Boris Golden

GP at Partech | Backing Founders from Day 1 | PhD in CS

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2026
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Board Member
Jun 2026
NPco is a French Physical AI deep tech company, spin-off of the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), redefining the limits of engineering in the HardTech sectors - i.e aerospace, defense, automotive, energy or any highly innovative industries leveraging simulations to design better and more sustainable physical products. Founded on the principle that "The optimal design already exists," NPco empowers R&D teams to bypass the slow cycle of legacy trial-and-error simulation. Through its proprietary, pre-trained Generalized Engineering Models (GEMs), NPco fuses historical simulation IP with real-world operational data to reveal the optimal design instantly. By democratizing this high-level physics intelligence for every engineer, NPco accelerates the discovery of breakthrough sustainable products. To accelerate this mission, NPco recently secured a €6M pre-seed funding round led by Partech, with participation from prominent pioneers in the European AI ecosystem. We are currently recruiting for multiple positions. Explore our open roles to help us redefine the future of engineering.
Board Member
2025
Alpic provides the infrastructure and tools to turn your product into an AI-native experience. Our all-in-one MCP hosting platform offers easy one-click deployment, as well as MCP-specific evaluation, analytics, authentication, transport and security.
Board Member
2025
Voice AI that stands out from the noise. Real-time, AI-powered speech enhancement solutions. Ready to scale, for small teams and enterprise alike.
Board Member
2024
Presti is the #1 solution for high-quality product photos. Our mission is to transform the way companies create and utilize their product imagery. We bring a new way to stage your products at scale using AI. If you are a furniture company, it is time to use Presti. Presti is renowned as the leading AI platform for generating high-quality product photos Try it yourself !
Board Member
2023
Pimento is a creative generative AI tool used by thousands of brands, designers, and creatives to produce high-quality visuals. Pimento offers full control along with unlimited creativity, allowing our users to edit and create high-quality images that accurately reflect their brand or artistic direction in a cost-efficient manner. 🌶️
early stageDesign Services
Board Observer
2021
TestGorilla is a talent discovery platform that helps employers worldwide find and hire top talent based on proven skills. With access to over 2 million pre-vetted, skills-validated candidates, plus science-backed assessments and bias-tested AI evaluation tools, we give employers a fairer, more predictive way to scale hiring and build high-performing teams. Thousands of organizations rely on TestGorilla, united by our mission to put one billion people into their dream roles through skills-based hiring. Tap into the world’s largest skills‑tested talent pool today.
Board Observer
2020
CoachHub is the global leader in digital and AI coaching that enables organizations to create personalized, measurable and scalable coaching programs for their entire workforce, regardless of department and seniority level. As the leading talent development platform, organizations who use CoachHub benefit from increased employee engagement, higher levels of productivity, improved job performance and greater retention. Alongside its development and implementation of AI coaching, CoachHub has a global pool of over 3,500 certified business coaches in 90 countries across six continents, with coaching sessions available in over 80 languages. Serving more than 1,000 clients worldwide, CoachHub’s leading digital and AI coaching programs are based on proprietary scientific research, AI insights from renowned academics and development from its Innovation Lab. CoachHub is backed by leading tech investors, including Sofina, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Molten Ventures, Speedinvest, HV Capital, Partech and HSBC Innovation Banking. CoachHub was certified as a carbon-neutral company and consistently measures, reduces, and implements strategies to minimize its environmental impact. Are you a coach? Find out all of the information about our coach network at https://www.coachhub.com/for-coaches/
Board Observer
2020
Come join the team responsible for creating the future of fantasy football, baseball, and basketball. If youre looking to run fast, have an immediate impact from day 1, and work with smart/creative people -- Sorare is for you! We are hiring for roles both in Paris & in the US.
Board Member (Acquired by Checkout.com)
2019
ubble helps businesses fight against fraud with its frictionless online identity verification service that uses exclusive video live streaming and A.I. technology.
Pre-Seed lead investor
2018
Maze empowers researchers to be change makers, turning research into a center of influence and customer insights into enduring competitive advantage. By bringing recruiting, testing, and analysis together, Maze helps organizations move from intuition to evidence, faster. From researchers to designers and PMs, anyone can run studies that answer any question and drive better decisions at any altitude. Equipped with Maze’s research-grade AI, teams can focus on what matters most: understanding people, uncovering insights, and shaping change with confidence.
Board Member (Acquired by Cycode)
2018
Bearer helps modern teams ship trustworthy products with the help of our code security solution built for security, privacy and engineering teams. We combine sensitive data context with static code analysis to make security and privacy engineering simpler and smarter to maximize the ROI for your DevSecOps and central security team driven programs. For enterprises, we offer Bearer Cloud to manage product and application security at scale with deep sensitive data context. This is powered by Bearer CLI, an open-source static code analysis product with sensitive data context that currently supports Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Follow along or try us out here - https://github.com/Bearer/bearer
Board Member
2018
inmemori est une maison de pompes funèbres créée par Clémentine Piazza en 2016. Nous sommes présents à Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes et Rennes. Les équipes accompagnent les familles ayant perdu un proche en organisant des obsèques avec soin et humanité. Des aspects administratifs à la conception d’une cérémonie juste et réconfortante, tout est pris en charge pour que l’adieu soit signifiant. L’entreprise se distingue dans le secteur funéraire par son approche centrée sur les souhaits des familles, une offre simplifiée et des prix enfin justes. inmemori est une société à mission. Elle promeut une nouvelle vision des services funéraires intégrée à la culture du soin.
