Bruno Raillard

Managing Partner at Frst

Paris, Île-de-France

Overview

Bruno Raillard is the Co-founder & Managing Partner at Frst in Paris, Île-de-France, with expertise in financial modeling, due diligence, and venture capital. Notable highlights include investing in successful companies like PayFit at the seed stage and being involved in the growth of various startups as a board member or observer.

Work Experience

Frst

Co-founder & Managing Partner
2019 - Current
Europe produces a handful of world-class entrepreneurs a year. We are entrepreneurs too, and have designed from scratch the ideal partner for these unique people. A meaningful check at Day One, often even before the company actually exists. A responsive, reliable and knowledgeable counterpart with aligned interests. A long-term relationship we hope will last a decade. We are Frst. —— 200m+ AUM invested across 50+ companies to date. Full portfolio on frst.vc

Bioptimus

Investor
2024
Foundational model for bio

FlexAI

Board Observer
2023
Accelerated compute platform

poolside

Investor
2023
Next-generation AI for software engineering

Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure to write software codes.

Raised $626,000,000.00 from eBay Ventures, PremjiInvest, Motier Ventures, Schroders Capital, BAM Elevate, Inovia Capital, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, HSBC Ventures and Adams Street Partners.

poolside.ai