Lyon, 24 June 2026. Sopht, the IT efficiency management platform, has raised €7.5 million in Series A funding from Ternel, Axeleo Capital, Wind Capital and FDJ UNITED Ventures. As AI accelerates the growth of digital infrastructure and makes technology spending harder to govern, Sopht aims to turn IT efficiency into a threefold lever for competitiveness, resilience and a lower environmental footprint. The funds will be used to broaden the platform’s coverage and support international expansion.
Digital technology has never weighed so heavily on both the environment and large enterprises’ budgets. According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending will reach $6.31 trillion in 2026 (+13.5%). Yet several studies estimate that 29% of cloud spend is wasted (oversized instances, forgotten resources, idle live environments), a trend that is worsening after five years of decline. This is why 84% of organisations cite managing their cloud spend as their number-one challenge.
“In this race to digital transformation, AI is only amplifying what we already knew: without fine-grained governance, IT spend spirals out of control. By 2030, AI-related infrastructure costs will multiply 24-fold. The next competitive battle will therefore not be won by whoeverd eploys the most technology, but by whoever governs it best. That has been Sopht’s mission from day one: putting the intelligence of technology at the service of a more efficient IT.”
Jérémie Veg, Co-founder & CEO of Sopht
Properly governed, an IT environment costs 20 to 30% less, and emits proportionally less. Where most tools stop at observation (dashboards, reports, alerts), Sopht closes the loop and moves to action. The platform consolidates the entire IT estate (cloud, data centres, workstations, applications) where native tools operate in silos, then simulates the effect of every decision in both euros and CO2: what do you gain by resizing this instance, by switching off that idle environment? Recommendations, prioritised by impact, feed directly into the teams’ existing tools. The question is no longer where the money goes, but what to do about it.
“CIOs are not short of data. What they lack is the ability to turn data into decisions. From the outset, we built Sopht to close that gap: turning measurement into action, in real time, directly inside the tools teams already use. Covering more ground, acting faster on recommendations, eliminating waste before it piles up. With this Series A, we are scaling up: the challenge is no longer to prove that IT efficiency matters, but to industrialise it.”
Julien Rouzé, Co-founder & CPO of Sopht
“Today, large enterprises face one central challenge: governing ever more complex IT infrastructure, in the age of AI, while keeping costs and environmental impact under control. At FDJ UNITED, technology accounts for nearly a quarter of our carbon footprint. That is why we see Sopht as a key partner to actively drive the decarbonisation of our technology, moving beyond mere measurement. We are proud to be among the investors supporting the entire Sopht team in this new chapter.”“
Maxime Sbeghen, Head of Investments, FDJ UNITEDVentures
This Series A will enable Sopht to develop newanalytics and recommendation capabilities, broaden its IT coverage andstrengthen its integration with the tools teams already use. It will also fund key hires and accelerate international commercialdevelopment, drawing in particular on its systems-integrator partners.
This acceleration builds on alreadyinternational traction: Sopht today serves more than fifty major accounts inFrance, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia, including LVMH, BNP Paribas,E.ON, Woodside and the NHS.
Sopht approaches this stage with a major asset:a global partnership signed with Infosys, one of the world’s leadingdigital services and consulting firms. This agreementopens a worldwide distribution channel and embeds IT efficiency at the heart oflarge-scale transformation programmes.
“The traction Sopht has gained with international enterprise customers confirms the emergence of a critical need: controlling IT infrastructures made more costly, more energy-intensive and more complex by the rise of AI. Sopht fully embodies the kind of company we want to support at Ternel: solutions that strengthen business performance by directly addressing resource and energy consumption. With this Series A and the support of leading systems integrators, Sopht can accelerate its scale-up and consolidate its position as the European leader in IT efficiency.”
Timothée Poulain, Partner, Ternel
Founded in 2021, Sopht’s mission is to make large enterprises’ IT more efficient, both financially and environmentally. Its platform consolidates, measures and optimises the costs and carbon footprint of the entire IT estate: cloud, data centres, workstations and applications. The scale-up employs around forty people and supports more than fifty clients worldwide.
Learn more: www.sopht.com
Ternel is aventure capital fund dedicated to European impact-driven technology startups,reconciling financial performance with positive contribution. With €150M undermanagement, the fund invests from pre-seed to Series A, with tickets ranging from €500K to €5M. Its investment thesis rests on two pillars: the restoration of environmental ecosystems, and human and social progress. Its portfolio includes HomeExchange, Edflex, Certideal, Cosma and Strong by Form. Ternel is the early-stage impact-tech strategy of Capital Croissance, a private equity platform managing €950M in assets, backed by a community of more than 600 entrepreneurs, family offices and private investors.
Learn more: www.ternel.vc
Axeleo Capital is a European tech investment firm. Specialising in Software and Greentech, itbacks startups from Seed to Series B. With €300 million under management and a team of 18 professionals, Axeleo Capital has made more than 70 investments across Europe and the United States and recorded over 20 exits. An institutional and engaged investor, Axeleo Capital provides its portfolio companies with hands-on operational support (go-to-market, leadership, product management), drawing on a network of 150+ entrepreneur-investors and strategic partners. The firm integrates ESG by design to steer its companies toward resilient and responsible growth. Key holdings: Alsid (acquired by Tenable),365Talents (acquired by Docebo), Trustpair, Joko, Triver, Kestra, Linkup,Bioweg and Symbiotic Security.
Learn more: www.axeleo.com
Wind Capital is a Paris-based early-stage deeptech VC fund, built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Founded by Thierry Vandewalle and Xavier Gury, Wind Capitalinvests in high-impact deeptech across two vehicles: Wind II, a €130M fund dedicated to climate challenges, and Technologies Souveraines, dedicated to critical technologies for defence and European strategic autonomy. The fund has backed more than 90 startups and recorded 27 exits.
Learn more: www.wind.capital
FDJ UNITEDVentures is the startup investment fund of FDJ UNITED, a European leader ingaming and betting. Its mission is to identify, finance and support startupsthat advance FDJ UNITED’s innovation strategy. With €110M in capital, the fundinvests in early-stage startups (pre-Seed to Series A) operating in thefollowing areas: Gaming & Betting, digital acceleration, AI & New Tech,Retailtech, Fintech and Tech for Good. FDJ UNITED Ventures helps its portfoliostartups grow faster (#FDJUNITEDForStartups) by facilitating collaboration withFDJ UNITED and giving them privileged access to its assets, expertise andecosystems. The fund also runs a fund-of-funds activity, with subscriptions inaround fifteen VC funds (including Partech, Serena, Bpifrance). Since 2015, ithas supported more than 500 startups and 4,500 jobs across Europe, primarily inFrance.
Learn more: www.fdjunited.com/fr/fdj-united-ventures
Corentin Moutel
Head of Marketing & Communication, Sopht
corentin.moutel@sopht.com