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Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in France in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Edtech startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in France in December 2024

Investor	EdTech France investments
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	4
Thibaud Elziere	3
Thierry Petit	3
Fabrice Grinda	2
Michael Benabou	2
Nicolas Brusson	2
Thibaud Hug de Larauze	2
Xavier Niel	2
Pierre Krings	2
Jean-Romain Lhomme	2
Romain Afflelou	2
Jean Stephane Arcis	2
Martijn Tjho	2
Renaud Guillerm	1
Jonathan Azoulay	1
Aurélie JEAN	1
Paul Le	1
Gabriel James Safar	1
Lenny Rachitsky	1
Francis Nappez	1
Varsha Rao	1
Kintxo Cortés	1
Thomas France	1
Oussama Ammar	1
Vincent Bryant	1
Florian Douetteau	1
Rand Hindi	1
Fred Potter	1
Nathan Blecharczyk	1
Roxanne Varza	1
Bruno Sola	1
Michael Philippe	1
Cyril Aouizerate	1
Catherine Snyers	1
Pierre Dubuc	1
Jean-Paul Guisset	1
Cedric Sellin	1
Charles Gorintin	1
Adrien Montfort	1
Carlo Purassanta	1
Nicolas Fritz	1
Mathilde Collin	1
Stéphane Le Viet	1
Laurent Morel	1
Jean Marie Rétif	1
Herve Bourgeois	1
Hugo Geissmann	1
David Darmon	1
Guy Wiriath	1
Michael Philippe	1

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Candix — Get set up in 3 minutes. It's free and confidential.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

President at Financiere Saint James.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
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.

Nicolas Brusson is the Co-Founder and CEO at BlaBlaCar. Nicolas Brusson attended The University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Rental
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Noala — Play interactive exercises and have weekly video calls with your own speech and language professional to overcome your communication
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Riff — No Slack overload. No Zoom fatigue. Fewer meetings. We're on a mission to revolutionise how we work together. Book a demo.

Thibaud Hug de Larauze is the Co-founder & CEO at Back Market.

Investment focus

Information Technology, CRM, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France

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.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Sidely — Sidely is the CRM/SFA that supports brands and agencies that distribute to supermarkets, CHR, GSS and RHD. Boost your sales. Increase your market share.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

Pierre Krings is the founder of Price Minister.

Investment focus

Rental, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Jam — Jam uses AI and process optimization to assist students in their daily lives.
Tracktor — Tracktor is a rental platform for construction workers, enabling them to rent out or borrow construction equipment in a few clicks.
Renovation Man — Renovation Man is a provider of services intended to revolutionize the world of renovation work.

Jean-Romain Lhomme - Investor / Chairman @ Comet Meetings

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Apps
Series A, Angel, Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Upflex — Work Flexibility Starts Here
Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
Comet Meetings — Comet offers new generation meeting venues that stimulate productivity, creativity and well-being. In central Paris. At a faire price. Because meetings are way too often associated with the idea of a loss of time, fairly fast turning into collective social-network-checking sessions, in -most of the time- gloomy locations, they introduce Comet. Theyat Comet offer companies wishing to gather their teams for a one-day meeting, the first locations aiming at stimulating productivity, creativity and well-being, thought all the way from physical space to customer experience. And because they think that this luxury of having great meetings should not be granted to only a minority of companies, they offer this experience at a very fair price. Because they all deserve it.

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

Investment focus

Health Care, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Cashbee — Cashbee is a mobile application to helps save money with budget analysis tools based on artificial intelligence. They wish to help the French to save better and more, and to provide the technological means to do this in the simplest possible way, without having to change banks. The Cashbee App allows you to put money aside with a simple swipe onyour smartphone. They alert you every time when they think you can put some more cash aside.
Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
Kubo Labs — Kubo Labs provides a suite of products to simplify your experience with Kubernetes.

Backed by 20 years’ experience in the enterprise software market, Jean-Stéphane Arcis became one of the co-founders of Talentsoft in 2007. Before Talentsoft, he was the Sales Director for Oracle Applications, General Manager for France and the Benelux Union at Siebel, and Vice-President for Europe at Vignette. Arcis was actively involved in theintroduction and development of ERP and CRM software in Europe. He graduated from ESCP Europe and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Investment focus

Web Apps, Education, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Zest — Zest was founded on the realization that all businesses misuse their gold mine - their people. Zest is human resource management software for business employees.
klassroom — Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries.

