Vincent Luciani
About Vincent Luciani
Vincent Luciani is a French entrepreneur based in Paris. He studied at École Polytechnique and HEC Paris. He began his career at McKinsey & Company, working on aerospace and industrial clients, according to his Africa CEO Forum 2025 biography.
He co-founded Artefact with Guillaume de Roquemaurel and Philippe Rolet. The Africa CEO Forum dates the founding to 2014, and an Artefact profile says 2015. Artefact is a data and AI services company. He was its CEO and is now listed as co-founder and executive chairman. Before Artefact he was CEO and co-founder of Augusta Consulting, and he taught at École Polytechnique.
Artefact left the stock market and brought in Ardian and Cathay Capital as investment funds. In 2021 he launched the School of Data, a program that trains people for data careers.
Public databases list only a handful of personal investments, and they disagree on the count. Crunchbase lists five: NP Company, Neuralk-AI, Formel AI, Latitude and Leeto. PitchBook and CB Insights list two. Check sizes and ownership are not disclosed in the sources reviewed.
In 2019 he was one of the business angels in Leeto's roughly €2M round alongside Founders Future, as reported by TechCrunch. In February 2025 he joined Neuralk-AI's pre-seed. In June 2026 he joined NP Company's pre-seed.
Neuralk-AI raised a pre-seed round on 4 February 2025. CB Insights puts it at $4M, with co-investors including Fly Ventures, Thomas Wolf and STEAM AI.
NP Company (NP Co.) announced a €6M pre-seed on 2 June 2026. Partech led the round, and the Peugeot family office also took part. The angels named in the announcement include Guillaume Lample and Cédric O of Mistral AI, Florian Douetteau of Dataiku, and Luciani. NP Co. builds AI-native simulation software for aerospace, defense, energy, electronics, data centers and automotive. Crunchbase also lists an angel round in Formel AI, with no date or amount shown.
His recorded investments are at pre-seed and seed, with one Series B listed on Crunchbase. They are in France-based software and AI companies. Tracxn describes his sectors as high tech and enterprise applications. He has not publicly stated a check size or a formal thesis, so none is given here. His background in data and AI services and his early backing of founders from the French AI scene are the clearest signals of fit.
- NP Company: AI-native simulation software for industrial engineering; €6M pre-seed led by Partech, June 2026.
- Neuralk-AI: AI company; pre-seed round, February 2025.
- Formel AI: angel round listed on Crunchbase; date not public.
- Latitude: Series B listed on Crunchbase; date not confirmed.
- Leeto: employee benefits startup; seed round of about €2M, 2019.
- crunchbase.com/person/vincent-luciani-4c2b
- pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/300225-97
- cbinsights.com/investor/vincent-luciani
- partechpartners.com/news/np-co-raises-6m-pre-seed-to-bring-frontier-ai
- frenchtechjournal.com/mistral-bought-a-physics-ai-startup-then-its-fou
- theafricaceoforum.com/forum-2025/en/intervenant/vincent-luciani
- tracxn.com/d/people/vincent-luciani/__0yS8IPFq2b6VitDleC3iDGN7P5Cj4Nfq
- leadiq.com/c/leeto/5c5366a5210000f4925f2fd6
Investing activity
Vincent Luciani appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Pre-seed, with a median round size of $7M. The most recent is NP Company (Pre-seed, €6M, Jun 2026).
Vincent Luciani most often invests alongside Partech, Artefact founder, Cédric O and Florian Douetteau, and the companies they back on Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about Vincent Luciani
Does Vincent Luciani invest in AI startups?
Yes. Public records show him as an angel in Neuralk-AI (pre-seed, February 2025) and NP Company (€6M pre-seed, June 2026). Crunchbase also lists Formel AI.
What is Vincent Luciani's check size?
It is not public. None of the sources reviewed state a check size or ownership target, so founders should ask him directly.
What stage does Vincent Luciani invest at?
His recorded deals are mostly pre-seed and seed, in France-based companies. Crunchbase also lists a Series B in Latitude.
Who is Vincent Luciani?
He is a co-founder and executive chairman of Artefact, a data and AI services company. He studied at École Polytechnique and HEC Paris and previously worked at McKinsey.
How can founders contact Vincent Luciani?
He is active on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/vincent-luciani-51653016. No personal website or X account was found.
Is Vincent Luciani an angel investor?
Yes. Vincent Luciani invests personally as an angel.
What AI companies has Vincent Luciani invested in?
Vincent Luciani's AI investments include NP Company. The 1 round on Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
Who does Vincent Luciani co-invest with?
Vincent Luciani's most frequent co-investors on Lounge are Partech (1 deal), Artefact founder (1 deal), Cédric O (1 deal) and Florian Douetteau (1 deal).
How can founders reach Vincent Luciani?
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