Sebastien Pahl
Angel Investor @ Kima Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Sebastien Pahl is a seed investor at Kima Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Sebastien Pahl
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Sebastien Pahl invests in
Stages Sebastien Pahl invests in
Countries Sebastien Pahl invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$4M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.2M–$7.3M
- Series A
- $12M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (75%)
- Information Technology 5 (42%)
- Cloud Management 3 (25%)
- Open Source 2 (17%)
- Cloud Computing 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (42%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (33%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
Country
- France 6 (50%)
- United States 4 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Qovery operates as a container as a service platform that enables anyone to develop and deploy an application. It accelerates and scales the application development cycle with zero infrastructure management investment. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $13M / Series A / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Kerys Software is a Data Security Product Manufacturing firm developing secured virtualization tool for cases. | $7.3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
| Eden AI simplifies the use and integration of AI technologies by providing a unique API connected to the best AI engines and combined with a powerful management platform. It combines :- A unique AI API to easily switch between AI engines from different providers- Friendly user interface to discover various AI engines and directly test them withyour own data- Innovative management platform to monitor costs, manage access and secure governance of your dataThe platform covers a wide range of AI technologies:- Vision: Custom vision, object detection, video analysis, face recognition, explicit content detection, etc.- Text & NLP: Custom text classification, keyword extraction, sentiment anaysis, language detection, syntax analysis, etc.- Speech & Audio: Speech-to-text, speech recognition, language detection, speech diarization, text-to-speech, etc.- Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Standard OCR, invoice OCR, ID card OCR, tables OCR, receipt OCR, etc.- Machine Translation: Standard machine translation, custom machine translation.- Prediction: Regression, classification, clustering, time series, deep learning. | $3.1M / Seed / Nov 21, 2024 | ||
| Building the Future of DevOps | $2.1M / Seed / Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| Namla is a provider of a Cloud Edge Orchestration platform. Its solution combines Distributed Edge Orchestration, Integrated SD-WAN & Multi-Cloud Support. This gives a unique way for companies to securely and automatically deploy Edge infrastructure at scale and have a Cloud Level performance and availability. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 14, 2022 | ||
| LabLabee is an on-demand learning labs provider for Future networks. It allows telco operators, industrial companies, and large entreprise to incorporate a virtual hands-on experience into their transformation while lowering costs. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Sep 15, 2022 | ||
| Eden AI simplifies the use and integration of AI technologies by providing a unique API connected to the best AI engines and combined with a powerful management platform. It combines :- A unique AI API to easily switch between AI engines from different providers- Friendly user interface to discover various AI engines and directly test them withyour own data- Innovative management platform to monitor costs, manage access and secure governance of your dataThe platform covers a wide range of AI technologies:- Vision: Custom vision, object detection, video analysis, face recognition, explicit content detection, etc.- Text & NLP: Custom text classification, keyword extraction, sentiment anaysis, language detection, syntax analysis, etc.- Speech & Audio: Speech-to-text, speech recognition, language detection, speech diarization, text-to-speech, etc.- Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Standard OCR, invoice OCR, ID card OCR, tables OCR, receipt OCR, etc.- Machine Translation: Standard machine translation, custom machine translation.- Prediction: Regression, classification, clustering, time series, deep learning. | $1.6M / Seed / Apr 27, 2022 | ||
| Signadot is a K8s-native platform for agentic validation that combines scalable ephemeral environments with a validation framework built for distributed systems to turn high-velocity agent code generation into safely merged pull requests. | $4M / Seed / Feb 23, 2022 | ||
| QuestDB is a high performance database for time-series data. QuestDB’s software architecture has been designed from the ground up to be as close to the hardware structure as possible - offering breakthrough performance. Through QuestDB, companies can harness the power of time series data by handling billions of time-stamped events without relyingon powerful hardware. | $12M / Series A / Nov 03, 2021 | ||
| Qovery operates as a container as a service platform that enables anyone to develop and deploy an application. It accelerates and scales the application development cycle with zero infrastructure management investment. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $4M / Seed / Sep 28, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Kima Ventures
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey. The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors; backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth. Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset. Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
Kima Ventures Contacts
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Alexis Robert
Partner
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Felix DE BREUCKER
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Jean de La Rochebrochard
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Xavier Niel
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Xavier Niel
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FAQ
What does Sebastien Pahl invest in?
Sebastien Pahl invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Cloud Management startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Sebastien Pahl invest in?
Sebastien Pahl typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$4M at Seed, $1.2M–$7.3M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$13M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Sebastien Pahl's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Sebastien Pahl took part in.
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When did Sebastien Pahl last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sebastien Pahl closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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