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Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in France (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in France Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in France Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Steven Alan
Angel
2 United States, France Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Wellness, E-Commerce, Health Care $1.4M–$2.2M
John Maloney
Angel
2 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Angel Education, Apps, Video $610k–$6M
Declan Kelly
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, FinTech $1.1M–$76M
Olivier Thomas
Angel
2 France Angel Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
Ahmed Mhiri
Angel
2 France, Tunisia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $549k–$1.1M
Julien Lemoine
Angel
2 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Cloud Management, SaaS $425k–$6M
Raphaël Varane
Angel
2 France, Portugal, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Sports, Apps, Drones $5.5M–$9.2M
Denis Fayolle
Angel
2 France Angel, Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $329k–$658k
Nicolas Douay
Angel
2 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$8.8M
Wei Guo
Angel
2 United States, China, Canada Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $200k–$19M
Eduardo Ronzano
Angel
2 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $150k–$5.3M
Hubert Patricot
Angel
2 France Seed, Angel Food and Beverage, Fashion, Fitness $2.2M–$3.2M
Lee Linden
Angel
2 United States, Canada, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Health Care, Logistics $700k–$18M
Tony Parker
Angel
2 France Seed, Angel, Series A Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance
Marc Valerius de Beffort
Angel
2 France Angel Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
Frederic Bruneteau
Angel
2 France Seed Diving, Software, Logistics
Edward Lando
Angel
2 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $125k–$5.8M
Omar Fonseca
Angel
2 France, Portugal Seed, Pre-Seed Sports, Soccer, Fitness $1.1M–$2M
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1M–$52M
Julien Lopizzo
Angel
1 France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Legal Tech, Advertising, Digital Media $2.2M–$5.5M
Petitjean Patrick
Angel
1 France Seed Sports, InsurTech
Thomas France
Angel
1 France, United States, Cayman Islands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology $400k–$31M
Damien Vincent
Angel
1 France Seed Sports, Consulting, Communities $823k–$1.1M
Arnaud Lecherf
Angel
1 France Angel Internet, Outdoors, Sharing Economy
Rio Ferdinand
Angel
1 United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Logistics, Freight Service $2.6M–$42M
Eric Dodin
Angel
1 France Seed Sports, InsurTech
Thomas Rebaud
Angel
1 France, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $494k–$5.5M
Chris Hitchen
Angel
1 Germany, Australia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $584k–$16M
Michael Benabou
Angel
1 France, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B $549k–$57M
Vincent Gombault
Angel
1 France Seed Sports
Nicolas Steegmann
Angel
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, SaaS $350k–$7.3M
Martin Jaglin
Angel
1 France Events, Sports, Internet
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
1 France, Israel Seed, Series A Retail, Internet, E-Commerce $511k–$57M
Patrick Weil
Angel
1 France Seed Sports, InsurTech
Stéphane Rossetto
Angel
1 France Seed Sports, InsurTech
Benjamin Griveaux
Angel
1 France Seed Apps, Sports, Education
Cyril Vermeulen
Angel
1 France, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Julien Codorniou
Angel
1 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Simon Dawlat
Angel
1 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Software, EdTech, TV
Frederic Halley
Angel
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Retail
Alexandre Lebrun
Angel
1 France Seed Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Marc Simoncini
Angel
1 France Seed, Angel, Series A Finance, Software, Audio
Mario Götze
Angel
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Bertrand Jacquelot
Angel
1 France, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Benjamin Kayser
Angel
1 France Series B, Series E DIY, Insurance, Health Care
Thierry Peuchot
Angel
1 France Series A Sports, Fashion, Sustainability
Marie Outtier
Angel
1 France, United States, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Biofuel, Biotechnology
Samuel Guez
Angel
1 France Angel Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
Damien Fretay
Angel
1 France Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Diving, Internet $1.3M–$1.5M
Stéphane Romanyszyn
Angel
1 France Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Family, Rental, Travel
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Steven Alan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Steven Alan - FOUNDER & CEO @ Steven Alan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wellness, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PICT — By using PICT, you're able to turn a normal photo into a content-rich, eCommerce-enabled photo. With PICT, fans, followers and potential customers discover the 'who, what and where' about your products on the spot. And, through its beautiful, interactive photos, PICT makes it possible to blend commerce into discovery.
  • Peptalk — Listen to thousands of epic motivational speeches; get the inspiration you need to achieve your everyday goals!
  • Maude — Maude is a modern sexual wellness brand created to simplify sex with body-safe essentials like vibrators, condoms, lubricants and other personal care goods.
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John Maloney
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Managing Partner @TerrapinBale, Former President @Tumblr, @Circa, Co-founder UrbanBaby, angel investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Apps, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $610k–$6M; Series A $2.5M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Svrf — Svrf was founded with the vision to empower people to see the world differently. Today, the Svrf platform does this by making 3D searchable, shareable, and accessible on all platforms.Svrf's iOS app enables anyone to create and share 3D filters on their phone. No prior 3D or game engine knowledge required!Svrf's API supercharges yourcamera or messaging application with the largest cross-platform database of 3D face filters, objects, and more: developers.svrf.com.
  • SIMULATE — Simulate.com is a sought-after domain that MediaOptions can help broker for you. Contact us today to get the domain name your company needs!
  • Pandascore — Stop worrying about collecting data and computing odds. Start building your esports project. PandaScore API provides everything you need from live scores to live odds through a wide selection of matches, leagues and tournaments for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, Overwatch.
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Declan Kelly
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.4M; Series A $8.8M–$76M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
  • Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
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Olivier Thomas
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Olivier Thomas

