Renaud Champion

Investor, Board Member, Author ⎪ Robotics & AI ⎪ Revealing Value in Innovation

📍 Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2018
VC🌍 France
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Executive Board Member
Mar 2018
emlyon business school is a world-renowned management school of excellence. Founded in Lyon, France, in 1872, it is one of the oldest management schools in Europe. It belongs to the top 1% of business schools worldwide holding a triple accreditation from EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA. As a Mission-driven company since 2021, emlyons purpose is to: "provide lifelong training and support to enlightened people who effectively change organizations to build a society that is fairer, show solidarity for others and respect the planet." 9,260 students of 130 nationalities 4 global campuses (Lyon, Shanghai, Paris, and Mumbai) A Faculty of 174 international research professors A network of 220 academic partners worldwide to offer excellence in learning and global exposure A community of 48,000 graduates in more than 130 countries emlyon business school cultivates the ability to drive change in resonance with the world, by placing scientific knowledge creation, skills hybridization, and social & environmental responsibility at the core of its training programs. Its teaching method closely combines action and thinking.
Investor & Board Member
Oct 2016
Quanturi is an IoT company providing advanced technology for agriculture and other industries typically involved in processing organic materials. Quanturi offers preventive systems against fires and monitoring systems for quality management.
Investor & Board Member
Sep 2016
MMI (Medical Microinstruments, Inc.) is changing the impossible by opening new opportunities for surgeons to restore quality of life for patients with difficult-to-treat conditions. We are changing the lives of patients by enabling access to more treatment options through a first-of-its-kind technology that elevates the skills of highly specialized surgeons by helping them push beyond the boundaries of human limitations when treating small, delicate anatomy. The Symani® Surgical System represents the only commercially available robotic platform that permits doctors to operate at microsurgical levels for precision reconstruction of tiny blood vessels and lymphatic vessels. The Symani Surgical System is designed to make complex open surgical procedures possible through precision and control. It uniquely addresses the scale and complexity of microsurgery and supermicrosurgery by combining the world’s smallest wristed instruments with tremor-reducing and motion-scaling technologies. The system enables robotic microsurgery in applications across many specialties and is compatible with all types of imaging systems. Stay connected with us at www.mmimicro.com.
Board Member
Mar 2013
euRobotics aisbl (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif) is a Brussels based international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics. It was founded in September 2012 with the aim to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and to ensure industrial leadership of manufacturers, providers and end-users of robotics technology-based systems and services. euRobotics builds upon the success of the European Robotics Technology Platform (EUROP) and the academic network of EURON, leading towards the establishment of one sustainable organisation for the entire European robotics community. The association has been nurtured by the partners of euRobotics, a Coordination Action funded by the EC under FP7 which started in 2010 and ended in December 2012. Since 2014, euRobotics collaborates with the European Commission in the Public-Private Partnership SPARC under Horizon2020 to develop and implement a strategy and a road-map for research, technological development and innovation in robotics. From 2014, euRobotics collaborated with the European Commission in the Public-Private Partnership SPARC under Horizon2020 to develop and implement a strategy and a road-map for research, technological development and innovation in robotics. SPARC’s term has now ended and a new partnership was created (ADRA – AI, Data and Robotics Association asbl) in May 2021, with euRobotics as a founding partner. Through ADRA, euRobotics will collaborate in the Horizon Europe programme (2021-2027).
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2018
Executive Board Member
Mar 2018
emlyon business school is a world-renowned management school of excellence. Founded in Lyon, France, in 1872, it is one of the oldest management schools in Europe. It belongs to the top 1% of business schools worldwide holding a triple accreditation from EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA. As a Mission-driven company since 2021, emlyons purpose is to: "provide lifelong training and support to enlightened people who effectively change organizations to build a society that is fairer, show solidarity for others and respect the planet." 9,260 students of 130 nationalities 4 global campuses (Lyon, Shanghai, Paris, and Mumbai) A Faculty of 174 international research professors A network of 220 academic partners worldwide to offer excellence in learning and global exposure A community of 48,000 graduates in more than 130 countries emlyon business school cultivates the ability to drive change in resonance with the world, by placing scientific knowledge creation, skills hybridization, and social & environmental responsibility at the core of its training programs. Its teaching method closely combines action and thinking.
2016
Investor & Board Member
Oct 2016
Quanturi is an IoT company providing advanced technology for agriculture and other industries typically involved in processing organic materials. Quanturi offers preventive systems against fires and monitoring systems for quality management.
Investor & Board Member
Sep 2016
MMI (Medical Microinstruments, Inc.) is changing the impossible by opening new opportunities for surgeons to restore quality of life for patients with difficult-to-treat conditions. We are changing the lives of patients by enabling access to more treatment options through a first-of-its-kind technology that elevates the skills of highly specialized surgeons by helping them push beyond the boundaries of human limitations when treating small, delicate anatomy. The Symani® Surgical System represents the only commercially available robotic platform that permits doctors to operate at microsurgical levels for precision reconstruction of tiny blood vessels and lymphatic vessels. The Symani Surgical System is designed to make complex open surgical procedures possible through precision and control. It uniquely addresses the scale and complexity of microsurgery and supermicrosurgery by combining the world’s smallest wristed instruments with tremor-reducing and motion-scaling technologies. The system enables robotic microsurgery in applications across many specialties and is compatible with all types of imaging systems. Stay connected with us at www.mmimicro.com.
2013
Board Member
Mar 2013
euRobotics aisbl (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif) is a Brussels based international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics. It was founded in September 2012 with the aim to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and to ensure industrial leadership of manufacturers, providers and end-users of robotics technology-based systems and services. euRobotics builds upon the success of the European Robotics Technology Platform (EUROP) and the academic network of EURON, leading towards the establishment of one sustainable organisation for the entire European robotics community. The association has been nurtured by the partners of euRobotics, a Coordination Action funded by the EC under FP7 which started in 2010 and ended in December 2012. Since 2014, euRobotics collaborates with the European Commission in the Public-Private Partnership SPARC under Horizon2020 to develop and implement a strategy and a road-map for research, technological development and innovation in robotics. From 2014, euRobotics collaborated with the European Commission in the Public-Private Partnership SPARC under Horizon2020 to develop and implement a strategy and a road-map for research, technological development and innovation in robotics. SPARC’s term has now ended and a new partnership was created (ADRA – AI, Data and Robotics Association asbl) in May 2021, with euRobotics as a founding partner. Through ADRA, euRobotics will collaborate in the Horizon Europe programme (2021-2027).
2012
Founder & Partner
2012
ROBOLUTION CAPITAL, the first investment fund dedicated to service robotics in France and Europe and the first worldwide fund in this sector. the service robotics market addresses multiple sectors of activity and fields of application (medical, domestic, transport, entertainment, security, maintenance, etc.). Due to existing and future technological progress in the areas of man-machine interface, artificial intelligence, miniaturization, etc., service robots represent a crucial factor of performance improvement and tools that are particularly adapted to the challenges already apparent: sustainable development, urbanization, the intensifying need for personal assistance… Which is why service robotics will be one of the major economic drivers of this century.
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