Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in France in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in France. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from France. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in France in November 2024
Investor | Web3 France investments |
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Sebastien Borget | 6 |
Thibaud Elziere | 5 |
Nicolas Bacca | 5 |
Nicolas Steegmann | 4 |
Julien Bouteloup | 4 |
Thomas France | 4 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 4 |
Eric Larchevêque | 4 |
Frederic Montagnon | 4 |
Pascal Gauthier | 3 |
Owen Simonin | 3 |
Nicolas Louvet | 3 |
Stefano Bernardi | 2 |
Brian O'Hagan | 2 |
Sébastien Lucas | 2 |
Damien Guermonprez | 2 |
Shana Fisher | 2 |
John Lilic | 2 |
Didier Valet | 2 |
Itamar Lesuisse | 2 |
Guillaume Princen | 2 |
Bertrand Diard | 2 |
Claire Balva | 2 |
Bilal EL ALAMY | 2 |
Alexandre Stachtchenko | 2 |
Pierre Laurent | 2 |
Julien Romanetto | 2 |
Jean-Daniel Guyot | 2 |
Declan Kelly | 2 |
Alexis Bonillo | 2 |
Roshun Patel | 1 |
Guillaume Gibault | 1 |
Fernando Martinelli | 1 |
Camille Tyan | 1 |
Sebastien Couture | 1 |
Sylvain Theveniaud | 1 |
Moritz Thiele | 1 |
Thomas Turelier | 1 |
Nathan Sexer | 1 |
Kumar Yamani | 1 |
Patrick Sayer | 1 |
David Gurle | 1 |
Kevin Durant | 1 |
Michael Amar | 1 |
Marc Bhargava | 1 |
Dyma Budorin | 1 |
Gautham Radhakrishnan | 1 |
Joan Burkovic | 1 |
Ashwin Ramachandran | 1 |
Tom Reppelin | 1 |
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
- OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
- Hylé — Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.
- Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AniML — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
- Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
- Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Giza — Actionable AI for decentralized applications.
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
- Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
- Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Closd — CLOSD is a legal transaction management platform created by former business lawyers. It brings together lawyers and parties in a safe space, facilitates and ensures document exchange, simplifies project organization and management with interactive check lists, automates signings and closures with electronic signatures in a secure interface toauthenticate the signatures, and creates archives on transactions once they are closed.
- Coinhouse — Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinhouse, consult our educational content or visit our physical space, Coinhouse Store. Invest in the future, today.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
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
Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
- Runes DEX — Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards.
- Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
Owen Simonin is the Founder and CEO of Just Mining.
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Investment focus
- Bitcoin, FinTech, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture).
Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in
-Dataiku (colead, Series A)
- FinalCad (lead, Series A)
- Lengow (lead, Series B)
- Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A),
- Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B)
- TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed)
- Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B)
- and 15+ other companies...
He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills:
- Entrepreneurship, company management, business development
- Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe
- Fund management and creation
- Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition)
- Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zeenea — Zeenea’s data catalog empowers your data-driven organization with a common language. It’s with a better understanding, easier access and effective communication around your data that your organization will become data-driven! For many, the process of acculturation to data is a question of common language.In light of this conviction, Zeeneacreated a data catalog. On an easy-to-access and intuitive platform, Zeenea connects all of your data sources by automatically importing and updating your data, into a central data repository. Our tool allows anyone - with the necessary capacities - to discover, understand and trust the enterprise’s data asset.Companies rely on Zeenea to meet the challenge of setting up effective data governance in a lean startup mode: to promote the use of data internally while limiting the risks!Our data catalog promotes the concept of data-fluency: Be Data Fluent!
- Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
- AssoConnect — AssoConnect is an online tools platform that meets all the needs of volunteers and community leaders. The complete management of an association is time consuming and tedious. Some tasks - accounting, membership management, payment tracking, grant applications - require hundreds of hours of work per year. Less time for associative projects.itrepresents the digital revolution applied to the voluntary sector. Through this platform, associations have more time to devote to projects and have a complete, simple and intuitive tool to carry out all their associative activities over the long term.
Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, France, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Freatic — Building the monetization layer for your alpha
- Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Brian O'Hagan
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Sports
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- Metahood — Metahood offers services for discovering, purchasing, and selling land in the open metaverse.
- Cohort — The NFT-powered digital engagement platform made for brands and their customers.
Sébastien Lucas
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Investment focus
- Internet, IaaS, Cloud Storage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
- GitGuardian — GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes.
- Little Worker — Little Worker is SaaS-enabled marketplace between homeowner wishing to renovate their home and local contractors.