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mium Lab — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
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Ahmed Mhiri
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sports startups

A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit. An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad. In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move. As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses. Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, Tunisia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaylo — Jaylo.ai transforms your email experience by using AI. Automatically organize and prioritize your inbox, ensuring nothing important gets lost. Generate context-aware replies that perfectly match your tone and intent. Save you time and effort, allowing you to communicate efficiently and professionally. Free up your day for what really matters"high-impact, meaningful work."
  • Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
  • Kare Partners — Kare Partners, LLC provides therapeutic rehabilitation and other ancillary services in the healthcare sector. The company offers physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services through a network of outpatient therapy clinics in North Carolina and Arkansas. It also assists home health agencies by providing fully-trained therapy-teams tocomplement their in-house talent or add a new dimension to their service delivery. In addition, it provides a direct educational and credentialing path for therapy clinicians in India to gain employment in the United States healthcare system. Kare Partners, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Gastonia, North Carolina.
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Julien Lemoine
Angel · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder of Algolia, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder at Algolia SAS and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine defined the technology strategy of MASA Group (an international software editor of simulation software) and led the development of strategic R&Dproducts in indexing and natural languages processing at Exalead (Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) and Thales Group. He has extensive experience in architecture design and implementation from his leading work in Exalead and Thales.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cloud Management, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $425k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
  • Kate — Kate redefines everyday mobility by offering electric vehicles made in France.
  • Inboxbooster — Test your email deliverability for free. See if emails go to spam or inbox with our patented technology.
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Raphaël Varane
Angel · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Apps, Drones
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Portugal, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $5.5M–$9.2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinvent — KINVENT is actively involved in the fields of physical rehabilitation and sports biomechanics producing innovative measuring and training devices for the facilitation of every day and athletic movements. Our strengths at KINVENT is that we can think and produce solutions to any challenge of sports biomechanics and physical rehabilitation.Triangular force plates for visual feedback balance training, sensors for continuous 3D kinematic analysis in the water, force sensors for kite surf, accelerometers for rowing and sailing, are some of our on demand products. If you are looking for excellence in hardware and software solutions for your work... work with us.Our KFORCE solution is a range of torque measuring instruments for human strength, balance and motion. This system consists of six instruments with high-precision measuring equipment, which concentrate all the know-how of K-INVENT. The display of the data recorded by the device sensors is transcribed by the KFORCE software, installed on any iOS or Android terminal. This accessory capable of reading and re-transcribing the information given by all dynamometers of the entire range is usable on smartphones or tablets with Android and IOS operating system
  • 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.
  • Docent — Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully-personalized experience for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary masterpieces.
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Denis Fayolle
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $658k–$658k; Angel $329k–$357k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
  • Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
  • Adrenaline Hunter — Live memorable adventures! Book among hundreds of the best outdoor activities on manawa.com. Best service and best prices guaranteed.
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Nicolas Douay
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $500k–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Samp — Whatever the scale, age, or number of facilities, Shared Reality helps industrial operators accelerate their digital twin programs in an affordable and accessible way.
  • Ambler — Ambler is a startup founded in 2018 by experts in digital and so-called "marketplace" models 100% French, the company enjoys the support of public authorities (Wilco-ex Scientipôle) and the support of prestigious private investors , including Partech, Idinvest Partners, Kima Ventures.The startup is developing technologies to help matchthe supply and demand of medical transports. It aggregates, thanks to win-win partnerships, a considerable fleet of vehicles and offers unparalleled deliverability for contractors. Ambler is the only solution capable, nationwide, of absorbing the constant growth of health transport flows induced by demographic and regulatory factors (reform of regional hospital groups).
