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Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in France in January 2026

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in France in January 2026

Investor Cryptocurrency France investments
Sebastien Borget 5
Thibaud Elziere 4
Julien Bouteloup 4
Frederic Montagnon 4
Thomas France 4
Eric Larchevêque 4
Nicolas Louvet 3
Nicolas Bacca 3
Pascal Gauthier 3
Alexis Bonillo 2
Declan Kelly 2
Bilal EL ALAMY 2
Owen Simonin 2
Nicolas Steegmann 2
Sébastien Lucas 2
Jean-Daniel Guyot 2
Shana Fisher 2
Claire Balva 1
Clement Coeurdeuil 1
Paul Taylor 1
Jonathan Cherki 1
Gary Vaynerchuk 1
Bruno Dizengremel 1
Didier Valet 1
Xavier Niel 1
Luc Jodet 1
Clément Buyse 1
Jonathan Cherki 1
Nicolas Julia 1
Bertrand Diard 1
Benjamin Dangla 1
Stani Kulechov 1
Igor LILIC 1
Mark Ransford 1
Meltem Demirors 1
Baptiste Hamel 1
Gautham Radhakrishnan 1
Antoine de Tavernost 1
Mirko Schmiedl 1
Adrien Montfort 1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 1
Alexis Bonte 1
Rio Ferdinand 1
Jim Baldy 1
Guillaume Princen 1
Chris Adelsbach 1
Thibaut Faurès Fustel de Coulanges 1
Rand Hindi 1
Julien Romanetto 1
Philippe Smolders 1
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Sebastien Borget Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, France, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
  • Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
  • Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
Thibaud Elziere Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
  • DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
  • Presti — AI background generator for furniture products, to replace costly 3D rendering and photoshoots.
Julien Bouteloup Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
  • Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
  • Turtle Club — Turtle aligns incentives between protocols and LPs to offer the best curated incentives in DeFi.
Frederic Montagnon Angel · New York, New York, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
  • Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
  • Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Thomas France Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
  • Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
  • Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
  • Prodia — Prodia is a multimedia design software and developer of artificial intelligence that creates APIs and images.
Eric Larchevêque Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Closd — Digitalisez et suivez vos projets juridiques avec l'outil de gestion de projets juridiques.
  • Coinhouse — Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinhouse, consult our educational content or visit our physical space, Coinhouse Store. Invest in the future, today.
  • Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Nicolas Louvet Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture). Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in -Dataiku (colead, Series A) - FinalCad (lead, Series A) - Lengow (lead, Series B) - Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A), - Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B) - TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed) - Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B) - and 15+ other companies... He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills: - Entrepreneurship, company management, business development - Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe - Fund management and creation - Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition) - Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Data Integration
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeenea — Zeenea is a cloud-native SaaS solution that democratizes data access and accelerates all your data-driven business initiatives.
  • Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero, and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
  • AssoConnect — AssoConnect is an online tools platform that meets all the needs of volunteers and community leaders. The complete management of an association is time consuming and tedious. Some tasks - accounting, membership management, payment tracking, grant applications - require hundreds of hours of work per year. Less time for associative projects.itrepresents the digital revolution applied to the voluntary sector. Through this platform, associations have more time to devote to projects and have a complete, simple and intuitive tool to carry out all their associative activities over the long term.
Nicolas Bacca Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Inflow — Inflow delivers payment solutions that integrate affordability, efficiency, innovation, and tailored service.
  • Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
  • Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Pascal Gauthier Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Pascal Gauthier is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the Chairman and CEO at Ledger. Pascal previously worked at Teemo as Advisor.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Chateaushi — Bridging digital and physical property ownership through innovative blockchain technology. Discover exclusive access to historic castles and luxury properties.
  • Cross The Ages — Cross The Ages is a universe in which fantasy and science fiction come together. The two worlds share the single continent of Artellium. To the west lies Arkhante, masters of magic and summoning. To the east, the city-continent Mantris is home to ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life.The young Malkha,surrounded by her seven Primus, reigns from the capital, Babylonia. To the west, the city-continent Mantris is home to Neurotechs, an ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life. The Amortals, humans who have transferred their minds to super-AIs, run the corporations for which the citizen-shareholders of Mantris work.
  • Golden Gate (GGX) — Golden Gate (GGX) is a blockchain services company.
Alexis Bonillo Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
COO & Co-founder @ Zenly Retired Pole Vaulter
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Finance, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
  • 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.
  • Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
Declan Kelly Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Loctax — Complete oversight of global tax compliance obligations and risks in a single platform built for in-house tax teams.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
  • Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
Bilal EL ALAMY Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Tilvest — Tilvest, partenaire crypto des CGP et CIF, permet d'allier gestion de patrimoine et investissement en crypto. Suivez le portefeuille de vos clients.
  • RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Owen Simonin Angel · Metz, Lorraine, France
Owen Simonin is a French entrepreneur, investor, and influencer specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He is the founder and CEO of Meria (formerly Just Mining), a leading company in blockchain infrastructure and staking services. Through his YouTube channel "Hasheur," he has played a key role in educating the French-speakingcommunity about crypto and decentralized finance.
