Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in France in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in France in November 2024
Investor | Sports France investments |
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Frederic Bruneteau | 2 |
Hubert Patricot | 2 |
Lee Linden | 2 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 2 |
Olivier Thomas | 2 |
Wei Guo | 2 |
Raphaël Varane | 2 |
Frederic Halley | 2 |
Edward Lando | 2 |
Nicolas Douay | 2 |
Julien Lemoine | 2 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 2 |
Denis Fayolle | 2 |
Marc Valerius de Beffort | 2 |
Steven Alan | 2 |
Declan Kelly | 2 |
John Maloney | 2 |
Jeremy Charoy | 1 |
François Pervis | 1 |
Tony Parker | 1 |
Lucie Lefevre | 1 |
Simon Dawlat | 1 |
Patrick Weil | 1 |
Gary Vaynerchuk | 1 |
Petitjean Patrick | 1 |
Gerard Pique | 1 |
Samuel Guez | 1 |
Frédéric Mazzella | 1 |
Teddy Riner | 1 |
Karim Irouche | 1 |
Benjamin Griveaux | 1 |
Vincent Gombault | 1 |
Stéphane Romanyszyn | 1 |
William Bonnet | 1 |
Bertrand Jacquelot | 1 |
Nicolas Steegmann | 1 |
Cyril Vermeulen | 1 |
Stéphane Rossetto | 1 |
Eric Dodin | 1 |
André Schürrle | 1 |
Cédric Delorme | 1 |
Mario Götze | 1 |
Julien Lopizzo | 1 |
Rio Ferdinand | 1 |
Olivier Legrain | 1 |
Trent Kososki | 1 |
Thomas Rebaud | 1 |
Damien Fretay | 1 |
Ronan Le Moal | 1 |
Chris Hitchen | 1 |
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
- Diving, Software, Logistics
- Seed, Funding Round
- France
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.
Hubert Patricot - Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Fashion, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- France
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.
- Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
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
- Software, Health Care, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
- Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
- Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.
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
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Olivier Thomas
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
- Angel, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
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
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, China, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
- Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
- Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.
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
- Sports, Apps, Soccer
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, Portugal, United Kingdom
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.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
- 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.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United Kingdom, Mauritius
Portfolio highlights
- Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
- Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
- underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.
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
- Software, Cloud Management, Cloud Computing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States
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 — Inboxbooster fixes your email in spam. It starts with a free inbox placement test, then we analyze your email including your content.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- France
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 unforgettable moments! Book among hundreds of the best outdoor activities on manawa.com. Best service and best prices guaranteed.
Marc Valerius de Beffort
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
- Angel, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
Steven Alan - FOUNDER & CEO @ Steven Alan
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Investment focus
- Wellness, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, France
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.
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
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.
Managing Partner @TerrapinBale, Former President @Tumblr, @Circa, Co-founder UrbanBaby, angel investor
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Video
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, France
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 — Upgrading the world to a positive food system.
- 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.
Jeremy Charoy is the co-founder LALALAB.
Launched in 2012, LALALAB is the most downloaded and the best rated mobile printing app in Europe. With over 5M+ downloads and more than 20k reviews with a 4.5+ average rating on AppStore and Google Play, LALALAB already delivered millions of photos in more than 70 countries.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
- Seed, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
François Pervis is a Multiple world champion and Olympic medalist in track cycling in 2016 and 2020.
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Investment focus
- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Sporting Goods
- Series A
- France
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.
Lucie Lefèvre is a French Champion and medalist at the European and World Cyclo-cross Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2014.
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Investment focus
- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
Simon Dawlat - CEO @ Batch
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Investment focus
- Apps, EdTech, Banking
- Seed, Series B
- France
Portfolio highlights
- omena — Oména is working on a digital handbook to assist women as they transition through menopause.
- 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.
Patrick Weil is the President of the Prunay Group and of Prunay Impact -Startup Studio.
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Investment focus
- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX. He previously worked at Resy as a Co-Founder. Gary Vaynerchuk attended Mount Ida College.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
- Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
- Unrivaled — Unrivaled operates as a professional women's basketball league.
