Founder in Paris

I am the founder of Seagull Studios, a digital advertising consultancy focused on helping founders and teams scale through performance-driven acquisition, with a strong specialization in Google Ads. With a background including experience at Google, I design and manage acquisition systems that turn advertising into a real growth lever. My work combines strategy, execution, and data, with a constant focus on measurable business impact. More generally, I enjoy helping people bring their projects to life and grow them, which is a big part of what drives me in my work. I have a strong affinity for technology and continuously explore how new tools, including AI, can improve performance and decision-making. I’m used to working in international environments and collaborating with teams across the globe. Outside of work, music has always been an important part of my life, and I enjoy playing several instruments.

I am a Marketing and Revenue Operations Manager at Valutico with a background in growth strategy and financial analysis. My experience spans roles as a co-founder, head of growth, and financial analyst across the technology and aviation sectors. I hold an MS in Transportation and Mobility Management from the University of Leeds and a BBA from EDHEC Business School.

I am the co-founder of OPRTRS, an investment platform that leverages a community of over 180 tech operators to back early-stage founders. My professional background spans venture capital, financial leadership, and startup operations, including roles as Partner at The Family. I am also an active business angel.

I am a strategic innovation consultant at Sourcinno, where I specialize in AI strategy, corporate venture building, and business transformation. With a background spanning both entrepreneurship and leadership roles at Mazars and Accenture, I focus on bridging the gap between emerging technology and corporate growth. I am experienced in guiding executive teams through digital transformation and developing scalable business models across diverse industries.

Co-founder & CEO of Onepilot (€30M+ ARR), building a new standard for customer operations combining AI and human expertise. We help 300+ brands scale their customer experience across channels, languages, and time zones with a flexible, tech-enabled model. Previously founded Cowash and worked in private equity and corporate law. Focused on AI agents, operational leverage, and building capital-efficient companies.

Thomas des Francs is a co-founder of Twenty (#1 open-source CRM). He is an alumnus of Y Combinator, with prior studies in web development and general business.

I’ve always been a builder. My first app — built at university for an aerospace company — taught me something important: I would rather make things than write about them. Then I spent seven years at PwC, but not on the path people usually imagine. Across seven departments and two regions — Paris and DACH — I worked on large-scale mergers, capital markets operations, and high-end advisory for major US and European clients. I kept moving toward the most complex, highest-stakes work I could find: company-defining transactions where the analysis had to withstand real scrutiny. Seven years, seven departments, two countries — because I wanted range, and I wanted depth. Across all of it, I saw the same pattern. Brilliant professionals were spending too much of their time on repetitive, low-leverage work — and too little on what actually makes them valuable: judgment, expertise, and trust. From the inside, I pushed digitalization initiatives and trained hundreds of professionals on data tools. The opportunity became obvious. But it didn’t need another slide deck, workshop, or internal initiative. It needed a real product. So I went back to building. I launched Moby, recruited my best friend as CTO, got into Y Combinator, and now work with some of the largest audit networks in Europe — including BDO, Baker Tilly, PwC, and many others. I’m not an engineer. I’m a builder. AI has given people like me a new kind of leverage: the ability to combine breadth and depth in a way that wasn’t possible before. To architect company-scale systems while staying close to the domain, the customer, and the real operational pain. At Moby, that’s how our agentic system was built — not as a collection of features, but as infrastructure that has to hold up under real audit work, on real client data, with a strong verification layer. For the profession, my conviction is simple: professionals won’t win by working more. They’ll win by being amplified. By spending less time grinding through repetitive tasks, and more time on the judgment, expertise, and trust that actually distinguish them. At Moby, we meet professionals where they already work — in Excel, in documents, in their existing flow. We stay in the background, remove friction, structure complexity, and unlock a new way of working. That’s the future we are building.

I am building zig~zag. I am a graduate of École Polytechnique, where I studied mathematics and economics, and hold a master’s degree in entrepreneurship from HEC Paris. I collect music as a hobby. I like exploring the internet's less travelled paths. My academic background includes specialized training in applied economics and economic theory. I am focused on leveraging my quantitative and entrepreneurial training to address complex challenges.

Paris-based tech entrepreneur, a16z scout

I am a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Paris, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO at Ghosted. My background includes building and scaling high-impact iOS consumer products at companies like Trainline and Deezer. I am passionate about developing performance-driven applications and am an a16z Speedrun founder.

I am the co-founder and CEO of THE QUEST, an entrepreneurship program dedicated to supporting and financing dropouts. My professional journey includes experience as an entrepreneur and investor. I am known for my commitment to helping the next generation of entrepreneurs turn their ambitious ideas into solid, scalable businesses.

I serve as the Chief Operating Officer at LightOn, where I focus on scaling generative AI technologies. My background includes extensive work in AI policy and governance, including my roles as a Board Member at the Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA and as a Fellow at Institut Montaigne. I am also a committee member for CEN and CENELEC’s JTC 21, contributing to the development of international standards for artificial intelligence.