Martijn Tjho is teh Co-Founder and CEO at BIYU.

Investment focus

Music, Education, Machine Learning
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Jellynote — Jellynote is the go-to-destination for over 1 million aspiring musicians; a loyal community who enjoy sheets, tabs and chords, original video content and the opportunity to connect with one-another in the Jellynote universe.Jellynote has developed all of its proprietary technology in-house, delivering an intuitive AI-powered edtech platform toits fans. Jellynote sells premium subscriptions and generates revenue from ads.Jellynote offers over 400,000 songs that you can be played to learn through original artist video master classes, video tutorials, sheets, tabs, chords and instrument view for a wide range of instruments. The game mode provides instant feedback and social mode connects musicians share their tastes in music. The Jellynote universe demonstrates how music can connect people in a world that is getting more and more divided. Available on Smartphone and desktop.

Renaud Guillerm - Managing Partner @ SIDE Capital

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Photo Sharing, Travel
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
France, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kokoroe — It 's not only on the benches of the school we learn . Kokoroe believes that the discovery happens from the ages of 7 to 77.At any time of year, at the corner of your street, can be the teacher that will make you the expert of Chinese culture from the seventh century, the ace of the future king Macaron or gardening.So if you arelooking for a course, no need to find the ad at the baker or consult the 50 pages referenced in your search engine !Kokoroe connects couriers knowledge and Jedi apprentices thirsty for knowledge !
Sharalike — Sharalike let you automatically sort and enhance your pictures and videos, safely and easily store and share your personal content, and engage rich conversation with your friends and family
Elqano - Where Knowledge Finds People — The story behind Elqano starts in a Coffee Conversation between two young professionals that wanted to shape the future of knowledge management. Yann and Guillermo were tired of spending half of their day looking for information stored in disorganized folders or overwhelmed email inboxes so they came out with a holistic platform that makes theright knowledge find straight away the right people.

Jonathan Azoulay is cofounder of Talent.io, first selective recruitment platform in Europe. He created Talent.io on march 2015 with Amit Aharoni and Nicolas Meunier. During the 1st year they raised 2M€ to support the project hyper growth and to recruit a 20 people team. Today, +1000 companies are using the platform every week to recruit theirengineers, +2000 of them are signing up every month. Before that , Jonathan worked for 10 years in the recruitment business, creating Urban Linker in 2009 - the french leader recruitment agency in digital space. As Business Angel, he invests in a couple of startups as Fleex (acquired by Reverso in 2015), The family, Marks and Job Around Me.

Investment focus

Travel, Web Apps, Education
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

MARKS — Marks gets to know you and helps you avoid decision fatigue when planning a trip and discovering places on the go.
klassroom — Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries.

Aurélie JEAN is Founder and CEO of Silico Veritas (ISV). Aurélie JEAN has been working for more than 15 years as a research scientist and an entrepreneur in computational sciences, applied to engineering, medicine, education, economy, finance, and journalism. In the past, Aurélie worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and atBloomberg.

Investment focus

Children, Education, Parenting
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

COLORI — COLORI supports children in their understanding of digital technology. Their workshops handle the major computer concepts, question the functioning of computers, discuss the place of screens, and examine the ecological footprint of the digital revolution.

Paul Lê is co-founder and CEO at La Belle Vie. He was the CEO at 03 July, Drive-to-store Apps and head of growth at Zeepro.

Investment focus

Advice, Gaming, Fashion
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aloen — Aloen offers live AI training for agents, analyzing 100% of calls, and enhancing personalized AI models. solutions provided by Aleon are Automation & training, Every interaction counts, GDPR: Regulatory compliance, Committed teams: Retain your talents,
MentorShow — Mentor Show offers online course, Whether you want to improve your cooking, your football skills, your magic, or even your mental strength, you'll be able to learn from the very best, like Karim Benzema, Hélène Darroze, Kev Adams, and many more..
Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.

Gabriel James Safar currently works as a Senior Director of Product Management for Datadog. He previously worked at Madumbo as a CEO and Co-Founder. Gabriel James Safar attended the HEC Paris.

Investment focus

Software, Training, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Popsink — Ingest, Transform, and Activate data in real-time. Popsink is the platform to build powerful data pipelines that dynamically respond to changing data.
La Taloche — La Taloche is a professional training firm that provides hyper boot camps in the construction industry, specifically finishing labor. They teach students the principles of several trades so that they can begin a new career by joining a construction company or starting their own business.

