# Xavier Niel

> Xavier Niel is a seed investor at STATION F (Paris) backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 136 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [STATION F](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/station-f)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 136
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-niel-09850b147
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/xavier75
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/xavier.niel.5/timeline

Xavier Niel is a seed investor at STATION F in Paris focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$70M |
| Series A | $3M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 23 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 12% |
| SaaS | 11 | 8% |
| Internet | 11 | 8% |
| Mobile | 9 | 7% |

166 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 49 | 36% |
| Series A | 28 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 10% |
| Series B | 9 | 7% |
| Angel | 6 | 4% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 74 | 54% |
| United States | 13 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upstream | Upstream is a collaborative email client with channels and task-tracking, offering context and transparency for efficient team decisions. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Qutwo | Europe’s next-generation AI lab for a quantum world. | $29.3M | Angel | May 05, 2026 |  |
| HrFlow.ai | Riminder operates as an AI assistant that automates talent assessment by leveraging state of the art deep learning technology. The company's mission is to leverage both Data and AI to understand people and unlock their full potential. Riminder was founded in Paris in 2016. | $7M | Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Advanced Machine Intelligence | Advanced Machine Intelligence develops artificial intelligence systems that model real-world environments using sensor data. The organization focuses on building machine learning architectures that form abstract representations of physical and digital environments, allowing systems to reason, predict outcomes, and plan sequences of actions. Itsresearch includes world models that process continuous and complex data while filtering unpredictable elements to support structured decision making. The technology is designed to enable AI agents to evaluate the consequences of actions and operate under defined safety and control mechanisms. Advanced Machine Intelligence collaborates with industry and research communities to explore applications of these systems in areas such as industrial automation, robotics, wearable technology, and healthcare. The company also publishes research and develops software frameworks that support experimentation, deployment, and evaluation of intelligent systems. | $1B | Seed | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| BottleCap AI | BottleCap AI is a company that focuses on architecture-first, efficiency-focused basic LLMs designed to reason better per unit of CPU and enable previously impossible applications. | $7.5M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Gradium | Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion. | $70M | Seed | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Genesis AI | Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company. | $105M | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Mobile Club | Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation. | $2.3M | Series A | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Pixmania | Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices. | $12.1M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Cube AI | Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |

10 of 136 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Financiere Saint James](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/financiere-saint-james) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [BREEGA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breega-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Idinvest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idinvest-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

## About STATION F

VC Fund · Paris, France

STATION F is a startup campus. They empower the next generation of entrepreneurs. They offer the resources that entrepreneurs need to launch and grow their businesses. They feature all the services and resources entrepreneurs need, both online and on-campus.

5 contacts available at STATION F.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Camille Franceschi | Zendesk acceleration program | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/camille-franceschi |
| Cindy Demichel | Female Founders Fellowship @StationF | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cindy-demichel |
| Emmanuel Fauvel | Station F, Founders Program 2021 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emmanuel-fauvel |
| John Dada | Founder's program Cohort for 2020 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-dada |
| Marwan Elfitesse | Head of Startup | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marwan-elfitesse |

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## FAQ

### What does Xavier Niel invest in?

Xavier Niel invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 136 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Xavier Niel's check size?

Xavier Niel typically joins rounds of $1M–$70M at Seed and $3M–$20M 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 Xavier Niel participates in.

### When did Xavier Niel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Xavier Niel closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 136 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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