# Benoit Portoleau-Balloy

> Benoit Portoleau-Balloy is a seed investor at Leeto backing Information Technology and EBooks. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Leeto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clan)
- Location: Manila, Philippines
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/pub/benoit-portoleau-balloy/1/747/760

Benoit Portoleau-Balloy is a seed investor at Leeto in Manila focused on Information Technology and EBooks. François Portoleau Balloy is a Cofounder and CRO at Leeto.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 60% |
| EBooks | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |
| Podcast | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 4 | 80% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leeto | Clan empowers companies to take care of their employees. We are building the future of employees benefits by providing companies with an innovative banking & SaaS platform to manage their employee benefits. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 01, 2019 |  |
| Taurus | Taurus SA is a Swiss FinTech, founded in April 2018, that provides enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure to issue, custody, and trade any digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, and digital currencies. Taurus is a global leader in the banking segment, entrusted by the full spectrum of financial institutions:systemic banks, universal banks, online banks, crypto-banks, private banks, and broker-dealers. Taurus also operates a marketplace for private assets and tokenized securities. Taurus SA is a securities firm supervised and regulated by FINMA. TDX is an organized trading facility operated by Taurus. |  | Seed | Jul 23, 2018 |  |
| Hiboo | Hiboo, they live by the concept of giving industrials a bird's-eye view of their operations. They insist on making it easy for operational teams to monitor their assets and resources. The way they approach it is very simple: within no time collect all your valuable data then restore on a user-friendly platform or a fully fledged API. Just likethat, your team can get real-time visibility of all operations internationally.Dive into your equipment operations Collect, standardize, and activate your equipment data to run your worksites, inventory, maintenance and more. |  | Seed | May 15, 2018 |  |
| Solen | Solen was born on the terrace of a café: Clément, Enzo and Thomas were looking for their place in the sun. Engineers, they meet at HEC Paris and they leave nothing to chance. As part of a school project, they begin to develop an algorithm to measure the brightness and sunshine of Paris terraces from a simple photo. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 29, 2018 |  |
| Koober | Koober is a personal development app that summarizes books, conferences, documentaries, and podcasts to read or listen to in 20 minutes. Koober is a veritable library of compressed books to take anywhere. By registering on Koober you can read at will hundreds of summaries of quality books at any time of the day. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2016 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fonds Ambition Amorçage Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fonds-ambition-amor%C3%A7age-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders Future](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-future) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Leeto

VC Fund · Paris, France

Clan empowers companies to take care of their employees. We are building the future of employees benefits by providing companies with an innovative banking & SaaS platform to manage their employee benefits.

5 contacts available at Leeto.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alban Porcheron | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alban-porcheron |
| Arthur Reboul | Co-Founder & DG | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-reboul |
| Benjamin Netter | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-netter |
| Benoit Portoleau-Balloy | Co-Founder & CRO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benoit-portoleau |
| Guillaume Lestrade | Co founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-lestrade |

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## FAQ

### What does Benoit Portoleau-Balloy invest in?

Benoit Portoleau-Balloy invests primarily in Information Technology, EBooks and FinTech startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Benoit Portoleau-Balloy's check size?

Benoit Portoleau-Balloy typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$1.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Benoit Portoleau-Balloy participates in.

### When did Benoit Portoleau-Balloy last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Benoit Portoleau-Balloy closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 5 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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