What OSS Ventures does

OSS Ventures is a Paris- and Boston-based industrial AI venture studio founded in 2019 that co-founds B2B SaaS companies with experienced operators by embedding teams directly inside manufacturing facilities to validate problems before writing software. The studio has built approximately 30 ventures since inception (22 currently active) spanning Production (Fabriq, Mercateam, Bonx, Juno, Oplit, Yoshu), Supply Chain (Flowlity), Engineering & Automation (Cognyx, Vitesse Automation, Stargazr), Finance & Procurement (Vela, Parsio), HSE (NRJx, Cinqo, Cybeletech, MyC), Sales & Marketing (Relief), and Construction (Kraaft). Portfolio products are deployed across 3,600+ industrial sites and used by 200,000+ daily active users, with anchor industrial partners including Tesla, Michelin, LVMH, Decathlon, Safran, Chanel, Saint-Gobain, and Lacoste.

The underlying technology platform is a factory-embedded discovery engine that validates six fundamentals (problem, user dynamics, causal mechanism, solution hypothesis, economic logic, GTM mechanism) through structured 8-hour factory visits, operator shadowing, and management interviews before any code is written. AI capabilities are distributed across the portfolio: predictive forecasting (Flowlity, Juno), generative AI (Cognyx, Vitesse Automation, Parsio, Relief, Yoshu), anomaly detection (NRJx), NLP (Relief), knowledge retrieval (Yoshu, Stargazr), and process automation (Bonx, MyC, Flowlity). Flowlity received Gartner Cool Vendor recognition in Supply Chain Planning in 2025.

OSS invests approximately €500k per venture in exchange for 25% equity (founders retain 75%, typically split 50/50 between CEO and CTO), with no salary during the first 12-18 months until first fundraising. Beyond the venture creation engine, OSS operates a €75M industrial software fund that reached a €40M first close in February 2026 with Decathlon PULSE, Teknor Apex, and 1st Kind by Peugeot Family as founding partners, providing follow-on growth capital to portfolio companies. The studio reports a Series A track record of 13 of 14 rounds securing three or more term sheets and an average of 11 weeks to land the first three customers.

Name

OSS Ventures

Legal name

SAS Devillières Renan - OSS Ventures

Website

https://oss.ventures

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OSS Ventures is a Paris- and Boston-based industrial AI venture studio that co-founds B2B SaaS companies with experienced founders by embedding teams directly in factories to validate and build software for manufacturing operations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Venture Studio / Company Creation: OSS co-founds B2B industrial software companies with founders. The studio takes 25% equity in newly created companies, investing approximately €500k per venture covering team salaries, cash expenses, and initial equity investment. Capital deployment follows milestones rather than timelines.
2. Fund Management: OSS operates an investment fund (€75M target) that provides growth capital to portfolio companies. The fund reached €40M first close with participation from industrial partners like Teknor Apex, Decathlon PULSE, and Peugeot Family. Fund is designed as follow-on capital for in-house built ventures.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

OSS Ventures is an industrial AI venture studio that co-builds B2B SaaS companies by embedding teams directly inside factories to validate problems with real operators before product development. The studio takes 25% equity in newly created companies while investing approximately €500k per venture covering team salaries, cash expenses, and initial equity, with founders retaining 75%. Backed by a €75M industrial software fund, OSS provides hands-on operational support across product, tech, GTM, hiring, and fundraising while deploying 29 portfolio companies across production, supply chain, engineering, automation, finance, procurement, HSE, and construction categories.

Product overview

OSS Ventures is a Paris- and Boston-based industrial AI venture studio that builds B2B SaaS companies by embedding teams directly inside factories alongside industry experts, creating software solutions for manufacturing digitisation. Backed by >€50M in assets under management from European and US investors, the studio has built 29 ventures across categories spanning Production (Fabriq, Mercateam, Bonx, Juno, Oplit, Yoshu), Supply Chain (Flowlity, Oplit), Engineering & Automation (Cognyx, Vitesse Automation, Stargazr), Finance & Procurement (Vela, Parsio), HSE (NRJx, Cinqo, Cybeletech, MyC), Sales & Marketing (Relief), and Construction (Kraaft). The portfolio companies operate across 3,600+ to 3,800 industrial sites worldwide, with products used by over 100,000 to 200,000+ daily active users. The venture studio model involves co-founding companies with experienced founders, providing hands-on operational support across product, tech, revenue, and fundraising, and maintaining long-term investment involvement. Individual portfolio companies range from Pre-Seed through Series B stage, with Niagara having been acquired.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Deal: OSS Ventures' venture building program for founders, offering capital deployment, factory partner access, and operational co-founding support
• Digidiag
• CxO Club
• Aero 4.0
• CxO Club 4.0

