# Simon Dawlat

> Simon Dawlat is a seed investor at Batch (Paris) backing EdTech, Software and TV. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Batch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/batch)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simondawlat
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Virtualgoodz

Simon Dawlat is a seed investor at Batch in Paris focused on EdTech and Software. Simon Dawlat - CEO @ Batch

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $876k–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| TV | 1 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Banking | 1 | 14% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 6 | 86% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| wilgo.ai | Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish. | $7M | Seed | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Cognyx | Cognyx is a platform that enables manufacturers to design complex hardware at software speed using AI and graph databases. It creates a "collaborative super-BOM" that connects legacy systems, allowing designers, manufacturers, and buyers to collaborate on a single BOM. Cognyx reduces time-to-market, improves design reliability, and buildsstructured data for AI. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| Olyzon | Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| omena | Oména is working on a digital handbook to assist women as they transition through menopause. | $875.6K | Seed | Jan 15, 2024 |  |
| Ottho | Ottho is the no-code training Company. They help people create their own applications without the need for coding. They offer a visual programming tool to help develop web applications, enabling users with no coding experience to create applications. They regularly organize informative webinars, demonstrations, and workshops. | $1.3M | Seed | Feb 22, 2023 |  |
| Beam | Beam is a software startup that collects their thoughts and experience through the Internet. The company is creating an app that will automatically generate notes summing up and classifying the knowledge they'd gathered while browsing. These notes could ultimately be shared with other Beam users to help enrich.Beam was founded in 2019 and isbased in Paris, France. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 20, 2020 |  |
| Bankin' | Bankin' is the Best Mobile Money Manager. Bankin' app makes money management super easy.At Bankin', they believe that money management must be simple, transparent and efficient so you can focus on what really matters to you.Their mission is to bring innovation and technology together to offer you the best solution to guide youevery day.They are the leader in Europe: you are more than 1.5 million to trust us in France, in England, in Spain, and in Germany.They are the only company independent of banks in Europe. It is something they feel very strongly about because it allows us to provide better guidance by always suggesting what's right for you. | $22.6M | Series B | Apr 18, 2019 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Better Angle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-angle) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amaranthine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amaranthine-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bpifrance Digital Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance-digital-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [C4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c4-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Batch

VC Fund · Paris, France

Batch.com is an SDK and marketing automation dashboard focused on marketing and transactional push notifications. It also includes mobile analytics which are useful to monitor and improve its users’ customer retention as well as engagement.Batch.com helps marketers follow segmentation to improve mobile’s fundamental communication channels: pushnotifications and in-app messages. It supports iOS, Android, Windows, Unity, Adobe Air, and Cordova platforms.Batch.com was launched in 2014 and is based in Paris, France.

4 contacts available at Batch.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Antoine Guénard | COO, CPO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antoine-gunard |
| Clotilde Rousseau | CRO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clotilde-rousseau-7cb6 |
| Nicolas Ducharme | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-ducharme |
| Simon Dawlat | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-dawlat |

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## FAQ

### What does Simon Dawlat invest in?

Simon Dawlat invests primarily in EdTech, Software and TV startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Simon Dawlat's check size?

Simon Dawlat typically joins rounds of $876k–$7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Simon Dawlat participates in.

### When did Simon Dawlat last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Simon Dawlat closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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