Nicolas Louvet

CEO

Paris, Île-de-France, France23 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • CEO of Coinhouse Group, leading crypto investment platform.
  • Invested in over 20 companies, including several Unicorns.
  • Founded Keya Capital for corporate innovation advisory.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with extensive experience in venture capital and corporate finance.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipVenture Capital InvestmentBoard Level

Other Skills

Company managementBusiness developmentFund managementCorporate FinanceCorporate StrategyVenture CapitalStart-upsPrivate EquityInvestmentsBusiness StrategyMergers & AcquisitionsStrategyFinancePortfolio ManagementValuation

About

I am CEO of Coinhouse Group. Our mission is to make the Future of Finance accessible to all retail and corporate clients. Before founding the Group, I was a Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture). As a Partner in VC funds, I invested in more than 20 companies including several Unicorns - Dataiku (colead, Series A, Series B) - Unicorn - Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B) - Listed Euronext - Unicorn - FinalCad (lead, Series A) - Lengow (sold to Matrix) (lead, Series B) - Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A), - TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed) - Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B) - and 15+ other companies... I have also personally invested in several companies, such as Ledger (Unicorn), Assoconnect, Zeenea, and LP in VC funds. I also founded Keya Capital, whose mission is to advice large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities. Skills: - Entrepreneurship, company management, business development - Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe - Fund management and creation - Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition) - Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)

Experience

23 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Adan

Board Member and President of the CASP Committee

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

  • Adan is a professional body for digital assets industry players, based in France and in Europe. Adan mission is to promote digital assets in the aim of creating a free and open digital economy. Adan also federates the industry players to nurture the development of this new industry, allowing for a level playing field, best common practices and ethical development.
Board Level

Coinhouse custody services

CEO

Nov 2018Present · 7 yrs 6 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Coinhouse Custody Services (CCS) provides custodial solutions to safely store your digital assets
  • with institutional-grade security infrastructure.
  • CCS is a Digital Asset Service Provider ( PSAN in French ) part of Coinhouse Group and a sister company of Coinhouse, the leading crypto financial services provider. CCS is the first DASP registered by the French AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) and in December 2021 by the CSSF in Luxembourg (@00000006).

Coinhouse

CEO

Oct 2017Present · 8 yrs 7 mos · Paris Area, France

  • Based in Paris, France, Coinhouse is a regulated crypto investment and services platform for Bitcoin, Ether and tens of other crypto assets. Coinhouse is registered, and was the first one to be registered in March 2020, as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP or PSAN in French) by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and in December 2021 by the CSSF in Luxembourg (@00000005).
  • As a leading player in Europe, Coinhouse serves retail and corporate investors with brokerage, regulated custody, crypto payment and crypto asset management solutions. With more than 500,000 customers and a unique premium approach, Coinhouse is the trusted partner to safely invest in crypto-assets and offer its clients individualized investment advice. Coinhouse Solutions brings to Enterprise customers technical and transactional solutions to support their business development in web3, NFT and metaverse.
  • At Coinhouse, we believe that Blockchain technologies and crypto are going to profoundly change banking and finance industries, creating new uses, disintermediating incumbents while guaranteeing security, auditability and offering the largest number of people new financial services, wider access to payment solutions and new investment opportunities. There will be no web3 without crypto and crypto financial services.
  • The web3 revolution will be carried by companies such as Coinhouse, that will revolutionize the way banks ad payment providers work , which will carry this innovation while being part of regulatory schemes to guarantee financial security.
EntrepreneurshipCompany managementBusiness developmentVenture Capital investmentFund managementCorporate Finance+1

Zeenea

Board Member and Investor

Sep 2017Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Zeenea Data Catalog centralizes all your data and the information you need to accelerate your business

Assoconnect

Investor

Aug 2017Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Cloud software solution for non profit organizations

Keya capital

CEO and Founder

Mar 2017Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Corporate Finance, Strategic Consulting and Venture Capital Advisory, VC investment
  • Investments include : Coinhouse, Zeenea, Assoconnect, Ledger.

Unibail-rodamco-westfield

Senior Investment Advisor

Mar 2017Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Venture Capital Advisor for URW - Westfield

Lengow

Board Member and Investor

Aug 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Nantes Metropolitan Area

  • Lengow is a one stop shop solution to boost ecommerce performance. The company has partnerships with over 1800 e-commerce channels worldwide. Its solution helps e-merchants to sell their products on marketplaces, comparison shopping engines, affiliate platforms, retargeting, adnetworks, sponsored links and more!
  • www.lengow.fr

Accélérateur allianz

Mentor

May 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Nice

  • UN ACCÉLÉRATEUR DÉDIÉ AU BIG DATA, AUX OBJETS CONNECTÉS ET AU STADE CONNECTÉ
  • Au cœur du stade Allianz Riviera à Nice, l'accélérateur Allianz soutient les start-up innovantes et prometteuses dans leur croissance en leur proposant un programme d'accélération intensif de 5 mois.

