Breega

Dan Shellard, a nearly 15-year founder who became a partner at his former investor after being portfolio-backed, prioritizes unfair distribution advantages and complementary co-founders with domain ownership over product quality.

Driss Ibenmansour, a Partner, leads early-stage investments focused on North and Francophone Africa, operating bilingually between Paris, Cairo and Casablanca while building community and bridging European capital to African startups.

Francois Paulus is co-founder and executive chairman of Breega, a venture capital fund focused on technology startups seeking €500k to €10m in funding. Previously, he spent nine years at LD COM / Neuf Cegetel in roles including business development, sales vice president, network vice president, and FTTH vice president, serving on the executive committee from 2004 to 2007. He began his career with ten years in consulting and subsequently worked as a business angel and independent board member before founding Breega.

Isabelle Gallo is Managing Partner and General Partner at SISTAFUND, a pan-European seed venture capital fund focused on deeptech, healthtech, sustainability, and inclusive fintech and insurtech investments in gender-diverse teams. Previously, she spent seven years at Breega as Partner and Head of the Venture Fund, where she focused on fintech, insurtech, healthtech, regtech, and proptech investments across Europe. Her background also includes three years as an entrepreneur and four years as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company.

Matthieu Vallin focuses on health, deeptech and AI, championing BCIs and neurotech for industrial and consumer uses like humanoid training and education while moving scientific AI from labs to mainstream.

Maximilien Bacot is co-founder and general partner at Breega, a European venture capital fund established in 2014 that focuses on seed-stage technology investments. He previously founded Titane, a digital transformation consulting firm, and began his career as a digital consultant at Beijaflore, where he contributed to the Tele2 unbundling and digital offering. At Breega, he serves as head of seed investments and COO, overseeing a portfolio of more than 70 investments, and holds board positions at several portfolio companies including Didomi, Alice&Bob, CrowdSec, Hemea, BeOp, and Gouach.

Melvyn Lubega is an Africa-focused investor and Go1 co-founder who uniquely scaled an African-born edtech to unicorn status and prioritizes creating 100,000 sustainable jobs through entrepreneurship and investment.

Nour Alnuaimi, a London-based partner, backs early-stage Digital, Climate and Deep Tech founders across the UK and Africa and champions agent-led, AI-driven marketplace models.

Sébastien Boucraut, a rare Chief Scaling Officer in European VC, focuses on the first 12 months, running an industrialized platform with codified playbooks and prioritizing durable fundamentals over valuation races.

Tosin Faniro-Dada, former CEO of Endeavor Nigeria, scales African entrepreneurs through ecosystem-building, co-leads an Africa strategy targeting MSMEs and real-economy businesses, and publishes data-driven sector theses while representing the fund.

Cléa Dosne, a Principal who founded malibou before becoming an investor, brings founder perspective and hands-on governance as Board Observer at Carbon Maps and Mila, working closely with founding teams.

Elena Cebollero Fraile is a Managing Partner at Basil Capital, a family office investing in digital and technology sectors across public and private markets, and serves as a Non-Executive Director at multiple companies. She brings experience as an investment banker at UBS and BNP Paribas, as an investor, and as Global Finance Director and Investor Relations lead at Atento, a Bain Capital-backed NYSE-listed business process outsourcing firm. She holds a degree in Business Administration from CUNEF, completed leadership programs at London Business School, and holds certifications including a CFA in ESG investing and CAIA charter.

Jérémie Manigne is CEO of Niji, a French digital consulting, design, and technology firm operating across strategy, service design, software engineering, data, AI, and cybersecurity from offices in France, Spain, Morocco, and Singapore. Since joining in 2014, he has helped scale the company to €133M in revenue and 1,400 employees, achieving consistent 20%+ annual organic growth and an EcoVadis Gold Medal rating. Manigne also serves as board member of Kurmi Software, an independent board member of SoftNext, an LP investor in Breega's Seed Fund I, a co-investor in Great Hotels Paris, and an early-stage investor in multiple technology companies; his prior experience includes executive positions at SFR and advisory work for CMA CGM.

Investor at Daphni who previously worked in venture capital at Breega focusing on early-stage startups. He co-founded a retail and logistics startup while studying at ESSEC Business School and earlier worked in the hospitality industry across several countries.

Lucile Beaume is a venture capital investor at Breega and serves as a board observer at Dalma.

Marine Reygrobellet is a Partner and Head of Platform & Portfolio at Asterion Ventures, a community VC focused on large-scale impact startups. She brings over 10 years of experience across finance, management, HR, strategy, and operations, including a tenure as CEO of Monceau Langues, which resulted in an exit. Her work centers on impact investing and supporting entrepreneurs in building sustainable businesses.