  • Lalilo — Sign up and invite parents remotely for home access to phonics and reading lessons.
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Wei Guo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4.3M; Angel $375k–$10M; Series A $7M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tbh — tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedbackon social networks.
  • Bungalow — Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States.Bungalow offersprivate bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members.Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.
  • Raydiant — Raydiant empowers brick-and-mortar organizations to deliver engaging, personalized, and measurable on-screen digital experiences to delight in-store customers and engage back-of-house employees.
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Eduardo Ronzano
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$5.3M; Angel $500k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
  • Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
  • Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
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Hubert Patricot
Angel · Uxbridge, Hillingdon, United Kingdom · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Hubert Patricot - Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kipli — Re-think sleep, naturally. Kipli is a luxury natural mattress company operating exclusively online. Our 100% natural latex mattress and its unique conception give you a great comfort and perfect natural nights. Kipli mattresses are handcrafted in Italy to create the best natural mattress possible. And because of our low overhead, we are able tooffer high-quality luxury natural mattresses for about twice less expensive than you'd pay anywhere else.
  • Feed. — Feed. is a French foodtech that designs nutritionally perfect meals, in formats suitable for active people. It is developed by a team of dieticians-nutritionists, agri-food engineers and chefs, the recipes contain natural ingredients that provide 100% of the necessary contributions of a balanced meal.
  • Mium Lab — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
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Lee Linden
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, Canada, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.5M; Angel $700k–$1.5M; Series A $3.7M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
  • Lava — Lava is a Bitcoin lending platform.
  • Jupiter — Jupiter is a specialized manufacturer of hair, scalp care and dandruff products.
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Tony Parker
Angel · Boerne, Texas, United States · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Colizey — Colizey is building a global sports marketplace, starting with France. It is connecting technical and inspiring brands (and edgy retailers) to passionate consumers. It is centralizing, simplifying and elevating the experience of shopping for sports equipment for men, women and children.
  • 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.
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Marc Valerius de Beffort
Angel · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Marc Valerius de Beffort

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mium Lab — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
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Frederic Bruneteau
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Frederic Bruneteau is the founder and Managing Director of PTOLEMUS Consulting Group, an international strategic advisory firm focused on location-based services (LBS), navigation and telematics. Frederic assists all leading players in the field in designing effective strategies and value propositions around location. He has gained 15 years ofstrategic and operational experience in 10 countries, mostly in the mobility ecosystem. He is expert at designing strategies in LBS and is a frequent speaker at mobility and LBS conferences.Previously, he was Product Line Manager in charge of Content & Services with TOMTOM INTERNATIONAL in Amsterdam. He defined the company’s worldwide strategy and product development for maps, traffic, points of interests, local search, speed cameras, etc. He also defined its geographic expansion strategy towards new markets. Frederic has been instrumental in designing and launching revolutionary services such as the world's first complete connected navigation suite (LIVE Services) in 5 countries.Before TOMTOM, Frederic worked with VODAFONE / SFR in Paris for 7 years. He assumed several management responsibilities including Director of WiFi / WiMax Marketing & Sales and Head of Multimedia Strategy & Programme Management.Mr. Bruneteau has also worked as a Senior Consultant specialized in mobile telecommunications with ARTHUR D. LITTLE in London and as a Mergers & Acquisitions Analyst with BNP PARIBAS in New York.Mr. Bruneteau is a graduate of HEC Paris and the University of Cologne (CEMS).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Diving, Software, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CORE FOR TECH — Core for Tech is a Deep Tech company who measures and predicts Drowsiness while driving thanks to Heart Rate Variability. Our mission ? Your safety. We detect drowsiness at a very early stage, before it's visible, and predict the driver's upcoming sleepiness level to make the right safety decisions at the right time.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 316
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
  • Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
  • Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
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Omar Fonseca
Angel · Issy-les-moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Soccer, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.
  • 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.
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in France Sports startups

