Guillaume Simonaire

Partner @Founders Future

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 France
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Investor & Board member
May 2024
At Kinetix, we combine deep AI expertise with advanced 3D animation technologies to shape the future of character motion. Leveraging extensive proprietary datasets and advanced synthetic data pipelines, we drive cutting-edge AI research to push the boundaries of how motion is created, understood, and applied across digital and physical worlds. Learn more: https://www.kinetix.tech
Investor & Board member
Dec 2023
Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully personalized experience for discovering and collecting contemporary art. We cater to both newcomers and seasoned art collectors, providing a reliable platform that connects individuals with artworks they’ll truly love and want to collect. Founded in 2020 by Hélène Nguyen-Ban, a passionate collector and former gallerist with a decade of experience in luxury at LVMH, and Mathieu Rosenbaum, a researcher and professor of Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique, Docent is an art-tech startup at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence. Forging an alliance between AI experts and art historians, Docent pioneers a new era in art discovery. We developed proprietary algorithms using machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing, to curate bespoke recommendations of contemporary art. This advanced technology not only discerns artistic nuances and collector preferences but also ensures that partner galleries offer artworks of unmatched quality and significance. Docent isn’t just about finding art – it’s about embarking on a personalized journey, tailored to each collector’s tastes and interests. From discovering hidden gems to acquiring new masterpieces, Docent encourages exploration beyond the comfort zones, and into the unchartered. Our ultimate goal is to transform the art collecting experience into an inspiring journey accessible to a broader audience. By doing so, we also aim to create a virtuous cycle, fostering the emergence of a new generation of art enthusiasts and collectors, all while revitalizing the market for galleries and today’s leading artists.
Investor & Board observer
Dec 2022
DOGAMÍ is an entertainment company that develops web3 games centered around the Dogamí, mystical 3D dog avatars imbued with spiritual powers. The core product is DOGAMÍ Academy, a hybrid management mobile game available on iOS and Android app stores, in which users can train their Dogamí, participate in mystical obstacle courses, and win $DOGA tokens in competitive PVP events. The companys growth is supported by a $14M investment from industry leaders like Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, XAnge, The Sandbox cofounders…. DOGAMÍ is one of the biggest gaming projects on the Tezos and Polygon blockchain with a community of more than 200,000 gamers, and 24,000 NFTs sold.
Investor & Board member
Jun 2022
At Shotgun we believe that getting to know your community is the key to building a long-lasting brand. This is why weve created a community-centric platform with a suite of tools designed to help event organizers build, grow, and understand their audience.
Investor & Board member
Feb 2022
We are musicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs based in Paris and Los Angeles working together with one goal in mind: to make content creation efficient and outstanding while ensuring artists get an equal chance at being discovered and promoted. Co-founded by world-known jazz musician André Manoukian and led by serial entrepreneur Philippe Guillaud, our team prides itself in having built some of the most advanced AI-powered music and video tools available to content creators and music industry professionals. We work around the clock to ensure our apps are of the highest quality and reliability. Our team is full of passionate people who are all too familiar with the strifes of earning a living from a creative artform. We are committed to providing value for independent and commercial artists through our Artist Music Program (AMP), while simultaneously growing the micro-sync licensing space – a revenue channel that is growing exponentially along with our online world.
mid stageMusicians
Investor & Board member
Aug 2021
🇫🇷 Groover met en contact les artistes qui veulent promouvoir leur musique et les meilleurs médias, radios et labels en quête de talents émergents. Une plateforme innovante qui garantit surtout aux musiciens d’être écoutés, d’obtenir enfin des retours et de gagner en visibilité. Depuis le lancement de la plateforme, déjà plus de 4 millions de retours réalisés par les plus de 3000 médias, labels & radios actifs, 800.000 partages obtenus et plus de 1.000 signatures en label facilitées. ________ 🇬🇧 Groover helps artists get their music heard. Through an innovative web platform, Groover connects artists who want to promote their music with the best curators, radios and labels seeking emerging talents. On groover.co, artists can send their music directly to a selection of blogs, radios, playlist curators, record labels and pros of their choice, get feedback guaranteed, and coverage! More than 4 million pieces of feedback have been given by more than 3,000 active music curators and pros, 800k+ shares (reviews, playlist adds etc.) and 1,000+ signatures on record labels happened thanks to Groover.
