Serena is a Paris-based European venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Xavier Lorphelin, Marc Fournier and Philippe Hayat, investing in Europe-based founders from pre-seed through Series A with initial tickets ranging from EUR 100K to EUR 15M. The firm closed its EUR 200M Fund IV in 2026, bringing total assets under management to over EUR 1 billion, and concentrates on applied AI, the modern data stack and AI infrastructure, SaaS, climate tech and the energy transition, commercial open source, blockchain, quantum, consumer innovation and impact. Serena describes itself as "by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs" and pairs capital with an in-house operating team (Capital Boost), a dedicated data-focused arm in Serena Data Ventures, and the Racine squared impact and deep-tech vehicle. Its published portfolio of 113 companies includes Dataiku, Memo Bank, Descartes Underwriting, Mindee, Probabl, ACINQ, Brigad and Evaneos, alongside exits such as LaFourchette/The Fork to TripAdvisor, AramisAuto to PSA, PrestaShop to MBE Worldwide, iBanFirst to Marlin Equity Partners, Alkemics to Salsify, Hull to MessageBird, Koyeb and Emmi AI to Mistral, Leonardo.ai to Canva, Shadow to OVH, and the NYSE IPO of Sequans. The firm also publishes an unusually deep public research library, including the French AI Report, the Serena European SaaS Benchmark and the Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) Report. This profile tracks Serena's identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.
Serena has 113 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 62 (55%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 51 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Memo Bank, Koyeb, Bonitasoft, PyannoteAI, Lengow.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
The 110 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Serena, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the
“Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own
coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
19%
11%
+8
MCP server (first-party)
22%
13%
+9
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
16%
12%
+4
Security
97%
96%
+1
Arazzo workflows
4%
2%
+2
Governance rules
4%
13%
-9
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
All 113 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
22 September 2026, across 27674
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
aid: serena
name: Serena
description: >-
Serena is a Paris-based European venture capital firm founded in 2008 by
Xavier Lorphelin, Marc Fournier and Philippe Hayat, investing in Europe-based
founders from pre-seed through Series A with initial tickets ranging from
EUR 100K to EUR 15M. The firm closed its EUR 200M Fund IV in 2026, bringing
total assets under management to over EUR 1 billion, and concentrates on
applied AI, the modern data stack and AI infrastructure, SaaS, climate tech
and the energy transition, commercial open source, blockchain, quantum,
consumer innovation and impact. Serena describes itself as "by entrepreneurs
for entrepreneurs" and pairs capital with an in-house operating team (Capital
Boost), a dedicated data-focused arm in Serena Data Ventures, and the Racine
squared impact and deep-tech vehicle. Its published portfolio of 113 companies
includes Dataiku, Memo Bank, Descartes Underwriting, Mindee, Probabl, ACINQ,
Brigad and Evaneos, alongside exits such as LaFourchette/The Fork to
TripAdvisor, AramisAuto to PSA, PrestaShop to MBE Worldwide, iBanFirst to
Marlin Equity Partners, Alkemics to Salsify, Hull to MessageBird, Koyeb and
Emmi AI to Mistral, Leonardo.ai to Canva, Shadow to OVH, and the NYSE IPO of
Sequans. The firm also publishes an unusually
deep public research library, including the French AI Report, the Serena
European SaaS Benchmark and the Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) Report.
This profile tracks Serena's identity and its portfolio graph across the API
Evangelist network.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
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open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
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generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
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label: Unknown
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source: []
generated: '2026-08-17'
method: derived
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tags:
- Venture Capital
- Pre-Seed
- Seed
- Series A
- Early Stage
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data
- Software-as-a-Service
- Climate Tech
- Open-Source
- Fintech
- Infrastructure
- Impact
- Europe
- France
- Paris
tags_raw:
- Venture Capital
- Pre-Seed
- Seed
- Series A
- Early Stage
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data
- SaaS
- Climate Tech
- Open Source
- Fintech
- Infrastructure
- Impact
- Europe
- France
- Paris
url: >-
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/serena/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-08-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.serena.vc/
- type: Portfolio
url: https://www.serena.vc/our-portfolio/
- type: Portfolio
url: portfolio/serena-portfolio.yml
- type: Team
url: https://www.serena.vc/our-team/
- type: Team
url: team/serena-team.yml
- type: Reports
url: https://www.serena.vc/templates-and-reports/
- type: Research
url: https://www.serena.vc/templates-and-reports/
- type: News
url: https://www.serena.vc/serena-in-the-press/
- type: Sustainability
url: https://www.serena.vc/serena-sustainability/
- type: Jobs
url: https://careers.serena.vc/jobs
- type: Jobs
url: https://www.serena.vc/talent-club/
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/serenaVC
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/serenaVC
- type: Crunchbase
url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/serena-capital
- type: Legal
url: https://www.serena.vc/legal/
- type: Features
data:
- 'Stage: pre-seed to Series A'
- 'Typical check: EUR 100K to EUR 15M initial ticket'
- 'AUM: over EUR 1 billion (self-reported, 2026)'
- 'Current fund: Serena IV, EUR 200M (closed 2026)'
- 'Prior fund: Serena III, EUR 300M'
- >-
Sectors: applied AI, modern data stack, AI infrastructure, SaaS, climate
tech and energy transition, commercial open source, blockchain, quantum,
consumer, impact
- 'Geography: Europe-based founders, with US expansion support'
- 'Founded: 2008'
- 'Founders: Xavier Lorphelin, Marc Fournier, Philippe Hayat'
- 'HQ: 21 rue Auber, 75009 Paris, France'
- 'Positioning: "Allies to global outliers" / "by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs"'
- 'Operating platform: Capital Boost in-house operating team'
- 'Affiliated vehicles: Serena Data Ventures, Racine2 (racine2.vc), makesense Fund'
- 'Portfolio: 113 companies published on the public portfolio page'
- >-
Notable portfolio and exits: Dataiku, Memo Bank, Descartes Underwriting,
Mindee, Probabl, ACINQ, Leonardo.ai, Brigad, Evaneos, The
Fork/LaFourchette, Aramis Auto, Cheerz, iBanFirst, Alkemics, Sequans
- >-
Public research: The French AI Report, Serena European SaaS Benchmark,
Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) Report, Nature Tech VC funding
report
- 'Contact: +33 1 77 37 30 30'
sources:
- https://www.serena.vc/
- https://www.serena.vc/our-portfolio/
- https://www.serena.vc/templates-and-reports/
- https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/serena-closes-200-m-fund-iv
updated: '2026-08-17'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: Serena
url: https://www.serena.vc/
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