The venture capital landscape has changed a lot in ten years. A wave of new funds has emerged in recent years led by former tech entrepreneurs. Profiles that appeal to start-ups, even if their investment theses are not very different from their elders (lots of business software). The bottom Intuitionfor its part, has made the bet of specializing in consumer applications, “consumer”, in the jargon.
“No one wants to touch ‘consumer’ in Europe because it’s volatile, even though there are a lot of opportunities,” says Hugo Amsellem, co-founder of Intuition. This former member of The Family, a famous French incubator, has joined forces with Etienne Boutan, co-founder of Heex Technologies (big data) and business angel very active in French Tech (Sorare, Wethenew, Kinetix, Drop, Twin Labs, etc.). ), to launch a first vehicle with a target size of 15 million euros.