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
- Internet, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, India, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
- Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
Shana Fisher is the Managing Partner of HLVP, a NY Based venture fund focused on early stage investments. From December 2003 to June 2010, Ms. Fisher served as IAC's Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Mergers and Acquisitions, and prior to that as the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for IAC. Previously, Ms. Fisherserved as Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance for Allen & Company, LLC. In this capacity she led principle investments and advised publicly traded technology firms, private telecommunications firms and media companies. Prior to Allen & Company, LLC., Ms. Fisher was a program manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Fisher received her B.A. from Hampshire College with a triple major in Sculpture, Philosophy and Linguistics and attended the Master of Arts program at New York University's ITP.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kiln — Stake your treasury directly, or bring staking to your users through our whitelabel product.
- Glean — Fast data exploration for data teams and everyone else. Empower your whole team to answer questions without SQL and start making better decisions faster.
- Hashboard — Explore fast, intuitive Business Intelligence with Hashboard. Define metrics on your data warehouse and collaborate for deeper insights. Ideal for data teams seeking seamless, code-based workflows.
John Lilic is an early Bitcoin and Ethereum adopter and an early ConsenSys employee who spent six years with the company helping it grow to an international leader in the blockchain ecosystem. He is now running his own dedicated family office out of Switzerland while also serving as an investor and product development advisor at Polygon. John isalso a co-founder and treasurer at Code to Inspire, a 501c3 non profit dedicated to teaching Afghan girls how to code.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, France, Croatia
Portfolio highlights
- TheGepek — The Gepek is a new platform for package delivery based on a carpooling model. It’s intended exclusively for the carriage of packages, not people!It helps flattening COVID curve by lowering social contacts as one person can manage multiple contactless deliveries. Of course it gives opportunity for extra profit and flexible time management - inperiod of economic crisis new revenue could always help! Also, it’s really convenient for fast cross country package delivery (way cheaper and faster than classic postal services).Platform has security features to ensure safe delivery like driver ratings and identity check through social platform login. All drivers below average rates are excluded from the platform!
- Noble XYZ — Noble is changing how stablecoins and other real world assets are issued on blockchains by combining minimalistic, high security architecture with the cross-chain efficiencies of the IBC protocol.
- Superchain Network — The Open Index Protocol - By collecting and customising data in minutes, Superchain serves as the layer on top of which builders create applications, faster
Didier Valet
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Luxembourg, Israel
Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016.Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston ConsultingGroup, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
Guillaume Princen
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
- Verteego — Verteego is an AI solutions provider helping retailers, FMCG manufacturers and leaders in other industries optimize pricing, promotions, inventory, assortment and staffing through high-precision predictive models.More than a technology or a product, artificial intelligence is a movement that will radically transform today's society to be atthe heart of tomorrow's society. Verteego is a group of technology enthusiasts at the service of humans, fully invested in Artificial Intelligence and its challenges. Verteego gather expertises around data science, software development, product design, pre-sales engineering, projects, business development, marketing, administration and finance, communication, legal...Verteego counts more than 100 clients, including Fortune 500 companies, in 28 countries, and users in 125 countries.
- Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries.
Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible data pipelines
- Tailwarden — Tailwarden is an open source platform that empowers the next generation of developers to take control of their cloud infrastructure while building secure, scalable and cost-effective applications along the way.
- Lobster Protocol — Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way.
Claire Balva is the CEO of Blockchain Partner, the leading startup on blockchain consulting in France. Blockchain Partner was created through the merger of Blockchain France and Labo Blockchain in 2017.
It gathers 3 poles of expertise – strategic, technical and legal – allowing companies to fully embrace the potential of blockchain technologies.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Angel
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Alexandre Stachtchenko
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Tilvest — Tilvest is an internet platform and a digital asset management service for financial advisors. They offer access to the digital asset market. It also helps create a wallet for customers, access complete and personalized reporting, and discover strategies for customers.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
Pierre Laurent is the co-founder of atka capital .
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
- MeltingSpot — One platform to broadcast your lives, initiate discussions, gather your content, manage your audiences and much more. Get MeltingSpot for free.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
- Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
- Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.
COO & Co-founder @ Zenly
Retired Pole Vaulter
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
- Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.
Roshun Patel - Vice President at Genesis
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, Hungary
Portfolio highlights
- Rug.ai — Make informed investment decisions with rug.ai token safety analysis tools. Our advanced algorithms assess token vulnerabilities in realtime, identifying potential risks and ensuring your investments are secure in the ever-evolving crypto landscape.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
- Vovo Finance — Structuring money legos for customizable yield
Guillaume Gibault - Founder @ Le slip Francais
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Mindday — Mindday is reinventing mental well-being by combining human support, digital programs and science to provide immediate and personalized support to anyone.
- Respire — Respire is an e-commerce company of natural and vegan cosmetic products.
- RENAISSANCE — We are a web3 lab exploring new mediums of brand expression through blockchain technologies.
