# Michel Combes

> Michel Combes is a seed investor at Lambda backing E-Commerce and CRM. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Lambda
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michel-combes-64a2a626
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/michelcombes
- Website: https://x.com/michelcombes
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michel.combes.585

Michel Combes is a seed investor at Lambda 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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 50% |
| CRM | 1 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Coupons | 1 | 25% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series D | 1 | 25% |
| Series E | 1 | 25% |
| Series F | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 2 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Contentsquare | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Shopcade | 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 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## About Lambda

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Lambda provides GPU-powered hardware, cloud, and software solutions tailored for AI model development, training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its offerings include on-demand GPU cloud instances and multi-node clusters, desktop and server workstations equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, a curated software stack for seamless integration of MLtools, and consulting services that help build scalable ML infrastructure and workflows.

5 contacts available at Lambda.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michel Combes | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michel-combes |
| Chris MacNaughton | Senior Software Engineer | — |
| Jerry Hunter | Vice Chairman of Compute Delivery | — |
| Leonard Speiser | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonard-speiser |
| Michael Balaban | Chief Product Officer | — |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### How do I contact Michel Combes?

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### When did Michel Combes last invest?

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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