Louis Taslé d’Héliand is a counsel in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences groups, specializing in venture capital and growth financings and M&A transactions.
Louis advises clients on a broad range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on emerging growth companies and venture capital investors spanning a variety of industries, including artificial intelligence, robotics, defense tech, fintech, Insurtech, proptech, enterprise software, healthcare tech, medtech and biotech. He advises clients through every stage of the corporate life cycle in France and cross-border.
Prior to joining Goodwin, Louis was an associate at Dechert LLP and BDGS. He was also a trainee in the M&A department of Bredin Prat.
Representative Matters
Louis has notably advised:
- Agronutris, a start-up specializing in the production of insect-based proteins, on its €100 million fundraising led by the fund SPI, managed by Bpifrance and Mirova.
- Alven Capital Partners:
- in its investment in the €7.7 million Series Seed financing of Altrove Tech, a French DeepTech startup specializing in sustainable materials powered by artificial intelligence.
- in its investment in the €25 million Series B financing of Stoïk, an insurtech specializing in cyber insurance for businesses.
- in the €7 million Series A financing of Kestra Technologies, a unified orchestration platform designed to simplify and automate business-critical workflows, allowing users to manage them as code or through a user interface.
- (and Raise Conseil) in its investment in the €4 milion financing of Skarlett, a company engaged in the conception and management of a platform of equity releases and insurance solutions dedicated to the people over 60 years old.
- Blackstone Innovations Investments in the $55 million Series B financing of 73 Strings, a French technology company providing comprehensive data extraction, monitoring, and valuation solutions for the private capital industry.
- BOND, as lead investor, in the €250 million Series C financing round of Ankorstore, the fastest growing European B2B marketplace.
- Charles River Ventures (CRV) in the $5 million Series Seed financing round of Meilisearch, a start-up developing a RESTfull search API that is the ready-to-go solution for everyone wanting a powerful, fast, and relevant search experience for their end-users.
- Confidential investors in the €500 million Series A financing and the $600 million Series B financing rounds of Mistral.AI, a French-based company developing an AI-powered data entry system for companies.
- Daphni:
- (and Speedinvest) in the $25 million Series A financing of Flow48, a FinTech operating in the MENA region, which provides revenue-based financing services to small and medium companies as an alternative lending model.
- (and Bpifrance) in the €8 million financing of Faume, a warehouse management platform dedicated to the resale of second-hand fashion and luxury items.
- Exor Ventures:
- in the €9.2 million Series Seed financing of Zeliq, a company specialized in the development and the commercialization of solution that gives to its customers the most accurate prospect data.
- in its investment in the €15 million Series A financing of Inbolt, a Parisian startup specialized in the development and the commercialization of real-time industrial robot vision and guidance system based on 3D Vision and AI.
- Fidelity International Strategic Ventures in the $52 million Series B financing of Greenly, a carbon accounting & management platform for SMEs, helping businesses track and measure their carbon emissions in order to accelerate their transition to a net-zero carbon economy.
- FinTech Collective:
- on the €5.9 million Series Seed financing of GRACE, a Franco-Swiss fintech company enabling luxury brands to offer built-in protection against theft and loss.
- on the €10 million Series A financing of Piana, a French fleet payments fintech company.
- Harmattan AI, a Paris-based defence startup building drones for military use, on its financing rounds and daily legal operations.
- Lucca, a HRtech scale-up developing SaaS solutions to optimize administrative and HR processes, on its €65 million financing from the London-based investor One Peak.
- One Peak in the €107.8 million Series C financing of Akur8, a machine learning-powered insurance pricing and reserving platform.
- Speedinvest:
- on the €7 million financing of Djust, the french SaaS leader in designing digital platforms for B2B.
- on the €5 million Series Seed financing of ORUS, a French pioneer in space-based hyperspectral imaging.
- on the €6 million financing of Faks, a French start-up focused on software development for the pharmaceutical sector.
- (and Daphni) on the $25 million Series A financing of Flow48, a FinTech operating in the MENA region, which provides revenue-based financing services to small and medium companies as an alternative lending model.
- on the €2.4 million Series Seed financing of 10 Pourcent, a startup that enables its users to benefit from 10% cashback on everyday purchases.
- Syntetica, an innovative nylon recycling startup helping to solve the pollution problem in the fashion industry, in its €4.2 million Series Seed financing led by EQT Ventures.
- Vestack, a proptech company specializing in the design and construction of low-carbon buildings, on its over €10 million Series A financing from impact funds and existing investors.
- AlgoTx, a biotech start-up developing a treatment for neuropathic pain caused by chemotherapy, as part of its €20 million Series B funding round.
- Kiro, a developer of a diagnosis platform designed to assist medical examinations, in its €13.8 million Series A.
- Kurma Partners in the €4.3 million Series Seed financing round of NaoX Technologies, a start-up developing new generation electroencephalographic sensors.
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canada's largest single-profession pension plan, on its investments in the $193 million Series E financing and in the €173 million Series F financing rounds of Alan, a healthcare specialist for private-sector employees.
- Robocath, a medtech start-up in its multiple financing rounds as well as its strategic agreement signed with MicroPort, a leading global developer, manufacturer and operator focusing on minimally invasive intervention products for the treatment of vascular diseases and pathological changes, to set up a China-based joint-venture company, for the commercialization of its first robotic-assisted platform to the Asian market.
- Sectoral Asset Management (and Andera Partners) in leading the $80 million Series B financing round of Amolyt Pharma, a global company specialized in developing therapeutic peptides for rare endocrine and related diseases.
- SpeedInvest in the €3 million Series Seed financing of Orakl Oncology, a science-based startup leveraging a collection of patient tumor avatars that combines biology.
Professional Activities
- Since 2022, Louis has been an active angel investor and is a member of Sid Operator Angels, a network of expert operators investors, supporting early-stage projects.
- Committed to pro bono initiatives, Louis supports the Foundation Cambon.
Credentials
Education
Master II
Sorbonne University
(Securities Law)
Master
Sciences Po Paris
(Corporate Law and Business Law)
Bachelor
Sciences Po Paris
(Economics, History, Humanities)
Admissions
Bars
- Paris, France