Fernando Martinelli is the Co-Founder and CEO at Balancer Labs. He was the Co-Founder of Brasil Mate before that.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Brazil, France
Portfolio highlights
- Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
- Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Fintech entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in tech and finance. Currently investing in and building early-stage startups.Most recently Camille was the co-founder of PayPlug, a payments and analytics company providing secure solutions to online merchants across Europe. PayPlug's technology enables sellers to accept online payments byoptimizing conversion and predicting fraud risks at scale. Founded in 2012, PayPlug was acquired by Natixis / Groupe BPCE.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed
- France
Sebastien Couture is General Partner at Interop, a staking infrastructure provider and venture fund supporting protocols and primitives embracing the vision of sovereign, interoperable, proof-of-stake blockchains.In 2013, he co-founded Epicenter, the best tech podcast covering the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. Epicenter has been heardover 10 million times and produced over 400 episodes of in-depth, enlightening interviews with crypto founders and builders.In 2015, he co-founded Stratumn, a VC-backed startup that provides document and process certification solutions to financial institutions.A passionate cryptocurrency enthusiast, he co-founded and was Communications Director of Adan from 2020 to 2021, an industry association that promotes the development of the French crypto asset and blockchain industry.In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, he organized Reset Everything, one of the first online conferences re-thinking old paradigms in times of crisis.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Finance
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Usual Labs — Usual is a Stablecoin DeFi protocol that redistributes control and redefines value sharing. It empowers users by aligning their interests with the platform's success.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
- FortyTwo — FortyTo is developing UX frontend technology for decentralized finance, enhancing user experience, promoting diversified token baskets, better yields, and affordable swap rates in the interchain ecosystem.
Sylvain Theveniaud - Managing Director @ Allianz Accelerator
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- AgTech, Finance, Aerospace
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
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- carbonABLE — The All-in-one Platform for Managing, Monitoring, and Reporting Every Carbon Contribution with Ease and Guaranteed Authenticity
- INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space
Moritz Thiele
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- Software, E-Commerce, Drones
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, France, Austria
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- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- GovRadar — GovRadar accelerates and simplifies the procurement process for the public sector. Our procurement platform helps public authorities procure innovations efficiently - automated and in compliance with procurement law. The SaaS solution generates tender documents in a few clicks rather than months.
- MYNE Homes — MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Prior to joining Eurazeo, Thomas was for 2 years an Associate at Ventech, a European VC fund where he was in charge of sourcing and executing investments in startups from Seed to Series A mostly in France and in the Nordics. Previously to that, he gained experience in the industry notably by working as a fundraising consultant for early-stagestartups and as an Analyst Intern at Elaia Partners, a French deeptech Seed fund. He also spent a year as a Strategy & Finance Analyst at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi in a business unit building the Alliance’s strategy on autonomous vehicles and mobility services.Thomas joined the Group in 2021. He is involved in sourcing, analysing and carrying out investments in startups in Europe.Education : Master in Management ‘Grande Ecole’ from ESCP with a specialization in Corporate Finance and Master of Science in Innovation Management from Ecole Polytechnique.
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- Software, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United Kingdom
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- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
- Cado Security — Cado Security is revolutionizing investigation and response. Use the Cado platform to investigate any system. Anywhere. Anytime.
Nathan Sexer
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- Software, Computer, Blockchain
- Seed
- France
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- APWine — APWine speculate on the evolution of the yield generated by different DeFi protocols. Hedge your risk on your passive revenue, converting it into futures.
- Morpho Labs — A permissionless and non-custodial lending protocol. Earn interest on over-collateralized lending and borrow digital assets using immutable infrastructure.
Kumar Yamani
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- Computer, Blockchain, Data Storage
- Seed
- France
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Patrick Sayer has served as a Director since 2012. Mr. Sayer has been the Chief Executive Officer of Eurazeo (a leading publicly-held investment company in Europe) since 2002. From 1995 until 2002 he served as a Director and Advisor to the CEO of Eurazeo. Prior to becoming CEO of Eurazeo, Mr. Sayer was employed by Lazard, (an internationalfinancial advisory and asset management firm) for 20 years, last serving as a Managing Director and Head of Lazard’s Technology and Media group. Mr. Sayer is vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rexel SA, and a member of the Board of Directors of other Eurazeo portfolio companies, including Accor and Edenred. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris. Mr. Sayer has a French Financial Analyst Degree and serves as a professor of finance at Dauphine University in Paris.
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- Finance, Software, Music
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
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- Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
- 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!
- Monk.ai — Monk is an AI company delivering state of the art AI Powered Vehicle Inspection solutions for the automotive, insurance and mobility markets.
David Gurle is a Chairman of the Board at F24 AG.
He graduated ESIGETEL with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications.