Lenny Rachitsky served as Co-Founder and CEO at Localmind.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Vultron — Compress proposal production timeframes from weeks into days with Generative AI.
Cove — Cove is a visual AI collaboration space that helps users and their AI collaborator to design and plan ideas.
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

Francis leads the technical and product evolution of BlaBlaCar and has been instrumental in building the platform since 2006, allowing it to grow from hosting a few thousand members to millions today. He knows how to turn ambitious ideas into reality, and believes in building robust solutions which can adapt to fast growth and stay relevant for thelong-term. Francis cares about building agile cross-functional teams across locations to deliver efficiently on ambitious objectives. Pragmatic and result-oriented, he is driven by the opportunity to create disruptive solutions which better the user experience. Before joining BlaBlaCar, Francis led major technical developments for big names in European consumer internet which drove impactful disruptions in their respective sectors, including Free and Meetic. Francis holds a degree in Technology and Communications Research from the Joseph Fourier University. Find him @fnapz.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Inarix — Inarix utilizes the latest technologies in artificial intelligence and image analysis to develop its technology. Your pocket laboratory on your smartphone. You can get reliable results from your samples in seconds by snapping a picture. The monitoring platform for your flows is global and instantaneous. Management tools tailored to your needs.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Imagination Machine — Imagination Machine Imagination Machine is a startup studio.

Varsha Rao is the Executive Partner at Flare Capital Partners.Rao received her BS/BA in Economics/Math from the University of Pennsylvania. For two years following graduation, she worked at the Wasserstein Perella financial consulting firm, where she advised clients on private and public investment strategies. She then returned toschool to obtain an MBA from Harvard Business School.As a strong believer in the power of education, she contributes to various educational initiatives for underprivileged children and youth. Among them is Breakthrough, a program that works to motivate and empower K12 students to continue to higher education and excel academically and professionally.

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

knownwell — Whether you need primary care or are focused on obesity medicine, we are here to serve you with warmth and expertise. No shame. No blame. Just care.
Groundfloor — Building the infrastructure for IRL community
Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.

Kintxo Cortés is the Head of Expansion at Gigs.com

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Genesy AI — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Entrepreneur, Investor

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.

Oussama has always been an Entrepreneur — he got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour throughthe social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based), Oussama is trying to scale this by founding TheFamily, an accelerator for early-stage startups that supports them from [0] to [1] through education & unfair advantages. He is also a lecturer on Entrepreneurship at Sciences Po Paris. Oussama is a Lebanese-born French citizen, he grew up in Africa and France, worked in Paris, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo and San Francisco, making him a true global citizen.

Investment focus

Legal, EdTech, Software
Angel
France

Portfolio highlights

Hypios — Hypios combines intelligent crowdsourcing, competency discovery technology, and human outreach to deliver an optimal open problem-solving service. “Seekers” post R&D problems to the network and select a deadline and a price for the successful “Solver.” Hypios, which draws from a network of over 950,000 experts across the world, has been solvingR&D problems for global companies since 2008.

Vincent Bryant, Chairman and co-founder of Deepki. Long before Deepki, his passion for energy emerged. He started into this industry just after finished its studies, starting out in a consultancy firm that specialised in energy. He then spent 8 years working for the ENGIE group as an Energy Efficiency Director.

Investment focus

Training, Professional Networking
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Highcast — Dans un contexte de transition énergétique et d’augmentation structurelle des prix, bien suivre et prévoir vos consommations en énergie devient un enjeu majeur. Chez Highcast, nous voulons relever ce défi autour de 3 axes : - Maîtriser et expliquer votre budget - Contribuer à la transition énergétique - Optimiser vos approvisionnements
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.

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).

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 — Twin Labs, offer an automated tool for repetitive operations, such as onboarding new staff to all internal systems.
Usual Labs — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.

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.

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.

Nathan Blecharczyk is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Airbnb, a trusted community marketplace that connects people with unique accommodations in more than 34,000 cities and 191 countries. Blecharczyk oversaw the creation of Airbnbs engineering, data science, and performance marketing teams and currently plays a leading role in thecompanys business and product strategy. He became an entrepreneur early on, running a business while he was in high school that sold to clients in more than 20 countries. He earned a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University and held several engineering positions before co-founding Airbnb. As a guest, Blecharczyk has stayed in hundreds of homes using Airbnb and he is also a host in San Francisco, where he lives with his family.

