Investor

Cathay Innovation

cathayinnovation.com ↗ ·Paris ·Multi stage ·Actively investing

Cathay Innovation is a global, multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015 in Paris that invests in transformative technology startups, connecting them with a network of Fortune 500 corporate partners across continents. It backs companies from AI, digital health, fintech, consumer & retail, energy & mobility, crypto/Web3, and robotics/IoT, with over €2.5B in assets under management. Notable exits/portfolio companies include Chime, Pinduoduo, Ledger, and Momenta.

Portfolio

Team

AUM

€2.5B

Rounds

Cheque

$5–40M

SectorsAI, Digital Health, Fintech, Consumer & Retail, Energy & Mobility, Crypto/Web3, Robotics & IoT VC MapSeries A

Profile updated 17 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 24 Investment Team 15 Others 26

Alban Vendeuvre

Vice President

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Benjamin Jacquard

Operating Partner, Fintech

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Beth Faus

Vice President

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Bruno Delahaye

Partner

Daniel Balmisse

Managing Partner, Cathay InnoSquare (Fund of Funds)

Denis Barrier

Co-Founder & CEO

Elijah Yi

Vice President

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Emanuele De Leonardis

Partner, Head of Business Development & Ecosystem

Jacky Abitbol

Managing Partner

Jing Zhao

Partner

Jonathan Healy

Vice President

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Katharina Schild

Vice President

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Lanchun Duan

Managing Partner

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Li Zhang

Partner

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Maoxiang Li (John)

Partner

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Matthieu Soulé

Partner, Head of C.Lab

Mingpo Cai

Founder & Chairman

Nicolas Du Cray

Partner

Paul Pouyanne

Vice President

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Rajive Keshup

Partner

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Romain Dufourcq

Vice President

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Shengdong Nie (Eric)

Vice President

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Simon Wu

Partner

Zihan Lin (Robert)

Vice President

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Angelique Choi

Assistant

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Arnaud Auger

Director, Deputy Head of C.Lab

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Bryan Plaisir

Middle Officer

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Chunyu Zhang

CFO, China

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Cong Chen (Cathy)

Corporate Finance

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Cécile Vatelier

Marketing & PR Officer

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Céline Dos Santos

Head of Legal & Compliance

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Daniela Caserotto-Leibert

US Head of Cathay Ecosystem

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Djessica Mezoud

Office Manager

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Federico Gómez Romero

Head of Cathay Latam Fund

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Jaclyn Hartnett

Global Head of Marketing & Communications

Julien Vulliez

Head of Middle Office

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Ka Man Law

HR Manager

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Linda Sor

CFO, EU

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Malika Sahraoui

Executive Assistant

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Matthieu Van Der Elst

Chief Impact Officer

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Mi Wang

China Head of Cathay Ecosystem

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Mickaël Degorre

Finance Manager

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Rongrong Xue (Serena)

VP, Marketing & Communications

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Sarah El Adak

Marketing & Communications Manager

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Shengjie Mao (Iris)

VP, Middle Office

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Valentine Dufeigneux

Marketing & Communications Manager

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Vincent Roy

Data, AI & IT Director

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Yingjiao Zhang (Cécile)

Back Office Manager

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Zhao Wang

Risk & Compliance Officer

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Zhiqiang Zhang (Allen)

Middle Office Manager

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Portfolio companies 12

Abacum

www.abacum.ai

Company Series B New York

Cafler

cafler.com

Company Series A Barcelona

Embat

www.embat.io

Company Series B Madrid

Glovo

glovoapp.com

Company Series F Barcelona

Housfy

www.housfy.com

Company Series B Barcelona

Lana

lana.xyz

Company Series A Madrid

Ontruck

ontruck.com

Company Series B Madrid

Payflow

www.payflow.es

Company Series B Madrid

Savana

savanamed.com

Company Series C Madrid

THEKER Robotics

theker.ai

Company Series A Barcelona

Tucuvi

tucuvi.com

Company Series A Madrid

Wallbox

wallbox.com

Company Other Barcelona

Funding rounds 12

Theker · Series A · €73M

AI industrial-robotics company Theker closed a $85M (€73M) Series A led by CRV — the largest robotics Series A in Europe, and the first Sams…

2026-06-11

Embat · Series B · €30M

Madrid-based treasury management fintech Embat raised a €30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation, with Creandum, Samaipata, 4Founders C…

2026-05-12

Tucuvi · Series A · $20M

Madrid-based Tucuvi raised a $20M (c. €17M) Series A to scale LOLA, its clinical voice AI agent for care management, across European and US …

2026-01-08

Abacum · Series B · $60M

Abacum, the business planning and FP&A platform founded by Julio Martínez and Jorge Lluch, raised a $60M (about €52.5M) Series B led by Scal…

2025-06-11

Payflow · Series A · €6M

Barcelona fintech Payflow, which offers on-demand access to already-earned salary and flexible benefits, raised a €6M Series A extension co-…

2024-07-24

Savana · Series B · €23M

Savana, a Madrid healthtech applying clinical natural language processing (its EHRead technology) to turn free-text electronic health record…

2022-04-05

Payflow · Series A · $9.1M

Barcelona-based earned-wage-access fintech Payflow raised a $9.1M (around €8M) Series A co-led by Seaya Ventures and Cathay Innovation's C. …

2022-01-17

Wallbox · Other · $100M

Alongside the definitive agreement to merge with SPAC Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp. II, Wallbox announced a fully committed $100M PIP…

2021-06-09

Wallbox · Series B · €33M

Wallbox closed a €33M financing round co-led by new investors Cathay Innovation and WIND Ventures (the venture arm of Chilean energy group C…

2021-02-01

Savana · Series B · $15M

Savana (Savana Medica), founded in Madrid in 2014, uses machine learning to turn unstructured clinical notes into structured patient data. T…

2020-10-15

Lana · Series A · $12M

Lana, a personal finance platform founded in Madrid in 2019, raised a $12M (about €10M) Series A led by Base10 Partners, with Cabify and Cat…

2020-08-17

Ontruck · Series B · €17M

Ontruck runs a digital road-freight platform that cuts the kilometres trucks drive empty. It raised €17M in a round led by OGCI Climate Inve…

2020-06-11

News & media 8

Published	Article
2026-01-05	Cathay Innovation US: 2026 VC Outlook ↗ Medium (Cathay Innovation)
2025-07-28	FOCO Co-investment Fund commits €80 million to Cathay Innovation Fund III ↗ COFIDES
2025-05-27	Paris-based Cathay Innovation closes €1bn fund dedicated to AI ↗ Sifted
2025-01-14	Cathay Innovation US: 2025 VC Outlook ↗ Medium (Cathay Innovation)
2024-11-26	AI WealthTech Range raises $28m Series B to disrupt traditional wealth management ↗ FinTech Global
2024-09-23	David Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents ↗ TechCrunch
2024-01-05	Nabla raises another $24 million for its AI assistant for doctors that automatically writes clinical notes ↗ TechCrunch
2023-08-21	B2B inventory marketplace Ghost reappears with $30M Series B to expand outside US ↗ TechCrunch