Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in France in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in France in May 2025
Investor | Payments France investments |
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Damien Guermonprez | 7 |
Thibaud Elziere | 7 |
Didier Valet | 6 |
Sebastien Borget | 5 |
Frederic Montagnon | 5 |
Eric Larchevêque | 4 |
Nicolas Bacca | 4 |
Julien Bouteloup | 4 |
Thomas France | 4 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 4 |
Jean-Daniel Guyot | 3 |
Nicolas Louvet | 3 |
Xavier Niel | 3 |
Pascal Gauthier | 3 |
Owen Simonin | 3 |
Nicolas Steegmann | 3 |
Guillaume Lestrade | 3 |
Adrien Dassault | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 2 |
Sébastien Lucas | 2 |
Paul Degueuse | 2 |
Nima Karimi | 2 |
Joan Burkovic | 2 |
Ahmed Mhiri | 2 |
Alexandre Stachtchenko | 2 |
Steve Anavi | 2 |
Christophe Jouin | 2 |
Claire Balva | 2 |
Clement Benoit | 2 |
Declan Kelly | 2 |
Arthur Waller | 2 |
Oleg Tscheltzoff | 2 |
Shana Fisher | 2 |
Guillaume Princen | 2 |
Xavier Gury | 2 |
Rand Hindi | 2 |
Quentin Nickmans | 2 |
Nate Matherson | 2 |
Steve Anavi | 2 |
Perry Blacher | 2 |
Bertrand Diard | 2 |
Edward Lando | 2 |
Alexis Bonillo | 2 |
Bilal EL ALAMY | 2 |
Giorgio Riccò | 2 |
Nico Rosberg | 1 |
Niklas Jansen | 1 |
Brian O'Hagan | 1 |
Alexandre Berriche | 1 |
Philippe de Passorio | 1 |
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.
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, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Didier Valet
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Luxembourg, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Grâce — Grâce offers innovative insurance solutions to enhance customer experience and improve process efficiency.
- Celest Science — Celest Science is a combination of climate science and machine learning to improve the prediction and understanding of extreme weather events.
- Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
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
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Estonia
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 — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Closd — CLOSD is a legal transaction management platform created by former business lawyers. It brings together lawyers and parties in a safe space, facilitates and ensures document exchange, simplifies project organization and management with interactive check lists, automates signings and closures with electronic signatures in a secure interface toauthenticate the signatures, and creates archives on transactions once they are closed.
- Coinhouse — Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinhouse, consult our educational content or visit our physical space, Coinhouse Store. Invest in the future, today.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Turtle Club — Turtle Club is a distribution Protocol, democratizing liquidity access, monetizing Web3 activities, and redistributing value fairly in DeFi.
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
- Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
- Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
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
- 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!
- Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
- Poolside — The best code you never wrote.
Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture).
Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in
-Dataiku (colead, Series A)
- FinalCad (lead, Series A)
- Lengow (lead, Series B)
- Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A),
- Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B)
- TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed)
- Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B)
- and 15+ other companies...
He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills:
- Entrepreneurship, company management, business development
- Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe
- Fund management and creation
- Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition)
- Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zeenea — Zeenea is a cloud-native SaaS solution that democratizes data access and accelerates all your data-driven business initiatives.
- Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero, and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
- AssoConnect — AssoConnect is an online tools platform that meets all the needs of volunteers and community leaders. The complete management of an association is time consuming and tedious. Some tasks - accounting, membership management, payment tracking, grant applications - require hundreds of hours of work per year. Less time for associative projects.itrepresents the digital revolution applied to the voluntary sector. Through this platform, associations have more time to devote to projects and have a complete, simple and intuitive tool to carry out all their associative activities over the long term.
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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cube — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- H Company — Runner H is a state-of-the-art AI agent that will allow anyone to automate complex, cumbersome, multi-step tasks without repetitive and manual input.
Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- Runes DEX — Swap Runes for BTC seamlessly, enjoy low fees, fast transactions, and earn yield as a liquidity provider.
- Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
Owen Simonin is a French entrepreneur, investor, and influencer specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He is the founder and CEO of Meria (formerly Just Mining), a leading company in blockchain infrastructure and staking services. Through his YouTube channel "Hasheur," he has played a key role in educating the French-speakingcommunity about crypto and decentralized finance.