Products and services

• Fabriq All-in-one shop-floor solution providing daily performance management and continuous improvement tools for industrial and logistics teams to drive operational excellence across sites.
• Mercateam Production team management platform centralizing operator skills and authorizations, automating assignment planning using real operational constraints, and helping factories manage workforce versatility and training at scale.
• Flowlity AI-powered supply chain management SaaS platform that automates demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and supply planning to help companies reduce inventory, prevent stockouts, and improve service levels.
• Oplit Scheduling and planning software for industry that connects directly to the ERP, replacing scattered Excel and BI tools with a shared view of priorities, real-time production tracking, and shop-floor decision-making.
• Bonx AI-based industrial ERP that adapts to how manufacturers operate, enabling teams to create and adapt their own processes covering procurement, inventory, and production with deployment times of 4–12 weeks.
• Juno Platform that captures, unifies, and acts on production data from people and machines, building operational AI models that turn factory-floor expertise into actionable recommendations for process optimization and predictive insights.
• NRJx Ready-to-use Energy Management System (EnMS) that automatically collects consumption, production, and contextual data from industrial sites and uses AI to qualify energy deviations and structure information for operational and compliance purposes.
• Cinqo Waste-focused SaaS that optimizes and redirects industrial waste streams, providing tech-based ESG compliance for manufacturers and optimization algorithms for specialist recyclers.
• Kraaft Instant messaging platform for construction site tracking that replaces fragmented reporting with a collaborative site diary, enabling field teams to document progress and hazards with one-click photo evidence.
• Cybeletech AI-powered digital decision system for agriculture and ESG that builds a digital twin of living vegetation using mathematical modeling, AI, satellite imagery, and ground data to track crop development, predict phenological stages, and forecast yields.
• MyC Operating system to run company medical services that centralizes medical and occupational health data across sites, automates compliance and legal reporting, and provides predictive health insights to reduce absenteeism and operational risk.
• Stargazr AI-based xP&A (Extended Planning & Analysis) platform for industrial companies that connects shop-floor data to financial outcomes, acts as an FP&A co-pilot, and enables real-time 'what if' simulations to test operational decisions against profitability.
• Cognyx AI-native, collaborative, and fully customizable BOM (Bill of Materials) platform for controlling engineering data across the value chain, enabling engineering teams to manage complex product configurations.
• Relief AI-powered quoting platform for industrial companies managing project-based work that automates RFQ specification analysis and pre-generates quotes for expert review, directly impacting EBITDA.
• Yoshu Frontline intelligence platform for heavy asset industries that embeds AI expertise directly into users' workflows, intervening in operational context to guide actions, increase employee effectiveness, and deliver real-time contextual information.
• Parsio AI procurement engineering platform that recovers 3–15% of direct spend by connecting engineering and procurement data, ingesting specs, drawings, and BOMs to identify over-engineered parts, hidden duplication, and supplier fragmentation through AI-powered workflows.
• Vela Decision system for CEOs running complex operations that links P&L targets to margin and cash actions, turning scattered data into a weekly shortlist of decisions that actually move performance by making causal logic between operational drivers and financial outcomes explicit.
• Vitesse Automation Generative AI-powered no-code and low-code industrial automation platform (V) that enables factories to design, deploy, and orchestrate automated lines and stations without deep automation expertise, reducing commissioning times by 2x and project costs by up to 70%.
• Digidiag Diagnostic One-day embedded factory diagnostic service that surfaces 10-15 high-impact opportunities with quantified financial impact, delivering a gain-capture plan, validated use cases, ROI analysis, and actionable roadmap.
• The Deal (Venture Building Program) Venture building program offering capital deployment (€500k investment taking 25% equity), 600+ factory partner access for validation and pilots, and hands-on operational support across product, tech, GTM, hiring, and fundraising for experienced B2B SaaS founders.

Quantifiable outcome

• From validation to €500K ARR averages 40 weeks
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability21 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Industrial Factory Partners Network (600+)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of 600+ manufacturing companies including Tesla, Michelin, LVMH, Decathlon, Safran, Chanel, Groupe Seb, Guerlain, Bel, Coty, Forvia, Hermes, Andros, Lacoste, Saint-Gobain, Nexteam, and Petit Bateau. Partners provide factory access for validation, pilot deployment opportunities, and early revenue for co-built startups.
• FabriqcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPortfolio company specializing in digitizing lean management on factory floors. Raised €22M led by Expedition Capital with renewed support from OSS Ventures. Focuses on digitizing factory floor operations and tracking performance metrics.
• MyCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOSS portfolio company in healthtech. Raised €10M in funding led by Hi inov with participation from IXO and reinvestment from OSS Ventures. Platform manages employee health in industrial and high-risk environments.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Atomic: San Francisco-based venture studio that builds and invests in early-stage companies with a structured playbook for venture creation. Comparable studio model with proprietary frameworks for identifying and validating opportunities.
• Hexa (formerly eFounders): Paris-based startup studio that builds SaaS companies from scratch with operators, in the same French/European ecosystem as OSS Ventures. Closest geographic peer with similar studio model and B2B software focus.
• Idealab: Pioneer venture studio (Pasadena-based) that creates and operates technology companies from inception. Comparable in the studio model of idea origination, founder pairing, and operational support, with longer track record in vertical software.
• Pioneer Square Labs: Seattle-based venture studio that co-founds technology companies with entrepreneurs, providing operational support and capital. Similar studio model with structured venture creation methodology and founder partnership approach.
• Entrepreneur First: Global venture builder that brings together technical and commercial talent to form startups before ideas exist. Comparable in the talent-first, idea-stage venture studio model that identifies and co-founds companies with founders.
• High Alpha: Indianapolis-based B2B SaaS venture studio that co-creates, launches, and invests in enterprise software companies. Most directly comparable to OSS Ventures in vertical (B2B SaaS) and studio model with structured venture creation methodology.
• Antler: Global venture studio that co-founds startups from inception with experienced founders, operating across multiple geographies and verticals. Same venture studio business model as OSS Ventures, with global scale and broader sector exposure beyond industrial.
• Betaworks: NYC-based venture studio that builds and invests in early-stage companies, particularly in internet, AI, and emerging technology. Comparable studio model with track record of venture creation and operational support.

Broad incumbents

• BCG X: Corporate venturing and incubation arm of Boston Consulting Group, building and investing in technology ventures globally with larger resources. Comparable in studio-style venture creation but with broader industry focus and corporate backing rather than focused industrial vertical.
• SAP.iO: SAP's internal venture studio and accelerator investing in enterprise software companies. Comparable B2B software venture studio model with industrial relevance through SAP's enterprise customer base, but as a corporate incubator rather than independent studio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/oss-ventures
• Xx.com/OSSVentures

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments13 records

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