Sebastien Breteau
Founder & CEO @ QIMA
London, United Kingdom
Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor, avocado farmer & philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global quality and compliance solutions provider for the consumer goods, food, and life sciences industries. Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with 30,000 brands, retailers, manufacturers and food growers globally, helping themmake products consumers can trust with inspections, ESG audits, testing, and certification services. The company has become a leading player, employing over 5,000 people worldwide and operating in over 100 countries (www.qima.com). In 2013, Sebastien founded the Breteau Foundation, a NPO which aims at giving underprivileged children access to digital education. 180,000 children are now enrolled in its program (www.breteaufoundation.org). In 2019, Sebastien founded RayoVerde, and has built one of the biggest avocado farms in Europe (Andalucia, Spain), using the latest organic farming techniques and water needs optimization. Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested directly in over 70 start-ups globally.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Sebastien Breteau invests in
Stages Sebastien Breteau invests in
Countries Sebastien Breteau invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$3M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$150M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (19%)
- Software 4 (19%)
- Apps 3 (14%)
- EdTech 3 (14%)
- Payments 3 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (33%)
- Series A 7 (33%)
- Angel 2 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series E 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 8 (38%)
- France 7 (33%)
- United Kingdom 4 (19%)
- Mexico 1 (5%)
Investments
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Ziwig helps to improve women's health through a holistic approach and the development of products, services, and a support ecosystem, guided by science and unique biology. of each person. Their approach, constantly supported by excellent research, is based on the close collaboration of medical experts and engineers specializing in cutting-edgetechnologies, such as artificial intelligence and high-throughput sequencing of human RNAs. Their ecosystem functioning, driven by meaning and centered on the person, using disruptive technologies contributes to the emergence of precision medicine, individualized, predictive and participatory, at the service of well-being and quality of life. | Angel / Dec 01, 2022 | |
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Financial Media Networks (FMNs) are changing the way banks and merchants engage with their customers. FMNs turn transaction data into new, high-margin revenue streams for banks and offer merchants precise, high-impact advertising. FMN ad spend is projected to grow at a CAGR of 106% through 2026, highlighting immense potential.Reworth leads theFMN space in Latam. We connect banks and merchants through a SaaS platform that delivers personalised, data-driven card-linked offers to millions of cardholders. With exclusive access to transaction data from over 80 million Mexican cardholders (over 45% of the market), Reworth offers a highly valuable audience for FMN ads. This creates an unparalleled opportunity to deliver insights that increase card usage, improve customer loyalty, and drive merchant sales.Following Mexico, Reworth successfully launched in Argentina and is set to expand into Colombia by Q2 2025, cementing its position as the only value-added services provider in Latam with this scale and strong partnerships. Think of Reworth as Latam’s SaaS answer to the US Chase Bank Ads solution—a trusted partner driving growth and engagement across the region. | $3M / Seed / Oct 17, 2022 | |
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Sundayapp is a fintech company that provides a fully integrated solution built for restaurants, bars, pubs, cafés, and hotels for customers to pay for their food via a QR code. It is built by restaurateurs for restaurateurs to connect the front- and back-of-house operations and to deliver the fastest payment method. | $100M / Series A / Sep 22, 2021 | |
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Kavida is an FMS system helping procurement team ensure on time inbound deliveries and detects risks earlier.FMS stands for Fulfilment Management System. It’s a technology used to manage interactions between procurement teams and suppliers after an order has been placed to ensure it arrives on time. A FMS systems helps procurement teams builddeeper supplier relationships and streamline fulfilment processes so they can increase OTIF, improve visibility and better manage risks to purchase orders. | $425.3K / Pre-Seed / Jun 07, 2021 | |
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Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries. | $3M / Seed / Jul 28, 2020 | |
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Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, setdeadlines, and communicate directly . | Secondary Market / Jun 01, 2020 | |
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Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, setdeadlines, and communicate directly . | Secondary Market / Feb 01, 2020 | |
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Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card issuing technology. Its modernarchitecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California and is enabled in 36 countries globally. For more information, visit www.marqeta.com. | Series E / Jan 01, 2020 | |
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Fluicity is an online platform that allows governments to establish communication channels with the population. It enables citizens to propose ideas to solve the problems they consider relevant, receive feedback from the municipality, and follow up on the actions taken.Residents of the cities that have incorporated Fluicity have the ability todownload its application and create personalized profiles featuring their interests so they can receive news, proposals, and answer surveys about them. Through its application, the citizens are able to start a conversation with the relevant decision-makers in charge of the subject.Fluicity was launched in 2015 by Julie de Pimodan. | Series A / Jan 01, 2019 | |
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Glose is a next-generation reading experience that lets you discover, purchase, read, and engage with the ebooks you like on web and mobile. On Glose you can connect to other readers, see what they are reading, and start conversations in the margins of the ebooks you read. So on top of every ebook you buy, you get free access to other like-mindedreaders, their annotations, and their highlights. Follow interesting readers and get a deeper, better curated, and more valuable reading experience. | $3.2M / Dec 12, 2018 | |
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About QIMA
QIMA is a leading provider of supply chain compliance solutions, that partners with brands, retailers and importers to secure, manage and optimize their global supply network.QIMA has on-the-ground presence in 85 countries, combining industry-leading experts for onsite inspections, supplier audits and lab testing with a digital platform thatbrings accuracy, transparency and intelligence for quality and compliance data.For all their clients in 120 countries who use the QIMA platform and benefit from 24/7 support in over 20 languages, QIMA is Eyes in the Supply Chain™.
QIMA Contacts
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Sebastien Breteau
Founder & CEO
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Mathieu Labasse
Chief Marketing Officer
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FAQ
What does Sebastien Breteau invest in?
Sebastien Breteau invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Sebastien Breteau's check size?
Sebastien Breteau typically joins rounds of $500k–$3M at Seed and $6.5M–$150M 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 Sebastien Breteau participates in.
When did Sebastien Breteau last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sebastien Breteau closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 21 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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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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