bpifrance
Together, let’s build the future of the French economy!
Put your energy and skills to work for the 80,000 entrepreneurs we support each year! And make France your next professional adventure.
Join Bpifrance, a key player with €44 billion in assets under management and a shareholder in 15 French unicorns. Our teams invest over €3 billion in equity each year and directly manage a portfolio of more than 1,000 investments across all sectors. It’s your turn to support French entrepreneurs!
Bpifrance is launching a fund dedicated to digital assets, with one conviction: blockchain and AI are converging to form the foundations of tomorrow’s economy.
- A hybrid mandate, unique in Europe: we cover the entire project lifecycle
- Venture capital : from pre-seed to Series A, in equity or tokens
- In liquid venture capital : positions in liquid tokens of established protocols, the equivalent of growth in the onchain universe
- A thesis at the crossroads of ruptures :
- Blockchain
- Decentralized finance (DeFi) and asset tokenization
- Decentralized AI and open computing and training infrastructures
- Agentic economy: AI agents that transact, pay, and coordinate on-chain
- A European focus : supporting European founders who are building protocols with global reach
- A close-knit team , an ambitious thesis, a field still largely unexplored: now is the perfect time to join us.
Your role in serving the French economy:
As part of a very small team, you will be involved at every stage of the investment process:
- Sourcing & monitoring
- Identify high-potential startups and protocols in Europe
- Screening the tokens eligible for the fund’s thesis
- Contribute to the weekly deal flow monitoring of digital assets & AI
- Investment process
- Analyzing decks, white papers, and tokenomics models
- Meet the founders and participate in the initial assessments
- Contribute to due diligence (business, technical, onchain, governance)
- Drafting investment reports to be presented to the committee
- Portfolio research & monitoring
- Conduct in-depth studies on the fund’s verticals
- Analyzing major listed protocols: fundamentals, onchain revenue, tokenomics, market dynamics
- Track onchain metrics and protocol governance in your portfolio
- Ecosystem
- Representing the fund at events within the crypto, Web3, and AI ecosystems
Ready to join our team?
- Bachelor’s degree (4-5 years of higher education): business school, engineering school or university (finance, computer science, economics)
- Prior experience in VC, PE, M&A, consulting, startups or the crypto ecosystem
- A genuine interest in blockchain: you have already used DeFi protocols, read white papers, and followed governance votes
- Strong analytical and writing skills, ability to synthesize information
- Independent, curious, organized, comfortable with data
- Fluent English is essential
- A plus: knowledge of Python, SQL (Dune) or Solidity, and machine learning background
Bpifrance makes diversity and inclusion a daily commitment and an asset for the team. Here, we recruit people who are different.
Why join us?
- Experiencing the birth of a fund: nothing is set in stone, your analyses have a direct impact on decisions
- A rare exposure: equity and tokens, venture capital and liquid venture capital, DeFi and AI, all within the same team
- Accelerated learning: direct work with the fund manager, from the first meeting to the committee
- The power of Bpifrance: network, institutional signature, access to the entire French tech ecosystem
- Benefits: attractive salary, meal vouchers, remote work, travel allowance, Young Talents program
Practical information
Duration: 6 months, starting as soon as possible!
Location: Paris
Why join us?
- Impact missions : Supporting innovation and growth in French companies.
- Diversity and inclusion : Join a collective committed to diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion, where every journey and every talent counts.
- Climate commitment : Contribute to the Climate Plan with a target of reducing our carbon footprint by 40%.
- Benefits and compensation : Enjoy attractive compensation, meal vouchers, teleworking, transport allowance, authorized days off.
- Career Development : Join the Young Talents program at a company voted best employer.
Bpifrance, the bank of the future. Bpifrance, the Public Investment Bank, is the driving force of the French economy on behalf of the State. We energize and make businesses more competitive with a full range of financing and support solutions, at every stage of their growth, in France and internationally. With more than 4,000 employees across 50 regional offices and more than 150 different professions, we are present at the heart of the regions to support French entrepreneurs and serve the future.
