Viventures appoints Chamboredon

Viventures Partners SA, the venture capital arm of Vivendi Universal, has appointed Jean-David Chamboredon based in the company’s Paris headquarters and will report directly to Jean-Pascal Tranie, managing general partner of Viventures Partners. Chamboredon will manage investment opportunities in the Enterprise Software sector.

Chamboredon joins Viventures Partners from Internet investment company Europ@web, where he was chief technology officer supporting the portfolio companies on both the technology and business sides. Chamboredon previously worked for 14 years at Cap Gemini.

The first Viventures fund ($110 million) was launched in September 1998 and the second in January this year ($600 million.)