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Sofia Dahoune

Deep Tech VC Investor

Paris, Île-de-France

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2023

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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