Cyril Zimmermann

President La Plateforme, Partner Collateral Good

📍 France, France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 France
5
Total investments
2
Early stage
1
Mid stage
1
Late stage
18y
Years active

Portfolio

4 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Executive Board Member
Mar 2020
Founded in 2014, Azerion (EURONEXT: AZRN) is one of Europe’s largest digital advertising and entertainment media platforms. Azerion brings global scaled audiences to advertisers in an easy and cost-effective way, delivered through its proprietary technology, in a safe, engaging, and high-quality environment, utilizing its strategic portfolio of owned and operated content with entertainment and other digital publishing partners. Having its roots in Europe with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Azerion has commercial teams based in over 26 cities around the world to closely support its clients and partners to find and execute creative ways to really make an impact through advertising. Azerion’s integrated platform provides technology solutions to automate the purchase and sale of digital advertising for media buyers and sellers, supported by in market sales and campaign management teams. Through our technology, content creators, digital publishers and advertisers work with Azerion to reach the millions of people across the globe that play Azerion’s games and view its distributed entertainment content to increase engagement, loyalty and drive e-commerce. Founded in 2014 by two Dutch entrepreneurs, Azerion has experienced rapid expansion driven by organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Azerion is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is a publicly traded company listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
Investor
Mar 2017
Une seule plateforme pour gérer toutes vos campagnes, toutes vos audiences, tous vos formats, sur l'ensemble des canaux publicitaires.
Investor
Jan 2012
Citybird (city-bird.com), cest votre chauffeur en e-scooter, scooter ou moto. Citybird sinscrit dans la révolution des mobilités qui est en train de se jouer sous nos yeux à Paris, en proposant un service de transport de personnes en 2 roues, à la demande pilotés par des chauffeurs professionnels.
Board Member
2008
Believe is one of the world’s leading digital music companies. Believe’s mission is to develop independent artists and labels in the digital world by providing them the solutions they need to grow their audience at each stage of their career and development. Believe’s passionate team of digital music experts around the world leverages the Group’s global technology platform to advise artists and labels, distribute and promote their music. Its 1,651 employees in more than 50 countries aim to support independent artists and labels with a unique digital expertise, respect, fairness and transparency. Believe offers its various solutions through a portfolio of brands including TuneCore, Nuclear Blast, Naïve, Groove Attack and AllPoints. Believe is listed on compartment A of the regulated market of Euronext Paris (Ticker: BLV, ISIN: FR0014003FE9). www.believe.com
mid stageMusicians
Experience · 10 entries
All (10)
Investments (5)
Founder (3)
Board (3)
2022
Partner
Jul 2022
Collateral Good Ventures is a climate first venture capital platform based in Zurich, Switzerland that aims to transform polluting industry systems to more sustainable ones. “Doing collateral good” in supporting extraordinary world class entrepreneurs, innovation and technology with capital is at the center of the firm’s mission as we believe these are crucial cornerstones on our journey to a sustainable future. We invest from Seed to Series A, opportunistically can go to Series B&C. Investment cheques from EUR 300k upwards to > EUR 10M. Globally.
2020
Executive Board Member
Mar 2020
Founded in 2014, Azerion (EURONEXT: AZRN) is one of Europe’s largest digital advertising and entertainment media platforms. Azerion brings global scaled audiences to advertisers in an easy and cost-effective way, delivered through its proprietary technology, in a safe, engaging, and high-quality environment, utilizing its strategic portfolio of owned and operated content with entertainment and other digital publishing partners. Having its roots in Europe with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Azerion has commercial teams based in over 26 cities around the world to closely support its clients and partners to find and execute creative ways to really make an impact through advertising. Azerion’s integrated platform provides technology solutions to automate the purchase and sale of digital advertising for media buyers and sellers, supported by in market sales and campaign management teams. Through our technology, content creators, digital publishers and advertisers work with Azerion to reach the millions of people across the globe that play Azerion’s games and view its distributed entertainment content to increase engagement, loyalty and drive e-commerce. Founded in 2014 by two Dutch entrepreneurs, Azerion has experienced rapid expansion driven by organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Azerion is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is a publicly traded company listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
2019
Advisor
Apr 2019
Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation. Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact. Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US. We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them to become global market leaders. Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.
2017
Investor
Mar 2017
Une seule plateforme pour gérer toutes vos campagnes, toutes vos audiences, tous vos formats, sur l'ensemble des canaux publicitaires.
Co-Founder
Mar 2017
TURNS CONVERSATIONS INTO DATAS Botnik est une agence de marketing conversationnel, qui accompagne les marques dans la conception de chatbot à la personnalité unique, qui font vivre des expériences engageantes. Notre expertise se situe dans le conseil et la créativité, grâce à nos 20 ans d’expérience dans le marketing relationnel et la communication. Nous accompagnons nos clients dans la définition et la mise en oeuvre de leurs stratégies, qu'elles soient événementielles, promotionnelles, servicielles ou de branding. Cela sans perdre de vue le fait que nos BOTS doivent être au service de la captation de smart datas et de business. Grâce au "conversationning"​ : - Nous donnons vie aux marques par des scenarii conversationnels. - Nous répondons aux besoin des utilisateurs dans une logique de relations longues B2H (bot to human) et H2B - Nous faisons des bots l'un des canal prioritaire des consumer journeys Notre méthodologie de travail repose sur 4 piliers : - Intelligence : nous réfléchissons avec vous au positionnement et à la personnalité du chatbot via des workshops. - Design : nous designons la conversation du chatbot, de l’UX conversationnel à l’expertise scénaristique - Production : nous vous proposons aussi une solution technique intégrable avec vos outils - Promotion : nous créons un plan de promotion du chatbot (facebook ads, brand content...) et un suivi sur le long term (CRM)
Show all 10 entries ↓
Investment activity
2008–2020 · 5 investments
2008120121201612017120201
Recent (last 2 years)Earlier