I am an investor focused on backing early-stage entrepreneurs, having previously been a partner at The Family and co-founded Semper. Throughout my career, I have supported the growth of numerous startups, including Payfit, Northflank, and Jow, by providing strategic investment and operational guidance. I am committed to aligning the interests of founders, teams, and investors to build high-impact companies.
Investor
Indépendant
Mar 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 1 mo
I back entrepreneurs building great companies. I like to be the first yes rather than the last no. It's never too early to contact me --> balthazar.delavergne@gmail.com
Co-Founder
Semper
May 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo
I invested early in Payfit, Jow, Unison, Dark, Folk, Figures, Northflank, Clarisights, Inato, Emma, Doctrine, Side, Fretlink, Totem, among others. At Semper, we use liquidity to align the interests of private companies, team members and investors. We help forward-looking companies attract and retain startups builders by giving them tangible ownership of the value they create, and have done 8M euros of transactions in our first quarter of operations. We have raised 4M euros from the best angels and funds in Europe, we built a team of 10+ in London, Paris, Berlin.
Managing Director
The Family
Sep 2014 – Jun 2021 · 6 yrs 9 mos
The Family is the premier accelerator in Europe. Startups backed by The Family have gone to raise over one billion euros. I personally took care of the investment decisions and the portfolio support. Startups include Algolia, Payfit, Luko, Heetch, Jow, Preply and many more.
Co-Founder
Fleet Impact
Feb 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos
Fleetimpact was a startup in the digital freight forwarding space. We had built a SaaS for trucking companies that would allow us to gather proprietary data to better run freight forwarding operations. We worked on the company for two years.
Entrepreneur In Residence
Rocket Internet SE
May 2012 – Dec 2012 · 7 mos
Led the reorganization of the logistics in 3 countries while we were scaling Led our initial marketing push Structured operations and business intelligence departments
Visiting Business Analyst
Lazard
Apr 2011 – Aug 2011 · 4 mos
Worked on multiple M&A transactions
Lieutenant
French Army
Sep 2008 – Apr 2009 · 7 mos
Leadership training in the elite high mountain unit in Chamonix as part of the Ecole Polytechnique curriculum
Master of Science - Management, Science & Engineering at Columbia University
2011 – 2012Master Degree - Economics and Public Policy at Sciences Po
2010 – 2011Engineering degree - Economics, Mathematics, Physics at École Polytechnique
2008 – 2011Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry at Classes Préparatoires
2005 – 2008