data workflows.

Degroux Brugère advised Kestra in a €7 million financing round led by Alven, with the participation of historical investors Isai and Axeleo.

Following an initial pre-seed round of 3 million euros a few months ago, this new round of financing will enable the start-up to accelerate its development.

In addition to institutional investors, Kestra is backed by several leading business angels specializing in data engineering, including Tristan Handy (dbt Labs), Michel Tricot (Airbyte), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Clément Delangue (Hugging Face), Bertrand Diard (Talend), Nicolas Dessaigne (Algolia) and Frédéric Plais (Platform.sh).

Jérémie Swiecznik, partner of the Transactional Practice, took part in this transaction, alongside Benoît Courtet, counsel.

Alven was advised by Goodwin Procter.

Carbon Maps is a SaaS environmental accounting platform for the food industry, whose ambition is improving the environmental footprint in this sector by collecting and analyzing data, using scientific models, at all stages of the food chain, from farmers to consumers.

Its services will be all the more essential as of January 1, 2024, when the Eco-score, indicating the environmental footprint of a product, will have to be present on all foods.

This €4 million seed round from Breega and Samaipata funds will allow the young startup, created in 2022, to accelerate the development of its algorithm, which will be able to help manufacturers meet the regulations and also to expand on the European market.

Through this operation, Carbon Maps aims to become the reference environmental accounting platform for all players in the food chain, enabling them to build sustainable progress trajectories.

Jérémie Swiecznik, partner, and Benoit Courtet, counsel, advised Breega and Samaipata on this transaction.