Olivier Martret

Partner

2022

Principal

2019 - 2022

Serena was founded in 2008 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Today, Serena is a leader in financing and supporting high-growth digital and innovative start-ups. The firm currently has more than 600 million euros under management. What makes Serena unique is the strength and quality of the support we provide our portfolio companies with. In addition to being involved in a managerial advisory capacity, our operating team also works very closely with our portfolio companies to structure and speed up growth. Serena launched in 2017 the first European fund entirely dedicated to Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Serena Data Ventures portfolio companies: Lifen, Kili Technology CybelAngel, Odaseva, Acinq, Inato, Heuritech, Allo-media, Bestmile, Hull, Mindee, PixelMe, Implicity V13 fund : Shadow/Blade (Acquired), 8Sec, Darewise, Pandascore, Wazo, Jam, Dotfile, Leonardo, H company Serena III : Powder, Libeo, Descartes underwriting, Electra, Moni, Pretto, IbanFirst, Brigad, Wecasa, Proscea, Pelico Serena II: Dataiku, Evaneos, Malt, Privateaser, Cheerz (acquired by Cewe), FinalCAD, Alkemics, Flexibeauty, Coorpacademy, TVTY, Work4, Qualtera, TextMaster (acquired by Technicis), Habiteo, Lengow, iContainers, Vekia Serena I portfolio companies: AramisAuto (acquired by PSA), LaFourchette (acquired by Tripadvisor), Bonitasoft, Launchmetrics, Melty, Prestashop, Sequans (NYSE : SQNS), SantéVet (acquired by Columna Capital), Selectron (acquired by Knorr-Bremse), RSI Video Technologies (acquired by Honeywell)

Investor

2024

H Company is tackling these challenges head-on with innovative foundational action models. Designed to reason, plan, and collaborate, these models revolutionize how AI integrates into business operations. By leveraging agentic and vertical-based architectures, H Company aims to transform industries, enhance automation, and bring us closer to achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Investor - Sold to Canva

2023

Leonardo is building a cutting-edge generative AI plateform for creators, to reduce the friction between ideation and creation, and become a leading platform for both 2D and 3D asset creation. Leonardo.ai is the 3rd largest discord server globally and has 10M+ users worldwide, and has generated approx. 1B images in 2023.

Board Member

2023

Dotfile is building the trust infrastructure for the internet economy. They help fintech and regulated businesses verify their customers and protect themselves against financial, reputational or legal risk. Dotfile's mission is to build the modern onboarding cockpit that will power the next generation of innovative business models. Dotfile all-in-one orchestration platform for KYC and KYB is natively integrated with leading financial databases, business registries, AML providers and fraud prevention APIs, that can be mix-and-matched to screen individual or business customers in more than 200 jurisdictions. With Dotfile, clients increase conversion rates, approve customers faster and launch new markets or products with limited developments while reducing risk and strengthening compliance.

Board Member

2022

Wecasa is an online platform that offers on-demand home services, including beauty, wellness, and housekeeping. It connects customers with professional service providers for appointments like haircuts, massages, manicures, and cleaning, all performed at the customer's home. Wecasa focuses on convenience and flexibility, allowing users to book services easily through its website or app.

Board Member

2022

Cometh offers a web3 development platform empowering developers to build Web3 games and DApps with ease. - Connect : Biometry & Account Abstraction as a Service - Marketplace API

Board director

2021

Boxy is deploying the first autonomous retail stores network in France with more than 20 boxys in 2021 and +60 in 2022. Boxy is born because of this finding : With every other shopping experience, there is compromise. ​Large supermarkets are cheap, but often far and time-consuming. Smaller convenience stores are close by, but expensive. Delivery services are convenient, but there’s a waiting time, a fee and they’re not available everywhere. Very few are open 24/7. --> Our mission is to deliver uncompromising convenience through every experience. Boxy is this magical place where everything feels right. It’s always there, at just the right moment, with exactly what you want at surprisingly fair prices.

Board director

2021

Powder aspires to become the camera of the Metaverse. People increasingly live online, in games, and it hopes to allow them to capture their highlights here for perpetuity. To enable this, Powder is building the video infrastructure of social gaming, sourcing content from all gaming platforms: the ultimate companion app from which anyone can launch games with friends and that records highlights automatically. Powder officially launched on the App Store on April 10th, 2020; ten months later, in February 2021, the platform has over 1.5 million downloads, with most of them coming from the US.

Investor

2020

Piepacker is a free cloud gaming platform to hangout and play premium retro games with your friends online. It combines the video with a series of licensed popular retro-style games that friends can easily play together. It is simpler than organizing a discordant group but more interactive than just streaming. Piepacker was selected by TechCrunch in their top 12 favorite startups of the YC20 batch.

Board observer

2020

Sovan Bin founded Odaseva after 15 years of experience in the CRM industry. Recognized by his peers as one of the most experienced cloud architects for his vision around data, security, and performance, he was the 12th worldwide and 1st EMEA Salesforce Certified Technical Architect. For large organizations that leverage Salesforce as a mission-critical application, Odaseva delivers enterprise-class data governance, providing data protection (backup, ultra-high availability, archiving, governor limits AI), data privacy (GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA), and data ops (Salesforce DX Extensions).