# Damien Guermonprez

> Damien Guermonprez is a seed investor at Lemonway (Paris) backing Financial Services and Internet. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lemonway](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lemon-way)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/damien-guermonprez/0/61/728
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/d_guermonprez
- Website: https://x.com/d_guermonprez
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damien.guermonprez

Damien Guermonprez is a seed investor at Lemonway in Paris focused on Financial Services and Internet. Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $219k–$2.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $122k–$1.1M |
| Series A | $849k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 26% |
| Internet | 6 | 22% |
| FinTech | 5 | 19% |
| Payments | 5 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 19% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 74% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |
| Angel | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 20 | 74% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Cameroon | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dowgo | Dowgo provides financial and investment services. They provide insights and analysis for businesses. They provide investment for local and international markets. They provide customer inquiries through email. | $2.4M | Seed | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Bitstack | It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change in bitcoin, to a dynamic app bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. Our mission is to empower people to better financetheir future by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We are rebuilding finance from the group up by building the first crypto-native bank that leverages Bitcoin and stablecoins to revolutionize consumer banking. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Bitstack | It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change in bitcoin, to a dynamic app bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. Our mission is to empower people to better financetheir future by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We are rebuilding finance from the group up by building the first crypto-native bank that leverages Bitcoin and stablecoins to revolutionize consumer banking. |  | Seed | Dec 23, 2021 |  |
| CINETPAY | CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Muzzo | Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace. | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| PaySika | PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries. | $348K | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2021 |  |
| MerciYanis | Yanis is a Toulouse start-up that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect buildings and help work environment departments | $1.2M | Seed | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Quartz | Quartz provides online business, employee, and health insurance services. | $858.8K | Seed | Jan 07, 2021 |  |
| HappyVore | Les Nouveaux Fermiers cultivates a passion for taste, the real, the healthy, and the impact on the planet. It reinvents meat from natural and local plant ingredients to better feed the planet. Its products today represent 11 times less CO2 and 10 times less water than meat production. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $2.2M | Seed | May 22, 2020 |  |
| Primaa | Primaa is a French startup based in Paris. It was co-founded in 2018 by 3 cousins with complementary skills and experiences : Fanny, Stéphane and Marie Sockeel. | $2.1M | Seed | Oct 11, 2019 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [50 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/50-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Africa Venture Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/africa-venture-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [360 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/360-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lemonway

VC Fund · Paris, France

Lemon Way is a white-label B2B platform that offers payment processing, wallet management and third-party payment solutions for joint gifts, crowdfunding, e-commerce, carsharing, mobiles, and marketplaces. With a range of complementary regulation and management services to its name, the company enables its clients to follow real-time back-officeoperations, carry out documentation, and fight payment fraud. Lemon Way also offers an API that can be integrated into a client’s current payment systems. Lemon Way is a Payment Institution dedicated to E-commerce websites, CrowdFunding platforms, Marketplaces and FinTech companies looking for payment processing, wallet management and third-party payment in a KYC/AML-regulated framework. 1,000 European marketplaces in addition to 11,0000 e-merchants use its service, generating a yearly cash flow of €1.4 Billion in 2017The #1 French FinTech company: since its launch, Lemon Way has enjoyed positive word-of-mouth between start-ups. The result: 4.4 m customer payment accounts opened in four years and a turnover of €11m in 2017.An independent Financial Institution: Lemon Way has been self-financing its growth since it was created in 2007, making it the only independent player in its market. Lemon Way is approved by the French regulator and is licensed to operate in 30 European countries. The company employs 85 people based in Paris (HQ), London, Barcelona, Berlin, Turin and plans to recruit 40 more people this year.

5 contacts available at Lemonway.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Damien Guermonprez | Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damien-guermonprez |
| Antoine Orsini | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antoine-orsini |
| Gilles Réant | Chief Product & Innovation Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gilles-reant |
| Gregory Jaen | Chief Technical Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregory-jaen |
| Karine Coutinho | Chief Marketing Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karine-coutinho |

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## FAQ

### What does Damien Guermonprez invest in?

Damien Guermonprez invests primarily in Financial Services, Internet and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Damien Guermonprez's check size?

Damien Guermonprez typically joins rounds of $219k–$2.4M at Seed, $122k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed and $849k–$1.5M 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 Damien Guermonprez participates in.

### When did Damien Guermonprez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Damien Guermonprez closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 27 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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