Jean-Marc Bally

Jean-Marc serves as the General Partner & Managing Director of Aster Capital (located in San Francisco, Paris and Beijing) since March 2006. Jean-Marc has had more than $250million under management in several funds raised from large global corporations and institutional investors. Throughout extensive experience in supporting high growth companies, Jean-Marc leverages his networks and opens partnership opportunities with its corporate sponsors for the companies he believes in. He has invested in more than 40 innovative companies, including Solairedirect (France, acquired by Engie in 2015), Connectblue (Sweden, acquired by u-blox in 2014), and CPower (US, acquired by Constellation Energy in 2010). Jean-Marc holds a Master’s degree in Business Management (Grenoble Graduate School of Business), an executive education (INSEAD) and an additional Master’s degree in Mathematics. He has a keen interest in international matters, due to his frequent travels. He likes to adapt each strategy to each culture as he strongly believes that adaption is the key to success.