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Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in France (September 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in France Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in France Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Xavier Niel
Angel
16 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$70M
Eduardo Ronzano
Angel
7 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $150k–$5.6M
Bertrand Diard
Angel
7 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $300k–$25M
Romain Afflelou
Angel
6 France, United States, Israel Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, FinTech $400k–$48M
Olivier Pomel
Angel
6 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.6M–$35M
Nicolas Douay
Angel
6 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$14M
Octave Klaba
Angel
5 France, Belgium Seed, Angel, Series A Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$17M
Thibaud Elziere
Angel
5 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $417k–$16M
Clement Benoit
Angel
5 France, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, FinTech $1.1M–$22M
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
5 France, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Retail, FinTech, Internet $559k–$57M
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel
4 Italy, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $318k–$3.3M
Ahmed Mhiri
Angel
4 France, Tunisia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $532k–$2.4M
Antoine Arnault
Angel
4 France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Telecommunications, Apps, SaaS $1.1M–$10M
Oleg Tscheltzoff
Angel
4 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Internet, Software, SaaS $180k–$23M
Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve
Angel
4 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence $932k–$20M
Rand Hindi
Angel
4 France, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Cryptocurrency, Software, Machine Learning $125k–$11M
Julien Lemoine
Angel
4 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Cloud Management $481k–$6M
Christophe Chausson
Angel
3 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $500k–$7M
Marc Menasé
Angel
3 France, United States, Spain Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet $415k–$8.4M
Andrew Nutter
Angel
3 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, FinTech $550k–$4.9M
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
3 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$5.5M
Cyril Vermeulen
Angel
3 France, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Software, SaaS, Internet $543k–$23M
Sébastien Lucas
Angel
3 France Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, Bitcoin $1M–$1.7M
Jean-Baptiste Rudelle
Angel
3 France, Iceland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Human Resources $1.5M–$7M
Solomon Hykes
Angel
3 United States, France, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.7M–$65M
Sebastien Pahl
Angel
3 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Cloud Management $1.2M–$13M
Dominique Vidal
Angel
3 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Internet, E-Commerce $1M–$69M
Alexandre Yazdi
Angel
3 France, Portugal, Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$31M
Rajat Khare
Angel
3 France, Switzerland, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Drones, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence
Fabien Pelous
Angel
3 France Seed Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications $1.1M–$2.2M
Edward Lando
Angel
3 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $125k–$31M
Marc Jalabert
Angel
3 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet $1.6M–$10M
Daniel Marhely
Angel
3 France, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Music, Internet, Apps $549k–$6.3M
Justin Ziegler
Angel
3 France, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $3.1M–$7M
Sebastien Borget
Angel
2 United States, France, Estonia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Bertrand Jacquelot
Angel
2 France, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Thomas Rebaud
Angel
2 France, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $494k–$5.5M
Alex Macdonald
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, France Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Stephane Fouks
Angel
2 France Seed Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
Stanislas De Remur
Angel
2 France Seed Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
Maxime Paradis
Angel
2 France, United States, Switzerland Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Adrien Dassault
Angel
2 France Software, Wireless, Mobile Apps
Jean-Charles Mathey
Angel
2 France Seed Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
Sylvain Bonnet
Angel
2 France Seed Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
Bertrand Salomon
Angel
2 France Seed Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
Thierry Chassagne
Angel
2 France Seed Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
Michael Benabou
Angel
2 France, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B $549k–$57M
Christophe Jouin
Angel
2 France Angel Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing
Guillaume Richard
Angel
2 France Pre-Seed, Series A Medical, Software, Health Care
Frederic Halley
Angel
2 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Software, Retail
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Xavier Niel
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 16 investments in France Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$70M; Series A $3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qutwo — We unite Qutwo OS and world-class AI and quantum scientists with the most forward-looking enterprises to develop competitive edge through classical AI, hybrid, and full quantum systems. We tackle the most challenging problems in AI computing.
  • HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
  • Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
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Eduardo Ronzano
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 7 investments in France Hardware startups

