Top 15 Email Angel Investors in France in October 2023

David King is a Founder of Highlighter. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for Computer Engineering.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

dYdX — Trade Perpetuals on the most powerful open trading platform, backed by @a16z, @polychain, and @paradigm.
TruStory — TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate.
Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.

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Hunter Walk is a Partner at Homebrew. He holds a BA degree in History from Vassar and MBA from Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

koodos — your first digital music journal that lets you gather the soundtracks to your life, add your personal touch and build a library thad defines you.
Assembly — Assembly is a no code employee engagement platform that extends from recognition and rewards to productivity and performance management
LIT Videobooks — LIT is a new platform that allows you to view bestselling business books in a new video book format.

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Gustaf Alstromer is a partner at Y Combinator. Before joining Y Combinator he spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Enode — Enode develops APIs that connect EVs, solar, batteries, and heating to energy consumer products.Once connected, the digital infrastructures SaaS-based platform integrate them into the app to optimize energy consumption and help to participate in flexible markets with connected hardware, enabling clients to facilitate a zero-carbon energy grid.The Oslo, Oslo, Norway-based company was established in 2020 by Henrik Langeland, Nikolai Heum, and Thorvald Thorsnes.
Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
Pina Earth — Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners

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A forward thinking entrepreneur, marketing and brand strategist with an appetite to disrupt, create and reinvent products and experiences that transform industries, engage consumers, and enable positive change.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, CRM
Seed, Funding Round
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Zeel — Zeel delivers Massage On Demand:registered: - top-quality massages from licensed, vetted massage therapists to homes, hotels, workplaces, and events in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. With Zeel, customers enjoy a massage in the comfort, convenience, safety, and privacy of the place and time of their choosing, 7 days a week, 365days a year, with start times as early as 8 am and as late as 10:30 pm. Services by app for iPhone or Android . Our first service offering is Massage On Demand:registered:. Zeel has been offering Massage On Demand since December 2012, launching the app on April 2, 2013. Massage On Demand:registered: is disrupting the $15B US and $80B global massage market.The Zeel app allows customers to get massage at their home, hotel, workplace or event in as little as an hour, or up to a month in advance. They choose between a soothing Swedish and invigorating deep tissue massage. Customers pay a set price (including tax & tip), charged to their credit card on file. All therapists are fully vetted in person, licensed in their state of practice, insured (minimum of $1M), background-checked and trained by the Zeel team to reach the highest levels of customer service and experience. In September 2013, Zeel launched Massage Zeelot, the first-ever same-day, on-demand massage subscription service. Customers receive at least one in-home, on-demand Zeel Massage per month at a preferred rate, along with a free professional-grade massage table, theirs to keep.
Sunrise — Sunrise is a free calendar app. Designed with love, Sunrise is a new experience that will make your life easier. Available on Android, iPhone, iPad & Web.
Triplemint — The Agency represents a global portfolio of luxury real estate listings including residential, new development, leasing, commercial, and resort properties.

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Previously, I was also Investor in several industry-defining companies, notably Themis (sold to Mercury Systems), Ixia (sold to Keysight), Webedia (sold to Fimalac), Centellax (sold to Microsemi), CacheIQ (sold to NetApp), Anametrix (sold to Enlighten), KitLocate (sold to Yandex), Tekelec (sold to Siris Capital Group), LibertySurf (IPO),Aufeminin.com (IPO), Freever (sold to Buongiorno), Sidetrade (IPO), EmailVision (IPO) and Instranet (sold to SFDC).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, B2B
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adikteev — Adikteev is the leading app re-engagement platform for performance-driven marketers, consistently ranked in the top 5 of the Appsflyer Performance Index. Adikteev helps the world’s top-spending gaming app publishers increase retention, reacquire churned users and drive incremental revenue thanks to made-to-measure re-engagement strategies,creatives and algorithms. Adikteev serves customers anywhere in the world through 3 offices in the US & EMEA.
NeoReach — Seamlessly search, manage, and track user-generated content campaigns.
Spendesk — Calm the chaos of company spending with Spendesk - the all-in-one spend management platform for modern finance teams.

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Adam Nash is the Co-Founder and CEO at Daffy. He attended Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, France

Portfolio highlights

Pylon — Pylon is the mortgage-lending-as-a-service platform. Build a fully digital mortgage experience using our APIs, pre-built UI components, and capital markets stack. Based in New York, NY.
Plenty — Plenty makes it easy for modern partners to invest and plan for their future together. Effortlessly invest like the 1% and turn your goals and dreams into reality.
Exponential DeFi — View risk assessment ratings and expert research for 500+ decentralized finance pools from Exponential DeFi.

