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Top 20 Angel Investors in France (October 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in France Venture Capital startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in France Venture Capital startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Sylvain Zimmer
Angel
2 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Real Estate $118k–$10M
Arnaud Bonzom
Angel
2 France Seed SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
Denis Lafont-Trévisan
Angel
1 France, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Real Estate $1M–$9.4M
John Bautista
Angel
1 United States, Spain, France Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Banking, B2B $5M–$10M
Frederic Montagnon
Angel
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Blockchain, Internet $310k–$5M
Jon Oringer
Angel
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $175k–$56M
Marc Simoncini
Angel
1 France Seed, Angel, Series B Software, Retail, Finance $219k–$21M
Edward Lando
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $125k–$31M
Jean-David Blanc
Angel
1 France, United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Internet, iOS $84k–$4M
Xavier Niel
Angel
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$35M
Stéphane Distinguin
Angel
1 France, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel TV, Retail, Fashion $1.1M–$3.2M
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
1 France, Israel, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Retail, FinTech, Internet $559k–$57M
Rani Aliahmad
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet $800k–$10M
Emmanuel Picot
Angel
1 France Seed Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
Thibault Poutrel
Angel
1 France, Cameroon, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software $348k–$3.7M
Willy Braun
Angel
1 France, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Shopping $4.3M–$33M
Damien Guermonprez
Angel
1 France, India, Cameroon Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Internet, FinTech $134k–$2.4M
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $120k–$30M
Lars Seier Christensen
Angel
1 Denmark, Switzerland, Japan Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Internet, Blockchain $1.4M–$22M
Sébastien Sikorski
Angel
1 France Seed, Angel SaaS, Apps, Banking $549k–$2.3M
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Sylvain Zimmer
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Sylvain Zimmer is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Chief Technology Officer of La Suite territoriale (EIG) of Direction interministérielle du numérique. Sylvain previously worked at Contentsquare as a head of the CTO office. Sylvain Zimmer attended the National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $740k–$10M; Angel $400k–$500k; Pre-Seed $118k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Arnaud Bonzom
Angel · 2 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Arnaud Bonzom is a former Venture Partner at 500 Startups where he was focusing on helping Southeast Asian entrepreneurs to succeed. He is a frequent speaker at several international conferences including Slush, Tech in Asia, Rise and Web Summit.Arnaud is active as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD and has co-authored a report with INSEAD onhow the largest organizations are engaging with startups which achieved press coverage across 28 countries and generated more than 120 speaking engagement invitations.He has been invited by Accenture, Airbus, Allianz, Amazon Web Services, BMW, Deloitte, INSEAD, MERCER, NUS, Standard Chartered, as well as the Estonian, German and the Singaporean Governments, among others to share his input on Corporate Innovation and Startup Ecosystem.His extensive work in the startup ecosystem received more than 160 citations in prominent media such as Forbes, Bloomberg TV, and Les Echos. His research is also quoted by leading organizations including Bain, SAP, BNP Paribas, and Orange.His main research interest is in Startups and Innovation. More generally, he is fond of subjects which combine several if not all of the following themes: - Entrepreneurship - Venture Capital - Corporate Development - Corporate Startup Engagement - Building a Startup EcosystemHe is also the co-founder of Map the Money, an organization that helps entrepreneurs to raise funds in Southeast Asia. As well as the author of The Asia Funding / M&A Newsletter and the Singapore startup ecosystem and entrepreneur toolbox.Earlier in his career, Arnaud was involved in setting up and growing new businesses including for INSEAD as Assistant Director of Corporate Partnership Development. Prior to that, he worked at Business France as Trade Advisor in New Technologies, Innovation and Services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Edda — Software Suite for Venture Capital, Corporate Venture Private Equity, Family Offices & Investment Bank Manage your dealflow, support your portfolio companies, track your performances in real-time and raise your next fund with edda.
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Denis Lafont-Trévisan
Angel · Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Real Estate
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$9.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aithra — Unique 3D printing process, to shape all materials. Our innovation produces optimal properties: mechanical, thermal, aesthetic, etc. with reduced energy & post-processing costs. Spinel, Diamond, Sapphire, TiAl, Molybdenum, Aluminum Alloys, Magnetic Materials, etc with no mold, no binder and no shrinkage.
  • Twenty — The #1 Open Source CRM for modern teams. Modular, scalable, and built to fit your business.
  • Positive Aviation —
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John Bautista
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Spain, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $5M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Longeye — Longeye is an online tool that provides justice system to update case files and get the quick resolutions.
  • 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.
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Frederic Montagnon
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$5M; Angel $560k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $310k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Jon Oringer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
  • Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code deskop UI for training and running open models on your local hardware.
  • OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.
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Marc Simoncini
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Marc Simoncini is the CEO, Co-Founder and Owner of Jaina Capital. He previously worked at MEETIC as a Founder, Owner and Ex-CEO. Marc Simoncini attended E.S.I.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Angel $219k–$1.1M; Series B $20M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
  • Shadow — Experience the power of cloud gaming with Shadow.tech. Dive into a world where high-performance gaming is accessible on any device. Enjoy features such as 4K resolution, VR compatibility, and seamless gameplay without the need for expensive hardware. Explore our comprehensive game store and start your ultimate gaming journey today
  • URBAN CUISINE — Urban Cuisine creates interconnected indoor gardens where plants can thrive to produce fruit, vegetables, and flavorful herbs near where people live or work. Their business line includes urban farming, homedesign, fresh produce, agriculture, and technology.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 581
