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Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in France

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

Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in France

Investor Hardware France investments
Xavier Niel 10
Bertrand Diard 6
Romain Afflelou 5
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet 5
Clement Benoit 4
Eduardo Ronzano 4
Oleg Tscheltzoff 4
Rand Hindi 4
Thibaud Elziere 4
Nicolas Douay 4
Solomon Hykes 3
Christophe Chausson 3
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis 3
Fabien Pelous 3
Octave Klaba 3
Olivier Pomel 3
Jean Charles Samuelian 3
Marc Menase 3
Rajat Khare 3
Jean-Romain Lhomme 2
Dominique Vidal 2
Alexandre Yazdi 2
Renaud Visage 2
Stephane Fouks 2
Andrew Nutter 2
Damien Guermonprez 2
Jean-David Blanc 2
Cyril Grislain 2
William Riggs 2
Xavier Gury 2
Thomas Rebaud 2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 2
Edward Lando 2
Scott Chacon 2
Julien Codorniou 2
Maxime Paradis 2
Pascal Cagni 2
Cyril Vermeulen 2
Michael Benabou 2
Stanislas De Remur 2
Guillaume Richard 2
Jacques-Antoine Granjon 2
Bertrand Jacquelot 2
William O'Farrell 2
Bertrand Salomon 2
Didier Soucheyre 2
Jean-Charles Mathey 2
Thierry Chassagne 2
Daniel Caille 2
Axel Toupane 2
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Xavier Niel Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cure51 — Cure51 mission is to create a database of cancer survivors to leverage their exceptional biological features and find new drugs to cure Cancer.
  • VizBlock — Blockchain Analytics made simple
  • The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
Bertrand Diard Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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
  • Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Deepomatic — Boost your field operations with our advanced Computer Vision technology. Enhance deployment, improve quality, and propel your business towards service excellence.
  • NocoDB — NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Romain Afflelou Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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)
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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.
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
  • Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
  • PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
  • Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
Clement Benoit Angel
Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Spain
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.
Eduardo Ronzano Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
  • Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
  • Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility
Oleg Tscheltzoff Angel · New York, New York, United States
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
  • Internet, Software, 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.
Rand Hindi Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
  • Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
  • Kinetix — Kinetix is a no-code 3D creation tool that leverages artificial intelligence motion capture to convert videos into 3D animations.
Thibaud Elziere Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
  • Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
  • The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
Nicolas Douay Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United Kingdom, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
  • Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
  • 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.
Solomon Hykes Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Developer Tools, Cloud Computing
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
  • Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
  • Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
Christophe Chausson Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Delpha — Leveraging Cutting-Edge AI, we ensure accurate and reliable data to drive enhanced revenue performance in Salesforce.
  • Fabriq — Fabriq is a SaaS startup whose mission is to improve the daily operational efficiency of shop floor teams. About 1 in 6 jobs today is in the manufacturing sector today and a vast majority of factories have to take their performance tracking tools digital. By providing a intuitive and collaborative app on which shop floor workers can rely on, Fabriqdelivers efficiency gains of 2% to 3% by allowing users to solve operational issues faster, make information flow freely and leverage operational data to augment daily decision making.
  • DataHawk Technologies — DataHawk software platform provides eCommerce analytics tools for sellers and vendors to increase sales, optimize margins, gain insights, and boost productivity.
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Italy, France, United Kingdom
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.
Fabien Pelous Angel
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
  • Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Octave Klaba Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
Octave Klaba is a Chairman of the Board of Directors at OVHcloud.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Gaming, Aerospace
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • C12 Quantum Electronics — C12 Quantum Electronics develop reliable quantum processors with carbon nanotubes. Its unique technology reduces drastically the error rate, making the platform a prime candidate for noisy intermediate-scale quantum applications. The Paris, Ile-de-France, France-based company was formed in 2019 by Pierre and Matthieu Desjardins.
