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.

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.

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.

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.

Bertrand Diard, serial data entrepreneur who co-founded Talend (French unicorn, Nasdaq IPO), launched an early French AI/big-data infrastructure fund in 2017 and prioritizes data-stack infrastructure over GenAI apps.

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.

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.

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.

David Bitton is Partner and Head of the Operating Program at Serena. He has 20 years of experience in the technology industry as a co-founder and CEO, with work spanning SaaS, marketplaces, product marketing, M&A, and business scaling. He holds an engineering degree from ISAE-SUPAERO.

Emilie Benayad is an Operating Partner at Serena, a French venture capital firm. She has 15 years of experience in C-level roles at fast-growing and international companies, including seven years working between Spain and Morocco. She serves as a diversity and inclusion leader for Serena and France Invest, and is a "Fresque du climat" facilitator.

Eric Gossart is a Partner at Serena, a Paris-based European fund. He leads Racine², an impact fund focused on climate, education, and health.

Jérôme Stioui is an Operating Partner at Serena and founder of several companies, including Directinet, Ad4Screen, and Accengage. He co-created Le Village des Enfants Extraordinaires and serves as an independent board member for multiple European scale-ups.

Olivier Gerardin is an Operating Partner at Serena. His background includes work as an entrepreneur, with experience in scaling platform businesses and areas such as data and AI strategy, cloud architecture, product management, and organizational and performance management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elodie Charles is Community & Talent Manager at Serena, where she supports the firm's talent network. She manages the Talent Club, which shares candidate profiles with Serena's community of over 500 executives.

Investment Associate since 2025 holding an MBA from London Business School and engineering and physics degrees from Concordia and McGill.