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This list showcases the top France based Partner operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Rodolphe Menegaux
Partner of Alven
Rodolphe joined the VC industry in 2003 and led investments in companies such as Believe Digital, Evaneos, ALittleMarket, KissKissBankBank, La Ruche Qui Dit Oui, Shopmium, Rodolphe has a Master’s degree of Finance & Economy from the Brandeis University (Boston, Massachusetts) and a Master’s degree of Management science of Dauphine University (Paris, France).
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About Alven: Alven is a European independent venture investment firm with a successful track record of backing more than 160 startups over 2 decades.
François Meteyer
Partner of Alven
Early stage VC investor with a mixed seasoned background (founder, accelerator, corpdev) within the European tech & digital space. Particularly looking for super convincing, ambitious and ethical European founders working on new categories i) disrupting mobile consumer landscape (new media, game, network, service) with amazing product and business model execution, ii) building vertical AI-centric frontier-platforms with amazing industry & tech expertises.
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About Alven: Alven is a European independent venture investment firm with a successful track record of backing more than 160 startups over 2 decades.

Charles Letourneur
Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alven
Charles Letourneur is Member Of Board Of Directors at Digibonus. Charles is co-founder and a managing partner at Alven Capital, a Paris-based independent venture-capital firm. He joined the M&A department of Lazard in 1991 in New York and later Paris. In 2000, he was appointed member of the Executive Committee of Gaz & Eau (renamed Eurazeo). Charles is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE and IEP Paris.
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About Alven: Alven is a European independent venture investment firm with a successful track record of backing more than 160 startups over 2 decades.

Ben Marrel
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Breega
Ben Marrel is the Founding Partner at Breega.
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About Breega, FiftyFor, Rugby Division: Breega is a European venture capital fund designed to finance startups in the digital economy.
Maximilien Bacot
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Breega
Maximilien started his career in Paris as a Telecom consultant for Beijaflore. After launching Tele2’s ADSL Triple Play offer, he founded Titane Conseil, a consulting company specialized in the Telecom industry and especially Very High Broadband infrastructure roll out, where he advised telecom operators as well as public entities on strategic, marketing and financial aspects of this type of projects. He is now cofounder and Managing Partner of Breega Capital. Maximilien is a Telecom engineer.
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About Breega: Breega is a European venture capital fund designed to finance startups in the digital economy.

Francois Paulus
Founding Partner of Breega
EBlink board member François Paulus is a Paris-based advisor to venture capitalists and investment funds on telecom acquisitions, as well as an angel investor and advisor to innovative companies in the telecom sector. A veteran telecommunications executive and entrepreneur, he joined the French startup LDCOM Networks in 1999, shortly after it was established by the Louis Dreyfus Group following France’s telecom deregulation. During his nine years with the company, LDCOM acquired numerous companies, such as 9Telecom, Club Internet, AOL France and SIRIS. It then merged with fixed-line operator Cegetel to form Neuf Cegetel, which became one of the leading French broadband service providers. By the end 2007, it had a 49,000-kilometer fiber-optic network, and more than 3.2 million active residential customers and 173,000 business sites connected. François served as general manager of Neuf Cegetel’s network division and general manager of its high-speed broadband division, and served for four years on its executive committee. He began his career in 1989 as an independent IT consultant in London before joining a French telecom consulting firm, Pierre Audoin. François is a Telecom engineer and a graduate from INSEAD.
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About Breega: Breega is a European venture capital fund designed to finance startups in the digital economy.
Isabelle Gallo
Partner of Breega
Isabelle Gallo is the Partner at Breega.
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About Breega: Breega is a European venture capital fund designed to finance startups in the digital economy.

Alain Levy
Founding Partner of Ycor
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Startup Avenue, Weborama, Ycor: Ycor is a tech venture that develops innovative data-driven solutions from platforms.
Pierre Tavernier
Founding Partner of Avacore
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About Avacore, Blockchain.io: Avacore provides strategy and management consulting with a focus on tech and digital business models.
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