# Alain Falys

> Alain Falys is a seed investor at Qori (London) backing Retail, FinTech and Payments. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Qori](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qori-6fac)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alainfalys
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/AlainFalys
- Website: https://x.com/AlainFalys
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alain.falys

Alain Falys is a seed investor at Qori in London focused on Retail and FinTech. Alain Falys is the Founder and Partner of Firestartr and the Co-Founder of Namastay and Qori. He is also a Venture Partner at Fabric Ventures. He earned his bachelor's degree at Middlesex University and NEOMA Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 100% |
| Payments | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile Payments | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoyo Wallet | Yoyo Wallet is a U.K.-based mobile wallet startup that enables its users to pay for their goods with their smartphones. The company currently processes over 150,000 monthly in-store transactions by combining payment and loyalty via an easy scan. It also provides a marketing platform for retailers that enables digital customer engagement in-store.The multi-retailer mobile wallet offers loyalty programs and rewards offerings it can automatically deliver to customers based on buying patterns. Launched in 2013, Yoyo Wallet receives funding from Taavet Hinrikus and TransferWise. | $1.3M | Seed | Aug 29, 2013 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firestartr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firestartr-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Imperial Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/imperial-innovations) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Qori

VC Fund · Paris, France

No card, No cash, No limits. Qori is a pioneer mobile payment solution allowing brick and mortar merchants to cost-effectively accept bank and crypto payments by simply generating a QR code on their phone, tablet or payment terminal. Qori does not require an app on the client side. Qori offers advanced tools that allow merchants to engage boththeir unregistered and registered clients.With Qori, merchants have a better alternative to card and cash payments and can create unique experiences for their clients. Two fundamental trends are disrupting the payments industry and challenging the central role of cards: open banking and crypto. Qori is seizing this unique opportunity to remove intermediaries and become the preferred multi-channel payment method for in-store, e-commerce and remote transactions - by offering a fully digital, cheaper alternative to card payments, combined with the most effective client engagement features. Features:Qori enables the acceptance of Pay by bank and Pay by crypto payments: • For in-store payment on the merchant’s phone or tablet, • For in-store payment on the merchant’s android payment terminal (e.g Pax), • For remote payments, by sending a QR code to clients, allowing them to pay their bill by scanning the code, with no manual entry of data required, • For online payments by displaying the Pay by bank and Pay by crypto icons on e-commerce websites.Benefits:• It’s the cheapest and most frictionless payment solution on the market, • Clients do not need a card to pay, they simply scan the QR with their phone’s camera and pay, • Pay by bank and Pay by crypto are supported with the the same customer journey, • Merchants have the ability to interact with registered and non-registered clients via Qori.

5 contacts available at Qori.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alain Falys | CSO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alain-falys |
| David Zerah | Co-founder & CRO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-zerah-dabe |
| Deborah Guyot | CMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deborah-guyot |
| Karina Ajodha | Head of compliance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karina-ajodha |
| Meghan Lenaerts | Co-founder and CCO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meghan-lenaerts-1e4e |

## Similar investors

### Similar stage
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund

## FAQ

### What does Alain Falys invest in?

Alain Falys invests primarily in Retail, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co