Eleonore Crespo
About Eleonore Crespo
Eléonore Crespo is based in Paris. She studied at Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and Mines Paris, where she took the Innovation and Entrepreneurship option and graduated in 2012.
She worked as a financial analyst at Google from 2015 to 2017, advising the EMEA President and CFO on strategy and planning. In 2017 she joined Index Ventures, where she worked on investments in Alan, Spendesk, Swile and Slite.
In 2019 she co-founded Pigment with Romain Niccoli, a co-founder and former CTO of Criteo. Pigment is an AI-powered business planning and performance management platform, and she is its co-CEO. Pigment raised $145 million in April 2024 and became a unicorn.
Crunchbase lists 6 personal investments, and Tracxn also counts 6. Both name BottleCap AI (January 2026) as the most recent. Tracxn also records seed rounds in Duna (May 2025), Delos.so (April 2025) and Taito.ai (November 2024). Taito.ai's announcement named her among its angel investors. She appears on a public list of pre-seed angel investors in France. Check sizes and total capital invested are not public.
BottleCap AI raised a $7.5M seed round announced on 2026-01-29, led by 20VC, and she took part as an angel. BottleCap AI is a Prague-based startup building efficiency-focused foundational language models with its own architectures. Taito.ai, a Helsinki company building AI for employee performance management, raised a €2.5M seed round led by Accel in 2024, with her as an angel. Tracxn lists Dust and Duna among her most notable investments, but no round details for Dust were found.
Her investments are mostly seed-stage rounds, and Crunchbase also lists a pre-seed round in Realm. Tracxn classifies her portfolio mainly as Enterprise Applications and High Tech. The companies are based in France, Finland and two other countries. She has not published a check size or a formal investment thesis that we could find.
- BottleCap AI: efficiency-focused foundational LLMs, Prague. $7.5M seed led by 20VC, January 2026.
- Taito.ai: AI for employee performance management, Helsinki. €2.5M seed led by Accel, 2024.
- Duna: seed round of $12.1M in May 2025, per Tracxn.
- Delos.so: seed round of €2.5M in April 2025, per Tracxn.
- Pigment (founded, not an angel investment): AI-powered business planning platform she co-founded in 2019.
- crunchbase.com/person/el%C3%A9onore-crespo
- tracxn.com/d/people/elonore-crespo/__jZD2jdraFYl87B6kciePsyJOu8nvtG5hR
- humanx.co/us/speakers/eleonore-crespo
- ventureeurope.eu/eleonore-crespo-pigment
- eu-startups.com/2024/11/helenski-based-taito-ai-raises-2-7m-toward-emp
- minesparis.psl.eu/en/blog/actualites/mines-paris-psl-an-incubator-for-
- startupintros.com/news/2026-01-29-bottlecap-ai-seed
- startupintros.com/orgs/bottlecap-ai
Investing activity
Eleonore Crespo appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $8M. The most recent is BottleCap AI (Seed, $7.5M, Jan 2026).
Eleonore Crespo most often invests alongside The Twenty Minute VC, Mika Vormoo, Thomas Wolf and Illusian Founder Office, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Eleonore Crespo
Who is Eléonore Crespo?
She is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, a business planning platform based in Paris. Before that she was an investor at Index Ventures and a financial analyst at Google. She also invests as an angel.
Has Eléonore Crespo invested in AI startups?
Yes. She invested in the BottleCap AI seed round of $7.5M announced in January 2026, and in the Taito.ai seed round in 2024. Both companies build AI products.
What is Eléonore Crespo's angel check size?
It is not public. We found no statement from her on check size, so founders should ask her directly.
What stage does Eléonore Crespo invest in?
The rounds we found are mostly seed. Crunchbase also lists a pre-seed round in Realm. She often joins rounds led by funds such as 20VC and Accel.
What sectors does Eléonore Crespo back?
Tracxn lists Enterprise Applications and High Tech as her main sectors. Her recent rounds include AI companies such as BottleCap AI and Taito.ai.
How can founders contact Eléonore Crespo?
She has a public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/eleonorecrespo. We did not find a personal website or an X account.
Is Eleonore Crespo an angel investor?
Yes. Eleonore Crespo invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Eleonore Crespo invested in?
Eleonore Crespo's AI investments include BottleCap AI. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
What stage does Eleonore Crespo invest at?
In the rounds tracked on Lounge, Eleonore Crespo has invested at Seed, with a median round of $8M.
Who does Eleonore Crespo co-invest with?
Eleonore Crespo's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are The Twenty Minute VC (1 deal), Mika Vormoo (1 deal), Thomas Wolf (1 deal), Illusian Founder Office (1 deal) and 20VC (1 deal).