Motier Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups with a focus on companies that are building the infrastructure for the digital economy. They provide capital, mentorship, and access to a global network to help startups scale and succeed.

Motier Venture Capital

Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.

We are a value-added business angel. 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.

We focus on Future of Commerce, FinTech, CreativeTech, Consumer & Gaming, Infra & Tooling and Future of Work, with Blockchains and AI as transversal expertises.

We bring for your business 130 years of entrepreneurial experience and an access to a wide ecosystem: our portfolio companies, the Groupe Galeries Lafayette (Les Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, Louis Pion, Royal Quartz Paris, Mauboussin, Eataly, Citynove, and the Lafayette Anticipations foundation), as well as a corporate network that spans across various industries.

If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.

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Deblock announces its €12m seed round to launch the first current account accepting both euros and cryptocurrencies. 💶 ⛓

Powered by self-custodial wallet, Deblock provides its users a French IBAN, payment cards for daily transactions, instant transfers, withdraw, deposit, and convert cryptocurrencies into euros and vice versa. It's now possible to pay for a coffee, receive a salary or pay rent, all in cryptos or euros. ☕ 🤖 

A huge round of applause to Jean Meyer, Adriana Restrepo, Aaron B., Mario Eguiluz Alebicto & the whole team. We are super excited to be part of your journey. 🚀✨

We are more than happy to invest alongside Hoxton Ventures, 20VC, Headline and amazing angels such as Thomas France, Jonathan Levin and Noé Gersanois to name only a few... 👊🔥

cc: Guillaume Houzé, Nicolas Essayan, Mariette Boitard, Laurine Moureaux, Vittorio Noury

#crypto #fiat #fintech

Paris will once again be the blockchain capital of the world for (at least) one week!⛓️🥐 

Tonight, alongside our friends at Dfns, Fipto and Kiln, we were excited to gather conference speakers, web3 industry leaders and founders in the splendid Salon Opera of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann for a moment full of connections, fizz and fun. 🥂😃

Dear Michael Amar 🎗️and team, let the Paris Blockchain Week begin! 🚀🌗

cc: Guillaume Houzé, Nicolas Essayan, Mariette Boitard, Laurine Moureaux, Vittorio Noury, Stephanie Bros


#blockchains #cryptos #web3

Keyring Network announces its $6m seed round to boost digital asset compliance and make blockchain-based finance mainstream. 🤖 

Powered by zero-knowledge protocol, Keyring Network equips financial institutions with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, which ensure institutional-grade privacy & security with sensitive data. ⛓🛡

A huge round of applause to Mélodie Lamarque & Alex McFarlane for this round. We are super excited to be part of your journey. 🚀✨

Congrats to gumi Cryptos Capital & Greenfield Capital  for co-leading this round, alongside  Kima Ventures and early-backers including UDHC and Eberg Capital. 👊🔥

cc: Guillaume Houzé, Nicolas Essayan, Mariette Boitard, Laurine Moureaux, Vittorio Noury

#blockchain #compliance #zk

Adaptive announces its $20m seed round aimed at helping companies tailor LLMs for business to build singular generative AI experiences. 👩🏼‍💻🤖 

With a focus on reinforcement learning, Adaptive is developing a package of solutions that capture the way people interact with an LLM's responses and allows the model to be trained and fin-tuned from this data. 🤝📚

A huge round of applause to Julien Launay, Baptiste Pannier, Daniel Hesslow, Alessandro Cappelli, Axel Marmet, Olivier Cruchant and the whole team for this round. We are super excited to be part of your journey. 🧙‍♂️✨

Congratulations to Index Ventures for leading this round, joined by a stellar lineup of investors including ICONIQ Capital, Factorial, Databricks Venture, Iris Capital, Financière Saint James, Kima Ventures and exceptional business angels. 🤩

cc: Guillaume Houzé, Nicolas Essayan, Mariette Boitard, Laurine Moureaux, Vittorio Noury

#genai  #reinforcementlearning  #finetuning 

Catalog announces its $3m seed to build the multichannel B2B sales solution for small to medium businesses (SMBs). 🤖 

Pure B2B e-commerce is not the answer: Catalog is the last mile B2B sales tool which creates value online and offline to help SMBs to unlock the most value of their existing customer base. 📊💸

A huge round of applause to Julien Bellemare & Maxime Poitevineau-Millin for the early milestones reached in such a short span of time, we are super excited to be part of your journey. 🚀✨

Congrats to LocalGlobe for leading this round with the participation of Kima Ventures, helloworld and a few selected business angels (👋 Alain TINGAUD). 👊🔥

cc: Guillaume Houzé, Nicolas Essayan, Mariette Boitard, Laurine Moureaux, Vittorio Noury

#b2b #sales #SMBs #productivity 

Vibe.co announces its $22.5m Series A round to shape the future of Streaming Advertising.

Streaming TV became a commodity, but access to its advertising remains elitist. Put your brand on TV with Vibe, a platform providing instant access with an easy setup and full control, delivering the best value from SMB Demand to Supply Partners. 📺⚙

Congrats Arthur ✌️ Querou, Franck Tetzlaff and the whole team for the impressive growth so far, it's just the beginning! ✨

Congrats to our friends at Singular for leading this round, with the reinvestment of historical investor Elaia, and the participation of amazing angels such as Laurent Asscher, Benjamin Antier, Cyril Vermeulen, Alain Roubach or Alexandre Berriche (👋 Sequoia Capital scouts). 👊

cc: Guillaume Houzé, Nicolas Essayan, Mariette Boitard, Vittorio Noury and Laurine Moureaux

#SmartTV #Advertising

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