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Pareto & Motier Ventures

40, bd Haussmann, Paris, Île-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
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
1
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Investment portfolio

  • PAVE Space

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    PAVE Space is developing a family of orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) including a flagship kickstage using storable bipropellants and a smaller mobile platform for rapid satellite repositioning. The vehicles are designed to transport satellites from low Earth orbit to higher-energy destinations such as geostationary and lunar orbits in under 24 hours. PAVE aims to offer a launcher-agnostic logistics layer compatible with multiple launch systems and to serve commercial and institutional customers including satellite operators, telecom providers and defence organisations. The company is preparing its first in-space demonstration mission and has secured early reservation agreements with satellite operators. With the $40 million seed round, PAVE will accelerate development, expand its engineering team, conduct initial demonstrations and ready its platforms for commercial deployments. CEO and co-founder Julie Böhning has framed the effort as building infrastructure to enable industries to move, operate and scale beyond Earth while supporting Europe’s strategic autonomy in space.

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