Steve Anavi
Co-Founder & President @ Qonto
Paris, France
Steve Anavi is a seed investor at Qonto in Paris focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Steve values great work and great products which have large impacts. At Qonto, he looks after product, design and operations.Prior to Qonto, Steve co-founded Smok.io (acquired by a Fortune 500), led operations at Groupon and formerly worked at Deloitte Consulting. He holds an MSc from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and an MBAfrom INSEAD.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries Steve Anavi invests in
Stages Steve Anavi invests in
Countries Steve Anavi invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $200k–$7.4M
- Pre-Seed
- $5.2M–$9.4M
- Series A
- $9M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (43%)
- Financial Services 5 (36%)
- Hardware 3 (21%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- B2B 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (36%)
- Series A 3 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (14%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Country
- France 7 (50%)
- United States 3 (21%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
- Singapore 1 (7%)
Investments
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Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth. The company was started in 2020 and is based in Paris, France. | $29.5M / Series B / Sep 18, 2025 | |
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Prior Labs is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases. | $9.4M / Pre-Seed / Feb 05, 2025 | |
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Pivot
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Pivot operates as a fintech company. | $5.2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 02, 2023 | |
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Hyperline is a flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. | $4.4M / Seed / Jun 20, 2023 | |
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Alvo Market combines marketplaces, digital tools, and all the services needed to accelerate and simplify business transfers. The online business valuation tool uses advanced methods to estimate the value of businesses. They collect, store, and analyze all deals to document comparable base. They support clients with transmission operations. | $974.9K / Seed / Nov 03, 2022 | |
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Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately. | $7.4M / Seed / Jul 13, 2022 | |
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Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth. The company was started in 2020 and is based in Paris, France. | $9M / Series A / Feb 24, 2022 | |
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Silvr reinvents the way entrepreneurs get funded. Financing businesses has not evolved over the last decades: banks prefer to fund assets, and equity is not the best fit for all. Silvr enables entrepreneurs by building a world where funding is easy to access, scalable, and equity-free. Silvr leverages digital business data to predict futurerevenues and offer funding in 24 hours.Silvr is headquartered in Paris, is backed by ISAI and Eurazeo, and deploys millions of euros of funding for European entrepreneurs every month. | $20.6M / Series A / Feb 08, 2022 | |
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TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016. | $11.4M / Series A / Feb 08, 2022 | |
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Aspire is the finance stack that helps global founders build fast and scale freely—with no minimum balance, no borders, and nonstop support. Aspire has supported over 50,000 businesses worldwide, helping them save time and money across international payments, treasury, expenses, payables, and receivables—all managed through a single, intuitiveaccount. To date, Aspire has powered over US$25 billion in payments across 30+ countries, enabling the next generation of global founders to scale without the friction of borders. Founded in Singapore, Aspire has 600+ employees across nine countries. The company has raised over US$300 million from world-class investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, and PayPal, and has been recognised as one of the world’s Top Fintechs by CB Insights and CNBC for two consecutive years. | $58M / Series B / Sep 22, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Qonto
Qonto is an online bank that provides financial tools for small and medium-sized businesses and freelancers. It makes business banking easy, efficient, and transparent and also offers digital bank accounts for sending and receiving payments that adapt to all types of companies, for any legal form or team size.
Qonto Contacts
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Alexandre Prot
Co-Founder and CEO
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Anita Szarek
Chief Financial Officer
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Arthur Froger
Lead Brand Designer
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Carles Marcos i Guàrdia
Country Manager of Spain
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Heidrun Luyt
CGO
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FAQ
What does Steve Anavi invest in?
Steve Anavi invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Steve Anavi's check size?
Steve Anavi typically joins rounds of $200k–$7.4M at Seed, $5.2M–$9.4M at Pre-Seed and $9M–$21M 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 Steve Anavi participates in.
When did Steve Anavi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Steve Anavi closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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