# David Amsellem

> David Amsellem is a seed investor at The Luxurist (Paris) backing Financial Services and Banking. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Luxurist](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-luxurist)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amsellemdavid/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/david_amsellem
- Website: https://x.com/david_amsellem
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.amsellem.716

David Amsellem is a seed investor at The Luxurist in Paris focused on Financial Services and Banking. David Amsellem began his career as a founding shareholder of Poweo before continuing his career as an energy trader in Switzerland.In 2007, after this first successful entrepreneurial experience, he identified a market opportunity still in its early stages: private concierge services. David Amsellem created John Paul at age 29, with the goal ofenhancing this new private concierge offer for companies. Some of the major global brands immediately saw the benefit of this groundbreaking concierge business in managing their relationships with their best customers.From the outset David has led the development of John Paul with integrity and innovation and continues to do so today. Under his supervision, John Paul has become the world leader in the concierge market. David Amsellem is now CEO of John Paul Group.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$3.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| Banking | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Medical | 1 | 17% |
| Delivery | 1 | 17% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Angel | 2 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joe | Joe is an financial service that reimburses and allows ALL expenses to be paid in several installments. | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 07, 2021 |  |
| Urgence Docteurs | UrgenceDocteurs is a brand new application. A study shows that 20,000 to 30,000 doctors do not practice in France. Which does not help anyone else Everyone is constantly looking for doctors. Whatever the position of the practitioner: general practitioner, pediatrician, physiotherapist, nurse, osteopath or carer, allows all these professionals todevelop their activity with a minimum of constraints! UrgenceDocteurs has been thought to meet the needs of physicians, who, even with long years of study, do not have the opportunity to leverage their expertise. While medicine studies are very difficult, each year, nearly 25% of thesed doctors do not settle. that 20,000 to 30,000 doctors do not practice in France. Lack of social protection, high installation costs, unsuitable premises or the fear of the administrative are all arguments put forward to explain this observation. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2019 |  |
| Kard | Kard believes young people deserve a banking experience that is adapted to their needs and gives them control. It offers an intuitive mobile app adapted to the codes of teenagers and a Mastercard card allowing them to pay online or in-store. | $3.2M | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| TankYou | TankYou is the european leader of energy delivery for individuals and businesses. It offers a fully digital journey for the individual, time and place of delivery, online payment, and simple tracking of the order. The Paris-based company was founded in 2016. | $1.1M | Angel | Sep 27, 2017 |  |
| KBRW Ad-Venture | KBRW offers the only OMS solution which can be easily integrated into an existing system, this enables the client to proceed with his digitalization process.The OMS solution is designed to tackle all the critical Supply Chain tasks, such as stock management, order orchestration, omnichannel order management and CRM.KRW offers a robust,evolutive and customized OMS, which was enhanced with experience acquired through collaboration with customers being market leaders.As a fully mastered SW platform it is based on the latest open-source bricks, which are developed by KBRW and sustained by a very dynamic community. |  | Angel | Nov 29, 2013 |  |
| uptime.ac | Founded in 2016, uptime's predictive maintenance technology for elevators provides access to data that leads to fewer breakdowns, more uptime and less costs. Elevators with uptime’s artificial intelligence system benefit from real-time data to monitor safety, increase performance and modernise the outdated elevator experience, while theavailability of transparent information strengthens trust between building managers and elevator service providers. uptime’s brand-agnostic offering allows elevator service providers to grow their maintenance portfolios and improve retention rates thanks to fewer failures and more transparency, while residential and commercial buildings rely on uptime technology to enhance the safety and efficiency of their facilities. Today, uptime is used by more than 200 companies in Europe. uptime is headquartered in Paris and London, and plan to expand in multiple countries by 2023. The company is backed by major funds such as Serena Capital, KIMA Ventures and Acequia Capital. |  | Seed |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AA Sons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aa-sons) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The Luxurist

VC Fund



1 contacts available at The Luxurist.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Amsellem | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-amsellem |

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## FAQ

### What does David Amsellem invest in?

David Amsellem invests primarily in Financial Services, Banking and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is David Amsellem's check size?

David Amsellem typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$3.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Amsellem participates in.

### When did David Amsellem last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Amsellem closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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