# Alexandre Pasquiou

> Alexandre Pasquiou is the CEO and co-founder of Neuralk-AI, a Paris deeptech building tabular foundation models - AI designed natively for the spreadsheets, SQL tables and product catalogs that run real businesses. A CentraleSupelec engineer with a PhD in computational neuroscience from Inria, he spent his doctorate measuring how well language models like GPT-2 and BERT predict human brain activity, then turned that obsession with structured signal into a company. Founded in 2023 with Antoine Moissenot, Neuralk raised a $4M seed in early 2025 led by Fly Ventures, backed by angels including Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and Mirakl's Philippe Corrot, and works with retailers like E.Leclerc and Auchan.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Neuralk-AI
- **Organizations:** Neuralk-AI, Inria, CentraleSupelec
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** Engineering degree, CentraleSupelec (Centrale Paris), PhD in computational neuroscience (supervised by Bertrand Thirion and Christophe Pallier), Inria (MIND / Parietal team, NeuroSpin/CEA)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Neuralk-AI, building the first tabular foundation model for commerce, Raised a $4M seed round (Feb 2025) led by Fly Ventures with StemAI and Station F, Selected for the Meta x Hugging Face x Scaleway AI Startup Program as one of 5 European startups

## Career timeline

- **—** — Data science roles at Stuart and happn; consulting at Eternum Energy
- **—** — PhD in computational neuroscience at Inria, CEA and NeuroSpin, studying how neural language models predict brain activity
- **2022** — Published 'Neural Language Models are not Born Equal to Fit Brain Data, but Training Helps' at ICML
- **2023** — Co-founded Neuralk-AI with Antoine Moissenot; based at Station F, Paris
- **2025** — Raised $4M seed led by Fly Ventures; released Dawn tabular foundation model and TabBench benchmark

## Achievements

- Co-founded Neuralk-AI, building the first tabular foundation model for commerce
- Raised a $4M seed round (Feb 2025) led by Fly Ventures with StemAI and Station F
- Selected for the Meta x Hugging Face x Scaleway AI Startup Program as one of 5 European startups
- Named to Station F Future 40 (top ~4% of 1,000+ startups)
- Released Dawn, a tabular foundation model reported to outperform XGBoost, CatBoost and LLMs on tabular tasks
- Published peer-reviewed research at ICML 2022 on language models and brain data

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Neuralk-AI announced a $4M seed round led by Fly Ventures and unveiled plans for a public tabular benchmark and foundation model.
- **2025** — Released the Dawn tabular foundation model and the open-source TabBench benchmark.

## Links

- Website: https://neuralk-ai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-pasquiou-0bb3b8b9/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/a_pasquiou
- GitHub: https://github.com/AlexandrePsq
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cER7p42UlMM

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Last updated: 2026-06-25