SideAngels

SideAngels

SideAngels operates as a curated club deal platform linking a community of more than 3,000 investors to French early-stage startups. Founded and led by Renaud Guillerm, the firm positions itself as the self-described first community of club deal investors in France. It selects opportunities through Lead Business Angels — experienced entrepreneur-investors who commit personal capital, take board seats and oversee the relationship — then opens the round to the wider membership on the SideAngels platform. The club model spans enterprise software, marketplaces, digital health and consumer. The platform reports cumulative deployment of over €115 million across more than 150 startups, with €29 million already returned to members. Named portfolio companies include AB Tasty (experience optimization), Weglot (website translation), Adrenalead (digital advertising), Agilitest (test automation), Demooz (product demos), Extracadabra (loyalty tech), Emprunte Mon Toutou (pet-sitting marketplace), LiveTonight (event discovery), Kobus (reCommerce) and Bloom at Work (HR tech). Deals are structured under French law, with SideAngels acting as a tied agent of Tylia Invest, which holds ACPR authorization CIB 11483. The platform's standard minimum ticket is €10,000; it charges no membership subscription or annual fee. Leadership sits with Renaud Guillerm, also co-founder of sister vehicle SIDE Capital, and investment manager Samuel Norych. SideAngels is an associate member of France Angels, the national business angel federation, and maintains institutional relationships with entities such as UT Alumni Invest to industrialize fundraising for alumni-founded startups. While team size and asset-level figures are not publicly disclosed, the platform’s scale is defined by its community — a recurring pool of operator-investors that includes Thierry Petit (Showroomprivé), Alix de Sagazan (AB Tasty) and Vincent Klingbeil (European Digital Group). Recent developments were not publicly flagged in the period reviewed. SideAngels stands apart by fusing the repeatability of an institutional venture platform with a business-angel compensation model. Unlike a fund, it levies no management fee on members; unlike a traditional angel network, every deal is reviewed by a Lead BA and validated by a dedicated legal and investor-relations team under a regulated framework. By pooling deal flow from the French tech ecosystem and distributing it through a single legal and administrative conduit, the platform reduces the coordination cost that typically limits angel syndicates.