Etienne Fretault

Investor I Founder (exit) I Board Member

📍 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
VC🌍 France
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Board Member
Oct 2023
Edgehogs advanced anti-reflection technology surpasses traditional AR coating. Its groundbreaking manufacturing process allows for the large-scale production of nano-textures on glass. Its technology eliminates stray light artifacts for image sensors, such as glare, flare, and ghost images. As a result, it improves CMOS cameras performance for industries that require precise visual data, such as automotive, security cameras, and aeronautics. Edgehogs technology also benefits the renewable energy sector by increasing the efficiency and output of solar panels by significantly reducing reflection losses and enhancing light capture, contributing to a greener future.
Partner & Board member
Sep 2019
Créé en 2014, Sparkling Partners s’est donné pour mission de créer et développer des concepts innovants et disruptifs pour la Société. Structure privée basée à Lille et Paris, Sparkling est un « startup studio » qui accompagne opérationnellement les entrepreneurs et les startups, dès les premières étapes d’un projet innovant. L’équipe Sparkling met ses expertises, ses réseaux, ses ressources techniques et commerciales et sa capacité financière au service des entrepreneurs innovants et de leurs équipes. Sparkling dispose d’une filiale technologique, Sparkling Tech dédiée à la R&D et au prototypage, spécialisée notamment dans l’IoT.
Board Member (non executive)
Dec 2018
Spark Racing Technology develops and engineers high performance electric cars and modules. Since our foundation, we serve the highly competitive electric racing sports cars market. Our unique set of skills and expertise allow our customers and partners to enjoy cutting edge e-mobilty solutions for their Racing divisions as well as for the core automotive market. #FIA #ABBFORMULAE #FORMULAE #EPRIX #EXTREMEE #ELECTRICODYSSEY #ODYSSEY21 #SUV #ELECTRICSUV #MOTORSPORT #SPORTSCAR #RACING #RALLY #DESIGNTHEFUTURE #FUTURE #MOBILITY #ELECTRICMOBILITY #EMOBILITY #ELECTRIC #EV #ELECTRICVEHICLE #ELECTRIFICATION #POWERTRAIN #PWT #EPOWERTRAIN #EPWT #AUTOMOTIVE #SPARK #SPARKRACINGTECHNOLOGY
late stageAutomotive
Member of the Board
Oct 2018
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2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
New York Angels is a member-led organization committed to finding, funding and mentoring great young companies from pitch through successful exit. Our 120+ members are entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists and business leaders who have founded, funded and built world-class companies. We come from a wide array of industry backgrounds and together create an extensive network of entrepreneurial support. We mentor and coach the entrepreneurs in whom we invest, serve on their boards, provide contacts and assist with team building, strategic planning and fundraising. The mission of New York Angels is to foster an engaged and smart New York City angel investment environment in an effort to enhance the opportunities for entrepreneurs to be financed and succeed through exit. We provide opportunities for our members to obtain outstanding financial returns by investing in early-stage companies and accelerating them to market leadership. We lead and participate in investments ranging from $100,000–$2,000,000, and have a large network of angel groups and venture capital firms with whom we syndicate to do rounds up to $3 million. New York Angels has been the leading seed investment organization in NYC since 2004, with members investing over $112 million into more than 270 exciting startup companies. Through their participation in New York Angels, members were the first investors in such startups as Pinterest and Comixology, and portfolio companies have been acquired by Google, Intel, CBS, Living Social and others.
2024
Advisor & Investor
Feb 2024
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2023
Board Member
Oct 2023
Edgehogs advanced anti-reflection technology surpasses traditional AR coating. Its groundbreaking manufacturing process allows for the large-scale production of nano-textures on glass. Its technology eliminates stray light artifacts for image sensors, such as glare, flare, and ghost images. As a result, it improves CMOS cameras performance for industries that require precise visual data, such as automotive, security cameras, and aeronautics. Edgehogs technology also benefits the renewable energy sector by increasing the efficiency and output of solar panels by significantly reducing reflection losses and enhancing light capture, contributing to a greener future.
CEO & Founder
Feb 2023
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2021
Startup mentor
Sep 2021
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 375+ start-ups since launching in 2011. Our alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry. To date, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $2 billion in capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization. ERA runs two four-month sessions per year one each in the winter and summer. We invest $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company selected. In addition to this financial investment, our companies are immersed in our mentor-driven program. We also provide free office space, free hosting credits with several major cloud providers, and additional benefits through our legal, finance, accounting, and other business-service partners.
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