Marc Menase

Founder & CEO

2018 - Current

Founders Future is an investment firm, providing creativity, network, support and productive capital. We work as entrepreneurs, being next to founders to invest in exceptional ventures. We help accelerate and structure the fundamentals to put the rocket on the launch-pad. Send us your deck at hello@foundersfuture.com

Chairman of the Board

2023

Depuis 2014, Sowefund est la plateforme pionnière du financement participatif en France. Elle permet à tous de devenir actionnaires de startups prometteuses aux côtés des professionnels de l’investissement (business angels, family offices et fonds d’investissement professionnels). Elle rejoint le groupe Founders Future en octobre 2023. Avec le groupe, elle est déjà à l’origine du succès de startups comme Lydia, Yuka, ekWateur, Teads, Lunii,Axioma, Agriloops ou Epicery. Aujourd’hui, la plateforme a déjà financé plus de 100 startups et réunit plus de 120 000 investisseurs particuliers dans sa communauté. Sowefund est un Prestataire de Services de Financement Participatif (PSFP) reconnu par l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

Co-founder & CEO

2021

Le SPAC DEE Tech est destiné à investir dans une entreprise technologique à fort potentiel et à faire émerger un géant de la tech européenne dans les domaines des solutions digitales et de e-commerce. Cinq entrepreneurs et investisseurs de la tech se sont réunis pour le lancement de ce premier SPAC français destiné au secteur de la tech, Marc Menasé, Fondateur et Directeur Général de DEE Tech, et fondateur de Founders Future, Michaël Benabou, co-fondateur et Associé de Veepee, Charles-Hubert de Chaudenay, Directeur Général de Veepee, ainsi que MACSF Epargne Retraite, représenté par Roger Caniard, Directeur financier et membre du comité exécutif, et IDI, représenté par Julien Bentz, Managing Partner de l’équipe Investissement. L’introduction en bourse de DEE Tech a été réalisée à la suite de l’admission à la négociation de 16 500 000 unités qui composent son capital. Au total, DEE Tech a levé 165 millions d’euros auprès d’investisseurs qualifiés, après exercice de la clause d'extension, dans le cadre d’un placement privé. DEE Tech aims to invest in a high-potential tech company with the objective of creating a European tech giant in the fields of digital and e-commerce solutions. Five tech investors and entrepreneurs joined forces to launch the first French SPAC targeting the tech sector: Marc Menasé, Founder and Managing Director of DEE Tech, and founder of Founders Future, Michaël Benabou, co-founder and Partner of Veepee, Charles-Hubert de Chaudenay, Managing Director of Veepee, as well as MACSF Epargne Retraite, represented by Roger Caniard, Financial Director and Member of the Board of Directors, and IDI, represented by Julien Bentz, Managing Partner of the Investment team. DEE Tech was listed through the admission to trading of the 16,500,000 units that make up its capital. In total, DEE Tech has raised €165 million in a private placement from qualified investors, after the exercise of the extension clause.

Investor and board member

2019

waterdrop® enriches your water with fruit and plant extracts to help you drink more. www.waterdrop.com

Investor & advisor

2020

We simplify payments. Whether you're a business, a professional or an individual, Lydia mobile payment services let you pay or accept secure payments instantly. All you need is your smartphone and the Lydia application. Get ready, we're gonna change permanently the face of payments. And the best remains to come. Stay tuned at http://lydia-app.com

Investor and board member

2020

Kard, ou la première carte de paiement des 10-18 ans co-guidée par les parents. Révolutionnaire, l’offre pour les mineurs est plus que séduisante ! Votre ado n’aura plus à vous demander de l’argent à chaque sortie puisque désormais, il gère seul son argent de poche et devient de plus en plus responsable

Investor & Advisor

2020

Memo Bank is a new fully-licensed bank for small and medium businesses. We are building a new bank from scratch and want to allow bankers to do their job the way they should do it. We are hiring: https://work.memo.bank

Investor and board member

2020

Investor and board observer

2019

Investor and board member

2018

Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Bnext is the first supermarket of financial products. The Amazon of the retail banking, the iTunes of the commercial banking. Bnext reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext you can do everything you do with a bank, without having to use a bank. Bnext allows its users to create their own Bnext current account in a matter of minutes, with all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. In addition, users can add all their financial information in a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, what is really innovative about Bnext is that it facilitates access to the widest range of financial products from fintechs and banks. Bnext selects the supplier of products that best fits the client's needs from among a wide range. He can see it, hire it and control it from the same application. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows us to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offer for their clients. The fintechs catalog that Bnext has to date includes real estate investment companies, loans and crowdlending, microloans to consumption, or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.