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Top 20 Angel Investors in France in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Venture capital startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from France. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Angel Investors in France in May 2025

Investor	Venture Capital France investments
Sylvain Zimmer	2
Edward Lando	1
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	1
Lars Seier Christensen	1
Stéphane Distinguin	1
Willy Braun	1
Sébastien Sikorski	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Frederic Montagnon	1
Xavier Niel	1
Thibault Poutrel	1
Denis Lafont-Trévisan	1
John Bautista	1
Marc Simoncini	1
Marc Simoncini	1
Jon Oringer	1
Jon Oringer	1
Jean-David Blanc	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Jon Oringer	1

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Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
Waldo — The codeless way to quickly build a comprehensive test suite for teams who don't compromise on speed and quality.
TOTEM — A Totem is a place of sharing and conviviality in your office. This is an opportunity for your colleagues to get to know each other better, celebrate victories and defeats together, and build a solid culture.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.

Lars seier Christensen is the chief executive officer of Saxo Bank, an online trading and investment specialist that enables clients to trade forex, CFDs, stocks, futures, options, and other derivatives.

Investment focus

Software, Communities, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Denmark, Switzerland, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Paperflow — Paperflow is a company that developed a cloud-based system that, using artificial intelligence, scans and handles vouchers such as receipts or invoices so that the manual posting is done automatically.
Concordium — Layer-1 Proof of Stake Blockchain, sustainable and science-proven with an ID layer to ease regulatory compliance. Fast and real finality with stable and low fees. Built for Defi, NFTs, and the metaverse.
Wikifactory — Experience the power of our cloud PDM and collaborative CAD viewer, integrated with on-demand manufacturing. Built for engineers, designed for everyone.

Stéphane Distinguin is the founder and CEO of FABERNOVEL. Stéphane graduated from ESCP Europe in 1997 and joined Deloitte & Touche. In 1999 he participated in the creation of Up&Up, an early stage investment fund. In 2003, he created FABERNOVEL. As a French entrepreneur and activist in the field of new technology and innovation, Stéphaneparticipated in the launch of new event formats like BarCamps, MobileMondays, CleanTuesdays and TEDxParis. He also played an important role in the creation of the co-working spaces of the ‘Cantines” network, PARISOMA in San Fransisco and the start-up accelerator Le Camping. Stéphane is chairman of Cap Digital, member of the French Digital Council and honorary chairman of Silicon Sentier.

Investment focus

Finance, Lending, Real Estate
Angel, Pre-Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
Sezame — Sezame is a real estate firm. They offer real estate property by leasing or renting with an option to buy, enabling customers to buy property in a hassle-free way and become owners in less than three years.
Actionable — Actionable is a startup specialized in predictive analysis of customer satisfaction through artificial intelligence. With its innovative platform, it provides businesses with the ability to predict the satisfaction of their entire customer base on a daily basis. By employing an innovative method that analyzes data throughout the customer journey,Actionable identifies the key factors driving this satisfaction and enables tracking of key metrics in real-time through a comprehensive dashboard and widgets. Its goal is to transform the measurement of customer satisfaction into a continuous, precise, and actionable process.

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Investment focus

Software, Education, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

LETTRIA — Created in 2017 by Marian Szczesniak, Victor de la Salmonière and Charles Borderie, Lettria is one of the most advanced players in NLP (Natural Language Processing) in the French-speaking market. The team has developed a unique technology to achieve a higher level of accuracy and correction in French than the models created by English-speakingactors. Lettria aims to bring the processing of the French language as close as possible to human functioning by creating APIs based on French semantics and not on keywords. The Lettria team combines its scientific and technological skills with linguist profiles in order to deal as closely as possible with the specificities of the French language. They aim to make the use of NLP technologies accessible by offering high-performance proprietary libraries, high-quality educational content and demonstrating the benefits of using a 100% French model in all sectors of activity.
Generare — Harness the ingenuity of nature to transform small molecule discovery
Galion.exe — Galion.exe invests in seed rounds and provide tools like guides, benchmarks, database, and open-source documents.

Startuper. Y Combinator Alumni. Ex-Founding Employee of AdopteUnMec. Lecturer at SciencesPo.

Investment focus

SaaS, Apps, Banking
Seed, Angel
France

Portfolio highlights

Nfinite — Create silos and ambiances quickly by using the nfinite Virtual Photography studio. nfinite accelerates your business with rich visual creations.
Onoff — Onoff Telecom offers a variety of products for private and business customers that seek to revolutionize communications.
Betterway — Payment solutions for mobility

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.

Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cube — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
H Company — Runner H is a state-of-the-art AI agent that will allow anyone to automate complex, cumbersome, multi-step tasks without repetitive and manual input.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
Della AI — Thanks to the AI capabilities of Legisway Analyzer, lawyers can seamlessly leverage unique AI technology and deep learning capabilities to automate contract indexing
Concord — Concord's AI-powered contract management software helps businesses track spending, negotiate smarter, and never miss deadlines. Try it today!

Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Spacetech related companies. 2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 4 exits. Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
Twenty — Packed with advanced features, customizable workflows, supported by a large community. Transform customer relationship management seamlessly and efficiently.
Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.

Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, B2B
Seed, Funding Round
Spain, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
Seed — Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.
The Family — The Family is a family for ambitious entrepreneurs, wherever they are. Since 2013, we have supported +700 startups, from Day 1 to worldwide scaling.

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.

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Audio
Seed, Angel, Series A
France

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.

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.

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Audio
Seed, Angel, Series B
France

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.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.

Jean-David has always been a tremendous entrepreneur since he started his first company at the age of 16. At that time, he created an interactive service company (Concerto Telematique) for brands such as Coca Cola, Marlboro or Renault. In 1993, he created AlloCine, an internet multimedia movie guide service which rapidly became France #1destination for movies, cinema and entertainment and one of France’s most famous internet success stories. AlloCine was sold to Vivendi in 2001. Prior co-founding Molotov with Pierre Lescure in 2015, he invested in several successful companies such as Meetic, Amalto technologies, Restopolitan, Veoprint, Square Inc. or The Cools.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
Aula Education — Aula's created by educators to make every learning experience truly engaging. See how our simple, social platform can transform your digital learning environment.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Unsloth AI — Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.

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