Jean Bonnavion

Partner at Palamon Capital

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Member
2024
At Redpin, our mission is to bring global citizens and businesses together by simplifying life’s most important payments. Our world-class payments network and human-centric customer service touches a vast global community across 15,000+ partners, 235 territories and two flagship brands, Currencies Direct and TorFX. We are reshaping the age old property market by connecting the dots across the entire ecosystem, from buyers and sellers, to legal service firms and title companies to property management, banks and real estate agents. Our goal is to become the leader in payments and embedded software for international property. We are a diverse team of over 800 employees across 10 offices worldwide, working together to connect the dots for hundreds of thousands of customers around the world. By combining the brightest minds in global tech with our integrated portfolio of market-leading products and services, we are carving out a path to transform the global property market, making it faster, simpler and safer to buy property abroad.
Angel Investor and Advisor
Dec 2017
Founded in 2013 by Fabien "Neo" Devide and Nicolas Maurer, Team Vitality has long served as the driving force behind the French esports ecosystem. As a true pioneer, the organization spent years developing the local scene before establishing itself as a dominant power on the global stage. Currently ranked among the world’s elite, the club is now focused on a singular ambition: to become the undisputed number one esports organization in the world. Home to world-class international athletes, Team Vitality operates state-of-the-art global training facilities designed to push the boundaries of competitive excellence. This commitment to success is shared with a passionate community of over 13 million fans, making the organization one of the most followed and influential entities in the digital landscape. To achieve its long-term vision, Team Vitality continues to expand through three strategic pillars: performance, fan engagement, and business innovation. By merging competitive dominance with global brand growth, the organization is not just participating in the current ecosystem but actively shaping the future of the industry.
Board Member
2017
Simplify was created in March 2019 by combining two of the largest players in the property market: My Home Move and The Simplify Group. The group combines ground-breaking technology with talented people and incorporates many of the fastest-growing, most innovative brands within the industry, including Advantage Property Lawyers, DC Law, JS Law, Move with Us, My Home Move, Gordon Brown Law, Moving Made Easy and Cook Taylor Woodhouse Spanning 8 UK sites and employing over 1,500 people, the group processed or panelled over 130,000 conveyancing completions in 2018, making it the UK’s leading conveyancing business,
early stageLegal Services
Board Member
2010
When making decisions about your financial future, at Towry we believe these should be made as part of a lifetime financial plan. Whether you are interested in helping children onto the property ladder, planning for retirement or considering the best way to pass wealth onto your family, we can help. Whatever your stage of life, by developing a plan that’s just for you we can support you in achieving your goals. We are an award-winning wealth management firm employing around 900 people through a network of local offices across the UK. For over 50 years, we’ve been providing our clients with expert financial planning, investment management and wealth advice. Today, we’re proud that our many thousands of clients trust us to help shape their financial plans. We’re here for you whenever you need us, and we’re always pleased to help. Call us on 0845 788 9933 Visit our website: www.towry.com Email us: asktowry@towry.com
Board Member
2006
At NewDay, our business is focused on a single, clear and defining purpose: to help people move forward with credit. We provide nearly 5 million customers with responsible access to credit, underpinned by best-in-class customer service and exceptional user experience. Our in-house, highly scalable digital platform alongside our proprietary credit decisioning capability unlocks our competitive advantage. Our broad credit product offering enables instalment finance, BNPL, 0% finance and carded and digital revolving credit. We operate multiple direct-to-consumer products and a range of credit solutions with some of the UK’s most loved brands. Our underwriting capability and experience allow us to responsibly say yes to more UK customers making us a merchant partner of choice. We partner to harness the power of data to drive commerce across the UK, creating value at scale.
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2025
Family Office Chairman
2025
Entrepreneurial private investment company focusing on logistics real estate and venture capital.
2024
Board Member
2024
At Redpin, our mission is to bring global citizens and businesses together by simplifying life’s most important payments. Our world-class payments network and human-centric customer service touches a vast global community across 15,000+ partners, 235 territories and two flagship brands, Currencies Direct and TorFX. We are reshaping the age old property market by connecting the dots across the entire ecosystem, from buyers and sellers, to legal service firms and title companies to property management, banks and real estate agents. Our goal is to become the leader in payments and embedded software for international property. We are a diverse team of over 800 employees across 10 offices worldwide, working together to connect the dots for hundreds of thousands of customers around the world. By combining the brightest minds in global tech with our integrated portfolio of market-leading products and services, we are carving out a path to transform the global property market, making it faster, simpler and safer to buy property abroad.
2022
Member of Investment Committee
2022
Sterling is one of the oldest activist investors in Europe with an impressive 24-year track record. Sterling invests in the listed equity of small and mid-cap companies listed on the major European Exchanges. Sterling seeks to enhance the value of companies through an engaged and supportive approach that aligns shareholder and management interests. Sterling’s rigorous investment criteria and ownership approach means that it holds only a small number of disclosed strategic investments at any one time. It adopts a cautious stance, operates with no leverage and avoids currency risk. Sterling Active Fund was launched on 1 October 2020 with the sub-fund created on 1 January 2021. This fund is open for subscriptions. Sterling Strategic Value Fund was closed on 30 September 2021. Sterling’s alternative investment fund manager is NS Partners Europe SA. The Investment Advisor of NS Partners Europe SA is SSVL (Monaco) S.A.M., a regulated investment advisory firm, which provides investment recommendations.
2021
Board Member
2021
Thomas transforms the performance of organisations around the world by equipping individuals with a greater understanding of themselves. Its team interaction optimisation (TIO) platform, powered by proven assessments and data science, improves recruitment and development decisions and optimises everyday interactions. Founded in 1981, Thomas empowers millions of people across 140 countries every year to feel more fulfilled, build stronger connections and prosper in role. For more information, please visit www.thomas.co
2019
Board Member
2019
24ORE Business School has been operating for over 25 years in the education and management education market. The ability to innovate, the constant adaptation to meet the needs of a constantly evolving market, the established network of companies and institutions make it a benchmark for anyone seeking the appropriate skills to spend in the world of work. We offer a extensive range of specialized courses and Master addressed to students and professionals of all ages. Our range of courses and Master covers all the areas most in demand in the world of work and all business functions. We have classroom courses that combine the theory of the notions with the practice of the business world, and a wide choice of online courses to follow on our e-learning platform. Our position in the world of education is also expressed in the busy schedule of professional meetings that we host, meetings of international importance that bring together the most important players in the business, finance, technology and institutional sectors, both Italian and global.
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