Paris, October 1, 2026. Paris Business Angels (PBA), France’s leading business angel network with nearly 200 active investor and mentor members, and Fast Growth Advisors, a Message-Market Fit consultancy and author of the Message-Market Fit Observatory, are announcing a partnership to help PBA-backed startups make their value proposition immediately clear, to their customers as well as to search engines and AI assistants.
A clear message, a growth lever in the age of AI assistants
B2B buyers now form an opinion well before the first meeting, and ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude are becoming new gateways to suppliers. Message clarity therefore has a direct bearing on sales performance: an offer understood in a few seconds shortens the sales cycle, and a website that search engines can read gets found, cited and recommended. Fixed early, a message often takes a single page; fixed late, it means reworking the website, the brochures and every piece of sales collateral.
Hands-on support, from current portfolio companies to future deals
As part of this partnership, Fast Growth Advisors offers PBA members dedicated terms on two fronts: for existing portfolio companies, a detailed audit against the fifteen criteria, with a 90-day action plan; for new deals, a messaging score built into entry due diligence. Each audit is delivered to the founder within 48 hours and includes a diagnosis, a proposed rewritten message, a criterion-by-criterion visibility analysis and a prioritized action plan, starting with the actions that cost nothing.
This partnership adds to the partner platform that Paris Business Angels makes available to the entrepreneurs it supports, alongside the expertise of its practice groups, notably go-to-market and AI.
“A founder who has convinced business angels knows how to defend their project. The next step is to make it understood in a few seconds by a buyer they may never meet, or by the AI assistant that shortlisted them on that buyer’s behalf. That is the work we want to make available to every startup in the network,” says Hervé Dhélin, founder of Fast Growth Advisors.
“Our role as a leading network is not limited to investing; it is also, and above all, about giving entrepreneurs the best levers to accelerate their growth. At a time when customers, search engines and AI form a first impression of a company before any contact, the ability to express one’s value clearly becomes a real competitive advantage. With Fast Growth Advisors, we bring our portfolio companies highly practical expertise on an issue directly tied to their growth,” concludes Olivier Baroux, President of Paris Business Angels.
About Fast Growth Advisors
Founded by Hervé Dhélin, Fast Growth Advisors is the Message-Market Fit firm. It helps post-funding B2B startups and scale-ups, in France and across Europe, measure the clarity of their message and then rebuild it with them: audit in 48 hours, repositioning in two days on average.
Its founder draws on thirty years of experience turning complex technologies into sales pipeline, notably at Boole & Babbage, BMC, Mercury Interactive, SPSS, IBM and Efficient IP. Fast Growth Advisors has worked with companies such as Edenred, Alphabet, Groupe Télégramme, Lengow and Lifen.
Fast Growth Advisors is the author of the Message-Market Fit Observatory, which has audited 369 French startups since 2024. More information: https://fast-growth.fr/en/
Press contacts
Hervé Dhélin
+33 (0)6 37 22 28 50
herve@fast-growth.fr
About Paris Business Angels
Paris Business Angels (PBA) is France’s leading business angel network for seed-stage investment and support. A generalist network, it operates nationwide and reviews more than 1,500 applications a year across all sectors.
PBA brings together nearly 200 experienced investors who are passionate about entrepreneurship and share a common conviction: beyond providing capital, to contribute actively to the success of talented and ambitious entrepreneurs by giving them access to expertise, networks and strategic development.
Support from PBA members covers the main growth challenges: defining the go-to-market strategy and accelerating sales, structuring governance, recruiting and developing talent, scaling, and preparing for international expansion. Entrepreneurs also enjoy privileged access to a first-rate partner platform, unique in the business angel ecosystem.
Since its creation, PBA has supported, mentored and funded more than 200 startups, for a cumulative total of more than €60M invested (first rounds and follow-on rounds).
More information: https://www.parisbusinessangels.com/en/
Press contacts
Yito Etrillard
+33 (0)6 21 99 25 53
yito@parisbusinessangels.com
This is a translation by Fast Growth Advisors. The original press release was issued in French and is available as a PDF in French.
FAQ
What does the partnership between Paris Business Angels and Fast Growth Advisors involve?
Dedicated terms for PBA members, on two fronts.
For existing portfolio companies, Fast Growth Advisors runs a detailed messaging audit against fifteen criteria, with a 90-day action plan. For new deals, a messaging score becomes part of entry due diligence. The partnership adds to the partner platform that Paris Business Angels opens to the entrepreneurs it supports.
What does a founder receive at the end of the audit?
A complete report, delivered within 48 hours.
It includes a diagnosis of the current message, a proposed rewritten message, a criterion-by-criterion visibility analysis and a prioritized action plan. The first recommended actions are the ones that cost nothing. The grid follows the methodology of the Fast Growth Advisors detailed audit: fifteen criteria scored out of 5, for a total out of 75 points, with a critical threshold set at 37.5.
Why does message clarity matter more with AI assistants?
Because B2B buyers form an opinion before the first meeting.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude are becoming gateways to suppliers. A website these engines can read without effort can be found, cited, then recommended. Timing matters too. Fixed early, a message often fits on a single page; fixed late, it means reworking the website, the brochures and all sales collateral.
How can you contact Fast Growth Advisors about this partnership?
By email or phone, through Hervé Dhélin.
The founder of Fast Growth Advisors answers founders, business angels and journalists at herve@fast-growth.fr or on +33 6 37 22 28 50. For Paris Business Angels, the press contact is Yito Etrillard, at yito@parisbusinessangels.com or on +33 6 21 99 25 53.