# Adrien Menard

> Adrien Menard is the co-founder and CEO of Botify, an enterprise search optimization platform he started in Paris in 2012 with Stan Chauvin and Thomas Grange after realizing that nearly half of large websites' pages were never even crawled by Google. He built the company from a French SEO tool into a global platform serving more than 500 brands, raised over $82M in venture funding, and moved to New York to lead its largest market. As search shifts toward AI answers and shopping agents, Menard has repositioned Botify around a single promise: help brands be found wherever people and machines search.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Botify
- **Organizations:** Botify, iProspect France, TF1, Cellfish Media, Lagardere Active
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** Master's in Management, ESSCA School of Management, Angers
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Botify into a global enterprise search platform serving 500+ brands, Raised over $82M in venture capital, including a $55M Series C in 2021, Expanded Botify into six countries and led its move into the US, now its largest market

## Career timeline

- **2006** — Graduates from ESSCA School of Management in Angers, France, focused on the digital sector and audience measurement.
- **2006-2011** — Holds product and sales roles across Lagardere Active, TF1, Cellfish Media, and iProspect France, rising to Head of Sales at iProspect.
- **2012** — Co-founds Botify in Paris with Stan Chauvin and Thomas Grange to fix how enterprises approach organic search.
- **2016** — Botify enters the US market, which later grows into its largest and most profitable region.
- **2021** — Raises a $55M Series C, bringing total funding above $82M.
- **2023** — Launches Botify Assist and receives ESSCA's 'Parcours International' award.
- **2025** — Repositions Botify around AI search, launching AI Visibility and Agentic Feeds for the shift to agent-driven discovery.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Botify into a global enterprise search platform serving 500+ brands
- Raised over $82M in venture capital, including a $55M Series C in 2021
- Expanded Botify into six countries and led its move into the US, now its largest market
- Grew the company to roughly 350 employees
- Named to La French Tech Next 120
- Received ESSCA's 'Parcours International' award (2023)
- Member of the Forbes Technology Council

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Botify launches AI Visibility, a product to help brands see and act on their performance across AI-driven search surfaces.
- **2025** — Botify introduces Agentic Feeds to support the shift from search-driven discovery to agent-driven selection, citing a 5.4x rise in AI bot traffic to retail sites.

## Links

- Website: https://www.botify.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrien-menard-19a5188
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/adrien_men

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Last updated: 2026-08-06