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It’s time for a change, follow me there :) — Over the past few months, I have wondered if it made sense for me to move away from Medium to try another platform. The main reasons behind this consideration were the following: I wanted a better filtering systems for the 197 posts I had written so far; I wished I…

Forewords Venture capitalists back entrepreneurs who work hard to build meaningful organisations. They contemplate them execute on a single mission, support each one of them in their own way by leveraging as much as possible what they know, observe, and learn from their comfortable position of having many chips in different…

Impala just announced its $11M Series A round led by Stride and Xavier Niel, with the participation of Insight Partners Co-Founder Jerry Murdock, as well as Tom Stafford and the partners of DST Global 💸 I am thrilled to join the company’s journey alongside those amazing people 🤗 How Impala got our attention 😎 Venture capital…

My browser is opened with only one tab, the notifications are off both on my computer and my phone. There is a cup of coffee on my left and my Bose noise-masking sleepbuds are on with a boardwalk sound. I’m in the zone. To write. I know that this piece…

People ^ Venture ^ Capital — Over the past few years, I have come to realize the inherent logic and intuition behind our decisions to back entrepreneurs who have revealed, over time, to be phenomenal founders and company builders.

When I joined Kima Ventures in September 2015, it was becoming clear that our mandate to support the rise of French entrepreneurship was taking on its full meaning. Honestly, I don’t think we could have predicted such acceleration in the maturity of the market. The quality of French founders, both…

Kima Ventures has the largest portfolio of French companies in the world. We’ve had the opportunity to observe over the past few years the incredible rise of the following phenomenons: There are more and more French entrepreneurs, with either remarkable learning curves and/or past valuable experiences, making them more talented…

Most of the founders we back have to go through the pain of handling a roadshow. And they know that a fundraising process can’t last forever. It’s bad for creating and managing momentum, maximising the output, and more importantly for the business. Therefore, entrepreneurs must concentrate meetings, gather interests and…