# Top 40 Enterprise Software Angel Investors in France in May 2026 ## Xavier Niel - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project. ## Eduardo Ronzano - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc. ## Arnaud Bonzom - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Data Visualization Arnaud Bonzom is a former Venture Partner at 500 Startups where he was focusing on helping Southeast Asian entrepreneurs to succeed. He is a frequent speaker at several international conferences including Slush, Tech in Asia, Rise and Web Summit.Arnaud is active as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD and has co-authored a report with INSEAD onhow the largest organizations are engaging with startups which achieved press coverage across 28 countries and generated more than 120 speaking engagement invitations.He has been invited by Accenture, Airbus, Allianz, Amazon Web Services, BMW, Deloitte, INSEAD, MERCER, NUS, Standard Chartered, as well as the Estonian, German and the Singaporean Governments, among others to share his input on Corporate Innovation and Startup Ecosystem.His extensive work in the startup ecosystem received more than 160 citations in prominent media such as Forbes, Bloomberg TV, and Les Echos. His research is also quoted by leading organizations including Bain, SAP, BNP Paribas, and Orange.His main research interest is in Startups and Innovation. More generally, he is fond of subjects which combine several if not all of the following themes: - Entrepreneurship - Venture Capital - Corporate Development - Corporate Startup Engagement - Building a Startup EcosystemHe is also the co-founder of Map the Money, an organization that helps entrepreneurs to raise funds in Southeast Asia. As well as the author of The Asia Funding / M&A Newsletter and the Singapore startup ecosystem and entrepreneur toolbox.Earlier in his career, Arnaud was involved in setting up and growing new businesses including for INSEAD as Assistant Director of Corporate Partnership Development. Prior to that, he worked at Business France as Trade Advisor in New Technologies, Innovation and Services. ## Florian Douetteau - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Michael Benabou - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services President at Financiere Saint James. ## Frederic Montagnon - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS 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. ## Marc Menase - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor ## 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 ## Thibault Poutrel - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services 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. ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. ## Cyril Grislain - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Software Cyril Grislain - Board advisor @ Smart Me Up ## Daniel Marhely - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Internet, Electronics, Music Daniel Marhely Co-Founded Blogmusik S.A. Daniel Marhely is Founder of Deezer S.A. and serves as its Director. In 2004, he co-founded the dating site Lovelee.com. In 2006, he developed the first version of Deezer, called Blogmusik, in Paris, with the objective of providing music lovers with unlimited access to audio content using streamingtechnology. He served as General Manager of Monster Capital. ## Quentin Nickmans - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Quentin is a Co-founder of eFounders. He spent his first years working as a strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and acts on the board of several SaaS ventures ## Sebastien Romelot - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Android CEO and co-founder at Phenix Groupe. Phenix is a street media company. Founded as a tech startup in 2012, Phenix has become one of the French's leading outdoor advertising groups and the largest independent company in the sector. Employing a total of 350 people, the Group generates €27 million in revenue.Through its family of entities andservices, Phenix is building the #1 French media targeting outdoor foot traffic in city centers and a full-stack technology platform. The group organizes its operations through three segments: - Digital outdoor: #1 DOOH street media in France with 1500+ digital screens proprietary network through more than 50 cities reaching 8+ millions people/week - Print outdoor & Marketing services: 50 000+ faces through more than 80 cities reaching 15+ millions people/week and state-of-the-art trade marketing services though 120 000+ point-of-sales per month - Technologies: 50 000+ professional users mainly in large corporations through its Phenix Technologies segment, which offers a broad set of applications and service offeringsInvestor in technology & social media startups including Artips, TVTime, Bubbles, Cenareo, Shapr, melty.Former investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Lazard Frères in Paris (2003-11).Prior to Lazard, Sebastien launched a first web startup called Jet Avenue as co-founder and CEO from 2001 to 2002. ## Augusto Marietti - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS Augusto “Aghi” Marietti is an inventor, technology entrepreneur and angel investor. As the CEO and co-founder of Kong, the API company on a mission to intelligently broker information across all services, he drives the company’s vision, strategy and long-term growth. Prior to Kong, he was the CEO and co-founder of Mashape, the largest APImarketplace, which was acquired by RapidAPI in 2017. Before that, he founded MemboxX, the first European cloud service for storing documents and sensitive personal data. Augusto holds a B.S. in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan. He is the lead inventor on five U.S. patents and an angel investor in more than 10 startups. ## Octave Klaba - Type: Angel - Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B - Focus: Apps, Gaming, Aerospace Octave Klaba is a Chairman of the Board of Directors at OVHcloud. ## Jean-David Blanc - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Internet, Android 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. ## Thibaud Elziere - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders. ## Stephan Dietrich - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Security, Software, Enterprise Software 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. ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary. ## Laurent Dassault - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Cyber Security, Professional Services Born July 7, 1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Laurent Dassault is the son of Serge Dassault (1925). Married to Martine de Souza Lambrey Dassault in 2002. He Has two sounds, Julien and Adrien, from His previous wedding with Martine Raych.After 13 years in banking, Laurent Dassault in 1991 joined the group founded by his grandfather Marcel Dassault. AtDassault Investissements, he handles indirect compensation involved in military aeronautical contracts.He has also developed—and increased the value of—the firm’s investments in the arts and vineyards. Profoundly forward-looking and business oriented, Laurent Dassault enjoys creating, innovating and building. He is also deeply involved in many charitable and humanitarian organizations.Laurent Dassault today sits on some 30 boards involved principally in the financial, industrial and artistic sectors. ## Thomas Glocer - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017. ## Kumar Yamani - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Computer, Blockchain, Data Storage Kumar Yamani ## Gilles Samoun - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Security, PaaS Gilles Samoun is Founder & CEO of Salesmachine a Customer Success platform. Pioneer and strong advocate of Software as a Service starting Qualys a Security as a Service company in 99. Drove revenues and market share growth for US and European technology companies for 20+ years. Gilles Samoun is CEO and/or Founder of several SaaSventure backed companies in US and Europe and turn them into major players. ## David Opolon - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: PaaS, SaaS, Fitness David Opolon ## 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. ## Ilan Abehassera - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Ilan Abehassera is the Co-Founder and Investor of Origins Fund. He was a Co-Founder and CEO at Producteev. He attended Columbia Business School. ## Marco Palladino - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Open Source Marco Palladino is the Co-Founder and CTO of Kong Inc. He previously worked at Mashape API Marketplace as a Co-Founder and CTO. Marco attended the University of Milan. ## David Cramer - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Open Source, Developer Tools David Cramer is founder at Sentry. He is interested in right-winging, bitter-clinging proud clinger of red bull, soylent, and python. ## Arnaud Vinciguerra - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Social Media, Collaboration Arnaud Vinciguerra - Founder/CEO @ Domos FS ## Cedric Sellin - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Computer, Software, Analytics Cedric Sellin is a President at ByTheTower. He attended Stanford University. ## Nicolas Steegmann - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix. ## Didier Tranchier - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Software Didier Tranchier is the Co-founder at Digital Pharma Lab. ## Oleg Tscheltzoff - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a globalvision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE). ## Olivier Mathiot - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Food Delivery Olivier Mathiot - President @ Thecamp ## Philippe Langlois - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Security, Software, PaaS Philippe Langlois is an Information Security worldwide expert in Network and Telecom with more than 20 years of experience in telecom and network security. He successfully founded several industry-leading companies in security including Qualys (US, NASDAQ: QLYS), INTRINsec (FR), WorldNet (FR), WaveSecurity (US), TSTF (EU) and P1 Security (FR). Heconducted security missions such as audit, pentest, hardening, vulnerability analysis, risk analysis and threat intelligence in Telecom and Network domains. Philippe defined new methods and created appropriate tools to audit SS7, IMS and SIGTRAN networks through heavy R&D work. He led world-class pioneering work in vulnerability assessment product development such as in Qualys and INTRINsec. He also led the development of a number of complex system architectures in security products, ASP services and ISP/MSP infrastructures, and built and motivated international engineering teams, around security products and services. ## David Gurle - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Travel, Computer 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. ## Moritz Thiele - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Drones, Cloud Storage Moritz Thiele is Founder and CEO of FINANZCHECK.de, for over 10 years has been in business. During his studies of Economic Geography founded Moritz Thiele in 2010 FINANZCHECK.de. Here he is responsible for the areas of technology, product and marketing. ## Julien Romanetto - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l. ## Kamal Kirpalani - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Machine Learning, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Kamal is responsible for Mirakl’s growth in North America. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kamal brings 18 years of experience in growing sales and business development operations for software companies.Before joining Mirakl, Kamal led the expansion of Workday in Southern Europe, and before that, served as the Vice President for EMEA forTouchCommerce. Prior to TouchCommerce, Kamal set up the continental European offices for Bazaarvoice.Previously, Kamal held various executive management roles at leading technology companies, including Lombardi (acquired by IBM), BetweenMarkets (acquired by Inovis), Motive (acquired by Alcatel) and Trilogy. Kamal began his career in the speech recognition industry at Voice Processing Corporation and Voice Control Systems (now part of Nuance Communications).A Norwegian citizen, Kamal speaks German, French and Norwegian. He has lived and worked in the USA, France, Germany, UK, Norway and Denmark. Kamal holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Boston University. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co