# Laurent Foata

> Laurent Foata is a private equity investor at Ardian (Paris) backing SaaS and Local. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ardian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ardian)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentfoata/?originalSubdomain=fr

Laurent Foata is a private equity investor at Ardian in Paris focused on SaaS and Local. Laurent Foata - Head of Ardian Growth @ Ardian

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Local | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 4 | 80% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Italy | 2 | 40% |
| Spain | 1 | 20% |
| France | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Translated | Professional translation services made easy. Crafted by expert humans, powered by technology, efficiently delivered. | $29.9M | Private Equity | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| ProduceShop | ProduceShop, a Swiss e-commerce platform for indoor and outdoor furniture retailers in Europe. |  | Private Equity | Jun 08, 2020 |  |
| Ivalua | Ivalua is a global provider of spend management solutions and a leader in Gartner’s 2015 Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant. Ivalua’s cloud-based software is used by procurement and finance organizations in large, global companies, and every day more than 500,000 users and millions of suppliers from over 70 countries log into the Ivalua platform.Ivalua offers a single platform solution with highly configurable functionality across all major procurement and finance processes, including performance and risk tracking, sourcing, contracts, procure-to-pay, invoice automation and analytics. The breadth and flexibility of Ivalua’s offering accelerates user adoption, spend category coverage and bottom-line savings. | $60M | Private Equity | May 21, 2019 |  |
| MKD | Founded in 2014 by current CEO José Piñera, MKD is a leading player in the supervision of maintenance and repair services for fleet managers. With over 250 experts and a large network of garages across Spain, the company offers through its online platform maintenance and repair cost optimization, and shorter “Vehicle off road” events. |  | Private Equity | Jul 02, 2018 |  |
| Ivalua | Ivalua is a global provider of spend management solutions and a leader in Gartner’s 2015 Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant. Ivalua’s cloud-based software is used by procurement and finance organizations in large, global companies, and every day more than 500,000 users and millions of suppliers from over 70 countries log into the Ivalua platform.Ivalua offers a single platform solution with highly configurable functionality across all major procurement and finance processes, including performance and risk tracking, sourcing, contracts, procure-to-pay, invoice automation and analytics. The breadth and flexibility of Ivalua’s offering accelerates user adoption, spend category coverage and bottom-line savings. | $3.3M |  |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ardian

VC Fund · Paris, France

Ardian is an independent private investment company that provides a diverse range of investment opportunities and responds to clients and believes that the benefits that they contribute should be distributed as widely as possible.

5 contacts available at Ardian.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexis Saada | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-saada |
| Dominique Gaillard | Member of the Executive Committee, Head of Direct Funds | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominique-gaillard |
| Dominique Senequier | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominique-senequier |
| Jérémie Delecourt | Member of the Executive Committee, Head of Corporate and International Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j%C3%A9r%C3%A9mie-delecourt |
| Laurent Foata | Head of Ardian Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-foata |

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## FAQ

### What does Laurent Foata invest in?

Laurent Foata invests primarily in SaaS, Local and Retail startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Italy. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Laurent Foata last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Laurent Foata closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 5 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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