Top 10 Organic Food Angel Investors in France in October 2023

Henri Seydoux founded Parrot in 1994 and has been its CEO ever since its inception. Parrot is today one of the major players in the civil drone market. Self-taught, Henri started his career in 1978 as a trainee and then as a journalist for the magazine Actuel. In 1982, he joined the company SSCI as a developer and then, the company Micro Archi. In1986, he created BSCA, a company that specialized in rendering 3D computer images and served as CEO until 1990. In 1991, along with three other partners, he founded Christian Louboutin, a luxury shoes company.

Investment focus

Wireless, Fruit, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Series B
France

Portfolio highlights

Parrot — Parrot, a global leader in wireless devices for mobile phones, stands on the cutting edge of innovation. The company was founded in 1994 by Henri Seydoux as part of his determination to drive the inevitable breakthrough of mobile phones into everyday life by creating high-quality, user-friendly wireless devices for easy living. Parrot hasdeveloped the most extensive range of hands-free systems on the market for cars. Its globally recognised expertise in the fields of mobile connectivity and multimedia around Smartphones has positioned Parrot as a key player of in-car infotainment.Additionally, Parrot designs and markets a prestigious line of high-end wireless multimedia products in collaboration with some of the world’s most well-renowned designers. Finally, Parrot is expanding on the UAV market with the Parrot AR.Drone, the first quadricopter piloted via Wi-Fi and using augmented reality and so with new solutions to address the UAV market for professional use.Parrot, headquartered in Paris, currently employs more than 750 people worldwide and generates the majority of its sales overseas. Parrot is listed on NYSE Euronext Paris since 2006.
SIGFOX — The Sigfox 0G Technology is a LPWAN dedicated to Massive IoT. Connect your devices securely at low cost in the most energy-efficient way!
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Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Nutrition
Seed
France, United States

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HappyVore — Les Nouveaux Fermiers cultivates a passion for taste, the real, the healthy, and the impact on the planet. It reinvents meat from natural and local plant ingredients to better feed the planet. Its products today represent 11 times less CO2 and 10 times less water than meat production. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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Jacques-Antoine Granjon was born in Marseille on 9th August 1962 and studied at the prestigious European Business School (EBS). A born entrepreneur, he founded overstock distributer Cofotex S.A. with EBS friend Julien Sorbac in 1985. In 1996, Jacques-Antoine bought and renovated the former print works of national French newspaper Le Monde in LaPlaine Saint-Denis (93), just outside of Paris, setting up Oredis group HQ.In 2000, he and his business partners realised that the Internet was “an opportunity to welcome the world in a virtual store with digital catalogues”. This realization led to the creation of a revolutionary concept: an online platform entirely dedicated to flash sales for brands.In January 2001, Jacques-Antoine and his seven business partners launched vente-privee.com in France, before e-commerce had barely started in Europe. He then applied his extensive experience to the Internet, selling excess stock for important fashion and home brands, relying on two main strategies: events and exclusivity, all the while focusing on customer satisfaction. In 2012, he went on to win the “Customer Service Award” for the fourth year in a row, presented to him by the Institute BVA-Viséo Conseil, France’s fourth market research company.It was not until 2004 that the website’s success became apparent. In 2005, its turnover grew a staggering 500% from the previous year. The website is now available in 8 European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK, Belgium and Austria, and the Netherlands) and the United States, in partnership with American Express. In 12 years, vente-privee.com has become an event-creating media, bringing together over 18 million members and 2.5 million unique users per day. This solid foundation allows the site to offer its 2,000 partner brands an innovative distribution channel.Jacques-Antoine Granjon’s professional success has been recognized with many awards. He was named ‘2011 Communication Personality of the Year’ by the Grand Prix des Agences de l’Année, ‘Personality of the Year’ by the Trophées LSA de l’Innovation 2011, ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 2011 Technologies Numériques awards, ‘2011 Man of the Year’ by the Enseignes d’Or panel and ‘2010 Businessman of the Year’ by French GQ readers. Jacques-Antoine was also crowned ‘E-commerce Man of the Year’ by a panel of internet users at the E-commerce Magazine awards in 2007 then ‘Businessman of the Year’ at the BFM Awards in 2008. He also then went on to collect the European prize for ‘Chief Marketing Office of the year’, sponsored by Booz & Company, in 2009.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Advertising, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

