# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in France in June 2026

## Xavier Niel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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

## Olivier Pomel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Olivier Pomel is based out of New York, New York and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. Olivier previously worked at Wireless Generation as Vice President of Technology. Olivier Pomel attended the CentraleSupélec.

## Bertrand Diard
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. 
Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

## Florian Douetteau
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Florian Douetteau is based out of United Kingdom and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dataiku.

## Charles Gorintin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Charles Gorintin the Co-Founder and CTO of alan. He previously worked at Twitter as a Data Scientist. Charles Gorintin attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan.  After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

## Flavien Kulawik
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Flavien Kulawik

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups.  Sample from 40+ portfolio companies:
- Sqreen (exited to Datadog)
- Meero ($290M in funding)
- Algolia ($184M)
- Alkemics ($54M)
-Builder ($29M)
- Verve ($28M)
- Fox Intelligence (€18M)

## Julien Chaumond
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Julien Chaumond is the Co-founder at Hugging Face.

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Romain Niccoli
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Internet

Romain Niccoli is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Pigment.

## Frederic Halley
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Retail

Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.

## Cyril Vermeulen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Cyril Vermeulen is a French web entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded the auFeminin.com Group, #1 women property online worldwide and was in charge of Business Development until the company was acquired by German media group Axel Springer. He was also in charge of SmartAdServer, the auFeminin adserving subsidiary, a european leader ofthe adserving technologies.Cyril has invested in a large number of start-ups in Europe and the US.

## Jean Charles Samuelian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Health Care

Jean-Charles Samuelian is the Co-founder and CEO of Alan. He attended Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

## Mehdi Ghissassi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.

## Clément Delangue
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face

## Jean-Baptiste Rudelle
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Jean-Baptiste Rudelle is based out of Paris, Île-de-France, and is the Executive Chairman at The Galion Project and also a Board of Director at Lemrock. Jean-Baptiste previously served as the Founder and CEO at Criteo.

## Christophe Chausson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Christophe Chausson is the partner of Chausson Finance. He previously worked at iBanFirst as an Investor. Christophe Chausson attended the Paris Dauphine University - PSL.

## Nicolas Douay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle

## Cyril Grislain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Cyril Grislain - Board advisor @ Smart Me Up

## Franck Le Ouay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Banking

Franck Le Ouay is a French engineer and entrepreneur. In 2005, he co-founded Criteo in Paris, which became one of the global leaders in digital advertising. Today Criteo is listed on Nasdaq, has over 2000 employees worldwide and generates over €1B in annual revenue. Criteo is a big data powerhouse with billions of user events tracked and analyzedevery day.In 2015, Franck co-founded Honestica, a company dedicated to accelerate the digital revolution of Healthcare.

## Thomas Wolf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Thomas Wolf is the Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face. He previously worked at Cabinet Plasseraud as a European Patent Attorney. Thomas Wolf studied at 
Pierre and Marie Curie University studying Statistical / Quantum Physics.

## Alexandre Yazdi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Internet

Alexandre Yazdi is the CEO at Voodoo.

## Dominique Vidal
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Dominique Vidal is a Venture Partner at Index Ventures.

## Chris Schagen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

## Julien Codorniou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

## Guillaume Lestrade
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, SaaS

Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.

## Laurent Ritter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, InsurTech

Laurent Ritter - Founder @ Voodoo

## Julien Lemoine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Cloud Management, SaaS

Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder of Algolia, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder at Algolia SAS and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine defined the technology strategy of MASA Group (an international software editor of simulation software) and led the development of strategic R&Dproducts in indexing and natural languages processing at Exalead (Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) and Thales Group. He has extensive experience in architecture design and implementation from his leading work in Exalead and Thales.

## Nick Gatfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, TV, Apps

Nick Gatfield - Co-Founder @ Synchronized

## Ahmed Mhiri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit.
An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad.
In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move.
As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses.
Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.

