Top 50 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in France in October 2024
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 October 2024
Investor | Cryptocurrency France investments |
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Sebastien Borget | 5 |
Thibaud Elziere | 4 |
Thomas France | 4 |
Eric Larchevêque | 4 |
Julien Bouteloup | 4 |
Frederic Montagnon | 3 |
Pascal Gauthier | 3 |
Nicolas Louvet | 3 |
Nicolas Bacca | 2 |
Bilal EL ALAMY | 2 |
Nicolas Steegmann | 2 |
Declan Kelly | 2 |
Jean-Daniel Guyot | 2 |
Alexis Bonillo | 2 |
Shana Fisher | 2 |
Sébastien Lucas | 2 |
Antoine de Tavernost | 1 |
Marc Bhargava | 1 |
Nicolas Julia | 1 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 1 |
Clement Coeurdeuil | 1 |
Philippe Smolders | 1 |
Adrien Montfort | 1 |
Meltem Demirors | 1 |
Patrick Sayer | 1 |
Chris Hitchen | 1 |
Mark Ransford | 1 |
Guillaume Gibault | 1 |
Michael Kong | 1 |
Stani Kulechov | 1 |
Chris Adelsbach | 1 |
Fred Potter | 1 |
Ryan Selkis | 1 |
Brian O'Hagan | 1 |
Nicolas Pinto | 1 |
Clément Buyse | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Bertrand Diard | 1 |
Claire Balva | 1 |
Gary Vaynerchuk | 1 |
Jean Charles Samuelian | 1 |
Bruno Dizengremel | 1 |
Guillaume Princen | 1 |
André Schürrle | 1 |
Jonathan Cherki | 1 |
Xavier Niel | 1 |
Igor LILIC | 1 |
Rand Hindi | 1 |
Didier Valet | 1 |
Gerard Pique | 1 |
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
- Cookie3 — Cookie3 utilizes off- and on-chain analytics and an AI data layer to determine quality users who bring value on-chain and reward them for their contribution. It's a three-platform hub for businesses, creators, and users with a unique value offering for all.
- BlockGames — BlockGames is a cross-game, cross-chain, decentralized player network accelerating user growth for games, with personalised rewards for players.
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
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
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
- Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
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 — CLOSD is a legal transaction management platform created by former business lawyers. It brings together lawyers and parties in a safe space, facilitates and ensures document exchange, simplifies project organization and management with interactive check lists, automates signings and closures with electronic signatures in a secure interface toauthenticate the signatures, and creates archives on transactions once they are closed.
- 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!
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, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
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
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Runes DEX — Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards.
- Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
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, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, 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 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, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
- Hylé — Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
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 — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
- Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
- Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
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, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.
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!
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
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- 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.
- Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.
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, Fashion
- 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 — Explore fast, intuitive Business Intelligence with Hashboard. Define metrics on your data warehouse and collaborate for deeper insights. Ideal for data teams seeking seamless, code-based workflows.
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.
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.
Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
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, Gaming, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Israel, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Frak Labs — FRAK is DeFi* protocol that enables creators and users to get paid for the usage of the content.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Clement Coeurdeuil - CEO and Founder @ Kal El
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
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.
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 a human-centered technology that can enhance millions of people's lives by increasing the objectivity and responsiveness of brain health monitoring. Callyope develops solutions for remote patient monitoring that assist caregivers in identifying relapses and determining the best course of action.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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, France
Portfolio highlights
- Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
- Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.
- Root Protocol — Root is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.
Patrick Sayer has served as a Director since 2012. Mr. Sayer has been the Chief Executive Officer of Eurazeo (a leading publicly-held investment company in Europe) since 2002. From 1995 until 2002 he served as a Director and Advisor to the CEO of Eurazeo. Prior to becoming CEO of Eurazeo, Mr. Sayer was employed by Lazard, (an internationalfinancial advisory and asset management firm) for 20 years, last serving as a Managing Director and Head of Lazard’s Technology and Media group. Mr. Sayer is vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rexel SA, and a member of the Board of Directors of other Eurazeo portfolio companies, including Accor and Edenred. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. Mr. Sayer has a French Financial Analyst Degree and serves as a professor of finance at Dauphine University in Paris.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Software, Music
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
- Monk.ai — Monk is an AI company delivering state of the art AI Powered Vehicle Inspection solutions for the automotive, insurance and mobility markets.
Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- 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.
Guillaume Gibault - Founder @ Le slip Francais
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Mindday — Mindday is reinventing mental well-being by combining human support, digital programs and science to provide immediate and personalized support to anyone.
- Respire — Respire is an e-commerce company of natural and vegan cosmetic products.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Michael Kong
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
- Request Finance — A suite of financial tools to make your life easier - crypto organizations & freelancers use Request for invoices, expenses, payroll or accounting.
