# Antoine Blondeau

> Antoine Blondeau is a seed investor at AIQ backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AIQ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aiq-4fe1)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoineblondeau
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/antoine.blondeau.56

Antoine Blondeau is a seed investor at AIQ in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Antoine is a technology entrepreneur and an investor in technology companies in California and China. He has 20 years of leadership experience in technology marketing worldwide, as CEO, senior officer and director/advisor in listed companies, start-ups, turnarounds and midsize-to-large companies. Antoine has traded in the currency and stockmarkets for 10 years. Antoine's career highlights include working with the Tokyo representation of the French Prime Minister's DATAR unit to negotiate the setup of Mitsubishi Electric, Canon, Toshiba and Sony's industrial facilities in France, and a 4-year stint at Nortel Networks where he headed the OEM and Asia/Pacific unit of the company's digital wireless terminals business. Antoine was also president & COO of Zi Corporation, a developer of intelligent user interface software listed on the NASDAQ Main Board, and CEO of Dejima, Inc., a developer of distributed artificial intelligence software, which he sold to Sybase, Inc. In addition, Antoine worked at salesforce.com, the leader in on-demand enterprise applications, as vice-president, and at Good Technology, the last independent challenger to RIM Blackberry, as senior vice president. He is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies in California, Greater China and Japan. He is the author or co-author of 5 patents. Antoine holds a MBA from the Paris Graduate School of Management (ESCP) and has studied at the faculties of Economics and Commerce of Chuo University in Tokyo.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$30M |
| Series A | $4.3M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 33% |
| Software | 3 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Series A | 5 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 40% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Austria | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 7% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| circle labs | circle labs is a platform that enables anyone to create their own virtual characters powered by AI. | $8M | Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Higgsfield | Higgsfield is a video AI firm aimed to making social media content creation accessible to everyone. | $80M | Series A | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Higgsfield | Higgsfield is a video AI firm aimed to making social media content creation accessible to everyone. | $50M | Series A | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Otera (previously DeepOpinion) | DeepOpinion is a No-Code B2B SaaS platform empowering every business user to create their own automation applications - their own “AI Co-Workers” - to free their time from repetitive cognitive tasks that previously required human intelligence. In our code-less DeepOpinion Studio, new automation applications can be easily created within minutesoffering fast time-to-value. Customers from various industries are already using DeepOpinion to automate various cognitive tasks. Use cases include automated classification and routing of incoming messages in customer support, automated requirements management in tendering processes, automated analysis of customer satisfaction across different touchpoints, automated error management, and more. | $12.3M | Series A | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Ovom Care | Ovom Care is an AI healthcare based company. | $5.1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| FlexAI | Unlocking the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure | $30.5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| ReaQta | ReaQta is Europe’s top-tiered AI Endpoint Security Platform, built by an elite group of cyber security experts and AI/ML researchers with extensive backgrounds in government intelligence operations. Focused on building the best user experience for endpoint security, ReaQta is the most elegant, powerful and easy-to-use platform that allowsorganizations to eliminate the most advanced threats in the fastest way possible. As experts in AI and behavioral analysis, ReaQta’s proprietary dual-AI engines provide organizations across all industries with complete and fully customised endpoint security, minus all the complexity. Security teams can now do more, with less. |  | Series A | May 19, 2021 |  |
| Envelop Risk | Envelop Risk Analytics is a cyber insurance specialists, combining insurance expertise with artificial intelligence-driven cyber risk modeling. | $6M | Series A | May 14, 2020 |  |
| Envelop Risk | Envelop Risk Analytics is a cyber insurance specialists, combining insurance expertise with artificial intelligence-driven cyber risk modeling. | $6M | Series A | May 14, 2020 |  |
| LogicInk | LogicInk is a electronics-free wearable that provides information about body and environment. LogicInk Corporation is Powered by programmable chemistry and biology, they envision a future where LogicInk wearables seamlessly integrate into your daily life, enabling health awareness and self-expression. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 13, 2017 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Integra Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dymon-asia-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ananda Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ananda-ventures-gmbh-social-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gft-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Merantix Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merantix) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About AIQ

VC Fund



2 contacts available at AIQ.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexandre Cadain | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-cadain |
| Antoine Blondeau | Co-founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antoine-blondeau |

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## FAQ

### What does Antoine Blondeau invest in?

Antoine Blondeau invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.

### What is Antoine Blondeau's check size?

Antoine Blondeau typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$30M at Seed and $4.3M–$80M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Antoine Blondeau participates in.

### When did Antoine Blondeau last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Antoine Blondeau closed in Apr 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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