Frederic Halley

Frederic Halley is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. His Crunchbase profile lists London, England as his location and Founder of Sonorcap as his current role. It describes long experience with technology companies as an operator, an advisor and a Non-Executive Director or board member.

Sonorcap's team page gives him the title Managing Partner. It says he has more than 20 years of experience across the European technology industry, with a focus on enterprise software, retailtech and scale-ups. In a Mind Retail interview, he said he runs Sonorcap with his brother Guillaume, a Carrefour franchisee. He described Sonorcap as a seed-stage firm for retail and e-commerce technology that launched in April 2019. It tests start-up products in real stores alongside investing.

Earlier roles listed on Crunchbase include COO of Netsize (April 2007 to May 2009), Operating Partner at NextWorld Capital (2012 to 2020) and founder of Sonorfi. PitchBook also lists him as a co-founder of Tioga Venture and as holding an MBA from Kellogg and a Telecommunications MS from Telecom Paris. Crunchbase shows him as a partner at Seed4Soft (from January 2020) and at 50 Partners, and records two companies founded.

Crunchbase counts 25 investments across 21 portfolio companies, with 5 exits (none by IPO). It records no lead investments, so his deals appear to be follow-on or participating positions. Crunchbase names TwicPics, Pixpay and Paragone among his most notable exits. Tracxn separately lists Pixpay, Alltricks, Kamino Retail and TwicPics among his exits.

Third-party databases give different totals depending on how they count deals, for example PitchBook shows fewer. PitchBook's most recent listed investment is Lemrock, dated 11 March 2026.

He often takes governance roles after investing. Crunchbase and NFX Signal list board seats at Vizzia, Veesion, Armis and Paragone. They also list him as an investor and board member at Alltricks, a non-executive director at Secret Sales, and a board observer at bsport.

AI is one of the areas named in his Crunchbase bio. NFX Signal tags his activity with AI at seed and Series A, alongside retail, security, logistics, SaaS and enterprise applications.

In the Mind Retail interview he said Sonorcap's work includes AI applied to after-sales service and in-store computer vision, and that a CRM and digital loyalty investment was planned. The interview does not tie these to specific deals in the excerpt reviewed, so this page does not either. Most of his AI exposure is in applied, retail-facing products rather than model or infrastructure companies.

Stage: Crunchbase's bio says early-stage, and EasyVC lists pre-seed and seed. Sonorcap describes itself as seed-stage.

Sectors: retailtech, SaaS, AI and travel tech, with a particular interest in enterprise software and scale-ups.

Geography: Europe, with most of his portfolio in France and the United Kingdom according to Tracxn. He is based in London.

Check size: he has not published a personal check size. In the Mind Retail interview, he said Sonorcap's average investment is 60,000 euros across a portfolio of 45 companies. That figure describes Sonorcap's portfolio, not only his own angel deals. Sonorcap also tests products in the stores its founders operate, so retail founders with a pilot-ready product may be a closer fit.

• Veesion: Crunchbase lists him as an investor in its Series A, and he is a board member; NFX Signal places his board seat from 2022.
• Alltricks: investor and board member; Tracxn lists it as an exit.
• Pixpay: listed by Crunchbase as a notable exit.
• TwicPics: listed by Crunchbase as a notable exit.
• Paragone: listed by Crunchbase as a notable exit; he held a board seat.
• Mimbi: Crunchbase lists him as a seed investor.
• Kamino Retail: Crunchbase lists a pre-seed investment; Tracxn lists it as an exit.
• Vizzia: board member since May 2023 per LinkedIn data cited by EasyVC.
• Le Collectionist: Crunchbase lists a Series A round with him as an investor.

• crunchbase.com/person/frederic-halley
• sonorcap.com/team
• mind.eu.com/retail/en/article/frederic-halley-sonorcap-we-are-going-to
• signal.nfx.com/investors/frederic-halley
• pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/156952-18
• tracxn.com/d/people/frederic-halley/__w7ekKZkZL0I5cUX7VXSrp7B4gebdzdp7
• easyvc.ai/investor/frederic-halley
• linkedin.com/in/frederichalley