Fundraising FoxGalion.exe
Venture capitalSeed · 15 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Galion.exe positions itself as a new breed of Seed fund providing resources from day one. It backs trailblazers building software companies across enterprise, infrastructure, fintech, health and climate, writing checks of €250K to €2.5M within €1M to €10M Seed rounds, and occasionally smaller checks. Its differentiator is a community model built around 600+ seasoned founders who share their experience to help startups reach escape velocity, combining investment expertise with hands-on founder knowledge.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 16, 2026.
Team · 15 people
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Founder mafia
2 people who came through Galion.exe went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 19 of 28 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14Developer Tools ×6Enterprise Software ×6SaaS ×6Data & Infrastructure ×4Biotech ×3Deep Tech ×3Cloud Computing ×2
HQs:France×10Netherlands×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×63 founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data
42 Paris ×2Epitech - L'école de l'excellence informatique ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 12 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×6Mathematics & Statistics ×4Business & Management ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 15 founders with career history
JobTeaser ×2vente-privee devient Veepee ×2
Investments · 28 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 52024 · 12023 · 22022 · 110 dated
2501 builds an AIOps platform with autonomous agents that monitor, predict, and remediate infrastructure issues without human intervention, aimed at enterprise, government, and financial services operations teams.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareParis, FR
Alex Zhuk(Founder)in
Co-investorsCusp CapitalKfundKima VenturesAxeleo Capital
Raidium builds an AI-native PACS viewer embedding a vision-language foundation model to support radiologists across research and clinical work, including automated tumor measurement and lesion segmentation.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMedical DevicesParis, FR
Paul Herent, M.D., Msc(Founder)inPaul Hérent(Co-Founder and CEO)inPierre Manceron(Co-Founder and CSO)inSebastian Schwarz(COO)inDamien Benard(CFO)in
Co-investorsFounders FutureKurma PartnersNewfund CapitalDebiopharm Innovation FundStartX
Alpic operates an AI infrastructure platform that lets B2B and DTC companies build AI-native interfaces such as MCP servers and ChatGPT integrations, with built-in security, observability, and distribution, alongside open-source frameworks and developer tools.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsParis, FR
Co-investorsK5 GlobalKima VenturesPartech VenturesEarlybird Venture CapitalFounderful
Apiday provides ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) reporting and compliance solutions for portfolio companies, helping streamline sustainability reporting obligations and regulatory compliance such as CSRD and ESRS standards.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Co-investorsAENUDaphniReventSpeedinvest
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Defer is a managed background job processing platform for Node.js that allows developers to move computationally expensive tasks outside the request-response cycle.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSParis, FR
Charly Poly(Founder)inBryan Frimin(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Dialog provides an AI sales agent embedded on ecommerce product pages that enables shoppers to ask questions and make purchases through conversational interactions rather than navigating traditional menus and filters.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaSParis, FR
Antoine Grimal(Co Founder and CEO)inLouis Pinsard(Co Founder and CTO)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesFinancière Saint James
Eden AI provides a single API gateway that lets developers and companies access, compare, and switch between multiple AI models and providers, with features like fallback, monitoring, and cost visibility to reduce vendor lock-in.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Samy Melaine(Founder & CPTO)in
Co-investors50 Partners
EPICS is a biotech company developing plant biology and protein engineering technology to produce agricultural inputs such as crop protection products and biostimulants.
AgTechBiotechDeep Tech
Dr. Chouaib Meziadi(Founder & Chief Scientific Officer)Dr. Cory Nykiforuk(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)
Co-investorsAgoranov
Fairjungle is a travel agency platform that helps companies reduce carbon emissions and meet corporate social responsibility goals by recommending eco-friendly transport options and providing carbon performance analytics.
Climate TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTravel & Hospitality
Generare is building a library of naturally evolved molecules by reading and analyzing biological chemistry that has not been previously studied.
