Serena

Founder-turned-VC Guillaume Decugis built and exited AI and data companies across mobile music, content curation and social listening, bringing Silicon Valley experience and a cross-border playbook to back deep-tech founders.

A serial entrepreneur and HEC graduate who co-founded and led three startups (Directinet, Ad4Screen, and Accengage), all of which were acquired. After his third exit in 2019 he served as a board member, advisor, and mentor before joining Serena's operating team to support portfolio founders and executives on operational execution.

Kamel Zeroual is a General Partner at Varsity with background as a startup entrepreneur and product designer. He holds a degree in Computer Sciences from Ulster University and an MBA from Sorbonne University, with expertise in user experience, product strategy, business development, and mobile applications.

Léa Zaslavsky co‑founded makesense, scaling it to 150+ across 10 countries; she co‑leads an €80M impact fund and frames impact investing as a paradigm shift, favoring intrinsically aligned business models.

Marc Fournier is a contrarian investor who targets opportunities in uncertainty and crisis and built a proprietary operational support platform supplying in-house experts for data, HR, marketing, and go-to-market.

Margaux Gregoir leads corporate venture efforts linking European corporates and startups by co‑designing innovation programs and brings hands‑on finance and operations experience from CFO/VP Finance roles at startups like Luko.

Matthieu Lavergne, a former CEO and founder-turned-investor, specializes in infrastructure software and commercial open source, runs The Commercial Open Source Report, and brings deep expertise across AI, data and devops.

Pascal Petit is CEO of Thynk.Cloud, a Salesforce-powered hospitality platform. He previously served as COO and co-founder of a global business that reached €80+ million in revenue and underwent an IPO before being acquired by British Telecom. His background includes strategy, business development, and operations management in high-tech companies and hospitality industry transformation.

Philippe Hayat, serial entrepreneur, investor, educator and association leader, founded 100 000 Entrepreneurs and created ESSEC and Sciences Po programs, focusing on removing barriers and the human factor for growth.

Stéphanie Nizard is Partner and Head of Strategic Partnerships who focuses solely on investor relations, emphasizing trust and transparency after starting her career post‑Lehman and helping build a €50bn+ platform.

Xavier Lorphelin discovered the internet in mid‑90s San Francisco, set up Flextronics production lines, co-founded a Paris incubator, and for ~15 years has backed European SaaS/data like Dataiku and Launchmetrics.

Eric Gossart leads the racine² impact strategy, focusing on climate, health, and education, and brings hands-on experience founding and leading climate and sustainability startups that build decarbonization companies.

Floriane de Maupeou is a Principal specializing in software infrastructure, data, AI and quantum computing, with hands-on investments in quantum photonics including Quandela and a thematic focus on quantum–AI convergence.

Margaux Bussiere blends Partech VC training with social entrepreneurship experience at INCO and makesense, positioning herself as an impact designer who helps founders build sustainable AgTech, EdTech and HealthTech ventures.

Maxime Furet is a Principal with hedge fund, startup product development and VC backgrounds; he co-leads a European SaaS benchmark and helps founders align metrics with top European SaaS companies.

Olivier Martret built middleware used at an accelerator to scale scouting, bringing engineering experience and focus on blockchain, gaming and crypto-native startups and arguing Web2 won't build Web3.

Sébastien Le Roy combines CS and HEC Paris MSc with entrepreneur and M&A experience, bringing founder-side perspective, driving systematic post-investment support, and focusing on AI, fintech, greentech and vertical SaaS.

Augustin Honorat is an independent senior advisor and board member with former CEO experience in energy and infrastructure companies. He provides strategic guidance to executives across startups, large enterprises, and investment funds on organizational leadership, business growth, and operational performance. Honorat currently serves as a non-executive director at five companies and brings extensive sector knowledge spanning renewable energy generation, energy retail, storage technologies, decarbonization solutions, and international operations across Asia Pacific markets.

A serial entrepreneur with a 20-year career spanning telecom and internet ventures, David co-founded and led three companies: internet access provider Oreka, VoIP software Wengo, and professional-to-consumer services platform MyBestPro. He later advised and served on startup boards before joining Serena's Operating Team.

Elodie Charles is a Community & Talent Manager at Serena, where she works with emerging companies. She manages a community network of over 500 executives.

Émilie Benayad is an Operating Partner at Serena, a French tier-one venture capital firm. She brings 15 years of C-level experience in high-growth environments and has developed intercultural expertise through seven years working in Spain and Morocco. She also serves as a diversity and inclusion leader for both Serena and France Invest, and facilitates climate workshops.

Heba Hitti serves as Chief Communications Officer at Serena. Her background spans press relations, brand management, content strategy, event planning, and community building. She has received the France Digitale Operating Award.

Jérémy Rasori leads the sustainability function at Serena, a €1 billion AUM fund, where he manages ESG positioning with limited partners and drives value creation across a portfolio of over 50 companies. With more than eight years of experience in venture capital, impact investing, and ESG strategy, he serves on the Steering Committee of the Sustainability Commission at France Invest and co-leads the Venture & Growth Working Group, where he developed France's first ESG framework for early-stage VC investments.

Julia Lefebvre provides shared HR services and consulting to early-stage startups and growing SMEs, assisting with the structuring and management of human resources functions. She currently serves as an animator at La Fresque du Climat and has experience working in high-growth environments where organizational development and human capital management are priorities.

Olivier Gérardin is an Operating Partner at Serena with experience scaling platform businesses. He advises investors and executives on technology strategy, organizational development, and growth management across areas including data, AI, cybersecurity, product management, and cloud infrastructure.

Paul Moriou, described as an anomaly in European VC by Décideurs, became partner at 27 and focuses on AI, critical infrastructure in industry, security, robotics and energy, backing Electra.