Patrick Petitjean is the ex-CEO of the April group and ex-CEO and co-founder of Utwin.
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Investment focus
- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
Gerard Piqué Bernabéu is the President & Founder of Kosmos.He Previously worked at eFootball.Pro as the President & Co-Founder.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Apps, Video
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Spain, France, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- GOALS — GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. Gameplay-first, free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- Kamleon — The first intelligent urine analysis platform seamlessly integrated into daily life. Immerse yourself in an unparalleled user experience while we lead the digital transformation in the bathroom industry.
Samuel Guez is the founder of My Jolie Candle.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, Wellness, Nutrition
- Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, Hungary
Portfolio highlights
- La Vie — La Vie is developing a 100% vegetable edible fat with the ambition of offering different types of vegetable meats.
- MentorShow — Mentor Show offers online course, Whether you want to improve your cooking, your football skills, your magic, or even your mental strength, you'll be able to learn from the very best, like Karim Benzema, Hélène Darroze, Kev Adams, and many more..
- Deligo Vision Technologies — Simple and effective automation of checkout in contract catering.
Teddy Riner is the three-time Olympic champion and ten-time World champion of judo.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Software
- Series A
- France
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.
- Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
Karim Irouche
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Investment focus
- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
Benjamin Griveaux is a former minister and an entrepreneur.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Sports, Education
- Seed
- France
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 — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
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
- Sports
- Seed
- France
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!
Stéphane Romanyszyn - President @ Entreparticuliers.com
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Investment focus
- Family, Rental, Travel
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
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).
William Bonnet participated in 10 Tour de France, 5 Tours of Spain and 3 Tours of Italy.
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Investment focus
- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- France, United States
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- 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
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- AniML — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
- Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
- Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
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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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, United States
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- 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.
Stéphane Rossetto is a combatant of the Tour de France 2019.
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- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
Eric Dodin is the ex CEO of Europcar and CEO of AssurOne.
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- Sports, InsurTech
- Seed
- France
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 !
André Schürrle
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- Software, Sports, Fantasy Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, France
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- LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
- Virtex Apps — Virtex Apps, LLC is the creator of Virtex Arena, a multiplayer augmented reality competition hosted by sports teams to engage their fans in new ways. During half-time or other breaks in the sport, a new virtual competition can be started which fans can see on the field/court using an app on their own mobile devices. Audience members all seeand interact with the same virtual scene at the same time but from their own perspectives, as though the events were actually happening in front of them. The virtual world provides opportunities for increased advertising/sponsorship revenue, and fans will enjoy an innovative, memorable shared experience that can only occur at the team’s stadium.
- Virtex Stadium — Take over the stadium with your friends and view the game live in 3D. You have never been closer to the game before! Join Virtex Stadium now and never miss the live show!
Business angel investing with impact in Foodtech, Winetech, Insuretech and Fintech
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- Software, Biotechnology, CRM
- Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- France
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- Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
- Courtigo — Courtigo is a CRM and comparator software for insurance brokers (SaaS)
- uvoji by T.zic — uvoji designs, develops, manufactures and markets all-in-one solutions for the treatment and disinfection of water at points of use and of surfaces by UV LEDs.To meet the major challenges of access to drinking water and provide technological solutions to the urgent needs of point-of-use water treatment, we launched the Oji Safe, Oji Pure and OjiReuse products. Our solutions are used notably by the French Red Cross for its operations.In response to the Covid pandemic, we developed the Uvo Care. Uvo Care is the disinfection box, Made in France, for all types of masks and everyday objects. The essential ally for resuming your professional activities in complete safety. It has been tested and approved by independent laboratories and kills over 99.999% of viruses and bacteria in just seconds (including SARS-COV2 virus).
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
- Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
- AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Julien Lopizzo is the PDG at Major Corp. He attended emlyon business school.
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- Legal Tech, Advertising, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
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- AirCampus — AirCampus is the mobile app that offers fair prices to Gen Z, whether they shop online and in-store.
