Top 15 Sporting Goods Angel Investors in France (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Omar Fonseca
Angel
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2 | France, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Soccer, Fitness | $536k–$2M |
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Tony Parker
Angel
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2 | France | Seed, Angel, Series A | Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance | $3.7M–$13M |
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Clément Calvez
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Thomas Rebaud
Angel
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1 | France, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $539k–$5.6M |
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Julien Codorniou
Angel
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1 | France, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$23M |
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Elina Svitolina
Angel
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1 | France, Austria | Pre-Seed | Water, Consumer Goods, Sporting Goods | |
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Marc Simoncini
Angel
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1 | France | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Finance, Consumer Goods | $219k–$10M |
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Lars Jonker
Angel
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Sporting Goods | |
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Matthieu Pigasse
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Eno Polo
Angel
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1 | France | Pre-Seed | Sporting Goods | |
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Santiago Lefebvre
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Xavier Le Guen
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | ||
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Stan Wawrinka
Angel
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1 | France, Switzerland | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle | |
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Fabrice Clément
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Jean-Marie Piranda
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.
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- Industry: Sports, Soccer, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $536k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
- 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.
Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player.
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- Industry: Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $3.7M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
- Wavo — Wavo provides debt-free inventory financing for SMEs, allowing them to grow without cash constraints.Unlike traditional financing, Wavo purchases inventory upfront, so businesses don’t have to immobilize cash or take on debt. Repayments are directly tied to sales, ensuring flexibility and preserving financial capacity. The solution is accessibleto fast-growing businesses, as it does not require balance sheet analysis or financial ratios.With Wavo, SMEs can seize new opportunities, optimize working capital, and scale faster—without financial constraints.
- Bricks — Bricks is a real estate investment platform that enables people to invest in real estate and benefit from a rental income every month. Bricks' solution enables anyone to accumulate wealth with a few clicks starting at €10. Bricks is on a mission to make real estate investing simple and accessible.
Clément Calvez, president of FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
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!
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $539k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $938k–$1.8M; Series A $585k–$5.1M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
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.
Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Claimy — Integrate Claimy to unlock the full potential of your catalogue, recover missing royalties, and gain real-time insights into your performances.
- Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
- Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player.
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- Industry: Water, Consumer Goods, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Waterdrop — waterdrop® is a fast-growing hydration brand based in Vienna, Austria, disrupting the beverage industry with its innovative waterdrop® Microdrink and global hydration platform. The company's mission is to encourage people to drink more water in a sustainable way, with its sugar-free, flavored cubes dissolving in water to enrich it with naturalfruit & plant extracts and valuable vitamins. waterdrop® is significantly reducing plastic use and CO2 emissions, thanks to its individual recyclable packaging for each cube. The company also partners with Plastic Bank, pledging to collect one plastic bottle for every 12-pack sold. waterdrop® has grown to have more than 2 million online customers and over 300 employees, with product listings in over 20,000 retail outlets and more than 40 waterdrop® stores worldwide.
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
Marc Simoncini is the CEO, Co-Founder and Owner of Jaina Capital. He previously worked at MEETIC as a Founder, Owner and Ex-CEO. Marc Simoncini attended E.S.I.
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- Industry: Software, Finance, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Angel $219k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
- Shadow — Experience the power of cloud gaming with Shadow.tech. Dive into a world where high-performance gaming is accessible on any device. Enjoy features such as 4K resolution, VR compatibility, and seamless gameplay without the need for expensive hardware. Explore our comprehensive game store and start your ultimate gaming journey today
- URBAN CUISINE — Urban Cuisine creates interconnected indoor gardens where plants can thrive to produce fruit, vegetables, and flavorful herbs near where people live or work. Their business line includes urban farming, homedesign, fresh produce, agriculture, and technology.
Co-founder / Marketing & Operations @ Oaky
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- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
Leading investment banking professional and former civilian administrator of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. In 2002 he joined investment banking firm Lazard. Matthieu is Deputy CEO of Lazard in France and Vice Chairman of Lazard in Europe. He is also the owner of a French publishing group, Les Inrockuptibles and a co-controllingshareholder of the leading newspaper publisher Le Monde and the French edition of the Huffington Post. A Board member of Groupe Lucien Barrière, Derichebourg and Relax News.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
Eno Polo is the CEO of LeDap Group. He previously worked at Global Brands Group (Member of Fung Group) as a President - GBG, Europe. Eno Polo attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education.
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- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TIVA Performance — TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery.
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Santiago Lefebvre is the Founder and CEO at ChangeNOW. Santiago Lefebvre attended The INSEAD.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
Xavier Le Guen, VP Wintersports at equipment manufacturer Salomon.
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- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Campsider — Campsider is a supplier of outdoor sports equipment. They provide products that include vêtements, vestes, pantalons, polaires, sous vêtements techniques, t-shirts, and shorts. They offer products that are available for shopping online.
Stan Wawrinka
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Norqain — Norqain is an independent watch manufacturing company that specializes in manufacturing a wide range of wristwatches.
- Barooders — Barooders is a sports community to buy and sell used sports equipment. They ensure verified listings, equipment tested and approved by the team, and secure payment, available free of charge. They sell snowboard jackets, socks, gloves, helmets, running shoes, bikes, and related accessories.
Fabrice Clément, entrepreneur and former president of Stade Malherbe de Caen.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
Jean-Marie Piranda, former CEO of the industrial group FRIAL and former General Manager of Stade Malherbe de Caen.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — La marque de ceux qui font toujours le bon geste. Enfin presque...
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