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Jean-Francois Willame

Operating Partner at Patrizia Infrastructure - Investor in Digital Infrastructure - Board Member

📍 Luxembourg, Luxembourg🔄 Updated November 2026💼 11 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
Angel investor🌍 Luxembourg
11
Total investments
6
Early stage
1
Mid stage
2
Late stage
7y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Oct 2024
Civismart is the Italian platform launched by Patrizia Infrastructure to promote energy efficiency, digital infrastructures, and smart cities within Public Administration, as well as to support the countrys energy transition through decarbonization projects. Civismart is the result of the enhancement of skills and entrepreneurial projects by Italian companies operating in the public lighting sector for several decades (Selettra of Avigliano and Ottima of Ascoli), combining a market vision and solid financial capabilities at the European level through the SCIF (Smart City Infrastructure Fund) of Patrizia Infrastructure. Civismart helps its clients reduce their carbon footprint while simultaneously improving the quality of life for citizens who live in our cities on a daily basis. Through integrated energy efficiency projects and innovative smart cities, Civismart directly invests in decarbonization interventions, manages and maintains public assets, and offers citizens and public administrators digital solutions that improve everyday life and enable decisions in favor of the collective interest.
Board Member
Apr 2023
SiFi Networks is an international Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network developer. SiFi Networks has dedicated itself through innovative construction methods, financial modelling and collaboration, to deliver platforms over which service providers can supply next generation services, including gigabit internet connectivity to communities across the globe. SiFi Networks is an infrastructure enabler and not an internet service provider (ISP). We fully fund and build community wide state-of-the-art fiber optic networks, known as FiberCities™, which allow municipal and private ISP’s to deliver a variety of services.
Board Member
Mar 2023
We offer connectivity services in rural areas and towns with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants in Spain. LOCALCOM is a group of local operators whose aim is to offer internet, mobile, and television services to individuals and small businesses in small and medium-sized communities. Our operations have been established for over 10 years now, and although we are a young group, we provide service in over 200 locations in Spain with local customer support, unmatched connection speeds, and personalized, close service. We were born with the vocation to maintain the spirit of local service and image, generate value and scale through the development of our customer portfolio, develop a unique operational and commercial model, and leverage operational synergies among the different companies within the group. The most compelling testament to our operators is our customers and their satisfaction with our service, which inspires us to push a little harder every day.
Board Member
Nov 2022
Ottima Srl è una ESCO innovativa specializzata nella realizzazione di interventi di efficienza energetica e nel Facility Management.
Board Member
Oct 2022
A joint venture between SiFi and APG was created delivering future proofed FTTP connectivity and smart city solutions to medium sized cities across the US. Future Fiber will contribute to bridging the digital divide in the United States where more than one-third of households do not have access to high-speed internet.
Board Member
Jul 2021
Our purpose is to contribute to the social and economic development of rural areas with low population density, guaranteeing digital connectivity through FTTH broadband services.
Board Member
Dec 2020
Unifiber è un’azienda nata dalla collaborazione tra Unidata e CEBF. L’attività di Unifiber si concentra sulla realizzazione di reti in fibra ottica di accesso passive (primaria e secondaria) di tipo FTTH (Fiber To The Home, al 100% in fibra) nelle aree “grigie” della regione Lazio, e sulla vendita dell’accesso e dell’utilizzo delle reti in modalità wholesale-only, ovvero soltanto ad altri operatori. Obiettivo del progetto è quello di coprire oltre 100.000 unità immobiliari residenziali ed oltre 5.000 aziende. L’accordo tra i due protagonisti si è concretizzato il 3 Settembre 2020. Per CEBF rappresenta il primo investimento in Italia. Il closing dell’operazione per l’avvio delle attività è stato perfezionato a Dicembre 2020.
Board Member
Nov 2020
Rodin Group is een zakelijke internet- en accessprovider en specialist in het ontwikkelen, bouwen, onderhouden en exploiteren van breedband internet- en telecom oplossingen in Nederland en Duitsland. Rodin Group bestaat uit verschillende onderdelen, te weten: Rodin Broadband - Ontwikkeling breedband infrastructuur voor bedrijventerreinen. Rodin Connect - Onafhankelijke integrator op het gebied van draadloze verbindingen en glasvezeloplossingen. Rodin Telecom - Hoogwaardig specialistische support voor de netwerken van grote telecom providers. Rodin Events – Tijdelijke internetverbindingen en wifi dekking op (internationale) evenementen. Rodin is uniek vanwege een eigen hybride netwerk dat uit glasvezel en straalverbindingen bestaat. Waar mogelijk voorziet Rodin internetontsluiting via glasvezel. Wanneer glasvezel economisch onrendabel is, kan een radioverbinding ingezet worden welke kwalitatief vergelijkbaar is met een glasvezelverbinding. Dit houdt in dat de acces niet alleen bekabeld geleverd kan worden, maar ook draadloos. Hierdoor kunnen locaties die geen beschikking hebben over breedband en waar er onvoldoende aanbod is van (betrouwbaar) internet, de zogeheten buitengebieden, door Rodin ontsloten worden via radioverbinding. Is er geen zakelijk snel internet mogelijk op uw locatie? Wij hebben dé oplossing! Neem voor meer informatie contact met ons op en laat u adviseren over de mogelijkheden. T: 088 -011 7800 E: info@rodin-group.com
Board Member
Sep 2020
Somos un operador neutro de telecomunicacións galego.
