Maxime Lhoustau

Principal @Motier Ventures

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
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Investor
May 2024
Leading edge research, proprietary models and agents, and a forward-deployed implementation approach for tangible ROI
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2024
GetVocal AI transforms customer conversations with precision and control. Our hybrid approach combines predefined conversational graphs with AI that adapts on the fly, ensuring accurate and seamless dialogues. Unlike standard solutions, our AI excels in complex scenarios, learning and improving with each call to achieve expert-level performance. Whether qualifying leads or managing customer success, GetVocal provides unmatched transparency through in-depth conversational analysis. With our human-piloted AI agents, businesses experience continuous improvement and scalability, reducing operational burdens while driving results.
Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2024
Our mission is to help our customers develop and operate generative AI applications and agents at enterprise scale. At Vertesia, we believe in the promise and potential of generative AI (GenAI). We also believe that this promise will only be fulfilled when organizations can scale GenAI across all their various core and supporting business processes – quickly and inexpensively. Vertesia is a secure, low-code GenAI platform that enables our customers to develop and deploy even complex generative AI apps in days, not months. Our unified platform also allows you to intelligently operate these solutions, giving new levels of visibility and ownership to the business and ensuring full governance and compliance.
Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2023
We provide a fast, reliable model that generates valid JSON 100% of the time via an API. For information extraction, classification, agents workflows, synthetic data generation.
Investor
Sep 2023
FlexAI is building the next generation of AI cloud infrastructure, one that is software defined and optimized for modern AI workloads. As the era of raw GPU deployments gives way to platform driven AI infrastructure, FlexAI provides the foundation for the next phase of scalable AI systems. The platform is powered by our foundational layer built on Cloud Foundry, while the FlexAI Cloud Services layer provides a unified control plane that enables developers and enterprises to run AI inference and fine tuning across any cloud, accelerator, or data center without managing infrastructure complexity. With FlexAI, startups deploy securely and cost effectively in hyperscaler and neocloud environments, neocloud providers transform GPU clusters into scalable AI factories, and enterprises power governed private AI clouds. By decoupling AI workloads from the underlying hardware, FlexAI enables organizations to deploy AI faster, improve compute efficiency, and avoid vendor lock in.
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2023
hema.to is the worlds first software service to provide end-to-end decision support: from raw flow files to a diagnostic report.
Investor & Board Observer
Mar 2023
We are the industry leader in sustainable advertising AI optimization solutions. Serving the entire programmatic value chain – from advertisers and SSPs to publishers – we are committed to transforming the digital advertising landscape. We work globally with the leading advertisers, agencies and programmatic ad tech companies to drive substantial change to the advertising industry. We are active in more than 100 countries from our headquarters in Paris, France thanks to our deep integration with the main DSPs of the market. We are currently in the process of opening new offices in the UK, US and APAC. Greenbids has been backed by Elaia Partners.
Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2023
Developing the first Objective AI platform, Fentech pioneers LLM multi-agents guided by Causal AI for real-time accurate Task Solving. Fentech provides causal explanation with reasoning capabilities. Our autonomous platform enables automated, hallucination-free collaboration, reducing costs. No more finetuning or maintaining unstable models. Use the natural language chat to create graphs, KPIs and simulations. Suitable for all businesses, including retail, finance and marketing, Fentech helps with demand planning, pricing, supply chain and launches, as well as climate change and risk management. It also helps categorize, convert and retain customers. Thanks to its teams passionate about innovation and AI, Fentech has already been able to develop some 15 algorithms and continues to perfect its forecasting solutions to help businesses with their complex tasks. Our solutions combine the most up-to-date thinking on the sector, its innovations and experience in the field, to ensure their operational relevance and longevity. Our mission: simplify your day-to-day business and drive your company to success. Contact us and lets transform your business together!
Board Observer
Sep 2022
A new standard of AI-Powered Data Layout. Qbeast optimizes the organization of data to simplify the work of Data Engineers and make it faster and cheaper to get insights, build data products, and train Machine Learning models at scale. https://github.com/Qbeast-io/qbeast-spark Qbeast is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. VC-backed
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Moments Lab’s mission is to help content producers build videos faster. Our video discovery platform makes media content searchable to reduce the time spent sourcing the key moments required to tell a story. MXT Multimodal AI is here to address video understanding and indexing challenges, describing sequences in natural language, enabling content professionals to focus on creativity and higher-value decisions.
Board Observer
Jul 2022
Quantum Dice is bringing to market the first scalable probabilistic computing platform to help tackle some of the worlds most critical problems: efficiently enabling the next generation of energy-based AI models and solving the complex optimisation problems increasingly encountered in modern industry.
Experience · 15 entries
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Board (9)
2025
Principal
Dec 2025
Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group. We are a value-added business angel. At scale. We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €1m on next rounds. We focus on Future of Commerce, FinTech, CreativeTech, Consumer & Gaming, Infra & Tooling and Future of Work, with Blockchains and AI as transversal expertises. We bring for your business 130 years of entrepreneurial experience and an access to a wide ecosystem: our portfolio companies, the Groupe Galeries Lafayette (Les Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, Louis Pion, Royal Quartz Paris, Mauboussin, Eataly, Citynove, and the Lafayette Anticipations foundation), as well as a corporate network that spans across various industries. If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.
2024
Investor
May 2024
Leading edge research, proprietary models and agents, and a forward-deployed implementation approach for tangible ROI
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2024
GetVocal AI transforms customer conversations with precision and control. Our hybrid approach combines predefined conversational graphs with AI that adapts on the fly, ensuring accurate and seamless dialogues. Unlike standard solutions, our AI excels in complex scenarios, learning and improving with each call to achieve expert-level performance. Whether qualifying leads or managing customer success, GetVocal provides unmatched transparency through in-depth conversational analysis. With our human-piloted AI agents, businesses experience continuous improvement and scalability, reducing operational burdens while driving results.
Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2024
Our mission is to help our customers develop and operate generative AI applications and agents at enterprise scale. At Vertesia, we believe in the promise and potential of generative AI (GenAI). We also believe that this promise will only be fulfilled when organizations can scale GenAI across all their various core and supporting business processes – quickly and inexpensively. Vertesia is a secure, low-code GenAI platform that enables our customers to develop and deploy even complex generative AI apps in days, not months. Our unified platform also allows you to intelligently operate these solutions, giving new levels of visibility and ownership to the business and ensuring full governance and compliance.
2023
Investor & Board Observer
Nov 2023
We provide a fast, reliable model that generates valid JSON 100% of the time via an API. For information extraction, classification, agents workflows, synthetic data generation.
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