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$5.6M; Angel $500k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kraaft — Kraaft is a field communication and coordination platform built for subcontractors, specialty trades, and construction teams. Crews share real-time updates, photos, tasks, and jobsite reports directly from the field, while project managers gain clear visibility into progress across every job. Kraaft replaces scattered WhatsApp threads and phonecalls with structured, job-based chats that automatically organize documentation, tracking, and reporting. More than 1,000 contractors use Kraaft to improve field-to-office communication, reduce delays, and standardize jobsite activity across multiple crews and projects.
  • Frak Labs — The Recommendation Economy makes influence scalable. Turn word-of-mouth into measurable, rewarded growth.
  • Poolside — We are software's leading AI research lab.
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Bertrand Diard
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in France Hardware startups

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $300k–$878k; Series A $5.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
  • Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
  • Lobster — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.
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Romain Afflelou
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in France Hardware startups

Romain Afflelou is based out of London, England and is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of YADAY. Romain previously worked at Virtuo as a Private Investor. Romain Afflelouv attended Ecole active bilingue.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.1M; Series A $5.8M–$48M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Olivier Pomel
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 6 investments in France Hardware startups

Olivier Pomel is based out of New York, New York and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. Olivier previously worked at Wireless Generation as Vice President of Technology. Olivier Pomel attended the CentraleSupélec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$22M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$3.4M; Series A $9.2M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flam — The AI-native content format powering the internet beyond videos.
  • Formel AI — Formel AI is an AI firm that develops massive language models of production quality that are improved using formal verification to get rid of reasoning hallucination To guarantee logical consistency and mathematical accuracy, the organization integrates formal techniques with LLM frameworks.
  • Norbert Health — Norbert Health develops a home medical pod that monitors the health of families using contactless sensors. Their product senses key vital signs including heart rate, breathing rate, and temperature, providing a real-time and historical view of the user's health. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
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Nicolas Douay
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in France Hardware startups

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $500k–$8.6M; Series A $6.8M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bealy health — Discover personalized healthcare at Bealy Medical. Our expert physicians deliver tailored consultations, comprehensive treatment plans, and innovative medical solutions, ensuring optimal health outcomes through patient-centered care and advanced medical expertise.
  • Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
  • underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.
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Octave Klaba
Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 5 investments in France Hardware startups

Octave Klaba is based out of Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, and is the Chairman and CEO of OVH cloud. Octave Klaba attended the Icam - Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: France, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biomemory — Biomemory creates DNA Drives for large corporates and administrations.
  • Aerospacelab — Aerospacelab makes access to space simple. By combining our satellite platforms with mission payloads, Aerospacelab is able to deliver end-to-end satellite solutions tailored to meet your business needs.
  • Qubit Pharmaceuticals — We work alongside biopharmas to transform the way drugs are developed by moving from approximation to prediction.
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Thibaud Elziere
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 5 investments in France Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $822k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $417k–$3.4M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OnParty — OnParty is a digital platform and mobile app designed for organizing, discovering, and managing parties and nightlife events. Users can easily create event pages, invite friends, and access exclusive nightlife experiences. The app also connects users with vetted professionals such as DJs, influencers, and artists to enhance event planning andexecution.
  • HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
  • DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
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Clement Benoit
Angel · 5 investments in France Hardware startups

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$2.1M; Series A $8M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
  • Cocunat — Cocunat is a natural and 100% toxic free cosmetics brand.
  • Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in France Hardware startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $559k–$5M; Angel $1.1M–$15M; Series A $3.7M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
  • 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.
  • Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.
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Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Hardware startups

Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

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  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$2.2M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.4M–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
  • HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
  • Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
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Ahmed Mhiri
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Hardware startups