Board Member
Nov 2019
The CEBF fund is the majority owner of the Luxembourg based RUNE Group S.A., who in turn owns the companies RUNE Enia d.o.o. (Slovenia) and RUNE Crow d.o.o. (Croatia). The aim of the companies is to build high capacity fiber network and operate the infrastructure as an open-access active network, which will enable the service providers to access the infrastructural services under the same conditions. By building a network in the areas which are currently not covered with optical infrastructure, the companies will help local communities to achieve the goals of the Digital agenda for Europe 2020 and Gigabit Europe 2025, by enabling the connectivity to the citizens with capacities of 1Gb/s and more. RUNE is first and at the moment also only multinational project at the EU level which bridges several member states with ultra-fast broadband infrastructure. Besides, RUNE is also the first project which was funded by the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund (CEBF), whose main purpose is to contribute to achieving the gigabit society goals. Optical network construction will last for three years, RUNE Enia d.o.o. will build in the rural areas of Slovenia and RUNE Crow d.o.o. will build in the rural areas of Croatia. In order to speed up and simplify the construction, the use of the existing infrastructure is envisaged, in accordance with legal and technical norms and in compliance with EU regulations on cost reduction of high-speed electronic communications networks.
Investor
Nov 2019
CEBF’s strategy is to contribute to the roll-out of the wired and wireless Next Generation Access (NGA) networks and ancillary telecom infrastructures in the European Union, Norway and Iceland through financing of broadband infrastructure investments by helping to attract private investments in digitally-deprived areas.
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2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
Civismart is the Italian platform launched by Patrizia Infrastructure to promote energy efficiency, digital infrastructures, and smart cities within Public Administration, as well as to support the countrys energy transition through decarbonization projects. Civismart is the result of the enhancement of skills and entrepreneurial projects by Italian companies operating in the public lighting sector for several decades (Selettra of Avigliano and Ottima of Ascoli), combining a market vision and solid financial capabilities at the European level through the SCIF (Smart City Infrastructure Fund) of Patrizia Infrastructure. Civismart helps its clients reduce their carbon footprint while simultaneously improving the quality of life for citizens who live in our cities on a daily basis. Through integrated energy efficiency projects and innovative smart cities, Civismart directly invests in decarbonization interventions, manages and maintains public assets, and offers citizens and public administrators digital solutions that improve everyday life and enable decisions in favor of the collective interest.
2023
Board Member
Apr 2023
SiFi Networks is an international Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network developer. SiFi Networks has dedicated itself through innovative construction methods, financial modelling and collaboration, to deliver platforms over which service providers can supply next generation services, including gigabit internet connectivity to communities across the globe. SiFi Networks is an infrastructure enabler and not an internet service provider (ISP). We fully fund and build community wide state-of-the-art fiber optic networks, known as FiberCities™, which allow municipal and private ISP’s to deliver a variety of services.
Board Member
Mar 2023
We offer connectivity services in rural areas and towns with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants in Spain. LOCALCOM is a group of local operators whose aim is to offer internet, mobile, and television services to individuals and small businesses in small and medium-sized communities. Our operations have been established for over 10 years now, and although we are a young group, we provide service in over 200 locations in Spain with local customer support, unmatched connection speeds, and personalized, close service. We were born with the vocation to maintain the spirit of local service and image, generate value and scale through the development of our customer portfolio, develop a unique operational and commercial model, and leverage operational synergies among the different companies within the group. The most compelling testament to our operators is our customers and their satisfaction with our service, which inspires us to push a little harder every day.
2022
Board Member
Nov 2022
Ottima Srl è una ESCO innovativa specializzata nella realizzazione di interventi di efficienza energetica e nel Facility Management.
Board Member
Oct 2022
A joint venture between SiFi and APG was created delivering future proofed FTTP connectivity and smart city solutions to medium sized cities across the US. Future Fiber will contribute to bridging the digital divide in the United States where more than one-third of households do not have access to high-speed internet.
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