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- Blockchain, Travel, Computer
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, Hong Kong, United States
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- Chekk — Chekk helps businesses by providing seamless on-boarding solutions, accurate verification services, and on-going interaction capabilities.Chekk is your one stop shop to manage your Digital Identity, AML (Anti Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) journeys.Their corporate clients receive validated and up-to-date Digital Identity and KYCinformation in a fully automated fashion, providing the right means to be fully compliant with internal policies and regulatory requirements. It is also a great tool for businesses to improve their customer experience for on boarding and data exchanges. Chekk integrates social networks, bank systems, data verification and web services through its web portal and mobile app.
- Hive — Hive is a distributed data storage and computing platform, enabling users to rent their computing resources and co-localized storing and processing.
- Hive — Hive is a decentralized cloud platform based on the peer-to-peer exchange of the available capacities of users' computers.
Kevin Durant is a 12-year NBA veteran who plays for the Brooklyn Nets. He is a 2x NBA Champion and Finals MVP; having also won an NBA MVP Award, four NBA scoring titles, two Olympic gold medals, two NBA All-Star Game MVP Awards, and an NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He is also a ten-time NBA All-Star. Off the court, Durant is co-founder andpartner of Thirty Five Ventures. Thirty Five Ventures includes his diverse investment portfolio, including companies such as Postmates, Acorns, Overtime, & Coinbase; the media and creative development arm; and the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation.Projects under the Thirty Five Ventures umbrella include the sports business vertical “The Boardroom,” in partnership with ESPN, which examines the ins and outs of sports business and illuminates the world of sports far beyond what fans ordinarily see. Kevin also served as an executive producer on Fox Sports Films’ “Q Ball,” which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in Spring 2019. Upcoming projects include the scripted series “SWAGGER” with Imagine Entertainment and Apple. Last fall also saw the opening of The Durant Center in Suitland, Maryland, the Kevin Durant Charity Foundation’s college pipeline program in conjunction with College Track.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Sports
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
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- Zelus Analytics — Professional sports teams are currently engaged in a billion-dollar arms race to squeeze wins out of data. While early innovations in sports analytics largely relied on simple techniques, many teams are struggling to handle emergent challenges with the complex data sources now dominating the space. At Zelus Analytics, our mission is to address these challenges by building the world's [...]
- League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.
- Skinny Dipped Almonds — We don't Sugar Coat. We SkinnyDip.
Seasoned entrepreneur with solid experience in global alliances, business development, executive management, channel development and organizational leadership.Business expertise across the worldwide marketplace including US, France, Israel, and Japan. Prior to founding Ifeelgoods, Michael founded and successfully sold DAOODA, a thriving adnetwork in the EU, and AGORAD, which was the number one independent French media company at the time he sold it in 2007.As CEO of Ifeelgoods, a U.S company he started in 2010, Michael is leveraging his leadership, experience and insights in e-commerce and online advertising to disrupt the promotion, advertising and loyalty industries. Michael is an Operating Partner at Cathay Innovation, a VC fund based in China, US and Europe, a Board Member of StationF - the largest incubator in the world - and Ambassador for La French Tech in San Francisco. Michael is a graduate of Institut Superieur de Gestion business school. Michael lives with his family in Palo Alto, California.
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- SaaS, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Seed
- France
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- METAV.RS — The no-code Metaverse Platform : - Manage your Web3 assets & NFTs - Sell them on your e-commerce website or - Create enriched experiences around it : branded miniverse integrated on your website, Virtual dressing rooms, links to 3rd party app From SaaS to full-service. 3D studio ready to use. Made for brands & creative agencies.
Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
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- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Dmytro Budorin is the Founder and CEO at Hacken
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- Analytics, Blockchain, Innovation Management
- Seed
- France
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- Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
- Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
Gautham has been a Partner with the Tata Opportunities Fund since 2013. Previously, he was a Director with Actis in Mumbai since 2009 and a Principal at Warburg Pincus in London since 2001. His investing and board level experience covers the technology, business services, financial services, industrial and consumer sectors including venture, growthand leveraged buyouts. Gautham started his career in 1995 with JP Morgan in London handling Fixed Income and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has also worked at the BBC, Cricinfo, and at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.Gautham graduated with an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He also holds an MA (Scholar) from St John's College, University of Cambridge and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Imperial College, University of London.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Rental
- Funding Round, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, India, France
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- Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
- Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
- Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.
Joan Burkovic is the CEO & Co-founder at Bridge. Joan Burkovic attended ESSEC Business School.
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- FinTech, B2B, Bitcoin
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
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- Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.
- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
- Notify — Notify is a real-time AI CRM platform that helps brands sustain, secure and develop their customer capital.
Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University.
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- Blockchain, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- ZKX — ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet.
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook
Tom Reppelin
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- Software, Blockchain
- Seed
- France
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- Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility
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