Marc Fournier
Co-founder & Managing Partner @ Serena
Paris, France
Marc Fournier is a Series A investor at Serena in Paris focused on Internet and E-Commerce. Marc Fournier is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Serena. He is a former Board Member of Aramisauto. He started to set up side businesses while studying Political Science and International Relations at Tufts University and later Business at ESCP Europe. His first “official” company was Easy English, which teaches English to French executives. He developed and managed it with a few childhood friends and successfully sold it to the market leader. During five years in Silicon Valley starting companies in e-commerce, such as 12degrees.com, he met inspiring “high profile” people, like Xavier Lorphelin, current managing partner @Serena at a wine tasting and started working together on new projects a few days later. The founding of Kangaroo Village brought together Xavier Lorphelin, Philippe Hayat, and Marc Fournier in 2002. They sold the company to Société Générale. 20 years later, they are still a team. As an investor, he had the privilege of leading dozens of exits and sitting on the boards of companies such as Sarenza, RSI Video Technology, Aramis, La Fourchette, Aquarelle, Evaneos, and many more exciting companies. Along with Xavier, he has also been managing a Master’s program in Entrepreneurship for the last 20 years as Affiliate Professors at ESCP Europe.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Marc Fournier invests in
Stages Marc Fournier invests in
Countries Marc Fournier invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 4 (22%)
- E-Commerce 4 (22%)
- Software 2 (11%)
- SaaS 1 (6%)
- Video 1 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (44%)
- Series B 5 (28%)
- Series D 2 (11%)
- Series C 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- France 9 (50%)
- Belgium 1 (6%)
- Switzerland 1 (6%)
- United States 1 (6%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals. | $19M / Series B / Dec 05, 2024 | ||
| Evaneos — founded by Eric La Bonnardière (CEO) and Yvan Wibaux (CTO) — provides an online platform to help travelers design, estimate the cost, and book a personalized trip by connecting them with local agents in each destination country, who then offer advice and assistance. These local agents are tourism professionals, also known as DestinationManagement Companies, who traditionally provide services to major tour operators. | $20.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2022 | ||
| Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals. | $17.8M / Series A / Jul 08, 2021 | ||
| Malt is connecting available freelancers and customers with an easy to use search engine. Freelancers display their experience, work, previous customers comments on a profile page, which let customers contact them.Malt then provides services to both parties to make it easy to pay, accept contract, leave a comment, and being automatically insured(with AXA) while the work is being done.Malt is available in France and Spain and will expand its operations to other European countries in 2018.Already, customers are replacing IT staffing companies or agencies with Malt to find developers, designers, and other freelancers. | $28.6M / Series B / Feb 14, 2019 | ||
| Real Estate innovation to help you drive your profitability. Habiteo presents myHabiteo, the first collaborative platform that simultaneously manages sales and marketing activities to build a tailor-made customer relationship. A real « sales booster », Habiteo accelerates the sales cycle and offers, through a single platform, the management of :your marketing and 3D elements and their performance, your program informations and their performance, your customer relationship and its performance and your internal and external users and their performance. | $7M / Series B / Nov 20, 2017 | ||
| Elium is the leading European knowledge-sharing solution, bringing together collaboration and knowledge. It allows organisations to capture, structure and access knowledge to help make the right decision and generate impact. Elium integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Sharepoint, Teams, G-Drive, Slack and Workplace by Facebook. | $4.8M / Series A / Aug 31, 2017 | ||
| Malt is connecting available freelancers and customers with an easy to use search engine. Freelancers display their experience, work, previous customers comments on a profile page, which let customers contact them.Malt then provides services to both parties to make it easy to pay, accept contract, leave a comment, and being automatically insured(with AXA) while the work is being done.Malt is available in France and Spain and will expand its operations to other European countries in 2018.Already, customers are replacing IT staffing companies or agencies with Malt to find developers, designers, and other freelancers. | $5.2M / Series A / Dec 15, 2016 | ||
| Real Estate innovation to help you drive your profitability. Habiteo presents myHabiteo, the first collaborative platform that simultaneously manages sales and marketing activities to build a tailor-made customer relationship. A real « sales booster », Habiteo accelerates the sales cycle and offers, through a single platform, the management of :your marketing and 3D elements and their performance, your program informations and their performance, your customer relationship and its performance and your internal and external users and their performance. | $3.4M / Series A / Jun 24, 2015 | ||
| Established in 2008, Worldstores is now the UK’s largest online home & garden retailer. Offering unparalleled choice, value for money, customer service and a range of convenient delivery options, Worldstores is renowned as one of the UK's most exciting e-commerce success stories.ACHICA, the luxury flash-sale business, and baby specialistKiddicare also form part of the Worldstores Group and play a key part in the ambitious plans for Worldstores Group in becoming a household name in the home and garden market. | $38.4M / Series D / Mar 03, 2015 | ||
| Qualtera, an ISO9001 and ISO27001 company, provides innovative data analysis systems and services for test and product engineering to fabless companies, IDMs and OSATs of all sizes. Their business is focused on securing and accelerating product ramps, and achieving world-class yields and product quality.Qualtera combines technical expertise andexperience with modern industrial data management and analysis and decision support systems to help customers to effectively succeed complex product ramps while increasing productivity and efficiency in test and product engineering, quality engineering and yield management.Qualtera employees and founders leverage long-standing experience in product engineering, product yield and quality management and foundry interfacing as well as years of experience in the deployment of in-line software for semiconductor manufacturing, acquired at leading semiconductor companies. | $3.7M / Series B / Dec 02, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Serena
Serena is one of Europe's leading venture capital funds, with $750m under management. Founded in 2008, Serena invests at early stages, from seed to series B, and supports the success of innovative and ambitious entrepreneurs to service a better world. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of its portfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe and the most active startup community, the Serena Squad, with more than 550 active C-levels. Serena has a strong focus on AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Digital Transformation, and Impact. Serena has invested in more than 100 startups with several international success stories such as Dataiku, Malt, The Fork, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, Lifen, and AramisAuto. Combating climate change, protecting biodiversity, promoting sustainability, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of Serena's DNA.
Serena Contacts
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Marc Fournier
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Philippe Hayat
co-founder
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Bertrand Diard
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David Bitton
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Emilie Benayad
Operating Partner
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What does Marc Fournier invest in?
Marc Fournier invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 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 Marc Fournier closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 18 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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