A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit. An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad. In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move. As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses. Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, Tunisia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $532k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaylo — Jaylo.ai transforms your email experience by using AI. Automatically organize and prioritize your inbox, ensuring nothing important gets lost. Generate context-aware replies that perfectly match your tone and intent. Save you time and effort, allowing you to communicate efficiently and professionally. Free up your day for what really matters"high-impact, meaningful work."
  • Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
  • Kare Partners — Kare Partners, LLC provides therapeutic rehabilitation and other ancillary services in the healthcare sector. The company offers physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services through a network of outpatient therapy clinics in North Carolina and Arkansas. It also assists home health agencies by providing fully-trained therapy-teams tocomplement their in-house talent or add a new dimension to their service delivery. In addition, it provides a direct educational and credentialing path for therapy clinicians in India to gain employment in the United States healthcare system. Kare Partners, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Gastonia, North Carolina.
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Antoine Arnault
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Hardware startups

Antoine Arnault - CEO @ Berluti

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Telecommunications, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Catches — Catches provides an AI-powered knowledge hub that centralizes scattered company information from documents, chats, and tools into a single searchable workspace. The platform ingests content from multiple sources, structures it, and uses semantic search and chat-style queries to surface relevant answers for employees. It supports internal knowledgesharing by letting teams organize FAQs, processes, and project context into collections that are easy to browse and maintain. The product focuses on reducing time spent looking for information and decreasing repetitive questions across teams. Integrations and browser-based access allow knowledge to appear within existing workflows, helping sales, support, and operations teams access up-to-date context during their daily tasks.
  • Mobile Club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Oleg Tscheltzoff
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in France Hardware startups

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).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$4.5M; Angel $180k–$1M; Series A $1.2M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Indeez — Indeez is an European insurtech focused on everyday needs of independent workers, by providing them with better income protection.
  • 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 — On a mission to help small businesses grow exponentially with Payment-terms-as-a-Service. At Aria, we believe that: - When payments go fast, businesses grow fast - it’s that simple! - Managing payments and credits at scale is the way for endless growth - our API offers high stability and extensible limits - The service and support of our teamsis just as important as the financing solution we provide - we’re not just another tech product Aria was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.
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Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6M; Pre-Seed $932k–$4.3M; Series A $8M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rocapine — We craft apps that help people feel truly alive
  • Upstream — The first inbox designed for humans and agents.
  • YOUTH — Full health check-up in less than 2 minutes!
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Rand Hindi
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in France Hardware startups

Rand Hindi is based out of United States and is the General Partner of Unit Ventures. Rand previously worked at Naval Group as an Advisor. Rand Hindi attended Singularity University. Rand Hindi has been awarded Rising Star.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Cryptocurrency, Software, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$11M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
  • Optimum — The Universal Data Acceleration Network | Powered by RLNC
  • Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.
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Julien Lemoine
Angel · 4 investments in France Hardware startups

Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder of Algolia, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder at Algolia SAS and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine defined the technology strategy of MASA Group (an international software editor of simulation software) and led the development of strategic R&Dproducts in indexing and natural languages processing at Exalead (Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) and Thales Group. He has extensive experience in architecture design and implementation from his leading work in Exalead and Thales.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Cloud Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $481k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
  • Inboxbooster — Test your email deliverability for free. See if emails go to spam or inbox with our patented technology.
  • Upstream — The first inbox designed for humans and agents.
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Christophe Chausson
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Christophe Chausson is the partner of Chausson Finance. He previously worked at iBanFirst as an Investor. Christophe Chausson attended the Paris Dauphine University - PSL.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $932k–$1.8M; Series A $2.2M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Delpha — Delpha is a data quality solution that uses AI Agents to ensure accurate, reliable customer data, improving operational efficiency and boosting revenue.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Fabriq — Fabriq offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance operational excellence within manufacturing environments. The platform facilitates the identification, escalation, and resolution of operational issues by providing tools such as digital dashboards, standardized routines, action tracking, and performance indicators. Itsupports various industries, including aerospace, automotive, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, and logistics, by enabling teams to report performance gaps, manage daily meetings, and implement continuous improvement initiatives. Fabriq integrates with existing enterprise systems like ERP and MES, allowing for seamless data exchange and real-time monitoring of key performance indicators. The platform also offers features like mobile accessibility, visual management boards, and analytics to support decision-making and promote a culture of continuous improvement across organizations.
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Marc Menasé
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $415k–$8.4M; Angel $658k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $724k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
  • Omi — Omi turns products into pixel-perfect 3D Digital Twins that global teams use to power visuals across commerce, marketing, retail, and AI. No technical skills required.
  • Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
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Andrew Nutter
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Andrew Nutter is a Co-Founder at Gama. He attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $809k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gama — Thanks to cheap, reliable and scalable solar sails, we are redefining deep space access.
  • EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.
  • Applikate Technologies — Applikate Technologies is a hardware and software company that develops a fully automated histology platform with integrated digital imaging. The platform automates the pathology workflow, reducing processing time, lowering cost, and improving image quality, which reduces the risk of misdiagnosis.
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 178
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
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Cyril Vermeulen
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Cyril Vermeulen is a French web entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded the auFeminin.com Group, #1 women property online worldwide and was in charge of Business Development until the company was acquired by German media group Axel Springer. He was also in charge of SmartAdServer, the auFeminin adserving subsidiary, a european leader ofthe adserving technologies.Cyril has invested in a large number of start-ups in Europe and the US.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $543k–$4.4M; Angel $768k–$1.1M; Series A $2.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Homepilot — Homepilot is a residential property management company. They offer an all-inclusive, simple, and transparent online property management service. Their objective is to increase their assets by combining real estate experience with technological solutions. Homepilot was acquired by iad in 2022.
  • Vibe — Advertise your brand on CTV & OTT content with Vibe's self-serve ad platform to target hundreds of channels & networks and reach millions of households.
  • Notify AI — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
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Sébastien Lucas
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Sébastien Lucas - Owner, Co-Founder & General Manager @ Oxalide

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Bitcoin
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.7M; Angel $1M–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
  • GitGuardian — GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems.
  • Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.
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Jean-Baptiste Rudelle
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Jean-Baptiste Rudelle is based out of Paris, Île-de-France, and is the Executive Chairman at The Galion Project and also a Board of Director at Lemrock. Jean-Baptiste previously served as the Founder and CEO at Criteo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jay&Joy — Jay&Joy is the first plant-based creamery in France engaged in manufacturing alternatives to cheese made from almond milk and cashew nuts.
  • Orb — Orb's groundbreaking technology is leveraging the latest advances in computer vision and AI for on-site forest assessment with phones, reducing cost by 90% Orb's carbon and biodiversity platform delivers unmatched data and and transparency, maximising value of each carbon credit.
  • HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
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Solomon Hykes
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Solomon Hykes is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Docker and the creator of the Docker open source initiative. In his role at Docker, Solomon is focused on building a platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, run and orchestrate distributed applications. A Forbes 30 under 30 and YCombinatoralumni, Solomon led dotCloud as Chief Executive Officer through five years of fundraising, business operations and product launches before focusing entirely on Docker. Prior to dotCloud, Solomon held engineering, IT infrastructure management and software development roles at CEIS and SmartJog.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6.6M; Series A $11M–$30M; Series B $28M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZML — ZML is a production inference stack, purpose-built to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware.
  • Ollama — Ollama is a software firm that develops local inference platform designed to run large language models.
  • Kernel — Kernel is a developer platform that provides Crazy Fast Browser Infrastructure for AI agents to use the internet.
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Sebastien Pahl
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Sebastien Pahl

