Gilles Samoun
Founder & CEO @ Salesmachine
Paris, France
Gilles Samoun is a seed investor at Salesmachine in Paris focused on SaaS and Security. Gilles Samoun is the Founder and CEO of Successeve and the Founder and CEO of Salesmachine. He was the former CEO at NTRglobal.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Gilles Samoun invests in
Stages Gilles Samoun invests in
Countries Gilles Samoun invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$4.3M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$9.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (29%)
- Security 2 (29%)
- Software 2 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (29%)
- PaaS 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (71%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
Country
- France 5 (71%)
- United States 2 (29%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Dialog
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Dialog is a startup transforming e-commerce with a brand agent that can represent a company, guide customers, and interact with AI agents. | $4.3M / Seed / Nov 14, 2025 | |
Eden AI
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Eden AI simplifies the use and integration of AI technologies by providing a unique API connected to the best AI engines and combined with a powerful management platform. It combines :- A unique AI API to easily switch between AI engines from different providers- Friendly user interface to discover various AI engines and directly test them withyour own data- Innovative management platform to monitor costs, manage access and secure governance of your dataThe platform covers a wide range of AI technologies:- Vision: Custom vision, object detection, video analysis, face recognition, explicit content detection, etc.- Text & NLP: Custom text classification, keyword extraction, sentiment anaysis, language detection, syntax analysis, etc.- Speech & Audio: Speech-to-text, speech recognition, language detection, speech diarization, text-to-speech, etc.- Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Standard OCR, invoice OCR, ID card OCR, tables OCR, receipt OCR, etc.- Machine Translation: Standard machine translation, custom machine translation.- Prediction: Regression, classification, clustering, time series, deep learning. | $3.1M / Seed / Nov 21, 2024 | |
Shine.fr
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Shine is a mobile bank that provides an administrative and financial management platform for freelance workers. It offers freelancers a multitasking solution platform that combines online banking with contract and invoice management, streamlining administrative and financial tasks for those who work independently.The company was established inyear 2017 in Paris, France. | $9.3M / Series A / Sep 04, 2018 | |
Zenchef
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Zenchef was created in 2010 and has more than 7000 customers in 15 different countries. Zenchef has developed a complete customer experience management tool (before, during and after the service) without commission or intermediary for restaurateurs. The restaurant owner remains independent! With only one software, manage all your reservations, yourwebsite, your digital menus, the click & collect, your reviews, your customer file, the digital payment by QR Code, your marketing campaigns... | $1.5M / Series A / Oct 25, 2013 | |
Algolia
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Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers are able to easily find and discover what they want across the web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize delightful Search& Discovery experiences that increase online engagement, conversion rates, and revenue. | $1.5M / Seed / Oct 01, 2013 | |
docTrackr
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Each time you share a digital document, the minute you've sent it, you are no longer in control.docTrackr helps businesses keep their documents under control, wherever they're stored, whomever they're shared with - i.e. you can remotely destroy them, update them and know what people are doing with them in real-time.doctrackr's technology was designed to protect the most sensitive documents in business. docTrackr provides advanced document intelligence and control, giving enterprises complete visibility into document usage. With docTrackr, managers can control permissions, track usage, and even destroy documents remotely. All through all through an easy to use dashboard.They are complementary to document management platforms such as Dropbox, Box.net or Google Drive. docTrackr continues to provide a benefit to their users even once the documents are extracted from their platform and redistributed.docTrackr was part of TechStars – #1 startup accelerator in the world – and is based in the USA (Boston – MA) and in Europe (Paris – France; Bucharest – Romania), and backed by Polaris Ventures and Atlas Ventures.It was acquired by Intralinks.com for $10 million dollars cash. | Seed / Oct 02, 2012 | |
Qualys
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The Qualys Cloud Platform and integrated suite of solutions helps businesses simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications.Used by more than 7,700 customers in over100 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100, the Qualys Cloud Platform performs more than 1 billion IP scans/audits a year resulting in over 400 billion security events.Founded in 1999, Qualys has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and consulting organizations including BT, Dell SecureWorks, Fujitsu, IBM, NTT, Symantec, Verizon, and Wipro. The company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).The Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated suite of security and compliance applications provides organizations of all sizes with a global view of their security and compliance solutions, while drastically reducing their total cost of ownership. Qualys solutions include: continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, policy compliance, pci compliance, questionnaire service, web application scanning, web application firewall, malware detection and SECURE Seal for security testing of web sites. | Seed |
Co-Investors
About Salesmachine
Salesmachine is a customer success platform that helps subscription businesses onboard, retain and grow their customers. It brings all your customer data together in one place, helping you understand customer health, lifecycle stages and deploy customer success strategies to reduce churn and increase upsell.
Salesmachine Contacts
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Florent Quinti
Head of Product
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Gilles Samoun
Founder & CEO
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Jeremy Block
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FAQ
What does Gilles Samoun invest in?
Gilles Samoun invests primarily in SaaS, Security and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Gilles Samoun's check size?
Gilles Samoun typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.3M at Seed and $1.5M–$9.3M 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 Gilles Samoun participates in.
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When did Gilles Samoun last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gilles Samoun closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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