Olivier Laplace

Partner at Vi Partners | Backed Metaco ($250M exit), Beekeeper.io, Hacknowledge, Unique.ai, Picterra.ai | Series A, Enterprise Software, Europe

📍 Vaud, Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Board Observer
Jan 2026
Airspeed is the GTM execution platform built for the era of agentic AI. We just announced our $20M Series A, led by DN Capital with Framework.vc, Atlassian Ventures, and Vi Partners and others, with the mission to build the defining GTM platform of the AI era. Since AI began reshaping sales, go-to-market teams have faced the same problem: the data is there. Calls are logged, signals are captured, insights are generated. But acting on all of it – consistently, at speed, across every rep and every deal – is where things break down. Resources, time, and competing priorities get in the way. Airspeed closes that gap. Our agents work continuously in the background, preparing reps for every conversation, flagging deal risks before they become losses, updating forecasts in real time, and executing on every signal so your team is always about to close deals. Were trusted by 200+ revenue teams including Deepsea, Pricefx, and Light, and have grown 4x year-over-year, and we’re excited to be continuing our growth exponentially and become the world’s generational GTM engine.
Investor
Mar 2025
Imagine knowing your consumers’ preferences without tedious analyses, complex spreadsheets, or unreliable focus groups. Buynomics’ AI transforms all your readily available data into Virtual Shoppers that mimic the buying decisions of real consumers with unmatched precision. Use these instant and accurate consumer insights as the single source of truth to make decisions on prices, promotions, products, trade terms, channel & portfolio mix. Our holistic approach uncovers the links between critical revenue levers and provides fast and reliable recommendations for best results - your key to profitable and sustainable decisions.
Board Member
Jul 2024
Free your hands! As the pioneer of assisted reality wearable solutions, RealWear® works to engage, empower, and elevate the modern frontline professional to perform work tasks more safely, efficiently, and precisely. RealWears wearable solutions give workers real-time access to information and expertise while keeping their hands and field of view free for work. Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, and used by 41 of the Fortune 100 companies, RealWear is field-proven in a wide range of industries with thousands of world-class customers, including Shell, Goodyear, Mars, Colgate-Palmolive, and BMW.
Board Member
Jul 2024
🔸 Oplit is a production planning platform that provides software and support to help industrials boost operations profitability. 🔸 With Oplit, our clients achieve and increase their production objectives with a solution helping them better plan load, capacity and stocks. 🔸 Thanks to state of the art technology we deliver super fast 2-weeks integration within any industrial site and any existing ERP.
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Unique is an AI-driven platform transforming financial operations through agentic AI solutions. We help financial institutions streamline middle- and back-office processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and security at scale. By leveraging cutting-edge agentic AI, Unique empowers teams to focus on high-value work, reducing manual effort and operational risk. Our goal is to automate resource-heavy and standardised workflows through an agentic workforce that complements employees.
Board Member
Dec 2022
Enterprises in Pharmaceutical, Chemicals, and Manufacturing use Acodis Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) to get accurate, high-quality data from documents automatically. Enjoy exceptional business efficiency and more time for high-impact work with a platform that requires no coding.
Board Member
Dec 2022
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Board Observer
Jun 2022
Morgen merges your calendars, to-dos, productivity apps, and schedulers, so you manage all your time in one place. With Morgen as your time management hub, you’ll stop wasting time flipping between calendars, apps, and browser tabs, and just get work done. Product of the Day, Product Hunt.🚀 Available on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Geo-information is an essential resource for the 21st century as well as a key factor of sustainable growth and an enabler of internationally competitive performance. Our ambition is to bring together Artificial Intelligence, satellite, drone, and aerial data to provide industry users, public sectors, and NGO members with optimized geo-information in order to monitor and anticipate changes in their surroundings. At Picterra, we are convinced that without your expertise and situational awareness, Artificial Intelligence is nothing but an empty shell. This is why, we propose you to partner your field-specific knowledge with a unique interactive and scalable computer vision system, designed to work in synergy with you. No programming or deep learning skills needed, simply train, deploy and customize your own AI to extract the geo-information you really care about.
Board Member
Aug 2021
What is Hacknowledge? Hacknowledge is a Swiss security monitoring solution that will help you shorten the time between breach and detection. Our service is built on experience and intelligence gained from more than a decade of penetration test and mitigating advanced threats An innovative approach Searching the logs to find security issues is close to finding a needle in the haystack. This is why we will leverage the use of your existing security devices and fortify your logs with strong indicators of compromise generated by our custom sensors installed on your network. Finally, our experts will provide unique insights that machines lack. Before being sent to you, each alert is validated and analyzed by our security-experts who will also provide you with advices to help you mitigate the threat.
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Bring! unterstützt Millionen Menschen dabei besser einzukaufen. Die App begleitet Nutzer:innen durch alle Aspekte des Einkaufens von Alltagsartikel wie Lebensmittel & Drogerieware – von der Inspiration, über die gemeinsame Planung bis hin zum Kauf. Gemeinsam mit Brands aus FMCG und Retail gestaltet die Bring! Labs AG die Zukunft des Einkaufens und unterstützt Werbetreibende durch neuartige Marketing-Kanäle dabei, ihre Business-Ziele zu erreichen. Bring! lässt sich per Smartphone, Desktop, Smartwatch und mittels aller gängigen Sprachassistenten nutzen. Bring! ist als kostenlose App für iOS und Android sowie über das Web (www.getbring.com) verfügbar. Die Bring! Labs AG mit Sitzen in Zürich, Berlin, Basel und Köln wurde 2015 gegründet und beschäftigt heute rund 50 Mitarbeitende.
