# Frédéric Mazzella

> Frédéric Mazzella is a seed investor at BlaBlaCar backing Internet and Information Technology. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BlaBlaCar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blablacar)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericmazzella
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/mazaic
- Website: https://x.com/mazaic

Frédéric Mazzella is a seed investor at BlaBlaCar in Paris focused on Internet and Information Technology. Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $439k–$3M |
| Series A | $1.2M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 4 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 21% |
| Apps | 3 | 16% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 16% |
| Retail | 2 | 11% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 37% |
| Series A | 7 | 37% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 12 | 63% |
| United States | 3 | 16% |
| Hungary | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deligo Vision Technologies | Deligo is a leader in AI-powered self-checkout solutions for food service and convenience stores. We help our customers to:- Eliminate queues & drive revenue: Say goodbye to queues and hello to happier customers. The kiosks streamline the checkout process & enhance customer loyalty, driving more transactions and profits.​- Reduce costs& improve operations: Battle staffing shortages and cut down on operational expenses by automating routine tasks. Redeploy cashier resources to higher-value interactions for greater efficiency.- Minimise shrinkage: The kiosk sees it all: products placed on the Kiosk are correctly recognised to help avoid intentional or unintentional theft. Status lights help associates track checkout activity. | $3M | Seed | May 06, 2024 |  |
| MentorShow | Mentor Show offers online course, Whether you want to improve your cooking, your football skills, your magic, or even your mental strength, you'll be able to learn from the very best, like Karim Benzema, Hélène Darroze, Kev Adams, and many more.. | $16M | Series A | Mar 10, 2023 |  |
| La Vie | La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats. | $28.4M | Series A | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Wecasa | Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals. | $17.8M | Series A | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| YZR | YZR is a saas platform designed to enable business people to prepare their own data. 3 features : - Standardisation : rewrite textual data, the standard way - Labeling : applies featured labels based on a active learning process - Fuzzy matching : matches groups of words (for ex: product descriptions)YZR makes data standard, labeled and matchedeven without top down data governance.YZR performs automatic data preparation through an API, designed to be integrated in any data infrastructure. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 09, 2021 |  |
| YZR | YZR is a saas platform designed to enable business people to prepare their own data. 3 features : - Standardisation : rewrite textual data, the standard way - Labeling : applies featured labels based on a active learning process - Fuzzy matching : matches groups of words (for ex: product descriptions)YZR makes data standard, labeled and matchedeven without top down data governance.YZR performs automatic data preparation through an API, designed to be integrated in any data infrastructure. | $2.3M | Seed | Dec 04, 2020 |  |
| Assurup | Assurup is a developer of a professional liability platform intended to digitize comparison shopping and purchasing for insurance solutions. | $1.1M | Seed | Oct 20, 2017 |  |
| Bim App | Bim App is a French restaurant table booking app that allows users to view best tables available in real time around them. It also allows users to book them instantly, and to pay and share the bill without taking out CB.Bim anticipates even the need thanks to notifications that allow its members to be warned as soon as a table is released in therestaurants of their choice. | $2.7M |  | Oct 16, 2017 |  |
| Rediv | Patatam is the european's most trusted online shop for buying and selling like-new clothing for kids and babies. Parents can send their quality kids' clothing in a free pre-paid bag (the Patabag), earn cash up front for their clothing selected, and can shop the best brands for their kids at Patatam.com for up to 90% off retail. Based inthe south west of France, Patatam was launched in 2013 by Mariève Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Mathieu Bidart. The company is advised and backed by former Price Minister CEO and founder Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Frederic Mazzella and Francis Nappez (founders of BlaBlaCar) and several other investors. | $3.2M | Series B | Sep 12, 2017 |  |
| Happydemics | Happydemics is the story of frustration become conviction. A frustration with the complexity of market research, neglected by decision-makers in favor of a simplistic and stereotypical vision of a target. But Happydemics is above all the conviction that they must reinvent the experience of studies for brands, but also for respondents, bydemocratizing access to the opinion of all people. Happydemics was born, and 5 years later, Their conviction is stronger every day! | $2.1M | Seed | Jun 13, 2017 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adour Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adour-business-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AQUITI Gestion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aquiti-gestion-aci) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Financiere Saint James](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/financiere-saint-james) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Herrikoa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/herrikoa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kernel Investissements](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kernel-investissements) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Purple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/purple-8123) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About BlaBlaCar

VC Fund · Paris, France

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling community, connecting people looking to travel long distances with drivers going the same way. They travel together and share the costs of the journey. The platform is engineered to create a secure, trust-based community with declared identities and full member profiles. Members can evenspecify how chatty they are from “Bla” to “BlaBlaBla”, hence the name BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers.Backed by Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok and ISAI, it operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India. The site and free mobile apps provide a range of features to create a secure, trust-based community and easy connections between drivers and passengers.BlaBlaCar is based in Paris with offices across a dozen of countries.

5 contacts available at BlaBlaCar.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Juppe Clara | Business Analyst - Marketing Strategy & Data | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/juppe-clara |
| Olivier Bonnet | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/olivier-bonnet-8a22 |
| Adrien Pradat | Head of Network and Pricing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrien-pradat |
| Aleksey Lazorenko | Country Manager Russia & Ukraine | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleksey-lazorenko |
| Anastasia Stefanska | Marketing Data Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anastasia-stefanska |

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## FAQ

### What does Frédéric Mazzella invest in?

Frédéric Mazzella invests primarily in Internet, Information Technology and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Frédéric Mazzella's check size?

Frédéric Mazzella typically joins rounds of $439k–$3M at Seed and $1.2M–$28M 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 Frédéric Mazzella participates in.

### When did Frédéric Mazzella last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Frédéric Mazzella closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 19 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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