Francois Veron
Founder and General Partner @ Newfund
Paris, France
Francois Veron is a Series B investor at Newfund in Paris focused on Software and B2B. François Veron is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Founder and General Partner of Newfund. François previously worked at Founder Mental Health Pledge as a Member. François Veron attended the HEC Paris.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Francois Veron invests in
Stages Francois Veron invests in
Countries Francois Veron invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (40%)
- B2B 1 (20%)
- Beauty 1 (20%)
- FinTech 1 (20%)
- Big Data 1 (20%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (40%)
- Seed 1 (20%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (20%)
Country
- France 2 (40%)
- United States 1 (20%)
Investments
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| After travel and catering, the beauty & wellness sector is experiencing a boom in online booking. This highlights the emergence of a new connected clientele. Kiute is the easiest solution for beauty professionals to manage their business, attract and retain more connected customers. Available on smartphone, tablet or computer, Kiute is thefirst all-in-one solution that combines: cash software, online booking, and online store. In short, Kiute allows beauty professionals to: - spend less time in day-to-day management and more with their customers - reach new customers through the Internet - stay in control of their distribution on the internet while remaining independent. | $8.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 19, 2018 | ||
| After travel and catering, the beauty & wellness sector is experiencing a boom in online booking. This highlights the emergence of a new connected clientele. Kiute is the easiest solution for beauty professionals to manage their business, attract and retain more connected customers. Available on smartphone, tablet or computer, Kiute is thefirst all-in-one solution that combines: cash software, online booking, and online store. In short, Kiute allows beauty professionals to: - spend less time in day-to-day management and more with their customers - reach new customers through the Internet - stay in control of their distribution on the internet while remaining independent. | $1.6M / Seed / Mar 22, 2017 | ||
Customer Matrix
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CustomerMatrix offers a market-leading Cognitive Computing platform that connects the dots between you, your organization and customers without adding costly new infrastructure. The Insights and Data Enrichment platform helps companies enrich their existing CRM, Contact Center, and KYC workflows.CustomerMatrix is headquartered in New York Citywith its R&D center in Paris, France. We have a growing list of Global 2000 customers including global banks such as BNP Paribas, insurers such as Allianz, and some of the world’s most distinguished business brands such as Schneider Electric. We're a founding member of the Cognitive Computing Consortium with IBM-Watson | $10.6M / Series B / Jan 25, 2016 | |
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CustomerMatrix offers a market-leading Cognitive Computing platform that connects the dots between you, your organization and customers without adding costly new infrastructure. The Insights and Data Enrichment platform helps companies enrich their existing CRM, Contact Center, and KYC workflows.CustomerMatrix is headquartered in New York Citywith its R&D center in Paris, France. We have a growing list of Global 2000 customers including global banks such as BNP Paribas, insurers such as Allianz, and some of the world’s most distinguished business brands such as Schneider Electric. We're a founding member of the Cognitive Computing Consortium with IBM-Watson | $3.5M / Series A / Dec 23, 2014 | |
| Limonetik is driving the transformation into the new world of payment providing payments on a platform as a service (PaaS) basis to address a broad range of complex payment needs of multichannel retailers, marketplaces, gig and shared economy platforms as well as business to business platforms, acquirers and payment services providers.Limonetikstarted by processing, aggregating and creating payment methods for use online and offline in Europe, then expanding to cover a broad international selection of alternative payments. Today Limonetik’s platform supports over 265 local payment methods in 60 different countries, reduces complexity of settlement by aggregating multiple financial flows into one settlement and supports these services with comprehensive reconciliation and reporting tools all via one state-of-the-art API. Limonetik is one of the earliest developers of the marketplace payment solution and has over seven years’ experience in that relatively new sector. Processing more than $2 billion a year, Limonetik support more than 14 k merchants or marketplaces through payment players.Limonetik has been awarded by Gartner as “Cool Vendor in digital commerce” status due to our ‘one-stop’ innovative SaaS solution which makes real and positive impacts on our clients businesses.Limonetik has raised 10 million € in Series A from VCs (Newfund – Orkos – Hiinov) and some successful Business Angels. Among them Olivier Mathiot and Pierre Kosciusko Morizet (Founder of Priceminister), Regis Bouyala (Payment Guru and writer of “World of Payment”), Alain Parize (founder of Smile’s), Laurent Nizri (Founder of Alteir Consulting specialized in Bank & Payment), and Arnaud Barey (Founder of Voyagermoinscher), Erich Lawson Smith (Arma Partners). | $5.6M / Series B / May 01, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About Newfund
Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.
Newfund Contacts
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Francois Veron
Founder and General Partner
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Henri Deshays
Investor
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Adama Wade
Financial Controller
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Agathe Descamps
Development Nouvelle Aquitaine
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Julien Boubel
EIR, Sales
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What does Francois Veron invest in?
Francois Veron invests primarily in Software, B2B and Beauty startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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