Karista portfolio

Karista has 3 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.

Website: karista.vc.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 3.

Deals, last 12 months: 1.

Rounds led: 1 of 4.

Capital in their rounds: $131.13M.

Latest deal: Constellr · Feb 10, 2026.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Paris, FR, founded in 2001. It led 1 of the 4 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Constellr's $44M Series A round in February 2026, alongside Cooperative Ventures, Semapa Next, FTTF and 6 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Manufacturing and industrial (2) and Climate and energy (1). It has co-invested with Lakestar, Vsquared Ventures and FTTF, most often Lakestar (2 rounds).

About Karista

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Paris, FR.

Founded: 2001.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Late Stage.

Sectors: Biotech, Cleantech, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Digital Health, EdTech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, Healthtech, Medical Devices, Mobility & Transportation, New Materials, Retail Tech, SaaS, Semiconductors, Space Tech.

Check size: $324K to $5.4M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 76.

Exits: 1.

Rounds led: 2.

What Karista invests in

Karista recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
CConstellr	Series A · $44M	Feb 10, 2026	Cooperative Ventures, Semapa Next, FTTF +6
CConstellr	Seed · $19M · lead	Jul 1, 2023	Einstein Industries Ventures, FTTF, Amathaon Capital +6
TTissium	Series B+ · $43.13M	Nov 20, 2019	Crédit Mutuel Innovation, Bpifrance, OMNES Capital +4
TTissium	Series A · $25M	Mar 1, 2016	Crédit Mutuel Innovation, OMNES Capital, Sofinnova Partners (lead)

How Karista invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series A	2 50%	$69M
Seed	1 25%	$19M
Series B+	1 25%	$43.13M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2016	1 25%	$25M
2019	1 25%	$43.13M
2023	1 25%	$19M
2026	1 25%	$44M

Karista portfolio companies

CConstellr$44MSeries A · Feb 2026
TTissium$43.13MSeries B+ · Nov 2019
LLeanspacebacker

Company	Round with Karista	Total raised	Latest raise
CConstellr Climate and energy	Feb 10, 2026 Series A · $44M	$74.22M	Feb 10, 2026 Series A
TTissium Health and bio	Nov 20, 2019 Series B+ · $43.13M	$241.14M	Jun 23, 2026 Series B+
LLeanspace Developer tools and cloud	backer	$17.59M	Nov 17, 2025 Series A

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Manufacturing and industrial).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-09, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 4 rounds on Recent Funding that name Karista. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Karista, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/karista (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.