Michel Guilhermier

Active Investor

Investor at Wind

Paris, Île-de-France

Michel Guilhermier, Investor at Wind is an active investor based in Paris, Île-de-France. This profile covers what Michel Guilhermier backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Michel de Guilhermier is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner & Member of Supervisory Board at Day One Entrepreneurs & Partners. Mr. Guilhermier served as Board Member at Oppcar. He serves as Board Member at Ector. the investor is a Co-founder of BG Cars and serves as Managing Director. Mr. de Guilhermier co-founded Inspirational Stores.A historical figure in the French Internet, he has founded or bought out a dozen companies over the past 20 years. One of the most important is Photoways.com, founded in 1999, which became Photobox after the acquisition in 2006 of the eponymous English, and number one today in photo development on the Internet in Europe and No. 2 in the world. was sold in 2015 for more than 500M € to 2 investment funds, which represents the most beautiful historical outcome of a French eCommerce company. He then founded Inspirational Stores in 2007, which after raising € 10m in 2008, has undoubtedly operated one of the fastest, most radical, and efficient "pivots" of the last few years after the buyouts of Groupe MotoBlouz.com and Access Moto in 2009 and 2010 respectively, and then sold its stake in Equistones Partner in 2016 as part of a build-up that made it the number one player in its class in Europe. Mr. Guilhermier began his career as a consultant at Bain & Cie and then spent five years in executive roles in major US multinationals (Dole Food, PepsiCo). He brings all his experience as a pragmatic entrepreneur, his art of listening to the customer and pitch and his strategy and build-up / M & A science for the benefit of accompanied start-ups. He is a graduate of HEC, Entrepreneurs option (1985). He is also an angel investor. He served as Board Member at Unlimitd.