Clara Audry joins Jolt as General Partner
Clara Audry is appointed General Partner at Jolt Capital to strenghten the lower mid market team and bring her operational experience as a seasoned investor in venture and private equity deals.
Since 2018, Clara was a Partner at CapHorn, a French VC firm investing in B2B tech companies from seed to series B. She sourced and followed several participations in domains ranging from software and AI to hardware. She was sitting on the boards of Bird-Office, Boxy, FinalCad and Worldia.
Between 2013 and 2017 she was Vice-President at onefinestay, in charge of launching the French market and developping the European expansion, before the platform was acquired by AccorHotels for $170m.
Before joining onefinestay’s entrepreneurial journey, Clara had spent 5 years with NextStage, a capital development firm where she invested in various sectors including software, retail and tech consulting.
“I’m really delighted to join Jolt Capital, a team focusing on responsible deeptech, preparing the upcoming disruptions in industry, smart mobilities or health, to name a few. Jolt’s partnership is super experienced in fields such as semiconductors, hardware and data management, with an extended high-level international network. I have no doubt that Jolt Capital will be one of the main players in the much needed sustainable transformation of European manufacturing and reindustrialisation.” comments Clara Audry.
“Since the beginning of this year, we have considerably strengthened our PE platform to meet the needs of institutional investors and family offices looking for deeptech opportunities, those companies that invent today the solutions we’ll need to face the global challenges ahead of us in food, energy, security or health. Clara belongs to this new breed of entrepreneurs-investors who are able and willing to move the needle.” says Jean Schmitt, Managing Partner and President of Jolt Capital.
Clara Audry gratuated from Audencia Business School (Nantes, France) with a MSc Finance, and is an alumna of the University of Ottawa (Canada). She is also a Vice-President of France Digitale (since 2019).