mid stageMusicians
Investor & Board member
May 2021
"Les Mini Mondes" : les héros qui font découvrir un monde positif, bienveillant, et engagé à vos enfants 🌍 🎬 Pour les 1-3 ans : La famille Biclou parcourt le monde à bord de son vélo ! Incarnée par la petite héroïne Maya, accompagnée de son hamster Fredo. Ensemble : Ils explorent, ils s’aventurent, et ils se font des amis aux 4 coins du monde. 🎬 Pour les 3-7 ans : Sacha, la pile électrique et son petit frère Oscar, le surfeur-flâneur, participent à une grande "chasse aux trésors" à travers le monde et à bord de leur SuperVan. Ensemble, ils vont devoir composer avec leurs différences pour mener à bien leur mission. Chaque univers se décline à linfini : 👉 Produit : livre, magazine, puzzle, jeux de société, jouets ... 👉 Audio-visuel : dessin-animé, musique, podcast … 👉 Expérience : une première aire de jeux (WIP) 💚 Notre mission : mettre en mouvement les familles et développer la curiosité et l’ouverture d’esprit des enfants !
early stageMedia Production
Investor & Board member
Feb 2021
Arianee harnesses Digital Product Passports and Engagement tokens, turning them into rich ownership data while respecting users’ choice. We enable brands to deploy this new customer data infrastructure, distributed, user-owned, offering deep insights into customer behavior and preferences. Unlocking personalized engagement, deeper and data-driven relationships, and new circular business models. We redefine customer interaction by making every product and engagement proof a touchpoint for meaningful brand experiences.
Investor & Board observer
Dec 2019
Application de podcasts exclusifs en illimité 🎧 Nouveauté, découvrez Majelan Pro, la version business qui permet aux collaborateurs de se former, s’informer & se divertir pendant leurs trajets en 🚗 drive@majelan.audio
Investor & Board observer
Apr 2019
Created in Paris in July 2018, Tactical Adventures is a game development & publishing studio, focused on Tactical RPGs.
early stageComputer Games
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2025
Partner
Sep 2025
Founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, we invest financial and human capital in tech and impact startups.
Investor & Board observer
Jun 2025
Amplitude is a team of experienced, quality driven video game lovers and creators of the finest strategy games with the help of our players! Founded in 2011, we are a French indie studio with a team of over 180 developers based in Paris with an international team hailing from all over the world. We are well known for our critically acclaimed ENDLESS™ series, played by millions worldwide, and for Humankind™, our historical strategy game. Our close relationship with the community is a core feature of the studio’s philosophy. We’re proud of the way we create games together with our players via Amplifiers, our custom-built community platform that enables our community to play a key role in the creation of our games at every stage of development. To maintain this relationship with our community we have developed the Games2Gether platform, which hosts the Amplifiers community for Amplitude Studios. Games2Gether has also been adopted by other studios such as Relic Entertainment, Creative Assembly, or Pullup Entertainment.
2024
Investor & Board member
May 2024
At Kinetix, we combine deep AI expertise with advanced 3D animation technologies to shape the future of character motion. Leveraging extensive proprietary datasets and advanced synthetic data pipelines, we drive cutting-edge AI research to push the boundaries of how motion is created, understood, and applied across digital and physical worlds. Learn more: https://www.kinetix.tech
2023
Investor & Board member
Dec 2023
Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully personalized experience for discovering and collecting contemporary art. We cater to both newcomers and seasoned art collectors, providing a reliable platform that connects individuals with artworks they’ll truly love and want to collect. Founded in 2020 by Hélène Nguyen-Ban, a passionate collector and former gallerist with a decade of experience in luxury at LVMH, and Mathieu Rosenbaum, a researcher and professor of Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique, Docent is an art-tech startup at the intersection of art and artificial intelligence. Forging an alliance between AI experts and art historians, Docent pioneers a new era in art discovery. We developed proprietary algorithms using machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing, to curate bespoke recommendations of contemporary art. This advanced technology not only discerns artistic nuances and collector preferences but also ensures that partner galleries offer artworks of unmatched quality and significance. Docent isn’t just about finding art – it’s about embarking on a personalized journey, tailored to each collector’s tastes and interests. From discovering hidden gems to acquiring new masterpieces, Docent encourages exploration beyond the comfort zones, and into the unchartered. Our ultimate goal is to transform the art collecting experience into an inspiring journey accessible to a broader audience. By doing so, we also aim to create a virtuous cycle, fostering the emergence of a new generation of art enthusiasts and collectors, all while revitalizing the market for galleries and today’s leading artists.
2022
Investor & Board observer
Dec 2022
DOGAMÍ is an entertainment company that develops web3 games centered around the Dogamí, mystical 3D dog avatars imbued with spiritual powers. The core product is DOGAMÍ Academy, a hybrid management mobile game available on iOS and Android app stores, in which users can train their Dogamí, participate in mystical obstacle courses, and win $DOGA tokens in competitive PVP events. The companys growth is supported by a $14M investment from industry leaders like Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, XAnge, The Sandbox cofounders…. DOGAMÍ is one of the biggest gaming projects on the Tezos and Polygon blockchain with a community of more than 200,000 gamers, and 24,000 NFTs sold.
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