Olivier Pomel Angel · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Olivier Pomel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. Prior to founding Datadog, Olivier Pomel built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP, Technology for Wireless Generation, growing the development team from a handful to close to 100 of the best engineers in NYC until the company’s acquisition by News Corp. Before Wireless Generation, Olivier heldsoftware engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. Olivier is an original author of the VLC media player and holds an MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Cure51 — Cure51 mission is to create a database of cancer survivors to leverage their exceptional biological features and find new drugs to cure Cancer.
  • Qevlar AI — Qevlar focuses on increasing the productivity of Security Operations Centers (SOC) through the use of AI technology. Qevlar's intelligent, zero-programming approach streamlines threat detection, reveals hidden automations, and accelerates response times.
  • Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
Jean Charles Samuelian Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Jean-Charles Samuelian is a French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & CEO of Alan. Alan mission is to make it easy for people to be in great health. Alan is the first new independent insurance licensed in France since 1986 by the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) and have raised more than €35m with leading investors such asIndex Ventures, CNP, Partech and Portage since the creation in 2016.At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need. Because it is a personal and professional challenge, it should be super simple and user-friendly. We challenge the status quo by crafting beautifully designed tools that empower our users to live better and healthier, with minimal effort.Prior to that, he cofounded Expliseat, which has revolutionized aircraft seating for economy class through new technologies, now flying on several airlines all over the world.He programs since he is 12. Samuelian has received several prizes including French Industry Medal awarded by French Industry Minister and 2 Montgolfier Prices from French "Society for the Encouragement of National Industry. Samuelian holds a MSc in Engineering from Ecole des Ponts Paristech, a MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs and is a member of the French Institute of Actuaries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
  • Mini Studio — Bring kids' imagination to life with Mini Studio AI. Create magic characters, card games, story books, and more. Start creating and playing today!
  • Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
Marc Menase Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Spain
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 platform is designed for today's marketer and requires no technical skills.
  • Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
Rajat Khare Angel
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
  • Drones, Robotics, Security
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • France, Switzerland, Germany
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.
Jean-Romain Lhomme Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Jean-Romain Lhomme - Investor / Chairman @ Comet Meetings
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Software, Apps
  • Series A, Angel, Seed
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Upflex — Work Flexibility Starts Here
  • Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Comet Meetings — Comet offers new generation meeting venues that stimulate productivity, creativity and well-being. In central Paris. At a faire price. Because meetings are way too often associated with the idea of a loss of time, fairly fast turning into collective social-network-checking sessions, in -most of the time- gloomy locations, they introduce Comet. Theyat Comet offer companies wishing to gather their teams for a one-day meeting, the first locations aiming at stimulating productivity, creativity and well-being, thought all the way from physical space to customer experience. And because they think that this luxury of having great meetings should not be granted to only a minority of companies, they offer this experience at a very fair price. Because they all deserve it.
Dominique Vidal Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Dominique Vidal is a Venture Partner at Index Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
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.
Alexandre Yazdi Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Alexandre Yazdi - Co-Founder and CEO @ Voodoo
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Investment focus
  • Software, Real Estate, Residential
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Turkey, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Woodoo — At Woodoo, we bring dead wood to life. We believe in a sustainable industrial future built on wood, using innovative, pioneering processes.
  • ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
  • Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
Renaud Visage Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies: - Sqreen (exited to Datadog) - Meero ($290M in funding) - Algolia ($184M) - Alkemics ($54M) -Builder ($29M) - Verve ($28M) - Fox Intelligence (€18M)
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
  • finres — finres is a science-based firm that uses artificial intelligence, big data, and research to increase food system resilience in the face of climate change by making investment decision-making robust and quick, as well as providing a comprehensive algorithmic solution for recognizing and assessing climate risks in order to prioritize adaptationefforts.
  • Sirona Technologies — Pioneering direct air capture (DAC) technology with a focus on speed, scalability and a low capex design.
