Top 20 Music Angel Investors in France in October 2023
Top 20 Music Angel Investors in France in October 2023
| Investor | Music France investments |
|---|---|
| Martijn Tjho | 2 |
| Xavier Niel | 2 |
| Den Dmytrenko | 2 |
| Den Dmytrenko | 2 |
| Rand Hindi | 1 |
| Alex Masmej | 1 |
| Yann LeCun | 1 |
| Patrick Sayer | 1 |
| Marc Menase | 1 |
| Oliver Tilloy | 1 |
| Ronny Shibley | 1 |
| Julien Bouteloup | 1 |
| Marc Jalabert | 1 |
| Martin Solveig | 1 |
| Jean-Charles Carre | 1 |
| Fabrice Larue | 1 |
| Bruno Dizengremel | 1 |
| Jacques Veyrat | 1 |
| Sebastien Borget | 1 |
| Jonathan Belolo | 1 |
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Martijn Tjho is teh Co-Founder and CEO at BIYU.
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- Music, Education, Machine Learning
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Jellynote — Jellynote is the go-to-destination for over 1 million aspiring musicians; a loyal community who enjoy sheets, tabs and chords, original video content and the opportunity to connect with one-another in the Jellynote universe.Jellynote has developed all of its proprietary technology in-house, delivering an intuitive AI-powered edtech platform toits fans. Jellynote sells premium subscriptions and generates revenue from ads.Jellynote offers over 400,000 songs that you can be played to learn through original artist video master classes, video tutorials, sheets, tabs, chords and instrument view for a wide range of instruments. The game mode provides instant feedback and social mode connects musicians share their tastes in music. The Jellynote universe demonstrates how music can connect people in a world that is getting more and more divided. Available on Smartphone and desktop.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
- Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
- Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.
Co-founder and General Partner at Roosh and co-founder of Reface, ZibraAI, and Ukrainian AI/ML community AI HOUSE, which are part of the overarching Roosh ecosystem, along with venture firm Roosh Ventures, upskilling project Gathers, AI R&D company Neurons Lab, venture studio Pawa. Forbes 30 under 30 Europe.In 2018, Den Dmytrenkoco-founded Reface, the company behind the viral face-swap video app. Shortly after, he co-founded ZibraAI, a deep-tech company that creates AI-generated assets for any virtual world or experience. Den wanted to continue building breakthrough companies based on ML and working with the best founders to introduce more companies and tech into the world, so he launched Roosh. What Den and his team do at Roosh is help pioneering entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies scale globally by building, developing, and investing in them. Part of the Roosh ecosystem, is Roosh Ventures, an early-stage, generalist venture firm that invests in Pre-seed to Series A stages in the EU and US markets. The firm supports its portfolio companies through added values derived from their expertise in AI and ML.In addition, there is AI HOUSE, a Ukrainian AI community that brings together talents, experts, and investors to provide educational resources and opportunities for industry talents. Complementing this, there is Gathers, an upskilling project focused on solving the growing skill gap within the AI/ML industry. Moreover, the robust ecosystem encompasses Neurons Lab, an innovative AI R&D company, and Pawa, an ML-based venture studio.Den also take the role of angel investor and seek out additional exciting opportunities beyond Roosh.
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- Software, CRM, Wearables
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, France
Portfolio highlights
- Folk — Powerful as a CRM, simple as a spreadsheet. folk is a collaborative tool to centralize, organize and activate contacts.
- Bnext — Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.
- Regression Games — Regression Games is pushing the limits of gaming. Visit our site for updates, and sign up for news as it comes out!
Co-founder and General Partner at Roosh and co-founder of Reface, ZibraAI, and Ukrainian AI/ML community AI HOUSE, which are part of the overarching Roosh ecosystem, along with venture firm Roosh Ventures, upskilling project Gathers, AI R&D company Neurons Lab, venture studio Pawa. Forbes 30 under 30 Europe.In 2018, Den Dmytrenkoco-founded Reface, the company behind the viral face-swap video app. Shortly after, he co-founded ZibraAI, a deep-tech company that creates AI-generated assets for any virtual world or experience. Den wanted to continue building breakthrough companies based on ML and working with the best founders to introduce more companies and tech into the world, so he launched Roosh. What Den and his team do at Roosh is help pioneering entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies scale globally by building, developing, and investing in them. Part of the Roosh ecosystem, is Roosh Ventures, an early-stage, generalist venture firm that invests in Pre-seed to Series A stages in the EU and US markets. The firm supports its portfolio companies through added values derived from their expertise in AI and ML.In addition, there is AI HOUSE, a Ukrainian AI community that brings together talents, experts, and investors to provide educational resources and opportunities for industry talents. Complementing this, there is Gathers, an upskilling project focused on solving the growing skill gap within the AI/ML industry. Moreover, the robust ecosystem encompasses Neurons Lab, an innovative AI R&D company, and Pawa, an ML-based venture studio.Den also take the role of angel investor and seek out additional exciting opportunities beyond Roosh.
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- Software, CRM, Wearables
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, France
Portfolio highlights
- Folk — Powerful as a CRM, simple as a spreadsheet. folk is a collaborative tool to centralize, organize and activate contacts.
- Bnext — Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.
- Regression Games — Regression Games is pushing the limits of gaming. Visit our site for updates, and sign up for news as it comes out!
Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).
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- Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
- Argent — Argent gives you the best of Ethereum for a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest crypto.
- Kinetix — Kinetix is a no-code 3D creation tool that leverages artificial intelligence motion capture to convert videos into 3D animations.
Alex Masmej Co-Founder & CEO at Showtime. Attended Alliance Manchester Business School.
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- Cryptocurrency, Music, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Bolero — Own the music of your favourite artists by collecting Song Shares and unlock exclusive experiences through their Fan Tokens. Bolero - a record label for every pocket.
