# Sebastien Pahl

> Sebastien Pahl is a seed investor backing Software and Information Technology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spahl/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sebp
- Website: https://x.com/sebp

Sebastien Pahl is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Sebastien Pahl

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$4M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$7.3M |
| Series A | $12M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 75% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 42% |
| Cloud Management | 3 | 25% |
| Open Source | 2 | 17% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 6 | 50% |
| United States | 4 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qovery | 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 | Kerys Software is a Data Security Product Manufacturing firm developing secured virtualization tool for cases. | $7.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Eden AI | 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 |  |
| Tailwarden | Building the Future of DevOps | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| Namla | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Crane Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crane-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [backtrace capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backtrace-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brighteye Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brighteye-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 is Sebastien Pahl's check size?

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 ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sebastien Pahl participates in.

### How do I contact Sebastien Pahl?

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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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