Alain Gavin

Venture Partner, Karista
Trilingual investor with engineering and Siemens/DaimlerChrysler experience, deep SpaceTech, defense and dual‑use expertise, runs Tech Command Investing (podcasts and essays), focuses on systems‑level drone/satellite/AI infrastructure and provides fractional‑CFO–style operational support.
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About Alain Gavin

Alain Gavin is a trilingual venture capital investor at Karista who combines an engineering background and industrial experience at companies like Siemens and DaimlerChrysler with deep expertise in SpaceTech, defense, and dual-use technologies, focusing on how drones, satellites, AI and data systems connect into larger defense and sovereignty infrastructure rather than standalone products. He has developed Tech Command Investing as his personal investment thesis and content platform, using podcasts and essays to explore how command technologies underpin security while providing hands-on operational support to founders that resembles a fractional CFO rather than typical board-level involvement.

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Karista operates two specialized funds—a HealthTech fund focused on AI- and data-driven pharma/medtech and a SpaceTech/Defence/Cyber fund explicitly sponsored by CNES (the French space agency)—rather than pursuing traditional biotech or generic deeptech investments. The firm acts as the first institutional investor in highly technical markets and then actively engineers syndicates with cross-border co-investors to position companies as category leaders, while maintaining a 20+ year European track record spanning now-listed successes like Sequans Communications and Nanobiotix.

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