Pierre Garnier

Pierre Garnier is a Managing Partner at Jolt Capital, a Paris-based growth investor focused on responsible deeptech companies. Jolt describes its model as providing growth capital to technology-rich companies, typically investing €10M to €50M in tranches to help them scale in global markets, enter new product markets, and pursue acquisitions or build-ups.

Before joining Jolt Capital, Garnier built more than 30 years of operating and C-suite experience across semiconductors, hardware, software, and cybersecurity. His most recent pre-Jolt role was President of e2v-semiconductor, an aerospace and defence semiconductor business; Jolt says he accelerated growth by 15% in less than a year before e2v’s sale to Teledyne Group in 2017.

Earlier in his career, Garnier was COO of Inside Secure, where he helped transform the company from a semiconductor business into an embedded software security company. He also held senior roles including VP & General Manager of the Wireless BaseBand Business Unit at Texas Instruments, CEO of Everbee Networks, and General Manager of the Broadband Chipset Business Unit at Alcatel Microelectronics, now part of STMicroelectronics.

Garnier holds an engineering degree from École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec) and a Master of Solid State Physics from UPMC, Pierre and Marie Curie University. At Jolt, he is listed as a board member of Interel, MicroOLED, Dolphin Semiconductor, and P2i, and as a board observer at EfficientIP and TEHTRIS. Jolt also states that he led the exit process of UnitySC to Merck.

• Jolt Capital’s stated headline is: “We scale responsible deeptech companies.”
• Jolt invests in growth-stage European B2B deeptech companies with proprietary technology, meaningful revenue, strong fundamentals, and clear global scaling potential.
• The firm looks for companies with robust market positioning, solid assets, and revenues typically between €10M and €100M.
• Jolt’s check-size guidance is €10M to €50M in tranches, aimed at scaling, international expansion, product-market expansion, acquisitions, and build-ups.
• Garnier’s background and board roles point to particular relevance for semiconductors, hardware, embedded software, cybersecurity, industrial technology, and other deeptech businesses where operational scaling matters.
• The firm emphasizes hands-on value creation: build-ups, M&A, joint ventures, strategic customer growth, key hiring, financial strategy, business strategy, process optimization, and restructuring where needed.
• Jolt’s ESG framing is explicit: it says it screens for companies whose products and services address broader challenges, make industrial processes more efficient, and make people’s lives safer.