# Christophe Desrumaux

> Christophe Desrumaux is a seed investor at CEA Investissement (Lyon) backing Big Data and Hardware. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CEA Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cea-investments)
- Location: Lyon, France
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe-desrumaux-a151b617

Christophe Desrumaux is a seed investor at CEA Investissement in Lyon focused on Big Data and Hardware. 39 years, Engineer & DEA INSA Lyon - 16 years of experience in the semiconductor industry at ST Microelectronics, Soitec, and start-up French Mu-TEST. Christophe is responsible for the micro-electronics & semiconductors. He is based in Grenoble.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 33% |
| Hardware | 1 | 33% |
| Automotive | 1 | 33% |
| Data Center | 1 | 33% |
| Construction | 1 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Minitrucks Robotics | Minitrucks Robotics offers a solution for transporting and managing heavy loads for manufacturers and craftspeople in the marble, construction, heavy industry, green space, and other sectors. | $1.6M | Seed | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| Tchek | Tchek is a French startup that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for car inspection. | $3.6M | Seed | Jan 27, 2021 |  |
| Upmem | UPMEM is implementing the first scalable, programmable and efficient Processing-In-Memory (PIM) solution for the datacenter. In server architectures, Big Data processing performance is limited by data movements. UPMEM solution accelerates 10+ times data-intensive applications with an innovative solution based on a large number of programmableco-processors located next to the data. | $3.3M | Seed | Sep 07, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [C4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c4-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Partech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Région Sud Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/r%C3%A9gion-sud-investissement) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Western Digital Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/western-digital-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About CEA Investissement

VC Fund · Paris, France

CEA Investissement (SA), founded (as CEA Valorisation) in 1999, is a subsidiary of the CEA, a major player in technological research, development and innovation. The central mission of CEA Valorisation is to create economic value based on technological innovations. To fulfill this mission, they have developed two main activities: Investmentin seed capital in innovative start-ups / start-ups active in the technology areas of CEA. The Licensing of advising companies and public laboratories of innovation in creative strategy development and marketing rights to patent or know-how belonging to the CEA, other research organizations or innovative companies. In addition, CEA contributes to the financing of national investment in seed technology (activity "Fund of Funds"), this activity is developed through particular Emertec management and funds managed by this company (FCPR Emertec 2 Emertec Energy and Environment), the FCPR managed by ACE Security Management SA, an investment company in seed priming Minatec SAS. Their areas of technological expertise are mainly micro-and nanotechnology, health technologies, the New Technologies for Information and Communication (NTIC), advanced materials and technologies for energy.

5 contacts available at CEA Investissement.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christophe Desrumaux | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christophe-desrumaux |
| Francois Breniaux | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francois-breniaux |
| Laurent Lelait | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-lelait |
| Martin Savaris | Cleantech & Energy Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-savaris |
| Regis Saleur | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rgis-saleur |

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## FAQ

### What does Christophe Desrumaux invest in?

Christophe Desrumaux invests primarily in Big Data, Hardware and Automotive startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Christophe Desrumaux last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christophe Desrumaux closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 3 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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