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Waltio — Your Crypto Tax Return.In one Click.Centralize all your cryptocurrency transactions. Declare and reduce your crypto tax amount.
  • InterCellar — InterCellar offers you a unique buying and reselling experience. In line with the innovative spirit of the web3.
  • Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Nicolas Steegmann Angel
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • AniML — Download Doly App on App Store
  • Entroview — Entroview delivers battery diagnostics for EV mobility, using entropy-based technology to optimize battery performance.
  • Kerys Software — Your Isolated Workplace is Just One Swipe Away
Sébastien Lucas Angel
Sébastien Lucas
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Investment focus
  • Internet, IaaS, Cloud Storage
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
  • GitGuardian — GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes.
  • Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.
Jean-Daniel Guyot Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
  • Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
  • Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Shana Fisher Angel · New York, New York, United States
Shana Fisher is the Managing Partner of HLVP, a NY Based venture fund focused on early stage investments. From December 2003 to June 2010, Ms. Fisher served as IAC's Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Mergers and Acquisitions, and prior to that as the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for IAC. Previously, Ms. Fisherserved as Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance for Allen & Company, LLC. In this capacity she led principle investments and advised publicly traded technology firms, private telecommunications firms and media companies. Prior to Allen & Company, LLC., Ms. Fisher was a program manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Fisher received her B.A. from Hampshire College with a triple major in Sculpture, Philosophy and Linguistics and attended the Master of Arts program at New York University's ITP.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
  • Glean — Fast data exploration for data teams and everyone else. Empower your whole team to answer questions without SQL and start making better decisions faster.
  • Hashboard — You'll be able to keep using Hashboard through December 31, 2025. We've already helped move many of our customers over to Hex.
Claire Balva Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Claire Balva is the CEO of Blockchain Partner, the leading startup on blockchain consulting in France. Blockchain Partner was created through the merger of Blockchain France and Labo Blockchain in 2017. It gathers 3 poles of expertise – strategic, technical and legal – allowing companies to fully embrace the potential of blockchain technologies.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Tilvest — Tilvest, partenaire crypto des CGP et CIF, permet d'allier gestion de patrimoine et investissement en crypto. Suivez le portefeuille de vos clients.
  • Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
Clement Coeurdeuil Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Clement Coeurdeuil - CEO and Founder @ Kal El
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Investment focus
  • Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Waltio — Your Crypto Tax Return.In one Click.Centralize all your cryptocurrency transactions. Declare and reduce your crypto tax amount.
Paul Taylor Angel · New York, New York, United States
Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • BitcoinOS — BitcoinOS is a Decentralized Finance company that builds and develops Bitcoin ecosystem.
  • HackQuest — HackQuest is a Multichain Web3 developer and founder platform, with education, community events, hackathons, and accelerators at its core. HackQuest helps over 20 leading ecosystems such as Mantle, Solana, Arbitrum, and Linea onboard quality developers and supports developers to jumpstart their careers in Web3.
  • Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
Jonathan Cherki Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Passionate about numbers and statistics, Jonathan Cherki founded ContentSquare in 2012 and has since served as the CEO, growing the company exponentially and promoting the importance of UX to optimize the customer journey. He believes knowledge is power, and his mission is to change the way companies work by creating a data-driven culture foreveryone.
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Advice, Sports
  • Seed, Angel
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaFight — MetaFight is the development of a video game for collecting NFT cards of MMA fighters.
  • GROWL — Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.
  • Pyratzlabs — We empower founders to build, fund and scale ambitious Web3 startups. PyratzLabs gathers the Web3 founders community, join us and let's talk together about web3 entrepreneurship.
Gary Vaynerchuk Angel · New York, New York, United States
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
  • Unrivaled — A 3v3 league built in collaboration with the biggest stars in women's basketball, co-founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. Launching in January 2025.
Bruno Dizengremel Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Bruno Dizengremel is based In Stockholm and joined Innovacom in 2001 in charge of North European investments.Before joining Innovacom, Bruno was Business Development Director of a subsidiary of the Ericsson Group in Stockholm specialized in OSS (telecommunications network management applications).Previously, Bruno worked within the FranceTelecom/Orange Group for some 10 years in various management capacities. His latest position there was VP of Business Development at France Telecom Mobiles International, a position where he led the expansion of the Group’s mobile operations in Europe. Bruno has also served as Technical Director of Panafon, the GSM network operator in Greece.A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he post-graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Didier Valet Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Didier Valet
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Luxembourg, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Grâce — Grâce offers innovative insurance solutions to enhance customer experience and improve process efficiency.
  • Celest Science — Understand, monitor and anticipate your exposure to extreme weather events in the context of climate change with our proprietary AI models. Risk Assessment | Subseasonal to seasonal forecast | CatNat modelling | Climate APIs.
  • Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Xavier Niel Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
  • Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
  • Le Nouveau Monde — Le Nouveau Monde is a holoding company by the Daniel Kretinsky.
Luc Jodet Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Luc Jodet is the web3/crypto Partner at XAnge and co-founder of Arianee.
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Investment focus
  • Music, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Angel
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Clément Buyse Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Clément Buyse
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Sales
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Pelico — Pelico is a data management platform that assists operational teams in achieving predictable results. It empowers factory teams to build resilient operations to manage daily volatility and deliver products on time, at cost. Its factory operations management system enables teams to continuously anticipate parts shortages, act fast with AI-assistedrecommendations, and collaborate across teams on the implementation of corrective actions.
  • Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
  • Humanlinker — Humanlinker is a cutting-edge AI guided technology for revenue generation teams
Jonathan Cherki Angel
Jonathan Cherki
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Arianee — Arianee is the leading NFT platform for the luxury and fashion industries. The Arianee protocol makes it possible to associate each luxury product with its own unique, unforgeable digital passport.
  • Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.
Nicolas Julia Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Gaming
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Israel, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
  • 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.
Bertrand Diard Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
  • Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
  • Lobster Protocol — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.
Benjamin Dangla Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Benjamin Dangla
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Finance, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Lobster Protocol — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.
Stani Kulechov Angel · Como, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
  • RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
  • Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Igor LILIC Angel
Igor LILIC
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Finance, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Lobster Protocol — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.
Mark Ransford Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Damisa — Highly Secure Business to Business Transactions. Smarter, Safer, and Cost-Effective Global Payments. Eliminating delays, reducing costs, and simplifying global transactions with stablecoins.
  • Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
  • Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Meltem Demirors Angel · New York, New York, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Rover — Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
  • SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
  • Neptune Protocol — Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner.
Baptiste Hamel Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Baptist Hamel is the Cofounder of III Financements. he attended University of Cergy-Pontoise in 2008.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Germany, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
  • Promyze — Improve engineering performance by helping your team identify, validate and adopt the best coding practices, tailored to your context.
  • Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.
Gautham Radhakrishnan Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Gautham has been a Partner with the Tata Opportunities Fund since 2013. Previously, he was a Director with Actis in Mumbai since 2009 and a Principal at Warburg Pincus in London since 2001. His investing and board level experience covers the technology, business services, financial services, industrial and consumer sectors including venture, growthand leveraged buyouts. Gautham started his career in 1995 with JP Morgan in London handling Fixed Income and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has also worked at the BBC, Cricinfo, and at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.Gautham graduated with an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He also holds an MA (Scholar) from St John's College, University of Cambridge and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Imperial College, University of London.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Furniture, Financial Services
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, India, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
  • GarageWorks — Ontdek de inrichting voor je garage, bijkeuken, berging, tuinhuis of schuur; zoals garage kasten, garagevloeren en slimme opbergsystemen.
Antoine de Tavernost Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Directeur Général France
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Web Design, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Mirko Schmiedl Angel
Mirko Schmiedl is the CEO and Co-Founder of Staking Rewards.
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Ethereum, Blockchain
  • Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Adrien Montfort Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Adrien Montfort is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sorare.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, FinTech, Hospital
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
  • Callyope — Callyope is building the first speech-based foundational model to monitor mental health symptoms through low-touch smartphone interactions.
  • Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
  • Tavrn — Tavrn provides state of the art, AI-powered demand letters and medical chronologies for attorneys.
  • Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
Alexis Bonte Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Finland, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.
Rio Ferdinand Angel
Rio Ferdinand
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Soccer, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
  • DeliveryApp — Book or schedule your same day delivery with our vast network of UK-based same day couriers. Download DeliveryApp to get started today!
  • Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Jim Baldy Angel
Jim Baldy is Yugo Private Aviation. Attended to INSEAD Learning to Lead.
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Investment focus
  • Banking, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Request Finance — A suite of financial tools to make your life easier - crypto organizations & freelancers use Request for invoices, expenses, payroll or accounting.
Guillaume Princen Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Guillaume Princen
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Verteego — Decision Intelligence empowers retailers and brands with real-time recommendations and automated actions to unlock efficiency and growth
  • Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Chris Adelsbach Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
  • Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
  • Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Thibaut Faurès Fustel de Coulanges Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Thibaut Faurès Fustel de Coulanges
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Grocery, Blockchain
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero, and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
  • La Belle Vie — La Belle Vie is an online grocery based in Paris, France. It sells basic groceries, organic stuff, meat, fish and vegetables. It has developed all its tools from scratch, including its ERP, a warehouse management service and a delivery management service.
Rand Hindi Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Giza — Streamline blockchain complexity through autonomous agents.
  • Twin — Agentic AI, made actionable.
  • Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Julien Romanetto Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
  • MeltingSpot — One platform to broadcast your lives, initiate discussions, gather your content, manage your audiences and much more. Get MeltingSpot for free.
  • Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
Philippe Smolders Angel · Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Philippe Smolders
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Investment focus
  • Web3, Finance, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Lobster Protocol — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.
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