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Investment focus
- Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Waltio — Your Crypto Tax Return.In one Click.Centralize all your cryptocurrency transactions. Declare and reduce your crypto tax amount.
- InterCellar — InterCellar offers you a unique buying and reselling experience. In line with the innovative spirit of the web3.
- Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AniML — Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
- Entroview — Entroview delivers innovative solutions for gigafactories, automotive, and recycling, using entropy-based diagnostics to optimize battery performance.
- 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.
Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Cryptr — DEFAULT : Get features like SSO to convert more B2B customers, regardless of their auth provider. Just a few lines of code to start working with enterprise clients.
- Abyssale — Abyssale is a banner creation platform enabling you to generate stunning social media & online advertising for your brand.
- Klub — Klub operates as a private wealth and private services platform.
Adrien Dassault
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Investment focus
- Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing
- Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Lemon — Lemon lets you create paid video meetings and interactive conferences.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.
Sébastien Lucas
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Investment focus
- Internet, IaaS, Cloud Storage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
- GitGuardian — GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes.
- Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.
Paul Degueuse is the Partner at Korelya Capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- France, Poland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Upway — Upway is building Europe's leading marketplace for reconditioned e-bikes.
- Leetchi — Europe's #1 online money pot for group gifting & personal fundraising. Raise money online - it's easy, secure & transparent!
- Ramp Network — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.
Nima Karimi is the Co-founder & CEO at Silvr. He attended HEC Paris.
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Investment focus
- Podcast, Payments, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A
- France
Joan Burkovic is the CEO & Co-founder at Bridge. Joan Burkovic attended ESSEC Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, B2B, Bitcoin
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Waltio — Your Crypto Tax Return.In one Click.Centralize all your cryptocurrency transactions. Declare and reduce your crypto tax amount.
- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
- Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
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
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, Tunisia, United States
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.
Alexandre Stachtchenko
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest, partenaire crypto des CGP et CIF, permet d'allier gestion de patrimoine et investissement en crypto. Suivez le portefeuille de vos clients.
- 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.
Steve values great work and great products which have large impacts. At Qonto, he looks after product, design and operations.Prior to Qonto, Steve co-founded Smok.io (acquired by a Fortune 500), led operations at Groupon and formerly worked at Deloitte Consulting. He holds an MSc from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and an MBAfrom INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Hardware
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
- Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
- Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.
Christophe Jouin
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Investment focus
- Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing
- Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Lemon — Lemon lets you create paid video meetings and interactive conferences.
Claire Balva is the CEO of Blockchain Partner, the leading startup on blockchain consulting in France. Blockchain Partner was created through the merger of Blockchain France and Labo Blockchain in 2017.
It gathers 3 poles of expertise – strategic, technical and legal – allowing companies to fully embrace the potential of blockchain technologies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest, partenaire crypto des CGP et CIF, permet d'allier gestion de patrimoine et investissement en crypto. Suivez le portefeuille de vos clients.
- 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.
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.
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex financial queries end-to-end, guaranteeing quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
Arthur Waller is a co-founder of PriceMatch, a start-up aiming to industrialize and democratize yield management.Arthur studied economics and econometrics at Ecole polytechnique and Sciences Po. He first worked in economic research at the IMF and at Goldman Sachs before creating his start-up, PriceMatch, with some friends. Using theirskills in economics, econometrics, software engineering, they developed a SaaS platform offering revenue management solutions to companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Obat — Obat is a saas solution provider that uses software for contractors and self-employed for invoicing.
- Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
- RockFi — RockFi is a private management company offering wealth management services.
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
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Indeez — Inclusive and sustainable insurance benefits
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
Shana Fisher is the Managing Partner of HLVP, a NY Based venture fund focused on early stage investments. From December 2003 to June 2010, Ms. Fisher served as IAC's Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Mergers and Acquisitions, and prior to that as the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for IAC. Previously, Ms. Fisherserved as Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance for Allen & Company, LLC. In this capacity she led principle investments and advised publicly traded technology firms, private telecommunications firms and media companies. Prior to Allen & Company, LLC., Ms. Fisher was a program manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Fisher received her B.A. from Hampshire College with a triple major in Sculpture, Philosophy and Linguistics and attended the Master of Arts program at New York University's ITP.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
- Glean — Fast data exploration for data teams and everyone else. Empower your whole team to answer questions without SQL and start making better decisions faster.
