Francois Barrault

Chairman, founder and owner FDB Partners SPRL, Chairman DigiWorld Institute Idate

📍 Brussels Metropolitan Area, Belgium🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Belgium
6
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17y
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Board Member
Sep 2021
Secured and available parking is a massive hurdle to the development of active mobility, in particular bicycles. We conducted a large scale customer study confirming strong interest and validating significant expected impact on usage. Sharelocks mission is thus to massively unlock bicycle usage, solving the secured parking challenge, at scale. We develop, deploy and operate the first shared lock solution in the world in partnership with city authorities and mobility operators to massively enable active mobility. Based on mobility expertise and proprietary data, we at Sharelock also develop a highly disruptive insurance solution. Through both solutions, Sharelock gathers unique personal mobility data. We are looking for talented individuals willing to join a fast pace, high impact adventure, do not hesitate to contact us! contact@sharelock.co
early stageInsurance
Investor and member of the Advisory Council
Nov 2019
Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital seeks opportunities to lend to companies and projects that deliver both strong risk-adjusted returns and positive social impact in support of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital focuses on sustainable infrastructure, agribusiness, healthcare, education and access to finance. Investors in our firm and/or advisors in our advisory committee include Ray Chambers (former Chairman of Wesray Capital), Henri de Castries (former Chairman and CEO of AXA and Chairman Europe and Special Advisor of General Atlantic), Emmanuel Faber (Chairman and CEO of Danone), Paul Polman (former CEO of Unilever) and Alejandro Santo Domingo (Chairman of the Santo Domingo Group), amongst others. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital strives for sustainable development outcomes to foster inclusive and sustainable growth without trade-off with respect to market level rates of financial returns. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capitals founding partners are Bertrand Badré, Amer Baig, Suprotik Basu, Rashad Kaldany and Emmanuelle Yannakis. To learn more about our investments, visit our website: https://bluelikeanorangecapital.com/investments/
Board Member
Oct 2014
Qui est Numergy ? Nous sommes une société française de Cloud Computing. Notre société a été créée en Septembre 2012 par des acteurs privés et publics : SFR, Bull et la Caisse des Dépôts. Que faisons-nous ? Nous proposons aux entreprises et organismes publics une offre IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) et avons fait le choix de nous appuyer sur un réseau de partenaires composé de revendeurs informatiques, d'éditeurs de logiciel, de sociétés de conseil et de start-up. Comment fonctionnons-nous ? Nous partageons des valeurs comme la Performance, la Responsabilité et l’Agilité. La Création et l’Innovation sont des maîtres-mots chez nous. Et l’international ? Nous avons créé la Cloud Team Alliance avec Belgacom en 2013, qui compte aujourd’hui deux membres supplémentaires : Portugal Telecom et KPN. Vous souhaitez rejoindre l'aventure, rendez-vous sur https://www.numergy.com/decouvrez-numergy-recrutement
Member of the board
Jul 2010
Board member
Sep 2009
NovaSparks is the leader in FPGA-based high performance and ultra-low latency market data solutions for the financial industry. NovaSparks unique FPGA centric approach delivers sub microsecond processing latency including book building, even during market peak periods. Today we cover 70 feeds among the major Equity, Futures and Options venues across North America, Europe and Asia, the feed handlers are packaged in ‘easy-to-deploy’ appliances offering an extensive fan-out capability for market data distribution. Founded in 2008 and backed by well-established investors, NovaSparks’ offices are located in Paris, France and New York, USA.
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2021
Board Member
Sep 2021
Secured and available parking is a massive hurdle to the development of active mobility, in particular bicycles. We conducted a large scale customer study confirming strong interest and validating significant expected impact on usage. Sharelocks mission is thus to massively unlock bicycle usage, solving the secured parking challenge, at scale. We develop, deploy and operate the first shared lock solution in the world in partnership with city authorities and mobility operators to massively enable active mobility. Based on mobility expertise and proprietary data, we at Sharelock also develop a highly disruptive insurance solution. Through both solutions, Sharelock gathers unique personal mobility data. We are looking for talented individuals willing to join a fast pace, high impact adventure, do not hesitate to contact us! contact@sharelock.co
early stageInsurance
2019
Investor and member of the Advisory Council
Nov 2019
Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital seeks opportunities to lend to companies and projects that deliver both strong risk-adjusted returns and positive social impact in support of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital focuses on sustainable infrastructure, agribusiness, healthcare, education and access to finance. Investors in our firm and/or advisors in our advisory committee include Ray Chambers (former Chairman of Wesray Capital), Henri de Castries (former Chairman and CEO of AXA and Chairman Europe and Special Advisor of General Atlantic), Emmanuel Faber (Chairman and CEO of Danone), Paul Polman (former CEO of Unilever) and Alejandro Santo Domingo (Chairman of the Santo Domingo Group), amongst others. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital strives for sustainable development outcomes to foster inclusive and sustainable growth without trade-off with respect to market level rates of financial returns. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capitals founding partners are Bertrand Badré, Amer Baig, Suprotik Basu, Rashad Kaldany and Emmanuelle Yannakis. To learn more about our investments, visit our website: https://bluelikeanorangecapital.com/investments/
2015
Mimi Foundation
Board Member
Jan 2015
2014
Board Member
Oct 2014
Qui est Numergy ? Nous sommes une société française de Cloud Computing. Notre société a été créée en Septembre 2012 par des acteurs privés et publics : SFR, Bull et la Caisse des Dépôts. Que faisons-nous ? Nous proposons aux entreprises et organismes publics une offre IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) et avons fait le choix de nous appuyer sur un réseau de partenaires composé de revendeurs informatiques, d'éditeurs de logiciel, de sociétés de conseil et de start-up. Comment fonctionnons-nous ? Nous partageons des valeurs comme la Performance, la Responsabilité et l’Agilité. La Création et l’Innovation sont des maîtres-mots chez nous. Et l’international ? Nous avons créé la Cloud Team Alliance avec Belgacom en 2013, qui compte aujourd’hui deux membres supplémentaires : Portugal Telecom et KPN. Vous souhaitez rejoindre l'aventure, rendez-vous sur https://www.numergy.com/decouvrez-numergy-recrutement
2011
Senior Advisor
Dec 2011
Cyrus Capital Partners, L.P. is an SEC registered investment adviser based in New York and London. Cyrus invests on a global basis in securities and loans issued by corporates and sovereigns. It invests across the entire capital structure of companies, takes long and short positions in debt, equity and derivative instruments traded publically and over the counter, directly structures capital solutions for companies, and leads capital raises. Cyrus is an active investor that is deep value-focused and experienced in legal and process-oriented opportunities.
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