Alexandre Mars
Founder & CEO @ Blisce
New York, United States
Alexandre Mars is a serial entrepreneur and an engaged philanthropist. Over the last 15 years, he has successfully launched and sold several companies in Europe and the US across diverse business sectors, including venture capital, Internet, mobile marketing, social media and advertising. His two latest startups, Phonevalley (the world’slargest mobile agency) and ScrOOn (a social media management system) were recently sold to Publicis Groupe and Blackberry, respectively.Alexandre’s passion for entrepreneurship blossomed early. At 17, he started his first venture: a concert promotion firm. At 21, he founded one of Europe’s first web agencies while continuing his studies at the HEC Paris business school and Paris Dauphine University. He ran his own venture fund, Mars Capital, from 1998-2001.In 2001, Alexandre created Phonevalley and within just a few years, he drove the company to become the largest mobile marketing agency in Europe. Publicis Groupe, the third largest communications group in the world, acquired Phonevalley in 2007 and established the firm as its official worldwide mobile marketing and advertising entity. Mars was appointed Head of Mobile at Publicis, thereby positioning it at the forefront of the mobile communications era. In the same year, Alexandre seized another emerging communications opportunity: the social media revolution. Recognizing its potential, Alexandre launched ScrOOn. ScrOOn was acquired by Blackberry in 2013 to be used as the underlying technology for monetizing its popular BBM product.Alexandre is passionate about fighting inequalities. In 2014, he founded Epic Foundation to bridge the gap between a new generation of individual and corporate donors and organizations supporting children and youth globally. Epic is developing new tools focused on enhancing how donors select, monitor and experience their impact. His vision is to disrupt the philanthropic industry by combining passion and expertise with game- changing technology and partnerships.Alexandre is regularly quoted by the New York Times, Le Monde and Wall Street Journal. He has been invited to share his mobile/digital and philanthropic vision at a variety of events including the Global Philanthropy Forum, Consumer Electronics Show, Advertising Week, AdTech, Mobile World Congress and NEXUS Youth Summit. He is a regular guest speaker on BFMTV, France’s most watched news network.In 2015, Alexandre was named one of New York City’s top 20 philanthropists under 40 by the New York Observer.Alexandre lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children, whom he adores traveling with. Passionate about music and sports, Alexandre enjoys jazz music and watching Brooklyn Nets, New Orleans Saints, and New York Yankees games. He ran both the Paris and New York City Marathons and practices mixed martial arts.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
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Industries Alexandre Mars invests in
Stages Alexandre Mars invests in
Countries Alexandre Mars invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (17%)
- Fashion 4 (14%)
- Health Care 4 (14%)
- Software 3 (10%)
- Marketplace 3 (10%)
Stage
- Series C 6 (21%)
- Series B 5 (17%)
- Series D 4 (14%)
- Secondary Market 4 (14%)
- Convertible Note 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 13 (45%)
- France 4 (14%)
- United Kingdom 2 (7%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Talkiatry is a company that offers virtual, in-network psychiatry services. The platform allows for virtual visits, ensuring convenience while maintaining a high standard of psychiatric care. The company connects patients with a team of licensed psychiatrists who can provide evaluation, diagnosis, and personalized treatment plans, includingmedication management if needed. Talkiatry specializes in treating a range of mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and substance use disorders, and aims to make high-quality psychiatric care accessible and convenient for patients. | $210M / Series D / Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| Lokki democratizes equipment rental in Europe (Based in France) Rent on Lokki.Rent Lokki, the simple tool to manage your equipment rental business with peace of mind. | $6.8M / Series A / Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Sorella is the first network of multidisciplinary health places for women. Sorella ensures that every woman, regardless of age, has access to a comprehensive care pathway offered by women's health specialists. | $5.4M / Seed / Feb 26, 2024 | ||
| Welcome to the Jungle is a multi-channel media company that aims to inspire every individual to thrive in their professional lives.The company proposes a wide variety of high-quality content (articles, videos, series, podcasts, magazines or events) to help young professionals rethink their relationship with work. Welcome to the Jungle alsocreated a content-rich website with 3,300+ detailed company profiles – including photos, videos, and statistics (number of employees, gender, average age) – making valuable job search information accessible for prospective candidates. | $54.6M / Series C / Jan 25, 2023 | ||
| Talkiatry is a company that offers virtual, in-network psychiatry services. The platform allows for virtual visits, ensuring convenience while maintaining a high standard of psychiatric care. The company connects patients with a team of licensed psychiatrists who can provide evaluation, diagnosis, and personalized treatment plans, includingmedication management if needed. Talkiatry specializes in treating a range of mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and substance use disorders, and aims to make high-quality psychiatric care accessible and convenient for patients. | $75M / Series B / Jul 01, 2022 | ||
| Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world. Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given consumer enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them tocontribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves. | $250M / Series D / Sep 21, 2021 | ||
| DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India, and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more. | $122M / Series C / Aug 27, 2021 | ||
| Founded by former Sequoia Capital partner and entrepreneur Warren Hogarth, Empower is building a personal financial assistant and digital bank for millennials. Today, the interests of consumers and banks is fundamentally misaligned: banks earn the most when people pay maximum fees, earn little to no interest, and are locked into the highestinterest rates. Empower has built an AI powered financial assistant that works 24/7 to help consumers improve their financial lives and is launching a new kind of bank for tech savvy young professionals that are hustling to get ahead. | $150M / Series B / Jul 08, 2021 | ||
| Imperfect Foods provides grocery delivery service rescuing and redistributing food across multiple grocery categories – including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Imperfect Foods has remained hyper focused on eliminating food waste and supporting farmers and producers when it comes to excess and imperfect products. The companynow rescues and redistributes food across multiple grocery categories - including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Its performance and agility during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that this mission-driven model is poised for success in the long term.- | $110M / Series D / Jan 21, 2021 | ||
| Too Good To Go develops an app for fighting food waste and saving delicious food. Through the app, everybody can make a difference by saving perfectly good, delicious food from going in the bin. Its mission is to reduce food waste worlwide and their vision is to create a world where food produced is food consumed.Too Good To Go empowers everyoneto take action against food waste. It was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom. | Series B / Dec 01, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Blisce
Blisce Advisors and Blisce US - are growth stage venture investment firms focused on helping entrepreneurs build mission-driven global consumer brands and technology companies (Early Growth - Pre-IPO). Regulatory Disclosure: The Blisce Group is an international investment management group that focuses on private equity and venture capitalopportunities in technology companies and startups. The Blisce Group includes Blisce Advisors, which operates in Paris and provides direct advisory services to the Blisce Group’s clients, and Blisce US LLC, which operates in New York and focused on venture capital investment opportunities, at times on behalf of the Blisce Group. Within the Blisce Group, Charles-Henri Prevost, Alexandre Mars, Romain Sion, Romain Dovilliers, Anne-Claire Colomb, are personnel solely of Blisce Advisors, and Sam Giber & Himanish Shah are personnel solely of Blisce US LLC.The holdings identified on this page are intended to represent the current and historical investments of the Blisce Group and its partners. As such, these holdings may not represent all of the investments that have previously been purchased or sold by the Blisce Group. Furthermore, these holdings include without distinction both the proprietary investments of the Blisce Group and investments on behalf of its clients. It should not be assumed that recommendations made or investment opportunities available to clients in the future will be commensurate or profitable or otherwise will equal the performance of the holdings identified on this page.
Blisce Contacts
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Founder & CEO
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What does Alexandre Mars invest in?
Alexandre Mars invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Health Care startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Alexandre Mars closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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