## Antoine Fabre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, CRM

Antoine Fabre - Co-Founder & CEO @ Tomorro

## François Segot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Digne, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Automotive

François Segot

## Patrice Thiry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Patrice Thiry is the President & Co-Founder of TOMCAT INVEST. He previously worked at Kobus Tech as a Shareholder. Patrice Thiry attended Paris Dauphine University - PSL.

## Arthur Waller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Arthur Waller is a co-founder of PriceMatch, a start-up aiming to industrialize and democratize yield management.Arthur studied economics and econometrics at Ecole polytechnique and Sciences Po. He first worked in economic research at the IMF and at Goldman Sachs before creating his start-up, PriceMatch, with some friends. Using theirskills in economics, econometrics, software engineering, they developed a SaaS platform offering revenue management solutions to companies.

## Nicolas Dessaigne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

## Jérémy Harroch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Jérémy Harroch

## Frédéric Mazzella
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Apps

Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.

## Nicolas Steegmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

## Axel Toupane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Robotics, Software

Grew up in France, been playing basketball my whole life and now opening myself to brand new horizons. Being an entrepreneur, an investor , an actor of the new wave of athletes who are making businesses off the court.
Above all, i’m willing to learn and talk about new opportunities. 

## Hugues le Bret
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Banking, Billing

Mr. Hugues Le Bret, 52, is founder and the CEO of Financière des Paiements Electroniques (Compte Nickel). He is the former Chairman and CEO of Boursorama Bank (France, UK, Germany & Spain). He has served as Head of Group Communications, Innovation and Internet businesses at Societe Generale and was a Member of the Company's ExecutiveCommittee between Nov-99 and Dec-09. He first worked as a Financial Analyst. In 91, he was appointed Head of Business Development of Publicis Group. In 94, he founded ABW SA, which he sold to Havas Group in 96. He carried out his national civil service at the French embassy in Lima, Peru, from Jun-88 to Aug-89.

## Yannis Yahiaoui
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence

Yannis Yahiaoui is the Co-Founder of Xpln.ai. He previously worked at Regattas as an Investor. Yannis Yahiaoui attended Emlyon Business School.

## Xavier Gury
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Big Data, B2B

Xavier Gury - Founding Partner @ Wind Capital

## Alexandre GRUX
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hospitality, Events, Travel

Alexandre GRUX is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hyperlex and also working at Réseau Entreprendre Paris.
He was the Head of Research and Innovation at Kyriba Corporation and Co-Founder of Odyssey 38.
Mr. Grux graduated from Normal School Superior of Cachan with an MS in Numerical computations and mathematical optimization major.

## Thomas Clozel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Genetics, Hospital

Thomas Clozel co-founded Owkin with Gilles Wainrib and serves as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Clozel attended Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

## Thomas HERLIN
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sophia Antipolis, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Thomas HERLIN is the CSO & Shareholder at Cryptense. He attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

## Denis Lafont-Trévisan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, SaaS

Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Distributed Workforce related companies. 2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 3 exits. Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.

## Alexis Le-Quoc
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Alexis brings a strong focus on technical elegance and operational efficiency to Datadog, honed from years spent optimizing European telecom networks at Orange. As a member of the original “devops” movement, Alexis also spent several years as a software engineer at IBM Research and Neomeo in NYC. These experiences led Alexis to become acutely awareof how intertwined application development and operations really are, and how cumbersome existing on-premise and cloud monitoring tools were – offering little help for engineers to make sense of their infrastructure. Prior to founding Datadog, Alexis Lê-Quôc served as the Director of Operations for Wireless Generation where he built the team and infrastructure that served more than 4 million students in 49 states. Alexis holds a MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris and has presented sessions on cloud monitoring and server performance at conferences including DevOpsDays, Velocity, and PyCon. Between researching new technical integrations and designing more efficient ways for devops teams to monitor their applications, Alexis enjoys running marathons around the world.

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