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Series A $7M–$47M; Series B $23M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juro — Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps legal and business users to agree & manage contracts in one unified workspace.
  • Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
  • Skeleton Technologies — Skeleton Technologies is the global leader in ultracapacitor & supercapacitor energy storage and helps companies in automotive, transportation, grid, and industry to save energy.
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Julien Lopizzo
Angel · Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Julien Lopizzo is the PDG at Major Corp. He attended emlyon business school.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Legal Tech, Advertising, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AirCampus — Discover the best BBQ grills, tools, smokers, and accessories at BBQ House. Make every day a grilling day with our online marketplace. Shop now!
  • Major Corp — Economics & Strategic Intelligence Explorer
  • Keyop Média — Keyop Média développe des titres de presse experts.
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Petitjean Patrick
Angel · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Patrick Petitjean is the ex-CEO of the April group and ex-CEO and co-founder of Utwin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, InsurTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorius — Sorius wants to become the first solution that adapts in real time to the needs of the coachee according to his feelings ! His feelings, his health, his motivation, his sleep, his change of schedule, his/her sports results… Sorius is a link between health, wellness, Insurtech !
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Thomas France
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Entrepreneur, Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Cayman Islands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$7.2M; Series A $2.8M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
  • Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
  • Belfort — Belfort is specialising in technology that accelerates encrypted data processing, allowing it to be done in real time without ever decrypting the data.
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Damien Vincent
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Damien Vincent

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Consulting, Communities
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Arnaud Lecherf
Angel · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Arnaud Lecherf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Outdoors, Sharing Economy
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Yescapa — Yescapa is a rental platform for motorhomes and travel vehicles between individuals founded in 2012 by Benoît Panel and Adrien Pinson. The company that began calling itself AlquilarMiAutocaravana has not gone through the hands of any accelerator but the French mentoring program 'The Family'. The results cannot be better, in just threeyears, Yescapa has85,000 registered users in France, Germany, and Spain.The proper functioning of the idea is due, in part, to its success in the two rounds of financing that it has closed to date. The first in 2014 for a value of 550,000 euros, and the last one in September 2016 for 3 million euros. In this last round it has been capitalized only by MAIF Avenir , an investment fund, belonging to the MAIF insurer, specialized in collaborative economics, the digital world and innovation. MAIF Avenir joins the capital of Yescapa's historical associates, which are Frédéric Mazzella and Damien Grulier (co-founders of BlaBlaCar ), Stéphane Romanyszyn (founder of Entreparticuliers.com), Thierry Vandewalle and Xavier Gury (WINDEST fund), Laurent Mouflin (Pax Corporate Finance), The Family, and Arnaud Lecherf.Yescapa has been recognized with several awards in France, for the originality and usefulness of the idea. In addition, its differential value lies in the rental of camper vans and camper vans between individuals in a simple and fast way through its web platform, allowing users to enjoy innovative and unique trips under the parameters of simplicity, trust, and safety.
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Rio Ferdinand
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Rio Ferdinand