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Cloud Management
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$7.3M; Series A $12M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qovery — Qovery is a DevOps automation tool that lets developers deploy and scale applications on their cloud by simplifying and automating infrastructure so tech teams can focus on what matters most: building great products.
  • Eden AI — Eden AI meets your business needs with a unified AI API and powerful Workflow builder, enabling efficient deployment of AI models!
  • Kerys Software — Your Isolated Workplace is Just One Swipe Away
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Dominique Vidal
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Dominique Vidal is a Venture Partner at Index Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $3.7M–$26M; Series B $10M–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
  • Leavy.co — Leavy.co allows for anyone to live wherever they like, no matter how much they make, even for a day. Covid has turned our idea of work and travel upside down. It’s now all about mobility, for a generation who cannot afford it. The platform pays cash to all members willing to share their homes with the community or care for others.
  • Gens de Confiance — It is not enough to offer a wide range of products and services, you have to ensure that everyone is reliable. GensDeConfiance fights against online scams and build trust via a super-secured classifieds ad board. Our classifieds are only accessible to people who are endorsed by at least three other members. And if we have to remove someone, wealso remove all his referrers accounts! Therefore, not only we ensure that just the more reliable people can join, but every member is accountable at any time then.
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Alexandre Yazdi
Angel · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Alexandre Yazdi is the CEO at Voodoo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Portugal, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$3.5M; Series A $2.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
  • Alpa — Alpa connects to your till and bank to give restaurants a live P&L, cash flow, delivery commissions, supplier spend and a plain-English Monday briefing.
  • Revox — Revox appelle vos prospects, les qualifie, prend les rendez-vous et synchronise tout dans votre CRM.
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Rajat Khare
Angel · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

An Internet-age investor and a serial entrepreneur, Rajat Khare is the founder of the European (luxembourg based) investment firm -Boundary Holding. A prominent investment fund with presence in France and Luxembourg, Boundary Holding invests globally in spaces related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and allied fields such as Data Analytics andMining, Machine learning and Predictive Analytics.Each field contributes significantly to the development of various industries. Data Analytics optimizes business decisions, enhances healthcare, and fortifies cybersecurity. Machine Learning propels autonomy, refines user experiences, and advances predictive maintenance. Predictive Analytics revolutionizes finance, streamlines supply chains, improves healthcare, and tailors customer relations.Boundary Holding primarily acts as a Bridge fund for startups and organizations, facilitating funds across Safe cities, Internet of Things, Algorithmic trading, AI and Analytics. The company has a network of startup programs around the world.Rajat khare holds a Computer Science degree from IIT-Delhi, and has interned at RUCA, University of Antwerp in the Department of Mathematics. He has been a keynote speaker in over 20 major conferences and events across the globe. His work as an investor has also been cited as a case study in the course of Entrepreneurship run by Professor Patrick Turner in INSEAD Business School. He has authored various research papers published in international conferences and books, such as Data Mining V by WIT press. Rajat has co-authored Make the Move on entrepreneurship and Science of Achievement on education. Both the books reflect Rajat’s inclination towards promoting entrepreneurship and a holistic incubation of innovative solutions around the world.An active member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), the IIT Delhi alumni association and the Indian angel network, Rajat proactively supports and encourages entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures around the world. For his efforts to promote entrepreneurship, he was appreciated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at the President’s house in 2006, spotlighting his significant role in promoting entrepreneurship on a global scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Drones, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: France, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
  • Scewo — Scewo is a medical technology platform that develops stair-climbing wheelchair. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • EdallSystems — EdallSystems provide Educational Service (Aerospace Engineering Training), UAV development, Engineering Service(Lab Development) and consulting in INDIA. Their moto is to become a major Product Development company in the filed of Aerospace In India and to support and Develope Aerospace products in India.
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Fabien Pelous
Angel · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Pelous, child of the South, was captain of the XV of France team and Stade Toulousain. It is this exceptional player at the most provided charts of French rugby, sponsoring the 2 e edition of the race "1, 2, 3, Canal! ".

