Sofia Dahoune
Venture Partner at No Label Ventures
Sofia Dahoune
Venture Partner at No Label Ventures
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Work Experience
Deep Tech Investor
2023 - Current
Helping technical founders and researchers create awesome companies through advice, network, angel investing and consulting. Angel Investor in: Heal.dev, Presti AI, The Forecasting company, Theremia and more to be disclosed. Mentor with academics and corporates. If you are a researcher or a technical founder, don’t hesitate to reach out!
Venture Partner
2023
We focus on discovering and backing the most extraordinary immigrant founders. https://nolabel.ventures/
Cofounder and organizer
2021
I cofounded Moroccans in Tech, a community of founders and VCs with over 150 active members and 2,000 subscribers, dedicated to gathering the founders and VCs together and helping connect people.
Partner
2018 - 2023
Elaia is a European venture capital firm with over €800M in assets under management. As a partner, I participated in raising two deep tech seed funds, the PSL Inno Fund and the Alpha 2 Inria Fund. I led pre-seed investments in companies such as Aqemia (AI for drug discovery), Alice&Bob (quantum computing), Eyepick (automation), QantEv (insurtech), Harfanglab (cybersecurity), Nuclia (AI search engines), Olympe.legal (compliance AI), Kheops.io (local producer integration), and Namla.cloud (cloud orchestration). I also maintained strong relationships withLPs and academic partners, including Inria, PSL University, ENS Ulm, Mines de Paris, Institut Pasteur, Institut Curie, College de France and more.
Head of the acceleration and incubation programs at Ecole polytechnique
2017 - 2018
At École Polytechnique, I led the start-up acceleration program, which promotes entrepreneurship by providing students and researchers with the necessary tools and support to create companies. I was responsible for the X-Up and X-Tech projects (22 projects and startups, a team of approx. 5-10people), offering comprehensive assistance to researchers, students, and corporations. This included mentoring, grants, and tailored support to ensure the successful launch and growth of deep tech startups.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
Little Panda enables people to buy and sell clothings for children in order to promote a new way of shopping. Our main value is to deliver a simple and reliable solution for sellers and a great shopping experience for the buyers.
Private Equity and Venture Capital associate
2012 - 2017
Bpifrance Investment is the French sovereign fund offering private equity and venture capital funding. I was Investment Analyst in the Mid & Large cap team working on private equity deals. In 2014, I was promoted to senior associate in the venture capital team. I particpated in the investments in Famoco, iAdvize, Synthesio, Cardiologs, Captain Contrat.
Investment Analyst (Mid & Large Cap)
2012 - 2014
French Sovereign fund (size of the fund: 20bn€) - focus on mid and large cap companies - merged to create Bpifrance in 2013
Internship - Audit and consulting services for insurance companies
2011 - 2011
Financial audit and advisory for insurance companies
Internship - Development of The Peugeot Citroën Retail network
2011 - 2011
-The development of the network and the merger, acquisition and relocation of PSA’s branchs