Lior Derhy
Managing Partner @ NewAlpha Asset Management VC
Paris, France
Lior Derhy is a Series A investor at NewAlpha Asset Management VC in Paris focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Lior Derhy is Managing Partner at NewAlpha, heading Venture Capital activities in the FinTech/InsurTech and AM fields.Lior built up his experience through nearly 50 venture operations and bigger M&A deals in the Asset Management and financial services industry, tens of exit. He has held board member positions with companies in thefinancial industry for over 10 years.Over the years, his experience has enabled him to become familiar with the different facets of financing entrepreneurs, making cooperation between startups and industrial and how to add value to a company both in France and internationally. He reach a particular understanding of corporate matters when it’s come to corporate development, open innovation and change management.In 2014, he joined NewAlpha where he launched the first french VC fund dedicated to european Fintechs backed by several financial services institutions and the BPI to align investment opportunity (late seed, series A/B), sector monitoring and open innovation. With his team, he has made more than 20 Fintech investments since 2016, constituting one of the main Fintech portfolio in France. He represents NewAlpha on the board of many Fintechs including Lydia Solutions, Digital Insure, Sesamm and Wikifolio (Austria). He was also a member of the steering committee of Swave, the leading French innovation platform dedicated to Fintech and Insurance.In 2012, he was part of the launch of NEXT Invest, the 1st French institutional seeding fund dedicated to AM entrepreneurs where he put in place a Private Equity approach ($Mn 150 AuM). Mr Derhy began his career in 2000 at Deloitte (Industry & Services) where he was senior auditor dealing with mid and big caps. In 2004, he became Manager of Corporate Affairs / CFO for La Française (50 people / $bn 6 AuM), and was in charge of financial monitoring and piloting strategic activities. In 2009, he became an Investment Director at La Française Group (500 people / $bn 32 AuM) and was in charge of M&A projects aiming to build strategic partnerships in the financial industry (private equity, wealth management, distribution, real estate, investment banking, Asset Management...). As a qualified chartered accountant, Mr Derhy is also the holder of Master level in international accounting and finance management (DESS).
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 59%
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Industries Lior Derhy invests in
Stages Lior Derhy invests in
Countries Lior Derhy invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 9 (33%)
- Financial Services 8 (30%)
- Software 7 (26%)
- SaaS 4 (15%)
- Finance 4 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (30%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (26%)
- Series B 6 (22%)
- Seed 2 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- France 17 (63%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Austria 1 (4%)
- Belgium 1 (4%)
- Luxembourg 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Next Gate Tech is a Luxembourg based, data-driven FundTech that provides innovative Software-as-a-Service solutions for the asset management industry. Our mission is to enhance the Fund industry technology, thanks to machine learning, data analytics, and smart automation. We capitalize on the rapid emergence of cloud-based computing frameworks tooffer fast, accurate, and robust solutions to our clients. We provide intelligent, adaptive, and dynamic automation solutions through a web platform to help industry players manage middle and back-office processes. | $8.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 12, 2023 | ||
| SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.Its team builds analytics and investment signals by analyzing billions of web articles and messages using natural language processing and machine learning. With its NLP platform TextReveal and its quantitative data science platform SignalReveal,SESAMm addresses the entire value chain of alpha research. SESAMm’s 90 people team in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Tunis, UK, and Metz, works with major hedge funds, banks, and asset management clients around the world for both fundamental and quantitative use cases. | $37.3M / Series B / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Garantme gives access to thousands of international students in France by guaranteeing their lease and boosting their application. | $16.3M / Series B / Jan 31, 2023 | ||
| Neat is an InsurTech startup that provides retailers with embedded insurance solutions. Neat combines technology and human integrations to efficiently cover clients and allow merchants to focus on selling. Neat provides a variety of products that merchants can sell to their customers at the point of sale. Neat also offers travel and mobilityinsurance in addition to extended warranties. Neat protects all products by providing comprehensive coverage under clear, simple, and transparent terms. | $9.9M / Seed / Oct 21, 2022 | ||
| Lizy provides SME and professional leasing solutions that are simple, quick, and inexpensive. LIZY wants to take the hassle out of leasing by offering transparent all-in prices, flexible contracts, and a selection of young, high-quality used cars that are immediately available. Sam Heymans and Vincent Castus, two young entrepreneurs, founded LIZYin 2019. | $8.3M / Series A / Oct 07, 2022 | ||
| Jove is an insurtech company to provide flexible bundled insurance for contractors and freelancers | $1.6M / Convertible Note / Jul 01, 2022 | ||
| Next Gate Tech is a Luxembourg based, data-driven FundTech that provides innovative Software-as-a-Service solutions for the asset management industry. Our mission is to enhance the Fund industry technology, thanks to machine learning, data analytics, and smart automation. We capitalize on the rapid emergence of cloud-based computing frameworks tooffer fast, accurate, and robust solutions to our clients. We provide intelligent, adaptive, and dynamic automation solutions through a web platform to help industry players manage middle and back-office processes. | $5.4M / Series A / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016. | $11.4M / Series A / Feb 08, 2022 | ||
| With 17 years of professional experience, Deborah (founder) has devised a tailor-made tool adapted to the new challenges of an industry still waiting to be modernized, allowing real estate players to focus on tasks with high added value. MYRE help Asset Managers in taking the control of their datas (financials, legal,...) in the asset lifecycle.We provide Financials analysis and modeling capabilities, advanced dataroom, Debt management, Real Estate Master data management in an inclusive way with all the stakeholders (PM, brokers, bank, ...)MYRE is based on twofold expertise of both technology and real estate business needs. | $7.9M / Series A / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| SESAMm is a fintech company that specializes in big data and artificial intelligence for investment.Its team builds analytics and investment signals by analyzing billions of web articles and messages using natural language processing and machine learning. With its NLP platform TextReveal and its quantitative data science platform SignalReveal,SESAMm addresses the entire value chain of alpha research. SESAMm’s 90 people team in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Tunis, UK, and Metz, works with major hedge funds, banks, and asset management clients around the world for both fundamental and quantitative use cases. | $9.1M / Series B / Jan 28, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
Expert in investments targeting the entrepreneurial financial industry, NewAlpha launched the first French venture capital fund dedicated to Fintech start-ups in November 2015. The fund has made five Fintech investments in 2016.NewAlpha provides qualified investors with access to the most innovative and dynamic firms in the financial industrythanks to its wide range of products and services. On behalf of its clients, NewAlpha selects, finances and supports innovative entrepreneurial projects, mainly in asset management but also in related sectors such as services for investment managers or financial technologies (Fintech and Insurtech).
NewAlpha Asset Management VC Contacts
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Thomas Fuster
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Aurélie NICOLAS
Investment Director
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Pierre-Edouard Berion
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What does Lior Derhy invest in?
Lior Derhy invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 27 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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The most recent investment recorded for Lior Derhy closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 27 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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