# Guillaume Houzé

> Guillaume Houzé is a seed investor at Motier Ventures backing Information Technology. See 80 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures)
- Total investments: 80
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-houz%C3%A9-94198694/
- Website: https://www.motier.vc/

Guillaume Houzé is a seed investor at Motier Ventures focused on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Founder of Motier Ventures. Executive Board member of the Galeries Lafayette Group. President of ANDAM and Lafayette Anticipations.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 12 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 15% |
| FinTech | 10 | 13% |
| Software | 8 | 10% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 8% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 45 | 56% |
| Series A | 17 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 11% |
| Series B | 3 | 4% |
| Series C | 1 | 1% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 45 | 56% |
| United States | 6 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 5% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tomorro | Tomorro is an AI-driven contract lifecycle management platform that automates the processes of contract creation, negotiation, and approval. The platform streamlines workflows for sales teams by providing tools that enhance efficiency and accuracy in contract management. It offers features such as automated document generation, real-timecollaboration, and built-in compliance checks. Tomorro also includes an e-signature solution that facilitates the signing of contracts, ensuring a seamless experience for users. By integrating these functionalities, Tomorro aims to simplify the complexities of contract management for organizations. | $27M | Series B | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Flagcat | Flagcat is a webtoon studio producing top notch original series. The company is developing its own proprietary webtoon engine. | $2.7M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| MarketLeap | MarketLeap is the first agentic operating system that empowers direct-to-consumer (D2C) sellers to scale effortlessly across global marketplaces. By providing a fully integrated software solution, MarketLeap helps D2C sellers focus on core business activities while simplifying operational complexities and marketplace expansion. | $8M | Series A | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Outcome | Outcome is developing TeamOS, a copilot for platform teams to enable user-centric decisions, accelerate improvements, and maximize impact. It uses AI to analyze interactions in Slack, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration tools, turning observed behavior and direct feedback from internal customers into prioritized improvement initiatives. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Freqens | We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships. | $3.1M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Deblock | Deblock offers banking services to cryptocurrency users.It assists people to cash out their cryptocurrency investments. | $16.7M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Pruna AI | Our tech makes AI models 2-10x cheaper, faster and greener. You can run our tech locally in one line of code on any AI model and hardware. | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Linkup | Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| autone | Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly | $16.9M | Series A | Oct 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 80 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [Financiere Saint James](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/financiere-saint-james) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Headline](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/headlinevc) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

## About Motier Ventures

VC Fund · Paris, France

Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.We are a value-added business angel. At scale.We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investmentthemes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, Creative Technologies and Cybersecurity.We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV, Citynove...) and across many industries.If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.

2 contacts available at Motier Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Guillaume Houzé | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-houz%C3%A9-a885 |
| Guillaume Houzé | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-houz%C3%A9-14b5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Guillaume Houzé invest in?

Guillaume Houzé invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 80 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Guillaume Houzé last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Guillaume Houzé closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 80 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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