Guillaume Durao

Seed-stage VC with French & Nordic focus

📍 Paris, Île-de-France, France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 38 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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25
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6
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Seed Investor
Jun 2024
We build better alternatives to materials that are critical, but insecure. Using the latest advances in AI models and lab automation, altrove designs and builds alternatives to materials we need to reach Net Zero, but for which supply cant meet demand.
early stageManufacturing
Seed Investor
Jun 2024
Volta Software is an intelligent automation platform transforming how distributors, B2B brands, and wholesalers manage their commercial operations. Our mission: to simplify, unify, and automate the complexity of B2B commerce through artificial intelligence. Volta automates the collection, analysis, and processing of orders from every channel (email, PDF, EDI, WhatsApp, and more), centralizes pricing, catalog, and inventory management, and equips sales teams with intelligent recommendations and enhanced selling tools to accelerate deals, improve margins, and strengthen customer relationships. The result: up to 90% of manual tasks eliminated, +10% average sales growth, and teams that reclaim time for what truly matters—their customers. Founded in 2024 between Paris and Milan, Volta has raised €11M in funding from leading international funds, including RTP Global (investor in Qonto, SumUp, Datadog), Emblem (investor in Lovable), Vento by Exor, Founders Future, Robin Capital, Ithaca, B Heroes, Pareto, Firedrop, Seven Investments, Sequoia and a16z scouts, and 40+ European Business Angels. Our ambition: build the European champion of B2B automation—a technology that is sovereign, powerful, and deeply human. ➡️ Discover our vision at voltasoftware.com ➡️ Join the intelligent B2B commerce movement.
Seed Investor
Apr 2024
At Phacet, we’re building AI agents that take care of the work nobody enjoys but every business depends on: the endless flow of documents, reconciliations, and checks in finance, legal, and admin. Instead of throwing people at spreadsheets, inboxes, or PDFs, teams can create “Phacets” - AI agents that read, extract, match, and verify data exactly the way you need it. Just a few examples: checking supplier invoices against contracts, flagging unusual transactions, or pulling key terms from legal docs. We care a lot about trust and control. Every agent runs in a secure, auditable environment, and you decide how it’s used.
Seed Investor
Nov 2023
Lovable is a platform that lets you build apps and websites by chatting with AI. We are a small European team of serial founders, product engineers, physicists, competitive programmers and people who just care about building a great product quickly. Were on a mission to build the last piece of software that the world will ever need.
Seed Investor
Sep 2023
Your Business, in Your Pocket. 📱 Mobile apps for every need. We’re fully remote, working between Miami, Paris, and Buenos Aires—but somehow always in an office. 🚀 What we’re building: ☎️ Allô – A business phone system made for people who actually run a business. AI call summaries, smart routing, spam blocking—everything you need, right on your phone. 📊 ScanToSheets – The fastest way to scan & sync anything into Google Sheets. No manual entry, no headaches. 💰 Raised $5M+ from Lightspeed Venture Partners 👨‍💻 100,000+ small business owners use our apps daily Our team of 8 is building tools that just work. 🚀 We’re hiring → https://www.themobilefirstcompany.com/hiring
Seed Investor
2023
Pivot is the AI operating system for procurement, giving finance and procurement teams the structure, clarity, and velocity to operate under increasing pressure. It automates workflows, ensures full spend visibility, and ties decisions to financial reality, giving AI a foundation strong enough to carry the routine load. Thats how lean teams at companies like DoorDash, Lemonade, and Wolt run procurement with the control, speed, and coordination that once required three times the headcount. Natively integrated with all your tools, fueled by AI, and built around a top-notch UX, Pivot solves the adoption problem within your company, makes all support teams collaborate seamlessly, and provides procurement teams with powerful tools to extract data and make meaningful decisions. Pivots end-to-end platform is powering leading companies worldwide.
Angel Investor
2022
Reliability platform for teams that own business-critical data.
Angel Investor
2022
Payflows is a suite of standalone modules that combine seamlessly into a simple all-in-one finance platform which works as an ERP over-layer to any accounting system.
Angel Investor
2022
Seamless billing from quote to cash. Hyperline is an end-to-end billing platform to manage all your financial operations. Start billing in no time, operate 10x faster, lower your costs, and accelerate growth with Hyperline. Finance and ops leaders trust Hyperline to unify financial operations under a single powerful platform: automated billing, invoicing, revenue management, cash collection, modern CPQ, forecast and more. The first billing solution youll enjoy using! ► Book a demo: https://www.hyperline.co/
Angel Investor
2022
Quench uses your company’s knowledge to help you do your job better
Angel Investor
2022
Alrik empowers suppliers, carriers, drivers and builders in the construction industry with software that people actually like to use. Alrik is the OS for construction logistics. Use Alrik to manage your carriers, ship building materials, and keep all cost and emissions data in one place. Take control of your logistics with Alrik. Alrik users and customers turns into industry leaders when they control their logistics operations, make data driven decisions, and become more efficient, sustainable and profitable.
