Top 15 Angel Investors in France (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Sylvain Zimmer
Angel
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2 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage | $200k–$10M |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $125k–$5.8M |
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Denis Lafont-Trévisan
Angel
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1 | France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Real Estate | $2.1M–$9.4M |
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Thibault Poutrel
Angel
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1 | France, Cameroon, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software | $318k–$3.7M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $125k–$9.3M |
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Stéphane Distinguin
Angel
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1 | France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | TV, Retail, Fashion | $1.1M–$2.2M |
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Xavier Niel
Angel
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1M–$70M |
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Jean-David Blanc
Angel
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1 | France, United States, Israel | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, Internet, iOS | $82k–$4M |
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Marc Simoncini
Angel
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1 | France | Seed, Angel, Series B | Finance, Software, Audio | $1.1M–$21M |
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Willy Braun
Angel
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1 | France, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Shopping | $4.3M–$33M |
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Jon Oringer
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $175k–$56M |
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Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
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1 | France, Israel | Seed, Series A | Retail, Internet, E-Commerce | $511k–$57M |
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Frederic Montagnon
Angel
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Blockchain, SaaS | $318k–$5M |
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Sébastien Sikorski
Angel
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1 | France | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Apps, Banking | $549k–$2.2M |
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John Bautista
Angel
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1 | Spain, France, United States | Seed | Financial Services, Banking, B2B | $5M–$10M |
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Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $637k–$10M; Angel $400k–$500k; Pre-Seed $200k–$2M
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 316
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
- Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
- Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Real Estate
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $3M–$9.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Twenty — Twenty builds the modern salesforce, powered by the open source community.
- Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Cameroon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $318k–$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
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- 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.
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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- Industry: TV, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: 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.
- 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.
- Wise Trail Running — Wise Trail Running is an online retailer and designer of environmentally friendly apparel and equipment for trail and ultra-trail runs.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1M–$70M; Series A $2.5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Qutwo — Europe’s next-generation AI lab for a quantum world.
- 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.
- Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.
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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- 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 $82k–$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.
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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- Industry: Finance, Software, Audio
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; 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 develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.
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- 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
- 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.
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- 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 $375k–$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.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code web UI for training, running and exporting open models in one unified local interface.
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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- Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $511k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Software, Blockchain, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $318k–$5M; Angel $560k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $350k–$4.4M
- 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.
Startuper. Y Combinator Alumni. Ex-Founding Employee of AdopteUnMec. Lecturer at SciencesPo.
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- Industry: SaaS, Apps, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $549k–$2.2M
- 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
Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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- Industry: Financial Services, Banking, B2B
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Spain, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $5M–$10M
- 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.
- 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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