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Freight Service
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$26M; Series A $16M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sokin — Sokin is a leading financial service provider that enables global payments for both consumers and businesses. Sokin believes in giving you the power to make payments and transfer money as many times as you want per month! Whether it’s sending money back home or transfers to friends or even settling with businesses using Sokin, our innovativeprocess makes the task quick and easy.Sokin delivers global payments for a fixed fee, is commission and hassle free!Transferring money internationally is complicated and expensive. Sometimes there is a lack of transparency in the fees you pay. With our transparent fixed monthly costs, for businesses and consumers, there are no hidden charges. You will not have to spend hours researching the best rates!Our cost effective solution is simple to understand: One Monthly Fee. This will to allow you to make payments in over 200 countries and the ability to exchange money in over 150 countries in over 35 different currencies. Sokin can also transfer any currency into any bank account in China within 2 hours excluding weekends and Chinese bank holidays.To find out more about the only payment provider to provide global payments for a fixed fee, commission free and hassle free – download our app and sign up to ensure you don’t miss out on key messages!
  • DeliveryApp — Intelligent, end-to-end logistics built for efficiency, service and business scale. Unified technology, a managed network and strategic expertise in one powerful platform
  • Deliver E Hub — DeliveryApp is transforming the logistics industry by addressing long-standing challenges with innovative technology and a commitment to ethical practices. Our platform connects couriers and customers seamlessly, providing comprehensive delivery information and ensuring transparency. We prioritize ethical driver treatment and sustainability,offering carbon-neutral deliveries and incentives for electric vehicles. With a rapidly growing network of fully vetted drivers across the UK, DeliveryApp provides scalable, efficient logistics solutions for businesses and individuals. Join us in revolutionizing the logistics sector and driving positive change. Visit our website or connect with us on LinkedIn. #Logistics #Innovation #Sustainability #EthicalBusiness #DeliveryApp
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Eric Dodin
Angel · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Eric Dodin is the ex CEO of Europcar and CEO of AssurOne.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, InsurTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorius — Sorius wants to become the first solution that adapts in real time to the needs of the coachee according to his feelings ! His feelings, his health, his motivation, his sleep, his change of schedule, his/her sports results… Sorius is a link between health, wellness, Insurtech !
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Thomas Rebaud
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$5.5M; Series A $596k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
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Chris Hitchen
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $584k–$3.8M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
  • Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
  • Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
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Michael Benabou
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

President at Financiere Saint James.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$7.1M; Angel $560k–$15M; Series A $2.7M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lemrock
  • Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
  • ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
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Vincent Gombault
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Vincent Gombault has a master's degree in Financial Techniques from ESSEC and a DESS (post-graduate professional degree) in Banking and Finance. He also holds a degree in Law and a master's degree in Economics.Before joining AXA Private Equity in 1998, where he developed and managed the funds of funds business, Vincent Gombault workedin AXA Group’s Industrial Holdings department (1991-1998) after a spell as Investment Manager in the M&A department of Société Générale. He began his career at the French Trade Commission in Detroit (USA).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MoonBikes — MoonBikes is a powerfull and ultra light electric snowbike, a new alternative to snowmobile. Enjoy the winter outdoor activities in a total silence. Explore the nature without compromising it. Moonbikes is a zero emission vehicle, easy to ride, easy to handle. MoonBikes makes your winter transportation more fun and easy. Come ride with us!
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Nicolas Steegmann
Angel · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.4M; Angel $500k–$1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora
  • Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.
  • Kerys Software — Your Isolated Workplace is Just One Swipe Away
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Martin Jaglin
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Martin Jaglin is the Co-Founder at MPG.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, Sports, Internet
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
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Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $511k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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!
  • Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.
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Patrick Weil
Angel · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Patrick Weil is the President of the Prunay Group and of Prunay Impact -Startup Studio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, InsurTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorius — Sorius wants to become the first solution that adapts in real time to the needs of the coachee according to his feelings ! His feelings, his health, his motivation, his sleep, his change of schedule, his/her sports results… Sorius is a link between health, wellness, Insurtech !
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Stéphane Rossetto
Angel · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Stéphane Rossetto is a combatant of the Tour de France 2019.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, InsurTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorius — Sorius wants to become the first solution that adapts in real time to the needs of the coachee according to his feelings ! His feelings, his health, his motivation, his sleep, his change of schedule, his/her sports results… Sorius is a link between health, wellness, Insurtech !
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Benjamin Griveaux
Angel · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Benjamin Griveaux is a former minister and an entrepreneur.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Sports, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorius — Sorius wants to become the first solution that adapts in real time to the needs of the coachee according to his feelings ! His feelings, his health, his motivation, his sleep, his change of schedule, his/her sports results… Sorius is a link between health, wellness, Insurtech !
  • ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
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Cyril Vermeulen
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Cyril Vermeulen is a French web entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded the auFeminin.com Group, #1 women property online worldwide and was in charge of Business Development until the company was acquired by German media group Axel Springer. He was also in charge of SmartAdServer, the auFeminin adserving subsidiary, a european leader ofthe adserving technologies.Cyril has invested in a large number of start-ups in Europe and the US.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Homepilot — We revolutionize residential property management through the use of technology.
  • Symaps.io — Location intelligence platform. Decision-making tool for distribution network management and expansion. Catchment area, traffic & geomarketing data. Get a demo.
  • Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
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Julien Codorniou
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in France Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
  • Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
  • 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.
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Simon Dawlat
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Simon Dawlat - CEO @ Batch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, EdTech, TV
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cognyx — Cognyx is a platform that enables manufacturers to design complex hardware at software speed using AI and graph databases. It creates a "collaborative super-BOM" that connects legacy systems, allowing designers, manufacturers, and buyers to collaborate on a single BOM. Cognyx reduces time-to-market, improves design reliability, and buildsstructured data for AI.
  • Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
  • wilgo.ai — Wilgo.ai strives to equip the future generation with the tools, mindset, and motivation to learn, grow, and flourish.
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Frederic Halley
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Keyban — Build interoperable customer experience based on Keyban infrastructure
  • NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
  • Kamino Retail — Ultimate Retail Media Monetization Platform that has been designed for Retailers to unlock their true potential and set up their own private marketplace. The 1st independent and interoperable Retail Media Monetization platform.
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Alexandre Lebrun
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Alexandre Lebrun is the Co-Founder and CEO at Nabla. He was the Co-Founder of Wit.ai and VirtuOz.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • omena — Oména is working on a digital handbook to assist women as they transition through menopause.
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Marc Simoncini
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Audio
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.
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Mario Götze
Angel · German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fyxer AI — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
  • revel8 — revel8 turns your team into a Human Firewall - with deepfake voice calls, multichannel phishing simulations, and personalized cyber awareness training.
  • welevel — Building games with attitude
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Bertrand Jacquelot
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
  • Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
  • Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity
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Benjamin Kayser
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Investor, entrepreneur, formerly international rugby player

