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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in France

Last updated: Apr 2024 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

Investor	Payments France investments
Damien Guermonprez	7
Thibaud Elziere	7
Didier Valet	6
Sebastien Borget	5
Eric Larchevêque	4
Eduardo Ronzano	4
Julien Bouteloup	4
Thomas France	4
Pascal Gauthier	3
Nicolas Louvet	3
Guillaume Lestrade	3
Nicolas Steegmann	3
Frederic Montagnon	3
Jean-Daniel Guyot	3
Xavier Niel	3
Edward Lando	2
Guillaume Princen	2
Arthur Waller	2
Nate Matherson	2
Paul Degueuse	2
Sébastien Lucas	2
Declan Kelly	2
Xavier Gury	2
Clement Benoit	2
Alexis Bonillo	2
Alexandre Stachtchenko	2
Bilal EL ALAMY	2
Jon Oringer	2
Joan Burkovic	2
Giorgio Riccò	2
Oleg Tscheltzoff	2
Perry Blacher	2
Quentin Nickmans	2
Rand Hindi	2
Shana Fisher	2
Owen Simonin	2
Claire Balva	2
Nima Karimi	2
Mark Ransford	1
Jeremie Berrebi	1
Stani Kulechov	1
Patrick Sayer	1
Niklas Jansen	1
Laurent Dassault	1
Michael Kong	1
Alexandre Berriche	1
Ryan Selkis	1
Gautham Radhakrishnan	1
Jon Oringer	1
Fabrice Grinda	1

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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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

Didier Valet

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Luxembourg, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Arrago — Arrago is a Fintech lending platform providing French Lifetime Mortgages
KillBills — KillBills is a application software that provides banking, payment card, consulting, financial, and digital receipt services.
OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers

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, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

BlockGames — BlockGames delivers a cross-game and decentralized player network driven by Universal Player Profiles.
Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
PlayMakers — Capture, audit, and monetize user-generated content (UGC) in your game. Drive higher engagement, game longevity, and unlock monetization opportunities.

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 — 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!

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility

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, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.

Entrepreneur, Investor

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Woodoo — At Woodoo, we bring dead wood to life. We believe in a sustainable industrial future built on wood, using innovative, pioneering processes.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.

Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
MetaFight — MetaFight is the development of a video game for collecting NFT cards of MMA fighters.
Original — NFTs going mainstream - We provide simple API for your product & tech team to seamlessly integrate NFTs into your existing apps. Original enables you to go-to market in a snap and lets you focus on delivering extraordinary user experiences without blockchain headaches. Original includes APIs to transfer and sell NFTs, and a clear dashboard tomanage, collaborate and track all related activities.

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

Software, Information Technology, 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.

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 — Convert more B2B customers with our authentication SSO solution. A few lines of code to be SSO-ready, and you can start working with enterprise customers
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.

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Simbel — Learning platform for SMEs
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility
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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!

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!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cure51 — Cure51 mission is to create a database of cancer survivors to leverage their exceptional biological features and find new drugs to cure Cancer.
VizBlock — Blockchain Analytics made simple
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

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

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Guillaume Princen

Investment focus

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

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.
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.

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, Insurance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Obat — Obat is a saas solution provider that uses software for contractors and self-employed for invoicing.
Lokki — Lokki is a software tool for equipment rental companies.
Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.

Nate Matherson is the Co-founder/CEO of ContainIQ. ContainIQ is a software platform to monitor, optimize, and maintain kubernetes clusters.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
India, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Dropezy — A daily needs platform that uses a network of dark stores to guarantee deliveries in under 20 minutes.
Flat.mx — Flat.mx is a property tech startup that that simplifies the process of buying or selling a home, with a deep layer of technology and data.With Flat.mx, sellers can sell their homes for a fair price in a matter of days, and move-in to a new apartment effortlessly. For buyers, Flat.mx assures the conditions of the property, a fair purchase price,and a seamless buying experience.Bernardo Cordero and Victor Noguera founded it in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.

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 — Allow users to buy and sell crypto without leaving your app or wallet. Buy and sell crypto directly on our website.

Sébastien Lucas

Investment focus

Internet, IaaS, Cloud Storage
Pre-Seed, Angel, Series A
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, FinTech, Information Technology
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.
Tactic — Generate new customer insights using AI from web, internal, and 3rd party data in a few clicks.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

Xavier Gury - Co-Founder & CEO @ Wind Capital

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Upcall — Upcall helps hundreds of companies acquire, qualify, engage and retain more customers through outbound phone calls.Upcall's platform and API give 24/7 access to 1000s vetted US based callers as well as various tools to manage call campaigns effectively such as script templates, call analytics and recording, as well as integrations withclient's existing workflow (Slack, Salesforce, Google Calendar, Outlook, ...).Upcall was part of the prestigious Y Combinator.
Visiblee — Visiblee is a generation automation solution to boost B2B website conversion.VA first worldwide, Visiblee Lead Generation solution identifies individual website visitors. It enables Sales Teams to increase their sales by transforming anonymous website visitors into qualified leads.Visiblee is develped by Salezeo, which has its main office inParis and is also active in the UK and in Spain.
INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space

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.

COO & Co-founder @ Zenly Retired Pole Vaulter

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
Omi — Omi platform is designed for today's marketer and requires no technical skills.
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.

