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Guillaume Decugis
Member #3,039FounderL2Partner - Data Ventures, Serena
Tech Founder turned VC | Focused on foundational tech
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Pinned projects
An open source python client for the Affinity CRM v1 API
A web app to train for the French AMF exam
A colab notebook to run simulation of an early stage VC fund using custom assumption
About
Guillaume Decugis is a Partner in Data Ventures at Serena, a venture capital firm that backs early-stage founders in climate, deep tech and AI. Before becoming a venture investor, he was a tech founder with four exits in Paris, San Francisco and New York. He focuses on early-stage AI and data deep tech software, and has published open source tools such as an Affinity CRM Python client.
Categories
Stack
Cloudflare Workers AI
Ollama
Claude
Google AI Studio
DeepSeek
Supabase
Raises & exits
Member RaisesCapital raised
Scoop.it
$2.6M
Scoop.it
$8.3M
Exits
Hall of Fame →Linkfluence
$59M
Meltwater's March 2021 purchase of Paris social-intelligence firm Linkfluence was reported at EUR 50m (about $59M), paid as a mix of cash, shares and earn-out, with the earn-out excluded from the twice-2020-revenue pricing.
Undisclosed
Linkfluence bought Scoop.it (formerly Goojet) in October 2018, but no purchase price was disclosed or reported; the widely cited $21M (about €18M) was a combined funding round that Linkfluence announced alongside the deal, not the acquisition cost, so no amount is given.
Undisclosed
Linkfluence's October 2018 acquisition of Scoop.it has no disclosed price: FrenchWeb reported the deal amount was not revealed, and the only figure found, about $20.8M from the LeadIQ aggregator, is unverified and matches the $21M Series D raised by Linkfluence rather than a purchase price.
Experience
Tech founder with 4 exits (Paris, SF, NYC) - turned VC @ Serena | Early-stage AI/Data deep tech software
Tech Founder · Serena
VT
Independent Board Member, Advisor and Investor · Various Tech Startups (EU/US)
CEO (acquired by Meltwater) · Linkfluence - a Meltwater Offering
Entrepreneurship Advisory Board Member · École Polytechnique
TR
Mentor for European Founders in Silicon Valley · The Refiners, Rockstart, Impact USA...
CEO & Co-Founder (acquired by Linkfluence) · Scoop.it, a Meltwater Offering
CEO · Goojet
M
CTO, Then COO (acquired by Microsoft) · MusiWave
