# Top 30 Big Data Angel Investors in France in May 2026

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies:
- Sqreen (exited to Datadog)
- Meero ($290M in funding)
- Algolia ($184M)
- Alkemics ($54M)
-Builder ($29M)
- Verve ($28M)
- Fox Intelligence (€18M)

## Alexis Berthoud
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Founder of Joinsteer, the next monthly premium car subscription company based in France.C-level : 10 years in Entrepreneur, Sales, Investment Banking and Industry. Shareholder and advisor of Findrive car leasing company for uber driver and Mothers, first fund dedicated to the creative class.Founder of TokenData - the first multi-exchangeplatform, relaying an awesome datalake of crypto-assetI have previously founded the venture CINQS - acquired on December 2016. Alongside, I was an Ethereum early investor and invested in several others prominent blockchain such as Augur, Basic Attention Token, 0x. Goals & interests: New ventures and disruptive business models, Blockchain, Digital Marketing, SW & B-C related investment opportunities, Venture Capital firms in the US,EU & Pacific Asia.

## Patrice Thiry
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Patrice Thiry is the President & Co-Founder of TOMCAT INVEST. He previously worked at Kobus Tech as a Shareholder. Patrice Thiry attended Paris Dauphine University - PSL.

## Guillaume Amblard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Big Data

Guillaume Amblard

## Thomas HERLIN
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sophia Antipolis, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Thomas HERLIN is the CSO & Shareholder at Cryptense. He attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

## Cyril Grislain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software

Cyril Grislain - Board advisor @ Smart Me Up

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Guillaume Lestrade
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.

## Marc Jalabert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, IaaS

Marc Jalabert

## Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, FinTech

Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien

## John Browne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: GPS, Energy, Big Data

John Browne serves as part of the advisory board at Giant Ventures.

## Laurent Ritter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Retail

Laurent Ritter - Founder @ Voodoo

## Xavier Gury
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Big Data, Machine Learning

Xavier Gury - Co-Founder & CEO @ Wind Capital

## Landry Holi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Travel

Landry Holi - Founder & CEO @ Fairval

## Hugues le Bret
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Billing, FinTech, Big Data

Mr. Hugues Le Bret, 52, is founder and the CEO of Financière des Paiements Electroniques (Compte Nickel). He is the former Chairman and CEO of Boursorama Bank (France, UK, Germany & Spain). He has served as Head of Group Communications, Innovation and Internet businesses at Societe Generale and was a Member of the Company's ExecutiveCommittee between Nov-99 and Dec-09. He first worked as a Financial Analyst. In 91, he was appointed Head of Business Development of Publicis Group. In 94, he founded ABW SA, which he sold to Havas Group in 96. He carried out his national civil service at the French embassy in Lima, Peru, from Jun-88 to Aug-89.

## Clement Benoit
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

## Jean-Baptiste Rudelle
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Recruiting

Jean-Baptiste Rudelle is the President at The Galion Project.

## Julien Lemoine
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Analytics

Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder of Algolia, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder at Algolia SAS and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine defined the technology strategy of MASA Group (an international software editor of simulation software) and led the development of strategic R&Dproducts in indexing and natural languages processing at Exalead (Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) and Thales Group. He has extensive experience in architecture design and implementation from his leading work in Exalead and Thales.

## Michel Meyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, CRM

Michel is a French serial entrepreneur living in San Francisco. He is currently the co-founder of Presence AI, bringing intelligent messaging to businesses. Michel is also an investor in many startups. At 27 he was the youngest CEO of a public company in France in 2000 with MultiMania. Michel sold his second company, Kewego (biggest online videoplatform in Europe), in 2011 to Kit Digital.

## Bertrand Diard
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Machine Learning

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.

## Cédric Bannel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Credit, FinTech, Big Data

Founding partner of Latour Capital, Cedric is one of France’s Internet pioneers. In 2000, he created www.caradisiac.com, the first French automotive website that merged with the Centrale des Particuliers in 2007 to form Car & Boat Media. He also chaired Canalblog, the leading independent website for French blogs with over a million blogs.

## Raphaël Varane
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Sports, Big Data, Biometrics

Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.

## Gregoire Boutin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Software, E-Commerce

Gregoire Boutin - COO and Founder @ Boostrs

## Pierre Feligioni
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Financial Services

Pierre Feligioni is the CEO and co-founder of QuantHouse. Pierre co-founded QuantHouse in 2005, building an industry leading provider of ultra-low latency market data technologies. In 2012, QuantHouse was acquired by S&P Global generating a eight-time return for the investors.He received in 2012 a Financial News 40 under 40 Rising stars inTrading and Technology award and he was named Head of Real-Time Product Strategy for the last 3 years.Pierre has now gone back to his entrepreneurial roots when he bought back QuantHouse in January 2017.

## Blanche Balian
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Credit, FinTech, Big Data

Blanche Balian

## Private individuals Not disclosed
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Blockchain

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## Didier Le Menestrel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Banking, Finance

Graduated from the Higher Institute of Management and Training Centre in Financial Analysis, Didier Le Menestrel is President of Finance of the Exchequer and member of the steering committee. He is also a member of the French Society of Financial Analysts (FCAS) and director of the French Management Association (AFG).

## John Brennan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

John Brennan is the Founder & General Partner at Sumeru Equity Partners He has significant experience as a senior executive in technology companies and in strategy consulting. Prior to joining Silver Lake Sumeru, John held senior management positions at Adobe Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company and Accenture Strategic Services. John holds degreesfrom Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley.

## Florian Douetteau
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Florian is Dataiku’s chief executive officer. Florian started his career at Exalead, an innovative search engine technology company. There, he led an R&D team of 50 brilliant data geeks, until the company was bought by Dassault Systemes in 2010 for $150 million. Florian was then CTO at IsCool, a European leader in social gaming, where hemanaged game analytics and one of the biggest European cloud setup. Florian also served as freelance Lead Data Scientist in various companies, such as Criteo, the European Advertising leader.

## Frédéric Mazzella
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Apps

Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.

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