Bertrand Diard

Co-Founder & Chairman at Syroco, Angel Investor & Venture Partner at Serena Capital

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
2018
Founded in 2016, iBanFirst has quickly established itself as the leading alternative for businesses that trade and carry out international payments. iBanFirst offers a next-generation cross-border payment experience that combines a powerful platform and the support of FX experts. With iBanFirst, executives and finance teams can get direct access to currency markets, receive, send and track payments and develop tailored hedging strategies. With more than 350 employees in 10 European countries, processing a volume of transactions worth more than €1.4 billion each month, and listed by the Financial Times as one of Europes fastest growing companies, iBanFirst became in less than 10 years a trusted partner for SMEs across borders. iBanFirst has the financial backing of the French public investment bank (bpiFrance), European venture capital leaders (Elaia, Xavier Niel), and the American investment fund Marlin Equity Partners (more than 8 billion dollars of capital under management). Regulated by the National Bank of Belgium as a payment institution, iBanFirst is authorized to operate throughout the European Union. Member of the SWIFT network and SEPA certified, iBanFirst holds AISP and PISP accreditations under PSD2.
Board Member
2017
CybelAngel is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions focused on External Attack Surface Protection and Management. As an early pioneer in ‘outside-in’ search technology, approaching cybersecurity just as an attacker would carry out infiltration, CybelAngel has developed the industry’s most extensive defense for external attack vectors, where the majority of cyber-attacks are initiated. Combining expanded discovery and analysis, CybelAngel finds unknown assets and exposures to preemptively diffuse attack vectors that cyber criminals use to breach systems and wreak havoc. CybelAngel proudly protects some of the largest global enterprises representing various sectors including the Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services. CybelAngel’s Xtended External Attack Surface Management (EASMX) is the only solution comprehensive enough to protect an enterprise’s entire external attack surface, regardless of where assets reside.
Board Member
Jun 2014
Talend, a Qlik company, is a global leader in data integration and data management, is taking the work out of working with data. Organizations of all sizes in every industry are struggling to deliver on the potential value of data. Talend combines enterprise-grade data integration, quality, governance, and application and API integration in an end-to-end platform to unify data across any cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. Innovations like the Talend Trust Score™, which instantly quantifies the reliability of any dataset, remove barriers to becoming data driven. With Talend’s no-code and low-code solutions, data experts and business users alike can actively collaborate to discover, transform, govern, and share data across the organization. Over 7,250 customers rely on Talend’s complete, flexible, and trusted platform for modern data management that drives real business value. Top analyst firms and industry media consistently recognize Talend as a leader in data management software. For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on Twitter: @Talend
Board Member
Jun 2009
Bonitasoft fully supports digital operations and IT modernization with Bonita, an open-source and extensible platform for automation and optimization of business processes. The Bonita platform accelerates development and production with clear separation between capabilities for visual programming and for coding. Bonita integrates with existing information systems, orchestrates heterogeneous systems, and provides deep visibility into processes across the organization. For Q&A and discussions about the Bonita platform visit our Community at https://community.bonitasoft.com/ You can also contact us at marketing@bonitasoft.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram!
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2019
Co-Founder & Chairman
2019
Syroco is a Climate Tech startup that supports the energy transition of maritime transportation by providing fleet operators, cargo owners, naval architects and shipyards with a platform to evaluate and improve the efficiency of ships. 🚢 🌊 Using pioneering challenges as a driver for innovation, the startup was born from the complementary expertise of its founders in the scaling of hypergrowth startups, data and artificial intelligence, naval architecture and racing boat design, extreme sports and offshore racing. 🚀
2018
Board Member
2018
Founded in 2016, iBanFirst has quickly established itself as the leading alternative for businesses that trade and carry out international payments. iBanFirst offers a next-generation cross-border payment experience that combines a powerful platform and the support of FX experts. With iBanFirst, executives and finance teams can get direct access to currency markets, receive, send and track payments and develop tailored hedging strategies. With more than 350 employees in 10 European countries, processing a volume of transactions worth more than €1.4 billion each month, and listed by the Financial Times as one of Europes fastest growing companies, iBanFirst became in less than 10 years a trusted partner for SMEs across borders. iBanFirst has the financial backing of the French public investment bank (bpiFrance), European venture capital leaders (Elaia, Xavier Niel), and the American investment fund Marlin Equity Partners (more than 8 billion dollars of capital under management). Regulated by the National Bank of Belgium as a payment institution, iBanFirst is authorized to operate throughout the European Union. Member of the SWIFT network and SEPA certified, iBanFirst holds AISP and PISP accreditations under PSD2.
2017
Venture Partner
Jan 2017
Serena is one of Europes leading investment funds, with €1bn under management. Founded in 2008 by Xavier Lorphelin, Marc Fournier, and Philippe Hayat, Serena finances and supports innovative start-ups from pre-seed to Series A, with initial checks ranging from €500k to €15m. Focus sectors: AI, SaaS, Climate Tech, Internet Infrastructure, Impact. The portfolio includes successful exits such as The Fork (acquired by Tripadvisor), Aramis Auto (acquired by Peugeot), Cheerz (acquired by Cewe), iBanFirst (acquired by the Marlin fund) and Dataiku. We have invested in nearly 100 companies, including Malt, Electra, Descartes Underwriting, Accenta, and Lifen. Born of the profound conviction that a venture capital fund should be at the service of its portfolio companies, Serena has set up the largest operational support team in Europe, comprised of 7 former top-level entrepreneurs. Added to this is the Serena Squad®, a community of 600 C-levels who can be mobilized rapidly to meet the day-to-day challenges faced by entrepreneurs. Serena has contributed to the recruitment of 40% of the management of portfolio companies by 2023. In 2023, Serena obtained the status "Société à Mission", paying particular attention to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion challenges. Protecting biodiversity and combating climate change is also part of our DNA: 25% of Serenas employees are facilitators of the Fresque du Climat.
Board Member
2017
CybelAngel is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions focused on External Attack Surface Protection and Management. As an early pioneer in ‘outside-in’ search technology, approaching cybersecurity just as an attacker would carry out infiltration, CybelAngel has developed the industry’s most extensive defense for external attack vectors, where the majority of cyber-attacks are initiated. Combining expanded discovery and analysis, CybelAngel finds unknown assets and exposures to preemptively diffuse attack vectors that cyber criminals use to breach systems and wreak havoc. CybelAngel proudly protects some of the largest global enterprises representing various sectors including the Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services. CybelAngel’s Xtended External Attack Surface Management (EASMX) is the only solution comprehensive enough to protect an enterprise’s entire external attack surface, regardless of where assets reside.
2014
Chairman & CEO - co-founder
Jul 2014
Influans'​ campaigns are thirty times more efficient than typical digital marketing campaigns - the best of which deliver only limited returns. Created by big data veterans, the Influans cloud platform leverages the most advanced big data and machine learning technologies. It enables any brand or retailer to deploy ultimate personalization campaigns, that target the right person with the right deal, at the right time via the right channel, with no technical expertise. For more information, please visit influans.com and follow @influans on Twitter.
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