# Top 25 InsurTech Angel Investors in France in May 2026 ## Eric Dodin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, InsurTech Eric Dodin is the ex CEO of Europcar and CEO of AssurOne. ## Patrick Weil - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, InsurTech Patrick Weil is the President of the Prunay Group and of Prunay Impact -Startup Studio. ## Christof Kutscher - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: InsurTech, Service Industry Christof Kutscher is the Executive Chairman at Climate Asset Management. ## Eric Sibony - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, InsurTech, Insurance Shift Technology’s CSO Eric Sibony was Jeremy’s classmate at Ecole Polytechnique where he earned his degree in engineering and mathematics. He later received his MS from Université Paris VI and his PhD from Telecom ParisTech where he focused on probabilistic modelling on permutations, machine learning algorithms on rankings, and applications torecommender systems. Jeremy and Eric both have technical & mathematics backgrounds and experienced the problem of insurance claims fraud first-hand as analysts within the Fraud Detection department of Paris-based AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance carriers. They realized that there was a real need for industrialization in this field and that an IT solution integrating real business expertise was required. After their internship at AXA, they developed a prototype solution combining their know-how in combating fraud and their newly acquired skills in statistical data processing. Shift was later founded in March 2013. ## Chris Varelas - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series D - Focus: SaaS, Social News, Information Technology Chris Varelas - Co-Founding Partner @ Riverwood Capital ## Karim Irouche - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, InsurTech Karim Irouche ## Lucie Lefevre - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, InsurTech Lucie Lefèvre is a French Champion and medalist at the European and World Cyclo-cross Championships in 2011, 2013 and 2014. ## Curtis Scott - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: InsurTech, Service Industry Curtis Scott - Vice President, Customer Platform @ Lyft ## Xavier Niel - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## 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 ## Julien Codorniou - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys. ## Guillaume d'Audiffret - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series F - Focus: InsurTech, FinTech, Big Data Guillaume d'Audiffret is the Cofounder at Seyna. ## Ronan Le Moal - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance, Financial Services, Sports Ronan Le Moal is the Founding Partner and Managing Director at Epopée Gestion. Ronan Le Moal attended HEC Paris. ## Andreas Neuber - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: InsurTech, Service Industry Andreas Neuber is the Professor of Practice at Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Finance and Decision Science. ## Frederic Tardy - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: InsurTech, Service Industry Frédéric Tardy is CEO of L'Atelier (US), the BNP Paribas Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley defining and implementing on-line strategies for the different business units, strategic partners and VIP clients of BNP-Paribas in North America, Latin America and Europe. He has been helping global companies get up to speed in social media, socialcommerce and social gaming, leading them into the digital 21st century (L'Oréal, Chanel, Veolia, Saint Gobain, Pages Jaunes, Total, Richemont, Pernod Ricard, Danone).His career in the field of Digital began in 1993 at Cetelem as Direct Marketing Manager (Minitel, videotext online service).He worked in the UK as Head of Operations for Halifax Consumer Finance JV and in Spain as BNP Paribas Personal Finance Board Member. He ran the mobile and Internet strategy of BNP Paribas Personal Finance in 30 countries (Europe, America, Asia).He set up global partnerships with Internet leaders such as PayPal, Dell, Submarino (in Brazil)…Frédéric has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from ESCAE.It's from the recording studio installed in San Francisco that he brings the newest trends of Silicon Valley to the weekly program the Atelier Numérique broadcast on BFM radio, as well as in weekly articles for Les Echos (major French economic newspaper). In addition, in a weekly web TV show (FrenchWeb), he comments on the latest start ups being developed in Silicon Valley. He gives courses at HEC (leading French Business School) on US digital disruption and mentors Latin American start ups at Endeavor.org (which promotes high impact entrepreneurs around the world). He wrote “la République des Réseaux” published at Fayard editor in 2012. ## Petitjean Patrick - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, InsurTech Patrick Petitjean is the ex-CEO of the April group and ex-CEO and co-founder of Utwin. ## Olivier Legrain - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Sports Olivier Legrain - CEO @ IBA ## Fabrice Bernhard - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Information Technology, IaaS, PaaS Fabrice Bernhard is the Co founder & CTO of Theodo and Co-founder & CTO of Allomatch. He attended Ecole Polytechnique ETH Zurich. ## 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. ## Baptiste Hamel - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, InsurTech, Insurance Baptiste Hamel ## Raphael Vullierme - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Cloud Security Raphael Vullierme is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Luko. ## Jon McNeill - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: InsurTech, Insurance, Apps Jon McNeill serves as chief operating officer at Lyft. He previously held a top role at Tesla, where he was president of Global Sales & Service, overseeing all of the company’s showroom and customer-facing interactions.Jon has founded eight companies, led teams creating more than 4,000 jobs. He co-founded Enservio in 2006, a leading SaaS(software as a service) platform for insurers, employing over 400 people. Jon co-founded Sterling Collision Centers in 1997 and grew the company from a single store to a 60-store national chain of auto body repair centers focused on turnaround time and customer service.Jon McNeill's experience as an entrepreneur earned him a reputation as both an innovator and operational leader. He has scaled businesses in the automotive, software and retail industries. He is the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2013 he was named "Most Admired CEO" in the midsize company category in Boston by the Boston Business Journal. In 2002, Fast Company magazine named him one of the 10 most innovative CEOs in the country. ## 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). ## Stéphane Rossetto - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, InsurTech Stéphane Rossetto is a combatant of the Tour de France 2019. ## William Bonnet - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports, InsurTech William Bonnet participated in 10 Tour de France, 5 Tours of Spain and 3 Tours of Italy. # 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