Bruno Raillard
Co-Founder & Partner @ Frst
Paris, France
Bruno Raillard is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at Frst. He Attended ESSEC Business School during 2002-2006.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Bruno Raillard invests in
Stages Bruno Raillard invests in
Countries Bruno Raillard invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (26%)
- SaaS 4 (21%)
- Analytics 4 (21%)
- Machine Learning 4 (21%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (47%)
- Series A 7 (37%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
Country
- France 10 (53%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Investments
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Huscarl
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Huscarl provides AI-native actuarial advisory and insurance analytics for corporate risk managers and finance leaders. The company develops software that scans and quantifies corporate risk exposures across property, casualty, specialty, and benefits programs. Its platform ingests complex, multi-hundred-page insurance policies and translates theminto standardized actuarial and financial models. Huscarl uses these models to identify coverage gaps, over-insurance, and optimization opportunities across captives, high deductibles, and alternative risk transfer structures. It offers advisory on captives feasibility and structuring, retention management, and parametric and structured solutions. The company’s tools support forward-looking loss modelling, underwriting-friendly submissions, and decision dashboards that help enterprises adjust insurance programs to match their explicit risk footprint. | $5.6M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | |
Dark
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Dark develops space defense technology focused on protecting satellites and addressing orbital threats. The company builds systems for space security, satellite defense, and interception of objects in orbit. | $5.9M / Seed / Apr 15, 2024 | |
Oneleaf
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Oneleaf is a startup that seeks to make hypnosis more widely available. It has created an app to assist people in getting started with hypnosis and following various programmes to help quit smoking, reduce anxiety, or lose weight. | $5.1M / Seed / Jan 24, 2023 | |
Athenian
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Athenian is a platform that helps engineering leaders leverage insights and align teams with company goals. Modern engineering leaders that use Athenian know that continuous improvement is not about individual metrics but about building a shared understanding of where they can improve in teams, codebases, workflows, processes, and tooling. | $6M / Seed / Mar 02, 2022 | |
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Dark
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Dark develops space defense technology focused on protecting satellites and addressing orbital threats. The company builds systems for space security, satellite defense, and interception of objects in orbit. | $5M / Seed / Dec 16, 2021 | |
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Athenian
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Athenian is a platform that helps engineering leaders leverage insights and align teams with company goals. Modern engineering leaders that use Athenian know that continuous improvement is not about individual metrics but about building a shared understanding of where they can improve in teams, codebases, workflows, processes, and tooling. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Nov 01, 2019 | |
Doctrine
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Doctrine builds legal research and analytics SaaS for legal professionals, law firms, companies, and individuals to search through the law, manage their cases, and grow their business.They are building the future of law, using the latest technologies in artificial intelligence to analyze court decisions and provide deep insights and data analyticssolutions. | $11.7M / Series A / Jun 29, 2018 | |
Comet
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Comet is a platform that connects organisations with skilled independent consultants in technology, data, and AI. It enables companies to access expertise for digital projects by combining talent screening with AI-powered matching. It also fosters innovation through its AI lab, supporting businesses in navigating complex technologicaltransformations. | $12.7M / Series A / May 29, 2018 | |
Waiv
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Owkin is a French-American startup that uses artificial intelligence to find the right treatment for every patient. Our focus is to use AI to discover and develop better treatments for unmet medical needs, starting with the fight against cancer.They use AI to identify new drug candidates, de-risk and accelerate clinical trials and builddiagnostic tools that improve patient outcomes. Using federated learning, a pioneering collaborative AI framework, Owkin enables medical and biopharma partners to unlock valuable insights from siloed datasets, while protecting patient privacy and securing proprietary data. Owkin was co-founded by Thomas Clozel MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical onco-hematology, and Gilles Wainrib, a pioneer in the field of machine learning in biology, in 2016.Owkin has raised over $255 million and became a ‘unicorn’ – a startup valued at more than $1 billion – in November 2021 through a $180 million investment from French biopharma company Sanofi. | $11M / Series A / Jan 16, 2018 | |
Shippeo
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Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers.Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughoutEurope for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers. | $11.8M / Series A / Nov 16, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Frst
Frst is a seed-stage venture firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.
Frst Contacts
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Pierre Entremont
Co-founder & Partner
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Bruno Raillard
Co-Founder & Partner
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Gabriel de Vinzelles
Principal
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What does Bruno Raillard invest in?
Bruno Raillard invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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