A singular Team
Our team is composed of 20+ experienced investors with a unique ability to understand both the underlying technologies and the most complex deeptech business models. Our team provides in-depth expertise and on-going support in key areas over the life of companies, involving a perfect comprehension of IP, international expansion, and industrial scaling strategies, while engaging with a whole ecosystem (research institutions, industrials, etc.)

Pierre-Emmanuel Struyven
Managing Partner

Pierre-Emmanuel Struyven
Managing Partner
From 2009 to 2017, while at the SFR Group, Pierre-Emmanuel was president of the SFR Développement corporate fund and on the board of several holdings (including Eyeka, Intersec, WizzTV, and AriadNEXT). He also managed and developed the ad monetization (SFR Régie) and payment (SFR Pay) activities, and created the Big Data and Analytics business unit.
From 2007 to 2009, he was Chief Marketing Officer and then Chairman of the Management Board of the Streamezzo start-up, which specializes in mobile software and the user experience.
From 2002 to 2007, he was part of the founding team of Universal Music Group’s digital intrapreneurial start-up.
He is an engineer, with a degree from École Polytechnique de Bruxelles.
He is on the boards of Robocath, AMI and Scintil.

Régis Saleur
Managing Partner

Régis Saleur
Managing Partner
From 2003 to 2007, he was general partner at Galileo, where he invested in Talend (software publisher, 500 employees, Nasdaq: TLND), Alyotech (engineering and technology consulting, 1,900 employees), and Sarenza (online sales, 300 employees). Régis was Managing Director of Seeft Ventures from 1999 to 2003 (digital start-up management). He is a graduate of École Centrale Paris. Régis is on the boards of Aledia, Aveni, Kalray, Aselta, Crocus, Prophesee.


Celia Hart
General Partner
Before joining Supernova Invest, Celia held several high-level positions at Cambridge Antibody Technology (Medimmune since its acquisition by AstraZeneca), one of the stars of UK biotech.
She played a role in developing a number of therapeutic antibodies, including some in co-development with international industrial partners. Celia holds a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Geneva (Switzerland), a PhD from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from Grenoble École de Management (France).
Celia is a member of the board of directors or supervisory board of several companies, including Cairdac, Carthera, Diabeloop, Keranova, NH Theraguix, Uromems, Acusurgical and Allotex.


François Breniaux
General Partner
In 10 years, François has made some 20 investments, including in Ethera (detection of chemical air pollutants), NanoMakers (silicon carbide nanopowders), Nawa Technologies (ultra-fast carbon batteries), Apix Analytics (multi-gas analyzers), and SymbioFCell (hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles). He began his career when the CEA’s marketing research unit was created in Grenoble before co-founding and running the Alchimer start-up for five years. At Alchimer, he was responsible for physical investments and industrialization.
He has been on numerous Evaluation Panels at the ANR (France’s National Research Agency) in the medical field and has served on the national jury for the Concours de Création d’Entreprise National (France’s national business creation competition) and on competitive cluster juries. François is a graduate of ESCP and holds a master’s degree in technology and management from École Centrale Paris. He has also participated in the Visiting Program at MIT.
François notably serves on the boards of Apix, Arcure, Diotasoft, Eye Tech Care, Genes’ink, Haption, Isorg, Kronosafe, Mirsense, Nanomakers, Nawa, RB3D, Tridimeo, Terakalis and Vulkam.


Etienne Moreau
Partner
Founding member of Orange Ventures, grew the team from 3 to 20 people and from 20M€ to 350M€ AuM. Between 2009 and 2015, Etienne was in the digital M&A team of Orange, invested in Cityvox, Dailymotin, Deezer. Previously, Etienne was CEO and co-founder of Nexsport.
Etienne is a graduate of ENS, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and ESCP.


Marine Glon
Investment Director
From 2012 to 2017, Marine was responsible for the Investments for the Future program (circular economy, waste recycling and recovery, biogas, water treatment and biodiversity) at ADEME (France’s environment and energy agency). She helped select and fund more than 100 innovative companies, with a budget over €150 million. Before that, she was a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for five years, specializing in the energy and insurance sectors. She then participated in the launch of the start-up I Care & Consult (strategic sustainability consultancy), acquired by BearingPoint in 2022. Marine is a graduate of ESSEC Business School. Marine is on the boards of Adionics, Sylfen, PowerUp, Extracthive and BeFC.


Romain Sautrau
Investment Director
Before joining Supernova, in 2016 he co-founded StartupFarmers, an investment firm specializing in AgriFood Tech that advises European VC investors and family offices. Romain also made five investments in start-ups as a business angel. From 2013 to 2016, he was a strategy consultant at Corporate Value Associates (CVA), in the agriculture and energy sectors. Before that, Romain was part of the Large Venture investment team at Masdar, a subsidiary of Mubadala (Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund) that specializes in new technologies for the energy transition. He began his career in 2007, in mergers and acquisitions at Climate Change Capital in London. Romain has an MBA from INSEAD and a master’s degree in economics/decision theory. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He is on the boards of EVS, Microphyt, Blue Valet, Smartway and Micropep.


