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📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026đŸ’Œ 9 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
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Jul 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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Mar 2024
At OnOff, our goal is to reinvent the user experience in the world of telecommunications. We are a team based in Paris and Tallinn, made up of 100 passionate people from around the globe. In 2014, we launched the first version of a mobile app that finally allowed multiple phone numbers on a single device with the same SIM card. Since then, we’ve added numbers from more than 30 countries, as well as calling capabilities to nearly 150 destinations. We’re also very proud of our “Onoff Business” solution, which streamlines fleet management by assigning professional lines directly to your employees’ smartphones.
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Dec 2023
The Ultimate All-In-One Influencer Marketing Platform. 🔍 Discover 300M Influencers 📈 Industry Leading Analytics 💬 Directly Contact Influencers đŸ’Œ Simple Campaign Management ⚙ Automated Tracking & Reporting
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Nov 2023
Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures, and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Our bio-farming technology combines automated farms, AI, and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. We accelerate plant growth while optimizing plant molecular composition. We provide a sustainable solution for high-quality plant-based ingredients production to large health, beauty, and F&B companies. Our technology has also been awarded twice by NASA and will deployed in space stations and lunar environment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists, and researchers located between our flagship 65,000 sq. ft. BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), a Space Lab at NASA KSC Florida (USA), and a Business Hub in San Francisco (USA). You can reach out at contact@interstellarlab.earth
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Sep 2023
KÖM, the agency that makes all companies shine. Whether its digital content, TV spots, motion design, print campaigns or influencer marketing, our team puts all its creativity at the service of your project to create a campaign that lives up to your ambitions. We also accompany you in the strategic design and deployment of your 360° campaigns.
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Jun 2023
Osol has created the first nomad power network able to get rid of most of the cables and chargers in the workplace. This further enhances on-site employee experience while optimising real estate square-feet, saving money in terms of efficiency, remodeling works and chargers commands from the IT. Now the employees are free to move without constraints within the workplace, and the real estate / workplace directors are able to create more modular, flexible and evolutive worktplaces.
Investor | Business Angel
May 2023
Empowering talents from vision to execution.
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Dec 2020
Entrepreneurship in the service of the climate emergency! We identify, fund, and launch 100 companies designed and structured from start to finish to combat greenhouse gases. Our mission: > identify high-impact innovations; > recruit experienced entrepreneurs to transform these innovations into companies with solid business models; > inject financial resources to maximize and accelerate deployment. All innovations are made available as open source. Every euro raised is used to combat climate change. Any individual or organization can join the effort starting at €1 on our website (in just a few minutes) and take concrete action, on a global scale, against climate change. Everything is detailed (and you can contact us) at team-planet.com
Experience · 19 entries
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2025
Head of Community Program
Dec 2025
Bpifrance Le Hub est le partenaire opĂ©rationnel des startups et scaleups investies par les fonds d’investissement innovation en capital risque de Bpifrance. L’équipe de 30 professionnels de Bpifrance Le Hub se dĂ©die quotidiennement Ă  sa mission : contribuer au dĂ©veloppement et Ă  la croissance de l’ensemble des participations Bpifrance. Elle leur propose un accompagnement sur-mesure, quels que soient leurs besoins mĂ©tiers ou l’avancĂ©e de leur dĂ©veloppement. Le Hub met Ă  la disposition des startups les compĂ©tences de ses Ă©quipes en leur offrant un panel de services et conseils : - accompagnement opĂ©rationnel de dirigeants via du sourcing d’Operating Partners, - dĂ©veloppement commercial par la mise en relations des startups avec des PME, ETI et grands groupes, - recrutement, - Ă©changes entre pairs (animation de 6 clubs mĂ©tiers) - actions de visibilitĂ© et de communication. Le Hub se situe ainsi au cƓur de l’écosystĂšme de l’innovation et contribue Ă  tisser des liens entre les diffĂ©rents acteurs de cet Ă©cosystĂšme : fonds d’investissement de Bpifrance, startups/scaleups et entreprises françaises.
Academic Director - Entrepreneurship & VC
Jan 2025
Specialized in education and research in management, HEC Paris Business School offers a complete and unique range of educational programs for the leaders of tomorrow: Masters Programs, MBA, PhD, HEC Executive MBA, TRIUM Global Executive MBA and Executive Education open-enrolment and custom programs. Founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and founding member of ParisTech, HEC Paris has a permanent faculty of 115 professors, more than 4,000 students and over 8,500 managers and executives in training every year.
2024
Investor
Jul 2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Investor
Mar 2024
At OnOff, our goal is to reinvent the user experience in the world of telecommunications. We are a team based in Paris and Tallinn, made up of 100 passionate people from around the globe. In 2014, we launched the first version of a mobile app that finally allowed multiple phone numbers on a single device with the same SIM card. Since then, we’ve added numbers from more than 30 countries, as well as calling capabilities to nearly 150 destinations. We’re also very proud of our “Onoff Business” solution, which streamlines fleet management by assigning professional lines directly to your employees’ smartphones.
Founding Partner
Jan 2024
We strongly believe in fostering a thriving ecosystem that nurtures entrepreneurship. Positioned at the heart of this dynamic entrepreneurial landscape in France and Europe, our central role is to seamlessly facilitate access to essential networks, knowledge, and wisdom. Rooted in empowering individual growth and cultivating the expansion of their projects, our mission is to unite like-minded individuals driven by a shared purpose. Together, we endeavor to propel our world towards greater innovation and resilience, paving the way for a sustainable and promising future.
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