Motier Ventures
2 Rue des Mathurins, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75009, France
Overview
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. Our favorite investment themes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, Creative Technologies and Cybersecurity. We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV, Citynove...) and across many industries. If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.
- Total investments
- 59
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 10
- Active investors
- 1
Investment portfolio
- Concord
Participated · Seed · Jun 2026
Concord’s flagship product, Concord Agent, converts creative briefs into live, managed campaigns and handles pacing and optimization against KPIs across multiple media platforms simultaneously. The platform integrates natively with DV360, Meta, YouTube, Amazon DSP, The Trade Desk, TikTok, Google Ads and other major buying platforms. Concord works with advertisers within the WPP and Havas agency footprints and says early users save up to 70% of the time spent on manual campaign execution, optimization, and reporting. The company positions itself as the execution infrastructure for programmatic media buying and plans to expand platform coverage and scale across the US and EMEA. Concord was co-founded by Nathan Venezia (CEO), Nicolas Cosson (CTO), and Antoine Chwalek (Head of Engineering), who bring prior adtech and media exits and leadership experience.
- CardNexus
Participated · Seed · Jun 2026
Founded in 2025 and based in Bordeaux, CardNexus offers a mobile-first app that combines a peer-to-peer marketplace, AI-powered card scanning, and collection management across multiple trading card games. The platform supports 12+ games today, with plans to reach 20 by the end of the year, and launched its marketplace in March 2026. It emphasizes a community-led approach with a public roadmap and an open API for developers and local game shops. The company reports over 50,000 users, more than 30 million cards inventoried (including 10 million scanned), and active sellers across 30+ countries. CardNexus plans product expansion beyond buying and selling, team growth, and a targeted 2027 vault system for secure physical card storage, insurance, and trading.
- Certo
Participated · Seed · May 2026
Certo provides an AI-driven compliance platform that handles the full product compliance process across ingredient checks, formula validation, claims verification, artwork and labelling checks, and market entry documentation via five specialised modules. The company emphasizes auditable reasoning and a proprietary regulatory database combined with in-house regulatory expertise to support enterprise workflows. Certo targets consumer packaged goods and personal care categories and plans to expand into food and beverage. Its team of six is led by founders Bastien Deliège-Coste and Jean Duquenne and includes members in France, Switzerland, and the U.S. The company aims to scale its managed services offering, accelerate U.S. growth, and reach internal ARR milestones of $500,000 by 2025 and $2 million by 2027.
- Piston
Participated · Seed · Mar 2026
Piston is developing what it calls an "Agentic ERP" designed for mid-market companies that build, make and move physical goods. The product aims to go beyond legacy ERPs by executing tasks (handling copy-paste between tools, processing quotes, managing orders, flagging stock issues and automating back-office work) rather than merely storing data. Piston emphasizes an AI-first architecture that enables faster deployment and continuous learning with users, addressing traditional ERP pain points like long scoping and configuration phases. The company positions itself as a third option for mid-size firms between stripped-down suites and disconnected tool stacks. Founders and core team members named in the announcement include Florian Bachelot, Eric Lacaille and Eugène Nélou, along with Cyril Lopez, Camille L., Benjamin Faucheux and Guillaume Jarry. The company intends to use seed funding to build out the platform and accelerate go-to-market, though no revenue, user metrics, or valuation were disclosed in the provided materials.
- Topograph
Participated · Seed · Mar 2026
Topograph builds a foundational data layer for know-your-business (KYB) compliance by connecting directly to official company registers across jurisdictions. Its platform delivers one integration that provides real-time, structured data traceable to the source, and it already covers company registers in 40 countries and counting. The team includes Pierre-Henri Janssens, Hugo Dellinger and Emmanuel Scharff. The company announced a €2M seed round to support its expansion and participation in the STATION F F/AI program. Topograph emphasizes solving the structural bottleneck of fragmented, local business registration systems to enable cross-border KYB at scale. No revenue, user metrics, or prior funding details were disclosed in the article.
Team
Guillaume Houzé
Founder
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