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Investment focus

  • Industry: DIY, Insurance, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series E
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Murfy — Murfy provides home appliances repair services, we aim to redefine the standards of this industry with a fully digital process, customer support and online content which promotes DIY.It is estimated that around 28 millions home devices (dishwasher, oven, fridge, dryer...) encountered a default in France in 2018. According to a report from thefrench agency "ADEME", only 2.4 millions of them were repaired. Murfy has been started to provide a simple and affordable answer to this huge amount of waste.In 2019, Murfy expects to launch a "Zero Waste" offer, dealing with any type of default at a fixed cost.
  • Alan — Alan is a digital health insurance platform that revolutionizes health insurance by focusing on user experience with an excellent price-quality ratio health plan. Alan started by creating a health insurance company for individuals and companies, that they can trust as a service and enjoy as an experience. Alan is the insurance company that makeshealthcare simpler, smarter, and better.It is the first new independent insurance licensed in France since 1986 by the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) and it has raised more than €125m with leading investors such as Index Ventures, CNP, Partech, and Portage since its creation in 2016.
  • Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
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Thierry Peuchot
Angel · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Thierry Peuchot, former marketing director of Nike

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fashion, Sustainability
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Circle Sportswear — Circle Sportswear is a Circular & Sustainable Premium Sportswear DNVB
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Marie Outtier
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Marie is a tech entrepreneur and investor. She co-founded and ran Aiden.ai, a B2B Saas that was acquired by Twitter in 2019. She served as Director of Product at Twitter until November 2022 and left as Twitter was becoming X. She is one of the most active angel investors in Europe with over 25 investments she made in the last three years alone inthe UK, France, the US. 56% of her portfolio has at least one female founder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biofuel, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • omena — Oména is working on a digital handbook to assist women as they transition through menopause.
  • Gigi — AI social app
  • EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.
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Samuel Guez
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Samuel Guez is the founder of My Jolie Candle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mium Lab — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
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Damien Fretay
Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Damien du Fretay Committed investor: Business Angel & Advisor in start-up and real estate

