Guillaume Durao built his knowledge of the Nordic market firsthand, flying to Copenhagen every three weeks and reading Danish newspapers to understand the region before investing there, which shaped Emblem's focus on France, Denmark, and Sweden. He also found one of Emblem's investments, Lovable, after accidentally starting a conversation with the wrong person in a Stockholm café, an experience he has described as a reminder to stay humble about how unpredictable early investing can be.
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Emblem is a venture capital fund focused on a France-Nordic investment bridge, with additional bets in the U.S. and Italy, founded by Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan and Guillaume Durao, who had already backed companies like Sorare, Dalma, and Gourmey as angel investors, and it counts more than 200 investors, including founders from companies like Zendesk and Qonto, plus backing from France's Bpifrance and Denmark's EIFO. Despite a difficult European venture capital market, Emblem reached the €80m hard cap for its debut fund, and co-founder Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan previously founded Clustree, which was later acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand.
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