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September 20, 2024

Mistral, Poolside, Nabla: Meet the VC investing French billionaire Rodolphe Saadé’s fortune in tech

The CEO of shipping and logistics giant CMA CGM has been making a mark in French tech for the past two years

The billionaire most often associated with French tech has got to be Xavier Niel. The owner of telecoms giant Iliad — the parent company of Free, a major internet provider in France — appears in a lot of hot deals thanks to his investment firm Kima Ventures, which has backed HR-tech Payfit to healthtech unicorn Alan, and more recently buzzy AI startups Mistral and Poolside. 

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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