Patrick Pichette
General Partner @ Inovia Capital
London, United Kingdom
Patrick Pichette is a seed investor at Inovia Capital in London focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Patrick Pichette is based out of London, England, and is the Partner of Inovia Capital and also Board Member of Cohere. Patrick Pichette previously worked at Twitter as a Board of Directors. Patrick Pichette attended the University of Oxford.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Patrick Pichette invests in
Stages Patrick Pichette invests in
Countries Patrick Pichette invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $913k–$10M
- Series A
- $10M–$95M
- Series B
- $15M–$95M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (33%)
- Software 7 (26%)
- Machine Learning 6 (22%)
- Automotive 3 (11%)
- Information Technology 3 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (41%)
- Series A 3 (11%)
- Series B 3 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (7%)
- Series C 2 (7%)
Country
- United Kingdom 9 (33%)
- Germany 3 (11%)
- United States 3 (11%)
- Canada 2 (7%)
- Kenya 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Content Monetization | $4.5M / Seed / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Building the financial institution of the future. | $14M / Pre-Seed / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $100M / Series D / Sep 24, 2025 | ||
| Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $500M / Series D / Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today. | $15M / Series A / Mar 11, 2024 | ||
| Mobai is a leading biometric company and owner of a SaaS based biometric technology platform. Mobai technology for liveness detection, deep fake detection and morphing is critical for companies in regulated environments such as financial services where the need for frictionless, user friendly and secure identity verification and authentication iscrucial. Mobai is actively engaged in R&D, and participates in several international projects including the eu-Lisa project with focus on the next generation of border controls in Schengen. Mobai’s solutions are tested at recognized institutions like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (US Dept of Commerce), the Face Recognition Vendor Test and Swiss Center for Biometrics. | $2.8M / Seed / Feb 28, 2024 | ||
| Aikido Security is a developer-first software security product. We scan your code & cloud in 8 different ways, showing you which security issues and vulnerabilities are actually important to solve. We speed up triaging massively by cutting out the false-positives, and making things human-readable. | $5.4M / Seed / Nov 14, 2023 | ||
| Lakera is a real-time GenAI security company. The company is dedicated to ensuring the safe and responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies. To accelerate the secure adoption of AI, the company developed Gandalf, an educational tool that has taught over one million users about AI security. Lakera leverages AI tocontinually evolve its defenses, enabling customers to stay ahead of emerging threats. | $10M / Seed / Oct 11, 2023 | ||
| WorkJam is an employee engagement suite that unleashes the potential of enterprise workforces through agile scheduling, transformative communication, experiential learning, and tailored recognition, empowering the shift-based, hourly, and non-desk workers. It manages and optimizes the entire employee-employer relationship life cycle with dynamicmobile communication and workforce management to drive operational efficiency and productivity. It also enables employers to improve labor cost management and sales through better communication with their workforce, enhanced employee self-service, and a better customer experience through a more motivated and engaged staff.WorkJam was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. | $50M / Series D / Nov 14, 2022 | ||
| apheris AI was founded by Robin Rohm and Michael Höh with a shared dream to empower companies to run analytics on decentralized datasets. Michael developed software infrastructure for distributed data during his PhD at Forschungszentrum Julich and his time at BCG. Robin has a background in algebraic theories for data linkage and data privacy andhas experienced the complexity of centralizing sensitive personal healthcare data firsthand in one of his previous start-ups. Through their work, they encountered barriers that limit progress within data driven industries: data is often stored in silos and most companies work in closed data ecosystems. Therefore, Apheris strives to connect the world’s data to extract better insights. | $8.7M / Seed / Nov 07, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Inovia Capital
Founded in 2007, Inovia is the largest Canada-anchored venture capital firm managing US$2.5B in AUM — supporting North American and European companies with global ambition, from pre-seed to pre-IPO. Our team is composed of seasoned investors and operators from global tech companies, including Google, Blackberry, Intel and Deliveroo, and inventors of the first AI voice assistant and the USB key.
Inovia Capital Contacts
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Francois Gauvin
Advisor
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Geoff Judge
Advisor
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Hugues Lalancette
Principal
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Mia Morisset
Principal
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Patrick Pichette
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Patrick Pichette invest in?
Patrick Pichette invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Patrick Pichette invest in?
Patrick Pichette typically joins rounds of $913k–$10M at Seed, $10M–$95M at Series A and $15M–$95M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Patrick Pichette's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Patrick Pichette took part in.
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When did Patrick Pichette last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Pichette closed in Jun 2026. 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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