Get 250+ investors tailored to your startup

Invest in your industry and stage
Emails & contact info included
Excel and CSV export
Automatically

Trusted by 3,000+ startups

Top 50 Education Angel Investors in France in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Education Angel Investors in France in July 2025

Investor	Education France investments
Thibaud Elziere	3
Michael Benabou	3
Thierry Petit	3
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	3
Thibaud Hug de Larauze	3
Fabrice Grinda	2
Jean-Romain Lhomme	2
Pierre Krings	2
Romain Afflelou	2
Simon Dawlat	2
Xavier Niel	2
Martijn Tjho	2
Jean Stephane Arcis	2
Nicolas Brusson	2
Mathilde Collin	1
Guy Wiriath	1
Nicolas Fritz	1
Nathalie Balla	1
Frédéric Mazzella	1
Fred Potter	1
Andreas Wiele	1
Ilkka Paananen	1
Thomas France	1
Carlo Purassanta	1
Oussama Ammar	1
Rand Hindi	1
Laurent Morel	1
Josef Bovet	1
Jean Charles Samuelian	1
Fabienne Rétif	1
Bruno Sola	1
Landry Holi	1
Julien Lopizzo	1
Christophe Courtin	1
Clément Delpirou	1
Pascal Chevalier	1
Cedric Sellin	1
Jean Marie Rétif	1
Paul Le	1
Jean-Paul Guisset	1
Oleg Tscheltzoff	1
David Darmon	1
Catherine Snyers	1
Kintxo Cortés	1
Roxanne Varza	1
Renaud Guillerm	1
Vincent Bryant	1
Riccardo Zacconi	1
Nickey Skarstad	1
Olivier Gonzalez	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

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 — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

President at Financiere Saint James.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Banking
Seed, Series A, 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.
Revoltrain — Revoltrain creates online schools with masters of tomorrow’s topics

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.

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

E-Commerce, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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!
Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, CRM, EdTech
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.
wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.
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.

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.

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 — Experience the power of cloud gaming with Shadow.tech. Dive into a world where high-performance gaming is accessible on any device. Enjoy features such as 4K resolution, VR compatibility, and seamless gameplay without the need for expensive hardware. Explore our comprehensive game store and start your ultimate gaming journey today
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.

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.

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.

Simon Dawlat - CEO @ Batch

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, TV
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
France, 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.
Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.

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

Portfolio highlights

Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
Mobile Club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.

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.

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

Education, Software, Training
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

Uptale — Uptale provides an enterprise solution that enhances employee learning through immersive experiences in 360° and virtual reality. The platform allows organizations to create, share, and analyze training modules without requiring technical expertise.
Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
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.

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.

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 — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

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,

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…).

Nathalie Balla Co-Owner and CEO La Redoute and Relais Colis

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Jolimoi — New personalized beauty shopping service that combines science and human for a unique experience.
wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.
Reelevant — Only 1 out of 10 people interact with marketing messages. Content is the bottleneck of personalization, not data. Personalization doesn't work because data are used to create targeted campaigns. Data must be used to create content because content creates interactions and drive conversion.Why: create content for people, not for campaigns(visual is the key to emotions) How: on-demand, when the user request, at the opening/reading/exposure (Pull content vs Push marketing) What: end-to-end widgets solutions like Live content, Individualization, Content Automation, Optimization, etc.Our visual content platform accelerates revenue, creates content based on any data (behavioral, contextual, etc.) created on the fly at the moment of exposure (on any channel (email, web, push notifications, in-app messages, etc.). We take advantage of existing data sources, nothing to create, we supercharge your marketing stack. Our data-driven Content Engine translates data from any source into on-demand visual content in milliseconds for each people.We believe in a new way of thinking about messages by shifting the paradigm of push marketing to transform any data into on-demand visual content. One unique content is created for each people on the fly at the moment people decide to read them (pull content), instead of when marketers decide to create them (push marketing).People are not data points, people don't buy products, they buy emotions. On-demand visual content is the new game!

Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

La Vie — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
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..
Deligo Vision Technologies — Simple and effective automation of checkout in contract catering.

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.

Andreas Wiele is the President of Marketing and Classified Ad Models at Axel Springer SE since April 2014. Andreas was in born 1962, he studied law at Dijon, Salzburg and Munich Universities. Andreas worked first of all as an editor at Hamburger Morgenpost, before he became assistant to the Chairman of the Gruner + Jahr management board in1988. In 1990 Andreas took over responsibility for the "Capital" project at the Prisma Presse publishing company in Paris, where he became publishing manager of "Capital" and "Geo" in 1991. In 1994, Andreas moved to New York to join Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, initially as Senior Vice President and General Manager of "Family Circle" and "McCall's" and from 1997 onwards as executive vice-president and chief operating officer for the publishing company as a whole. Andreas Wiele was appointed member of the Executive Board responsible for International Affairs in October 2000 and has been head of the Magazines and International Affairs Division since November 2000. In January 2008, he was appointed President BILD Group and Magazines, since April 2014 he is President Marketing and Classified Ad Models. Andreas' key mandates in supervisory bodies: Axel Springer Digital Classifieds GmbH (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), B.Z. Ullstein GmbH (Advisory Board), meinestadt.de GmbH (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Stepstone GmbH (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Zanox AG (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Immoweb SA, Belgium (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Aufeminin S.A., France (Board of Directors), Axel Springer Digital Classifieds France SAS, France (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Seloger.com SAS, France (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Corall-Tell Ltd., Israel (Board of Directors), Prinovis Ltd., UK (Board of Directors).