Stephane Fouks Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
  • Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Andrew Nutter Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Andrew Nutter is a Co-Founder at Gama. He attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Yavin — Yavin provides modern point-of-sale solutions for European merchants
  • 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.
Damien Guermonprez Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Payments, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, India, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
  • Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
  • Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
  • CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
Jean-David Blanc Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Jean-David has always been a tremendous entrepreneur since he started his first company at the age of 16. At that time, he created an interactive service company (Concerto Telematique) for brands such as Coca Cola, Marlboro or Renault. In 1993, he created AlloCine, an internet multimedia movie guide service which rapidly became France #1destination for movies, cinema and entertainment and one of France’s most famous internet success stories. AlloCine was sold to Vivendi in 2001. Prior co-founding Molotov with Pierre Lescure in 2015, he invested in several successful companies such as Meetic, Amalto technologies, Restopolitan, Veoprint, Square Inc. or The Cools.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
  • Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
  • Aula — Aula's created by educators to make every learning experience truly engaging. See how our simple, social platform can transform your digital learning environment.
Cyril Grislain Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Cyril Grislain - Board advisor @ Smart Me Up
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Visiblee — Visiblee is a generation automation solution to boost B2B website conversion.VA first worldwide, Visiblee Lead Generation solution identifies individual website visitors. It enables Sales Teams to increase their sales by transforming anonymous website visitors into qualified leads.Visiblee is develped by Salezeo, which has its main office inParis and is also active in the UK and in Spain.
  • nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
  • Foxintelligence — At foxintelligence, they think data is the first and necessary step to solve any problem. Their mission is to empower decision-makers with data to improve the way societies and companies work. Foxintelligence delivers the best insights on the latest European ecommerce trends, by unlocking intelligence from hundreds of merchants and thousands ofbrands e-receipts. They provide the most reliable insights available for e-commerce while helping consumers save both time and money.
William Riggs Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
William (Billy) Riggs, Ph.D., AICP, LEED AP is a Californian academic and entrepreneur. He global expert and thought leader in the areas of future mobility and smart transportation, economics, design and urban development. Dr. Riggs is a professor and program director at the University of San Francisco School of Management, a partner at JustBusiness, and a consultant and advisor to multiple companies and start-ups on technology, smart mobility and urban development. This follows two decades of experience working as a planner, economist, and engineer. He has over 100 publications, featured in multiple global media outlets such as the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Atlantic, and is the author of the book Disruptive Transport: Driverless Cars, Transport Innovation and the Sustainable City of Tomorrow. Dr. Riggs has been both a fellow with the National Science Foundation fellow and the University of California Transportation Center, is the founder of ReStreet.com (app.restreet.com)—an online tool for democratizing street design. Dr. Riggs sits on the City of Palo Alto’s Planning and Transportation Commission and is a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation Economics and Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Committee on Transportation Economics and the Standing Committee on Policy and Law.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Robotics, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
  • SCOUT — Scout Canning is the story of heritage canning reinterpreted by PEI-native, and award-winning Chef, Charlotte Langley.
  • Heex Technologies — Heex Technologies accelerates AI development by enabling engineering teams to get the most value out of their data
Xavier Gury Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Xavier Gury - Co-Founder & CEO @ Wind Capital
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Investment focus
  • Software, Big Data, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Upcall — Upcall helps hundreds of companies acquire, qualify, engage and retain more customers through outbound phone calls.Upcall's platform and API give 24/7 access to 1000s vetted US based callers as well as various tools to manage call campaigns effectively such as script templates, call analytics and recording, as well as integrations withclient's existing workflow (Slack, Salesforce, Google Calendar, Outlook, ...).Upcall was part of the prestigious Y Combinator.
  • Visiblee — Visiblee is a generation automation solution to boost B2B website conversion.VA first worldwide, Visiblee Lead Generation solution identifies individual website visitors. It enables Sales Teams to increase their sales by transforming anonymous website visitors into qualified leads.Visiblee is develped by Salezeo, which has its main office inParis and is also active in the UK and in Spain.
  • INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
Thomas Rebaud Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Social Media
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United States, Japan
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.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Edward Lando Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
  • NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Scott Chacon Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer currently as the Cofounder & CEO of Chatterbug. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress, the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage and the Git Community Book. Source
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Cloud Security
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
  • Flower Labs — A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
  • Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
Julien Codorniou Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
  • Sharpist — We offer personalized learning that will help people-centric organizations and teams grow throughout the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more!
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Maxime Paradis Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Creable — Creable provides creators and managers with a digital workspace solution to manage their entire business.
  • 77 Foods — 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.
Pascal Cagni Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Pascal Cagni was born on October 28, 1961 and is a specialist in the European digital economy. He advises and invests in startups and contributes to their international development and expansion.Recruited by Steve Jobs in the early 2000s as General Manager and Vice President of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), he led a regionof 130 countries for 12 years in which revenues grew from $1.2 billion to over $37 billion. After starting his career as a consultant at Booz & Co, he joined Compaq Computers, established Software Publishing France (SPC), and then led Packard Bell NEC as the number one home PC manufacturer in Europe.Pascal Cagni holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris. He also holds an MBA from the HEC Group and is a graduate of the Executive Program of Stanford University (EPGC).
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Investment focus
  • Hardware, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Formlabs — Formlabs develops the Form 3+ and Form 3L Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) and Fuse 1+ selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers for professionals.
  • GIROPTIC — OpenFrame empowers real estate agents to easily create beautiful video tours in minutes using an elegant app and a unique 360 camera.
  • HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
Cyril Vermeulen Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Homepilot — We revolutionize residential property management through the use of technology.
  • Symaps.io — Location intelligence platform. Decision-making tool for distribution network management and expansion. Catchment area, traffic & geomarketing data. Get a demo.
  • Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
Michael Benabou Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
President at Financiere Saint James.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
  • ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
  • Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.
Stanislas De Remur Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
  • Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Guillaume Richard Angel · Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
Guillaume Richard is the Founder, Chairman & CEO at Oui Care.He attended EDHEC Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Software, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • HypnoVR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.
Jacques-Antoine Granjon Angel · La Plaine-saint-denis, Ile-de-France, France
Jacques-Antoine Granjon was born in Marseille on 9th August 1962 and studied at the prestigious European Business School (EBS). A born entrepreneur, he founded overstock distributer Cofotex S.A. with EBS friend Julien Sorbac in 1985. In 1996, Jacques-Antoine bought and renovated the former print works of national French newspaper Le Monde in LaPlaine Saint-Denis (93), just outside of Paris, setting up Oredis group HQ.In 2000, he and his business partners realised that the Internet was “an opportunity to welcome the world in a virtual store with digital catalogues”. This realization led to the creation of a revolutionary concept: an online platform entirely dedicated to flash sales for brands.In January 2001, Jacques-Antoine and his seven business partners launched vente-privee.com in France, before e-commerce had barely started in Europe. He then applied his extensive experience to the Internet, selling excess stock for important fashion and home brands, relying on two main strategies: events and exclusivity, all the while focusing on customer satisfaction. In 2012, he went on to win the “Customer Service Award” for the fourth year in a row, presented to him by the Institute BVA-Viséo Conseil, France’s fourth market research company.It was not until 2004 that the website’s success became apparent. In 2005, its turnover grew a staggering 500% from the previous year. The website is now available in 8 European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK, Belgium and Austria, and the Netherlands) and the United States, in partnership with American Express. In 12 years, vente-privee.com has become an event-creating media, bringing together over 18 million members and 2.5 million unique users per day. This solid foundation allows the site to offer its 2,000 partner brands an innovative distribution channel.Jacques-Antoine Granjon’s professional success has been recognized with many awards. He was named ‘2011 Communication Personality of the Year’ by the Grand Prix des Agences de l’Année, ‘Personality of the Year’ by the Trophées LSA de l’Innovation 2011, ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 2011 Technologies Numériques awards, ‘2011 Man of the Year’ by the Enseignes d’Or panel and ‘2010 Businessman of the Year’ by French GQ readers. Jacques-Antoine was also crowned ‘E-commerce Man of the Year’ by a panel of internet users at the E-commerce Magazine awards in 2007 then ‘Businessman of the Year’ at the BFM Awards in 2008. He also then went on to collect the European prize for ‘Chief Marketing Office of the year’, sponsored by Booz & Company, in 2009.