# Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in France in June 2026

## Damien Guermonprez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, FinTech

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.

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Frederic Montagnon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, SaaS

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.

## Nicolas Bacca
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3

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.

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

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.

## Eric Larchevêque
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain

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.

## Thomas France
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology

Entrepreneur, Investor

## Julien Bouteloup
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance

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.

## Owen Simonin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Metz, Lorraine, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech

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.

## Nicolas Steegmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

## Jean-Daniel Guyot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Blockchain, B2B

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

## Arthur Waller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

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.

## Xavier Niel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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.

## Guillaume Lestrade
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, SaaS

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

## Nicolas Louvet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Data Integration, Information Technology

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)

## Pascal Gauthier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Web3, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Giorgio Riccò
- Type: Angel
- Location: Correggio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, B2B

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

## Alexandre Stachtchenko
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet

Alexandre Stachtchenko

## Shana Fisher
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Fashion

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.

## Alexis Bonillo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Finance, SaaS

COO & Co-founder @ Zenly
Retired Pole Vaulter

## Nate Matherson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software

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.

## Rand Hindi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

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

## Quentin Nickmans
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Claire Balva
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet

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.

## Perry Blacher
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

## Xavier Gury
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Big Data, B2B

Xavier Gury - Founding Partner @ Wind Capital

## Guillaume Princen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Guillaume Princen

## Clement Benoit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

## Joan Burkovic
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, B2B, Bitcoin

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

## Paul Degueuse
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Software

Paul Degueuse is the Partner at Korelya Capital.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Ahmed Mhiri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## Steve Anavi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Hardware

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.

## Adrien Dassault
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing

Adrien Dassault

## Declan Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Nima Karimi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Podcast, Payments, E-Commerce

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

## Christophe Jouin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Internet, Payments, Video Conferencing

Christophe Jouin

## Bertrand Diard
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Baptiste Hamel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Oleg Tscheltzoff
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

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).

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Sébastien Lucas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, IaaS, PaaS

Sébastien Lucas

## Bilal Alamy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe

## Guillaume Gibault
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics

Guillaume Gibault - Founder @ Le slip Francais

## Niklas Jansen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Health Care

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.

## Marc Bhargava
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Blockchain

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

## Marc Menase
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services

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.

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