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Side — Side's mission is simple but ambitious: create the smoothest work experience, matching company's temporary needs with qualified profiles within seconds. Each month, thousands of Siders and companies - e.g. HelloFresh, Deliveroo, Urban Massage, Soundcloud, Uber, Stripe - are using Side on a regular basis, from missions of a few hours toseveral months.Since the launch in 2015, Side has been growing fast and is now managing thousands of tasks every month in France and in the UK. Side is based in Paris and London and plan to expand into new cities, industries and job categories. After a new funding round that brings to a total of $7.2M in funding, Side is supported by Xavier Niel, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Bernard Arnault (Aglaé Ventures), Connect Ventures (Citymapper, Typeform investor), Fly Ventures, Kima Ventures, The Family and many A-level Business Angels.
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Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.

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Philippe Cantet is the Co-Founder and CEO at SPRiNG Collective. He attended ESSEC Business School in 1992.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Nutrition
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

HappyVore — Les Nouveaux Fermiers cultivates a passion for taste, the real, the healthy, and the impact on the planet. It reinvents meat from natural and local plant ingredients to better feed the planet. Its products today represent 11 times less CO2 and 10 times less water than meat production. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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Marc-David Choukroun is the co-founder of « La Ruche qui dit Oui ! » (« The Food Assembly » in the UK) and its actual CEO. Marc-David started his career in 2004 for Ogilvy communication group where he was a web project manager. In 2008, he started his own web agency called flipin. In 2010, he starts “La Ruche qui dit Oui !” with Guilhem Chéron& Mounir Mahjoubi. La Ruche is now the first european platform for online short food supply chain. Launched in 9 countries, the company employs 130 people and its platform connects 1 500 local communities to more than 6 000 producers.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Accounting, Real Estate
Angel, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Matera — Matera brings together lawyers, accountants and web developers to enable co-owners to manage their own building.
Neptune Elements — Neptune Elements offerFrench seaweed of controlled origin, with exceptional taste and culture.

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Jean-Daniel Guyot - CEO and Co-founder @ Memo Bank

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

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Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!

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Adrien de Schompre

Investment focus

AgTech, Banking, Farming
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
France

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Yeeld — Yeeld is an application that allows to save without thinking to realize projects!
iVESTA Family Office — iVESTA Family Office is designed for entrepreneurs that offer a resolutely entrepreneurial approach so that its clients can manage their assets as they manage their company with the same requirement of strategic planning, discernment, and anticipation. They build a global wealth strategy implemented with the greatest discipline.
HappyVore — Les Nouveaux Fermiers cultivates a passion for taste, the real, the healthy, and the impact on the planet. It reinvents meat from natural and local plant ingredients to better feed the planet. Its products today represent 11 times less CO2 and 10 times less water than meat production. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.

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Previously : Co-Founder of DOCTOLIB & Country Manager at LAFOURCHETTE Now : Working on new projects & Business Angel (mainly focusing on web&mobile / gastronomy opportunities) I keep paying attention to any challenging and innovative projects.

Investment focus

SaaS, Computer, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Skello — Skello makes schedule in a few clicks, communicate with teams and automatically process payroll. Skello calculates in real time the management indicators you need: Payroll, productivity, staff ratio.
Extracadabra — Extracadabra offers Restaurateurs and Hoteliers a free application allowing them to find almost instantaneously an employee (cook, waiter, maid ...) for a few hours, a few days or in CDD / CDI.
Neptune Elements — Neptune Elements offerFrench seaweed of controlled origin, with exceptional taste and culture.

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