Ahmed Achchak
Founder & CEO of Qevlar AI
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Ahmed Achchak is the CEO and co-founder of Qevlar AI, a cybersecurity startup building autonomous AI agents to remediate security threats. A CentraleSupélec graduate, he previously worked as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Natixis and was CTO of Minotaur, a startup specializing in used automotive parts.
In 2023, raised €4.5 million in seed funding, backed by EQT Ventures
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Pierre-Louis Biojout
Founder & CTO of Phospho
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Pierre-Louis Biojout is the co-founder and CTO of phospho, a text analytics platform for LLM applications. His current work focuses on developing robust tooling and analytics solutions for large language model-powered applications. Pierre-Louis is also one of the core contributors to LLM-colosseum, an open-source project to rank LLMs by having them play video games against each other.
Y Combinator (W24)
In 2024, raised €1.7 million in pre-seed funding, led by Elaia and Y Combinator
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Antoine Carossio
Founder & CTO of Escape
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Antoine Carossio is the CTO and co-founder of Escape Technologies, a cybersecurity that helps developers secure APIs during development. Their solution has secured applications for over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including Sorare and Neo4J.
Y Combinator (W23)
In 2023, raised €3.9 million in seed funding, led by IRIS, Frst, Y Combinator, Kima Ventures and others.
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Ahmed Dahbi
Head of Product at PhotoRoom
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Ahmed Dahbi's career spans significant roles at notable companies, including leading product management at Withings during its growth phase, building adtech solutions at Criteo, and most recently working on social maps at Zenly (Snapchat). Currently, he serves as Head of Product at Photoroom, where he focuses on AI-powered visual e-commerce solutions. He has also co-founded a VC-backed startup and served as a board member for Foodvisor.
In 2024, €43 million in series B funding was raised, led by Balderton Capital and French VC Aglaé Ventures.