# Top 50 B2B Angel Investors in France in June 2026

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Christophe Chausson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- 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.

## Rodolphe Ardant
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Credit

A graduate of École Polytechnique and Columbia University, Rodolphe Ardant created his first company straight out of university. In 2013, he sold Wozaik, a digital advertising startup, to Solocal and took up the role of COO at Drivy before getting back to the entrepreneurial roots with eFounders. In 2016, he founded Spendesk, the first all-in-oneplatform to help manage the entire business spending process in one place and free people from the hassle of spending at work.

## Steve Anavi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Hardware

Steve values great work and great products which have large impacts. At Qonto, he looks after product, design and operations.Prior to Qonto, Steve co-founded Smok.io (acquired by a Fortune 500), led operations at Groupon and formerly worked at Deloitte Consulting. He holds an MSc from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and an MBAfrom INSEAD.

## Giorgio Riccò
- Type: Angel
- Location: Correggio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B

Giorgio Riccò - Head of Sales and Tech @ Carlo Riccò & F.lli

## Marc Menasé
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

## Laurent Asscher
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, B2B

Previously, I was also Investor in several industry-defining companies, notably Themis (sold to Mercury Systems), Ixia (sold to Keysight), Webedia (sold to Fimalac), Centellax (sold to Microsemi), CacheIQ (sold to NetApp), Anametrix (sold to Enlighten), KitLocate (sold to Yandex), Tekelec (sold to Siris Capital Group), LibertySurf (IPO),Aufeminin.com (IPO), Freever (sold to Buongiorno), Sidetrade (IPO), EmailVision (IPO) and Instranet (sold to SFDC).

## Lukasz Kaiser
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Database

Lukasz Kaiser

## Nate Matherson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Software

Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.

## Frederic Montagnon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, SaaS

Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.

## Michael Benabou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B

President at Financiere Saint James.

## Clement Benoit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

## Perry Blacher
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

## Guillaume Lestrade
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, SaaS

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

## Pieterjan Bouten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Pieterjan Bouten is the Co-Founder - Chairman of the board at In The Pocket. Pieterjan Bouten attended KU Leuven.

## Peter O' Higgins
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, B2B, Credit

Peter O' Higgins

## Ben Marrel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Ben Marrel is the Founding Partner at Breega.

## Nicolas Dessaigne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Josef Bovet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Josef Bovet - Co-founder & CEO @ Tiller Systems

## Philippe de Passorio
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, FinTech, Payments

Philippe de Passorio - Country Manager @ Adyen

## Peter Kazanjy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, B2B

Pete Kazanjy (LinkedIn, Twitter) is a serial founder, and seasoned early stage Saas executive, advisor, and investor. Pete founded TalentBin, a category-defining talent search engine and recruiting CRM, which exited to Monster Worldwide in early 2014. Pete currently is the founder of Atrium, a proactive sales performance analysis solution, authorof Founding Sales, the definitive Startup Sales Handbook, and founder of Modern Sales, the nation’s largest sales operations, leadership, and enablement community.

## Julien Lemoine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Andrew Nutter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Andrew Nutter is a Co-Founder at Gama. He attended Stanford University.

## Allison Pickens
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Allison Pickens is the founder and general partner at Allison Pickens Ventures. She was also the director on the Board of Directors at Rainforest QA. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Denis Lafont-Trévisan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Real Estate

Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Spacetech related companies. 
2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 4 exits. 
Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.

## Gabriel Jarrosson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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.

## Oleg Tscheltzoff
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a globalvision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).

## Romain Afflelou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software

Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)

## Dalton Caldwell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

Dalton Caldwell is the current Managing Director of Y Combinator. He previously worked at App.net as a Founder/CEO. Dalton Caldwell attended Stanford University.

## Reshma Khilnani
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Sales, Software

Reshma Khilnani is a Co-Founder and CTO at MedXT. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Romain Cottard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Apps, SaaS

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.

## Pierre Antoine Dusoulier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the CEO of iBanFirst. He previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster.

