This month at Hexa…
Ft. three (!) Seed rounds raised
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💼 How to build in a world of 0 mistakes, with Evan Testa
Private markets demand absolute precision, and that reality shaped Roundtable (HX22) from day one. In this Start Mode episode, Evan Testa sits down with Mat Vaxelaire to share how the team structured nearly €500M in investments, made its MVP legally bulletproof before writing code, and built a product that spreads organically as each deal brings new investors into the platform. A useful insight into trust, focus, and designing for credibility.
🏎️ An industry stuck in slow motion and the CTO rebuilding it
Procurement has been stuck in slow motion for years, but Estelle Giuly is changing that. In this new CTO Voices episode, she sits down with Louis Pinsard (Dialog) to unpack how she’s scaled Pivot’s engineering team from 5 to 25 in under two years while steering the company into enterprise-grade territory. Estelle shares how her role evolved from shipping code daily to becoming the conductor of a fast, high-ownership engineering culture, and how Pivot continued growing.
💸 Betting on a contracting market - and why it actually makes sense
Founders often avoid markets that look rough in the short term, but it can be where the structural opportunities hide. Apprenticeships in France are down 20%, schools are struggling, and the sector looks tiny from the outside. Yet Augustin explains why this turbulence is actually forcing a long-overdue modernization of European higher education. Filiz is perfectly positioned at that inflection point, growing 300% through pure pull by solving the financing maze everyone else ignored. A look at what it’s like to back an industry at the right moment.
Portfolio news
🩺 Annette raises €2M to reshape obesity care
A big well done to Annette, who has raised €2M to bring structured medical support to patients on GLP-1 treatments. Built around a multidisciplinary team and a clinical companion-app, Annette designs long-term care paths that combine nutrition guidance, emotional support, and medical oversight to secure outcomes and reduce relapse. Already supporting 1,000+ patients, the company now plans to scale its model in France and across Europe.
🪨 Basalt raises $5M to bring reliability back to AI
Basalt has raised $5M to give teams the infrastructure to build AI agents they can trust. Started from Guillaume Marquis’ own pain around slow prompt iteration, Basalt brings PMs, operators and engineers into the same workflow to experiment, evaluate, and monitor AI behavior. The round was led by Entourage and Peak, with Alpha Star and Kima Ventures onboard. So proud of the team!
💬 Dialog raises $4.4M to reinvent e-commerce with AI
Dialog has raised $4.4M to help brands meet shoppers where they now search: with AI. Its agent learns each brand’s data and tone, guiding visitors to the right product and driving up to 3× higher conversion. In two years, Dialog has worked with 300+ brands, powered 1M+ conversations, and generated 300K add-to-carts. Huge kudos to the team for this achievement.
🦋 Yousign enters digital trust era, becoming Youtrust
What started in 2019 as a push to build a European leader in e-signatures has grown into something bigger. As the market shifts from convenience to digital sovereignty, Yousign now goes beyond signing to sealing, verifying, and authenticating documents and content. To reflect this evolution, the company will transition to a new identity: Youtrust, with the full change planned for 2026. A major milestone for a company shaping Europe’s trust infrastructure.
Hexa news
🩺 Kor CTO Samuel Roze joins our next CTO Voices
Kor is building the new generation of health checkups, and for our next CTO Voices, Samuel Roze will sit down with Gwen Le Calvez (Annette) to unpack how they shipped an AI health agent that companies actually trust. They’ll dive into medical-grade datasets and evals, how engineers and clinicians iterate safely, and what it takes to ship AI in a tightly regulated space. We’ll wrap with drinks and networking. Event in French, for devs only.
🎒 Hexa Scale invests €6M in edtech Filiz
Hexa Scale is partnering with Filiz, the French edtech helping private schools and apprenticeship centres run better. Founded by Maxime Jacquet and Aurélia Barault, Filiz has grown profitably to serve 500+ campuses and is now gearing up for European expansion. This €6M investment, led by Augustin Celier and Samuel Boggio, marks Hexa Scale’s second deal after Veevart, backing exactly the kind of company the model was built for.
💨 Hexa launches its acceleration program: Sprint
After 10 years of building startups from scratch, we’re opening our method to founders already in motion. Hexa Sprint helps early-stage teams level up their ambition with a six-month, sector-specific cohort, €500K for 10% equity, and hands-on support from a Hexa Partner. The first track, Defense & European Sovereignty, launches now with Guillaume Lerouge, with cohorts in AI, climate, SaaS, cybersecurity, consumer, and more to follow.
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