Angel Investor
2022
All Gravy is an all-in-one employee app for front-line workers. We 💜 hospitality and want to make the service business a more fun place to work. Employees love All Gravy because they get one single hub, where they find everything they need for their jobs. Contacts, handbooks, training, colleagues, chat, calls, events - everything! Operators love us, because we simplify the juggling act of managing your people through tech. Forget about connecting 7 apps - get one solid solution instead. AI is here to stay, and only getting more influence in all industries. However, hospitality hasnt reaped the full benefits yet. All Gravy is here to change that - giving you AI powers like searching through all materials and giving your people instant one-sentence answers, on the spot. Reach out to us if youre interested in joining the club of forward-thinking service businesses.
Angel Investor
2022
Play chess online with friends and join daily tournaments ♟ solve chess puzzles and challenge yourself on the best chess website and app, now on IOS and Android!
early stageComputer Games
Angel Investor
Oct 2021
"Flying in the dark" is a major issue we heard over and over again mentioned by B2B Revenue Operators. At Growblocks, we provide full visibility into your end-to-end Revenue Engine. See issues when they arise, identify their root cause in seconds, and predict how changes will impact revenue growth beyond the quarter end. Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors. See our open positions: https://thehub.io/startups/growblocks
Angel Investor
2021
Gilion is the intelligence layer between capital and builders.
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2024
Seed Investor
Jun 2024
We build better alternatives to materials that are critical, but insecure. Using the latest advances in AI models and lab automation, altrove designs and builds alternatives to materials we need to reach Net Zero, but for which supply cant meet demand.
early stageManufacturing
Seed Investor
Jun 2024
Volta Software is an intelligent automation platform transforming how distributors, B2B brands, and wholesalers manage their commercial operations. Our mission: to simplify, unify, and automate the complexity of B2B commerce through artificial intelligence. Volta automates the collection, analysis, and processing of orders from every channel (email, PDF, EDI, WhatsApp, and more), centralizes pricing, catalog, and inventory management, and equips sales teams with intelligent recommendations and enhanced selling tools to accelerate deals, improve margins, and strengthen customer relationships. The result: up to 90% of manual tasks eliminated, +10% average sales growth, and teams that reclaim time for what truly matters—their customers. Founded in 2024 between Paris and Milan, Volta has raised €11M in funding from leading international funds, including RTP Global (investor in Qonto, SumUp, Datadog), Emblem (investor in Lovable), Vento by Exor, Founders Future, Robin Capital, Ithaca, B Heroes, Pareto, Firedrop, Seven Investments, Sequoia and a16z scouts, and 40+ European Business Angels. Our ambition: build the European champion of B2B automation—a technology that is sovereign, powerful, and deeply human. ➡️ Discover our vision at voltasoftware.com ➡️ Join the intelligent B2B commerce movement.
Seed Investor
Apr 2024
At Phacet, we’re building AI agents that take care of the work nobody enjoys but every business depends on: the endless flow of documents, reconciliations, and checks in finance, legal, and admin. Instead of throwing people at spreadsheets, inboxes, or PDFs, teams can create “Phacets” - AI agents that read, extract, match, and verify data exactly the way you need it. Just a few examples: checking supplier invoices against contracts, flagging unusual transactions, or pulling key terms from legal docs. We care a lot about trust and control. Every agent runs in a secure, auditable environment, and you decide how it’s used.
2023
Seed Investor
Nov 2023
Lovable is a platform that lets you build apps and websites by chatting with AI. We are a small European team of serial founders, product engineers, physicists, competitive programmers and people who just care about building a great product quickly. Were on a mission to build the last piece of software that the world will ever need.
Seed Investor
Sep 2023
Your Business, in Your Pocket. 📱 Mobile apps for every need. We’re fully remote, working between Miami, Paris, and Buenos Aires—but somehow always in an office. 🚀 What we’re building: ☎️ Allô – A business phone system made for people who actually run a business. AI call summaries, smart routing, spam blocking—everything you need, right on your phone. 📊 ScanToSheets – The fastest way to scan & sync anything into Google Sheets. No manual entry, no headaches. 💰 Raised $5M+ from Lightspeed Venture Partners 👨‍💻 100,000+ small business owners use our apps daily Our team of 8 is building tools that just work. 🚀 We’re hiring → https://www.themobilefirstcompany.com/hiring
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