# Julien Lemoine

> Julien Lemoine is a seed investor at Algolia Paris backing Software, SaaS and Cloud Management. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Algolia Paris](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algolia-paris)
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/julienlemoine
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jlemoine_algo
- Website: https://x.com/jlemoine_algo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julien.lemoine.37669

Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder of Algolia, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder at Algolia SAS and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine defined the technology strategy of MASA Group (an international software editor of simulation software) and led the development of strategic R&Dproducts in indexing and natural languages processing at Exalead (Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) and Thales Group. He has extensive experience in architecture design and implementation from his leading work in Exalead and Thales.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $425k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 50% |
| SaaS | 4 | 20% |
| Cloud Management | 4 | 20% |
| Internet | 3 | 15% |
| Analytics | 3 | 15% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 35% |
| Angel | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 16 | 80% |
| United States | 2 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upstream | Upstream is a collaborative email client with channels and task-tracking, offering context and transparency for efficient team decisions. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Kate | Kate is electric car manufacturing company.It offers reliable, affordable, perceptive, lightweight, and environmentally friendly daily transportation for urban and rural lifestyles. | $7.7M | Seed | Apr 20, 2023 |  |
| Inboxbooster | Inboxbooster offers all businesses free unlimited email placement tests to help them monitor when an email is in spam. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Tailwarden | Building the Future of DevOps | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| ClimeFi | ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets. We partner with organisations on their net zero journey to help them turn climate commitments into permanent carbon removal. | $908.3K | Pre-Seed | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| Namla | Namla is a provider of a Cloud Edge Orchestration platform. Its solution combines Distributed Edge Orchestration, Integrated SD-WAN & Multi-Cloud Support. This gives a unique way for companies to securely and automatically deploy Edge infrastructure at scale and have a Cloud Level performance and availability. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Palette | Palette develops a sales compensation software that helps companies easily create, manage, and automate compensation plans. Palette creates and maintains efficient compensation plans built for company growth and goals. | $6M | Seed | May 18, 2022 |  |
| Eden AI | Eden AI simplifies the use and integration of AI technologies by providing a unique API connected to the best AI engines and combined with a powerful management platform. It combines :- A unique AI API to easily switch between AI engines from different providers- Friendly user interface to discover various AI engines and directly test them withyour own data- Innovative management platform to monitor costs, manage access and secure governance of your dataThe platform covers a wide range of AI technologies:- Vision: Custom vision, object detection, video analysis, face recognition, explicit content detection, etc.- Text & NLP: Custom text classification, keyword extraction, sentiment anaysis, language detection, syntax analysis, etc.- Speech & Audio: Speech-to-text, speech recognition, language detection, speech diarization, text-to-speech, etc.- Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Standard OCR, invoice OCR, ID card OCR, tables OCR, receipt OCR, etc.- Machine Translation: Standard machine translation, custom machine translation.- Prediction: Regression, classification, clustering, time series, deep learning. | $1.6M | Seed | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Athenian | Athenian is a platform that helps engineering leaders leverage insights and align teams with company goals. Modern engineering leaders that use Athenian know that continuous improvement is not about individual metrics but about building a shared understanding of where they can improve in teams, codebases, workflows, processes, and tooling. | $6M | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Kubo Labs | 94 % of organizations have experienced a serious security issue in the last 12 months and cluster misconfiguration is the leading cause ("Kubernetes adoption, security, and market trends report" by Redhat, July 2021).For 68% of the organizations, Kubernetes-related bills are going up ("FinOps for Kubernetes", CNCF report, June2021).With Kubo Labs, we make sure that won't happen thanks to a series of products that embedded best-practices. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [AA Sons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aa-sons) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elaia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaia-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Algolia Paris

VC Fund · Paris, France

Algolia is a software development industry.

1 contacts available at Algolia Paris.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julien Lemoine | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-lemoine |

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## FAQ

### What does Julien Lemoine invest in?

Julien Lemoine invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Cloud Management startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Julien Lemoine's check size?

Julien Lemoine typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$6M at Seed and $425k–$3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Julien Lemoine participates in.

### When did Julien Lemoine last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julien Lemoine closed in Jun 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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