Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed

Based in San Francisco, Géraldine Le Meur, a French-American entrepreneur, investor, and mother of three boys, founded her first company at 23. 

Since the early days of the Internet in 1995, Geraldine successfully pursued her entrepreneurial journey in the tech ecosystem, founding a web agency, a web hosting company, a blogging platform, and a trailblazer event; LeWeb brought all of Silicon Valley key players in Europe. 

As an Angel Investor, she invested in companies such as LinkedIn, LendingClub, Teads, Evernote, WP engine.

In 2016, she co-founded The Refiners, a San Francisco based pre-seed fund and program devoted to foreign founders. In the Refiners Fund I backed and invested in 56 companies.

In February 2019, she published "Step it up How French women hack work-life balance" to demystify female entrepreneurship and help women connect to role models grounded in real life. Translated from her French book "Comme elles entreprenez votre vie!"

In Nov 2020, she joined FrenchFounders Inc. as a Partner. She is leading LeFonds by FrenchFounders to bring genuine Network Effect to the investment value chain.
LeFonds vision & ambition align with bringing to French-speaking entrepreneurs a first stage venture partner who will support them financially while leveraging the network of 4000+ outstanding Members.
Money is not enough; on top of co-investing, we are talking about recruiting, biz dev, warm intros, and trust to create value together, supported by a robust French-speaking community worldwide at the scale-up moment of an international expansion. LeFonds focus is Seed to Serie A.

She graduated in 1995 from SKEMA Business School.
She serves on the board of Skema Business School, Sigfox Foundation & Retency.
She is Knight of the French Legion of Honour (January 2019)