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Diving, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CORE FOR TECH — Core for Tech is a Deep Tech company who measures and predicts Drowsiness while driving thanks to Heart Rate Variability. Our mission ? Your safety. We detect drowsiness at a very early stage, before it's visible, and predict the driver's upcoming sleepiness level to make the right safety decisions at the right time.
  • ASTUCORP — Our platform is 100% focused on veterinarian's daily practice to help them to digitalize the consultation. We are gathering in one single place all the tools they need to explain pathologies and treatments to the client and to stay up to date: medical news, dosage calculator, consultation interface, diagnostic help tool, continual education, amedical search engine, telemedicine.ASTUVET is making the digital revolution that has not happened in vet market yet. - Have you ever been to the vet and come out not always understanding what he explained to you? - Have you gone to the internet to find information about your pet's health instead of getting it from your vet? - Is your veterinarian able to show you videos, pictures, 3D models related to pathologies and treatments? If you answered no to at least one of these questions, you see that ASTUVET will change things in your relationship with your veterinarian.
  • Madeinvote — With its ultra-targeted online consumer research solution, Madeinvote provides key insights that will help brands and organizations in their strategic decision-making. It harnesses the power of the internet and social media to capture consumers right where they are to answer your questions. Thanks to the wide range of targeting methods, it has theability to reach only the audience that interests you and thus create your target sample according to ultra-precise geographical and marketing criteria.
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Stéphane Romanyszyn
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Sports startups

Stéphane Romanyszyn - President @ Entreparticuliers.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Family, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Homeloc — Homeloc est une solution destinée aux propriétaires de location de vacances, proposant de nombreuses fonctionnalités au sein d’une interface unique : - Multidiffusion des annonces sur de nombreux sites partenaires (dont SeLoger Vacances, Locasun, Olx, Trovit, TouTyPasse, FLV.fr …), avec des remises significatives. - Création automatique etgratuite d’un site dédié (ex : www.homeloc.com/test), afin que les locataires potentiels puissent effectuer des demandes de réservation. - Messagerie centralisée pour retrouver et traiter facilement les demandes de réservation. - Synchronisation des calendriers de disponibilté. Pour les propriétaires, la promesse est simple : générer plus de réservations, tout en économisant du temps et de l’argent.
  • Yescapa — Yescapa is a rental platform for motorhomes and travel vehicles between individuals founded in 2012 by Benoît Panel and Adrien Pinson. The company that began calling itself AlquilarMiAutocaravana has not gone through the hands of any accelerator but the French mentoring program 'The Family'. The results cannot be better, in just threeyears, Yescapa has85,000 registered users in France, Germany, and Spain.The proper functioning of the idea is due, in part, to its success in the two rounds of financing that it has closed to date. The first in 2014 for a value of 550,000 euros, and the last one in September 2016 for 3 million euros. In this last round it has been capitalized only by MAIF Avenir , an investment fund, belonging to the MAIF insurer, specialized in collaborative economics, the digital world and innovation. MAIF Avenir joins the capital of Yescapa's historical associates, which are Frédéric Mazzella and Damien Grulier (co-founders of BlaBlaCar ), Stéphane Romanyszyn (founder of Entreparticuliers.com), Thierry Vandewalle and Xavier Gury (WINDEST fund), Laurent Mouflin (Pax Corporate Finance), The Family, and Arnaud Lecherf.Yescapa has been recognized with several awards in France, for the originality and usefulness of the idea. In addition, its differential value lies in the rental of camper vans and camper vans between individuals in a simple and fast way through its web platform, allowing users to enjoy innovative and unique trips under the parameters of simplicity, trust, and safety.
  • Yoopies — Yoopies is the European home services platform. Child care, cleaning, tutoring, help for dependent relatives, or even animal care, find and book the perfect counselor for your (your) need (s).
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Sports Angel investor funding in France at a glance

Stats across 22 deals from 37 investors.

37
investors
in France Sports startups
22
deals
in France Sports startups
$2.3M
median round
in France Sports startups
11%
lead investors
lead at least one round
45%
Seed
most common funding stage

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