Co-founder
Wintermute VenturesCheck size: Wintermute Ventures currently publishes flexible $500K–$5M+ global investments, primarily Seed and Series A, using proprietary capital and often leading or co-leading. This is a firm range—not Yoann's personal promise—and the firm also makes selective later-stage investments.
Yoann brings high-frequency trading, hedge-fund and family-office experience to a proprietary-capital venture platform built around Wintermute's market infrastructure. The firm backs category-defining financial and enterprise technologies across the crypto value chain where its trading, liquidity, governance, integration and treasury expertise can materially accelerate long-term adoption.
Bold category-defining founders, clear long-term vision, coachability, technically and economically sound market structure, strong product need, global relevance and opportunities where Wintermute's builders, liquidity knowledge, integrations, governance and network create concrete value.
Wintermute's published criteria imply weak fit for narrow copycat products, founders unwilling to absorb candid feedback, token designs detached from product demand, companies seeking only passive capital and projects where the firm's trading, DeFi or infrastructure expertise offers no strategic advantage. No personal exclusion list is public.
Lead with the financial or enterprise workflow being rebuilt, market-structure insight, product and usage, technical architecture, security and compliance, token/equity structure and global opportunity. Explain Seed/Series A fit, requested $500K–$5M+ allocation, whether Wintermute should lead, and the exact liquidity, integration, governance or treasury support needed.
Identify specific trading, liquidity, governance, integration, treasury or market-structure expertise Wintermute can contribute beyond capital.
Model participants, incentives, spreads, liquidity, adverse selection, settlement, manipulation and stress behavior before scaling.
Distinguish durable product usage and economic demand from incentive-driven volume, speculative liquidity and temporary emissions.
Use flexible ownership and timing to optimize long-term company and network health instead of forcing a conventional fund deployment schedule.
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Yoann has 10+ years of experience as a high-frequency trader at Optiver and also worked in London hedge funds and family offices before co-founding Wintermute. He is a seasoned startup investor and serves as a board member or advisor to over 10 startups.