Marie Alice Jourde

Marie-Alice Jourde is a long-established Paris employment lawyer, not a technology or venture investor. Her career in labor law spans more than four decades. She joined the cabinet La Garanderie in 1983, and in 1990 co-founded Veil-Armfelt-Jourde-La Garanderie Avocats, where she led the *droit social* (social/labor law) practice alongside Dominique de La Garanderie — one of the most prominent figures of the Paris bar and a former bâtonnier. In December 2005, she was among the founding partners of La Garanderie Avocats, the boutique that carried that name forward. She has since moved to Jasper Avocats, where she is a partner co-heading the Labor Law and Social Security department (with Frédéric Sicard and Alice Delamarre).

Her early career combined academia and the courts: she was a teaching assistant (chargée de travaux dirigés) in labor law at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas from 1988 to 1992, and served as a *conseiller prud'homal* (industrial-tribunal judge) in Paris from 1992 to 2000. She holds specialization certificates (certificats de spécialisation) in labor law and in social-security and social-protection law, and advises companies on strategic social-law questions as well as executives on their status, compensation, and career transitions.

She has also been active in bar governance and the wider profession: she sat on the Conseil de l'Ordre (Paris Bar Council) from 2013 to 2015 and served as an administrator of the CNBF (Caisse Nationale des Barreaux Français, the French lawyers' pension fund) from 2016 to 2024. She is affiliated with AvoSial, the association of employment lawyers acting for companies. French business-registry records (Pappers) list her as a manager of SCM Jasper, the operating structure behind her current practice, and indicate a birth year of 1954.

There is no public record indicating she deploys personal capital as a business angel or seed investor. If a founder-facing platform has listed her as one, it most likely conflated her legal-partner title and the historic "La Garanderie" email domain with venture activity.

• No verifiable investment thesis exists. No angel deals, syndicates, funds, or portfolio companies could be attributed to her in any source reviewed.
• Her professional "focus" is legal, not financial: complex individual and collective labor disputes before employment courts, restructuring/social dialogue, executive compensation and status, and ethics/compliance.
• If she does invest privately, the amounts, stages, and criteria are not disclosed anywhere public — do not rely on the stub's "Seed Round" figure.