Board Observer
Dec 2019
✨ Et si nous faisions route ensemble ? ✨ TRUSK est le spécialiste du dernier kilomètre pour les objets lourds (+30 kg) et volumineux, au service des e-commerçants et des retailers. Partout en France, notre réseau dexperts — les Truskers 💙 — assure à vos clients une livraison sous 2h, à létage ou dans la pièce de leur choix. Une expérience fiable, rapide et sans encombre ! Nos enseignes partenaires ? Les leaders de lameublement, de lélectroménager, du bricolage, de la literie, du BTP… et bien plus encore ! Au quotidien, rien nest plus précieux pour nous que la satisfaction de nos clients, la fiabilité de nos services et notre engagement à conjuguer performance et respect de lenvironnement ⚡ Alors, on vous embarque ? 😏
Board Observer
Dec 2018
The Expert Community Solution puts your community at the heart of your shoppers experience. We simplify meaningful human exchanges between experienced product users and shoppers customers directly on your online store - when and where they shop. We believe this is a key differentiator for consumers as synthetic content increases and the trusted connection between consumers becomes less accessible. Our community touchpoints includes live community conversations, community content, and community recommendations. Our technology automatically helps you build a community of knowledgable brand fans, verifying and guaranteeing high-quality community exchanges.
Board Observer
Jun 2018
We help UX teams find perfect matching test users, anytime, anywhere for any type of user research with total reliability. The core of our solution is an international pool of nearly 1 MILLION test users and a fully automated candidate matching system. We apply state-of-the-art screening and thanks to AI-bases processes, we can ensure pool quality at scale. Describe your target group and follow the recruitment process of your perfect matches in real time! Our hope is that this way, our customers will help us to someday achieve our corporate vision: a world full of happy users.
Investor
May 2018
Beekeeper is transforming the way frontline businesses work. Our frontline success system helps companies ditch paper and manual processes to improve employee engagement, retention, and performance. Empower employees with direct access to the people, processes, and systems they need to do their best work. Companies around the world use Beekeeper to connect their teams, unify their systems and drive their businesses forward.
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Board Observer
Jan 2026
Airspeed is the GTM execution platform built for the era of agentic AI. We just announced our $20M Series A, led by DN Capital with Framework.vc, Atlassian Ventures, and Vi Partners and others, with the mission to build the defining GTM platform of the AI era. Since AI began reshaping sales, go-to-market teams have faced the same problem: the data is there. Calls are logged, signals are captured, insights are generated. But acting on all of it – consistently, at speed, across every rep and every deal – is where things break down. Resources, time, and competing priorities get in the way. Airspeed closes that gap. Our agents work continuously in the background, preparing reps for every conversation, flagging deal risks before they become losses, updating forecasts in real time, and executing on every signal so your team is always about to close deals. Were trusted by 200+ revenue teams including Deepsea, Pricefx, and Light, and have grown 4x year-over-year, and we’re excited to be continuing our growth exponentially and become the world’s generational GTM engine.
2025
Investor
Mar 2025
Imagine knowing your consumers’ preferences without tedious analyses, complex spreadsheets, or unreliable focus groups. Buynomics’ AI transforms all your readily available data into Virtual Shoppers that mimic the buying decisions of real consumers with unmatched precision. Use these instant and accurate consumer insights as the single source of truth to make decisions on prices, promotions, products, trade terms, channel & portfolio mix. Our holistic approach uncovers the links between critical revenue levers and provides fast and reliable recommendations for best results - your key to profitable and sustainable decisions.
2024
Board Member
Jul 2024
Free your hands! As the pioneer of assisted reality wearable solutions, RealWear® works to engage, empower, and elevate the modern frontline professional to perform work tasks more safely, efficiently, and precisely. RealWears wearable solutions give workers real-time access to information and expertise while keeping their hands and field of view free for work. Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, and used by 41 of the Fortune 100 companies, RealWear is field-proven in a wide range of industries with thousands of world-class customers, including Shell, Goodyear, Mars, Colgate-Palmolive, and BMW.
Board Member
Jul 2024
🔸 Oplit is a production planning platform that provides software and support to help industrials boost operations profitability. 🔸 With Oplit, our clients achieve and increase their production objectives with a solution helping them better plan load, capacity and stocks. 🔸 Thanks to state of the art technology we deliver super fast 2-weeks integration within any industrial site and any existing ERP.
2023
Board Observer
Jan 2023
Unique is an AI-driven platform transforming financial operations through agentic AI solutions. We help financial institutions streamline middle- and back-office processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and security at scale. By leveraging cutting-edge agentic AI, Unique empowers teams to focus on high-value work, reducing manual effort and operational risk. Our goal is to automate resource-heavy and standardised workflows through an agentic workforce that complements employees.
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