- Major Corp — Economics & Strategic Intelligence Explorer
- Keyop Média — Keyop Média développe des titres de presse experts.
Rio Ferdinand
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- Gaming, Soccer, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, France
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- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- DeliveryApp — Book or schedule your same day delivery with our vast network of UK-based same day couriers. Download DeliveryApp to get started today!
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Olivier Legrain - CEO @ IBA
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- SaaS, Mobile, Sports
- Seed
- France, United States
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 !
- Fuel Powered (fuelpowered.com) — Fuel Powered delivers operable, cloud-based, Feature-as-a-Service that maximizes bottom line results for mobile games. Fuel Powered enables game developers to easily transform player experiences, amplify and lengthen their game’s success, while delivering exceptional bottom line results. Fuel Powered is the layer that brings new experiences,increased player LTV and improved retention directly to your game.Fuel Powered's team has over 100 years of learning amongst them in building amazing gaming experiences at companies such as EA, Microsoft, Sega, 2K and Ubisoft. They are passionate about providing a truly premium experience for game developers and publishers as well as the players. The company was founded in 2011 and has raised $6m in total through series A from investors such as Rising Tide Fund and Middle East Venture Partners.
- neuroClues — An easy-to-use eye-tracking environment to help practitioners instantaneously quantify their clinical exam
Mr. Kososki is a Partner at Energy Capital Partners and has been with the firm since inception in 2005. He serves as co-head of the firm’s credit platform and is a member of the Credit Investment Committee, Credit Operating Committee and Valuation Committee. Mr. Kososki helped launch and lead the firm’s credit investing activities. He co-led theteam that sourced and was integrally involved in structuring, executing and monitoring seven of the nine deals in the first credit fund totaling more than $500 million in investments across a diverse array of industry sub-sectors including midstream oil & gas, power generation, renewables and metallurgical coal mining. Mr. Kososki currently serves on the boards of Ramaco Resources Inc., Furie Operating Alaska LLC, ADA Carbon Solutions, LLC, and prior to realization, served on the boards of Rimrock Midstream LLC, Chieftain Sand and Proppant LLC and Sungevity Inc.Prior to joining Energy Capital Partners, Mr. Kososki worked at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Financial Sponsors Investment Banking Group. While at Credit Suisse First Boston, Mr. Kososki worked with private equity firms on numerous leveraged financings and mergers and acquisitions across various industries.Mr. Kososki received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.
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- Sports
- Seed
- France
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- 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!
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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- Software, Information Technology, Social Media
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Japan
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- 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.
Damien du Fretay Committed investor: Business Angel & Advisor in start-up and real estate
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- Software, Diving, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
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- 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.
Ronan Le Moal is the Founding Partner and Managing Director at Epopée Gestion. Ronan Le Moal attended HEC Paris.
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- Finance, Financial Services, Sports
- Seed
- France
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- 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 !
- Vybe — Vybe is a provider of a digital platform used to develop a payment card for Gen Z. It helps in instant transfers, receives instant notification of each expense, and manages expenses securely that enable teenagers to manage their pocket money, pay with their smartphone and get cashback on a lot of transactions.It was founded in 2019, in Paris,France.
- LaBienveillanceFinancière — RegTech, Fintech, Insurtech, wealth management, wealth planning, estate planning In an increasingly complex world, every family needs the type of wealth planning, estate planning, and wealth management advice up to now exclusively reserved for very high-net worth individuals. LaBienveillanceFinancière (LBF) provides professional wealth managementadvisers with an “augmented wealth advisory” platform that enables them to meet this need. LBF’s algorithms automate the production (data collection, analysis, calculations, solutions, reporting) of wealth management solutions personalized for each of its clients' customer. LBF's clients are banks’ financial advisers, insurance brokers, and wealth management adviser networks. The company has already conquered 3 institutional networks. LBF helps them provide higher quality, certified, global (tax, civil law, financial) wealth management advice in no time.
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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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
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- 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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