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, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
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.
Engineer from Telecom ParisTech and holder of a PHD in Microelectronics, Fred is a passionate entrepreneur who has been reinventing objects we use in our everyday lives for over 20 years.
In 1999, he started CIRPACK, a telecommunications supplier, later bought by TECHNICOLOR; and WITHINGS, sold to NOKIA, before creating NETATMO in 2011.
His vision:a company where every employee knows how the business and projects grow and where daily life is driven by a strong sense of innovation, empowerment, hard work and sharing.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
- Gleamer — Gleamer develops an AI-powered software to enhance radiologists’ productivity.
- Renovation Man — Renovation Man is a provider of services intended to revolutionize the world of renovation work.
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
- Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
Brian O'Hagan
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- Metahood — Metahood offers services for discovering, purchasing, and selling land in the open metaverse.
- Cohort — The NFT-powered digital engagement platform made for brands and their customers.
Nicolas Pinto is the Deep Learning Ninja and Evangelist at Apple. He is a former Founder, Chief Scientist, and Technology Officer at Perceptio. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Ordinox — Facilitating native asset settlement between BRC20 and ERC20 tokens.
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
- l`école — l'école AI is a computer vision-focused development platform. Its objective is to enable humans to use AI with purpose to change the future, beginning with a focus on speeding advances in life sciences using computer vision.
Clément Buyse
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- Software, SaaS, Sales
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Belgium
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- 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.
- NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
- 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.
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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- FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
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- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- 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.
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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- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- 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 — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.
Jean-Charles Samuelian is a French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & CEO of Alan. Alan mission is to make it easy for people to be in great health. Alan is the first new independent insurance licensed in France since 1986 by the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) and have raised more than €35m with leading investors such asIndex Ventures, CNP, Partech and Portage since the creation in 2016.At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need. Because it is a personal and professional challenge, it should be super simple and user-friendly. We challenge the status quo by crafting beautifully designed tools that empower our users to live better and healthier, with minimal effort.Prior to that, he cofounded Expliseat, which has revolutionized aircraft seating for economy class through new technologies, now flying on several airlines all over the world.He programs since he is 12. Samuelian has received several prizes including French Industry Medal awarded by French Industry Minister and 2 Montgolfier Prices from French "Society for the Encouragement of National Industry. Samuelian holds a MSc in Engineering from Ecole des Ponts Paristech, a MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs and is a member of the French Institute of Actuaries.
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- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
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- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
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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- Music, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- France
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- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
Guillaume Princen
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
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- Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
- Verteego — Verteego is an AI solutions provider helping retailers, FMCG manufacturers and leaders in other industries optimize pricing, promotions, inventory, assortment and staffing through high-precision predictive models.More than a technology or a product, artificial intelligence is a movement that will radically transform today's society to be atthe heart of tomorrow's society. Verteego is a group of technology enthusiasts at the service of humans, fully invested in Artificial Intelligence and its challenges. Verteego gather expertises around data science, software development, product design, pre-sales engineering, projects, business development, marketing, administration and finance, communication, legal...Verteego counts more than 100 clients, including Fortune 500 companies, in 28 countries, and users in 125 countries.
- 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.
André Schürrle
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- Software, Sports, Fantasy Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, France
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- LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
- Virtex Apps — Virtex Apps, LLC is the creator of Virtex Arena, a multiplayer augmented reality competition hosted by sports teams to engage their fans in new ways. During half-time or other breaks in the sport, a new virtual competition can be started which fans can see on the field/court using an app on their own mobile devices. Audience members all seeand interact with the same virtual scene at the same time but from their own perspectives, as though the events were actually happening in front of them. The virtual world provides opportunities for increased advertising/sponsorship revenue, and fans will enjoy an innovative, memorable shared experience that can only occur at the team’s stadium.
- Virtex Stadium — Take over the stadium with your friends and view the game live in 3D. You have never been closer to the game before! Join Virtex Stadium now and never miss the live show!
Jonathan Cherki
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- Fashion, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- France, United States
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- 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.
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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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Igor LILIC
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- Web3, Finance, Software
- Pre-Seed
- France
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- 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.
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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- Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, Germany
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- Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
- Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
- Usual Labs — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Didier Valet
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Luxembourg, Israel
Gerard Piqué Bernabéu is the President & Founder of Kosmos.He Previously worked at eFootball.Pro as the President & Co-Founder.
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- Gaming, Apps, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Spain, France, Sweden
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- GOALS — GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. Gameplay-first, free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- Kamleon — The first intelligent urine analysis platform seamlessly integrated into daily life. Immerse yourself in an unparalleled user experience while we lead the digital transformation in the bathroom industry.
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