# Top 20 Video Games Angel Investors in France in May 2026

## Xavier Niel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care

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.

## Michael Benabou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services

President at Financiere Saint James.

## Frederic Montagnon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

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.

## Anne Méaux
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Gaming, Mobile

Anne Méaux

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

## Jean-Marie Hullot
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: News, Mobile, Advertising

Jean-Marie Hullot is a French computer scientist and programmer who previously worked at Apple and NeXT Software.He authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include the SOS Interface for the Mac, which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985), and later still evolved into animportant part of Mac OS X. He also led the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).Hullot received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Paris at Orsay in 1981. He was a researcher at INRIA from 1979 to 1985, when he joined NeXT Computer. In 1996 he co-founded RealNames, a URL translation service, which closed in 2002. From 2001 to 2005 he was Apple Computer's Applications Division CTO, reporting to Sina Tamaddon.Photo credit: 

## Pierre Andurand
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Content

Pierre Andurand - CIO @ Andurand Capital

## Bruno Maisonnier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Hardware, Aerospace

French entrepreneur and innovator, Bruno founded AnotherBrain in Paris in 2017.In 2005, Bruno developed from scratch Aldebaran Robotics, which became the world category leader in consumer humanoid robotics and created the world renowned NAO, ROMEO and PEPPER humanoid companion robots. Aldebaran was sold to Japanese giant SoftBank and becameSoftBank Robotics. Prior to Aldebaran Bruno had been the CEO of several banks and international finance companies in France and internationally (Brazil, Portugal, Poland), managing 2,500 to 3,500 staff, in multicultural environments.Bruno is a graduate from Polytechnique and Telecom Paris.

## Pierre-François Filet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Video Games, Developer Platform, Information Technology

Pierre-François Filet - CEO & Co-Founder @ QuantHouse

## Octave Klaba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Apps, Gaming, Aerospace

Octave Klaba is a Chairman of the Board of Directors at OVHcloud.

## Antoine Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile Apps

Antoine Martin - Co-founder & CEO @ Zenly

## Julien Romanetto
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet

Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l.

## Kevin Hartz
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Kevin is the Co-Founder and GP of A* Capital & The Co-Founder & Chairman of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB)Prior A* Capital, Kevin was at Founders Fund. Previously Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite (NYSE: EB). Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company servicing more than 30 countriesworldwide. Xoom went public in 2012 and was acquired by PayPal in 2015. Kevin has served as an early-stage investor and advisor to successful start-ups including Airbnb, Lookout, PayPal, Pinterest, Skybox Imaging, Trulia, Uber, and Yammer.

## Brian Pokorny
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile

Brian Pokorny is a General Partner of SV Angel. Prior to this, he was at Airbnb, where he joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/Batch. DailyBooth was a venture backed social media start-up that Brian led for 3 years as their CEO. Before this, Brian was a partner at SV Angel with David Lee and Ron Conway upon the launch of the firm. Prior toSV Angel he was a founding team member and partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment firm. Before joining Baseline, Brian spent close to 4 years at Google within various positions in the Content Partnerships team and Direct Sales Organization. Before this, he had various roles within sales operations and finance at Juniper Networks, TIBCO Software, and Applied Materials. Brian graduated with a degree in Operations and Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University. Brian's first angel investment was in Twitter and he is also a personal angel investor in Square, OMGPOP (Acquired by Zynga), Tweetdeck (Acquired by Twitter), Milo (Acquired by eBay), Chomp (Acquired by Apple) and others. Brian has advisory positions with Ooyala (Acquired by Telstra), Rupture (Acquired by EA). At SV Angel, Brian has also originated investments in companies such as Instacart, Patreon, Mesosphere, Credit Karma, and foursquare.

## Cédric Delorme
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, CRM

Business angel investing with impact in Foodtech, Winetech, Insuretech and Fintech

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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.

## Pascal Gauthier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech

Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.

## Jérôme Le Feuvre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Gaming

Jerome Le Feuvre is the Head of Development and Operations for Europe at Bytedance.

## Bertrand Diard
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Machine Learning

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries.
Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

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