Dominique Vidal
About Dominique Vidal
Dominique Vidal began his career at Schlumberger. He spent ten years there in product marketing and business development roles in the telecom and smart card industries, in France, the United States and Asia. He holds an engineering degree from CentraleSupélec (Supélec).
In 1999 he was a partner at Banexi Ventures. From 2000 to 2004 he ran Kelkoo as managing director alongside Pierre Chappaz, until it was sold to Yahoo. He then served as managing director of Yahoo! Europe until 2007.
He joined Index Ventures in London in 2007 as a partner. According to his LinkedIn profile, he became a Venture Partner in July 2019. His profile says that since June 2020 he has been making angel investments while staying on the boards of a few tech companies. His location is listed as Lausanne, Switzerland.
PitchBook lists 16 investments for Vidal as an individual angel, with 8 in the portfolio and 6 exits. Crunchbase lists 8 personal investments. Counts differ by database. Deals with dates on PitchBook include Differs (March 2023), Koyeb (October 2020), PandaScore (September 2020), Wanted (July 2020) and Gens de Confiance (November 2019). Tracxn records a May 2018 angel round in HrFlow.ai and a November 2019 seed round in Leavy.
Some of these may have been made through his Index role rather than personally. The sources do not always separate the two.
HrFlow.ai is an AI platform for HR data. Tracxn and Inforcapital list Vidal among the investors in its 2018 seed round of $2.3M. Press coverage of its April 2026 round names him among the existing investors who took part. The company announced $7M, described as a pre-Series A, led by 115K and EmergingTech Ventures. Lounge's deals desk lists this round as a Seed.
Koyeb, a serverless infrastructure platform for AI inference and other intensive workloads, is also in his portfolio. He invested in its October 2020 pre-seed round. Crunchbase lists Koyeb as an exit.
Index Ventures describes his work as spanning consumer internet, e-commerce and marketplaces. His angel deals are mostly early stage: pre-seed, seed and Series A. The companies are mainly in France and Europe, in enterprise software, data services and online platforms. He has not publicly stated a personal check size or thesis for angel deals. Index figures that appear on data sites describe the fund and should not be read as his angel check size.
- HrFlow.ai: AI platform for HR data. Angel investor in the 2018 seed round and a named participant in the April 2026 round.
- Koyeb: serverless infrastructure for AI workloads. Invested in the October 2020 pre-seed round.
- Leavy: French startup. Seed round in November 2019, per Tracxn.
- PandaScore: B2B media and information services company. Investment dated September 2020 on PitchBook.
- Differs: business software company. Investment dated March 2023 on PitchBook.
- indexventures.com/team/dominique-vidal
- uk.linkedin.com/in/dominique-vidal-7790856
- pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/109384-48
- crunchbase.com/person/dominique-vidal
- signal.nfx.com/investors/dominique-vidal
- tracxn.com/d/people/dominique-vidal/__rXZOUV7JkFIbWmPyJtGRbRRMEMQFMSWf
- inforcapital.com/companies/hrflowai
- finsmes.com/2026/04/hrflow-ai-raises-7m-in-pre-series-a-funding.html
Investing activity
Dominique Vidal appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $7M. The most recent is HrFlow.ai (Seed, $7M, Apr 2026).
Dominique Vidal most often invests alongside EmergingTech Ventures, 115K, Sophie Serratrice and Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Dominique Vidal
Who is Dominique Vidal?
He is a Venture Partner at Index Ventures and an angel investor based in Lausanne. He co-founded Kelkoo, later ran Yahoo! Europe, and joined Index in 2007.
Has Dominique Vidal invested in AI startups?
Yes. He is an investor in HrFlow.ai, an AI platform for HR data, and took part in its April 2026 round. He also invested in Koyeb, which builds infrastructure for AI workloads.
What stage does Dominique Vidal invest in as an angel?
Public records show mostly pre-seed, seed and Series A deals. These include Koyeb (pre-seed, 2020), HrFlow.ai (2018 seed) and Leavy (seed, 2019).
What check size does Dominique Vidal write?
He has not publicly stated an angel check size. Data sites list round sizes, but these are the total rounds, not his own investment.
Does Dominique Vidal invest outside France?
His known angel deals are mainly in France and Europe. Index Ventures, where he is a Venture Partner, is a London-based firm with offices in other regions.
Is Dominique Vidal an angel investor?
Yes. Dominique Vidal invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Dominique Vidal invested in?
Dominique Vidal's AI investments include HrFlow.ai. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Dominique Vidal invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Dominique Vidal has invested at Seed, with a median round of $7M.
Who does Dominique Vidal co-invest with?
Dominique Vidal's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are EmergingTech Ventures (1 deal), 115K (1 deal), Sophie Serratrice (1 deal), Jean-Baptiste Rudelle (1 deal) and Domnin de Kerdaniel (1 deal).
How can founders reach Dominique Vidal?
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