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Romain Lavault

General Partner at Partech

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

VC
Investor

Invests in

Locations:

Paris, France

  • Min Investment:

    $200,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $200,000.00

Skills

Leadership
Enterprise Software
SaaS
Product Management
Product Lifecycle Management
Acquisitions
Start-ups
Predictive Analytics
Mergers
Sales Management
Venture Capital
Entrepreneurship
Mergers & Acquisitions
Cloud Computing
Management
Strategy
Solution Selling
Business Planning

Education

Investments

Greenlyte Carbon Technologies

Seed

Total Funding: $16M

Digitail

Seed

Total Funding: $14M

Seatti

Seed

Total Funding: $3.6M

symmetrical.ai

Seed

Total Funding: $27M

Blink

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $33M

Collectiv Food

Seed

Total Funding: $20M

Resolution Games

Series A

Total Funding: $41M

e-peas

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $13M

Alkemics

Series A

Total Funding: $51M

Kaizo

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Work Experience

Partech

2013

  • General Partner

    2013

    Executive Committee member and directly supervising Partech Seed Funds ($400M) with a dedicated international Investment Team of 10 people. We back extraordinary Entrepreneurs on a mission to invent how people will live, work and consume tomorrow's products and services. Board member / active investor in: - Alan (France) - Full stack Healthcare Insurance - Blink (UK) - Super App for frontline employees - CollectivFood (UK) – B2B Food marketplace for groceries/restaurants/dark kitchens. - Commsignia (Hungary) - V2X infrastructure for autonomous cars and smart cities. - Enter (Germany) - Climate Tech platform for Home Energy Transition - E-Peas (Belgium) - Ultra low power / energy harvesting chips for IoT - FlexAI (France) - AI Infrastructure (full-stack hardware) - Greenlyte (Germany) - Climate Tech / CO2 Removal Systems (DAC) - Lun.energy (Denmark) - B2B Vertical SaaS for heat pump installers - Material Exchange (Sweden) – B2B Marketplace for sustainable fashion - Novicap (Spain) - SME Factoring and Supply Chain Finance platform - Ornikar (France) - Road Safety Platform - Education and Insurance - Peanut (UK) - Social Platform for Moms and Expecting Mothers - Pennylane (France) - Real-time Accounting SaaS for SMEs - Pydantic (UK) - Open-source Data Validation software for DevOps - Quibim (Spain) - AI-based Medical Image Processing - Resolution Games (Sweden) - Leading AR/VR Gaming Studio - Roger (Germany) - B2B Vertical SaaS for dentists - Seatti (Germany) - Hybrid Workforce Management SaaS - The Exploration Company (Germany) - SpaceTech - The Guarantors (US) - Proptech Insurance Platform - V7 Labs (UK) – Computer Vision / Data Labelling SaaS Past exits: AlephD (AOL Inc.), Alkemics (Salsify), PriceMatch (BOOKING.COM), TVShowTime (WHIPCLIP Inc.), MesDocteurs (VYV Group), Streamroot (CenturyLink), Cambridge Blockchain (BLOCKCHAIN LLC), Drover (Cazoo), Sketchfab (Epic Games), Foxintelligence (Nielsen).

Dassault Systemes

2011 - 2013

  • Vice President, Strategic Development

    2011 - 2013

    Corporate Development

Intercim

2007 - 2011

  • Vice President, Corporate Development

    2009 - 2011

    Led acquisition of Intercim-Pertinence by Dassault Systemes (DSY) in March 2011

  • Vice-President WW Sales & Business Development

    2007 - 2009

    Took the lead of the global business after the Pertinence-Intercim merger ($16M ARR SaaS Revenue)

Pertinence Inc. - Machine Learning SaaS Platform for Engineering Teams

2001 - 2007

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2001 - 2007

    Company founded in Sept 2001, based on Machine Learning algorithms invented at French CNRS (symbolic supervised learning with ability to ingest up to 50,000 variables simultaneously, in non-statistical situations) Raised a total of 8M€ from Partech (San Francisco, Paris) and Advent (London) Led Sales organization in France from 2002 to 2005, then in the US from 2005 to 2007 Merged Pertinence (50 people) with Intercim (70 people).

ARIANESPACE

1999 - 2001

  • Sales Manager

    2000 - 2001

    STARSEM - was responsible for small GeoStationary spacecraft market (GTO < 2 tons) for North and South America - was responsible for market study and business plan of EADS Satellite Radio project

  • Project Manager

    1999 - 2000

    STARSEM - managed a 10M$ development program on Soyuz Launch Vehicle with cooperation of Russian Space Agency - designed launch vehicle specifications for Soyuz in Kourou

EADS

1997 - 1999

  • Project Manager

    1997 - 1999

    - developed new code for trajectory simulations of ballistic missiles and submarine launches