Alexandre Stachtchenko

Investment focus

FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
Angel, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.

Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Angel
France

Portfolio highlights

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.
RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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 — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
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.

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

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Indeez — Inclusive and sustainable insurance benefits
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

Investment focus

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

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.

Quentin is a Co-founder of eFounders. He spent his first years working as a strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and acts on the board of several SaaS ventures

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.
Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.
Kinetix — Kinetix is a no-code 3D creation tool that leverages artificial intelligence motion capture to convert videos into 3D animations.

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, 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.

Owen Simonin is the Founder and CEO of Just Mining.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
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.
Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.

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 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.
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.

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.

Angel Investor

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
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.

Jeremie Berrebi is a Internet experts with 20 years of experience.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Software
Seed, Angel
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
Optix — Optix is the leading coworking software to enable flex workplace operators to manage, measure, and grow their business.
Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
Orb — built for artists, creators, degens, and you!
Llama — Llama is a fullstack platform for onchain access control and governance. Llama enables protocols to securely take action using onchain policies and custom execution strategies.

Patrick Sayer has served as a Director since 2012. Mr. Sayer has been the Chief Executive Officer of Eurazeo (a leading publicly-held investment company in Europe) since 2002. From 1995 until 2002 he served as a Director and Advisor to the CEO of Eurazeo. Prior to becoming CEO of Eurazeo, Mr. Sayer was employed by Lazard, (an internationalfinancial advisory and asset management firm) for 20 years, last serving as a Managing Director and Head of Lazard’s Technology and Media group. Mr. Sayer is vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rexel SA, and a member of the Board of Directors of other Eurazeo portfolio companies, including Accor and Edenred. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. Mr. Sayer has a French Financial Analyst Degree and serves as a professor of finance at Dauphine University in Paris.

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Music
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
Bolero — Own the music of your favourite artists by collecting Song Shares and unlock exclusive experiences through their Fan Tokens. Bolero - a record label for every pocket.
Monk.ai — Monk is an AI company delivering state of the art AI Powered Vehicle Inspection solutions for the automotive, insurance and mobility markets.

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

FinTech, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany, 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.
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.
Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.

Born July 7, 1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Laurent Dassault is the son of Serge Dassault (1925). Married to Martine de Souza Lambrey Dassault in 2002. He Has two sounds, Julien and Adrien, from His previous wedding with Martine Raych.After 13 years in banking, Laurent Dassault in 1991 joined the group founded by his grandfather Marcel Dassault. AtDassault Investissements, he handles indirect compensation involved in military aeronautical contracts.He has also developed—and increased the value of—the firm’s investments in the arts and vineyards. Profoundly forward-looking and business oriented, Laurent Dassault enjoys creating, innovating and building. He is also deeply involved in many charitable and humanitarian organizations.Laurent Dassault today sits on some 30 boards involved principally in the financial, industrial and artistic sectors.

Investment focus

SaaS, Cyber Security, Professional Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Respaid — Respaid is a fintech startup that is revolutionizing debt recovery for businesses. Our platform combines the expertise of amicable debt collectors with AI technology to deliver a faster, more efficient, and more personalized debt recovery process. With a success rate of 50% in just 20 days, Respaid's platform is 3 times more efficient and 6times faster than traditional debt recovery agencies. We offer transparent pricing based on successful debt recovery, making it easier for businesses to manage their cash flow.But we're more than just a debt recovery platform. At Respaid, we are committed to making a positive social impact by donating a portion of our revenue to families in financial hardship through our partnership with charitable organization. This helps us give back to the community and create a sustainable, long-term solution for families in need.Join Respaid in revolutionizing debt recovery and making a positive impact on society. Whether you're a small business or a large corporation, we have the expertise and technology to help you recover unpaid debts quickly and efficiently.
Manager.one — manager.one offers you a fixed monthly rate with an online business account and unlimited Visa Corporate cards.
Carré d'Artistes —

Michael Kong

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Seed
France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
Request Finance — A suite of financial tools to make your life easier - crypto organizations & freelancers use Request for invoices, expenses, payroll or accounting.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Acctual — Acctual offers modern finance teams an innovative solution to today's payment complexities. By automating AP/AR processes within a unified subledger, we seamlessly bridge the gap between crypto and fiat transactions. This not only ensures accuracy and real-time financial insights but also translates into significant time and cost savingsfor businesses. Dive into the future of finance with Acctual, where efficiency and adaptability go hand-in-hand.
Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

Gautham has been a Partner with the Tata Opportunities Fund since 2013. Previously, he was a Director with Actis in Mumbai since 2009 and a Principal at Warburg Pincus in London since 2001. His investing and board level experience covers the technology, business services, financial services, industrial and consumer sectors including venture, growthand leveraged buyouts. Gautham started his career in 1995 with JP Morgan in London handling Fixed Income and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has also worked at the BBC, Cricinfo, and at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.Gautham graduated with an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He also holds an MA (Scholar) from St John's College, University of Cambridge and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Imperial College, University of London.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Rental
Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BRXS — Real Estate investing
Gently — Find secondhand clothing, effortlessly. Wearloom sends you the best new listings from sites like Poshmark, Depop, eBay, ThredUp, and Vestiaire Collective.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.

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