Guillaume Lauzier

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 Axal VC — a global venture partner network and high-throughput venture studio operating as an API, combining AI-driven scoring, automated company formation, and a global partner network to spin out and fund startups at scale across sustainable digital infrastructure and deep tech.

He is also the founder of GeFi (GenerativeFinance), the world's first fully federated, privacy-preserving AI financial platform — where investors, banks, and quants discover, subscribe to, and contribute to AI models with provable training data, hash-chained inference logs, and compliance routing per jurisdiction; DeFi Scoring, a protocol risk analytics platform delivering quantitative, comparable assessments of DeFi lending and smart contract risk to help users evaluate protocols with transparency and rigor; VJs TV and VJs Mag — respectively the global broadcast network for VJ culture and live visual performance, and the canonical publication for the audiovisual art community; Algosize, a hacker-first cybersecurity company fusing high-performance computation with privacy-preserving cryptography to architect resilient infrastructure for the next era of secure AI and finance; Tokenomic, a DeFi education platform bridging decentralized finance to institutional and centralized communities through structured courses, consultations, and market analysis on token economy design and incentive mechanisms; Scenographist, a spatial design and scenographic systems practice applying architectural precision to immersive physical and digital environments; and Vibe Networking, a high-signal networking community and infrastructure for visionaries, influencers, builders, and entrepreneurs.

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:

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.