Nicolas Essayan
Founding Partner at Motier Ventures
Nicolas Essayan
Founding Partner at Motier Ventures
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2021 - Current
Family Office investing in Tech start-ups on behalf of the Galeries Lafayette Group owners. Up to €300k as Business Angel in Pre-Seeds and Seeds, in capacity to follow up to €3m on next rounds. Focus on Future of Commerce, FinTech, CreativeTech, Consumer & Gaming, Infra & Tooling and Future of Work, with Blockchains and AI as transversal expertises. ➡️ Built from scratch a professional investment platform. ➡️ Manage a deal flow of +300 monthly opportunities in Seed and Series A in France. ➡️ Participated in 112 rounds in 85 companies to date (and counting 🚀).
Co-Founder
2019 - 2020
Platform that enables fast prototyping and benchmarking of Machine Learning systems. ➡️ Incepted @StationF as part of Entrepreneur First program. ➡️ Contributed to the not-for-profit CKnowledge foundation.
Co-Founder
2018 - 2020
Messaging-as-a-service API that provides secured chat, voice, and video messaging for mobile and web apps. ➡️ Raised pre-seed from BAs. ➡️ Sold to the founder of cybersecurity company Synaktiv.
Director
2010 - 2018
Private equity investor focusing on Tech and Financial Services companies across Europe. Identification of new investment opportunities, deals execution, monitoring and assistance of portfolio companies notably in completing build-up acquisitions. ➡️ 12 deals closed in 8 countries. ➡️ >€500m equity put at work. >€600m debt raised. ➡️ 28% and 2.8x fully realized returns.
Associate
2005 - 2009
Investment banking professional advising corporates and PE funds in their M&A, LBO and capital markets operations. Generalist profile involved in the coverage of some key French accounts operating in various industries notably TMT and Building Materials. Participated in cross-border deals involving international and multi-cultural teams. ➡️ 9 closed transactions advised. ➡️ >€20Bn aggregated enterprise value.
Education
Computer Science
2020 - 2021
Master in Management
2002 - 2005