# Andre de Baubigny

> Andre de Baubigny is a seed investor at MVP Ventures backing Software and Information Technology. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [MVP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/modern-venture-partners)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-de-baubigny-7694b/

Andre de Baubigny is a seed investor at MVP Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. Andre is an experienced investor, investment banker, entrepreneur, and Stanford alum (GSB '95). As an entrepreneur, Andre has launched two private venture funds for individual family offices and founded a wine-related logistics company. As a banker, Andre worked with the most innovative startups of the late 90’s and advised Fortune 500companies on how to react to the immense change that Internet adoption would bring. As an investor, Andre backed leading edge Internet companies, including Songza (sold to Google, now GooglePlay), Trulia (IPO, sold to Zillow), Dash (sold to RIM), Oodle (sold to QVC) and Dataminr. Andre co-founded Deep Fork Capital in 2008 as a Managing Partner of Fund I investing directly for a single ultra-high net worth family. In 2003, he co-founded Vintrust.. Vintrust was a wine management business with over $300 million in wine assets generating over $10 million in revenue and sold in 2009. Prior to Vintrust, Andre managed a $500 million venture fund for a French industrialist and billionaire. ​In 1998, Andre joined Morgan Stanley & Co. to run its global Internet banking practice, working directly with Mary Meeker. Before that, he founded the Internet banking practice at Robertson Stephens in 1996 and developed Robertson’s unique approach to research coverage for the Internet. Before his business career, Andre was a securities lawyer with Brown & Wood.​Andre received his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1995. Andre also earned his JD at Boston University School of Law in 1989, where he served as a managing editor of the Annual Review of Banking Law. He also received a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1986. ​Andre is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Chapter of JDRF, supporting the research to treat and cure type 1 diabetes.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 27% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 20% |
| Energy | 2 | 13% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 3 | 20% |
| Series D | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 67% |
| Algeria | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frore Systems | Frore Systems develops and supplies advanced thermal management technologies for electronic systems that require efficient heat dissipation without conventional cooling mechanisms. The company’s product portfolio includes AirJet, a solid‑state active cooling chip used in consumer devices, industrial embedded systems, edge AI platforms, and IoThardware to remove heat silently and support compact designs without fans or moving parts. It also produces LiquidJet, a direct‑to‑chip liquid cooling plate designed for high‑performance computing environments such as data centers to address heat removal challenges for modern GPUs and AI workloads.Frore’s technologies aim to replace or augment traditional heat sinks and fans by integrating semiconductor manufacturing techniques into thermal solutions that fit into thinner, lighter, and more rugged device architectures. Its cooling systems are configured to match specific power maps of processors and deliver thermal performance improvements that enable hardware to sustain higher throughput under workload stress. | $143M | Series D | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| Exowatt | Modular Full-Stack Renewable Energy Solutions for Commercial and Industrial Applications | $50M | Series A | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| ARRIS | ARRIS is an industrial engineering company that specializes in the fields of machinery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace. It provides next-gen composites for mass-market applications including aerospace, automotive, sports, and consumer products. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. | $34M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Auradine | Auradinescalability, sustainability and security solutions for the infrastructure, enabled by revolutionary blockchain, security, zero-knowledge and AI technologies. | $80M | Series B | Apr 10, 2024 |  |
| Wispr Flow | Think it, speak it, send it. Effortless voice dictation for Mac and now Windows! | $10M | Seed | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Rigetti Computing | Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloudinfrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $100M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Turing | Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $14M | Seed | Aug 25, 2020 |  |
| Rigetti Computing | Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloudinfrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $79M | Series C | Aug 04, 2020 |  |
| Yassir | Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria. | $140K |  | Apr 20, 2020 |  |
| Yassir | Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria. | $140K | Seed | Apr 20, 2020 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [StepStone Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stepstone-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Top Tier Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/top-tier-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Franklin Templeton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franklin-templeton-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About MVP Ventures

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

MVP Ventures was founded in 2020 with the realization that a rethought model for venture investing could unlock significantly greater returns. With the help of its proprietary data-driven sourcing engine and value-add focus, the firm invests as the 2nd-largest check into early-stage deep tech teams building differentiated and defensible technologyacross software and hardware — with no ownership restrictions.

2 contacts available at MVP Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andre de Baubigny | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-de-baubigny |
| Weston Moyer | Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/weston-moyer |

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## FAQ

### What does Andre de Baubigny invest in?

Andre de Baubigny invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Andre de Baubigny last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andre de Baubigny closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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.

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