Julien Pageaud is the Managing Partner of Sparkle Ventures, a deep tech venture capital fund manager. Julien has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry. Formerly Julien was the tech lead and the strategic investment director for Nomura Digital Office focused on AI and Blockchain. Prior to that, Julien was an executive director at Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital. Julien is a former computer vision engineer at Safran Defence, who graduated valedictorian from ENSAM, holds a M.A.St. in Physics and a MSc in Finance from ESSEC.