The Family
VC Fund
Paris, France
The Family is a VC fund in Paris focused on Software and Apps. The Family is building the largest and most sophisticated service infrastructure for startups in Europe. Their model is to take 5% equity for free in exchange of long-term support. Today, they have a portfolio of 200+ active companies in London, Paris and Berlin, including Captain Train (acquired by Trainline), Algolia and Payfit.
- Total investments:
- 76
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries The Family invests in
Stages The Family invests in
Countries The Family invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (21%)
- Apps 11 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (13%)
- SaaS 8 (11%)
- Health Care 8 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 53 (70%)
- Series A 6 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (5%)
- Angel 3 (4%)
Country
- France 51 (67%)
- United States 12 (16%)
- United Kingdom 7 (9%)
- Belgium 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alice Zagury
Co-Founder and CEO
|
Co-Founder and CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Balthazar de Lavergne
Director, Fellowship
|
Director, Fellowship | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Felix Winckler
God Father
|
God Father | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Martin Mignot
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 85 | Find email | |
Miguel de Fontenay
Executive Partner
|
Executive Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preply is a provider of an online tutoring marketplace intended to promote faster learning with one-on-one online tutors. The company's marketplace helps to find and book professional private tutors online from over 185 countries, enabling users to achieve their goals and speak confidently. | $10M / Series A / Mar 30, 2020 | ||
| Defend your brand’s authenticity online. We clean up digital channels where your brand is under threat from counterfeit products and fake content. Pasabi supports consumer and business brands, deploying unique AI-enabled technology solutions to detect and prevent the proliferation of counterfeit goods and fake reviews online. | Seed / Jan 31, 2020 | ||
| Span Health is a data-driven, health coaching company, to increase personal performance. It also provided access to experts to help members better understand their health and personal performance metrics, build new habits, and ultimately, unlock their health potential. | $400K / Angel / Jan 01, 2020 | ||
| Shipfix is a fast-growing collaborative workflow and data platform for the maritime and trade sectors, driven by groundbreaking AI-enabled tools. The platform streamlines maritime workflows with market and operational intelligence with a focus on shipowners, commodity traders, industrials, freight forwarders, and shipbrokers.With Shipfix,maritime and trade professionals make better-informed decisions and move faster. | $4.5M / Seed / Dec 30, 2019 | ||
| 3PL market is enormous ($1000 billions), fragmented and incredibly techless. Stockoss is building a software to help supply chain partners deliver better and optimize storage and distribution streams. Stockoss offers to companies unicity, flexibility, transparency and data monitoring. We connect isolated logistics players (logisticians, carriers)into a global network. We centralize every company’s logistics needs one single platform. | $1.4M / Seed / Sep 01, 2019 | ||
| Start, raise and grow faster with SeedLegals. We're the platform that automates the legals to help companies close funding rounds faster, hire, manage, allocate equity to their team and more...We're the operating system for your company. And we've already transformed the way more than 15,000 UK and French startups run theirbusinesses. | $4M / Series A / May 28, 2019 | ||
| FretLink is a SaaS marketplace connecting thousands of transportation companies with companies that need to send big piles of stuff. FretLink is a flow management solution to industrial shippers that brings more visibility to all stakeholders in the chain. The carriers inform their available transport capacity and receive transport orders at theright price to complete their loads. | $28M / Series B / Apr 29, 2019 | ||
| SpaceFill is a B2B on-demand warehousing marketplace. They help companies looking for short term warehousing needs to find the perfect match. On the other hand, warehouse owners can rent unused space in their warehouse to other companies for short term needs.They want to offer warehousing as a service and make logistics fully flexible. Theirclients are retailers, e-commerce startups, logistics services providers (3PLs) and many companies in need of flexible warehousing space (for instance, seasonal businesses in need of a flexible lease). Their partners range from 3PLs to industry leaders owning partially unused warehouses or independent businesses owning small warehouses. | $1.1M / Seed / Mar 19, 2019 | ||
| LouerAgile is a real estate alert, simple and practical, which allows to be warned of the publication of a new housing offer that corresponds to search. | $1.7M / Seed / Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation. | Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| See all 76 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does The Family invest in?
The Family invests primarily in Software, Apps and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 76 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at The Family?
The team at The Family includes Alice Zagury (Co-Founder and CEO), Balthazar de Lavergne (Director, Fellowship) and Felix Winckler (God Father), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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