ANTILOOP

ANTILOOP

Antiloop was formed in Paris in 2015 by Mathieu Lévy and Guillaume Pariente as a vehicle to invest personal capital and that of a curated network of European technology operators. The firm does not raise traditional blind-pool funds. Instead, it syndicates individual early-stage rounds, allowing founders and executives from companies like Criteo and BlaBlaCar to co-invest alongside the principals. Wealth origin is not publicly disclosed. The firm writes first checks ranging from €100,000 to €500,000, focusing on FinTech, enterprise software and online marketplaces — sectors where the founding team holds deep operator experience. Antiloop's deployment is concentrated in France, the United Kingdom and the Nordics. Known portfolio holdings include Pennylane, the French accounting-software platform, and Swan, the Paris-based embedded-finance infrastructure provider (per Sifted, 2023). The firm sits exclusively at seed and pre-seed stages and does not participate in later-stage rounds or fund-of-fund commitments. Team size is not publicly disclosed but is understood to be sub-five professionals operating from a single Paris office. No adjacent vehicles, philanthropic foundations or real-asset arms have been disclosed. In 2023, the firm participated in Pennylane's €30 million Series B extension as a follow-on, a rare downstream move for the vehicle (per TechCrunch, July 2023). Antiloop does not broadcast a public-facing brand and maintains limited digital presence beyond a single-page domain. Antiloop's structure is more operator syndicate than institutional venture firm. The principals invest personal balance-sheet capital in every deal and do not charge management fees to external co-investors, creating alignment that differs materially from a standard 2-and-20 GP model. This architecture allows the firm to move quickly on founder-friendly terms while keeping the partnership's external capitalization deliberately small — an explicit posture against asset-gathering pressure.