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Advertising, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Side — Side's mission is simple but ambitious: create the smoothest work experience, matching company's temporary needs with qualified profiles within seconds. Each month, thousands of Siders and companies - e.g. HelloFresh, Deliveroo, Urban Massage, Soundcloud, Uber, Stripe - are using Side on a regular basis, from missions of a few hours toseveral months.Since the launch in 2015, Side has been growing fast and is now managing thousands of tasks every month in France and in the UK. Side is based in Paris and London and plan to expand into new cities, industries and job categories. After a new funding round that brings to a total of $7.2M in funding, Side is supported by Xavier Niel, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Bernard Arnault (Aglaé Ventures), Connect Ventures (Citymapper, Typeform investor), Fly Ventures, Kima Ventures, The Family and many A-level Business Angels.
  • Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
  • Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
Bertrand Jacquelot Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • France, United States
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
William O'Farrell Angel
William O'Farrell
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Investment focus
  • Software, Animation, 3D Technology
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Kinetix — Kinetix is a no-code 3D creation tool that leverages artificial intelligence motion capture to convert videos into 3D animations.
Bertrand Salomon Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Bertrand Salomon - Deputy CEO @ Transatel
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Didier Soucheyre Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Didier Soucheyre, has become a real entrepreneur in the area of Telecoms. More than 25 years of responsibilities in the IT field and 17 years as head of his own companies, have forged its expertise and strategic vision. Having been responsible for the micro computer SNECMA, he worked at Data General, Delf, until the creation of Cyclix from 1992until 1999. In 2003 Didier co-founded with Florian Boys of the company Neo Telecoms. Specialized optical networks and data center services, the company has become an international IP transit operator. After 11 years of strong growth it achieved € 30m of sales and was sold to the operator Zayo Group in 2014. Didier graduated from Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Jean-Charles Mathey Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Jean-Charles Mathey
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Thierry Chassagne Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Thierry Chassagne
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Messaging, Telecommunications
  • Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Daniel Caille Angel
Daniel Caille
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Investment focus
  • Elderly, Medical, Software
  • Series A, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • HypnoVR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.
  • Medylink
  • CetteFamille — CetteFamille is an economical alternative to retirement homes in France. It is a French network of professional and accredited families to welcome the elderly.CetteFamille is a warm, economical and tailor-made alternative to the retirement home. CetteFamille is a site of connection and a company of services to the person allowing seniors to finda trained and selected family close to home. CetteFamille offers seniors and their families an offer of contact and a follow-up service to carry out all the administrative procedures.On www.cettefamille.com, caregivers of seniors can register to meet a family available nearby. The teams at CetteFamille are responsible for contacting them to study the request and ensure a meeting with the family most appropriate to meet his needs.
Axel Toupane Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Grew up in France, been playing basketball my whole life and now opening myself to brand new horizons. Being an entrepreneur, an investor , an actor of the new wave of athletes who are making businesses off the court. Above all, i’m willing to learn and talk about new opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Robotics, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Greenlux Car — Greenlux Car offer through his app and website, the largest electric car network in the world. Our customers can experiment our services by two ways, rent an electric car or being carried with an electric car. We trust in providing the biggest electric car availability in the most possible countries to make possible for everyone to rideemission-free.
  • Heex Technologies — Heex Technologies accelerates AI development by enabling engineering teams to get the most value out of their data
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