# Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in France in June 2026 ## Olivier Pomel - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - 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: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, 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. ## Cyril Grislain - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Big Data, Software, Artificial Intelligence Cyril Grislain - Board advisor @ Smart Me Up ## Alexis Berthoud - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, FinTech, Cryptocurrency Founder of Joinsteer, the next monthly premium car subscription company based in France.C-level : 10 years in Entrepreneur, Sales, Investment Banking and Industry. Shareholder and advisor of Findrive car leasing company for uber driver and Mothers, first fund dedicated to the creative class.Founder of TokenData - the first multi-exchangeplatform, relaying an awesome datalake of crypto-assetI have previously founded the venture CINQS - acquired on December 2016. Alongside, I was an Ethereum early investor and invested in several others prominent blockchain such as Augur, Basic Attention Token, 0x. Goals & interests: New ventures and disruptive business models, Blockchain, Digital Marketing, SW & B-C related investment opportunities, Venture Capital firms in the US,EU & Pacific Asia. ## Renaud Visage - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - 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) ## Denis Lafont-Trévisan - Type: Angel - Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Tristan Handy - Type: Angel - Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Tristan Handy is based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the CEO & Founder of dbt Labs. Tristan previously worked at RJMetrics as a VP of Marketing. Tristan Handy attended the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. ## Frédéric Plais - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Software, Open Source Frédéric Plais ## David Perry - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Software, Open Source David Perry Advisor, Investor and GTM specialist, helping companies scale ## Nicolas Dessaigne - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Olivier Bonnet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Real Estate, CRM Bonnet joined BlaBlaCar in 2017 following a leadership role at Apple, where he spent more than a decade as a software engineer manager. In 2012, he made the move from Paris to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, leading the Operating System teams charged with the development of iCloud. Bonnet joined Apple in 2004 as an engineer afterearning a master’s degree in engineering from École Polytechnique and Telecom ParisTech. ## Zachary Smith - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Non Profit, Innovation Management Zac is a passionate business builder with a focus on infrastructure services, including cloud platforms, hosting services, automation software and financial transaction clearing. Prior to Packet, Zachary was an early employee and key member of the management team at Voxel, a NY-based cloud hosting company with a focus on infrastructure automationthat sold to Internap (NASDAQ: INAP) in 2011 for 35MM. Zac is a closet musician, having attended Juilliard as a double bass major and promptly switching to software-driven infrastructure after graduation. He lives is NYC with his wife and two young boys. ## Patrice Thiry - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Stijn Christiaens - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Data Integration, Information Technology Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales,Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence. ## Raphaël Varane - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Sports, Apps, Drones Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team. ## Clément Delangue - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face ## Ahmed Mhiri - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## 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). ## Laurent Ritter - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, InsurTech Laurent Ritter - Founder @ Voodoo ## 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. ## Michel Tricot - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Analytics, PaaS, Big Data Michel Tricot is the Co-Founder and CEO of Airbyte. He previously worked at rideOS as a Founding Member and Director of Engineering. Michel Tricot attended EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique. ## Jean-Baptiste Rudelle - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Pierre Burgy - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Open Source Pierre Burgy - Co-founder and CEO @ Strapi ## John Britton - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Software, Open Source John Britton is the Founder and CEO at Raise. John Britton attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. ## Flavien Kulawik - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care Flavien Kulawik ## Gregoire Boutin - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Software, E-Commerce Gregoire Boutin - COO and Founder @ Boostrs ## Marc Jalabert - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Apps, IaaS Marc Jalabert ## Cédric Bannel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Credit, FinTech, Big Data Founding partner of Latour Capital, Cedric is one of France’s Internet pioneers. In 2000, he created www.caradisiac.com, the first French automotive website that merged with the Centrale des Particuliers in 2007 to form Car & Boat Media. He also chaired Canalblog, the leading independent website for French blogs with over a million blogs. ## Antoine Balliet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Open Source Antoine Balliet Data Engineering @Gorgias | Teaching DevOps @Dauphine ## Arnaud Ferreri - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Open Source Trying to get things done ## Michaël Diguet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Michael Diguet is the Co-founder & CEO at Co-founder & CEO. Attended National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble. ## Landry Holi - Type: Angel - Location: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Travel Landry Holi - Founder & CEO @ Fairval ## Guillaume Amblard - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Banking, FinTech Guillaume Amblard ## Didier Valet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Didier Valet ## Didier Le Menestrel - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Banking Graduated from the Higher Institute of Management and Training Centre in Financial Analysis, Didier Le Menestrel is President of Finance of the Exchequer and member of the steering committee. He is also a member of the French Society of Financial Analysts (FCAS) and director of the French Management Association (AFG). ## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Michel Meyer - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Big Data, CRM Michel is a French serial entrepreneur living in San Francisco. He is currently the co-founder of Presence AI, bringing intelligent messaging to businesses. Michel is also an investor in many startups. At 27 he was the youngest CEO of a public company in France in 2000 with MultiMania. Michel sold his second company, Kewego (biggest online videoplatform in Europe), in 2011 to Kit Digital. ## Valentine Baudouin - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps Valentine Baudouin ## Pierre Feligioni - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services Pierre Feligioni is the CEO and co-founder of QuantHouse. Pierre co-founded QuantHouse in 2005, building an industry leading provider of ultra-low latency market data technologies. In 2012, QuantHouse was acquired by S&P Global generating a eight-time return for the investors.He received in 2012 a Financial News 40 under 40 Rising stars inTrading and Technology award and he was named Head of Real-Time Product Strategy for the last 3 years.Pierre has now gone back to his entrepreneurial roots when he bought back QuantHouse in January 2017. ## John Browne - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: GPS, Energy, Big Data John Browne serves as part of the advisory board at Giant Ventures. ## 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. ## Blanche Balian - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Credit, FinTech, Big Data Blanche Balian ## 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 Douetteau is based out of United Kingdom and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dataiku. ## John Brennan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Big Data John Brennan is the Founder & General Partner at Sumeru Equity Partners He has significant experience as a senior executive in technology companies and in strategy consulting. Prior to joining Silver Lake Sumeru, John held senior management positions at Adobe Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company and Accenture Strategic Services. John holds degreesfrom Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. ## Clement Benoit - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse ## Xavier Gury - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Big Data, B2B Xavier Gury - Founding Partner @ Wind Capital ## Luc Delsalle - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Open Source Luc spent 6 years at ANSSI, the French national agency in charge of Cyberdefense matters, where he led several large-scale incident response and multiple redteam security assessments. He is a security engineer specialized in Microsoft products security. Luc also teaches technical security courses in several engineering school in Paris. ## Hugues le Bret - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Private individuals Not disclosed - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Software, Blockchain Private individuals Not disclosed ## Amirhossein Malekzadeh - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Amirhossein Malekzadeh is the CEO at logmatic.io