Venture capital

Guillaume Lautour
Partner

Guillaume Lautour joined AGF Private Equity at its inception in May 1999 and focuses on investments in internet and telecommunications (components, equipments, and software).

Guillaume Lautour currently sits on the boards of Telisma (voice recognition engine), Mentum (radio planning and spectrum management solutions), Everbee Networks (network security hardware components), and Yoono (web 2.0 social network).

His other investments include: Dailymotion (video portal), Travelprice (online travel, sold to Lastminute.com), Fluxus (hosting, sold to British Telecom), Mediapps (portal solution, sold to EverTeam) and OneAccess (VoIP access routers).

Prior to joining AGF Private Equity, Guillaume Lautour was a Director at Shooter, Ltd, based in Beijing, China and advised for 2 years several large European groups on their industrial projects. Previously, Guillaume Lautour worked for more than 5 years in investment banking, on mid-size M&A transactions at Banque du Phénix in Paris and started his career as an analyst for various financial operations for technology companies in Paris and New York.

Guillaume Lautour holds a Dipl.-Eng. in Telecommunications Engineering from Telecom Lille, post-graduate degrees in Finance and an MSc in Economics from the University of Paris II. He also attended the CNAM program in Actuarial Studies in Paris.