Olivier Occelli is the Founding Partner and CEO of Kerala Ventures. See sector focus and contact routes.
Olivier Occelli is the Founding Partner and CEO of Kerala Ventures, a Paris-based venture capital firm he co-founded in 2014–2015 alongside Antoine Freysz and Marc Laurent, while continuing to serve as CEO of Naturabuy, the outdoor marketplace he launched in 2007. His investment thesis targets hyper-early-stage French tech startups—specifically pre-seed and seed rounds in SaaS, marketplaces, AI, data, and tech-enabled services. Kerala typically invests up to €300,000 per company, with Occelli often acting as a lead investor who provides concrete operational support including recruitment, financial structuring, and commercial strategy. Notable portfolio companies he backed from inception include Doctolib, Malt, Privateaser, and Ouihelp, with Doctolib and Malt becoming among France’s most successful healthtech and professional marketplace ventures. Occelli’s distinctive point of view emphasizes concentrating capital and time on a small number of “extremely aggressive” entrepreneurs with clear, ambitious visions for deep markets, rather than spreading resources broadly. He has not published public writing on investing, but his operational mentorship
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