Investment focus

FinTech, Tourism, Leisure
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
Samara — Discover Samara's Backyard accessory dwelling units. Elevated design, expertly crafted. Fast and easy installation. Solar-powered and future-ready.

Roxanne Varza is currently Director of STATION F, the biggest startup campus in the world with more than 1,000 startups, located in Paris. She is also an angel investor (companies include Claap, Folk, Resilience.care, Moka.care, Colette and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital (and was previously a scout at Atomico).Before joining STATION F, sheled Microsoft Ventures Paris and was Editor of TechCrunch France. She also worked for several London-based startups and cofounded StarHer (now part of SISTA), Tech.eu and Failcon France. She has also been a member of the French Government's Conseil National du Numérique (CNNum) and the European Commission's European Innovation Council (EIC).Roxanne is trilingual and holds degrees from UCLA, Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cognyx — Cognyx is a platform that enables manufacturers to design complex hardware at software speed using AI and graph databases. It creates a "collaborative super-BOM" that connects legacy systems, allowing designers, manufacturers, and buyers to collaborate on a single BOM. Cognyx reduces time-to-market, improves design reliability, and buildsstructured data for AI.
Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.
Spore Biotechnologies — Lighting up microbiology

Bruno Sola

Investment focus

Training, Higher Education
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

IconoClass — IconoClass offers a four-month course in the area of business development. The course is based on intensive practical learning with partner companies including, Doctolib, Deliveroo, Spendesk, and SumUp.

Michael Philippe is the Co-Founder at Jellysmack.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Internet
Seed, Series A
France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Doctrio — Doctrio helps health professionals maintain their knowledge and learn new skills throughout their career
Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) — Educate leaders to be the creators of tomorrow.

Cyril Aouizerate, the son of a typographer, was born in Toulouse, France, on April 22,1969.1992: He attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem and studied with Professor Yeshayahou LEIBOWITZ.1993: He published the first biography of René BOUSQUET. (René Bousquet Biography of a collaborationist, Forum Editions, France.) He also wrote twophilosophical essays: "Crimes without punishment, a civilization rupture" and "Sacrificial Horror".1997: Cyril went to work with Alain TARAVELLA (ALTAREA-COGEDIM, a real estate investment and development company) from whom he learned everything about developing urban projects.2001: Creation of URBANTECH Holding and launching of the MAMA SHELTER project.2001-2008: Creation and development of the MAMA SHELTER project with the opening of the first Parisian MAMA SHELTER 109, Rue de Bagnolet 75019, Paris, France.2008-2011: Development of the MAMA SHELTER project in Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux, France.2009: Turning-point encounter with businessman Michel REYBIER, who acquired stake in MAMA SHELTER.2011: Opening of MOB, a "Wise Food Vegetarian" restaurant in Brooklyn, NEW YORK. Michel REYBIER also acquired stake in MOB Holding.2013: MOB settles at "La Cité du Design et de la Mode", in Paris, France.2014: MOB develops its own chain of hotels.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Knowledge Management
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Kokoroe — It 's not only on the benches of the school we learn . Kokoroe believes that the discovery happens from the ages of 7 to 77.At any time of year, at the corner of your street, can be the teacher that will make you the expert of Chinese culture from the seventh century, the ace of the future king Macaron or gardening.So if you arelooking for a course, no need to find the ad at the baker or consult the 50 pages referenced in your search engine !Kokoroe connects couriers knowledge and Jedi apprentices thirsty for knowledge !

Catherine Snyers

Investment focus

Training, Education, Human Resources
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Simundia — Large-scale coaching to boost the performance, commitment and fulfilment of your employees.

Pierre is the cofounder of OpenClassrooms. Together with Mathieu Nebra, Pierre created the precursor of OpenClassrooms in 1999, at age 11. He is now the CEO of the company, the first online campus in Europe and among the largest EdTechs in the world.

Investment focus

Training, Wellness, Recruiting
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

each One — each One delivers turnkey recruitment and training solutions dedicated to refugees and newcomers that make inclusion an incredible experience for businesses and their employees. They are reinventing inclusion by connecting companies and talents in new ways. The HR solutions reveal the full potential of multiculturalism and enable companies andtheir teams to fully benefit from it.
Moka.care — Moka.care is a firm that provides a complete solution, allowing your employees to take care of their mental health through one-on-one sessions.