AI & Machine LearningBiotech
Co-investorsAgoranovDaphniTeampact.venturesVIVES PartnersAlven
Harmattan AI develops autonomous systems for military and defense forces, focused on coordinating groups of autonomous platforms across operations and delivering payloads such as electronic warfare systems.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRobotics
Edouard Rosset(Founder)in
Co-investorsACME CapitalAtlanticBlindspot Ventures Management CoBlueYard CapitalFirstMark CapitalFounders Future+3 more
Jimini is an AI platform for legal professionals in France, using agentic systems to draft, analyze, and research legal documents across civil law tasks.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSParis, FR
Raphael Arroche(CEO)inStéphane Béreux(CTO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstJ12 VenturesPolytechnique VenturesBetter AngleBreegaEvolem
Lemrock provides e-commerce integrations that deploy across the open web and search LLMs, connecting a network of onboarded merchants.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechParis, FR
Roxane Laigle(CEO)inClément Nguyen(CTO)inSasha Collin(CPO)in
Co-investorsAgoranovEntrepreneur FirstSie VenturesSonorcapTranspose Platform ManagementFinancière Saint James
Lettria provides a document parsing platform that extracts structured fields and metadata from complex files in multiple formats.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Charles Borderie(Founder)inVictor de La Salmonière(Founder)in
OneBio Sciences provides clinical-grade single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of tumor samples to support cancer diagnostics and drug development.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthMedical DevicesParis, FR
Céline Vallot(Co-founder & CSO)in
Co-investorsPolytechnique VenturesInvusKima VenturesREDMILESofinnova Partners
Orq.ai provides an AI gateway that routes and governs an organization's calls to 500+ AI models across 30+ providers through a single API, adding access controls, guardrails, cost attribution, budget caps, and audit trails.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsCuriosity VC
Plakar is an open-source backup and recovery engine that deduplicates, compresses, and encrypts snapshots at the source before writing them to storage the user controls (S3-compatible, local, or filesystem).
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsParis, FR
Gilles Chehade(Founder)inJulien Mangeard(Co-Founder @ Plakar)in
Co-investorsKima VenturesMotier Ventures
Prior Labs builds pre-trained tabular foundation models (TabPFN) that make predictions on structured data without tuning or ML pipelines, delivered via API, private cloud, or agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Frank Hutter(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtlanticBalderton CapitalInception FundXTX Markets
Vaire develops reversible computing hardware to improve energy efficiency and compute performance beyond the constraints of Moore's law.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductors
Rodolfo Rosini(CEO/Co-Founder)inHannah Earley(CTO/Co-Founder)in
Co-investors7percent VenturesFundamental VenturesItalian Angels for GrowthJude GomilaLifeline VenturesPage One Ventures
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AstranContrastDotomicsDune HealthHypermindMoyaiOpsima AISeldon DigitalShipfox
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPrior Labs · eu-startups.com · Jul 17, 2026
Harmattan AI · harmattan.ai · May 21, 2026
Lemrock · eu-startups.com · Mar 11, 2026
Orq · itbrief.co.uk · Jan 2, 2026
Dialog · eu-startups.com · Nov 14, 2025
2501 · meshedsociety.com · Sep 25, 2025
Alpic · thesaasnews.com · Sep 8, 2025
One Biosciences · prnewswire.com · Jul 17, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Galion.exe made?
- Galion.exe has 28 tracked investments, including 7 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Galion.exe invest at?
- Galion.exe invests at the Seed stage.
- What is Galion.exe's typical check size?
- Galion.exe typically writes checks of $275K – $2.8M.
- What sectors does Galion.exe focus on?
- Galion.exe focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Climate Tech, Data & Infrastructure, Defense Tech, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Does Galion.exe lead rounds?
- Galion.exe has led 3 of the 6 rounds where its role is on record.
- Who does Galion.exe co-invest with?
- Galion.exe most often shares deals with Kima Ventures, Agoranov, Atlantic, among 30 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamDécouvrez The Galion Project avec Willy Braun, Co-Founder & Partner @Galion.Exe
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