# Cyril Grislain

> Cyril Grislain is a Series A investor at Smart Me Up (Paris) backing Big Data and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Smart Me Up](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/smart-me-up)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyril-grislain-657342b/

Cyril Grislain is a Series A investor at Smart Me Up in Paris focused on Big Data and Software. Cyril Grislain - Board advisor @ Smart Me Up

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$1.8M |
| Series A | $1.3M–$8.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Audio | 1 | 14% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foxintelligence | At foxintelligence, they think data is the first and necessary step to solve any problem. Their mission is to empower decision-makers with data to improve the way societies and companies work. Foxintelligence delivers the best insights on the latest European ecommerce trends, by unlocking intelligence from hundreds of merchants and thousands ofbrands e-receipts. They provide the most reliable insights available for e-commerce while helping consumers save both time and money. | $8.8M | Series A | Jul 10, 2017 |  |
| Foxintelligence | At foxintelligence, they think data is the first and necessary step to solve any problem. Their mission is to empower decision-makers with data to improve the way societies and companies work. Foxintelligence delivers the best insights on the latest European ecommerce trends, by unlocking intelligence from hundreds of merchants and thousands ofbrands e-receipts. They provide the most reliable insights available for e-commerce while helping consumers save both time and money. | $6.4M | Series A | Jul 06, 2017 |  |
| nextProtein | nextProtein develops a new large-scale technology that produces a sustainable source of protein. Founded in 2015 by couple Syrine Chaalala and Mohamed Gastli, nextProtein was launched to help tackle land and resource scarcity using insect protein as feedstock.Like most start-ups, nextProtein began in a garage back in 2014. It was born from thepersonal and professional ambitions of its founders, who were searching for solutions to change agricultural food production while being able to work and live together. Syrine, an Emergency Operations Specialist at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, and Mohamed, a Grammy-nominated chemical engineer, identified that they could combine organic cycles of nature with the scalable efficiency of technology, to produce an alternative to wasteful and unsustainable agricultural systems. | $1.4M | Seed | Jan 24, 2017 |  |
| Visiblee | Visiblee is a generation automation solution to boost B2B website conversion.VA first worldwide, Visiblee Lead Generation solution identifies individual website visitors. It enables Sales Teams to increase their sales by transforming anonymous website visitors into qualified leads.Visiblee is develped by Salezeo, which has its main office inParis and is also active in the UK and in Spain. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| Tempow | Tempow is a research and design company focused on pushing the limits of Bluetooth technology. Their first product, the Tempow Audio Profile (TAP) is an updated Bluetooth protocol allowing any Bluetooth chip to stream audio on multiple Bluetooth audio outputs simultaneously. It is a 100% software solution and works with any brand of Bluetoothspeaker on any chip. The company closed a Series A round of venture funding led by Balderton Capital and has global partnerships that bring Tempow-enhanced Bluetooth to millions around the world. Tempow is headquartered in Paris, France with extended operations in Seoul, Korea, and Shenzhen, China. Tempow is partnering with leading semiconductor companies. | $500K | Angel | Sep 25, 2016 |  |
| Costockage | Costockage is invented the concept of personal custody, expanding the scope of the collaborative economy to storage. | $1.3M | Series A | Sep 01, 2016 |  |
| Smart Me Up | Humans continuously extract information from their surroundings. This enables them to understand and analyze their environment to quickly make smart decisions. That’s what they do. Once embedded in a chipset, their computer vision technology analyses and provides data to the devices in real-time. It instantly locates anything around the car andmonitors the driver to make possible the highest safety autonomous driving. | $2.5M | Series A | Jan 06, 2016 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hexa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/efounders) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Daphni](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daphni) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IronCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ironcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Le Studio VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/le-studio-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Smart Me Up

VC Fund · Meylan, France

Humans continuously extract information from their surroundings. This enables them to understand and analyze their environment to quickly make smart decisions. That’s what they do. Once embedded in a chipset, their computer vision technology analyses and provides data to the devices in real-time. It instantly locates anything around the car andmonitors the driver to make possible the highest safety autonomous driving.

2 contacts available at Smart Me Up.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cyril Grislain | Board advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyril-grislain |
| Steven Durand | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-durand |

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## FAQ

### What does Cyril Grislain invest in?

Cyril Grislain invests primarily in Big Data, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Cyril Grislain's check size?

Cyril Grislain typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$1.8M at Seed and $1.3M–$8.8M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cyril Grislain participates in.

### When did Cyril Grislain last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cyril Grislain closed in Jul 2017. Shizune tracks 7 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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