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 580
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M; Series A $4.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Humera — Humera - AI CAPTCHA That Knows You're Human
  • Allonic — Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines.
  • Heywa Labs — Two products, one engine. Heywa Studio for businesses, Heywa for anyone with a question worth following.
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Marc Jalabert
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Marc Jalabert

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
  • Cosmian — We offer a unique, comprehensive data protection suite powered by next-generation cryptography to secure your data in in use.
  • Docugami — AI document engineering by Docugami. Unlock the power of AI and automation for your agreements, contracts, documents, lease agreements, proposals, and more.
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Daniel Marhely
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Daniel Marhely Co-Founded Blogmusik S.A. Daniel Marhely is Founder of Deezer S.A. and serves as its Director. In 2004, he co-founded the dating site Lovelee.com. In 2006, he developed the first version of Deezer, called Blogmusik, in Paris, with the objective of providing music lovers with unlimited access to audio content using streamingtechnology. He served as General Manager of Monster Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Internet, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$6.3M; Series A $2.9M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chefclub — La marque des familles en cuisine
  • Omi — Omi turns products into pixel-perfect 3D Digital Twins that global teams use to power visuals across commerce, marketing, retail, and AI. No technical skills required.
  • MWM — MWM designs, develops & markets mobile music apps and connected objects dedicated to music. Today MWM represents 200 million downloads in 182 countries.
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Justin Ziegler
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in France Hardware startups

Justin Ziegler

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
  • Eden AI — Eden AI meets your business needs with a unified AI API and powerful Workflow builder, enabling efficient deployment of AI models!
  • KillBills — KillBills is a application software that provides banking, payment card, consulting, financial, and digital receipt services.
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Sebastien Borget
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
  • Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
  • Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
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Bertrand Jacquelot
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
  • Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
  • Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity
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Thomas Rebaud
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Thomas Rebaud is 28 years old when he founds Meero in 2016, driven by the desire to make the Internet more beautiful. The story begins in 2007 when he joins EMLyon Business School. Still a student, he becomes president of the Junior branch of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a cooperation present in 15 countries whose aim is to developentrepreneurship as a vector of growth and employment in the world. Through this, Thomas develops a solid knowledge of good business practices. In 2013, with a second Masters under his belt, he sets up his first Internet-free loan comparison company, which works well but doesn’t take off. So he takes up an opportunity with Diji, a new kind of IT consultancy and engineering company. And that’s it. His progress at Diji leads him to discover the professional photography market, which is just waiting to be disrupted. Thomas gets it and seizes the opportunity by creating Meero!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$5.5M; Series A $596k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • 58 Facettes — Jewelry
  • The Poken Company — We are a blockchain based technology startup which wants to put the spotlight back to the content creators and artists.
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Alex Macdonald
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO Sequel. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black. He attended The University of Manchester.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Kalder — Kalder is a unified web3 brand loyalty platform for brands and creators to drive meaningful engagement, onboard new users, and reward superfan communities.
  • Stelia — Stelia builds distributed AI platforms that scale globally. Research-driven intelligent systems for healthcare, education, and enterprise operations worldwide
  • Aurora — The Operating System for High Performance Living
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Stephane Fouks
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Stéphane’s career has spanned politics, economics, media, and advertising. He worked as a music producer and in the cabinet of France’s Minister of Agriculture before entering the communications world. In 1988 he joined RSCG and co-founded the corporate communications agency RSCG Public, which would later become Havas C&O — now the top FrenchCorporate & Financial Communications agency.He was named CEO of Havas Worldwide France in 2003, Executive co-Chairman of Havas Worldwide in 2005, and Vice President of Havas Group in 2011.Stéphane has worked with major global clients including Airbus, BNP Paribas, LVMH, Alcatel, Capgemini and Microsoft; and has served as an international political advisor to world leaders including Poland’s President Aleksander Kwasniewski (1995-2005) and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.Stéphane holds degrees in Public Law and Political and Social Communication, and is the author of Les Nouvelles Elites (2007). He sits on the Board of Directors of Médecins Sans Frontiéres, and was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite in 2005 and Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2008.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Stanislas De Remur
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

