Top 10 Publishing Angel Investors in France in November 2024
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Publishing startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Publishing Angel Investors in France in November 2024
Investor | Publishing France investments |
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Damien Guermonprez | 2 |
Alan Fung | 1 |
Jean-Marie Messier | 1 |
Romain Poncet | 1 |
Attilio Mazzilli | 1 |
Luca Ascani | 1 |
Alexandre Berriche | 1 |
Alexis Bonillo | 1 |
Matteo de Brabant | 1 |
Marc Menase | 1 |
Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, India, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
- Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
Alan Fung is a Director of Performance Marketing at King.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Consumer, Internet
- Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Kovalee — You develop, we publish. Leveraging unique in-house tech & expertise, we partner with App owners to bring their apps to the top.
Jean-Marie Messier serves Co-Founder at OneRagtime Platform Limited. Jean-Marie Messier as an Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp., and Dish Network Corp. Jean-Marie Messier is the Founder of Messier Partners, LLC. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi Société Anonyme and served as its Managing Director. He serves asthe Chairman of Ahead LLC USA and Vizzavi Europe Ltd. He served as Chairman of Vivendi and the Vivendi Universal Corporate Foundation. He served as a Trustee of Whitney Museum Of American Art LLC. He was the Chairman of Vizzavi Europe Ltd. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Dalenys(also known as Rentabiliweb Group SA). He serves as Director at OneRagtime Platform Limited. Jean-Marie Messier serves as a Director of: Echostar USA, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA, Spain and Whitney Museum USA. He served as a Director of BNP Paribas SA since May 4, 1999. He served as a Director of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, Vivendi and as Non-executive Director of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA, Prior to merger with Electrafina S.A. He served as a Director of Alcatel-Lucent, S.A., until March 2003; Compagnie de Saint-Gobain from January 1, 2002 to June 7, 2002 and 3S Photonics SAS (known as Alcatel Optronics France) since 1999. He served as a Member of the Supervisory Board at Veolia Environnement S.A. from April 2000 to April 30, 2003. Jean-Marie Messier studied bachelor's degree in Science Finance from the Ecole Polytechnique from 1976 to 1979 and the Ecole Nationaled' Administration (the ENA).
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zoī — Making preventive health a concrete reality. First location opening end of 2022.
- ZAR — Get relevant tips from high elo players in each game, through an overlay. Plus many in-game tools such as which item to buy next, ward locations and jungle timers on the minimap, based on game context, etc.
- Homa Games — Leave your mark in the gaming industry. We are building a team of extraordinary individuals working together to build apps that entertain the world. We are experts in every step of the publishing process.
Romain Poncet
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Investment focus
- Music, Software, Publishing
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Beam for Music — Help music industry to manage their royalties, strategize effectively, and maximise revenue potential.
Attilio Mazzilli is Corporate Partner of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a global law firm where he also serves as Co-Head of Italian offices, Head of the Italian Tech Group and Member of the International Technology Companies Group. He specializes in private equity and venture capital, with specific skills in both domestic and cross-borderM&A transactions.Attilio Mazzilli graduated in Law from the University of Milan (dissertation on “The insurance contracts in private international law”). In 2003 he was admitted to the Italian Bar Association. In those years, he started working as Associate for “Pavia e Ansaldo” law firm in Milan. In 2006 he moved to Los Angeles, California and obtained a Master of Laws in Business&Corporate Law from the University of Southern California. The following year he came back to Milan to join “Chiomenti” law firm as Senior Associate. After this working experience, he moved to “Carnelutti” law firm, where he served as Partner and Head of International Development (2011-2015). Subsequently, his career continued at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he currently works as Corporate Partner and Head of the Italian Tech Group. He is also Member of the International Technology Companies Group. In 2023 he was also appointed Co-Head of Italian offices. He focuses on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, while advising startups and venture capital firms in areas including financing, corporate law, M&A, and listings. Furthermore, he works as consultant for leading tech companies, supporting their founders at all stages of their life-cycle. Attilio Mazzilli was awarded “Lawyer of the Year for Venture Capital” in the 2020 Legalcommunity Awards. His commitment contributed to several awards received by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP: among these are “Law Firm of the Year 2021 for Venture Capital”, “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for M&A Small Cap” (BeBeez and PBV) and “Law Firm of the Year 2020 for Fintech” (TopLegal Industry Awards). During the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Italy, he collaborated with the Italian Ministry of Innovation, the Finance Commission and VC Hub in drafting urgent measures to provide financial support to tech and innovative companies in Italy. In the same period, his client Bending Spoons developed Immuni, the app chosen by the Italian Ministry of Health to track the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Over more than 22 years of professional experience, Attilio Mazzilli has taken part in many significant transactions and assisted companies the likes of Gruppo Intesa San Paolo, Cattolica Assicurazioni, Teko Telecom, Octo Telematics, and Prima Assicurazioni. He also assisted Banca Sella Holding and Fabrick (joint venture agreement with illimity Bank concerning Hype), Cerba HealthCare (acquisition of Lifebrain from Investindustrial) and Scalapay (Series B financing round led by Tencent and Series A financing round led by Tiger Global).
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Investment focus
- News, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- Futura — Futura provides personalized learning using data driven approach and modular classes that adapt to student's Individual needs.
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Alexandre Berriche is currently the CEO of Fleet, a startup which simplifies the access, management and a sustainable renewal of computers for start ups, scale ups and SMB, helping you focus on your growth.He is also an angel investor (companies include Kocomo, Claap, Finary, Convelio and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital.Before launchingFleet he was VP of Operations and Expansion at Ironhack and Managing Director of Jumia Tunisia, a Rocket Internet’s company.Alexandre is trilingual and holds degrees from IESEG, le Wagon and Victoria University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
- Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
- Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
COO & Co-founder @ Zenly
Retired Pole Vaulter
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
- Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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Investment focus
- News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
- Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
- Luna Food — Luna Food is a Food and Beverage company.
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