Charles Gorintin
About Charles Gorintin
Charles Gorintin is the co-founder and CTO of Alan, the European health insurance company. He started it in 2016 with Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve. In June 2025 he posted that Alan had raised €480M in a Series G led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation.
Before Alan he worked as a data scientist at Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, according to Dealroom and a Little Big Things podcast profile. Dealroom also lists an internship at JP Morgan and a structurer role at HSBC. His education includes UC Berkeley Haas and École normale supérieure, PSL University.
He is also a co-founder of Mistral AI, founded in 2023. Substack and press materials describe him as a co-founding advisor, and Project Syndicate calls him a non-executive co-founder. In a podcast he said he and Samuelian-Werve saw in 2022 that Europe needed an open-source generative AI champion, which led to Mistral.
NFX Signal lists 13 investments on record for Gorintin. Crunchbase lists 14, and Tracxn lists 9. The counts differ because each source tracks a different set of rounds.
His earliest recorded cheque in these sources is $10,000 in Jumbo Privacy, dated 27 February 2020, from that company's published investor list. More recent rounds include Dust (seed, June 2023), Twin (pre-seed, January 2024), Argil (seed, November 2024), Neuralk-AI (pre-seed, February 2025), Vocca (seed, September 2025) and Tsuga (seed, November 2025).
His AI angel investments include Outerlimit, which raised a $16M pre-seed in September 2026. The round was led by AlbionVC, Evolution Equity Partners and Crane Venture Partners, and Gorintin joined as a strategic angel. Outerlimit builds a zero trust security platform for AI agents.
Other AI-related names in his record are Dust, Twin, Neuralk-AI and Argil. Wellfound also shows him as an angel investor in Giskard, an open-source AI project that raised $1.5M in December 2022.
Public data points to pre-seed and seed rounds, with a focus on AI, software, security and developer tools. Tracxn says his investments are mainly in France and the United States. NFX Signal lists AI, security, cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure among his sector rankings.
NFX Signal gives an investment range of $5K to $50K with a $25K sweet spot. This is a third-party profile, and we found no statement from Gorintin on his check size. We also found no public statement from him on what he looks for in founders.
- Outerlimit: zero trust security and authorisation for AI agents. Pre-seed of $16M, September 2026.
- Tsuga: observability data platform for logs, metrics and traces. Seed, November 2025.
- Vocca: seed round of $6M, September 2025.
- Neuralk-AI: pre-seed round of $4M, February 2025.
- Argil: seed round of about $4M, November 2024.
- Twin: pre-seed round of $3M, January 2024.
- Dust: seed round of $5M, June 2023.
- Giskard: open-source AI project, $1.5M round, December 2022.
- signal.nfx.com/investors/charles-gorintin
- dealroom.co/people/charles-gorintin
- crunchbase.com/person/charles-gorintin
- tracxn.com/d/people/charles-gorintin/__0d6SiTtWo-OOLWwMyWMAsrlTuFM6BrG
- fintech.global/2026/09/24/outerlimit-raises-16m-as-agentic-ai-outpaces
- albion.vc/spotlight/news/outerlimit-raises-16m-in-pre-seed
- pulse2.com/outerlimit-raises-16-million-pre-seed
- eu-startups.com/2025/11/paris-based-tsuga-raises-e8-7-million-to-help-
Investing activity
Charles Gorintin appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk, rounds totalling $16M. The rounds are mostly Pre-seed, with a median round size of $16M. The most recent is Outerlimit (Pre-seed, $16M, Sep 2026).
Charles Gorintin most often invests alongside AlbionVC, Crane Venture Partners, Evolution Equity Partners and David Garfield, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Charles Gorintin
Who is Charles Gorintin?
He is the co-founder and CTO of Alan and a co-founding advisor at Mistral AI. He is also an angel investor based in Paris.
Did Charles Gorintin invest in Outerlimit?
Yes. AlbionVC and Outerlimit both name him as a strategic angel in the $16M pre-seed announced in September 2026.
What is Charles Gorintin's angel check size?
NFX Signal lists a range of $5K to $50K with a $25K sweet spot. This is a third-party estimate and he has not confirmed it publicly.
What stages and sectors does Charles Gorintin invest in?
His recorded deals are mostly pre-seed and seed. The sectors are AI, security, software and developer tools, with a focus on France and the United States.
Which AI startups has Charles Gorintin backed?
They include Outerlimit, Dust, Twin, Neuralk-AI, Argil, Vocca and Tsuga, plus Giskard in 2022. Sources differ on the full list.
How can founders contact Charles Gorintin?
He posts on X as @Gorintic and writes on Substack. We did not find a verified LinkedIn URL or a public statement on how he takes pitches.
Is Charles Gorintin an angel investor?
Yes. Charles Gorintin invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Charles Gorintin invested in?
Charles Gorintin's AI investments include Outerlimit. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Charles Gorintin invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Charles Gorintin has invested at Pre-seed, with a median round of $16M.
Who does Charles Gorintin co-invest with?
Charles Gorintin's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are AlbionVC (1 deal), Crane Venture Partners (1 deal), Evolution Equity Partners (1 deal), David Garfield (1 deal) and Manish Madhvani (1 deal).