Emblem

Investment decisions are led by Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan and Guillaume Durao, the only named principals on the firm's website. Emblem does not list other investment committee members or partners, indicating a centralized decision-making structure.

Emblem has not publicly detailed its sourcing methodology. The firm's narrative emphasizes closing the founder-VC distance and rejecting politics in investment processes, suggesting a relationship-driven, founder-referral approach rather than an inbound-only or thematic scanning model.

Emblem operates as a venture capital firm, not a family office. It raises external capital to invest in European (pre)seed startups, and its public materials describe standard venture fund dynamics — partnering with founders, taking portfolio companies to Series A, and managing a portfolio.

Emblem's public positioning focuses entirely on direct (pre)seed investments in European startups. The firm does not disclose any fund-of-funds activity, secondary investments, or commitments to external managers.

Emblem explicitly targets the (pre)seed stage. The firm states it will support its portfolio companies through to Series A, implying a continuum from very early-stage checks into follow-on financing, but does not participate in later-stage or growth rounds as a primary strategy.