# Bruno Raillard

> Bruno Raillard is a seed investor at Frst (Paris) backing SaaS, Software and Analytics. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Frst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frst-d3d4)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brunoraillard/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/brunoraillard

Bruno Raillard is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at Frst. He Attended ESSEC Business School during 2002-2006.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Analytics | 2 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 17% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 6 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dark | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Dark | 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 |  |
| Athenian | 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 | 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. | $11M | Series A | Jun 29, 2018 |  |
| Waiv | 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 | 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. | $10.6M | Series A | Nov 16, 2017 |  |
| Octoly | Octoly believe in the power of influencers and is dedicated to their success. Whether the influencer is a rising star or completely new to the industry, the company works tirelessly to help you accelerate your career.They are changing the game in the influencer space. The relationships they have within their internal teams, their influencercommunity, and the brands they work with all have one thing in common: authenticity is of utmost importance. | $10M | Series A | Nov 13, 2017 |  |
| Doctrine | 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. | $2.1M | Seed | Oct 13, 2016 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Eurazeo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurazeo-com) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20vc-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Abstraction Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abstraction-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Air Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/air-street-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Frst

VC Fund · Paris, France

Frst is a seed-stage venture firm focused on supporting a new generation of French entrepreneurs with global ambitions.

3 contacts available at Frst.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pierre Entremont | Co-founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pierre-entremont |
| Bruno Raillard | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-raillard |
| Gabriel de Vinzelles | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-de-vinzelles |

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## FAQ

### What does Bruno Raillard invest in?

Bruno Raillard invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Bruno Raillard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bruno Raillard closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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