People-driven early stage entrepreneurial VC investing in 🇫🇷 & 🇺🇸. Loves underserved investment theses and fights cognitive biases #outsidethecomfortzone

France & USA
Joined April 2009
Newfund : un fonds dédié à la santé du cerveau 🧠 "4,2 milliards de dollars ont été levé par les startups de la braintech l'année dernière. Alors, la figure de proue, c'est Neuralink mais en fait il y a énormément d'autres acteurs." 💬 François Véron, associé gérant de Newfund
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Vu ce que proposent les modèles météo pour les prochaines 24h je pense qu’on a un très gros risque d’avoir des dégâts importants d’ici vendredi…
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1) fantastic fUSI (@SumnerLN) and CW-fNIRS tech and several papers on using foundation models/DS in neurotech (@ZijiaoC,@ge_yixiao, @jacob_granley, @yu_takag); 2) links to notes by tech investors that cover the neurotech landscape (@AnneSophieNed/@Newfund & @NeurotechJP_en) 2/3
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💰 @vendict_AI raised $9,500,000. Vendict fully automates security questionnaires response process, with state-of-the-art AI. Investors include: @NFX , @Cardumencapital , @Newfund and others
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Relive the #BIDays in pictures! 📷 Under the overarching theme, “#ConnectingBrains”, the event — held in Brussels on 11-12 October 2022 — brought together key opinion leaders & stakeholders. Have a look at the photo gallery 👉bit.ly/3XtQJlG
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Round table about how to invest in digital health startups always sooner at #AIforHealthSummit with Gabriel Franz (@Elaia_Partners), François Véron (@Newfund) and Nadja Bresous Mehigan (@XAngeVC) #VC #digitalhealth
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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 We are delighted to announce that @0Riles is joining Bolero Music as a shareholder and advisor. An important day for the team but especially for Music in the web 3.0 space. 🧵A thread about Rilès x Bolero
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BIG NEWS: I'm thrilled to announce that @0Riles is joining Bolero Music as a shareholder and advisor. 🤝💥 🧵A thread about Rilès x Bolero
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Quick announcement that Kemp Au Ventures has made a seed investment in @astrachain. An innovative privacy and security solution that fragments files and data into small pieces then applies algorithms to make data unreadable in small chunks and then ... linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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An investment in a venture capital fund is an investment program, which is a huge difference from an investment in a hedge fund. It requires some modeling, which is why we created one so you don't have to worry about it. Txs @augustinsayer @lizoxhorn for the assist!
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We are pleased to announce that @limonetik has been acquired by @Thunes, a Singaporean fintech. Newfund has accompanied the startup since 2011. We wish the best to the teams and we will continue to follow the adventure closely! thunes.com/2021/07/21/thunes…
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#seriesB FairMoney has just closed a €35M Series B round of financing led by the American fund TigerGlobal. We are happy to support the Fairmoney team since 2018. Congrats to Laurin Nabuko Hainy, Nicolas Berthozat and Matthieu Gendreau! techcrunch.com/2021/07/01/ti…
We are proud to announce that Newfund is now a SISTA Investor Ally! We are actively committed to diversifying our portfolio, with the same objective in mind: to finance 25% of start-ups founded or co-founded by women by 2025! @wearesista #wearesista #SISTAInvestorAlly
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