Stéphane Béreux is cofounder of Jimini AI, one of France most promising legal tech – an AI copilot to simplify the research, modification, and drafting of legal documents.
We talk with Stéphane about his background at Ecole Polytechnique, his starting of JiminiAI and GenAI native legal applications more generally.
This episode is in French.
Andrea Bensaid is the founder of Eskimoz, one France (and Europe’s) largest digital agencies.
We talk with Andrea about his background in business school, his launch of Eskimoz, data science applied to marketing and the future of AI in marketing.
Andrea also has his own podcast, ‘Little Big Things’
This episode is in French.
Charles Gorintin is cofounder of Alan and Mistral, two of France’s largest billion-$ businesses, in healthcare and AI respectively.
We talk with Charles’ background at ENS/Stanford, rapid product launches, use of AI/LLMs, Charles’ favourite books and startups, and playing competitive chess, amongst many other things
This episode is in French.
We met with Ori Pekelman, cofounder of Platform.sh, Franco-American leader for cloud applications.
Ori talks about his background and what sets Platform.sh apart.
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.
