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This French VC went from posting on YouTube to raising a $12M fund for Y Combinator startups


How French investor Gabriel Jarrosson grew from posting on YouTube to raising a fund that backs YC companies exclusively.

That discipline pushed Jarrosson from filming scrappy venture explainers in Paris to managing more than $12 million in assets at Lobster Capital, with a larger second fund already in the works, according to recent SEC filings. He cites Harry Stebbings, the 20VC podcaster who raised a $400 million fund this year, and Garry Tan, who co-founded Initialized Capital and grew it to $3 billion in AUM before becoming YC’s CEO, as inspirations. The managing partner has made more than 100 investments through his syndicate and Lobster Capital’s first fund, launched in 2023, which has backed nearly 30 startups in B2B SaaS, fintech infrastructure, and AI tools.

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