Top 15 Platforms Angel Investors in France in October 2023
Top 15 Platforms Angel Investors in France in October 2023
| Investor | Platforms France investments |
|---|---|
| Xavier Niel | 5 |
| Jean-David Blanc | 2 |
| Olivier Thomas | 1 |
| Maxime Prades | 1 |
| Arya Bolurfrushan | 1 |
| Cédric Delorme | 1 |
| Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
| Jacques-Antoine Granjon | 1 |
| Sebastien Romelot | 1 |
| Daniel Marhely | 1 |
| Jeremy Yap | 1 |
| Charles-Henri Prevost | 1 |
| Solomon Hykes | 1 |
| Romain Cottard | 1 |
| Tony Jamous | 1 |
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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.
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.
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- Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- ZenGo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
- Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
- Aula — Aula is a social learning platform built for education. Aula replaces emails and learning management systems (e.g. Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L) with digital infrastructure designed to encourage conversation and participation. A digital campus that complements an institution’s physical campus, Aula enables new ways to teach, learn, and createcommunity.
Maxime Prades is a Director of Product Management at Facebook. He attended ESCE International Business School.
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- Apps, File Sharing, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zight (formerly CloudApp) — Record and share your screen effortlessly with Zight's screen recorder. Record your screen with or without a camera overlay and so much more.
- Zenly — zenly your world
Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Education
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
- The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
- Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
Business angel investing with impact in Foodtech, Winetech, Insuretech and Fintech
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- Software, Biotechnology, CRM
- Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
- Courtigo — Courtigo is a CRM and comparator software for insurance brokers (SaaS)
- uvoji by T.zic — uvoji designs, develops, manufactures and markets all-in-one solutions for the treatment and disinfection of water at points of use and of surfaces by UV LEDs.To meet the major challenges of access to drinking water and provide technological solutions to the urgent needs of point-of-use water treatment, we launched the Oji Safe, Oji Pure and OjiReuse products. Our solutions are used notably by the French Red Cross for its operations.In response to the Covid pandemic, we developed the Uvo Care. Uvo Care is the disinfection box, Made in France, for all types of masks and everyday objects. The essential ally for resuming your professional activities in complete safety. It has been tested and approved by independent laboratories and kills over 99.999% of viruses and bacteria in just seconds (including SARS-COV2 virus).
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Advertising, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Agricool — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
- Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
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.
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- Mobile Apps, Apps, Android
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shapr — Shapr is revolutionizing professional networking. Shapr was developed as a free tool to help professionals meet for inspiring conversations and meaningful collaborations. The app works through a smart algorithm, which combines geographic proximity, self-selected interests, and work experience to produce a daily, personalized selection of ten tofifteen people to meet. Users swipe through their daily batch of profiles anonymously and receive a match notification when interest to connect is mutual. The next step is to message within the app and set a time to meet for sharing ideas, inspiration and opportunities over coffee.Shapr first launched in the US in 2015 and has continued to amass a devoted following in cities including New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Today, 70% of users are based in the United States with major traction also in France and Britain. Shapr users have started to pop up around the world, mostly hearing about the app through word of mouth.Shapr is the second entrepreneurial project initiated by Ludovic Huraux. His first company is Attractive World, the French leader in online premium dating that was newly acquired by the Affinitas group. Shapr is supported by a $7 million investment, raised from 80 private investors. Notable investors include Denis Dumont (Founder of Grand Frais), David Amsellem (Founder of the John Paul Concierge), Sébastien Forest (Founder Alloresto), Jean Romain Lhomme (former Head of Colony Capital Europe), Frédéric Mazzella and Nicolas Brusson (BlaBlaCar) and Gilles Mentré (managing Partner at Lazard).
- Tigerlily —
- TVShow Time — Your TV shows calendar
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.
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- Internet, Electronics, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States
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- Prizm — Prizm is a device that converts speakers into learning music players enabling all people to listen to music they like. The players adjust the music it plays according to the people in a room, their music tastes and habits, and current atmosphere. Prizm was launched by Olivier Roberdet and is based in Paris, France.
- 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.
- Omi — Omi platform is designed for today's marketer and requires no technical skills.
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Paebbl — The modular technology from Paebbl may be included in any carbon capture system and is industrially scalable. As a result, Paebbl provides a raw material stream that is carbon-negative, radically altering the economics of preventing carbon from entering our environment.
- Snaplet — Snaplet gives developers production-accurate data and preview databases they can code against, so they can focus on shipping. Ditch the seed script forever!
- Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.
Charles-Henri Prevost - General Partner @ Blisce
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series C, Secondary Market
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Keecker — The first voice-enabled robot that moves entertainment, communication and safety into every room of your home.
- Candid — Transform your smile, and your health, with Candid.
- Hubble Contacts — Hubble is the best place to buy affordable contacts and glasses online with free shipping. Personalize your contact lens subscription and shop our eyegasses and sunglasses for all your vision needs.
Solomon Hykes is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Docker and the creator of the Docker open source initiative. In his role at Docker, Solomon is focused on building a platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship, run and orchestrate distributed applications. A Forbes 30 under 30 and YCombinatoralumni, Solomon led dotCloud as Chief Executive Officer through five years of fundraising, business operations and product launches before focusing entirely on Docker. Prior to dotCloud, Solomon held engineering, IT infrastructure management and software development roles at CEIS and SmartJog.
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- Software, Cloud Computing, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
- Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
- Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.
Romain Cottard started his career in the strategy department of Schneider Electric's IT Business Unit (American Power Conversion) based in the US, where he worked on M&A opportunities and corporate alliances. He then joined Global Equities Corporate Finance in 2012 and worked on 50+ fundraising and M&A deals in fields includingsoftware, online and mobile marketing, media, e-commerce, IT and telecom. As of 2018, Romain works as a Partner at Ader Finance. Romain is a graduate of EMLYON Business School.
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- B2B, Real Time, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PayFit — Paying employees has never been easier. PayFit allows SMEs to easily manage the pay and leave of their employees.In 2015, the observation was simple: no employer was satisfied with the solutions used to manage the pay of its employees. No solution allowed a company to manage payroll quickly and without prior expertise. No solution answeredautomatically and securely to the French administrative complexity. There was no solution to centralize all the issues related to employee management on a single tool. No solution offered an intuitive and user-friendly interface for the employer but also for the employee.
- Zenly — zenly your world
- Circle Medical — Circle Medical is an online medical clinic that provides a better primary care experience. Book a telehealth appointment with one of our doctors today!
Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date.Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributedtalent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.
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- Software, Developer APIs, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Clearword — Clearword unlocks fundamentally new ways for organizations to communicate and collaborate, using tools they already use. Collaborative Agendas, Automatic Meeting Minutes in a Searchable Library.
- Juno — Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
- Lune Climate — Lune Climate claims delivering climate impact initiatives is seen as a cost center and huge undertaking. However, Lune aims to provide API and software tools to simplify the ability for businesses to integrate climate impact into their customer experience, starting with carbon emissions calculations and carbon removal.
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