# Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in France in May 2026

## Sake Bosch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

Sake Bosch is a Founder and Managing Partner of Prime Ventures since 1999. Sake brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and sales and venture capital to Prime. Prior to founding Prime in 1999, Sake was a Senior Principal at Holland Venture and was responsible for managing investments in technology companies. Sake was involved in many ofthe Holland Venture technology investments including Applicare Medical Imaging (acquired by GE Medical Systems), BWise (acquired by Nasdaq), SQL Systems (acquired by Datastream) and Freecom (acquired by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media). Before joining Holland Venture in 1994, Sake worked as an Independent Corporate Finance Consultant focusing primarily on early stage companies. Prior to this position Sake was a Sales Executive at Securitas Group. Sake started his career in 1989 as a Strategic Market Analyst at VNU. Sake serves on the board of directors of Civolution, 4C, Dealerdirect, Digital Origin, Greetz, Forcare, SaaSPlaza, SlimPay and Takeaway.com. Previous investments include: 3mensio Medical Imaging (acquired by Esaoto), eBuddy (acquired by Booking.com), Global Collect (acquired by General Atlantic), MarketXS (acquired by Markit), Nedstat (acquired by comScore Inc.), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Watermark (acquired by Qurius). Sake holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration as well as a B.A. degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering.

## Arthur Waller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Arthur Waller is a co-founder of PriceMatch, a start-up aiming to industrialize and democratize yield management.Arthur studied economics and econometrics at Ecole polytechnique and Sciences Po. He first worked in economic research at the IMF and at Goldman Sachs before creating his start-up, PriceMatch, with some friends. Using theirskills in economics, econometrics, software engineering, they developed a SaaS platform offering revenue management solutions to companies.

## Rand Hindi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Rand Hindi is based out of United States and is the General Partner of Unit Ventures. Rand previously worked at Naval Group as an Advisor. Rand Hindi attended 
Singularity University. Rand Hindi has been awarded Rising Star.

## Frédéric Mazzella
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Apps

Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.

## Nicolas Steegmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

## Emmanuel Vasseneix
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Nutrition, Sustainability

Emmanuel Vasseneix

## St&eacute;phane Romanyszyn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Family, Rental, Travel

St&eacute;phane Romanyszyn - President @ Entreparticuliers.com

## Antoine de Chassy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Oil and Gas

Antoine de Chassy is the Co-founder of Loft Orbital.

## Karim Kaddoura
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Security, Software

Karim Kaddoura - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

## Mark Bivens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Mark Bivens is the Founder and Managing Director of Tachi.ai Ventures and shuttles between Paris and Tokyo. Current board seats and active investments include: Amplified.ai, Azarus, CoolGames, Curvegrid, Enterra, enTouch, QuantCube, Supervaisor, the AfricaTri Foundation, among others.Past exits include: Birdview (acq. by Constellation Software),CCI Publishers, Capsule (acq. by JMI Equity), Cerent (acq. by Cisco), Cybernetix (acq. by Technip), Domain Appraisal Tech, GoCater (acq. by EZCater), Kang (acq. by Adviqo), ITMasters (acq. by BMC Software), Keyyo (IPO), MakeLeaps (acq. by Ricoh), Momac (acq. by Sandvine), PeopleCube (acq. by Asure Software), Peer Digital (acq. by V-Span), and Vision/IQ (acq. by MG International).Prior to becoming a VC, Bivens founded 3 tech companies including one successful exit. He is the author of "Japan: Bitcoin #1," a book on Japan's leadership in cryptocurrency, as well as "Land of the Rising Blockchain." He holds a degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

## Rayyan Islam
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology

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

## Yannis Yahiaoui
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence

Yannis Yahiaoui is the Co-Founder of Xpln.ai. He previously worked at Regattas as an Investor. Yannis Yahiaoui attended Emlyon Business School.

## Tobias Lechtenfeld
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: GreenTech, Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering

Tobias Lechtenfeld is a partner at 1.5° Ventures.

## Florian Seroussi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps

Florian Seroussi is the Founder and CEO of Evercontact and Trackbuster. He previously worked at Global Roaming as the President and CEO. Florian Seroussi attended Tel Aviv University.

## Bertrand Jacquelot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Information Technology

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

## Adrian McDermott
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, Internet

Adrian leads Zendesk’s Product Management, Engineering and Operations teams.Prior to Zendesk he was CTO at Attributor and, as general manager, ran the video compliance business from first customer sales to business unit acquisition.Previously he was the VP of Engineering for Plumtree/BEA where he started as the first engineer hired byPlumtree and worked through the Plumtree IPO and subsequent acquisition by BEA.Prior to Plumtree Adrian worked as an itinerant software consultant in London, Hong Kong, Sydney and Guam.He has a 1st Class Honours Degree in Computer Science from De Montfort University.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Alexandre Prot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Alexandre Prot - Co-Founder and CEO @ Qonto

## Thibault Lanthier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, Software, GreenTech

Thibault Lanthier Entrepreneur & Investor - ex. Founder & CEO @MonDocteur

## Patrick Sayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Music

Patrick Sayer has served as a Director since 2012. Mr. Sayer has been the Chief Executive Officer of Eurazeo (a leading publicly-held investment company in Europe) since 2002. From 1995 until 2002 he served as a Director and Advisor to the CEO of Eurazeo. Prior to becoming CEO of Eurazeo, Mr. Sayer was employed by Lazard, (an internationalfinancial advisory and asset management firm) for 20 years, last serving as a Managing Director and Head of Lazard’s Technology and Media group. Mr. Sayer is vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rexel SA, and a member of the Board of Directors of other Eurazeo portfolio companies, including Accor and Edenred. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris.  Mr. Sayer has a French Financial Analyst Degree and serves as a professor of finance at Dauphine University in Paris.

