Candice Du Fretay

Backing European outliers in B2B tech | Angel Investor & Founding Partner, Outlier Grove

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Investor (seed)
Feb 2026
The AI operating system for drug development.
Investor (seed)
Jul 2025
SolveAI is the enterprise-native app development platform that allows every employee to build deployment-ready software through the powers of conversational AI. Book your demo at www.solve.ai
Angel Investor & Founding Partner
Jan 2025
Outlier Grove is an angel and seed fund backing European outliers as they build enduring global B2B tech businesses. We invest $200k to $500k from inception, and accelerate European founders through early engagement with the US market.
Investor (seed)
May 2024
Leading edge research, proprietary models and agents, and a forward-deployed implementation approach for tangible ROI
Investor
Oct 2022
Lightdash is an open source BI alternative to Looker, built for analysts on top of the modern data tools they already use and love. Lightdash brings your visual layer together with your data modelling and transformation layer, creating a single source of truth for data metrics for teams.
Investor
Dec 2021
See forward with Nansen, the most powerful multichain analytics platform, helping you surface actionable insights fast.
Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2021
Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. Companies of all kinds can unlock the full potential of their product by embedding Swans banking features such as accounts, cards, and payments. Founded in 2019, Swan processes over 1 billion euros of transactions per month, for 150+ companies, and operates across thirty European countries. The company has received growth capital from leading VC investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).
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Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2021
The Governed Data Hub on Streaming Conduktor is the governance hub for streaming, bringing security, trust, and control to Kafka environments of any scale or complexity. Platform-agnostic and compatible with all major Kafka providers, Conduktor makes data discoverable, secure, resilient, and AI-ready—without slowing teams down. - Developers can build and iterate products faster - Platform teams can automate and federate workflows and operations - Organizations can use trusted, reliable data for business-critical analytics, applications, and AI. Conduktor turns your streaming data into a business-ready foundation, powering innovation, execution, and revenue. Join our Slack community: conduktor.io/slack
Investor
Feb 2021
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.
Early Stage Investor
Jul 2020
Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit www.accel.com or www.twitter.com/accel.
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2026
Investor (seed)
Feb 2026
The AI operating system for drug development.
2025
Investor (seed)
Jul 2025
SolveAI is the enterprise-native app development platform that allows every employee to build deployment-ready software through the powers of conversational AI. Book your demo at www.solve.ai
Angel Investor & Founding Partner
Jan 2025
Outlier Grove is an angel and seed fund backing European outliers as they build enduring global B2B tech businesses. We invest $200k to $500k from inception, and accelerate European founders through early engagement with the US market.
2024
Investor (seed)
May 2024
Leading edge research, proprietary models and agents, and a forward-deployed implementation approach for tangible ROI
2022
Investor
Oct 2022
Lightdash is an open source BI alternative to Looker, built for analysts on top of the modern data tools they already use and love. Lightdash brings your visual layer together with your data modelling and transformation layer, creating a single source of truth for data metrics for teams.
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