Top 10 Android Angel Investors in France in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Android startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Android Angel Investors in France in April 2025

Investor	Android France investments
Xavier Niel	4
Jean-David Blanc	2
Sebastien Romelot	1
Tony Jamous	1
Solomon Hykes	1
Olivier Thomas	1
Daniel Marhely	1
Maxime Prades	1
Charles-Henri Prevost	1
Romain Cottard	1

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Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cube — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

Jean-David has always been a tremendous entrepreneur since he started his first company at the age of 16. At that time, he created an interactive service company (Concerto Telematique) for brands such as Coca Cola, Marlboro or Renault. In 1993, he created AlloCine, an internet multimedia movie guide service which rapidly became France #1destination for movies, cinema and entertainment and one of France’s most famous internet success stories. AlloCine was sold to Vivendi in 2001. Prior co-founding Molotov with Pierre Lescure in 2015, he invested in several successful companies such as Meetic, Amalto technologies, Restopolitan, Veoprint, Square Inc. or The Cools.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
Aula Education — Aula's created by educators to make every learning experience truly engaging. See how our simple, social platform can transform your digital learning environment.

CEO and co-founder at Phenix Groupe. Phenix is a street media company. Founded as a tech startup in 2012, Phenix has become one of the French's leading outdoor advertising groups and the largest independent company in the sector. Employing a total of 350 people, the Group generates €27 million in revenue.Through its family of entities andservices, Phenix is building the #1 French media targeting outdoor foot traffic in city centers and a full-stack technology platform. The group organizes its operations through three segments: - Digital outdoor: #1 DOOH street media in France with 1500+ digital screens proprietary network through more than 50 cities reaching 8+ millions people/week - Print outdoor & Marketing services: 50 000+ faces through more than 80 cities reaching 15+ millions people/week and state-of-the-art trade marketing services though 120 000+ point-of-sales per month - Technologies: 50 000+ professional users mainly in large corporations through its Phenix Technologies segment, which offers a broad set of applications and service offeringsInvestor in technology & social media startups including Artips, TVTime, Bubbles, Cenareo, Shapr, melty.Former investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Lazard Frères in Paris (2003-11).Prior to Lazard, Sebastien launched a first web startup called Jet Avenue as co-founder and CEO from 2001 to 2002.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Android
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shapr — Shapr is revolutionizing professional networking. Shapr was developed as a free tool to help professionals meet for inspiring conversations and meaningful collaborations. The app works through a smart algorithm, which combines geographic proximity, self-selected interests, and work experience to produce a daily, personalized selection of ten tofifteen people to meet. Users swipe through their daily batch of profiles anonymously and receive a match notification when interest to connect is mutual. The next step is to message within the app and set a time to meet for sharing ideas, inspiration and opportunities over coffee.Shapr first launched in the US in 2015 and has continued to amass a devoted following in cities including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Today, 70% of users are based in the United States with major traction also in France and Britain. Shapr users have started to pop up around the world, mostly hearing about the app through word of mouth.Shapr is the second entrepreneurial project initiated by Ludovic Huraux. His first company is Attractive World, the French leader in online premium dating that was newly acquired by the Affinitas group. Shapr is supported by a $7 million investment, raised from 80 private investors. Notable investors include Denis Dumont (Founder of Grand Frais), David Amsellem (Founder of the John Paul Concierge), Sébastien Forest (Founder Alloresto), Jean Romain Lhomme (former Head of Colony Capital Europe), Frédéric Mazzella and Nicolas Brusson (BlaBlaCar) and Gilles Mentré (managing Partner at Lazard).
Tigerlily —
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Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster. He previously worked at Nexmo as a President.Tony Jamous attended IMD.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Developer APIs
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.

Solomon Hykes is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Docker and the creator of the Docker open source initiative. In his role at Docker, Solomon is focused on building a platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, run and orchestrate distributed applications. A Forbes 30 under 30 and YCombinatoralumni, Solomon led dotCloud as Chief Executive Officer through five years of fundraising, business operations and product launches before focusing entirely on Docker. Prior to dotCloud, Solomon held engineering, IT infrastructure management and software development roles at CEIS and SmartJog.

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Computing
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
Yuma AI — Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. We integrate directly with help desk software and focus on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.

Olivier Thomas

Investment focus

Apps, Android, Computer
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Zenly — zenly your world

Daniel Marhely Co-Founded Blogmusik S.A. Daniel Marhely is Founder of Deezer S.A. and serves as its Director. In 2004, he co-founded the dating site Lovelee.com. In 2006, he developed the first version of Deezer, called Blogmusik, in Paris, with the objective of providing music lovers with unlimited access to audio content using streamingtechnology. He served as General Manager of Monster Capital.

Investment focus

Internet, Electronics, Music
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Prizm — Prizm is a device that converts speakers into learning music players enabling all people to listen to music they like. The players adjust the music it plays according to the people in a room, their music tastes and habits, and current atmosphere. Prizm was launched by Olivier Roberdet and is based in Paris, France.
Chefclub — Chefclub is a cooking channel that shows food videos on television and the Internet. The company is a multicultural team of talent from all around the world, with a passion for cooking. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.
Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.

Maxime Prades is a Director of Product Management at Facebook. He attended ESCE International Business School.

Investment focus

Apps, File Sharing, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zight — Record and share your screen effortlessly with Zight screen recorder. Record your screen with or without a camera overlay and so much more.
Zenly — zenly your world

Charles-Henri Prevost - General Partner @ Blisce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Secondary Market, Series C, Series B
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Keecker — The first voice-enabled robot that moves entertainment, communication and safety into every room of your home.
Candid — Transform your smile, and your health, with Candid.
Reforest'Action — Regenerating terrestrial ecosystems at scale to tackle global challenges using field experience, local communities, science and technology

Romain Cottard started his career in the strategy department of Schneider Electric's IT Business Unit (American Power Conversion) based in the US, where he worked on M&A opportunities and corporate alliances. He then joined Global Equities Corporate Finance in 2012 and worked on 50+ fundraising and M&A deals in fields includingsoftware, online and mobile marketing, media, e-commerce, IT and telecom. As of 2018, Romain works as a Partner at Ader Finance. Romain is a graduate of EMLYON Business School.