David Hansen
Investment Director
Investment director at Suez Ventures between 2014 and 2020 where he made 8 transactions. Between 2000 and 2014, David held different managing positions in industrial performance, financial control and M&A at Lafarge group and Suez group. Previously, David was a strategic consultant at Arthur D. Little. David is a graduate from ESSEC


Rémi Spagnol
Investment Director
Rémi has conducted a career in different funds specializing in Life Sciences where he has been involved in numerous Late-Stage investments in France and internationally, such as Poxel, Corvidia Therapeutics and Arvelle Therapeutics. A Venture Capital investor at Omnes Capital then at Andera Partners until 2019, he was more recently a structured debt investor at IPF Partners.
Rémi graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Paris-Saclay (PharmD) and holds a Specialized Master in Management of the Biopharmaceutical Industry from ESCP Europe (MS).


Damien Bretegnier
Investment Director
From 2013 to 2019, Damien led the ICST & Engineering department at SATT Lutech where he invested in more than 30 deep tech start-up projects that came out of government research. Before that, he spent 14 years in the semiconductor industry, mainly in management program roles, at Soitec, Altis Semiconducteurs, and Infineon Technologies. He also spent three years, from 2003 to 2006, working in Bengaluru, India, where he created a memory component design team for Infineon Technologies. Damien is a graduate of ISEP (Institut supérieur d’électronique de Paris). He is on the boards of Cailabs, Lighton and Upmem.


Cécile Benet
Investment Director
From 2016 to 2022, Cécile was part of the Entrepreneurs teams of Siparex in Lyon, a generalist player, specializing in the first openings of the capital of regional SMEs. It has participated in the financing of several development capital and transmission capital operations. Previously, Cécile worked in one of the private equity structures of the Crédit Agricole group in Lyon called Crédit Agricole Régions Investissement. Cécile holds a Masters in Finance and a Masters in Accounting from IAE Lyon.


Pascal-André Chenal
Investment Manager
Pascal-André began his career as a strategy consultant in the health sector. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lyon (PharmD) and the École Polytechnique de Montréal (BSc Eng).

Aladin Zeghbib
Business Affairs Manager

Aladin Zeghbib
Business Affairs Manager
Before joining the team, Aladin practiced as a lawyer (avocat) at top-tier international law firms where he has been involved in numerous acquisition (LBO) and financial restructuring transactions. Aladin graduated from the University of Toulouse law school (Master’s degree in business law) and from the University of Montpellier law school (Certificate of advanced studies in Tax law). Aladin also holds the Paris bar examination certificate (Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat) and an Advanced Master’s degree in International Business Law and Management from ESSEC Business School.


Maëva Latrèche
Associate
Maëva previously worked at an investment fund and at ENGIE Ineo on external growth transactions in several sectors such as renewable energies, smart cities and industries of the future. She is a graduate of Grenoble École de Management (GEM), the Pierre Mendès France law school (UPMF), and IRIS sup’.


Arthur Puig
Associate
Previously, Arthur spent 4 years at Early Metrics as a startup investment consultant for European corporate ventures funds. Arthur also worked for Creadev, the Mulliez family's VC/PE fund, in the small/mid cap investment bank Wagram Corporate Finance and in strategy at Safran.
Arthur holds a master's degree in management from ESCP Europe and a double degree in corporate finance from Aston University.


Arthur Falinower
Analyst
Before joining Supernova Invest, Arthur had various professional experiences including in consulting at BDC Lifesciences and in Venture Capital at Supernova Invest and at Demeter Investment Managers. Arthur is a graduate of Mines Paris and EDHEC.


Alexandre Cordier
Analyst
Alexandre began his career as a Venture Capital investor at Merieux Equity Partners, an investment fund specializing in Life Sciences. He was involved in several financings particularly in the area of tools for genomic analysis and early detection of cancer. Alexandre is a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Lyon (PharmD) and holds an MSc in Health Management & Data Intelligence from EM Lyon Business School and École des Mines de Saint-Étienne.


Reda Hachami
Financial Controller

Reda Hachami
Financial Controller
Reda began his career as a Financial Auditor in the asset management, private equity and securitization sectors. Reda is a graduate of Al Akhawyn University (Bachelor of Business Administration) and Edhec (Master of Science in Corporate Finance & Banking).

Grégoire Viot
CFO

Grégoire Viot
CFO
Before he became CFO of Flexam Invest (tangible asset financing), he served as middle office and investor relations manager at Cathay Capital, where he worked to diversify its strategy from small caps to mid caps and then to launch Cathay Innovation. Before that, Grégoire spent seven years in the private equity funds of funds sector, initially in middle office and then on the primary and secondary investment team, including at Access Capital Partners. Grégoire is a graduate of Montpellier Business School and holds a master’s 2 degree in banking and finance from Université Paris V – René Descartes.

Sandrine Fourage
Back Office Manager

Sandrine Fourage
Back Office Manager
Before joining Supernova Invest, Sandrine was the purchasing and administrative manager for a medical laboratories group. She holds a postgraduate degree from the school of law and economics at Université Grenoble Alpes.

Anne Mané
Office Manager

Anne Mané
Office Manager
Previously, Anne worked in various sectors of activity (Industry, consulting & management firm, executive recruitment firm) and international structures. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Office Management, a Master's degree in Event Marketing and a BTS in Management Assistant.