# Frederic Montagnon

> Frederic Montagnon is a seed investor at Arianee (New York) backing Software and Blockchain. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Arianee](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arianee)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericmontagnon
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/fred_montagnon
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/frederic.montagnon

Frederic Montagnon is a seed investor at Arianee in New York focused on Software and Blockchain. Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $318k–$5M |
| Angel | $560k–$1.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $350k–$4.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 38% |
| Blockchain | 7 | 27% |
| SaaS | 5 | 19% |
| Internet | 5 | 19% |
| FinTech | 4 | 15% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 58% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 19% |
| Angel | 2 | 8% |
| Series A | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 15 | 58% |
| United States | 6 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DFNS | Custody of digital assets requires maximal security. Don't DIY.Dfns is a safe, cloud-native developer tool that gives banks, investors and companies the freedom to enter crypto markets on a battle-designed security infrastructure. Financial institutions of all sizes—from crypto startups to Tier 1 banks—use our fully-managed custodyplatform to scale and gain exposure over crypto without ever compromising the safety of their day-to-day operations.By way of deep trendsetting cryptography, we have successfully managed to create a keyless wallet generator allowing our clients to trade, transfer and store crypto without having to worry a single second. Dfns is powered by a decentralized custody network designed to break up the inner complications of blockchains and reinstate frictionless business environments. We make sure that digital assets are safe-kept with respect to the most law-abiding market procedures.Smoothly deploy on-premise your own crypto custody infrastructure in no time, and capitalize on streamlined feature delivery and advanced security updates. Dfns saves you and your team from spending precious time on labor-intensive tasks and ensures that the middle & back office experience stays the same as always. Roll out the red carpet for your customers, today.We are building the future of crypto banking—brick by brick. | $16M | Series A | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| Spiko | Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds. | $4.3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Bolero | At Bolero, we design technology that allows individuals and institutions to invest in music.We aim to shape the world’s leading infrastructure for music investment by transforming music rights into a liquid, transparent, and accessible asset class.For creators, it means access to capital without giving up control. For investors, it’s a newgateway to yield — uncorrelated, recurring, and culturally rooted.We believe that by aligning the interests of creators, investors, and rights holders, we’re creating an ecosystem where culture and capital grow together — fairly, sustainably, and at scale.Bolero has been featured in Billboard, Les Échos, Rolling Stone, Challenges, BFM Business, and many others. | $2.2M | Seed | Feb 26, 2024 |  |
| Swaap | We build the market neutral AMM protocol. | $4.6M | Seed | Apr 19, 2023 |  |
| getinside | Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022. | $1.7M | Seed | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| Morpho Labs | Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility | $18M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Della AI | Della provides law firms and in-house legal teams with artificial intelligence to accelerate the review and audit of legal documents. They have developed a unique question-answering technology which enables legal professionals to analyse documents based on their own questions and checklists, allowing them to make the best use of their ownexpertise. This novel technology allows firms of all sizes to use and adopt AI without the significant time investment that was required for early AI players. | $2.5M | Seed | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Unlock | End-to-end platform for corporate events, intuitively designed for non-event planners | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Unlock | End-to-end platform for corporate events, intuitively designed for non-event planners | $2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Starchain Gazer | We are on a mission to free players from undesirable constraints coming from the part of today's game creators and allow users to take the wheel. By creating a game economy, we shift the definition of a successful title away from revenue towards real-world benefits for players, thus extending game longevity. Our vision is to be at theforefront of "Play & Earn" games through the implementation of blockchain as an underlying technology. We let gamers own game assets as they invest time and effort to gain power, skills, and ranking. By using game assets, gamers can make their value increase through leveling-up, crafting. Lend, borrow, sell and buy game assets. Gamers should be free to use their assets within a community of gamers in and outside the game itself. Starchain Gazer is working on a 4X RTS type game with the ambition to transition into an MMORPG. | $417.4K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atka Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atka-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Arianee

VC Fund · Paris, France

Arianee is on a mission to allow brands and owners to bring products, experiences, and communities to life digitally through NFTs. We establish direct and continuing interactions via trust, respect, and honesty.

5 contacts available at Arianee.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexandre Cognard | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-cognard |
| Antoine Remy | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-passarelli |
| Emmanuelle Collet | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emmanuelle-collet |
| Frederic Montagnon | Chariman & co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frdric-montagnon |
| Julien Romanetto | Co-Founder and Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-romanetto |

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## FAQ

### What does Frederic Montagnon invest in?

Frederic Montagnon invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Frederic Montagnon's check size?

Frederic Montagnon typically joins rounds of $318k–$5M at Seed, $560k–$1.1M at Angel and $350k–$4.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Frederic Montagnon participates in.

### When did Frederic Montagnon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Frederic Montagnon closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 26 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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