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March 17, 2022

250 of France’s top entrepreneurs launch seed fund

The Galion Project wants to leverage its elite French founder membership to close the early-stage funding gap


Chris O’Brien

4 min read

Galion (left to right): Agathe Wautier, Chloé Monneyron, Kevin Kuipers, and Willy Braun.

More than 250 of France’s most successful founders are banding together to launch a new seed fund designed to further accelerate an ecosystem that is already red hot.

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Chris O’Brien

Chris O’Brien is a writer for Sifted. He covers French tech, and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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