Jean Pigozzi
Angel Investor
Geneva, Switzerland
Jean Pigozzi (1952) is a Paris-born businessman, art collector and photographer. His father was the founder of the French carmaker Simca and Pigozzi studied in Paris and at Harvard University. Afterwards, he started working at Gaumont Film Company and 20th Century Fox. He has homes in Panama, Geneva and New York and over the last twenty years, hehas assembled the world’s largest collection of contemporary African art. Pigozzi is also a known photographer. Being a dyslectic, he started keeping a visual diary of his friends, family and everything around him. His first exhibition was in 1974 at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Jean Pigozzi invests in
Stages Jean Pigozzi invests in
Countries Jean Pigozzi invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.4M–$4.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Fashion 2 (25%)
- E-Commerce 2 (25%)
- Consumer Goods 2 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Video 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
- Debt Financing 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 6 (75%)
- Canada 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dnovobio is a developer of a direct reprogramming technology intended to create any cell, tissue, or organ on demand. Its company's platform converts skin into functional brain cells. | $2.7M / Seed / Jan 24, 2022 | ||
| E-commerce-as-a-service: Mainfactor builds, markets, and operates direct-to-consumer businesses with artists, creators, and brands. | $69M / Sep 22, 2021 | ||
| E-commerce-as-a-service: Mainfactor builds, markets, and operates direct-to-consumer businesses with artists, creators, and brands. | $65M / Debt Financing / Sep 22, 2021 | ||
| Building the future of fashion | Seed / Jun 29, 2021 | ||
| Homestead is powering the transition to a new type of homeownership. It is opening up new opportunities for affordable housing throughout California, effectively turning every homeowner into a developer.In exchange for the use of their backyard, its products provide existing homeowners with $250k-$1.5M in income to build new homes that sell for25% less than the market average. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / May 13, 2020 | ||
| Founded in 2010, Mars Reel is a global lifestyle brand focused on high school sports and youth culture. Mars Reel has built one of the largest high school sports platforms in the United States reaching a community of more than 30M viewers per month across basketball and soccer. The company produces original shows, highlights, web series,experiential activations, and luxury apparel through it's apparel brand, The Future is on Mars®. The company is based in Los Angeles and is backed by some of the most well-known and respected investors and advisors across the sports, media, entertainment, and technology sectors including Warner Media, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Dwyane Wade, Drake, Nas, Jean Pigozzi, Brian Lee, Jason Robins, and others. | $4.7M / Seed / Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| We are delivering the future of tetrahedrally crystallized carbon, aka diamond: a material with a dozen of the most extreme properties of any in the universe.Our proprietary manufacturing technology can now deliver diamond at mining scale -- without the social & environmental toll of mining.In our zero-emission foundry, we sustainablycreate diamond for the jewelry and semiconductor industries.Our VRAI brand brings iconic innovation in diamond jewelry direct to consumers.Our semiconductor solutions address the key challenge limiting the performance of everything from electric cars to 5G wireless to cloud & AI compute: heat dissipation. | $50M / Series A / Nov 15, 2015 | ||
| Developer of a SaaS customer engagement platform designed for the world's leading enterprise brands to improve and personalize their apps, websites, and customer communication channels. The Company's platform unifies the digital customer journey, product optimization, and marketing automation in a single, AI driven application. Thisempowers modern engineering and marketing teams to create robust customer experiences, using contextual data and AI orchestration to optimize customer engagement, conversion and revenue. | $2.4M / Seed / May 20, 2015 |
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FAQ
What does Jean Pigozzi invest in?
Jean Pigozzi invests primarily in Fashion, E-Commerce and Consumer Goods startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jean Pigozzi invest in?
Jean Pigozzi typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$4.7M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jean Pigozzi's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jean Pigozzi took part in.
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When did Jean Pigozzi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jean Pigozzi closed in Jan 2022. 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.
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