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Elliot Shmukler is the VP of Product & Growth at Welathfront.Elliot is the VP of Product and Growth, is an accomplished Silicon Valley “growth hacker,” having led the strategy and execution behind LinkedIn’s growth from 20M to more than 200M members.He joined Wealthfront from LinkedIn, where, as Sr. Director of Product Management, he alsooversaw much of the consumer product experience, including Profile, Search, Endorsements and People You May Know. Previous to LinkedIn, Elliot held Technical and Leadership roles at eBay, About.com, Sombasa Media and Microsoft.Elliot holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.He holds a BA magna cum laude in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Events
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
Sunrise — Sunrise is a free calendar app. Designed with love, Sunrise is a new experience that will make your life easier. Available on Android, iPhone, iPad & Web.

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Cyril Moutran - Cofounder - Product & Strategy @ feedly

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, TV
Seed, Funding Round
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Skyways — A new form of transportation is here.
Chefclub — Chefclub is a cooking channel that shows food videos on television and the Internet. The company is a multicultural team of talent from all around the world, with a passion for cooking. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Paris, France.
Sourced Craft Cocktails — Sourced elevates the bar experience to meet the significant moments of our lives when we gather together. Whether in-person or virtual, in your home or office, Sourced delivers customized craft cocktail kits and curated cocktail experiences.

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Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

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Andreas is working on a service that will connect people, time and places on the web. He also works as an independent consultant helping other startups with product strategy, technical infrastructure, scalability and recruiting as well as financial companies (venture capital and private equity) with technical due diligence and in other advisorroles.He was CTO at Spotify from the launch of the company in August 2006 until November 2009. Before that he worked at Stardoll as an engineer and project manager.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Prog.AI — Prog.AI helps to find developers based on their technical proficiency, libraries they have used, or even just the contributions they have made to GitHub projects.
Red Flag — Red Flag develops an automated accounting, expenses, and invoicing platform for SMEs.
Single Technologies — Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, with its long tradition in fiber optics, ultra-sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy and DNA sequencing, SINGLE’s ambition is to become the instigator of 3-D Sequencing.

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Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.

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Stephan Dietrich is a serial entrepreneur and investor with a 25 year experience in the high tech industry and an exceptional track record growing and scaling start-ups all the way to successful exits. Sold Neolane to Adobe Systems for $600M. Co-Founder of Neolane in 2001, Stephan was responsible for driving Neolane’s corporate vision,international business development and its high growth in North America. In 2013, with $60MM revenues and 400 employees, Neolane was acquired for a 10x multiple on revenue. Since the acquisition of Neolane, Stephane was instrumental in defining a new Marketing & Experience Cloud category, combining the best of the Neolane DNA with the strengths of Adobe resulting in a 40%+ CAGR over 4 years and an undisputed worldwide leadership position for the Adobe Campaign business. Prior to Neolane, Stephan was Founder and CEO of CubicSoft and also Co-Founder and VP of AGDS, acquired by Peregrine Systems, now HP.Stephan is a recognized thought leader and a Digital Marketing expert. He is regularly interviewed in high-level publications and has spoken at several major worldwide marketing & entrepreneurship events.Stephan lives in Boston, he holds a Master of Science degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris and earned his Master in Business Administration from the College des Ingenieurs.

Investment focus

Security, Software, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Series C
France

Portfolio highlights

Akeneo — Akeneo PIM is an intuitive platform that simplifies product information management, enabling business to implement a PX strategy and PXM practices that increase productivity and efficiency.
CybelAngel — CybelAngel is a cybersecurity startup detecting data-leaks where others don’t. The company finds data that has been stolen, or data that has been leaked by accident - generally by third-party partners and suppliers. Its solution scans the visible, deep and dark webs, but it is also the only one scanning the major source of negligent leaks:Connected Storage. Its approach to data-leak detection combines Artificial Intelligence and human expertise. Smart algorithms ensure rapid and precise detection, while machine learning focuses alerts based on what is most important to their clients. And yet it’s not machines that put together your alerts - it’s people. Its cyber analysts compile a report for every incident, with all the information needed for a swift remediation.
Vade Secure — Vade is a global leader in predictive email defense, protecting 1 billion inboxes worldwide. AI-based email security for Microsoft 365.

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Entrepreneur, Investor

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

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Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.

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