# Hugo Renaudin

> Hugo Renaudin is the co-founder and CEO of P00LS, a Web3 platform building social and community tokens for creators and brands. A French-born, math-trained entrepreneur, he ran the largest ICO in France (raising roughly $20-30M in under 10 hours for LGO, a crypto exchange he sold to Voyager Digital), then co-founded the DeFi venture Bender Labs before launching P00LS in 2021. P00LS has raised around $18M to turn fandom into ownership: creators mint non-speculative tokens that reward and identify their most loyal supporters across chains.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at P00LS
- **Organizations:** P00LS, Bender Labs, LGO, Voyager Digital, La Financiere de l'Echiquier (LFDE), Rocket Internet
- **From:** France
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** M.S. Operations Research, Columbia University, M.S. Applied Mathematics and Economics, Ecole Polytechnique
- **Known for:** Completed the largest ICO in France, raising roughly $20M+ in under 10 hours, Co-founded LGO and scaled it to ~80 institutional clients across 20 countries with billions in trading volume, Sold LGO to Voyager Digital (2020)

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Begins following Bitcoin and blockchain as a student
- **2017** — Co-founds LGO, an institutional crypto exchange, while studying at Columbia
- **2020** — LGO acquired by Voyager Digital; co-founds Bender Labs (DeFi)
- **2021** — Founds P00LS, a Web3 creator/community token platform
- **2023** — P00LS continues scaling with seed funding (~$18M total raised)

## Achievements

- Completed the largest ICO in France, raising roughly $20M+ in under 10 hours
- Co-founded LGO and scaled it to ~80 institutional clients across 20 countries with billions in trading volume
- Sold LGO to Voyager Digital (2020)
- Built P00LS into a leading Web3 creator-token platform with ~$18M raised
- Three-time crypto founder before age 30

## Latest updates

- **2023-01** — P00LS raised seed funding as part of ~$18M total to expand its creator token protocol

## Links

- Website: https://p00ls.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugorenaudin/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/hugorenaudin_
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMKyc942jqA

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Last updated: 2026-06-24