Jean-Patrice Anciaux

VC / General Partner @ISAI, le 1er fonds des entrepreneurs de la frenchtech

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

Early Stage VC, General Partner at Isai.vc, the first entrepreneurs fund (currently raising fund IV), investing at Seed & Pre-seed stage. I’ve led 20 investments as a Partner in the last 10 years, building trust and long term relationships with the founders I backed. True supporter to business angels, I regularly coinvest alongside them in a collaborative way when they are not (yet) LP and part of the Isai family. Sweet spots - Stage : Seed, Pre-seed - AI (Cardiologs, Lightpanda), devtools & opensource (Kestra, Nuxt, Strapi…), deep tech, product led growth (Livestorm, Strapi, Sporteasy…). - Thesis: founders and execution driven #powerlaw #contrarianinvesting, #BabeRuth. Before joining ISAI, I was an investment director at Bpifrance between 2015 and 2021 where I contributed to the launch and deployment of the first Bpifrance seed fund (F3A : 50M€ AUM), top decile DPI & TVPI. VC Portfolio : Cardiologs Technologies (acquired by Philips after 21M$ follow-on funding from Alven, Isai and Idinvest), Nuxt (acquired by Vercel), Numworks (acquired by Aldebaran Capital Partners), CaptainContrat (acquired by Implid), Livestorm (later raised 4M€ Series A led by Aglae and a 25M€ Series B), Blueboard (acquired by ChannelAdvisor, NYSE:ECOM), Strapi (later raised a 4M$ Seed with Accel & Stride, 10M$ Series A led by Index Ventures, 31M$ Series B led by CRV), Kestra.io (later raised an 8M$ Seed round led by Alven and a 25M$ Series A lef by RTP), Santé Académie (later raised 12M€ Series A led by Serena), SpecifyApp.com among others.

Experience

  • General Partner at ISAI Gestion
    Sep 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Launched in 2010, ISAI is « the » French Tech entrepreneurs’ fund gathering more than 400 entrepreneurs across the world. Roughly 400 successful entrepreneurs, who have invested in ISAI, and more than 50 startup cofounders supported by ISAI share the collective ambition to write great entrepreneurial stories. ISAI invests in differentiated projects founded by ambitious teams that it rigorously selects and actively supports. With circa 1b$ AUM through its different strategies, ISAI, authorized by French regulator AMF, can fund and support high potential companies at early stages (venture capital, €150k to €3M initial tickets with ability for follow-on rounds) or at more mature stages (growth equity/LBO, €5M to €30M investments). Follow ISAI at www.isai.vc and on twitter @isai_fr.

  • Board Member at Undisclosed
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Board Member at Kestra
    Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Board Member at NuxtLabs
    Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

    Acquired by Vercel in 2025

  • Board Member at Axeptio
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos