Michel Combes
Angel Investor @ SoftBank Vision Fund
San Jose, United States
Michel Combes is a seed investor at SoftBank Vision Fund in San Jose focused on E-Commerce and CRM. Michel Combes is based out of San Jose, California, and is the CEO of Lambda. Michel previously worked at SoftBank Group as a CEO. Michel Combes attended the École Polytechnique.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Michel Combes invests in
Stages Michel Combes invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (50%)
- CRM 1 (25%)
- Apps 1 (25%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
- Coupons 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series D 1 (25%)
- Series E 1 (25%)
- Series F 1 (25%)
Country
- France 2 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (25%)
Investments
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| Contentsquare provides a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous web, mobile, and app interactions, in respect of data privacy laws such as EU GDPR and California CCPA, and transforms this knowledge into intelligent recommendations for users to increase revenue, engagement and growth. By integrating a set of dataincluding content, UX, product, pricing, acquisition channel, and technical performance, the platform provides insights and AI-powered recommendations for improving digital results across the entire customer journey. The solution is used by more than 700 enterprise customers such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora, and Toyota. | $400M / Series F / Jul 20, 2022 | ||
| Swile got its start by disrupting the incumbent meal voucher market in France. Their all-in-one smartcard groups together all employee benefits such as meal vouchers, gift vouchers, and mobility benefits. Swile also aims to reinvent life at work and create a better work culture for all employees with their super app. Features include praises, eventcreation, collections and P2P payments between colleagues. They also offer employee engagement surveys and insight analytics. It was founded in 2018 by Loïc Soubeyrand and is based in Paris, France. | $200M / Series D / Oct 11, 2021 | ||
| Contentsquare provides a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous web, mobile, and app interactions, in respect of data privacy laws such as EU GDPR and California CCPA, and transforms this knowledge into intelligent recommendations for users to increase revenue, engagement and growth. By integrating a set of dataincluding content, UX, product, pricing, acquisition channel, and technical performance, the platform provides insights and AI-powered recommendations for improving digital results across the entire customer journey. The solution is used by more than 700 enterprise customers such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora, and Toyota. | $500M / Series E / May 25, 2021 | ||
| Mantra: Shopcade is leading the convergence of content and commerce, so consumers can keep up with latest news and shop related items all in one place. What we are: Shopcade is a tech platform that specializes in promoting the trendiest products, showcasing the latest content features and engaging socially with consumers. Shopcade not only actsas a publisher and marketplace, but we also drive user engagement with personalised content that helps to boost both brand awareness and sales conversion based on customers' preferences. Shopcade has been acquired by Lagardere Active in January 2017 and no longer operates on a stand-alone basis. From a tech standpoint, we are passionate about data marketing performance and partner with platforms on projects such as for example: DEV OPS - backend optimisations, performance analysis, and troubleshooting - cloud infrastructure and agile dev best practicesMOBILE - mobile API design / specificationsSOCIAL & PERSONALISATION - Provide ability for users to create, share, and buy from wish lists - Provide email and/or push notifications - Implement sharing widgets - Enable Instagram tag matching - Run Facebook campaigns for retailersSEO Boost impressions and improve click through rate by - product tagging with microformat - sitemap creation & auto-updating - Page load optimisationsANALYTICS - User acquisition tracking and performance reports - A/B testing - Google Tag manager to allow marketing team to better make use of retargeting - Monitor click behavior and improve click through rate of campaign landing pages | $4M / Seed / Oct 15, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About SoftBank Vision Fund
SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of Softbank Group that specializes in growth capital and social impact investments. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internet businesses, financial technology, and mobile apps. The Fund is designed to be a catalyst for technology progress in anticipation that it will expand SoftBank's capabilities, accelerating progress towards SoftBank 2.0. It aims to invest in businesses and foundational platforms that SoftBank believes to revolutionize and innovate the world tomorrow.
SoftBank Vision Fund Contacts
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Colin Fan
Managing Partner, Americas, Asia
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David Thevenon
Partner
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Javier Villamizar
Partner, Joint Ventures and Portfolio Synergies
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Sumer Juneja
Partner and Head of India
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Akshay Naheta
Partner, EMEA
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What does Michel Combes invest in?
Michel Combes invests primarily in E-Commerce, CRM and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series D stage. Most of the 4 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 Michel Combes closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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