# laurent Couillard

> laurent Couillard is a seed investor at InUse backing SaaS and Big Data. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: InUse
- Location: Voisins-le-bretonneux, France
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jun 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentcouillard
- Website: https://x.com/l_couillard
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/couillard.laurent

laurent Couillard is a seed investor at InUse in Voisins-le-bretonneux focused on SaaS and Big Data. laurent Couillard - Founder & CEO @ InUse

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Big Data | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Internet of Things | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| InUse | InUse is a connected maintenance SaaS application that makes machines talk to improve production performance of factories By embedding industrial expertise within the machines, InUse transforms their usage data into concrete recommendations for operators in factories. It enables the machines to request the maintenance operations they need and toguide the operators towards the best action to be taken according to the production context. All production actors are thus augmented with a collective intelligence directly embedded into the machines. Designed to deliver connected maintenance services in factories, InUse offers the opportunity to address many industrial challenges faced by manufacturers through a single application. InUse allows them for example, to predict the future failures of the machines and significantly reduce the time to restart after a production breakdown. Based in Paris, InUse is part of the Alliance pour l’Industrie du Futur as well as the French Fab. InUse customers include Shem (Engie), Sidel, Alfi Technologies, PellencST and ICE Water Management. | $563.2K | Seed | Jun 15, 2016 |  |
| InUse | InUse is a connected maintenance SaaS application that makes machines talk to improve production performance of factories By embedding industrial expertise within the machines, InUse transforms their usage data into concrete recommendations for operators in factories. It enables the machines to request the maintenance operations they need and toguide the operators towards the best action to be taken according to the production context. All production actors are thus augmented with a collective intelligence directly embedded into the machines. Designed to deliver connected maintenance services in factories, InUse offers the opportunity to address many industrial challenges faced by manufacturers through a single application. InUse allows them for example, to predict the future failures of the machines and significantly reduce the time to restart after a production breakdown. Based in Paris, InUse is part of the Alliance pour l’Industrie du Futur as well as the French Fab. InUse customers include Shem (Engie), Sidel, Alfi Technologies, PellencST and ICE Water Management. |  | Seed |  |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- Addnode Group — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Armavica Technologies — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About InUse

VC Fund · Paris, France

InUse is a connected maintenance SaaS application that makes machines talk to improve production performance of factories By embedding industrial expertise within the machines, InUse transforms their usage data into concrete recommendations for operators in factories. It enables the machines to request the maintenance operations they need and toguide the operators towards the best action to be taken according to the production context. All production actors are thus augmented with a collective intelligence directly embedded into the machines. Designed to deliver connected maintenance services in factories, InUse offers the opportunity to address many industrial challenges faced by manufacturers through a single application. InUse allows them for example, to predict the future failures of the machines and significantly reduce the time to restart after a production breakdown. Based in Paris, InUse is part of the Alliance pour l’Industrie du Futur as well as the French Fab. InUse customers include Shem (Engie), Sidel, Alfi Technologies, PellencST and ICE Water Management.

1 contacts available at InUse.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| laurent Couillard | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-couillard1971 |

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## FAQ

### What does laurent Couillard invest in?

laurent Couillard invests primarily in SaaS, Big Data and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did laurent Couillard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for laurent Couillard closed in Jun 2016. Shizune tracks 2 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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