Backing Tech Founders with a
"Je ne sais quoi"*
We're a new breed of pre-seed fund with deep operating and investing experience looking to back the next generation of french entrepreneurs building tech companies in the US.
We are convinced that France is full of talented and ambitious entrepreneurs and is home of some of the best engineers and product designers in the world.
We have realized that most of the time, they do not have the opportunity to expand beyond their borders. Because they don’t have access to the right funding, talent pool, playbooks or network.
Diaspora Ventures targets French founders who have a true global ambition, by investing early and giving them access to the best tech ecosystem in the world, the United States.
Who?
Carlos Diaz - GP
Co-founder of The Refiners, a Cross-Border Seed Fund based in San Francisco that helps international startups thrive in Silicon Valley.
Carlos co-founded Emakina, a leading independent European digital agency group - listed on Euronext since 2006. Founded blueKiwi Software, raised $15m, eventually acquired by ATOS.
He helped 58% of his pre-seed investments raise +$1m with world-class investors in Europe and in the US (Y Combinator Fund, KPCB, Forerunner, Balderton, Alven, ID Invest, Sequoia Scouts, 1984, Bolt…).
Ilan Abehassera - GP
Co-Founder at Willo that’s building a robot automating toothbrushing. Willo raised a $7.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins (behind Nest, DJI, Ring and other great Hardware success stories)
Ilan has been investing in startups as a business angel and helping entrepreneurs since he sold his first company, Producteev, to Nasdaq-listed Jive Software in 2012.
That’s how Ilan got to invest in companies like Algolia, Sunrise, Checkr, and many others.
Portfolio
We are thrilled to support amazing founders
Ilan & Carlos
previously invested in
