Paul Vidal

Co-founder & CTO @Collective, the AI recruiting platfom | ex-Datadog | Angel investor

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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15
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6
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2
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1
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Angel Investor
Feb 2026
Fakto is an AI platform for cost intelligence. Global enterprises use Fakto to capture the full financial value of every supplier relationship. Our agents analyze every contract, invoice and operational decision to close the gap between what’s negotiated and what’s executed.
Investor
Jan 2026
Alan is the prevention insurance. Founded in 2016, Alan is reinventing what health insurance should be: not just covering your employees when they get sick, but helping keep them healthy every day. Alan pairs exceptional insurance and service quality with innovative health services (a virtual clinic available 7 days a week, a medically supervised AI assistant, gamified prevention, no out‑of‑pocket eyewear), which provide access to affordable, personalized care and make prevention effective. All in a single, integrated experience designed for maximum employee adoption and simplified administration for your HR teams, with no intermediaries. Alan also offers plans dedicated to self‑employed workers and public‑sector employees. Over 1 million members trust Alan, across more than 37,000 companies and organizations of all sizes and sectors. With 800+ employees, Alan operates in France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada.
late stageInsurance
Angel Investor (exited to Alan)
Mar 2025
The health solution allowing you to perform individualized tests and receive personalized recommendations according to your needs and objectives. Giving you the tools to reach your full potential and thrive with vitality, for long.
Angel Investor
Oct 2024
Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. Companies of all kinds can unlock the full potential of their product by embedding Swans banking features such as accounts, cards, and payments. Founded in 2019, Swan processes over 1 billion euros of transactions per month, for 150+ companies, and operates across thirty European countries. The company has received growth capital from leading VC investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).
mid stageBanking
Angel Investor
May 2024
Hire AI, Not APIs ✨
Angel Investor
May 2024
Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Angel Investor
Mar 2024
Your Business, in Your Pocket. 📱 Mobile apps for every need. We’re fully remote, working between Miami, Paris, and Buenos Aires—but somehow always in an office. 🚀 What we’re building: ☎️ Allô – A business phone system made for people who actually run a business. AI call summaries, smart routing, spam blocking—everything you need, right on your phone. 📊 ScanToSheets – The fastest way to scan & sync anything into Google Sheets. No manual entry, no headaches. 💰 Raised $5M+ from Lightspeed Venture Partners 👨‍💻 100,000+ small business owners use our apps daily Our team of 8 is building tools that just work. 🚀 We’re hiring → https://www.themobilefirstcompany.com/hiring
Angel Investor
Aug 2023
The purchase journey has left the website. Consumers now start buying on AI assistants before they ever reach a product page. Dialog builds the brand agent that travels with them. Trained on a brands identity, its responsibility to its customers, and its sales expertise. Deployed on the website, inside AI assistants: everywhere a purchase decision happens. An encoded brand intelligence. Deployed. Owned. 300+ brands. 3x average conversion uplift → http://askdialog.com/
Angel Investor
Feb 2023
Roundtable is Europes leading infrastructure for private investments, handling all legal and administrative operations so founders, angels, and fund managers can focus on what matters.
Angel Investor
Jan 2023
Bitstacks mission is to empower people to participate in a more open financial system. Bitstack has gone from a simple product that turns your spare change into bitcoin to a bitcoin-native neobank that is bringing a better way to buy, sell, earn and spend bitcoin. Bitstack is powered by Bitcoin - the first open, global, and permissionless monetary network that allows users to send and receive money anywhere, instantly, with almost no fees, and with no central issuer that can debase its currency.
Angel Investor
Jun 2022
Dotfile helps financial institutions verify business customers anywhere in the world in less than 10 seconds. Dotfile end-to-end KYB platform is the last compliance solution your organization will ever need.
Angel Investor (exited to Atlassian)
Feb 2022
Cycle 3.0 – your product feedback, all in one place. The fastest way for your team to capture product feedback and share customer insights – without the busywork.
Angel Investor
Dec 2021
Numeral, a Mambu company, is a payment technology provider for fintechs and banks. We offer financial institutions a universal gateway to connect to partner banks and access schemes and a modern payments hub to automate payment processing. With Numeral, fintechs and banks can unlock growth by launching new products and expanding geographically faster, eliminating hidden payment complexity and making their payments future-proof and ever-compliant. Launched in 2021 and acquired by Mambu (www.mambu.com) in 2024 Numeral provides the payment infrastructure for the most innovative European banks and fintechs like WorldFirst, Argentex and Alma and partners with Europe’s leading banks, including BNP Paribas, Barclays, BPCE, HSBC and LHV.
Angel Investor
Sep 2021
Recruiting has radically changed. Before, it used to be that posting a job description on your career page or a job-board was enough to attract large amounts of candidates. Back then, the challenge lied in tracking the applications to make the right hire. Today, thats just not enough. The best candidates are hunted, they don’t need to apply for jobs anymore. Modern recruiters have to double down on new methods like sourcing, cold outreach and nurturing. Which involves a lot of tedious and manual work, and more frictions from having to use a heap of different tools (ATS, email automation, spreadsheets, csv imports/exports, calendar reminders, etc). Crew is the first Recruiting CRM that takes into account the newest hiring methods. By removing frictions and (truly) automating your workflows, Crew powers your productivity so you can put more success into your business. Crew helps you form your team, to reach your moon 🌚.
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Founder (1)
2026
Angel Investor
Feb 2026
Fakto is an AI platform for cost intelligence. Global enterprises use Fakto to capture the full financial value of every supplier relationship. Our agents analyze every contract, invoice and operational decision to close the gap between what’s negotiated and what’s executed.
Investor
Jan 2026
Alan is the prevention insurance. Founded in 2016, Alan is reinventing what health insurance should be: not just covering your employees when they get sick, but helping keep them healthy every day. Alan pairs exceptional insurance and service quality with innovative health services (a virtual clinic available 7 days a week, a medically supervised AI assistant, gamified prevention, no out‑of‑pocket eyewear), which provide access to affordable, personalized care and make prevention effective. All in a single, integrated experience designed for maximum employee adoption and simplified administration for your HR teams, with no intermediaries. Alan also offers plans dedicated to self‑employed workers and public‑sector employees. Over 1 million members trust Alan, across more than 37,000 companies and organizations of all sizes and sectors. With 800+ employees, Alan operates in France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada.
late stageInsurance
2025
Angel Investor (exited to Alan)
Mar 2025
The health solution allowing you to perform individualized tests and receive personalized recommendations according to your needs and objectives. Giving you the tools to reach your full potential and thrive with vitality, for long.
2024
Angel Investor
Oct 2024
Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. Companies of all kinds can unlock the full potential of their product by embedding Swans banking features such as accounts, cards, and payments. Founded in 2019, Swan processes over 1 billion euros of transactions per month, for 150+ companies, and operates across thirty European countries. The company has received growth capital from leading VC investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).
mid stageBanking
Angel Investor
May 2024
Hire AI, Not APIs ✨
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