# Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in France in June 2026 ## Michael Benabou - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B President at Financiere Saint James. ## Thierry Petit - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion 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 ## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister. ## Thibaud Hug de Larauze - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, CRM, EdTech Thibaud Hug de Larauze is the Co-founder & CEO at Back Market. ## Thibaud Elziere - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin. ## Xavier Niel - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school. ## Jean Stephane Arcis - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Education, Software, Training 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. ## Romain Afflelou - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts) Cityscoot Clay Inc VR Cowboy Bike Epicery Everoad (Ex Convargo) Fithouse Fré Skincare Fokoya Guillotine Vodka Klassroom Laminate Technologies MeetFabric Molotov TV Multiwave Technologies Nestor Octopus Officeriders Onoff telecom Pledg Quiqup Universal Standard Shapr Spendesk Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy) ## Martijn Tjho - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Education, Machine Learning Martijn Tjho is teh Co-Founder and CEO at BIYU. ## Simon Dawlat - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: EdTech, Software, TV Simon Dawlat - CEO @ Batch ## Jean-Romain Lhomme - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Software, Apps Jean-Romain Lhomme - Investor / Chairman @ Comet Meetings ## Thomas HERLIN - Type: Angel - Location: Sophia Antipolis, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Thomas HERLIN is the CSO & Shareholder at Cryptense. He attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). ## Mathilde Collin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and CEO of Front. ## Michael Philippe - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, EdTech, Internet Michael Philippe is the Co-Founder at Jellysmack. ## Jean Marie Rétif - Type: Angel - Location: Le Raincy, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Training, Education, Human Resources Jean Marie Rétif ## Carlo Purassanta - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Education, Private Social Networking 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. ## Olivier Gonzalez - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Education, Knowledge Management Olivier Gonzalez ## Guy Wiriath - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Training Guy Wiriath , co-founder of Value Medical. ## Clément Delpirou - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Training, Professional Networking Clément Delpirou ## Nicolas Fritz - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: MOOC, SaaS, EdTech Nicolas Fritz - COO @ Contentsquare ## Herve Bourgeois - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, iOS, Mobile Herve Bourgeois - VP Sales EMEA @ Guardicore ## Frédéric Mazzella - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Apps Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University. ## Cyril Aouizerate - Type: Angel - Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EdTech, Education, Knowledge Management 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. ## Laurent Morel - Type: Angel - Location: Versailles, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Training, Professional Networking Laurent Morel is the CEO of Carbone 4. Laurent attended CentraleSupelec. ## Jonathan Benhamou - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Sales Jonathan Benhamou Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Resilience Care, Jonathan helps other young innovative companies and technology start-ups as a member of the delegation of Young Entrepreneurs of the G20. He has been recognized as a Technology Young Leader – an honor awarded by 20 of Europe’s top technology leaders, including Apple, Google, Intel,Oracle, and Cisco. Jonathan holds a Master's degree in Business from HEC Paris. ## Pierre Dubuc - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Training, Wellness, Recruiting 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. ## Landry Holi - Type: Angel - Location: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Travel Landry Holi - Founder & CEO @ Fairval ## Aurélie JEAN - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Children, Education, Parenting 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. ## Adrien Montfort - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Hospital Adrien Montfort is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sorare. ## Sebastian Knutsson - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Music, Financial Services Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King. ## Roxanne Varza - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS 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. ## Ilkka Paananen - Type: Angel - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology. ## Boris Paillard - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Sales, Software Boris Paillard is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Le Wagon. ## Charles Gorintin - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet 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. ## Olivier Dacourt - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, EdTech, Higher Education Olivier Dacourt ## Thomas France - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology Entrepreneur, Investor ## Rand Hindi - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology 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). ## Philippe Mangematin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Training, InsurTech, E-Learning Philippe Mangematin is the Co-founder at Seyna. ## Kintxo Cortés - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS Kintxo Cortés is the Head of Expansion at Gigs.com ## Fred Potter - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software 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. ## Josef Bovet - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Josef Bovet - Co-founder & CEO @ Tiller Systems ## Nathalie Balla - Type: Angel - Location: Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, EdTech Nathalie Balla Co-Owner and CEO La Redoute and Relais Colis ## Thomas Solignac - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Training Thomas Solignac - CEO & Co-Founder @ Golem.ai ## Oleg Tscheltzoff - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a globalvision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE). ## Florian Douetteau - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Florian is Dataiku’s Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Florian attended Ecole Normale Supérieure. ## Vincent Bryant - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Training, Professional Networking 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. ## David Darmon - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, iOS, Mobile David Darmon ## Fabienne Rétif - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Training, Education, Human Resources Fabienne Rétif ## Benjamin Griveaux - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Sports, Education Benjamin Griveaux is a former minister and an entrepreneur. ## Jean Charles Samuelian - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Health Care Jean-Charles Samuelian is the Co-founder and CEO of Alan. He attended Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.