# Tancrède Besnard

> Tancrède Besnard is a seed investor at Pennylane (Paris) backing Fashion and FinTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pennylane](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pennylane)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tancr%C3%A8de-besnard-7b721033/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/pennylane_tech
- Website: https://www.pennylane.tech/

Tancrède Besnard is a seed investor at Pennylane in Paris focused on Fashion and FinTech. Tancrède Besnard is the Co-founder and CPO of Pennylane.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Lifestyle | 1 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 2 | 67% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spiko | Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds. | $21.5M | Series A | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Dash | Mobile payments, Mobile payment network, Mobile money, payments, African payments, super app, financial super app, payment-led super app. | $32.8M | Seed | Mar 07, 2022 |  |
| Planity | Planity, a platform that allows you to book an appointment with a professional in the beauty sector in a few clicks and quickly find a hair salon, beauty institute, barber near you |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [199 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/199-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blockwall](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockwall-management-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bpifrance Digital Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance-digital-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Frst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frst-d3d4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pennylane

VC Fund · Paris, France

Pennylane is a developer of a full-stack financial management platform used to deal with financial data. Centralizing all the data that was fragmented in the past, this platform enables business managers to get a real-time view of their financial data and make the right decisions. The company enables business leaders to access their complete, andup-to-date financial data at any time.

5 contacts available at Pennylane.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arthur Waller | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-waller |
| Tancrède Besnard | Co-founder and CPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tancrde-besnard |
| Thierry Deo | Co-Founder and Senior fullstack software engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thierry-d%C3%A9o |
| Edouard Mascré | Co-Founder and COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edouard-mascr%C3%A9 |
| Félix Blossier | Co-founder and COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flix-blossier |

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## FAQ

### What does Tancrède Besnard invest in?

Tancrède Besnard invests primarily in Fashion, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tancrède Besnard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tancrède Besnard closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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