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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in France in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 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 January 2026

Investor	Payments France investments
Thibaud Elziere	7
Damien Guermonprez	7
Didier Valet	6
Sebastien Borget	5
Nicolas Bacca	5
Frederic Montagnon	5
Julien Bouteloup	4
Thomas France	4
Eduardo Ronzano	4
Eric Larchevêque	4
Pascal Gauthier	3
Owen Simonin	3
Xavier Niel	3
Nicolas Steegmann	3
Arthur Waller	3
Guillaume Lestrade	3
Jean-Daniel Guyot	3
Nicolas Louvet	3
Shana Fisher	2
Jon Oringer	2
Sébastien Lucas	2
Declan Kelly	2
Perry Blacher	2
Alexis Bonillo	2
Nima Karimi	2
Alexandre Stachtchenko	2
Christophe Jouin	2
Bertrand Diard	2
Baptiste Hamel	2
Quentin Nickmans	2
Adrien Dassault	2
Steve Anavi	2
Oleg Tscheltzoff	2
Guillaume Princen	2
Rand Hindi	2
Nate Matherson	2
Steve Anavi	2
Giorgio Riccò	2
Edward Lando	2
Bilal EL ALAMY	2
Ahmed Mhiri	2
Joan Burkovic	2
Paul Degueuse	2
Claire Balva	2
Clement Benoit	2
Xavier Gury	2
Nicolas Julia	1
Marc Menase	1
Marc Bhargava	1
Niklas Jansen	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
Presti — AI background generator for furniture products, to replace costly 3D rendering and photoshoots.

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.

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.

Didier Valet

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 — Understand, monitor and anticipate your exposure to extreme weather events in the context of climate change with our proprietary AI models. Risk Assessment | Subseasonal to seasonal forecast | CatNat modelling | Climate APIs.
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.

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 — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Inflow — Inflow delivers payment solutions that integrate affordability, efficiency, innovation, and tailored service.
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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
France, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
Turtle Club — Turtle aligns incentives between protocols and LPs to offer the best curated incentives in DeFi.

Entrepreneur, Investor

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 — Prodia is a multimedia design software and developer of artificial intelligence that creates APIs and images.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Closd — Digitalisez et suivez vos projets juridiques avec l'outil de gestion de projets juridiques.
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!

Pascal Gauthier is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the Chairman and CEO at Ledger. Pascal previously worked at Teemo as Advisor.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Chateaushi — Bridging digital and physical property ownership through innovative blockchain technology. Discover exclusive access to historic castles and luxury properties.
Cross The Ages — Cross The Ages is a universe in which fantasy and science fiction come together. The two worlds share the single continent of Artellium. To the west lies Arkhante, masters of magic and summoning. To the east, the city-continent Mantris is home to ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life.The young Malkha,surrounded by her seven Primus, reigns from the capital, Babylonia. To the west, the city-continent Mantris is home to Neurotechs, an ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life. The Amortals, humans who have transferred their minds to super-AIs, run the corporations for which the citizen-shareholders of Mantris work.
Golden Gate (GGX) — Golden Gate (GGX) is a blockchain services company.

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.

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.

Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AniML — Download Doly App on App Store
Entroview — Entroview delivers battery diagnostics for EV mobility, using entropy-based technology to optimize battery performance.
Kerys Software — Your Isolated Workplace is Just One Swipe Away

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lokki — Lokki is a software tool for equipment rental companies.
RockFi — RockFi is a private management company offering wealth management services.
Benefiz — Maximisez la valeur des avantages sociaux. Pour vos collaborateurs, vos finances et votre croissance.

Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.

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.

Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.

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)

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Data Integration
Series A, Seed, Pre-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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
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 — You'll be able to keep using Hashboard through December 31, 2025. We've already helped move many of our customers over to Hex.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.

Sébastien Lucas

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Loctax — Complete oversight of global tax compliance obligations and risks in a single platform built for in-house tax teams.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

COO & Co-founder @ Zenly Retired Pole Vaulter

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, Internet
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
France, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
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.
Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.

Nima Karimi is the Co-founder & CEO at Silvr. He attended HEC Paris.

Investment focus

Podcast, Payments, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Ausha — Ausha is the ideal platform to host, distribute and monetize your podcasts. In a few clicks, create your podcast and be visible everywhere!
JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.

Alexandre Stachtchenko

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.

Christophe Jouin

Investment focus

Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Lemon — Lemon lets you create paid video meetings and interactive conferences.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
Lobster 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.

Baptist Hamel is the Cofounder of III Financements. he attended University of Cergy-Pontoise in 2008.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Germany, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
Promyze — Improve engineering performance by helping your team identify, validate and adopt the best coding practices, tailored to your context.
Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
RockFi — RockFi is a private management company offering wealth management services.
Twin — Twin Labs, offer an automated tool for repetitive operations, such as onboarding new staff to all internal systems.

Adrien Dassault

Investment focus

Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Lemon — Lemon lets you create paid video meetings and interactive conferences.

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.

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 is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases.

Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a globalvision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Indeez — Indeez is an European insurtech focused on everyday needs of independent workers, by providing them with better income protection.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Aria — 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.

Guillaume Princen

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Verteego — Decision Intelligence empowers retailers and brands with real-time recommendations and automated actions to unlock efficiency and growth
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.

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Twin — Twin Labs, offer an automated tool for repetitive operations, such as onboarding new staff to all internal systems.
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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

DryMerge — AI agents that constantly monitor your email, calendar, and calls to keep your CRM updated with every detail.
ParadeDB — ParadeDB is an open source, ACID-compliant search and analytics database. Built on Postgres for update-heavy workloads.
Assembly HOA — Modernizing HOA management through advanced automation and transparency for streamlined community governance.

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 is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases.

Giorgio Riccò - Head of Sales and Tech @ Carlo Riccò & F.lli

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, B2B
Pre-Seed, Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
Volta — Volta is a developer of software-as-a-service platform focusing on B2B commerce.
Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Angel
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.
RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.

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.

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.

Joan Burkovic is the CEO & Co-founder at Bridge. Joan Burkovic attended ESSEC Business School.

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.

Paul Degueuse is the Partner at Korelya Capital.

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.

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.

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

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.

Xavier Gury - Founding Partner @ Wind Capital

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, B2B
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

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

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 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.
Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.

Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

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