Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.
We back founders who use technology to unlock creativity at scale.
We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investment themes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, and Creative Technologies.
We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV...) and across many industries.
If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.
We back founders who use technology to unlock creativity at scale.
We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investment themes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, and Creative Technologies.
We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV...) and across many industries.
If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.
Location: France, Ile-de-France
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2021
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed; Series A
Portfolio 90
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 23.10.2025 | Kotcha | kotcha.com | $4.09M | - |
| 12.12.2024 | Anyshift.i... | anyshift.io | - | - |
| 12.12.2024 | Swaive | swaive.fr | - | - |
| 12.12.2024 | Your AI QA... | heal.dev | - | - |
| 12.12.2024 | pyannoteAI... | pyannote.ai | $9M | Metropolit... |
| 04.12.2024 | TeamOS | outcome.io | - | - |
| 29.11.2024 | Linkup | linkup.so | $3.18M | - |
| 29.11.2024 | Freqens | freqens.com | - | - |
| 23.10.2024 | Entropia d... | entropia.io | - | - |
| 23.10.2024 | Phacet | phacetlabs.com | $4.46M | - |
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Persons 11
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Vittorio | Noury | Venture In... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Nicolas | Essayan | Founding P... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Alexis | Bonillo | Senior Adv... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Clément | Lamolineri... | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Jordan | Pillet | Lead Opera... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Sophie | Palmer | Lead Commu... | - | - | - | |
| - | Stephanie | Bros | Office Man... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Valentine | Baudouin | Senior Adv... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Guillaume | Houzé | Founder | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Laurine | Moureaux | Venture In... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
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Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.03.2026 | PAVE Space Secures $40M to Transform Satellite Deployment, Accelerating Space Logistics | PAVE Space, a Lausanne-based company, has secured $40M in seed funding. It develops orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs). These OTVs rapidly move satellites. They go from low Earth orbit to higher destinations. This includes geostationary orbit... |
| 25.03.2026 | PAVE Space raises $40M to disrupt satellite deployment | Lausanne-based PAVE Space is building a family of orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) capable of transporting satellites from low Earth orbit (LEO) to higher-energy destinations such as geostationary orbit (GEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), or ... |
| 23.10.2025 | Kotcha powers up with €3.5M to scale AI coaching for runners | France-based startup Kotcha, an AI-powered running coaching app, has raised €3.5 million to make high-quality coaching accessible to all runners. The round was led by Racine² (operated by Serena and makesense), with participation from TrueG... |
| 29.02.2024 | Vibe helps small companies buy video ads on streaming services | As streaming apps and services are gradually showing more ads to viewers, adtech startup Vibe plans to help small businesses take advantage of that trend by letting them access that ad inventory with a self-serve ad platform like the ones s... |
| 29.02.2024 | Just six months after €5M seed round, French cybertech firm Filigran raises €15M Series A | Read this article in: Filigran, a cyber tech firm based in Paris, announced that it has secured €15M in a Series A round of funding. This round comes just six months after the company raised €5M in its initial seed round. The Series A inves... |
| 09.11.2023 | There’s something going on with AI startups in France | Last night, Motier Ventures held a tech meetup focused on AI startups featuring some of the most hyped tech startups in the French tech ecosystem: Dust, Finegrain, Gladia, Mistral AI and Scenario — all of them are portfolio companies of Mot... |
| 10.10.2023 | MarketLeap's €1.5M funding boost to enhance global e-commerce operations | Luxembourg-based e-commerce platform MarketLeap has raised an additional €1.5 million in Seed funding, taking its total funding to €2.6 million. The latest round includes Notion Capital, Kima Ventures and Motier Ventures, existing investor ... |
| 10.10.2023 | E-commerce platform MarketLeap secures a cumulative €2.6M seed to expand brands’ global reach and revenue at the click of a button | E-commerce platform MarketLeap secures a cumulative €2.6M seed to expand brands’ global reach and revenue at the click of a button Tue, Oct 10, 2023 10:15 CET Report this content MarketLeap, formerly Gonuggets, is the first AI-enabled e-com... |
| 14.09.2023 | French fintech Fipto secures €15M for instant payments using blockchain tech | Today French Treasury management fintech Fipto has raised €15 million in Seed funding. Fipto is a global B2B payments and treasury management solution which enables companies to manage corporate treasuries and to make instant international ... |
| 04.07.2023 | OMAJ, the Fashion Consignment Innovator, Secures €2M in Seed Funding from Motier Ventures | Key Takeaways: OMAJ, an online fashion consignment store, has successfully raised €2 million in seed funding. The investment round was led by Motier Ventures, marking OMAJ’s second successful fundraising round. The new funding will be used ... |
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