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Upscalers

15 Boulevard Suchet, Paris, 75016, France

Overview

Upscalers is a community of operating angel investors joining forces to co-invest in the world's most promising tech startups

Total investments
5
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
1
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Investment portfolio

  • Convex

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

    Convex offers a reactive backend platform that bundles a database, functions, workflows, sync, search, and file storage in TypeScript with zero glue code. The platform emphasizes reliability by default, featuring ACID transactions, end-to-end type safety, and realtime subscriptions, and is SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant. Convex was founded in 2021 by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers and is headquartered in San Francisco. It counts teams at OpenAI, Tripadvisor, Solana, Zapier, and Reducto as customers and powers nearly 2 million applications built by close to 500,000 developers, with over 1.2 million weekly npm downloads. The company plans to invest in agentic development tooling and expand hiring to support product development and customer growth.

  • Eben Home

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2024

    Eben Home provides a combined software and marketplace platform built for interior designers that centralizes sourcing, ordering and project-management for furniture and decoration. The platform aggregates over 150 brands and a catalogue of more than 6,000 products and is currently accessible for free. Eben Home reports a community of more than 1,000 interior designers and says users can gain up to 2 hours of efficiency per day and about 20% additional revenue on average. The company enables end-to-end workflows—source, manage, visualise, exchange, order and receive furniture—aimed at simplifying previously complex, time-consuming processes. Eben Home has executed initial projects in the UK, Luxembourg and Belgium and plans geographic expansion beyond France. Planned product evolutions include expanding the catalogue beyond furniture, adding new features and integrating generative AI for interior design projects, as well as widening access to other design professionals.

  • GUUD

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2023

    Guud sells a line of clean, sustainable supplements and operates a community-centric platform that provides live chat access to midwives, nutritionists, doctors, pharmacists, gynecologists, and sexual health therapists. Its core offering pairs clinically tested supplements with education and expert support to address menstrual issues and PMS. The brand officially launched in 2021 and currently about 85% of its community members are based in Belgium. Guud completed a seed fundraising round of $1.7M (€1.6M) and previously raised $380k in pre-seed funding. The company also received a significant grant to support a feasibility study that the cofounders say concluded with promising results. Guud plans to grow its team, expand across Europe, develop a vertically integrated end-to-end menstrual health solution, enhance its care model for more bespoke support, and contribute objective data to scientific research.

  • Dotfile

    Participated · Seed · Feb 2023

    Dotfile offers a compliance platform that enables regulated financial organizations to automate customer onboarding, verify customers and partners quickly, and reduce regulatory and fraud risk. The product is targeted at banks, private equity firms, and fintechs, and is designed to streamline AML compliance processes. Founded in 2021 by Vasco Alexandre and Titouan Benoit with support from the startup studio Hexa (fka eFounders), the company is based in Paris, France. Dotfile counts more than 50 customers across 10 countries, including Spendesk, Younited Credit, Flowdesk, and Keyrock. The company plans to use recent funding to accelerate R&D efforts and pursue international expansion. No revenue or other financial metrics were disclosed in the article. Dotfile provides a compliance operating system with an API-centric platform that lets customers integrate identity and verification capabilities into their own systems. Its solution is natively integrated with financial databases, business registries, AML providers and fraud-prevention APIs, and allows customers to mix data sources and configure custom decision rules without coding. The product automates customer approval and fraud detection to speed onboarding and reduce operational costs while mitigating legal, financial and reputational risk. The company plans to accelerate development of its compliance platform, expand into new markets and invest in analytics capabilities. Dotfile intends to expand its team and double its workforce by the end of the year. Founded in 2021 and led by CEO Vasco Alexandre, the company recently closed external seed funding to support these initiatives.

  • So Syncd

    Led · Seed · Apr 2021

    So Syncd is a NYC-based dating app created by sisters Jessica and Louella Alderson that uses a unique algorithm based on Myers‑Briggs personality types to match couples. The app has grown to over 60,000 users and has facilitated more than three million messages. The company reports its algorithm has helped over 460 couples form relationships, including two marriages and multiple engagements. So Syncd recently raised seed capital to support growth. The funds will be used to expand its user base in the U.S. and scale the product. The company continues to focus on algorithmic matching tied to personality compatibility.

Team

  • Yoann Benhacoun

    Investor and member of the community

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