# Honey Lab

> Corporate venture building studio founded by Patrick Amiel. We build & back the next category leaders. Operating from Paris, Athens, Buenos Aires and Miami.

## Who we are

Honey Lab SAS (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France — RCS Nanterre 833 842 032) is a corporate venture building studio founded by Patrick Amiel. We are not a fund, not an accelerator, not a consulting firm. We deep-analyse, then move fast — starting in one country, with global ambition.

Patrick Amiel is a serial entrepreneur (co-founder of MyBestPro, exited to Vivendi in 2017), investor in 20+ companies including Ledger, Figures and Jump, with 5 confirmed exits. Ranked #21 Business Angel in France by Angelsquare 2025. Venture Partner at Big Pi Ventures.

## What we do

- **Build** — Venture studio & co-founding. We co-found alongside operators we trust. Day-zero execution, shared equity, hands on the keyboard. https://honeylab.fr/studio/
- **Back** — Early-stage investment (pre-seed to seed). Direct as business angel plus two VC partnerships (France, Greece). Tickets €500k–€3M. Decision in days. Active board involvement. https://honeylab.fr/back/
- **Advise** — Corporate venture building for large groups that need a company built outside their walls: external CEO, separate cap table, real equity alignment. Plus advisory for high-growth startups. https://honeylab.fr/advise/

## Corporate track record

We helped launch new ventures with BNP Paribas, PMU, Pernod Ricard, Crédit Agricole, Eurobank, EDF, RATP and Edenred.

## Thesis (four lines)

1. Category leaders aren't born — they're forged. Best outcomes come from relentless operators paired with conviction capital.
2. Speed compounds. Analysis doesn't. We study a space hard, then decide in days, not quarters.
3. Start narrow. Dominate. Expand. One country first. One wedge. One reason to exist. Global comes after proof.
4. Equity aligns; equity commits. We don't bill hours. We take equity and carry the weight with the team.

## Common questions

**What is corporate venture building?** Creating a new company outside the corporate's walls to attack a validated problem: a dedicated external CEO, a separate cap table, equity that aligns everyone.

**How is Honey Lab different from a consultancy or an accelerator?** We don't bill hours and we don't ship slides. We take equity and operate alongside the team for the first months.

**Does Honey Lab invest?** Yes. Pre-seed to seed, direct as business angel and as Venture Partner at Big Pi Ventures. 20+ companies backed, 5 confirmed exits. Decisions in days.

**How do we start?** Book a call from https://honeylab.fr/ — separate tracks for founders, investors and corporates — or write to hello@honeylab.fr.

## Geography

- Paris (HQ — 3 avenue Perronet, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine)
- Athens (Greece / Big Pi Ventures partnership)
- Buenos Aires (Argentina / LatAm gateway)
- Miami (transatlantic platform with US partners)

## Contact

- Email: hello@honeylab.fr
- LinkedIn (Patrick Amiel): https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickamiel/
- LinkedIn (Honey Lab): https://www.linkedin.com/company/honey-lab/
- Website: https://honeylab.fr/

## Sister entities & affiliations

- 321 Startup Studio (Patrick Amiel as CEO)
- MIAMIEL — cross-border GTM platform (Europe ↔ US/LatAm)
- LP / scout positions: Big Pi Ventures, Ring Capital
- Board seats: Pharmedi Group, 1point6, Mucho, Feedae

## Pages

- Homepage: https://honeylab.fr/
- Build — venture studio & co-founding: https://honeylab.fr/studio/
- Back — early-stage investment: https://honeylab.fr/back/
- Advise — corporate venture building: https://honeylab.fr/advise/
- About Patrick Amiel: https://honeylab.fr/about/
- Portfolio: https://honeylab.fr/portfolio/
- Insights (index): https://honeylab.fr/insights/
- Legal notice: https://honeylab.fr/legal/

## Insights

- Hire for an AI use case, not a diploma (May 2026): https://honeylab.fr/insights/hire-for-ai-use-case/
- European champions go on offence (May 2026): https://honeylab.fr/insights/european-champions-on-offence/
- Three people doing the work of twenty (Feb 2026): https://honeylab.fr/insights/ai-native-leverage/
- Pay peanuts on boards, get peanuts (Jan 2026): https://honeylab.fr/insights/board-pay-peanuts/
- Argentina, back as the LatAm gateway (Dec 2025): https://honeylab.fr/insights/argentina-latam-gateway/
- The six pillars of French tech — and why three are cracking (Dec 2025): https://honeylab.fr/insights/six-pillars-french-tech/
- YC and a16z: the 2026 theses, read from the operator's seat (Nov 2025): https://honeylab.fr/insights/yc-a16z-2026-theses/

## Other resources

- Claude en 10 jours — free 10-day AI program: https://claude.honeylab.fr/
- Full content dump for LLMs: https://honeylab.fr/llms-full.txt
- RSS feed: https://honeylab.fr/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://honeylab.fr/sitemap.xml