# Henri Deshays

> Henri Deshays is a seed investor at Newfund (Palo Alto) backing Software and Machine Learning. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Newfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newfund-management)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hdeshays/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hdeshays
- Website: https://x.com/hdeshays

Henri Deshays is a seed investor at Newfund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Machine Learning. Henri started his career in investment banking at Natixis. He then moved to the US to pursue a MBA at Stanford, where he founded ModeWalk, acquired in 2014 by Moda Operandi. Prior to joining NewFund, Henri was an angel investor and VP Strategy at StartX, Stanford’s accelerator, which he co-founded when studying at Stanford.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 30% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 10% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 30% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 25% |
| Series A | 4 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 55% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fermeate | Fermeate provides photomolecular fermentation technology to increase sustainability and efficiency in the biomanufacturing industry. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| MXPilot | MXPilot is a marketing operating system for agencies and brands. It enables AI agents to execute marketing workflows across the tools teams already use, including SEO, email, ads, and delivery platforms. Every execution is tracked end to end and tied to measurable business outcomes such as traffic, signups, and revenue. MXPilot is sold as asubscription priced per managed brand, with usage-based execution credits and an agency marketplace for deploying specialized agents. | $930K | Pre-Seed | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Brightflow AI | Brightflow AI is a financial intelligence company that provides small business owners with forecasting and financing tools. The platform enables users to monitor the cash flow on their Shopify and Amazon stores. Brightflow AI was founded by Jeffrey Priebe and Robbie Bhathal in 2019 and is based in Walnut, California. | $15M | Series A | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Rabot | We aim to revolutionize work using accessible tech. Creating smarter ways for people, machines, and systems to work together. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2022 |  |
| Curv Health | Curv Health is a multidisciplinary virtual clinic that gives healthcare providers the ability to build and run their own practice. It aims to increase the number of meaningful years lived globally. Curv Health was established in 2017 and has offices in Toronto and Halifax. | $4M | Seed | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Pliant.io | Pliant orchestrates end-to-end automation and connectivity processes. Pliant empowers the digital enterprise to modernize and transform with one unified API-driven platform. Our approach differs from other solutions by providing a strategic, powerful platform that spans departments, technologies, and domains. | $10M | Series A | May 06, 2021 |  |
| Visage | Visage automates candidate discovery and engagement while enabling teams to increase productivity by building predictable candidate pipelines, increasing hiring efficiency, and simplifying team-based work management. With AI and human-powered sourcing capabilities, Visage is able to identify the most relevant skills and experience and deliver largebatches of high quality candidates who can be moved through the pipeline with automated engagement tools that fully integrate with top ATS systems. | $7M | Series A | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Titan | Top 1% coaches for top 1% performers.Titan matches VC-backed founders with world-leading executive coaches and performance psychologists to maximize their performance - and the performance of their business.We have raised $5.7mm from top executives at Google, PayPal, Lyft, and AirBnB and investors who previously funded Square, Instacart,Twilio, GrubHub, StitchFix, OpenDoor, and SpaceX.You can learn more about Titan here: https://www.withtitan.com/ | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 21, 2020 |  |
| Pliant.io | Pliant orchestrates end-to-end automation and connectivity processes. Pliant empowers the digital enterprise to modernize and transform with one unified API-driven platform. Our approach differs from other solutions by providing a strategic, powerful platform that spans departments, technologies, and domains. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2020 |  |
| Zinier | Zinier’s low-code field service automation platform empowers field service organizations with the combined power of humans and technology to keep our world up and running. Powered by AI, Zinier transforms how teams coordinate and execute work, so they can solve problems faster, fix things before they break, and maintain an agile infrastructure thatevolves with their needs. Enterprises around the world use Zinier to reach their full potential, delivering always-on service now, while future-proofing for the unexpected. We are a global team headquartered in Silicon Valley with leading investors including Accel, ICONIQ Capital, Founders Fund, Newfund Capital, NGP Capital, Tiger Global Management and Qualcomm Ventures LLC. | $90M | Series C | Jan 15, 2020 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Stack Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-stack-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [VT Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vt-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Azure Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/azure-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BootstrapLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bootstraplabs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BrightCap Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brightcap-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Newfund

VC Fund · Paris, France

Newfund is a $300M entrepreneurial VC firm dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments in France and North America, in companies driving global change. The company is always looking for founders who are driven to realize a vision that will significantly alter the world in which we live. In order to appreciate what entrepreneurs are creating andutilize their strengths, Newfund aims to comprehend entrepreneurs as unique individuals.

5 contacts available at Newfund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Henri Deshays | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henri-deshays |
| Adama Wade | Financial Controller | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adama-wade |
| Agathe Descamps | Development Nouvelle Aquitaine | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/agathe-descamps |
| Francois Veron | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franois-vron |
| Julien Boubel | EIR, Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-boubel |

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## FAQ

### What does Henri Deshays invest in?

Henri Deshays invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Henri Deshays last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Henri Deshays closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 20 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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