# Fast Forward

> Fast Forward is a VC fund in Paris backing Software and SaaS. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Fast Forward is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and SaaS. Fast Forward is providing funding, training, mentorship, and community for tech startups

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Fast Forward. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Fast Forward. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/fast-forward?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 38% |
| SaaS | 4 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 23% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| Big Data | 2 | 15% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 15% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 8 | 62% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Olivier Guillaumin | President | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olivier-guillaumin |
| Isabelle Budd | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isabelle-budd |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sharesub | Sharesub offers the easiest way for friends to split the cost of subscriptions and other monthly expenses. | $755.1K | Series A | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Venco Platforms | Venco provides community management software that enables multi-unit residential and commercial communities with Smart Utility Vending, Visitor Management, Community Management, and Simplified Payments services. | $670K | Pre-Seed | Dec 05, 2022 |  |
| Blacklight | Blacklight helps journalists show off their work, skills and passion with the best online portfolio for journalists linked to the only portfolio centered hiring solution for media to work with journalists, freelancers, correspondents all in one place! PayForPress, a Blacklight solution helps media monetize their content by providing an industrywide online wallet to boost paywall conversion with both per article and subscription models | $99.7K | Pre-Seed | Aug 25, 2022 |  |
| Qomon | Qomon is the modern Supporter Activation Platform trusted by more than 1,500 organizations in 70 countries. We transform passive contact lists and supporter energy into visible outcomes: volunteers who show up, new donors who give, and data-driven campaigns that scale. Easy to use, privacy-first, and secure, Qomon helps nonprofit & politicalteams mobilize both online and in the field. With Qomon, organizations stop losing momentum, achieve their missions and contribute to a future that reflects their vision. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 20, 2021 |  |
| iara. | Iara is a booking app for beauty treatments. They made it social so that if a user recommends a beauty expert to a friend, the user receives a commission and the pro receives a new client. It enables clients to discover new beauty services and recommend them, much like they do on social media. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Carbon Mobile | Carbon Mobile is replacing metals with sustainable polymer-based composite materials in connected devices has become possible. Carbon Mobile's unique IP solves the decades-old electrical/antenna incompatibility issues of carbon fiber unlocking integration into electronics-enabled industries. Carbon Mobile’s materials also push beyond thelimits of sustainability and enable new designs that have up to 75% less carbon footprint and 38% less e-waste for electronics with a capital-light process. Carbon Mobile has already been proven with industry-leading OEM hardware brands including Qualcomm. | $2M | Seed | Feb 10, 2020 |  |
| Intersec | Intersec is a leading Fast Data software vendor, designing innovative platforms enabling companies to leverage their Data. Their disruptive technology crunches and consolidates huge amounts of data coming from heterogeneous network equipment and IT, and turns them into actionable insights in real-time. Applications range from Contextual Marketing,Geolocation Intelligence, Smart Cities, IoT and Business Analytics. Awarded Most Innovative LBS Solution and Best Cloud Analytics Solution in 2017, Intersec has live solutions running all over the globe. | $8.8M |  | Nov 02, 2018 |  |
| TORO | TORO is a European technology platform that is at the forefront of the mobile commerce revolution. Leveraging its unique and patented technology, TORO turns Apps into ‘Super-Apps’ giving them the ability to host a fully fledged marketplace with 3rd party merchants within their very own App. Starting with Soccer Clubs in Europe through a partnershipwith the largest Spanish bank, TORO’s ambition is to spread across all Sports, Fashion, (even uniting the two!), Smart Cities, streaming platforms and deploy its platform across the USA. | $1.6M | Series A | May 04, 2018 |  |
| Indy | Indy offers end-to-end and advanced AI-powered accounting software. Indy is an accounting robot that aims to automate the accounting of freelancers and professionals. It is an accounting robot for the liberal professions. It automates the management of accounting, recovers bank entries to turn them into accounting lines, and sends tax returnsdirectly to an AGM.It was founded in 2016 as Georges by Côme Fouques, Pablo Larvor, Romain Koenig, and Adrien Plat to simplify independent accounting, which is certainly simple but repetitive and time-consuming. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 07, 2018 |  |
| Novaquark | Dual Universe is a single-shard sandbox MMO focusing on emergent gameplay, and developed by Novaquark for PC.You believe in a future where games will become more than games, but rather places where meaningful adventures and learning will take place. They believe that these collective online experiences will fill more and more of their free time,becoming more and more real. They believe that fun is the future of work. | $1.4M | Angel | Mar 18, 2015 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aurinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aurinvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-angels-3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CM-CIC Capital Prive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cm-cic-capital-prive) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CM CIC Investissement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cm-cic-investissement) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dakar Network Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dakar-network-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Decimal Point Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/decimal-point-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Fast Forward invest in?

Fast Forward invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Fast Forward?

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### Who are the partners at Fast Forward?

The team at Fast Forward includes Olivier Guillaumin (President) and Isabelle Budd (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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