Top 25 Social Media Angel Investors in France in December 2024

Investor	Social Media France investments
Saint Mihiel	3
Thomas Rebaud	2
Eric Besson	1
Fabrice Grinda	1
Sébastien Lucas	1
Michael Benabou	1
Naval Ravikant	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Patrick Robin	1
Bertrand Sablier	1
Damien Vincent	1
Marc Menase	1
Denis Lafont-Trévisan	1
Thierry Petit	1
Didier Tranchier	1
Alexandre Yazdi	1
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	1
Blaise Matuidi	1
Cedric Sellin	1
Thibault Poutrel	1
Arnaud Vinciguerra	1
Denis Chavanis	1
Benoit Charles-Lavauzelle	1
Carmen Busquets	1
Jacques Riviere	1

Saint Mihiel

Investment focus

Social Media, Brand Marketing, Outdoor Advertising
Seed, Private Equity
France

Portfolio highlights

Phenix Groupe — Hireup is a responsive, high-converting, and beautifully designed job board for technology businesses. Bright, vibrant, and easily adapted, it offers the perfect starting point for numerous business types.

Thomas Rebaud is 28 years old when he founds Meero in 2016, driven by the desire to make the Internet more beautiful. The story begins in 2007 when he joins EMLyon Business School. Still a student, he becomes president of the Junior branch of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a cooperation present in 15 countries whose aim is to developentrepreneurship as a vector of growth and employment in the world. Through this, Thomas develops a solid knowledge of good business practices. In 2013, with a second Masters under his belt, he sets up his first Internet-free loan comparison company, which works well but doesn’t take off. So he takes up an opportunity with Diji, a new kind of IT consultancy and engineering company. And that’s it. His progress at Diji leads him to discover the professional photography market, which is just waiting to be disrupted. Thomas gets it and seizes the opportunity by creating Meero!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
58 Facettes — Jewelry
The Poken Company — We are a blockchain based technology startup which wants to put the spotlight back to the content creators and artists.

Eric Besson is the Founding President of Eric Besson Consulting.

Investment focus

Dating, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Feels — Not a dating app, just relaxed relationships without rules or labels, without societal pressure, paternalistic injunctions or traditional norms. Because swiping is boring, we've created an experience designed for natural, healthy and pressure-free interactions as easy as on social networks.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
OTPless — Explore top-notch authentication solutions like WhatsApp, SMS or email-based Numeric codes and Magic Link with OTPless. High conversion, flexible integrations, and robust security features await you!
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

Sébastien Lucas

Investment focus

Internet, IaaS, Cloud Storage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
France

Portfolio highlights

Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
GitGuardian — GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes.
Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.

President at Financiere Saint James.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
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.

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Patrick Robin - Founder @ Avolta Partners

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Computer
Angel, Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Youmiam — Discover a whole new concept to recipes!
PrestaShop — Start an online business with PrestaShop eCommerce platform. Launch your eCommerce website and start selling online.
Alegria.tech — Alegria.tech is a nocode agency for start-ups, SMEs and large accounts.

Bertrand Sablier

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.

Damien Vincent

Investment focus

Sports, Consulting, Communities
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Poteau — Krank is a social network that enables its users to connect with people who have the same interests in hobbies and sports. It enables its users to send invitations to the other users to play a sport with them. Users are able to find information about the people who are sending them invitations.Krank offers sports brands with advertising services.Krank was founded by Vincent Bucaille and Alexis Agahi in March 2015.
Alvo market — Alvo is a digital platform dedicated to the sale and takeover of businesses and assets.

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

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.

Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Distributed Workforce related companies. 2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 3 exits. Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Ramify — Ramify est une plateforme qui vous permet d'investir simplement dans tous les produits financiers. Simulez gratuitement votre portefeuille en ETF, private equity et SCPI.
Front-Commerce — PWA Frontend-as-a-service for composable & headless commerce (Magento 1 & 2, SFCC, OpenMage, BigCommerce, CommerceTools, Shopify)

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.

Didier Tranchier is the Co-founder at Digital Pharma Lab.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Software
Seed, Angel
France

Portfolio highlights

Fastory — Increase your conversions through attractive mobile experiences. Create immersive and impactful marketing campaign for Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter with the leading mobile-first marketing platform.
Geodruid —

Alexandre Yazdi - Co-Founder and CEO @ Voodoo

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Residential
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Turkey, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.

Blaise Matuidi

Investment focus

Banking, Dating, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom is a financial technology company that provides innovative, fair, responsible and inclusive financial products.
Bloom — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
Feels — Not a dating app, just relaxed relationships without rules or labels, without societal pressure, paternalistic injunctions or traditional norms. Because swiping is boring, we've created an experience designed for natural, healthy and pressure-free interactions as easy as on social networks.

Cedric Sellin is a President at ByTheTower. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Computer, Software, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yeasty — Yeasty produces natural and protein yeast food.
LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
crowd.dev — Understand, grow, and engage your developer community with zero hassle. With Crowd.dev, you can build developer communities that drive your business forward.

Thibault Poutrel serves as a Manager of Access Consulting SARL. Mr. Poutrel serves as Chairman of Beaubourg Capital SAS, Internet Plc SAS and Diamond Minds Investments. He has been a Director of Come&Stay SA since December 13, 2001. He serves as a Director of Ingenico Corp. and Eat On Line SA. He has been a Director of Ingenico S.A., sinceFebruary 6, 2002 and Nextedia Société Anonyme since December 13, 2001. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of WitchBird SAS. He serves as a Director of INGENICO Inc. He worked for ABN AMRO France prior to joining Rothschild & Cie. Bank. In 2001, he founded an investment vehicle, Diamond Minds, of which he is Trustee. In 2003, he founded Access Consulting, a firm providing Internet and software integration consulting services, and in 2008, Beaubourg Capital SAS, a venture capital firm. Mr. Poutrel is a co-founder of production company Update Productions and the press agency Antidote. He educated at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and London School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Cameroon, United States

Portfolio highlights

PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
Della AI — Thanks to the AI capabilities of Legisway Analyzer, lawyers can seamlessly leverage unique AI technology and deep learning capabilities to automate contract indexing
Concord — Concord helps you unlock the data in all your agreements. Close deals faster. Surface financial insights. Accelerate revenue growth.

Arnaud Vinciguerra - Founder/CEO @ Domos FS

Investment focus

SaaS, Social Media, Collaboration
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Azendoo — Azendoo is a teamwork application that leverages cloud collaboration apps, syncs all the data and provides a new, interactive take on team task management.Over 1 Billion people use Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, MS OneDrive or Box. These apps are great to collect, store and share knowledge in teams but not ideal to drive team action and helpget stuff done. Azendoo makes it simple to share tasks or files across teams and stay in sync on projects.From life to education to nonprofits projects, Azendoo users get much more done.Azendoo offers a 14 day trial and memberships start at 7.5$/month.

Denis Chavanis

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Social Media
Angel
France

Portfolio highlights

Youmiam — Discover a whole new concept to recipes!

Benoit Charles-Lavauzelle is the Co-founder and CEO at M33.tech. He is a former CEO of Allomatch. Benoit Charles-Lavauzelle attended École Polytechnique.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, B2B
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.

Carmen Busquets - Founder @ CoutureLab

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Search Engine
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Lyst — Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
Destree — Destree is a ready-to-wear and accessories label.
Meadowlark Media — Meadowlark Media is a content company focused on sports.

Jacques Riviere

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.