Charles-antoine Morand
Early Stage Investor, founder @ Karot Capital
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2017 - Current
Early Stage Investment Solutions #Innovation #VC #PrivateEquity Invested in : Archeon Medical (ER AI-powered ventilation devices), bem.builders (engage your brand with GenZ & Alpha), Champerché (Vertical Farming), Cook-e (kitchen robotics), FairMoove (eco conscious hospitality solutions), Isybot (industrial collaborative robots), Insiteo (space management solution), Kareg (Real Estate decarbonization), Matcha (e-butler and sales companion), U-Space (nanosatellite constellations), WAAM (organic DIY cosmetics), Toosla (premium car rental, $ALTOO), , , ,
Partner
2009 - 2017
Private Equity, venture capital. Invested in Medtech Surgical (surgical robotics, acquired by Zimmer Biomet, NYSE : ZBH), MobPartner (mobile advertising platform, acquired by Cheetah Mobile, NYSE : CMCM), Tageos (low-cost/high quality RFID tags, acquired by Fedrigoni), In2Bones (medical implants for extremities' surgery, acquired by ConMed, NYSE : CNMD), DejaMobile (mobile payment solutions, acquired by Market Pay), 909c (social media agency, acquired by WNP), Ogust (ERP, acquired by Medisys), Xotelia (hospitality management software, acquired by Eviivo), MonBento (lunchboxes, acquired by Ets Peugeot Frères), Braineet (ideas crowdsourcing, sold to disrpt/Itonics), Yoopala (babysitting services, sold to management), Frequentiel (contactless consultancy), Joxko (remittance), Edicia (urban security software), Quasardb (Superfast DBMS / Time Series / Big data), OCR (vet CRO / comparative medicine in oncology), Apitic (smart PoS)
Private Placement & IPO
2006 - 2009
Private & public placement, IPO, for innovative SMEs.
Co-Founder
2004 - 2006
With Cinetroc.com, people swap the DVDs they watch no more for the DVDs they want. Call it a physical P2P.
VC
1999 - 2004
Private Equity/Venture Capital Invested in : Calendra (sold to BMC software), K-mobile (sold to American Greeting), Highdeal (sold to SAP)
Senior consultant
1996 - 1999
P&L and B/S auditing ; Acquisition/Merger Due diligence ; Company recovery.