- Hashboard — Explore fast, intuitive Business Intelligence with Hashboard. Define metrics on your data warehouse and collaborate for deeper insights. Ideal for data teams seeking seamless, code-based workflows.
Guillaume Princen
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Verteego — Verteego is an AI solutions provider helping retailers, FMCG manufacturers and leaders in other industries optimize pricing, promotions, inventory, assortment and staffing through high-precision predictive models.More than a technology or a product, artificial intelligence is a movement that will radically transform today's society to be atthe heart of tomorrow's society. Verteego is a group of technology enthusiasts at the service of humans, fully invested in Artificial Intelligence and its challenges. Verteego gather expertises around data science, software development, product design, pre-sales engineering, projects, business development, marketing, administration and finance, communication, legal...Verteego counts more than 100 clients, including Fortune 500 companies, in 28 countries, and users in 125 countries.
- 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.
- Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Xavier Gury - Co-Founder & CEO @ Wind Capital
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- Software, Big Data, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, United States
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- 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
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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- Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, Germany
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- Twin — Agentic AI, made actionable.
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
- Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.
Quentin Nickmans is the Co-founder and Partner of Hexa. He previously worked at EATINGDESK as a Co-Founder. Quentin Nickmans attended Cass Business School.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Spain
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Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of Positional. Positional is a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.
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- FinTech, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Mexico
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- DryMerge — DryMerge is a chatbot that facilitates the development of custom processes and API integrations for teams and SaaS customers. The Drymerge chatbot communicates with clients or colleagues directly, takes note of their needs, and promptly builds workflows and API connections on top of your product to satisfy them.
- ParadeDB — Zero-ETL search and analytics for Postgres
- Assembly HOA — Modernizing HOA management through advanced automation and transparency for streamlined community governance.
Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Germany
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- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
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- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- 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 Protocol — 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.
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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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
- Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
- Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.
COO & Co-founder @ Zenly
Retired Pole Vaulter
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- Financial Services, Finance, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, The Netherlands
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- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
- 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.
Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- France
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- Tilvest — Tilvest, partenaire crypto des CGP et CIF, permet d'allier gestion de patrimoine et investissement en crypto. Suivez le portefeuille de vos clients.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Giorgio Riccò - Head of Sales and Tech @ Carlo Riccò & F.lli
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- FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- France
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- Swan — Use Swan's APIs to embed white-labeled banking features like accounts, cards, and IBANs into your workflows and UX.
- Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
- Arcadium — eSports players coaching platform
Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.
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- Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- Germany, Italy, France
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- Insify — Insify is an insurance company that offers digital insurance solutions to freelancers and small businesses. The company was founded in 2020 by Koen Thijssen and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
Niklas is the Co-founder of Blinkist, a bite-sized-learning service that condenses knowledge from great nonfiction into powerful little packs. At Blinkist he drives product strategy and ensures that their culture is flourishing. He’s passionate about learning, company culture, and breakfast.
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- Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, France
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- Zurp — Zurp is a fintech platform built for superfans. Instead of a traditional reward program, Zurp offers exclusive experiences with cardholders' favorite influencers.
- FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
- VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.
Brian O'Hagan
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
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- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- Metahood — Metahood offers services for discovering, purchasing, and selling land in the open metaverse.
- Cohort — The NFT-powered digital engagement platform made for brands and their customers.
Alexandre Berriche is currently the CEO of Fleet, a startup which simplifies the access, management and a sustainable renewal of computers for start ups, scale ups and SMB, helping you focus on your growth.He is also an angel investor (companies include Kocomo, Claap, Finary, Convelio and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital.Before launchingFleet he was VP of Operations and Expansion at Ironhack and Managing Director of Jumia Tunisia, a Rocket Internet’s company.Alexandre is trilingual and holds degrees from IESEG, le Wagon and Victoria University.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Germany, United States
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- Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
- Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
- Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
Philippe de Passorio - Country Manager @ Adyen
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- B2B, FinTech, Payments
- Seed
- France
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- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
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