Francois Ruether

Early-stage Investor @ Paladin Capital

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Aug 2025
Mimica shows enterprises where to streamline, standardize, and automate processes across the entire organization — with zero manual effort, and in as little as two weeks. We answer the most important questions in a business: How are our people spending their time? How do we make these processes more efficient? Where’s the best place to start improving or automating? Here’s how we do it: Mimica’s AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps. Mimica’s process intelligence highlights inefficiencies, prioritizes improvements based on ROI, recommends the optimal technology for automation (RPA, intelligent document processing, GenAI), and provides a blueprint for building new automations. Mimica transforms how work gets done across the enterprise, so you can maximize workforce productivity, cut costs, and drive operational excellence. Get started at Mimica.ai
Investor
Oct 2023
Every day, over 80 years worth of video content is uploaded online. Sadly, this content can often also be harmful. We know that human moderators are the current gold standard for moderation, but this manual approach simply cannot scale. While automated systems can scale, todays solutions often fail to understand context. Unitary was founded to help brands and platforms understand every piece of content in detail. We do this by building context-aware AI and multimodal machine learning methods to interpret content in context. Our mission is to make the internet safer by understanding content accurately, swiftly and at scale.
Investor
Apr 2022
In the tech and data intelligence worlds, a sandbox is where innovation is born. It’s a place where the brightest free-thinking minds from across disciplines come together to reimagine what’s possible. A collaborative environment where the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of the parts. At SandboxAQ, this forward-looking vision is core to everything we do. It’s how we became who we are and it’s how we know our solutions can shift the way your business competes in tomorrow’s marketplace. As the world enters the third quantum revolution, AI + Quantum software will address significant business and scientific challenges. ‍ SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering AI solutions that address some of the worlds greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cyber and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and others.
Board Observer & Investor
Nov 2021
Virtuoso pushes the boundaries of traditional software test automation and quality assurance. Our team of experts have developed a new platform to spearhead the emerging paradigm in automated software testing called Intelligent Quality Assistance. Allow us to introduce Virtuoso…. Virtuoso does far more than old school QA. It assists your team at every stage in the development pipeline, enabling even non-technical users to automate their testing processes and build in quality from the get-go. Virtuoso reduces the need for manual interventions and inputs with a highly intuitive UI that’s both quick and easy to learn. Businesses moving towards a DevOps approach can rely on Virtuoso as a key component in their digital transformation strategy. Our platform integrates with all of the major CI/CD tools on the market to complement and enhance your existing efforts to automate your software development processes. How does it work? Let’s take a closer look…. Virtuoso takes testing to the next level of automation by combining the power of Robotic Process Automation and Machine Learning. Virtuoso uses bots to explore your applications and to map every execution path. Even in the most dynamic of apps, nothing is missed. Machine Learning enables Virtuoso to automatically generate tests from a few basic initial inputs. Virtuoso does the work so you don’t have to.
Board Observer & Investor
Jul 2021
IriusRisk is an open Threat Modeling platform that automates and supports creating threat models at design time. The threat model includes recommendations on how to address the risk. IriusRisk then enables the user to manage security risks throughout the rest of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with best-in-class architectural diagramming and full customization to enable every stakeholder to collaborate.
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2025
Investor
Aug 2025
Mimica shows enterprises where to streamline, standardize, and automate processes across the entire organization — with zero manual effort, and in as little as two weeks. We answer the most important questions in a business: How are our people spending their time? How do we make these processes more efficient? Where’s the best place to start improving or automating? Here’s how we do it: Mimica’s AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps. Mimica’s process intelligence highlights inefficiencies, prioritizes improvements based on ROI, recommends the optimal technology for automation (RPA, intelligent document processing, GenAI), and provides a blueprint for building new automations. Mimica transforms how work gets done across the enterprise, so you can maximize workforce productivity, cut costs, and drive operational excellence. Get started at Mimica.ai
2023
Investor
Oct 2023
Every day, over 80 years worth of video content is uploaded online. Sadly, this content can often also be harmful. We know that human moderators are the current gold standard for moderation, but this manual approach simply cannot scale. While automated systems can scale, todays solutions often fail to understand context. Unitary was founded to help brands and platforms understand every piece of content in detail. We do this by building context-aware AI and multimodal machine learning methods to interpret content in context. Our mission is to make the internet safer by understanding content accurately, swiftly and at scale.
2022
Investor
Apr 2022
In the tech and data intelligence worlds, a sandbox is where innovation is born. It’s a place where the brightest free-thinking minds from across disciplines come together to reimagine what’s possible. A collaborative environment where the whole is infinitely greater than the sum of the parts. At SandboxAQ, this forward-looking vision is core to everything we do. It’s how we became who we are and it’s how we know our solutions can shift the way your business competes in tomorrow’s marketplace. As the world enters the third quantum revolution, AI + Quantum software will address significant business and scientific challenges. ‍ SandboxAQ is a B2B company delivering AI solutions that address some of the worlds greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) deliver critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cyber and other sectors. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, and others.
2021
Board Observer & Investor
Nov 2021
Virtuoso pushes the boundaries of traditional software test automation and quality assurance. Our team of experts have developed a new platform to spearhead the emerging paradigm in automated software testing called Intelligent Quality Assistance. Allow us to introduce Virtuoso…. Virtuoso does far more than old school QA. It assists your team at every stage in the development pipeline, enabling even non-technical users to automate their testing processes and build in quality from the get-go. Virtuoso reduces the need for manual interventions and inputs with a highly intuitive UI that’s both quick and easy to learn. Businesses moving towards a DevOps approach can rely on Virtuoso as a key component in their digital transformation strategy. Our platform integrates with all of the major CI/CD tools on the market to complement and enhance your existing efforts to automate your software development processes. How does it work? Let’s take a closer look…. Virtuoso takes testing to the next level of automation by combining the power of Robotic Process Automation and Machine Learning. Virtuoso uses bots to explore your applications and to map every execution path. Even in the most dynamic of apps, nothing is missed. Machine Learning enables Virtuoso to automatically generate tests from a few basic initial inputs. Virtuoso does the work so you don’t have to.
Board Observer & Investor
Jul 2021
IriusRisk is an open Threat Modeling platform that automates and supports creating threat models at design time. The threat model includes recommendations on how to address the risk. IriusRisk then enables the user to manage security risks throughout the rest of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with best-in-class architectural diagramming and full customization to enable every stakeholder to collaborate.
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