Top 5 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in France (May 2026)

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).

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 33
Round size: Seed $2.4M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $536k–$3M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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Rayyan Islam is the Co-Founder and General Partner at 8090 Industries. As serial entrepreneur, investor and advisor focused on industrial technology and the low-carbon economy, the companies Rayyan's invested in, sourced and advised have grown to over $8B in market value and have gone to raise further financing from the likes of SequoiaCapital, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Venrock, Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Rayyan previously spent time helping source technology investments for multiple family offices globally, particularly focused towards industrialists based in the Texas and American midwest region and began his VC career at leading East Coast seed stage venture firm, Romulus Capital, where he sourced the firm’s most valued investment, EquipmentShare.A product manager by trade, he worked stints at Spotify, was on the founding team of a subscription airline and began his career supporting M&A transactions for industrial clients at Deloitte as well as economic developments efforts for Deloitte Consulting’s Emerging Markets Practice. Rayyan is a Forbes 30U30 Fellow, served as a United Nations Youth Delegate and is a recipient of the Outstanding Youth Delegate Award.Influenced by his family upbringing in Bangladesh, he personally witnessed energy security issues and the ramifications of climate change at a young age and its impact on communities around the world. Determined to make a serious dent on the issue, Rayyan supports a cadre of climate solutions, drafted policy recommendations to President Joe Biden’s climate transition team and is the editor of Decarbon Weekly, a decarbonization focused newsletter which counts leading climate scientists, members of state and local governments, climate tech founders and ESG focused investors and foundations amongst its subscription base. Rayyan co-founded the industrial decarbonization fund at 8090 Partners, in partnership with prominent industrial and energy families from around the world to invest, support and accelerate breakthrough technology companies decarbonizing every industrial sector driven by radical economic advantages.Rayyan and his work has been featured on Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Huffington Post and Forbes.

Investment focus

Industry: Renewable Energy, Biotechnology, Energy
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, France, Switzerland

Investor stats

Total investments: 37
Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $950k–$40M
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

Pipe — Get up to the full annual value of your booked monthly and quarterly contracts. Scale your business without dilution or debt.
Cache — Biomolecules are the next bits of the 21st century. So we're developing the first wet operating system for storing, accessing, and computing biomolecules at scale to make them widely accessible and useful. We're enabling the storage and access to the whole data universe—digital and biological—forever so that we don't have to deleteor dispose of anything ever again.
Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.

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Christer K. Andersson is an investor in early stage angel and venture rounds. Christer's main focus is in software tech start-ups that have a certain level of disruption in their idea. The current portfolio includes start-ups based in USA, Sweden, India , Israel, and Germany and cover technologies in Crypto / BlockChain, ArtificialIntelligence, BioTech, Enterprise SaaS, MusicTech, Mobility, and Futureofwork.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Music
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Sweden, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 22
Round size: Seed $150k–$12M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Minicircle — Minicircle develops a human genetic enhancement platform to facilitate life extension capabilities. Its platform uses expressive DNA mini circles to add genes to the human body without altering its pre-existing genome that lets healthcare practitioners to relieve suffering and enrich the condition through means of developing and delivering safe,accessible gene therapy.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Karbon — Karbon Card is a financial platform for Indian entrepreneurs.
Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.

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Thibault Chassagne - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, Security, Software
Stage:Seed
Geography: France

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Seed $525k–$16M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Carsell — Carsell is an automotive company that offers turnkey service solutions for their car. The company supports the entire process of selling used vehicles between individuals and frees them from all the constraints and sources of stress associated with it Carsell was founded by Morgan Petitjean in 2021.
Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Sharelock — Sharelock is the first shared locks network in the world. They develop, deploy and operate an innovative secured shared lock infrastructure in partnership with city authorities and mobility operators to massively enable active mobility. Based on mobility expertise and proprietary data, they also develop disruptive insurance products.

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