# Guillaume Princen

> Guillaume Princen is a seed investor in Paris backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-princen-3835841/

Guillaume Princen is a seed investor in Paris focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Guillaume Princen

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 38% |
| Finance | 2 | 25% |
| Payments | 2 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Duna | Duna is redefining business identity. It will evolve into a network for shareable identity – making onboarding as simple as one click. | $12.1M | Seed | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Aria | On a mission to help small businesses grow exponentially with Payment-terms-as-a-Service. At Aria, we believe that: - When payments go fast, businesses grow fast - it’s that simple! - Managing payments and credits at scale is the way for endless growth - our API offers high stability and extensible limits - The service and support of our teamsis just as important as the financing solution we provide - we’re not just another tech product Aria was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France. | $16.2M | Series A | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Verteego | Verteego is an AI solutions provider helping retailers, FMCG manufacturers and leaders in other industries optimize pricing, promotions, inventory, assortment and staffing through high-precision predictive models.More than a technology or a product, artificial intelligence is a movement that will radically transform today's society to be atthe heart of tomorrow's society. Verteego is a group of technology enthusiasts at the service of humans, fully invested in Artificial Intelligence and its challenges. Verteego gather expertises around data science, software development, product design, pre-sales engineering, projects, business development, marketing, administration and finance, communication, legal...Verteego counts more than 100 clients, including Fortune 500 companies, in 28 countries, and users in 125 countries. | $2.8M | Seed | Apr 27, 2023 |  |
| Elyn | Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| Cohort | The all-in-one NFT platform made for brands and their communities | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Hero | Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately. | $7.4M | Seed | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Qori | No card, No cash, No limits. Qori is a pioneer mobile payment solution allowing brick and mortar merchants to cost-effectively accept bank and crypto payments by simply generating a QR code on their phone, tablet or payment terminal. Qori does not require an app on the client side. Qori offers advanced tools that allow merchants to engage boththeir unregistered and registered clients.With Qori, merchants have a better alternative to card and cash payments and can create unique experiences for their clients. Two fundamental trends are disrupting the payments industry and challenging the central role of cards: open banking and crypto. Qori is seizing this unique opportunity to remove intermediaries and become the preferred multi-channel payment method for in-store, e-commerce and remote transactions - by offering a fully digital, cheaper alternative to card payments, combined with the most effective client engagement features. Features:Qori enables the acceptance of Pay by bank and Pay by crypto payments: • For in-store payment on the merchant’s phone or tablet, • For in-store payment on the merchant’s android payment terminal (e.g Pax), • For remote payments, by sending a QR code to clients, allowing them to pay their bill by scanning the code, with no manual entry of data required, • For online payments by displaying the Pay by bank and Pay by crypto icons on e-commerce websites.Benefits:• It’s the cheapest and most frictionless payment solution on the market, • Clients do not need a card to pay, they simply scan the QR with their phone’s camera and pay, • Pay by bank and Pay by crypto are supported with the the same customer journey, • Merchants have the ability to interact with registered and non-registered clients via Qori. | $1.9M | Seed | Apr 15, 2022 |  |
| Numeral | Numeral is a payment automation API designed for modern financial institutions, digital firms, and businesses. | $14.7M | Seed | Dec 21, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Headline](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/headlinevc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AA Sons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aa-sons) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Adevinta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adevinta-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Guillaume Princen invest in?

Guillaume Princen invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Guillaume Princen's check size?

Guillaume Princen typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$15M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Guillaume Princen participates in.

### When did Guillaume Princen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Guillaume Princen closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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