## Guillaume Amblard
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Banking, FinTech

Guillaume Amblard

## Christer Andersson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services

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

## Axel Toupane
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Robotics, Software

Grew up in France, been playing basketball my whole life and now opening myself to brand new horizons. Being an entrepreneur, an investor , an actor of the new wave of athletes who are making businesses off the court.
Above all, i’m willing to learn and talk about new opportunities. 

## Arnaud Lecherf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Internet, Outdoors, Sharing Economy

Arnaud Lecherf

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Dimitri Farber Garcia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Residential, Sharing Economy

Dimitri Farber Garcia - Co-Founder @ Tiller Systems

## Thibault Chassagne
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Security, Software

Thibault Chassagne - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

## Maxime Hurtebize
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Electronics, Health Care

Maxime Hurtebize is an Investment Officer - Financial Institutions at PROPARCO. He attended emlyon business school.

## Nicolas Douay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Clement Benoit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

## Romain Afflelou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software

Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)

## John Browne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: GPS, Energy, Big Data

John Browne serves as part of the advisory board at Giant Ventures.

## Pierre Krings
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Rental, Health Care, Information Technology

Pierre Krings is the founder of Price Minister.

## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce

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.

## Marc-Antoine de Longevialle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Manufacturing

Marc-Antoine de Longevialle

## Stephan Rohr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, GreenTech, Recycling

Founder & Co-CEO @ TWAICE.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

## Andreas Wiele
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2C, Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate

Andreas Wiele is the President of Marketing and Classified Ad Models at Axel Springer SE since April 2014. Andreas was in born 1962, he studied law at Dijon, Salzburg and Munich Universities. Andreas worked first of all as an editor at Hamburger Morgenpost, before he became assistant to the Chairman of the Gruner + Jahr management board in1988. In 1990 Andreas took over responsibility for the "Capital" project at the Prisma Presse publishing company in Paris, where he became publishing manager of "Capital" and "Geo" in 1991. In 1994, Andreas moved to New York to join Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, initially as Senior Vice President and General Manager of "Family Circle" and "McCall's" and from 1997 onwards as executive vice-president and chief operating officer for the publishing company as a whole. Andreas Wiele was appointed member of the Executive Board responsible for International Affairs in October 2000 and has been head of the Magazines and International Affairs Division since November 2000. In January 2008, he was appointed President BILD Group and Magazines, since April 2014 he is President Marketing and Classified Ad Models. Andreas' key mandates in supervisory bodies: Axel Springer Digital Classifieds GmbH (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), B.Z. Ullstein GmbH (Advisory Board), meinestadt.de GmbH (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Stepstone GmbH (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Zanox AG (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Immoweb SA, Belgium (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Aufeminin S.A., France (Board of Directors), Axel Springer Digital Classifieds France SAS, France (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Seloger.com SAS, France (Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Corall-Tell Ltd., Israel (Board of Directors), Prinovis Ltd., UK (Board of Directors).

## Martin Olczyk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

- MD at Techstars (Berlin/Amsterdam/Turin) 
- Co-founder, CFO/COO of Cunesoft (acquired by Phlexglobal)
- Founder of GeeXstar, Asia's first tech-focused investment banking boutique
- Founder of Clappifieds.de <http://clappifieds.de/>, a classifieds marketplace for Apple products
- Mentor at TechGrind,Thailand’s first tech incubator, investing in promising startups across SEA
– Founder of HonMed, a network for independent emergency doctors in Germany
– Founder of a CoWorking space

## Sébastien FOREST
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Sharing Economy

Sébastien FOREST

## Eric Bergé
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: GreenTech, Manufacturing, Environmental Engineering

Eric Bergé is a founding director at peachtree.

## Jean-Gabriel Levon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Drones, GreenTech, Advertising

Jean-Gabriel is the COO of the Company. As an engineer and entrepreneur, he and his team lead the development of Ynsect operations in its industrial sites. He has a cumulative 8 years of experience in industrial companies and projects.Prior to founding Ynsect in 2011, Jean-Gabriel worked and traveled as a consultant for Schlumberger in the oilindustry.

## Marc Simoncini
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Software, Audio

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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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

## Sebastien Breteau
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Apps, EdTech, Software

Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solutions provider headquartered in Hong Kong.Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with brands, retailers and manufacturers in consumer goods and food to secure and improve the quality of their global supply network.QIMA combines on-the-ground experts in 85 countries for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data.In 2013, Sebastien created the Breteau Foundation, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote digital education for children in developing countries. 18,000 children are now enrolled in its program.Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested in over 30 start-ups globally.

## Nicolas Dessaigne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

## Bertrand Jelensperger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, E-Commerce

Bertrand Jelensperger is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board at TheFork.

## Marie Outtier
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biofuel, Biotechnology

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.
