Samuel Tazartes
Managing Associate
Paris
Paris Tech Studio
Sam Tazartes is a Managing Associate specializing in Tech, AI, and Web3. Based in Orrick Paris Tech Studio, he combines a business-driven approach to legal work with a passion for innovation, helping high-growth companies raise capital and scale efficiently.
Sam advises founders, startups and investors on venture capital and tech growth financings, corporate governance, employee incentive plans, build-ups and exit/M&A transactions. His experience includes a wide range of financing rounds (more than 50 from Seed to Series F), external growth operations, and exits, with companies such as Mistral AI, Homa, BeReal, amo, Poolside, Payfit, etc…, and French and US VCs (Sequoia, Serena, Frst, Fabric), bringing a broad range of expertise to tech-focused transactions across the board.
With his French-US background and experience, Sam helps founders of French companies expand into the US market and supports US investors entering the French Tech ecosystem, by helping bridge the cultural gap.
As the co-founder of a legal tech startup (pome.gr), he applies a product-driven mindset to his legal work and helps startups streamline legal processes and improve efficiency with innovative solutions. Sam is a member of Orrick Digital Council’s Core Group and leads innovation initiatives within the Paris office.
Outside the office, Sam experiments with the latest tech gadgets, always searching for new ways to push the boundaries of innovation.
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Representative transactions include the following:
Companies and founders
- Agnostic: Seed
- Alan: Series D, E, F
- Amo: Seed
- Athenian: Seed
- Bastion Technologies: Seed
- BeReal: acquisition by Voodoo
- Blobr: Seed
- Cometh: Seed
- Command AI: Seed
- Conduktor: Series A
- Docent: Seed
- Dust (Permutation Labs): Seed, Series A
- Escape Technologies: Seed
- Faume: Series A
- Filigran: Seed, Series A
- Homa Games: Series A, B
- Hors Normes: Seed
- Ida: Seed
- Immortal Game: Series A
- Jow: Series A,
- Kaiko: Series A
- KKRT Labs (also known as Kakarot zkEVM): Seed
- Mistral AI: Seed, Series A, Series B
- OneLeaf: Seed
- Payfit: Series D, E
- PhotoRoom: Series A, B
- Polar Analytics: Seed, Series A
- Poolside AI: Seed
- Regate: Series A
- Revyze: Seed
- Rize ag: Seed
- Simplifield: acquisition by Field Agent
- Shipfix: acquisition by Veson Nautical
- Sorare: Series A, B
- Strapi: B
- Twin Labs: Pre-Seed
- Virgil: Series A
- Yonko (Sekai): Seed
- Zefir: Series A
Investors
- Bpifrance: Ornikar, Owkin (U.S.), Poolside.ai, Powder
- Cathay Capital: Owkin
- Ego Death Capital: LN Markets
- Fabric Ventures: Podium (previously SorareData), Only Dust, Hyle
- Frst Capital: Dojo, Hyle
- Hardware Club: Cowboy, Augmenta
- Highland Europe: Le Collectionist
- New Wave: Yavin, Gladia, Poolside.ai, Jump
- Sequoia Capital: Evy, Elyn, Pennylane, Gladia
- Serena Capital: Powder, Leonardo ai (acquisition by Canva)
- Stride VC: Purchasely
