We met with Marc-Henri Gires, cofounder of Defacto, French fintech leader for short-term B2B financing.
Marc-Henri (Marco) talks about his background and what sets Defacto apart.
We met with Louis Chatriot CEO and cofounder of Alma, fintech leader in France of BNPL, which raised Series C by top investors (Northzone, Headline etc.)
Louis talks about his background at Ecole Polytechnique and Stanford, Alma beginnings, key painpoints and triggers in BNPL, and technical tech stack at Alma (details below). Prior to founding Alma, Louis was former GM of Stripe in Italy.
We met with Ruben Fiszel, CEO at Windmill.dev, a leading France-based devtool company. Ruben led engineering at Palantir before that, and is a computer science graduate from EPFL and Stanford University. Ruben scaled Windmill as part of YCombinator’s programme.
We met with Dave Kellogg, former GM of Service Cloud at Salesforce, advisor of prominent technology companies (Alation, Teradata, MarkLogic etc) and currently EiR at Balderton Capital. Dave was at Salesforce when it was 10x smaller than today, a $3b revenue company, versus $30b+ today.
We met with Julien Callede, the inspiring co-founder of Made.com. Made.com is the second furniture revolution since Ikea. Alongside Ning Li, Chloe Macintosh and Brent Hoberman, Julien launched Made.com in 2010 in Notting Hill, which started bringing well-designed, functional furniture to Londoners’ doorsteps. How did the team succeed in getting people to buy furniture online?
Listen to our podcast to find out more! This episode is in French.
We met with Julia Faure, co-founder of Loom, alongside Guillaume Declair. Loom is a clothing brand whose mission is to create durable clothing that is less harmful to the environment, at a reasonable price. Loom advocates a “slow” fashion, far from the Fast Fashion and its excesses. Indeed, fashion is considered the second or third most polluting industry.
Listen to our podcast to find out more! This episode is in French.
We met with Thomas Effantin, CEO of Trusk, founded in 2015 in Paris. With Trusk, you can move any object, within an hour, including large bulky items – we tried it ourselves! Trusk has achieved over 200,000 deliveries, and has recently raised 7M€ in a round led by Daphni.
Listen below to find out Thomas’ story! This episode is in French.
We met with Raphaël at Luko’s swanky offices in the 9th arrondissement. Luko – the recent French disruptor of insurance tech backed by Xavier Niel. Teamed up with a researcher in nuclear physics, Raphaël has innovated in the artificial intelligence space to provide 100% online home insurance: get insured in 2min and reimbursed in as little as 2 hours!
Listen to the episode to find out more! This episode is in French.
