About
Guillaume Lauzier
Venture Partner · Contrarian Builder
Guillaume Lauzier is a CEO and Founder of Axal, contrarian builder, and serial entrepreneur who backs product-obsessed founders creating the infrastructure rails, protocols, and engines the world doesn't yet realize it depends on.
Origin
Born in Edmonton, Canada, on October 21, 1985, and shaped by a nomadic path across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America, Guillaume brings a rare operator's lens forged at the intersection of technology, creative media, design, and capital. From launching his first e-commerce venture (Rolling Blaze) at 17 to building audiovisual systems, scenography installations, and live-performance platforms, he has repeatedly turned technical curiosity and creative experimentation into scalable systems.
Ventures
He is the founder of GeneratedArt (a generative art platform and community merging algorithmic creativity with on-chain provenance, where he also leads the generative art collective), VJs TV and VJs Mag (pioneering platforms for live visual performances and audiovisual culture), Algosize (security-first engineering with privacy-preserving cryptography), Tokenomic (DeFi education and tokenomics infrastructure), Axal (his venture vehicle focused on sustainable digital infrastructure and eco-friendly data centers), and onConsensus (an online news platform covering decentralized tech).
He previously served as CTO of Norsia, a Geneva-based fintech, where he led the technical architecture of ESG-focused investment tools.
Investment Thesis
Today, as Global Venture Partner across funds and networks including AVPN (under Axal SA), VNTR (Corporate VC), Crypto Valley Association, AI Forge, OpenAI Academy, and CAIA Association, Guillaume invests 2–3 high-conviction bets per year exclusively in rails, protocols, and engines (never features). His thesis is organized around three families:
The Backbone
Digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, and blockchain
The Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (including ZKML and private inference), data and analytics, fintech, and e-commerce
The Expression
Design and architecture, digital art, entertainment, content systems, and edtech
Credentials
A CFA Institute member since February 2025 and actively preparing for the CFA exam (also a CAIA Association member), he combines deep technical fluency (blockchain, cryptography, AI, full-stack development) with cross-sector pattern recognition. Recent highlights include winning at the zk Hackathon Montreal 2024 for NovaNet, a privacy-preserving machine learning project using zero-knowledge proofs.
Philosophy
Guillaume does not chase hype or consensus. He seeks ideas that sound too technical, too niche, or too early, precisely the ones that become essential tomorrow. Whether through protocol design, cryptographic hardening, AI implementation, or strategic architecture, he helps founders move from prototype to production with mathematical rigor and creative clarity.
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he continues to evolve projects like GeneratedArt while making disciplined bets on the foundational technologies shaping our future. When not evaluating deals or architecting systems, you'll find him exploring the overlaps between art, wellness, nature, and frontier tech.