Florian Graillot (pictured), formerly an investor at insurance group Axa’s corporate venturing unit, Axa Strategic Ventures, has launched a France-based venture capital firm called Astorya.vc.
Graillot has taken a partner position at Astorya.vc, which will target investments in the insurance technology sector, which has been boosted by adjacent technologies such as mobile, artificial intelligence, blockchain and big data.
The move came last month, the same month as Minh Tran, another general partner at Axa Strategic Ventures, said he was leaving the unit, which has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Zürich and Berlin.