"When properly funded and focused on practical solutions, technological innovation can multiply the impact of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs, empowering them to tackle the major challenges of the decades ahead."
Olivier Le Blainvaux, Founding Partner
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purpose
Agriculture
Restoring productive and sustainable ecosystems
Materials & Chemistry
Providing sustainable materials to our industry
Health
Improving care and containing its costs
Security & Space
Building capacities to become more resilient
AI & Electronics
Building frugal and ethical AI
Energy
Intensifying the decarbonisation
Investment
Team
Olivier Le Blainvaux
Managing Partner
Olivier Le Blainvaux, Managing Partner
French entrepreneur and co-founder of Technofounders. A graduate of École Polytechnique (2006–2010), he began his career at McKinsey & Company before transitioning to entrepreneurship. He is actively involved in identifying disruptive technologies and structuring investment vehicles to fund innovative projects
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Pierre Le Blainvaux
Managing Partner
Pierre Le Blainvaux, Managing Partner
French entrepreneur and co-founder of Technofounders. A graduate of École Polytechnique, Pierre focuses on creating impactful industrial companies by leveraging existing research projects. Pierre serves as the studio's president and actively collaborates with major research institutions in France to transform innovative technologies into successful businesses.
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Sébastien Wuidart
Managing Partner
Sébastien Wuidart, Managing Partner
Sébastien Wuidart is Managing Partner at Technofounders, specializing in fundraising and investor relations for industrial deeptech ventures. Previously, he spent nearly two decades at Société Générale, where he held leadership roles in trading and private banking. He also serves as a board member for several high-tech startups, supporting innovation at the intersection of finance and technology.
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What they say about us
Our collaboration with Technofounders enabled the transfer of a promising therapeutic innovation to a medical startup. Their ability to adapt and to collaborate with the academic world was instrumental in bringing this initiative to fruition.
Laurence Petit, Director for Innovation, Start-ups, and Investments at CEA
Technofounders excellent knowledge of the academic ecosystem and their ability to quickly assess the value-creation potential of technologies that are sometimes still at a very early stage have led to the creation of five high-potential CNRS spin-offs, such as Ion-X in the NewSpace sector and Hiqute Diamond in the strategic field of industrial diamond production.
Thomas Ribeiro, Managing Director at CNRS Innovation