Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
(2010 - 2011)
(2011 - 2013)
(2008 - 2011)
Lists including Sofia
Work Experience
Deep Tech Investor
2023
Helping technical founders and researchers create awesome companies through advice, network, angel investing and consulting. Angel Investor in: Heal.dev, Presti AI, The Forecasting company, Theremia and more to be disclosed. Mentor with academics and corporates. If you are a researcher or a technical founder, don’t hesitate to reach out!
Venture Partner
2023
We focus on discovering and backing the most extraordinary immigrant founders. https://nolabel.ventures/
Cofounder and organizer
2021
I cofounded Moroccans in Tech, a community of founders and VCs with over 150 active members and 2,000 subscribers, dedicated to gathering the founders and VCs together and helping connect people.
2018 - 2023
Partner
2018 - 2023
Elaia is a European venture capital firm with over €800M in assets under management. As a partner, I participated in raising two deep tech seed funds, the PSL Inno Fund and the Alpha 2 Inria Fund. I led pre-seed investments in companies such as Aqemia (AI for drug discovery), Alice&Bob (quantum computing), Eyepick (automation), QantEv (insurtech), Harfanglab (cybersecurity), Nuclia (AI search engines), Olympe.legal (compliance AI), Kheops.io (local producer integration), and Namla.cloud (cloud orchestration). I also maintained strong relationships withLPs and academic partners, including Inria, PSL University, ENS Ulm, Mines de Paris, Institut Pasteur, Institut Curie, College de France and more.
2017 - 2018
Head of the acceleration and incubation programs at Ecole polytechnique
2017 - 2018
At École Polytechnique, I led the start-up acceleration program, which promotes entrepreneurship by providing students and researchers with the necessary tools and support to create companies. I was responsible for the X-Up and X-Tech projects (22 projects and startups, a team of approx. 5-10people), offering comprehensive assistance to researchers, students, and corporations. This included mentoring, grants, and tailored support to ensure the successful launch and growth of deep tech startups.
2017 - 2018
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
Little Panda enables people to buy and sell clothings for children in order to promote a new way of shopping. Our main value is to deliver a simple and reliable solution for sellers and a great shopping experience for the buyers.
2012 - 2017
Private Equity and Venture Capital associate
2012 - 2017
Bpifrance Investment is the French sovereign fund offering private equity and venture capital funding. I was Investment Analyst in the Mid & Large cap team working on private equity deals. In 2014, I was promoted to senior associate in the venture capital team. I particpated in the investments in Famoco, iAdvize, Synthesio, Cardiologs, Captain Contrat.
2012 - 2014
Investment Analyst (Mid & Large Cap)
2012 - 2014
French Sovereign fund (size of the fund: 20bn€) - focus on mid and large cap companies - merged to create Bpifrance in 2013
2011 - 2011
Internship - Audit and consulting services for insurance companies
2011 - 2011
Financial audit and advisory for insurance companies
2011 - 2011
Internship - Development of The Peugeot Citroën Retail network
2011 - 2011
-The development of the network and the merger, acquisition and relocation of PSA’s branchs