Board Member (Acquired by ABC Fitness)
2017
ABC Glofox is on a mission to build a healthier world. We are a venture-backed product-led SaaS company that is in hyper-growth. Along with our ever-growing client base that spans over 60 countries, our team is dedicated to powering the fitness industry with digital solutions. We are one team consisting of honest, moral, and ethical individuals who are heard and valued. We hold ourselves accountable - delivering on expectations and celebrating each other for the great work we do. We strive to be innovative thinkers and doers - always innovating with our customers in mind, our backbone, ensuring they can succeed and receive top-class support. At ABC Glofox, we love entrepreneurs because we are entrepreneurs. We know how much determination it takes to start your own business and grow it into something that lasts. We roll our sleeves up, we act fast, and we learn together. Were looking for people that will do the same.
Seed co-lead & former board member
2017
VSORA – Redefining AI Inference for Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure VSORA is a French fabless semiconductor company pioneering ultra-efficient, high-performance AI inference processors for cloud and data center environments. Purpose-built to overcome the memory wall and the escalating energy demands of modern AI workloads, VSORA’s flagship chip Jotunn8 delivers breakthrough throughput, ultra-low latency, and exceptional performance-per-watt—enabling cloud providers to scale AI services more sustainably and cost-effectively. Jotunn8 is Europe’s first HBM-equipped inference processor, leveraging an advanced chiplet architecture and CoWoS packaging to support massive bandwidth, linear scalability, and reliable deployment of large models in production environments. From sovereign AI clouds to hyperscale inference clusters, VSORA empowers operators to run more AI workloads with fewer servers, lower power consumption, and drastically reduced total cost of ownership. With a leadership team boasting over 25 years of silicon innovation and a proven exit, VSORA is driving the next wave of efficient AI compute—built for scale, built for sustainability, and built for the future of cloud AI. Learn more at vsora.com
Board Member (Exit to SoftBank)
2016
We are Jellysmack, the global creator company and we’re obsessed with helping creators Go Bigger. We believe that creators are the future of entertainment, and we are on a mission to elevate them to their highest potential across social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and beyond. We use technology, data, and expertise to turn the talented video creators of today into the digital icons of tomorrow. Our powerful AI detects and develops the most promising creators, inviting only the best on a life-changing journey to skyrocket their social growth and build long-term success. Through multi-platform distribution, financial backing, streaming television syndication, content ideation, brand partnerships, and more, Jellysmack provides the all-encompassing infrastructure that the world’s top creators need to maximize their value. Our industry-leading solutions impart the gift of time and empower our elite community of creators to prioritize their passion. Our exclusive roster includes names like MrBeast, Bailey Sarian, Brad Mondo, The Try Guys, KallmeKris, Junya, and Luisito Comunica.
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Jun 2026
NPco is a French Physical AI deep tech company, spin-off of the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), redefining the limits of engineering in the HardTech sectors - i.e aerospace, defense, automotive, energy or any highly innovative industries leveraging simulations to design better and more sustainable physical products. Founded on the principle that "The optimal design already exists," NPco empowers R&D teams to bypass the slow cycle of legacy trial-and-error simulation. Through its proprietary, pre-trained Generalized Engineering Models (GEMs), NPco fuses historical simulation IP with real-world operational data to reveal the optimal design instantly. By democratizing this high-level physics intelligence for every engineer, NPco accelerates the discovery of breakthrough sustainable products. To accelerate this mission, NPco recently secured a €6M pre-seed funding round led by Partech, with participation from prominent pioneers in the European AI ecosystem. We are currently recruiting for multiple positions. Explore our open roles to help us redefine the future of engineering.
2025
Board Member
2025
Alpic provides the infrastructure and tools to turn your product into an AI-native experience. Our all-in-one MCP hosting platform offers easy one-click deployment, as well as MCP-specific evaluation, analytics, authentication, transport and security.
Board Member
2025
Voice AI that stands out from the noise. Real-time, AI-powered speech enhancement solutions. Ready to scale, for small teams and enterprise alike.
2024
Board Member
2024
Presti is the #1 solution for high-quality product photos. Our mission is to transform the way companies create and utilize their product imagery. We bring a new way to stage your products at scale using AI. If you are a furniture company, it is time to use Presti. Presti is renowned as the leading AI platform for generating high-quality product photos Try it yourself !
2023
Board Member
2023
Pimento is a creative generative AI tool used by thousands of brands, designers, and creatives to produce high-quality visuals. Pimento offers full control along with unlimited creativity, allowing our users to edit and create high-quality images that accurately reflect their brand or artistic direction in a cost-efficient manner. 🌶️
early stageDesign Services
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