Jean-Paul Guisset

Investment focus

SaaS, Analytics, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

Symaps.io — Location intelligence platform. Decision-making tool for distribution network management and expansion. Catchment area, traffic & geomarketing data. Get a demo.
Welcome to the Jungle — Welcome to the Jungle is the guide that walks you through your job-search: find out what it's like to work for today's top companies and find the best content to thrive in your career

Cedric Sellin is a President at ByTheTower. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yeasty — Yeasty produces natural and protein yeast food.
LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
crowd.dev — Understand, grow, and engage your developer community with zero hassle. With Crowd.dev, you can build developer communities that drive your business forward.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Argil — Generate social media videos in 2 minutes with your AI Avatar
Formal — Formal is a venture-backed startup building the operating system for data of the modern company. Formal is a SaaS technology startup founded in July 2021 which launched its SaaS product in Dec 2021.
Twin — Twin Labs, offer an automated tool for repetitive operations, such as onboarding new staff to all internal systems.

Adrien Montfort is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sorare.

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

Carlo Purassanta is the Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development of ION. He previously worked at Microsoft as a President of Microsoft France. Carlo Purassanta attended Henley Business School.

Investment focus

Apps, Education, Private Social Networking
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.

Nicolas Fritz - COO @ Contentsquare

Investment focus

MOOC, SaaS, EdTech
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).

Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Twenty (YC S23) — Building a better Salesforce, powered by the Open Source community.
Twenty — Experience the forefront of open-source CRM. Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, and community support. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

Stéphane Le Viet

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Ottho — Ottho is the no-code training Company. They help people create their own applications without the need for coding. They offer a visual programming tool to help develop web applications, enabling users with no coding experience to create applications. They regularly organize informative webinars, demonstrations, and workshops.

Laurent Morel is the CEO of Carbone 4. Laurent attended CentraleSupelec.

Investment focus

Training, Professional Networking
Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.

Jean Marie Rétif

Investment focus

Training, Education, Human Resources
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Simundia — Large-scale coaching to boost the performance, commitment and fulfilment of your employees.

Herve Bourgeois - VP Sales EMEA @ Guardicore

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, iOS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Room — Room is the first mobile application that enables you to create and join exclusive VIP Rooms up to 500 people. Each room is private, secure, password protected and confidential. No one can search for you or your content from the Internet.1- Create your own VIP Rooms and invite very special people in it to share anything your are into.2-Request to join your friends' VIP Rooms 3- Search and Discover other available Rooms.4- Share easily the Rooms with your friends via text, email and any social networks.5- Meet & Private Chat with roomers inside each room.No complex profile, just a nickname and an avatar. What happens in the room, stays in the room...
klassroom — Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries.

Hugo Geissmann

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Ottho — Ottho is the no-code training Company. They help people create their own applications without the need for coding. They offer a visual programming tool to help develop web applications, enabling users with no coding experience to create applications. They regularly organize informative webinars, demonstrations, and workshops.

David Darmon

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, iOS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Room — Room is the first mobile application that enables you to create and join exclusive VIP Rooms up to 500 people. Each room is private, secure, password protected and confidential. No one can search for you or your content from the Internet.1- Create your own VIP Rooms and invite very special people in it to share anything your are into.2-Request to join your friends' VIP Rooms 3- Search and Discover other available Rooms.4- Share easily the Rooms with your friends via text, email and any social networks.5- Meet & Private Chat with roomers inside each room.No complex profile, just a nickname and an avatar. What happens in the room, stays in the room...
klassroom — Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries.

Guy Wiriath , co-founder of Value Medical.

Investment focus

Software, Training
Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Aloen — Aloen offers live AI training for agents, analyzing 100% of calls, and enhancing personalized AI models. solutions provided by Aleon are Automation & training, Every interaction counts, GDPR: Regulatory compliance, Committed teams: Retain your talents,

Michael Philippe is the Co-Founder at Thomson Reuters. He attended the University of Minnesota Law School from 1975 to 1978.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Internet
Seed, Series A
France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Doctrio — Doctrio helps health professionals maintain their knowledge and learn new skills throughout their career
Nas Company (Formerly Nas Academy) — Educate leaders to be the creators of tomorrow.

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