Investment focus

B2C, Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
Kitt — Your whole office journey, all in one place. We keep your office running smoothly, you stay focused on your team, goals, and culture.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Linear — Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency.The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team in making progress, not getin the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Speed and performance were the main things Linear focuses on early on and keep focusing on that.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

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.

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.

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.

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 — Agentic AI, made actionable.
Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.

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.

Josef Bovet - Co-founder & CEO @ Tiller Systems

Investment focus

FinTech, B2B, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.
Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.

Jean-Charles Samuelian is the Co-founder and CEO of Alan. He attended Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Twenty (YC S23) — Building a better Salesforce, powered by the Open Source community.
Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
YOUTH — Full health check-up in less than 2 minutes!

Fabienne 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.

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.

Landry Holi - Founder & CEO @ Fairval

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kuantom — Kuantom is disrupting the cocktail industry by providing a premium cocktail experience thanks to ORKESTRA: a cocktail machine precisely executing recipes of best mixologists in few seconds, every where.Combination of technology, mixology and luxury, our ambition is to deliver a profitable and premium cocktail solution for all hospitalityprofessionals.
Bartini Aero — Bartini Aero specializes in the development of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Cupertino, California.
Groupe iPepper — IA Consulting BigData DevOps DevSecOps

Julien Lopizzo is the PDG at Major Corp. He attended emlyon business school.

Investment focus

Legal Tech, Advertising, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

AirCampus — Discover the best BBQ grills, tools, smokers, and accessories at BBQ House. Make every day a grilling day with our online marketplace. Shop now!
Major Corp — Economics & Strategic Intelligence Explorer
Keyop Média — Keyop Média développe des titres de presse experts.

Christophe Courtin is the Founder and CEO at Courtin Real Estate. He attended Paris Dauphine University - PSL.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Battery, Web Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Osol — Osol develops nomadic energy systems that allow business, school, and coworking workspaces to render flexible and modular spaces.
Legapass — Prepare your digital estate before it's too late! Make sure your loved ones have all the vital and useful information they will need if something happens to you.
Sezame — Sezame is a real estate firm. They offer real estate property by leasing or renting with an option to buy, enabling customers to buy property in a hassle-free way and become owners in less than three years.

Clément Delpirou

Investment focus

Training, Professional Networking
Series A
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.

Pascal Chevalier - Chairman @ The Blockchain Group

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.
Carnet de Mode —
Asia Deal Group —

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Indeez — Inclusive and sustainable insurance benefits
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
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.

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.

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.

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 — Boost your supply chain with Imperia. A SaaS tool uniting demand, production, and procurement

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, Information Technology, SaaS
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.
Freqens — Access real time market data for optimal buying conditions.
Pruna AI — Pruna is the AI Optimization Engine - a frictionless solution to help you optimize and compress your ML models for efficient inference.

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.

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.

Previously, Riccardo served as vice president of European Sales and Marketing at uDate.com Ltd., an online dating service, and was involved in driving market penetration and partnerships until the company was acquired by InterActive Corporation in 2002. Before that, he was managing director for Spray Network GmbH an online portal based inHamburg with a presence in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In this role, Riccardo demonstrated his understanding for developing solid company strategy, intelligent plans for sustainable growth and strategic partnerships, which supported the successful sale of Spray Network to Lycos for $764 million. In addition, Riccardo has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital Partners, a Qualified Case Leader at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and a consultant at LEK Consulting LLP. He holds a B.A. in Economics from LUISS University, Italy. Riccardo’s favourite King game used to be Jungle Bubble. He’s currently deciding on his new favourite King game.

Investment focus

Gaming, Apps, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Sweden, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Layer AI — The Collaborative MLOps platform
Studio 555 — Studio 555 operates as a tech company, that creates a category where interior design meets gaming and social apps.
Take Take Take — Fantasy Chess is a platform that allows users to pick teams of real-world chess players, track their performance in tournaments, and receive points based on their achievement.

Nickey Skarstad is a Director of Product Management of Duolingo.

Investment focus

Apps, EdTech, Higher Education
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.

Olivier Gonzalez

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 !

Investors by industry