# Jean-Marc Bally

> Jean-Marc Bally is a funding round investor at Aster backing Electronics and Manufacturing. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aster](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aster-capital)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-marc-bally-ab444
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jmbally
- Website: https://x.com/jmbally

Jean-Marc Bally is a funding round investor at Aster in Paris focused on Electronics and Manufacturing. Jean-Marc serves as the General Partner & Managing Director of Aster Capital (located in San Francisco, Paris and Beijing) since March 2006.Jean-Marc has had more than $250million under management in several funds raised from large global corporations and institutional investors.Throughout extensive experience in supporting high growthcompanies, Jean-Marc leverages his networks and opens partnership opportunities with its corporate sponsors for the companies he believes in. He has invested in more than 40 innovative companies, including Solairedirect (France, acquired by Engie in 2015), Connectblue (Sweden, acquired by u-blox in 2014), and CPower (US, acquired by Constellation Energy in 2010).Jean-Marc holds a Master’s degree in Business Management (Grenoble Graduate School of Business), an executive education (INSEAD) and an additional Master’s degree in Mathematics. He has a keen interest in international matters, due to his frequent travels. He likes to adapt each strategy to each culture as he strongly believes that adaption is the key to success.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Electronics | 6 | 12% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 12% |
| Energy | 5 | 10% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 8% |
| Solar | 3 | 6% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 9 | 18% |
| Series B | 6 | 12% |
| Series A | 4 | 8% |
| Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Series C | 3 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 14 | 27% |
| United States | 3 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Ghana | 1 | 2% |
| Kenya | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Karos | Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies. | $7M | Series B | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Karos | Karos transform available car seats into public transport networks, leveraging AI and mobile technologies. | $2.1M | Convertible Note | Oct 06, 2019 |  |
| Casanova | Pioneer in the inter-connectivity of digital technologies in housing. Casanova is the specialist in the art of networked living, a follower of the house of tomorrow, combining comfort and new technologies while respecting the environment. | $66K | Convertible Note | Sep 13, 2019 |  |
| EkWateur | Founded in November 2015 with the ambition to become a key energy retail player in France, the company provides an innovative and truly seamless customer experience in a collaborative environment, while offering a 100% green energy at a competitive price. The company also has an ambitious and clear vision for energy services development tocomplement its energy retail business. | $11M | Series B | Jun 17, 2019 |  |
| Casanova | Pioneer in the inter-connectivity of digital technologies in housing. Casanova is the specialist in the art of networked living, a follower of the house of tomorrow, combining comfort and new technologies while respecting the environment. | $132K | Convertible Note | May 06, 2019 |  |
| Optireno | Optiréno SAS provides project management services spreading from designing until the realization of renovation project. Optiréno SAS was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Nivolas Vermelle, France. | $603K | Convertible Note | Mar 21, 2019 |  |
| Iceotope | Iceotope develops liquid cooling technology for data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and high-performance computing environments. The company designs precision liquid cooling systems that use dielectric fluids to manage heat generated by GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, and power components within server infrastructure. Its platformreplaces or reduces dependence on traditional air cooling by using sealed liquid-based thermal management architectures for rack-scale and edge computing deployments. The company provides cooling solutions for AI workloads, hyperscale data centers, telecommunications infrastructure, industrial edge computing, and enterprise computing systems. Its product portfolio includes liquid-cooled server systems, rack infrastructure, thermal management platforms, and integrated cooling architectures compatible with existing data center environments.Iceotope also develops thermal management technologies focused on energy efficiency, heat reuse, and reduced water consumption in compute-intensive environments. The company collaborates with hardware manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and infrastructure providers to support the deployment of liquid-cooled computing systems for AI, analytics, and high-density computing applications. | $3.9M |  | Feb 15, 2019 |  |
| EkWateur | Founded in November 2015 with the ambition to become a key energy retail player in France, the company provides an innovative and truly seamless customer experience in a collaborative environment, while offering a 100% green energy at a competitive price. The company also has an ambitious and clear vision for energy services development tocomplement its energy retail business. | $1.2M | Equity Crowdfunding | Jan 17, 2019 |  |
| Casanova | Pioneer in the inter-connectivity of digital technologies in housing. Casanova is the specialist in the art of networked living, a follower of the house of tomorrow, combining comfort and new technologies while respecting the environment. | $1.2M | Convertible Note | Apr 03, 2018 |  |
| BuildingIQ | Founded in 2009, BuildingIQ is an energy management software company whose mission is to redefine the way energy is managed in commercial buildings. BuildingIQ's suite of software offerings utilizes Predictive Energy Optimization - the only energy management software platform that forecasts energy demand and automatically adjusts a building’sHVAC settings to continuously optimize energy use and peak loads. BuildingIQ works with existing building energy management systems and utility demand response systems, and incorporates weather forecasts, occupant comfort, utility prices and demand response signals in its optimization algorithms. BuildingIQ automatically reduces energy consumption, cost, and emissions while maintaining or improving occupant comfort. These offerings reduce energy cost and consumption, helping facility owners, managers and occupants get more value out of their existing energy systems. BuildingIQ has commercialized 15+ years of building control systems, modeling and comfort research developed by the world-leading experts at the Energy Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national research organization, and combined it with industry expertise to offer commercial facility owners and managers high value solutions with no capital expense outlay.The company has been honored as Winner of the AIRAH Award for Excellence in Innovation, Tech23's Greatest Potential Award, Red Herring's Asia 100 Award and most recently, Environmental Design + Construction and Sustainable Facility's Readers' Choice Award and Connectivity Week's Buildy Award. | $2.7M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 25, 2018 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [E3 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-access-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Aonia Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aonia-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BNP Paribas Développement](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnp-paribas-developpement) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bouygues Telecom Initiatives](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bouygues-telecom-initiatives) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Demeter Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/demeter-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Aster

VC Fund · Paris, France

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

5 contacts available at Aster.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jean-Marc Bally | General Partner and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-marc-bally |
| Jerome Joaug | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jerome-joaug |
| Cecile Tirbonod | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ccile-tirbonod |
| Chama El Shamy | Head of Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chama-el-shamy |
| Fabio Lancellotti | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabio-lancellotti |

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## FAQ

### What does Jean-Marc Bally invest in?

Jean-Marc Bally invests primarily in Electronics, Manufacturing and Energy startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jean-Marc Bally last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jean-Marc Bally closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 51 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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