Top 10 Art Angel Investors in France in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Art startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Art companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Art Angel Investors in France in December 2024

Investor	Art France investments
Thomas France	2
Frédéric Jousset	2
Nicolas Julia	2
Denis Fayolle	1
Chantal Baudron	1
Guillaume Houzé	1
Violette Taquet	1
Steven E. Spooner	1
Gabriel Jarrosson	1
Luc Doublet	1

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Investor list

Entrepreneur, Investor

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.

Olivier Duha at Bain & Company, Frédéric co-founded Webhelp, which originally provided online support services for businesses and the general public, in June 2000. Rapid growth and innovation over the following years has resulted in the BPO provider and customer experience engineer that is Webhelp today.Frédéric graduated from HEC in 1992 andbegan his career in 1994 at L’Oréal. He handled marketing and familiarised himself with new product development, consumer brand management and advertising strategies. Paying close attention to new technologies, he decided to buy DIALOG, a software vendor, in 1998 and soon merged it with its competitor, IKOSOFT. He then joined Bain & Company in 1999 as part of the private equity practice, where he participated in several consulting assignments guiding the engagement strategy of major funding institutions.Frederic is a Knight of the Order of Merit and the Arts & Humanities, and Commander of Wissam Al-Aouite of the Kingdom of Morocco. Since October 2011, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Investment focus

Art, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Artsper — Artsper is a contemporary art marketplace where galleries selected across the World can sell their artworks. They work with hundreds of galleries, which enables us to promote more than 10 000 artworks proposed by 4 000 artists.
Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Angel, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
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Chantal Baudron is the CEO of Chantal Baudron SAS.

Investment focus

Fashion, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Kleep — Kleep is a software that analyzes customers' body shapes and recommends the right size for products.
OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers
Alegria.tech — Alegria.tech is a nocode agency for start-ups, SMEs and large accounts.

Guillaume Houzé Directeur de l’Image et de la Communication, Membre du Directoire chez Groupe Galeries Lafayette

Investment focus

Art, Web Apps, Communities
Seed, Angel
Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

Reforestum — Reforestum is the platform that allows everyone to see and understand the Voluntary Carbon Markets with full transparency and to manage and disclose organisations' offset portfolios with confidence.
LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

Violette Taquet

Investment focus

Art, Internet, Software
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Eunomart — Eunomart provides a simple solution to the challenges of the fight against money laundering. They develop an automated vigilance procedure tool intended to help analyze the legal risks to which art professionals are exposed.

With over 23 years in the high-tech and telecommunications sector, Steve Spooner brings a wealth of experience in corporate finance and strategic business planning to Mitel®. As Chief Financial Officer, Steve is responsible for global financial operations and investor relations for Mitel. Prior to Mitel, Steve was Chief Executive Officer ofprivately-held Stream Intelligent Networks Corp. During his time as CEO, Steve led the company to substantial growth during a recessed telecom market, through focused activities in investor relations, corporate strategy and development, strategic alliances and marketing. Steve also brings a tech-savvy understanding of finance and corporate strategy from his time as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CrossKeys Systems Corporation. Steve led the strategic implementation of private financing, acquisitions, and divestitures for the company. In December of 1997, Steve successfully spearheaded CrossKey's Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ and TSE. In addition, Steve brings extensive experience in financial governance from senior positions at SHL Systemhouse Inc.,Wang Canada Ltd., Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd., and Arthur Anderson & Co. Steve is a seasoned industry speaker having spoken at a variety of venues on topics ranging from Metropolitan Networks to Entrepeneurship. Steve sits on numerous strategic advisory boards and is an active board member of the Canadian Wireless Telecom Association (CWTA) as well as a former chairman of CWTA's fixed wireless committee.

Investment focus

Art, Internet, Software
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Eunomart — Eunomart provides a simple solution to the challenges of the fight against money laundering. They develop an automated vigilance procedure tool intended to help analyze the legal risks to which art professionals are exposed.

Gabriel Jarrosson created his first website at 13, then sold his first startup at 25. Serial entrepreneur and investor in more than 100 startups with 15 exits, he has since founded Leonis Investissement, a private club that offers its members the opportunity to invest in fast-growing startups in Silicon Valley that they would not have access toalone. He has invested more than $30M through this club. He is the creator of the YouTube channel "Leonis Investissement", the most followed in France on this theme. Since 2023, he has also manages Lobster Capital, a $10M investment fund that invests in Silicon Valley startups.