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M; Series A $5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Humera — Humera - AI CAPTCHA That Knows You're Human
  • Allonic — Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines.
  • Heywa Labs — Two products, one engine. Heywa Studio for businesses, Heywa for anyone with a question worth following.
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Jean-David Blanc
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Internet, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $410k–$4M; Angel $84k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Xavier Niel
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$35M; Series A $3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Qutwo — We build AI that helps industry leaders define the next decade of competitive advantage.
  • HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
  • Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
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Stéphane Distinguin
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: TV, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • HyprView — HyprView builds the world's first clinical-grade, label-free imaging platform with photonics and AI for precision oncology diagnostics.
  • Actionable — AI-powered decision engine that predicts customer behaviour and explains what drives your KPIs. Turn raw data into actionable decisions in minutes.
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Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: France, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $559k–$5M; Angel $1.1M–$15M; Series A $3.7M–$57M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
  • Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
  • Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.
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Rani Aliahmad
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Experienced Entrepreneur/Investor with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industries. Skilled in Corporate Development, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Start-ups, Valuation, and Due Diligence. Graduate of Phillips Academy Andover, Yale University and MIT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Series A $800k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inovexus — The first cross-border acceleration fund that supports early-stage European tech companies with global ambitions. We believe in passionate entrepreneurs who want to change the world and therefore think global from day one.
  • Credit Key — Credit Key provides realtime, in-cart B2B lending for e-commerce. More revenue, less risk.
  • Irradia Solutions — Innovative nuclear test reactor
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Emmanuel Picot
Angel · Beaucouzé, Pays de la Loire, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Emmanuel Picot is the Co-Founder and CEO of Evolis.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dowgo — 24/7 trading and settlement for European capital markets. French authorization under review (ACPR)
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Thibault Poutrel
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, Cameroon, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $348k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 10% — 10% is reshaping the future of consumer loyalty by empowering brands to take back control from retailers. We enable leading FMCG companies to build direct, data-rich relationships with their customers through a unified loyalty platform that works seamlessly across all channels. Shoppers are rewarded consistently for buying the brands they love, nomatter where they shop, while brands gain access to powerful first- and zero-party data, behavioral insights, and automated engagement tools. By combining loyalty, data, and media into one scalable ecosystem, 10% unlocks a new growth engine for brands ready to own their audience and outperform in a retail-dominated landscape.
  • PaySika — Un compte, une carte bancaire gratuite
  • 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
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Willy Braun
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Shopping
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $4.3M–$33M; Series A $8.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Generare — Exploring microbial chemistry. Building a library of nature-evolved molecules for discovery.
  • Galion.exe — Galion.exe invests in seed rounds and provide tools like guides, benchmarks, database, and open-source documents.
  • Dialog — Dialog is a startup transforming e-commerce with a brand agent that can represent a company, guide customers, and interact with AI agents.
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, India, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $237k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $134k–$1.1M; Series A $893k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dowgo — 24/7 trading and settlement for European capital markets. French authorization under review (ACPR)
  • Bitstack — It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change in bitcoin, to a dynamic app bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. Our mission is to empower people to better financetheir future by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We are rebuilding finance from the group up by building the first crypto-native bank that leverages Bitcoin and stablecoins to revolutionize consumer banking.
  • CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Swaap — We build & operate onchain trading systems. We are a group of scientists and technologists committed to build open systems.
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • Skedway — Skedway connects software, AI, sensors, displays and automation into one intelligent operational layer for the physical workplace.
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Lars Seier Christensen
Angel · Jonschwil, Ausser-Rhoden, Switzerland · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Blockchain
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Denmark, Switzerland, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
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Sébastien Sikorski
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in France Venture Capital startups

Sébastien Sikorski is an entrepreneur who has built multiple large-scale applications, garnering millions of users.Sébastien was the founding employee of the leading French dating application AdopteUnMec and successfully led the revamp of the RATP app, the public transportation application for Paris and its regions. He has been accepted into theprestigious Y Combinator accelerator twice. Additionally, he teaches at Sciences Po Paris.At Ingenuity, Sébastien is now helping startups and corporates reach their best potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Apps, Banking
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$2.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Venture Capital Angel investor funding in France at a glance

Stats across 14 deals from 34 investors.

34
investors
in France Venture Capital startups
14
deals
in France Venture Capital startups
$4M
median round
in France Venture Capital startups
3%
lead investors
lead at least one round
57%
Seed
most common funding stage

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