# Michael Benabou

> Michael Benabou is a seed investor at Financiere Saint James backing Financial Services. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Financiere Saint James](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/financiere-saint-james)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-benabou-a572936/

Michael Benabou is a seed investor at Financiere Saint James in Paris focused on Financial Services and Real Estate. President at Financiere Saint James.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$6.5M |
| Angel | $560k–$15M |
| Series A | $2.7M–$57M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 4 | 14% |
| Real Estate | 3 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 11% |
| B2B | 2 | 7% |
| SaaS | 2 | 7% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 32% |
| Series A | 8 | 29% |
| Angel | 4 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 22 | 79% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lemrock | Lemrock develops conversational platform designed to make websites more interactive and improve user engagement and revenue. | $6.9M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Dialog | Dialog is a startup transforming e-commerce with a brand agent that can represent a company, guide customers, and interact with AI agents. | $4.3M | Seed | Nov 14, 2025 |  |
| ExtraStudent | ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another. | $1.6M | Seed | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| Revoltrain | Revoltrain creates online schools with masters of tomorrow’s topics | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Evy | Evy Merchants provides product protection services. | $6.5M | Seed | Oct 25, 2022 |  |
| Metafore | Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs. | $15.6M | Series A | Jun 13, 2022 |  |
| PowerZ | PowerZ is a video game that allows all children of the world to learn. To understand. To find their interests and develop their abilities. | $7.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| Colette | We help students & young active to access a better & affordable housing by co-living with seniors who have spare rooms. | $1.2M | Angel | Sep 30, 2020 |  |
| PowerZ | PowerZ is a video game that allows all children of the world to learn. To understand. To find their interests and develop their abilities. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Payflow | Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain. | $1.7M | Seed | Jul 15, 2020 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Financiere Saint James](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/financiere-saint-james) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Abac Nest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abac-nest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aglaé Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aglae-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Galion.exe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galion-exe) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Itnig](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itnig) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Financiere Saint James

VC Fund · Paris, France

Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.

4 contacts available at Financiere Saint James.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clément Hardy | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cl%C3%A9ment-hardy |
| Clément Lamolinerie | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clement-lamolinerie |
| Michael Benabou | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-benabou |
| Wladimir Mathelin-Moreaux | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wladimir-mathelin-moreaux |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Benabou invest in?

Michael Benabou invests primarily in Financial Services, Real Estate and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Michael Benabou's check size?

Michael Benabou typically joins rounds of $549k–$6.5M at Seed, $560k–$15M at Angel and $2.7M–$57M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Benabou participates in.

### When did Michael Benabou last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Benabou closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 28 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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