Top 10 Angel Investors in France (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Sylvain Zimmer
Angel
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2 | France, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Real Time, E-Commerce | |
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Denis Lafont-Trevisan
Angel
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1 | France, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Real Estate, Information Technology, B2B | |
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Frederic Montagnon
Angel
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, SaaS | $268k–$2.9M |
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Xavier Niel
Angel
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $643k–$19M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$5M |
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Edward Lando
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $100k–$4.5M |
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Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
Angel
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1 | France, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care | $190k–$57M |
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Lars Seier Christensen
Angel
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1 | Denmark, Japan, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Financial Services, Communities | $2.5M–$4M |
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Jon Oringer
Angel
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $80k–$9.3M |
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Thibault Poutrel
Angel
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1 | France, Cameroon, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services | $1.5M–$3.7M |
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Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor.
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- Industry: Software, Real Time, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sketchfab — Sketchfab is empowering a new era of creativity by making it easy for anyone to publish and find 3D content online. With a community of millions of creators who have published millions of models, it serves as a platform for immersive and interactive 3D. Additionally, its store lets buyers and sellers transact 3D models with confidence using ourreal-time viewer and model inspector.
- The Family — The Family is a family for ambitious entrepreneurs, wherever they are. Since 2013, we have supported +700 startups, from Day 1 to worldwide scaling.
Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Distributed Workforce related companies. 2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 3 exits. Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Information Technology, B2B
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caption — Caption is an internet service company.
- Bricks — Invest in real estate from 10€ and benefit from a rental income every month.
- Lymo Finance — Lymo.fr is part of the Lymo group which also integrates a property development activity. The projects financed are 100% or majority controlled by the group to control their development.
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $268k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $350k–$386k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Della AI — Della AI is a contract review solution that allows law firms and in-house legal teams to ask questions using artificial intelligence.
- getinside — Getinside is a retail media platform for e-merchants. The company delivers advertising experiences by enhancing the parcels of e-merchants who are trusted by their consumers. Getinside was established in 2022.
- Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $643k–$11M; Series A $3M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 147
- Round size: Seed $120k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Edward Lando is the Managing Partner at Pareto Holdings.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 221
- Round size: Seed $321k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $190k–$4M; Series A $4.3M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PowerZ — PowerZ is an educational video game for children 6 to 12
- Wecasa — Wecasa is a data-driven marketplace that revolutionizes care services by focusing on user experience for customers and professionalsWecasa's mission is to make care services simple and accessible for a better quality of life. Through its app, users can book in seconds a reliable Professional for care services at home: wellness (haircut,beauty, massage), cleaning, and childcare. Available in Paris, top cities in France, London, and more European cities to come. Wecasa is proud to help 100.000+ customers and increase the business of 3000 independent professionals.
- Shadow — Shadow is a high-performance cloud-based computer that has an automated hardware evolution. Extreme power, non-existent latency, exceptional display quality, Shadow offers a perfect and ultimate experience. With its automated hardware evolution, the user will never again need to buy a computer. Its first product, Shadow, is a high-performance PCbased entirely in the cloud. The company hires a team of passionate, highly skilled developers, as well as experts in business, law, marketing and distribution, and gaming.Shadow was founded on 2015 and is based in Paris, France.
Lars seier Christensen is the chief executive officer of Saxo Bank, an online trading and investment specialist that enables clients to trade forex, CFDs, stocks, futures, options, and other derivatives.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Communities
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Denmark, Japan, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paperflow — Paperflow is a company that developed a cloud-based system that, using artificial intelligence, scans and handles vouchers such as receipts or invoices so that the manual posting is done automatically.
- Concordium — Layer-1 Proof of Stake Blockchain, sustainable and science-proven with an ID layer to ease regulatory compliance. Fast and real finality with stable and low fees. Built for Defi, NFTs, and the metaverse.
- Wikifactory — Wikifactory's product development platform unifies teams in real-time, streamlines workflows, and accelerates time-to-market. Try it today.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Round size: Seed $326k–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $80k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
- Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
- NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Thibault Poutrel serves as a Manager of Access Consulting SARL. Mr. Poutrel serves as Chairman of Beaubourg Capital SAS, Internet Plc SAS and Diamond Minds Investments. He has been a Director of Come&Stay SA since December 13, 2001. He serves as a Director of Ingenico Corp. and Eat On Line SA. He has been a Director of Ingenico S.A., sinceFebruary 6, 2002 and Nextedia Société Anonyme since December 13, 2001. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of WitchBird SAS. He serves as a Director of INGENICO Inc. He worked for ABN AMRO France prior to joining Rothschild & Cie. Bank. In 2001, he founded an investment vehicle, Diamond Minds, of which he is Trustee. In 2003, he founded Access Consulting, a firm providing Internet and software integration consulting services, and in 2008, Beaubourg Capital SAS, a venture capital firm. Mr. Poutrel is a co-founder of production company Update Productions and the press agency Antidote. He educated at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and London School of Economics.
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- Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Cameroon, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
- Della AI — Della AI is a contract review solution that allows law firms and in-house legal teams to ask questions using artificial intelligence.
- Concord — Concord is the simplest contract management platform to collaborate on, manage, esign, and store agreements.
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