Xavier Lorphelin

Managing Partner, Serena
Xavier Lorphelin discovered the internet in mid‑90s San Francisco, set up Flextronics production lines, co-founded a Paris incubator, and for ~15 years has backed European SaaS/data like Dataiku and Launchmetrics.
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About Xavier Lorphelin

Xavier Lorphelin discovered the internet in mid-1990s San Francisco when Yahoo was just taking off, then worked operationally at Flextronics setting up production lines for Cisco before learning Java programming and co-founding an embedded software startup called JSource. He co-founded the Parisian incubator Kangaroo Village in 2000 before starting Serena in 2008, and has been investing in European SaaS and data companies for roughly 15 years, backing prominent stories like Dataiku, Launchmetrics, and Finalcad while also writing regularly on Serena's Medium publication about venture topics.

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AI, SaaS, Climate, Data, Consumer
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€100K - €15M

Serena is a venture capital fund founded and led by former entrepreneurs, with over 50% of the team being battle-tested operators rather than pure financiers, and operates a distinctive dual Investment-Operating engine where a full Operating Team of serial entrepreneurs steps in after each investment with a structured methodology for operational value-creation. The fund maintains the Serena Squad, a structured community of 500+ founders and C-level executives from portfolio companies that serves as an execution platform, and has built a multi-fund architecture around transitions including one of France's first AI-focused funds and an impact seed fund with formal weighted impact-metric systems.

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