OUR STORY
Caméléon Invest is an investment and consulting firm founded in 2009 by François Simon.
We invest mainly into fours domains :
Funding of start-ups (Seed or Late-stage) in various sectors : food, impact, fintech and software.
Minority investments into small and medium businesses (in particular through search-funds) with high-growth profiles bringing hands-on support to entrepreneurs (boards and network).
Commitments into pioneer and first-time funds with various focus (Venture, Private-Equity, Secondary, Real-Estate or Hedge-fund) and diversified geographies (Europe, US, Asia and Africa).
Development of tangible assets : real-estate, hotels/restaurants.
Caméléon brings long-term support to entrepreneurs and ensures positive impact on both social and environment levels
INVESTMENTS
Technological innovation and positive impact
Identification of sustainable growth and profitability patterns for direct investments in start-up and SMBs
Management support in every stage of the company’s life: fundraising, boards, growth strategy, internazionalization
Investment into growing medium-sized businesses
Support to SMEs with a focus on technology, retail and hospitality
Search-funds investments
SpecialiSed Investment funds
Interest for funds opening hard-to-reach sectors and geographies
Co-investment and exchange platform
Real-estate and forests
Investments in emerging real-estate markets with care for heritage and local environment
Financing of innovative hotels and restaurants projects
THE TEAM
FRANÇOIS SIMON
CEO
Science Po Paris and INSEAD (MBA) graduate, Francois Simon has spent his carrier at Cheuvreux, starting as an financial analyst, then Head of international development and promoted CEO of Stocks and Derivatives Department for Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank until 2009
STANISLAS SIMON-BEAULIEU
Partner
ESCP Europe graduate, Stanislas Simon-Beaulieu has spent 5 years in Strategy Consulting at Roland Berger. He then joined Groupe Rousselet, aholding company with businesses in mobility, storage and logistics (G7, Ada, Homebow) as Chief of Staff to the CEO and Head of the Real-Estate subsidiary. He joined Caméléon in 2018
JENNIFER BRISSON-Ventre DE LA TOULOUBRE
Assistant & Projects manager
After 15 spent as right-hand of the Head of Brasserie Lipp in Paris, Jennifer Brisson joined Caméléon in 2016
Charities
Caméléon supports the following structures
