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Drysdale Ventures is a pre-seed fund founded by Nicolas Essayan, backing software companies from day 0.

Paris
Joined June 2025
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Meet Quest. , the startup empowering everyone to achieve their life quests with a personal AI assistant 🌟🚀 (ft. Vincent Nallatamby, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #ai #advisor #lifequests
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Meet Granit, the startup who automates complex healthcare admin so medical teams can focus entirely on patient care 🏥🤖(ft. Jenny Mansour, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #healthcare #ai #admin
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Meet Reduck, the startup empowering AI agents to automate web browser tasks faster and at a lower cost🚀🤖(ft. Daniel Huynh, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #web #ai #agents
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Meet Marso Robotics, the startup transforming logistics with flexible autonomous robots designed to relieve workers from tedious and physical tasks 🤖📦(ft. Louis Caudrelier, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #ai #robots #logistics
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Meet MecAgent, the startup revolutionizing CAD design by building an AI agent that works directly inside existing software ⚙️🤖(ft. Owein Dourneau, Alexandre Senet, Guillaume Debregeas, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #CAD #ai
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Meet Le Boudoir, the gentlewomen club where ambitious women connect, empower each other and redefine leadership through genuine sisterhood 🤝🌟(ft. Chloé Roy, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #leadership #women #sisterhood
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Meet Upstream, the first inbox where AI agents lift your mental load by managing your emails for you 🤖✨(ft. Louis Lecat, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #inbox #aiagents #emails
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Meet Scenario, the production platform orchestrating images, video, 3D, and AI workflows for the future of content creation 🚀🎨(ft. Emmanuel de Maistre, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #creation ️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️#ai
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Meet Altertable, the unified data layer bringing storage, queries, business context, and agents together for the modern era 🚀📊(ft. Sylvain Utard, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #datastack #ai #BusinessAutomation
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Meet Probabl, the startup born from scikit-learn's open-source heritage, taking on the challenge of turning millions of users into a real business 🚀💡 (ft. Gael Varoquaux, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #datascience #ai #opensource
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Arrakis Technologies (@arrakistech) comes out of stealth with $38M in funding from leading investors including @blossomcap and @Accel. Sovereign AI deployment in the physical economy is one of the most important missions anyone could work on. Western reshoring and economic prosperity rest in the balance. That's why we're building Arrakis. We are an AI deployment company that partners with ambitious enterprises to transform their operations into software. We encode operational know-how into agents that execute complex processes semi-autonomously and learn under human supervision. Six months in, here's where we are: 1. Partnered with the most mission-driven team I could have asked for. My co-founders Haroun Beltaifa, @Romain_Fd and @MichaelGalkov, and a founding team from Palantir, Revolut, ElevenLabs, Datadog, DeliveryHero, ASML, KKR and Blackstone. We are now forward deployed at the edge across the US, Europe and APAC, encoding and redesigning industrial processes from first principles. 2.⁠ Signed NYSE-listed customers after our agents delivered significant P&L improvements through 60-90% cycle time compression at 99%+ accuracy on complex workflows. These companies now experience the future of self-driving industrial operations, where work no longer waits for constant input but moves forward proactively with humans overseeing every critical decision. In weeks, their most skeptical operators became our most vocal champions, and direct CEO referrals are now our main source of growth. 3. Raised $38M from @blossomcap, @Accel, @Global_Founders, @mainobjectvc, and leading angels including @oliviergodement, Head of Business Products @OpenAI, Junaid Hussain, founder @Cambridge_Aero, @oliveur, founder @datadoghq and more. The future of industrial AI is Arrakis Technologies.
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Meet ZML, the company who makes AI inference faster, cheaper, and compatible with all accelerators 📉🤖(ft. Steeve Morin, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #ai #inference
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We're releasing ZML/LLMD, our homegrown LLM server built on top of our homegrown high performance heterogeneous inference stack. It ships with 5 architectures out of the box: NVIDIA, AMD, Metal, Intel and TPU. All transparent. It supports DFlash, continuous batching, prefix caching, the whole deal. Oh, and it's fast.
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Unveiling our Northstar design @UMA_Robots A body that can navigate our space Hands that can use our tools Approachable, competent, calm A robot you feel at ease having at your workplace and home
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Meet Corma, the startup redefining how companies govern their software and AI agents! 🚀💼(ft. Héloïse Rozès, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here 👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #ai #software #assetmanagement
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Meet Concord , the first AI execution agent disrupting a $765B digital advertising industry by automating manual media buying 🤖✨(ft. Nathan Venezia, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #advertising #ai #mediabuying
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Meet Macrodata Labs, the company that simplifies data to help businesses 💻 Featuring Nicolas Essayan, Sarah Boutaud, Nine Micheli Full interview here 👉 linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Meet pyannoteAI, the indispensable AI audio brain that became the global standard for speaker diarisation 🧠🚀(ft. Vincent Molina, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) Full interview here👉linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #ai #VoiceAI #diarisation
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Meet Shortcat, the future "vertical Netflix" for Gen Z that is revolutionizing short-form animation through AI 📱✨(ft. Rémi Juhé, Nine Micheli & Sarah Boutaud) linkedin.com/feed/update/urn… #anime #ai️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
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