## Nick Mehta
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Nick Mehta (he/him), is the CEO of Gainsight, the platform that helps companies of all sizes and industries drive durable growth through customer-led and product-led strategies. He works with a team of over 1400 human beings who together have helped create the Customer Success category that's currently taking over the SaaS business modelworldwide. Gainsight is a five-time Forbes Cloud 100 recipient and Nick has been named the #2 CEO by the Software Report, has a 99% approval rating on Glassdoor, and was named Entrepreneur Of The Year for Northern California Award. On top of all that, he was recently rated as the #1 CEO in the world (the award committee was just his mom, but the details are irrelevant). He is a member of the Board of Directors at F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) and has co-authored two books on Customer Success, Customer Success and The Customer Success Economy. He is passionate about family, football, philosophy, physics, fashion, parody music videos, and SaaS Customer Success. People told him it’s impossible to combine all of those interests, but Nick has made it his life’s mission to try.Prior to Gainsight, Nick was the CEO of LiveOffice, where he led the Inc. 5000 company’s profitable growth to $25 million in revenue and successful sale to Symantec. Nick has held senior operating roles for public and private companies in the enterprise and consumer technology markets, including Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec), Symantec Corporation, and XDegrees (acquired by Microsoft). Mehta also served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Trinity Ventures and Accel Partners. In the mid-1990s, Nick co-founded a venture-funded online golf retailer called Chipshot, one of the top 20 online retailers during the dotcom bubble.

## Nico Rosberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Transportation

Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.

## Daniel Skavén Ruben
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Pet, AgTech

Daniel Skavén Ruben

## Gary Anssens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montigny-le-bretonneux, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Wellness, Wireless

Gary Anssens - CEO, Founder & Owner @ Alltricks

## Alexandre Berriche
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Alexandre Berriche is currently the CEO of Fleet, a startup which simplifies the access, management and a sustainable renewal of computers for start ups, scale ups and SMB, helping you focus on your growth.He is also an angel investor (companies include Kocomo, Claap, Finary, Convelio and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital.Before launchingFleet he was VP of Operations and Expansion at Ironhack and Managing Director of Jumia Tunisia, a Rocket Internet’s company.Alexandre is trilingual and holds degrees from IESEG, le Wagon and Victoria University.

## Joan Burkovic
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, B2B, Bitcoin

Joan Burkovic is the CEO & Co-founder at Bridge. Joan Burkovic attended ESSEC Business School.

## Paul Vidal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Paul Vidal

## Saturnin Pugnet
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Saturnin Pugnet is a founding member of Worldcoin. He is a technologist with interests for Deep Tech, particularly AI, Neurotech, Aerospace, Biotech and Energy. He is also an active investor and mentor with involvement in a large number of companies in various tech sector, geography and level of maturity. He has attended Caltech and ImperialCollege of London as a student and a researcher.

## Stephane Levy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Apps, Software

Stephane Levy

## Florian Douetteau
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Florian is Dataiku’s Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Florian attended Ecole Normale Supérieure.

## Jean-David Blanc
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, iOS

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.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

## Roger Crook
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Logistics, Transportation

Mr. Roger Crook has been Member of the Management Board with responsibility for the Global Forwarding and Freight Division at Deutsche Post AG since March 8, 2011. Mr. Crook started his career in 1978 as General Contracts Manager at Haden Young International. He joined the DHL Group in 1988 as Worldwide Business Development Manager at DHLWorldwide Express, Brussels. Mr. Crook has run the Company's Express business in Asia since the end of 2010. He is Member of the global Board of Management for Express and in addition oversees all global sales activities of the business unit. Previously, Mr. Crook held the position of CEO DHL Express Americas, as well as CEO DHL Global Customer Logistics. He has also held other responsibilities in the United States, as well as in Europe. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Liverpool University, which he graduated in 1978. He also attended Manchester Business School between 1985 and 1987.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Corinne Vigreux
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Human Resources

Corinne Vigreux is the CMO at Strategy Office.
TomTomCorinne played a leading role in growing TomTom from a small business into a global player in the consumer electronics market. She was the driving force behind the development of the TomTom brand and in defining global sales and product strategies. Today, Corinne runs TomTom’s Consumer business.Her team designs and develops innovative products that play a meaningful role in people’s lives.

## Boris Paillard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Sales, Software

Boris Paillard is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Le Wagon.

## Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology

Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. 
Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm.
Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
