Top 10 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in France in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Renewable energy startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Renewable energy companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in France in January 2026

Investor	Renewable Energy France investments
Etienne Hermite	1
Pjotr van Schothorst	1
Rayyan Islam	1
Thibault Chassagne	1
Thibaud Elziere	1
Karim Kaddoura	1
Christer Andersson	1
Rand Hindi	1
Nicolas Steegmann	1
Florian Douetteau	1

Find investors that fund startups like yours. Automatically.

Our algorithm will find investors that invest in your industry, stage, and geography.

Investor list

Etienne Hermite

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Entroview — Entroview delivers battery diagnostics for EV mobility, using entropy-based technology to optimize battery performance.

Pjotr van Schothorst is the Advisory Board Member at Act-3D - Lumion. He attended Technische Universiteit Delft.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, Drones
Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
Alteva — Alteva develops battery cells for the decarbonisation of the global transport sector, and focus on high-energy density battery cells with high safety profiles specifically designed for the aviation and heavy-duty transport sectors.
Radical Dot — Radical Dot technology aims to convert them into critical chemical building blocks via an innovative, ecological, and cost-effective chemical procedure.

Rayyan Islam is the Co-Founder and General Partner at 8090 Industries. As serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor focused on industrial technology and the low-carbon economy, the companies Rayyan's invested in, sourced and advised have grown to over $8B in market value and have gone to raise further financing from the likes of SequoiaCapital, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Rayyan previously spent time helping source technology investments for multiple family offices globally, particularly focused towards industrialists based in the Texas and American midwest region and began his VC career at leading East Coast seed stage venture firm, Romulus Capital, where he sourced the firm’s most valued investment, EquipmentShare.A product manager by trade, he worked stints at Spotify, was on the founding team of a subscription airline and began his career supporting M&A transactions for industrial clients at Deloitte as well as economic developments efforts for Deloitte Consulting’s Emerging Markets Practice. Rayyan is a Forbes 30U30 Fellow, served as a United Nations Youth Delegate and is a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Delegate Award.Influenced by his family upbringing in Bangladesh, he personally witnessed energy security issues and the ramifications of climate change at a young age and its impact on communities around the world. Determined to make a serious dent on the issue, Rayyan supports a cadre of climate solutions, drafted policy recommendations to President Joe Biden’s climate transition team and is the editor of Decarbon Weekly, a decarbonization focused newsletter which counts leading climate scientists, members of state and local governments, climate tech founders and ESG focused investors and foundations amongst its subscription base. Rayyan co-founded the industrial decarbonization fund at 8090 Partners, in partnership with prominent industrial and energy families from around the world to invest, support and accelerate breakthrough technology companies decarbonizing every industrial sector driven by radical economic advantages.Rayyan and his work has been featured on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and Forbes.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Onsite Pro — Join the green workforce America needs now
Coral Vita — Coral Vita's innovative coral reef restoration grows diverse, resilient corals to protect marine biodiversity and support communities dependent on healthy reefs
Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.

Thibault Chassagne - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Software
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Carsell — Carsell is an automotive company that offers turnkey service solutions for their car. The company supports the entire process of selling used vehicles between individuals and frees them from all the constraints and sources of stress associated with it Carsell was founded by Morgan Petitjean in 2021.
Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Sharelock — Sharelock is the first shared locks network in the world. They develop, deploy and operate an innovative secured shared lock infrastructure in partnership with city authorities and mobility operators to massively enable active mobility. Based on mobility expertise and proprietary data, they also develop disruptive insurance products.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
DotBlocks — The first no-code simulation platform designed to accelerate your innovation workflow.
Presti — AI background generator for furniture products, to replace costly 3D rendering and photoshoots.

Karim Kaddoura - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Software
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Carsell — Carsell is an automotive company that offers turnkey service solutions for their car. The company supports the entire process of selling used vehicles between individuals and frees them from all the constraints and sources of stress associated with it Carsell was founded by Morgan Petitjean in 2021.
Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Sharelock — Sharelock is the first shared locks network in the world. They develop, deploy and operate an innovative secured shared lock infrastructure in partnership with city authorities and mobility operators to massively enable active mobility. Based on mobility expertise and proprietary data, they also develop disruptive insurance products.

Christer K. Andersson is an investor in early stage angel and venture rounds. Christer's main focus is in software tech start-ups that have a certain level of disruption in their idea. The current portfolio includes start-ups based in USA, Sweden, India , Israel, and Germany and cover technologies in Crypto / BlockChain, ArtificialIntelligence, BioTech, Enterprise SaaS, MusicTech, Mobility, and Futureofwork.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Mexico, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Neivor — Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities.
Range — Run your remote team with Range. Async check-ins, better meetings, track goals.
Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).