Top 20 Angel Investors in France in October 2024
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 October 2024
Investor | Venture Capital France investments |
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Sylvain Zimmer | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Denis Lafont-Trévisan | 1 |
Sébastien Sikorski | 1 |
Jean-David Blanc | 1 |
John Bautista | 1 |
Willy Braun | 1 |
Edward Lando | 1 |
Stéphane Distinguin | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Jon Oringer | 1 |
Marc Simoncini | 1 |
Frederic Montagnon | 1 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 1 |
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet | 1 |
Marc Simoncini | 1 |
Xavier Niel | 1 |
Thibault Poutrel | 1 |
Lars Seier Christensen | 1 |
Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Real Time, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sketchfab — Sketchfab is empowering a new era of creativity by making it easy for anyone to publish and find 3D content online. With a community of millions of creators who have published millions of models, it serves as a platform for immersive and interactive 3D. Additionally, its store lets buyers and sellers transact 3D models with confidence using ourreal-time viewer and model inspector.
- 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.
- Northflank — Northflank is the comprehensive developer platform designed for scale. Seamlessly deploy and release any project on our cloud or in yours.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Distributed Workforce related companies. 2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 3 exits. Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- Ramify — Ramify est une plateforme qui vous permet d'investir simplement dans tous les produits financiers. Simulez gratuitement votre portefeuille en ETF, private equity et SCPI.
- Front-Commerce — PWA Frontend-as-a-service for composable & headless commerce (Magento 1 & 2, SFCC, OpenMage, BigCommerce, CommerceTools, Shopify)
Startuper. Y Combinator Alumni. Ex-Founding Employee of AdopteUnMec. Lecturer at SciencesPo.
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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
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
- 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.
Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Venture Capital
- 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.
- Galion.exe — Galion.exe invests in seed rounds and provide tools like guides, benchmarks, database, and open-source documents.
- Double — Double combines a dedicated human assistant and the best software to help you achieve what matters most.
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.
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
- 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.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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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.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
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
- Finance, Software, Audio
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
- Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
- URBAN CUISINE — URBAN CUISINE develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.
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
- Software, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Bolero — Invest in the music rights of your favourite songs and get royalties on Bolero, the all-in-one marketplace to invest in Song Shares. Invest in music today!
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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
- Health Care, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- 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!
- 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.
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
- Software, Finance, Audio
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
- Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
- URBAN CUISINE — URBAN CUISINE develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cube AI — 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.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
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
- 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 helps you unlock the data in all your agreements. Close deals faster. Surface financial insights. Accelerate revenue growth.
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
- 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 — Wikifactory's product development platform unifies teams in real-time, streamlines workflows, and accelerates time-to-market. Try it today.
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