Mathieu Tarnus

CEO Positive Group & Kaloma Capital

📍 Greater Lille Metropolitan Area, France🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 France
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Investor & Advisory Committee Member
2019
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Investor & Strategic Board Member
2017
Built for restaurants, bakeries, food trucks and concessions, Inpulse is revolutionising the management of stock and supplier orders. Our proprietary AI engine helps your restaurants gain up to 5 margin points on the food cost. Sounds good? Heres how we do it: ▶︎ On the field: managers follow the AI recommendation engine: intelligent sales forecasts, ordering and automated production plans. Result: your manager places the right orders, your chefs produce just whats needed, and you avoid unnecessary losses to help improve your margins. ▶︎ At head office: you have real time analysis of the cost of materials, gross margin, variance and more so you can quickly identify where you are losing margin. You have access to technical data sheets, suppliers, price lists and promotions to help you react quickly. Result: you quickly set your store up for success regardless of the experience level of your managers. Over 3,500 restaurants and bakeries love Inpulse, including the likes Columbus Café, Pitaya, OTacos, Côté Sushi, Boulangerie Louise, Wasabi Corner, Krispy Kreme and LAtelier Papilles. Find out how some of our customers achieved their goals in just a few weeks: https://en.inpulse.ai/clients
Investor & Strategic Board Member
2017
Built for restaurants, bakeries, food trucks and concessions, Inpulse is revolutionising the management of stock and supplier orders. Our proprietary AI engine helps your restaurants gain up to 5 margin points on the food cost. Sounds good? Heres how we do it: ▶︎ On the field: managers follow the AI recommendation engine: intelligent sales forecasts, ordering and automated production plans. Result: your manager places the right orders, your chefs produce just whats needed, and you avoid unnecessary losses to help improve your margins. ▶︎ At head office: you have real time analysis of the cost of materials, gross margin, variance and more so you can quickly identify where you are losing margin. You have access to technical data sheets, suppliers, price lists and promotions to help you react quickly. Result: you quickly set your store up for success regardless of the experience level of your managers. Over 3,500 restaurants and bakeries love Inpulse, including the likes Columbus Café, Pitaya, OTacos, Côté Sushi, Boulangerie Louise, Wasabi Corner, Krispy Kreme and LAtelier Papilles. Find out how some of our customers achieved their goals in just a few weeks: https://en.inpulse.ai/clients
Investor & Stratgic Board Member
Nov 2016
52 Entertainment is a leading e-gaming company. It’s a worldwide leader in bridge online and e-sailing with well known brands like BBO, Funbridge, and Virtual Regatta. It’s also one of the worldwide leaders in e-mind and strategy games like Tarot, Canasta and Belote to name a few. At the crossroads of gaming, entertainment and e-sport, 52 entertainment provides unique experiences to the loyal communities they serve. Based in France (Lille and Paris) with offices and people all around the globe, 52 Entertainment is a company with people and innovation at its heart.
Investor
2016
PandaScore is a leading esports data provider. PandaScore provides statistics and odds for the top esports competitions globally. We’re building the data infrastructure that will take the industry to the next level using AI and deep esports expertise. Top teams, bookmakers, fantasy apps, and media companies use PandaScore to get highly efficient esports data. Join us and take part in building the future of esports. Why are we doing all this? Video games have changed the way we experience entertainment, and now esports is catching up to and in some cases, exceeding the popularity of traditional sports with younger generations. Esports is experiencing the same evolution as traditional sports has gone through over past decades, but in just a few years. The growth is truly incredible. At PandaScore we want to help the growth of esports by providing data and odds to businesses. We want to have the most reliable and accurate data so great products can be built in esports. Our customers rely on us for fast and accurate data that powers millions in revenue each month. If you work at PandaScore, you truly have an impact on the entire ecosystem. We also strongly believe that AI will revolutionize both esports and traditional sports. Thats what were here for.
Investor
2015
We deliver your customers’ online orders within 1 hour, or exactly when they want it on the same day. Ship your customers their purchase within 1 hour, or exactly when they want it, same day. And for the price of standard shipping. Simply add deliver.ee to your check-out, call our API, and offer them the perfect last mile experience.
Experience · 15 entries
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2025
Founder & Chairman
Sep 2025
We spot hidden gems, under-the-radar founders and ideas ready to set the standard. We invest early, fast, and simply, putting capital and time into bold entrepreneurs and innovative models in France and beyond
President & Founder
Jan 2025
Positive is a sovereign European martech leader built to spark lasting connections. We empower Small and Medium Businesses with simple, powerful marketing solutions enhanced by advanced AI and supported by best-in-class human service. With more than 45,000 loyal customers, Positive stands for reliability, the foundation marketers need to unlock the full potential of their audiences with confidence. Our ecosystem is built around key solutions designed to help businesses connect with their audiences and grow: User – Emailing and customer engagement platform Surfer – AI-powered SEO and content intelligence Signitic – Email signature management for organizations noCRM – Lead management tool rapidmail – Email marketing solution enaling Headquartered in Lille, Positive brings together more than 450 employees across Europe. We are committed to building trustworthy digital solutions. All data is hosted exclusively in France and Germany, ensuring full compliance with European standards (GDPR, anti-spam regulations, ISO certifications). At Positive, technology and people go hand in hand. Our teams work every day to simplify marketing practices, help businesses grow, and create meaningful connections between brands and their audiences. Positive: European roots. Proven reliability. Built for long-term growth.
2019
Investor & Advisory Committee Member
2019
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late stageMusic
2017
Investor & Strategic Board Member
2017
Built for restaurants, bakeries, food trucks and concessions, Inpulse is revolutionising the management of stock and supplier orders. Our proprietary AI engine helps your restaurants gain up to 5 margin points on the food cost. Sounds good? Heres how we do it: ▶︎ On the field: managers follow the AI recommendation engine: intelligent sales forecasts, ordering and automated production plans. Result: your manager places the right orders, your chefs produce just whats needed, and you avoid unnecessary losses to help improve your margins. ▶︎ At head office: you have real time analysis of the cost of materials, gross margin, variance and more so you can quickly identify where you are losing margin. You have access to technical data sheets, suppliers, price lists and promotions to help you react quickly. Result: you quickly set your store up for success regardless of the experience level of your managers. Over 3,500 restaurants and bakeries love Inpulse, including the likes Columbus Café, Pitaya, OTacos, Côté Sushi, Boulangerie Louise, Wasabi Corner, Krispy Kreme and LAtelier Papilles. Find out how some of our customers achieved their goals in just a few weeks: https://en.inpulse.ai/clients
Advisory Associate
2017
Cliple rend la production vidéo facile et accessible. Fort d’une communauté de 500 réalisateurs, Cliple intervient partout en France et dans 32 pays. 2 modes opératoires pour couvrir tous les besoins, depuis la vidéo interview tournée montée dans la journée, à la publicité à fort impact pour les réseaux sociaux. Cliple, c’est aujourd’hui plus de 25 collaborateurs et 350 clients dans tous secteurs : Orange, Renault, Chanel, Accor, mais également des petites entreprises et des associations. Nos expertises permettent aux entreprises de prendre la parole de manière quotidienne pour partager tout ce qui est important dans la vie d’une entreprise : présenter le métier, renforcer la marque employeur, mettre en lumière les projets RSE, former les équipes ou les collaborateurs... Cliple favorise le partage et les aide à grandir. Cliple and share it.
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