Quentin Simon

VC @ Starquest 🌎

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
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Board Member
Jul 2025
Les Nouvelles Fermes est une jeune pousse française de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire au croisement entre le maraîchage, lagro-industrie et la startup. Nous produisons avec amour localement des fruits, des légumes et du poisson (truite arc-en-ciel) sans traitement chimiques, avec du goût. Notre mission consiste à défendre et développer une agriculture nouvelle, ultra-locale, durable, inclusive, à destination du plus grand nombre. Notre solution pour mener à bien cette mission : la culture en aquaponie*. Culture ancestrale et pourtant largement oubliée, laquaponie est un système de culture en circuit fermé qui associe l’élevage de poissons en symbiose avec la culture de végétaux, sans engrais de synthèse, sans traitement chimique, ni antibiotiques.
mid stageFarming
Board member
Jan 2025
leakmited is on a mission to enable any water operator to increase their network performance level beyond 90% thanks to our AI based solutions. #Mission90
Board Member
Jan 2024
Aldoria collects, processes and leverages space situational awareness data to protect critical assets in space. By actively monitoring space debris, satellites and derelicts, Aldoria helps operators and space agencies proactively avoid threats and adjust orbital paths.
Board Observer
Feb 2020
Waga Energy upgrades landfill gas into grid-compliant Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), also known as “biomethane”. Thanks to its patented WAGABOX® technology, Waga Energy recovers the methane emitted by the breakdown of organic matter contained in the waste to inject it directly into the gas grid. The result of ten years of R&D within Air Liquide and Waga Energy, the WAGABOX® technology combines membrane filtration and cryogenic distillation to separate the methane from the other components of the landfill gas. It provides high-quality biomethane that is injected directly into the gas grid. The purification units are fully automated, they operate 24/7 while being under remote computerized supervision. Waga Energy deploys this solution through a dedicated business model. Waga Energy purchases landfill gas from landfill site operators, funds the construction and operation of WAGABOX® units, and sales biomethane to energy utilities. 23 WAGABOX® units are in operation in the world, combined, they have produced over 100,000,000 Nm3 of RNG. 13 more WAGABOX® units are under construction in France, Spain and Canada. Since 2017, all the WAGABOX® units have avoided the emission of 190,000 tons of eqCO2 in the atmosphere. Waga Energys headquarters are located in Grenoble (France), a world-renowned center for high-tech innovation with a reputation for leadership in gas engineering and cryogenics. Waga Energy also has subsidiaries in the United States, Canada and Spain.
Board Member
Nov 2019
Tryon Environnement est spécialisé dans la gestion des biodéchets alimentaires. Lentreprise gère l’ensemble du processus (collecte, traitement, valorisation), pour offrir à ses clients un service qui réduit le coût logistique, environnemental et économique de la collecte des biodéchets en ville. Pour relever ce défi, Elle a développé les unités ModulO, une solution de micro-méthanisation en zone urbaine qui permet de transformer les biodéchets en biogaz, GNV et en digestat. Installées au plus proche des producteurs de biodéchets alimentaires, en périphérie des villes, elles permettent leur traitement en proximité, sur un seul et même site. Grâce à cette innovation, Tryon Environnement créé des boucles d’économie circulaires locales et aide ses clients à remplir leur obligation de tri à la source des biodéchets alimentaires.
Board Member
Sep 2018
Elistair is the global leading manufacturer of automated tethered drone systems for persistent surveillance and emergency communications. The companys products are deployed by police forces, public safety departments, private security companies and governments on over 70 countries. Visit our website : www.elistair.com
Investor
Oct 2016
Created in 2008 and AMF-certified in 2014, Starquest has been investing ever since into disruptive companies. 70% of the capital invested has been towards companies falling into its “PROTECT” thesis. The “PROTECT” thesis: financing companies whose goals are to protect society against negative externalities of progress: > Protecting climate against global warming > Protecting Humans against sanitary and digital risks > Protecting resources against overconsumption Our favorite sectors: Clean energy, energy efficiency, food security, digital security, circular economy, process and material traceability, education...
Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (8)
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2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
Les Nouvelles Fermes est une jeune pousse française de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire au croisement entre le maraîchage, lagro-industrie et la startup. Nous produisons avec amour localement des fruits, des légumes et du poisson (truite arc-en-ciel) sans traitement chimiques, avec du goût. Notre mission consiste à défendre et développer une agriculture nouvelle, ultra-locale, durable, inclusive, à destination du plus grand nombre. Notre solution pour mener à bien cette mission : la culture en aquaponie*. Culture ancestrale et pourtant largement oubliée, laquaponie est un système de culture en circuit fermé qui associe l’élevage de poissons en symbiose avec la culture de végétaux, sans engrais de synthèse, sans traitement chimique, ni antibiotiques.
mid stageFarming
Board member
Jan 2025
leakmited is on a mission to enable any water operator to increase their network performance level beyond 90% thanks to our AI based solutions. #Mission90
2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
Aldoria collects, processes and leverages space situational awareness data to protect critical assets in space. By actively monitoring space debris, satellites and derelicts, Aldoria helps operators and space agencies proactively avoid threats and adjust orbital paths.
2022
Board Member
Jan 2022
Kyotherm is a European investment company and energy producer dedicated to renewable heating and energy efficiency projects, with varied technologies including solar thermal, biomass, geothermal, storage and waste heat energy as well as district heating networks and installations allowing reduced energy consumption. Kyotherm works alongside energy service companies and project developers to offer a joint turnkey solution integrating design-build, operation-maintenance and financing for decarbonization projects.
2020
Board Observer
Feb 2020
Waga Energy upgrades landfill gas into grid-compliant Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), also known as “biomethane”. Thanks to its patented WAGABOX® technology, Waga Energy recovers the methane emitted by the breakdown of organic matter contained in the waste to inject it directly into the gas grid. The result of ten years of R&D within Air Liquide and Waga Energy, the WAGABOX® technology combines membrane filtration and cryogenic distillation to separate the methane from the other components of the landfill gas. It provides high-quality biomethane that is injected directly into the gas grid. The purification units are fully automated, they operate 24/7 while being under remote computerized supervision. Waga Energy deploys this solution through a dedicated business model. Waga Energy purchases landfill gas from landfill site operators, funds the construction and operation of WAGABOX® units, and sales biomethane to energy utilities. 23 WAGABOX® units are in operation in the world, combined, they have produced over 100,000,000 Nm3 of RNG. 13 more WAGABOX® units are under construction in France, Spain and Canada. Since 2017, all the WAGABOX® units have avoided the emission of 190,000 tons of eqCO2 in the atmosphere. Waga Energys headquarters are located in Grenoble (France), a world-renowned center for high-tech innovation with a reputation for leadership in gas engineering and cryogenics. Waga Energy also has subsidiaries in the United States, Canada and Spain.
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