Bertrand Diard
Venture Partner @ Serena
San Francisco, United States
Bertrand Diard is a seed investor at Serena in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
Last updated:
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Industries Bertrand Diard invests in
Stages Bertrand Diard invests in
Countries Bertrand Diard invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $300k–$878k
- Series A
- $5.1M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (24%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (24%)
- Information Technology 5 (17%)
- SaaS 4 (14%)
- Open Source 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (52%)
- Series A 4 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (10%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
Country
- France 15 (52%)
- United States 4 (14%)
- Belgium 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Naftiko serves a broad spectrum of enterprise users—from heads of API & integration to platform engineers, architects, and developers—delivering a unified, extensible, observable, and policy-driven experience tailored to each. | $1.6M / Seed / Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation. | $5.5M / Seed / Dec 05, 2024 | ||
| Kestra is an infinitely scalable orchestration and scheduling platform, creating, running, scheduling, and monitoring millions of complex pipelines. | $8M / Seed / Sep 23, 2024 | ||
| Metrobloks is revolutionizing data infrastructure in major metro areas across North America. With a focus on providing low-latency, high-capacity data solutions for AI/ML, IoT, Gaming, Streaming and other data intensive services, Metrobloks delivers future-proof multi-tenant colocation facilities to underserved urban markets. Founded by adiverse team of industry veterans, Metrobloks is committed to shaping the future of digital connectivity. | $5.2M / Seed / Jun 24, 2024 | ||
| Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way. | $300K / Pre-Seed / Jan 31, 2024 | ||
| Koyeb is a global, high-performance serverless platform for running AI applications across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators.We give teams a unified way to run inference, securely execute AI-generated and untrusted code in sandboxes, and deploy AI-native workloads — from APIs and web services to databases. No ops, servers, or infrastructuremanagement.Access fast and reliable infrastructure in minutes. | $7M / Seed / Nov 02, 2023 | ||
| Fipto is a digital asset service company that provides treasury management solutions for businesses. | $16M / Seed / Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Building the Future of DevOps | $2.1M / Seed / Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| NocoDB is an open-source Airtable alternative that transforms existing databases into a smart spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $10.5M / Seed / Oct 10, 2022 | ||
| Mindee's mission is to enhance the value of your business by offering tailor-made artificial intelligence solutions for businesses. Their team of experts in machine learning and artificial intelligence designs your solutions, from prototyping to production and training of client teams. As close as possible to your business needs, ourend-to-end services offer guarantees a smooth and efficient integration of the highest technologies into your structure. | $14M / Series A / Oct 06, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Serena
Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management. Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of its portfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels. Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.
Serena Contacts
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Marc Fournier
Co-founder & Managing Partner
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Philippe Hayat
co-founder
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Bertrand Diard
Venture Partner
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David Bitton
Operating Partner & Head of Operating Team
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Emilie Benayad
Operating Partner
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FAQ
What does Bertrand Diard invest in?
Bertrand Diard invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bertrand Diard invest in?
Bertrand Diard typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$11M at Seed, $300k–$878k at Pre-Seed and $5.1M–$25M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bertrand Diard's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bertrand Diard took part in.
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When did Bertrand Diard last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bertrand Diard closed in Dec 2025. 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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