# Romaric Philogène

> Romaric Philogène is the CEO and co-founder of Qovery, a platform-engineering company that turns cloud infrastructure into a self-service experience for developers. A former site reliability engineer with a decade in ad-tech and financial systems, he started Qovery in 2019 with Pierre Mavro and Morgan Perry and, in September 2025, raised a $13M Series A led by IRIS and Crane Venture Partners, with angel checks from Datadog's Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-founder at Qovery
- **Organizations:** Qovery, Nousmotards (former), Ullink (former), CrossLog (former), Sirdata (former)
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** Deep Learning course, Stanford (online), Neural Networks, CNNs, Improving Deep Neural Networks, Structuring ML Projects, deeplearning.ai, Electronic systems, René Cassin
- **Known for:** Co-founded Qovery in 2019 and scaled it past 30,000 developers on the platform, Raised $17M total funding across seed and Series A, Landed Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and CTO Alexis Lê-Quôc as angel investors

## Career timeline

- **2010** — System Engineer at CrossLog
- **2011** — Site Reliability Engineer at Ullink (ad-tech / financial infra)
- **2014** — Founded Nousmotards, a European motorbiker community app (grew to ~85,000 members)
- **2019** — Co-founded Qovery with Pierre Mavro and Morgan Perry
- **2021** — Raised $4M seed to expand Qovery
- **2025** — Closed $13M Series A led by IRIS and Crane Venture Partners

## Achievements

- Co-founded Qovery in 2019 and scaled it past 30,000 developers on the platform
- Raised $17M total funding across seed and Series A
- Landed Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and CTO Alexis Lê-Quôc as angel investors
- Grew Qovery 115% year-over-year with half of revenue from US customers
- Signed customers including Talkspace and RxVantage
- Previously built Nousmotards into one of the largest motorbiker communities in Europe

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Announced $13M Series A led by IRIS and Crane Venture Partners; Datadog's Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc join as angels.
- **2024-12** — Qovery team attended AWS re:Invent 2024 to meet customers and partners.

## Links

- Website: https://www.qovery.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romaricphilogene/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/rophilogene
- GitHub: https://github.com/evoxmusic
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67eM9FZpww

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Last updated: 2026-07-08