Augustin Blanchard

Augustin Blanchard is a Partner at Breega. Breega’s website lists him as Partner on its team page, and HEC Alumni reported that he was appointed Associé at Breega effective June 2026. In his own LinkedIn announcement, Blanchard said he joined Breega after “6 incredible years investing and accelerating European Cybertechnology companies at Tikehau Capital,” adding that he would continue with broader targets while cybersecurity would remain “special” to him.

Before Breega, Blanchard worked in technology and cybersecurity investing at Ace Capital Partners / Tikehau Capital. HEC Alumni lists his career path as Executive Director at Ace Capital Partners from 2020 to 2026, Director in the Tech team at Rothschild & Co from 2018 to 2020, Director in the Tech team at Clipperton Finance France from 2017 to 2018, and Vice President at Clipperton from 2014 to 2016.

Blanchard studied at HEC Paris from 2001 to 2005, with a focus on corporate finance and European business law, according to his public LinkedIn profile. Earlier in his career, he also appears in press coverage as a co-founder/operator of Café Craft in Paris, a coworking-oriented coffee shop inspired by New York work cafés; Time Out and Paperblog both identify him with the project in 2012.

• Breega states its thesis as backing exceptional founders “from pre-Seed to Series A+” building Digital, Climate, and Deep Tech startups.
• Breega emphasizes hands-on support from former founders/operators and says its scaling team works as an extension of portfolio companies.
• Blanchard’s recent public focus has been European technology and cybersecurity, especially application security, client-side/web security, malware analysis, secure data exchange, digital trust, and sovereignty.
• At Tikehau/Ace, the Brienne cybersecurity strategy focused on European cybersecurity companies with global B2B scalability potential, with target tickets of €10 million to €50 million.
• In the Build38 Series A announcement, Blanchard described application security as “one of the fastest-growing subsegments of Cybersecurity” and framed Build38 around protecting applications rather than only networks and computers.
• In the Jscrambler Series A announcement, he cited “clear, growing need for disruptive web technology” and emphasized enterprise adoption across multiple verticals.