Dataiku

Board Member and Investor

Jan 2015Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Integrated and collaborative development platform for data professionals to turn raw data into predictions.
  • #data science #predictive models #Gartner magic quadrant #prototype #deploy #run

Finalcad

Board Member and Investor

Jun 2014Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Leading construction app
  • #building industry #software #BIM #maintenance #predictive analytics
  • www.finalcad.com

Serena

Partner

Jun 2013Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Leading European Early Stage and Venture Capital Fund with 300 M€ of AuM, dedicated to support great innovative startups from seed to early growth stages (Series B/C)
  • At Serena Capital, we are entrepreneurs who finance entrepreneurs. The team's approach is based on key operational skills and deep business and tech networks that Serena Capital makes available for its portfolio companies.
  • Our investment range goes from €0,5 to €15 million with a focus on a variety of technology sectors including internet and media, deep learning/AI, software, telecom and mobile, consumer electronics, IT services .
  • Serena portfolio companies :
  • Augure, Aramis Auto, Bonita Soft, Coach Club, Groupe Arlety, La Fourchette (sold to Tripadvisor), Melty, Prestashop, Prixtel, Sequans (NYSE : SQNS), Santé Vet, Selectron, RSI Video Technologies, Worldstores, Yakarouler, Work4, FinalCAD, Qualtera, Dataiku, TextMaster, Habiteo, Cheerz, Lengow, Evaneos, Alkemics, TVTY, iContainers, Coorpacademy, Hopwork, Heuritech
  • http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serena_Capital

Ouicar

Board Member and Investor

Jul 2012Jun 2013 · 11 mos · Paris

  • Ecomobilité Ventures invested in 2012 in Ouicar
  • Company partially sold to SNCF in June 2015

Ledger

Seed Investor and Advisor

Mar 2012Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Ledger builds solutions to bridge the physical world and the blockchain.
  • Ledger’s core technology is a low footprint embedded Operating System built for Secure Elements and CPU enclaves. Thanks to its innovative asynchronous architecture, Ledger OS enables full orchestration of code and systems directly from the secure world.

Ecomobilité ventures

Partner & COO

Jan 2012Jun 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Created in December 2011, Ecomobilité Ventures is a multi-corporate venture capital fund supported by SNCF, Orange and Total.
  • The fund aims at investing € 1M to € 4 M in innovative companies at various stages of their development, with an investment focus on sustainable mobility.

Lecamping.org

Mentor

Sep 2011Sep 2012 · 1 yr · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Le Camping is a seedcamp project created by the association of Silicon Sentier, clustering the startups of Ile de France.

Amarys finance

CEO

Nov 2010Feb 2017 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Founded by Nicolas Louvet, a seasoned Venture Capital professional,Amarys Finance is a Financial Advisory firm, whose mission is to deliver high quality advisory and financial services to Entrepreneurs, Corporate and Investors, such as strategic consulting, fundraising and M&A advisory services.

Sofinnova partners

Senior Associate

Sep 2007Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Sofinnova Partners is an independent venture capital company based in Paris managing € 1100m. The team has special relations with Sofinnova Ventures, our sister firm based in San Francisco, which offers a geat visibility on the US market; and has an office in Shanghai.
  • Sofinnova’s team invests primarily in companies in information technologies, life sciences and energy, mainly in European countries.
  • Sofinnova’s team invests in start-ups and early-stage companies with ambitious projects. The minimum unit investment is €0.5 million. Up to €20 million may be invested over several rounds of financing.
  • Sofinnova Partners acts as lead or co-lead investor, takes an active part on the board of directors, and brings added value to the management team.
  • Examples of investments: Actelion, VistaPrint, Nicox, Parrot, Myriad, Corevalve, Cerenis, Ablynx, Blyk, PC30, Sagem Wireless, Wyplay, Neosens, mydeco.com, Taptu, Multimania, Emailvision, ...
  • For more information: www.sofinnova.fr

Société générale asset management

Senior Analyst

Jan 2002Jan 2007 · 5 yrs · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • SGAM AI Private Equity is the department of SGAM Alternative Investments, a subsidiary of Société Générale dedicated to equity investments in privately held companies.
  • With more than €220 million under management, the Venture Capital IT team is a key investor in high-tech companies in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies. The team leverages its broad expertise and international network to qualify investment opportunities and add value to its portfolio companies.
  • For more information: www.sgam-ai-private-equity.com

Education

École normale supérieure - Université Paris Saclay

Master of Science (M.S.) — Fundamental Physics

Jan 1999Jan 2001

McGill University

MS (exchange) — Physics & Applied Mathematics

Jan 2000Jan 2001

Télécom Paris

MS — Telecommunication

Jan 2001Jan 2003

Lycée Janson de Sailly

classe preparatoire — physics

Jan 1996Jan 1999

Lycée Privé Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (Rouen)

Baccalauréat S — Mathematics

Jan 1990Jan 1996

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