- SPICYEST — SPICYEST is a pricing and analytics platform made to help both fresh and experienced traders feel confident about their NFT trades.
- Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist of Facebook. He remains a Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science at New York University, where has worked on machine learning, computer vision, robotics, AI, computational neuroscience, and related topics.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Antescofo — Antescofo is the mariage of world-class R&D and Business endeavours. Their technology is the result of 7+ years of R&D in the world’s largest laboratory dedicated to Music and Technology, IRCAM in Paris, and public experience with the most important musicians and orchestras around the world. The principle? Through Intelligent MachineListening, they recognize how humans perform music in real-time and use that information to synchronize content and provide an immersive experience! Antescofo was incorporated in July 2016 and based in Paris, France.
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Own the music of your favourite artists by collecting Song Shares and unlock exclusive experiences through their Fan Tokens. Bolero - a record label for every pocket.
- Monk.ai — Monk is an AI company delivering state of the art AI Powered Vehicle Inspection solutions for the automotive, insurance and mobility markets.
Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
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.
- Omi — Omi platform is designed for today's marketer and requires no technical skills.
- Silvr — Silvr reinvents the way entrepreneurs get funded.Financing businesses has not evolved over the last decades: banks prefer to fund assets, equity is not the best fit for all. At Silvr, we empower entrepreneurs by building a world where funding is easy to access, scalable, and equity-free. We leverage digital businesses data to predict futurerevenues and offer funding in 24 hours.We are headquartered in Paris, are backed by ISAI and Eurazeo and we deploy millions of euros of funding for European entrepreneurs every month.
Oliver Tilloy, Founder of Techmind.
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- Music, Banking, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, Senegal, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
- PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
- Zicplace — Zicplace is a B2C and B2B online Music eCommerce Marketplace to buy and sell new and used instruments.
- Socium Job — Socium Job these are companies that recruit and offer real career opportunities to all those who share their values and wish to invest in their development.
Ronny Shibley - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gorillas
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- Software, Music, Privacy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kertos — Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic privacy platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuver inmodern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters.
- Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
- Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.
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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- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- Ondefy — Ondefy is building infrastructure that enables a simple access to decentralized finance. Integrate multiple DeFi services unders 1 line of code.
Marc Jalabert
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- Internet, Apps, IaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Koyeb — Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, and infrastructure management.
- Cosmian — End-to-end encryption for unparalleled data protection with Cosmian. Discover cutting-edge solutions powered by next-generation cryptography.
- Docugami — AI document engineering by Docugami. Unlock the power of AI and automation for your agreements, contracts, documents, lease agreements, proposals, and more.
Martin Solveig
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- Apps, Music, Computer
- Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- MWM — Founded in 2012, MWM develops music apps. In a few years, MWM has been at the origin of plenty hits apps on the App Store and the Play Store such as edjing Mix, the world’s most downloaded DJ app. Now ranked #1 worldwide as music apps publisher, MWM register more than 400 million downloads with 15 apps covering the main music segment (Production,Gaming, Learning and Utilities).
Jean-Charles Carre is the business partner and manager of world renowned DJ and music producer David Guetta.
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- Apps, Music, Computer
- Series A
- France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Music Messenger — Shellanoo Group is a technology company specializing in mobile applications, Internet related services and interactive artificial intelligence with cognitive solutions.Introducing a modern way to invest in technology. Shellanoo Group offers investors the range of a diversified IT portfolio with the simplicity of investing in a single company.Shellanoo Group builds, operates and manages products and services that challenge the status quo, all of which are wholly owned by the Company.Founded in mid-2014 in Israel, Shellanoo Group has grown into one of Israel’s more appealing technology firms, combining both business expertise and technological strength.
- MWM — Founded in 2012, MWM develops music apps. In a few years, MWM has been at the origin of plenty hits apps on the App Store and the Play Store such as edjing Mix, the world’s most downloaded DJ app. Now ranked #1 worldwide as music apps publisher, MWM register more than 400 million downloads with 15 apps covering the main music segment (Production,Gaming, Learning and Utilities).
Fabrice Larue
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- Audio, Music, Podcast
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Majelan — Majelan designs software for entertainment that helps users find and discover audio content. Its platform will allow users to search and listen to podcasts and audio content on IOS or Android smartphones, providing podcast enthusiasts with a range of different audio content in a convenient and hassle-free manner.
Bruno Dizengremel is based In Stockholm and joined Innovacom in 2001 in charge of North European investments.Before joining Innovacom, Bruno was Business Development Director of a subsidiary of the Ericsson Group in Stockholm specialized in OSS (telecommunications network management applications).Previously, Bruno worked within the FranceTelecom/Orange Group for some 10 years in various management capacities. His latest position there was VP of Business Development at France Telecom Mobiles International, a position where he led the expansion of the Group’s mobile operations in Europe. Bruno has also served as Technical Director of Panafon, the GSM network operator in Greece.A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he post-graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.
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- Music, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Bolero — Own the music of your favourite artists by collecting Song Shares and unlock exclusive experiences through their Fan Tokens. Bolero - a record label for every pocket.
Jacques Veyrat
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- Audio, Music, Banking
- Seed, Series B
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Majelan — Majelan designs software for entertainment that helps users find and discover audio content. Its platform will allow users to search and listen to podcasts and audio content on IOS or Android smartphones, providing podcast enthusiasts with a range of different audio content in a convenient and hassle-free manner.
- Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
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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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.
Jonathan Belolo is a Founder and CEO at Stage11. He attended Sciences Po.
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- Music, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Stage11 — Our interactive music experiences invite fans to explore, play and create collaboratively inside the musical worlds of their favourite artists.
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