Bilal el Alamy

Bilal El Alamy is Co-Founder and CEO of PyratzLabs, an AI and blockchain venture studio and investment firm headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France, which he co-founded in June 2021 alongside Maxime Sarthet, Thomas Binetruy, and Jacques Lalo. PyratzLabs operates as a startup studio and accelerator focused on Web3, providing capital, embedded teams, and go-to-market support to portfolio companies. Since inception, the studio has backed over 40 companies across gaming, DeFi, art, and infrastructure, with three full exits and five partial exits, and a DPI above 1 and TVPI above 10. El Alamy's current focus areas at PyratzLabs include AI agents for production operations, privacy infrastructure built on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and confidential DeFi and payments for institutional use.

Since January 2026, El Alamy has also served as Special Projects Advisor at Zama, following PyratzLabs portfolio company Zaïffer.org being acquired by Zama. In that role he works across strategy, business, and product to support institutional adoption of Zama's FHE-based confidentiality technology, including encrypted ERC-20 tokens and sub-five-second encrypted transactions on Ethereum mainnet. Prior to PyratzLabs, he co-founded Equisafe in 2017 with Frédéric Bertoïa, a platform for structuring and managing special purpose vehicles using blockchain technology. He also co-founded Dogamí, a Web3 game on the Tezos blockchain, and NFT Factory, a space for Web3 entrepreneurs and artists. He has lectured on blockchain and smart contracts at MIT, HEC, Centrale Paris, ESCP Business School, and Université Paris II Assas. His academic background includes an MSc in Big Data and Business Analytics from ESCP Business School, a Master's in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a BSc in Physics and Mechanical Engineering from Pierre and Marie Curie University.