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Younès Rharbaoui

Paris, France

Bio

I am the co-founder of OPRTRS, an investment platform that leverages a community of over 180 tech operators to back early-stage founders. My professional background spans venture capital, financial leadership, and startup operations, including roles as Partner at The Family. I am also an active business angel.

Work Experience

Co-Founder at OPRTRS CLUB

Feb 2023 – Present

We back founders with €200k at pre-seed and support from 170+ C-level tech operators. OPRTRS is a community-led investment platform dedicated to tech operators. We give the most talented startup employees a platform to share, grow and financial leverage to deploy capital into the most promising deals launched by former operators turned founders Milestones: • Raised €8 million to invest in promising early-stage startups, incl. from Leblon Capital, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures, Financière Saint-James. • Building and leading a community-based investment platform for tech operators, with 150+ tech executives from diverse functions and industries on board. • Gathering current/alumni executives from OpenAI, Palantir, Stripe, Mistral AI, Revolut, Wiz, Alan, Lovable, Qonto, Doctolib, Datadog, Hugging Face, Rippling, PayFit, Pennylane, Algolia, Voodoo, Mirakl, Microsoft, AWS, Meta, Google, Salesforce, Backmarket, Dataiku, Datadog and many more

Investor at Linkup

Aug 2024 – Present

Investor at EGIDE

Dec 2025 – Present

Investor at Revox

Oct 2025 – Present

Investor at Galink

Jan 2025 – Present

Investor at DotBlocks

Jan 2025 – Present

Investor at Massive Dynamic

Apr 2025 – Present

Investor at Guepard

Jun 2025 – Present

Investor at Plakar

Nov 2024 – Present

Partner & CFO at The Family

Feb 2020 – Dec 2022

Partner in charge of finance, portfolio and restructuring. Pan-European investment firm invested in 250+ startups including Trainline, Algolia, PayFit, Alma, Jow, WeMaintain, Unai, Spacefill, Rows, Shipfix, Luko etc. • Management: led and managed a team of 4 people overseeing legal and accounting. • Group Financial Management: 10 subsidiaries, 80+ controlled entities (SPVs) and 250+ portfolio companies. • Portfolio Management: liquidity strategy, exits, secondaries, M&A, etc. ( > €20m of exits completed). • Crisis Management: led and executed group legal and financial strategy for recovery procedures and stakeholders protection after uncovering prior internal deceit. • Restructuring: completed the strategy and execution of a complete group overhaul. • Day-to-day CFO: audits, reporting, balance sheet management, management control, budgeting, resource planning, funding, investor relations, accounting deadlines, processes.

Business Angel at Freelance

Jul 2016 – Present

• Angel invested into PayFit, Jow, Dark, Unison, Shipfix (exited), Side.co (exited), Spacefill (partly exited) Prometheus Fuels, Nabis, Totem, Clarisights, Fairmint and various others.

Chief Financial & Investment Officer at Nocturne Games

Aug 2023 – Nov 2024

Nocturne is a leading gaming fund based on revenue-sharing. We support indie developers worldwide with funding, fair terms, and expert self-publishing assistance. • Built and managed a pioneering gaming fund based on revenue-sharing. • Managed regulatory (AMF), tax and compliance hurdles to launch an investment fund in a brand new asset class • Modelized returns for a new type of asset and fund with high liquidity and IRR potential • Supported indie developers worldwide with funding, fair terms, and expert self-publishing assistance. • Developed and implemented financial strategies, investor relations, and fund management processes.

Interim Chief Financial Officer at Choose

Aug 2023 – Apr 2024

• Provided financial leadership and strategic guidance for financial operations (90+ FTEs, high 8-figures annual turnover) and international expansion to US • Built a pathway to profitability for the group • Overhaul of the FP&A, budgeting and business plan

Head of Operations (Joint Venture) at The Family

Apr 2018 – Feb 2020

• Built educational operations for The Family's training organization (Lion, Maria Schools): strategy, content, experts. • Wrote le Livre de La Jungle: best-selling book dedicated to startup employees. • 100+ talks at HEC, Sciences Po, LSE, Oxford, Warwick, European Commission, Ecole des Mines, etc.

Investment Manager at The Family

Sep 2015 – Apr 2018

• Dealflow Management: sourcing, applications, information seeking and due diligence. • Portfolio Management: office hours, fundraising rounds preparation, pitch decks, info memos, business plans, expert network intros.

Investment Analyst at The Family

Mar 2015 – Sep 2015

Associate Professor at Sciences Po

Sep 2017 – Sep 2022

• Transition numérique : startups et stratégie d’entreprise (in French, Finance & Strategy major). • Digital Transformation of Organizations (in English, Ecole d’Affaires Publiques).

Investment Analyst Intern at Ardian

Sep 2014 – Feb 2015

• Co-Investment team investing in Large Cap LBOs along leading GPs including Carlyle, KKR, Blackstone, etc. • Analyzed and modelled investment opportunities, conducted due diligence and wrote investment memos (3 investments of > €8 bn cumulative EV)

Education

Master in International Management at HEC Paris

I completed my Master's degree at HEC Paris, focusing on international management.

University Studies at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Investments

Linkup

Aug 2024

Investor at Linkup

EGIDE

Dec 2025

Investor at EGIDE

PayFit

PayFit

Prometheus Fuels

Prometheus Fuels

Jow

Jow

Plakar

Investor at Plakar

Unison

Unison

Shipfix

Shipfix (exited)

Side.co

Side.co (exited)

Spacefill

Spacefill (partly exited)

Dark

Dark

Nabis

Nabis

Totem

Totem

Clarisights

Clarisights

Fairmint

Fairmint

Revox

Oct 2025

Investor at Revox

Galink

Jan 2025

Investor at Galink

DotBlocks

Jan 2025

Investor at DotBlocks

Massive Dynamic

Apr 2025

Investor at Massive Dynamic

Guepard

Jun 2025

Investor at Guepard