Post by Alexis Vilette

⭐ We often spend so much time looking ahead that we forget to look in the rear-view mirror — and celebrate how far we’ve come. I’ll try to stick to a good resolution this year: regularly sharing a few financial and strategic updates from Hexa. 1️⃣ Hexa now operates across three complementary strategies : With these three pillars, Hexa now offers a complete platform: whatever the maturity stage, we can support entrepreneurs with a tailored and powerful model. ⇒ Hexa Start — our historical activity: building outstanding companies from scratch. Huge thanks to Matthieu, Florent, Ugo and Julien and the team, who worked on 9 companies this year. ⇒ Hexa Scale, launched 18 months ago, gives us the ability to take majority stakes in software companies and rewrite their trajectory. We like to describe it as micro-private equity. Together with Augustin , we completed two acquisitions this year: Veevart and Filiz. ⇒ Hexa Sprint, launched in 2025, supports very early teams arriving with an idea and looking for a strong execution framework. Each cohort is led by one partner around a specific theme, with ~12 startups per year. Congrats to Guillaume, who kicked things off with European defense, making 4 investments and Maxime for the new cohort Carbon 0 🤩 ... and a new "pied à terre" in SF for our entrepreneurs 2️⃣ On the portfolio side ⇒ 2 exits 🎯 – Cohort joined Brevo in September, bringing its AI-powered customer engagement platform into the ecosystem. – Cycle App (acquired by Atlassian) App was acquired by Atlassian, integrating its AI feedback engine into @Jira Product Discovery. Two very strong outcomes. ⇒ 6 companies raised funding in 2025 💰 Including Tandem AI (AI acting on our behalf), Basalt (reliable AI agents), Annette (structured GLP-1 weight-loss programs), Dialog (AI shopping agents), and two rounds not yet publicly announced. 3️⃣ On the corporate side ⇒ New shareholders joined 🤝 A warm thank you to our new partners for their trust and long-term commitment: Sopra Steria (Yann Metz-Pasquier, Socheat Chhay, Clémentine Grossetete), Tanguy Mulliez, Miyasan, members of the Hennessy family, Jean Maynier & François C. (Kpler) — as well as our historical shareholders who continue to support and reinvest. ⇒ €29M of financing secured 🏦 From Belfius, Caisse d'Epargne Hauts de France, BNP Paribas Fortis and CIC, strengthening our balance sheet to support growth. And above all, thank you to an incredible team, deeply committed to building and scaling ambitious companies. Thibaud Elziere Quentin Nickmans Amaury Sepulchre Matthieu Gombeaud Grégoire Jouffroy Sarah Barron Faustine Rohr-Lacoste Timothé Nataf Arnaud de Follin Juliette Vorsanger and all the others linkedin do not allow me to tag 😢