After obtaining an Economics degree from Paris II and a diploma from the ESC Reims Management School, Stanislas de Rémur joined the Corporate Finance Division at JP Morgan in Paris before obtaining an MBA from the University of Melbourne and continuing his career in Australia. In June 1999, he joined the General Electric Company, with whom hecontinued to work until 2000, when he decided to create Oodrive.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Maxime Paradis
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Entrepreneur & Angel Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Creable — Creable provides creators and managers with a digital workspace solution to manage their entire business.
  • La Vie — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
  • Mobile.club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.
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Adrien Dassault
Angel · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Adrien Dassault

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Wireless, Mobile Apps
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fungiball — Web3 Fantasy Tennis Game! Each NFT card is linked to a pro tennis player. Card values evolve with real-time player performance. Collect, trade, and profit from your favorite players.
  • Cosmo Connected — Cosmo Connected is a French start-up born in 2015, whose mission is to secure all people in mobility (users of bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and scooters). Cosmo Connected has developed a unique technology, combining hardware and software, which ensures visibility and security for the urban commuter. The device integrates different ignition modes(brake light, position light, hazard warning light, turn signals) designed to make users more visible. Connected to an application, it also has a fall detector, which alerts relatives or emergency services in the event of an accident. Our technology is patented in more than 150 countries. Our vision is to put our technology at the service of as many users as possible in order to make roads safer and greener, by promoting the use of soft mobility. Our goal is to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services that adapt to everyone's needs.
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Jean-Charles Mathey
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Jean-Charles Mathey

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Sylvain Bonnet
Angel · La France, Rhone-Alpes, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

THE FOUNDER: SYLVAIN BONNET Being an entrepreneur runs in his blood - he founded his first business at the age of just 23! He initially honed his talents in direct selling, in the cosmetics and new technology sectors. In 2003, he and a team of experts embarked on a quest to find a new way of keeping slim for the long term. He founded Beautysané andfocused his research on the '3 Wells': eating well, exercising well and well-being. In April 2013, Sylvain Bonnet and Professor Josette Dall’Ava Santucci published the book “Vivre mince, mieux, plus longtemps” (“Live slimmer, live better, live longer”). This self-help book is overflowing with advice and handy tips on how to eat better, exercise better and feel good. The same year, he also began to present the TV programme “Dérégimez-moi”, on the IDF1 channel in France. It was the first such programme that invited guests to speak openly about diets and nutrition. Bursting with ideas and drawing on his experience, he participates actively in national and international think tanks, exploring the nature of the business of tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Bertrand Salomon
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Bertrand Salomon - Deputy CEO @ Transatel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Thierry Chassagne
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Thierry Chassagne

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
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Michael Benabou
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

President at Financiere Saint James.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$7.1M; Angel $560k–$15M; Series A $2.7M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lemrock —
  • Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
  • ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
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Christophe Jouin
Angel · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Christophe Jouin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lemon — Lemon lets you create paid video meetings and interactive conferences.
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Guillaume Richard
Angel · Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Guillaume Richard is the Founder, Chairman & CEO at Oui Care.He attended EDHEC Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HYPNO VR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.
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Frederic Halley
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in France Hardware startups

Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Keyban — Build interoperable customer experience based on Keyban infrastructure
  • NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
  • Kamino Retail — Ultimate Retail Media Monetization Platform that has been designed for Retailers to unlock their true potential and set up their own private marketplace. The 1st independent and interoperable Retail Media Monetization platform.
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Hardware Angel investor funding in France at a glance

Stats across 218 deals from 359 investors.

359
investors
in France Hardware startups
218
deals
in France Hardware startups
$2.9M
median round
in France Hardware startups
5%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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