Gilles Lafuente

Gilles Lafuente is a Paris-based investor and company director associated with Groupe Maubourg and Maubourg Investissements. French corporate records list him as president of Maubourg Investissements, a Paris SAS created in October 2010 and classified under financial investment / holding activities. MarketScreener also identifies Maubourg Investissements SASU as an investment-services company founded by Gilles Lafuente.

Before and alongside Maubourg, public records show Lafuente in a series of board and executive roles across industrial, financial, energy, food, and media companies. Societe.com lists current or historical roles including president of ETENDARD, president of Maubourg Investissements, manager of Maubourg Conseils, and prior roles at France Thermes, Mandelli-Setra, Galaxy, SOC Plasti Temple, Invest Image N 1, Cartoon Pictures, Nature Pictures, and Leopoldine Participation.

His LinkedIn profile lists Groupe Maubourg - Paris et Milan as his current affiliation and INSEAD under education. A 2011 French government privatization opinion described Maubourg Investissement as an investment company created by Lafuente with a group of individual investors, and noted his prior experience in thermal-spa operations at Bagnoles-de-l'Orne.

• Invests through Maubourg Investissements, a private investment vehicle rather than a public venture fund.
• Publicly documented activity is concentrated in French SMEs and operating businesses, not in high-volume startup seed investing.
• In the 2013 Candide Baby Group transaction, Maubourg invested alongside Siparex Proximité Innovation in a capital increase intended to support product range expansion, distribution investment, export growth, and potential acquisitions.
• Lafuente’s own stated rationale for the Candide investment was the group’s “capacité de croissance du Groupe, en France et à l’étranger,” plus a set of development axes organized by management.
• His activity suggests a hands-on financial-management orientation: in the Candide announcement, he said he had been working with CEO Frédéric Jamet for nearly two years and providing management support, particularly financial support.
• Evidence points to preference for companies with operating history, revenue, assets, or structured expansion projects rather than concept-stage startups.