Blast
Paris-based private investment club co-led by Anthony Bourbon and Samuel Guez, giving members access to co-invest in vetted early-stage rounds; co-led U-Space's €24M Series A (November 2025).
Blast (branded Blast.Club) is a Paris-based private investment club and crowdfunding-platform investor (regulated under EU Regulation 2020/1503 as a crowdfunding service provider), giving its 14,000+ members access to co-invest alongside founders Anthony Bourbon and Samuel Guez in vetted early-stage rounds from seed through Series B, with select access to later-stage deals. It invests across Deeptech, AI, Biotech, Medtech, Cybersecurity, Fintech, and Spacetech, and has deployed roughly €240M cumulatively since incorporating in 2022.
Overview
- Firm
- Blast.Club
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Founded
- 2022
- AUM
- No fixed fund AUM disclosed (deal-by-deal investment club, not a closed-end fund); ~€240M deployed cumulatively since 2022, including ~€125M in 2025
- Stages
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Thesis
- Give club members institutional-terms access to co-invest alongside Anthony Bourbon in vetted early-stage deals across deeptech, AI, biotech, cybersecurity, and space, sourced and vetted by the Blast team.
- Website
- www.blast.club
Portfolio companies1
Partners2
- Founderanthony-bourbonAnthony Bourbon is a co-founder of Blast, the Paris-based private investment club, which he launched with Samuel Guez in September 2022. He is also the founder of French foodtech company Feed. (2017), rebranded O.K.R. in 2025, and has served as an investor-judge on M6's Qui veut etre mon associe since 2021. In February 2026, a Paris court ordered Bourbon and Feed to pay EUR179,416 to TheFeed.com for trademark infringement.
- Foundersamuel-guezSamuel Guez is a co-founder of Blast, the Paris-based private investment club, which he launched with longtime business partner Anthony Bourbon in September 2022. He previously founded My Jolie Candle, a bootstrapped French candle company, and holds a finance master's from Universite Paris-Dauphine; at Blast he leads deal sourcing and investment strategy.
Frequently asked
- What is Blast?
- Give club members institutional-terms access to co-invest alongside Anthony Bourbon in vetted early-stage deals across deeptech, AI, biotech, cybersecurity, and space, sourced and vetted by the Blast team.
- How much does Blast manage?
- Blast manages No fixed fund AUM disclosed (deal-by-deal investment club, not a closed-end fund); ~€240M deployed cumulatively since 2022, including ~€125M in 2025 in assets, and was founded in 2022.
- What stages does Blast invest at?
- Blast invests at Seed, Series A, Series B.
Sources & citations3
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Blast co-led U-Space's €24M Series A
EU-Startups: One satellite per week: that's the aim of France's U-Space with its new €24 million raiseVerified2025-11-12 - 2
Blast SAS was registered with the Paris commercial court (RCS) on 5 July 2022.
Pappers.fr: BLAST - SIREN 915236640Verified2022-07-05 - 3
Blast.Club is a private investment club giving members access to co-invest with Anthony Bourbon in vetted early-stage deals; deployed ~€240M since launch.
Maddyness: Blast.Club fund profileVerified2026-08-09