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Evan Kervella Is Taking MRI Out of the Basement
A failed first startup taught Evan Kervella to rebuild his circumstances. Now he is pairing quantum sensors, software and patient hardware in a long campaign to make MRI easier to place where people already receive care.
Alexis Normand
Alexis Normand spent years turning personal data into useful signals. At Greenly, he is applying the same instinct to corporate carbon - making an invisible liability legible enough to manage.
Thomas Cottereau
Thomas Cottereau is the CEO and co-founder of SightCall, a San Francisco-based platform for AR-powered live visual assistance used by enterprises in insurance, manufacturing, healthcare and utilities. A telecom engineer who helped build early internet infrastructure at UUNET and MCI WorldCom, he started SightCall in 2008 in a friend's basement and spent five years turning a video prototype into an enterprise SaaS platform, later moving his family to the Bay Area and winning HP as an early flagship customer. Under his leadership SightCall raised roughly $58 million and grew into a global company serving customers across every continent.
Rodolphe Barrere
Rodolphe Barrere is the co-founder and CEO of Potloc, a Montreal-headquartered consumer research platform that pioneered survey sampling through social networks. Born in France, he moved to Quebec at 17 to study at HEC Montreal, worked briefly at LVMH in Paris and New York, and founded Potloc in 2014 with classmate Louis Delaoustre. He was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Technology) list and has raised more than $90M for the company, which now serves consulting firms and private equity clients across offices in Montreal, New York, Paris, London and Dubai.
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.
Arthur Querou
Arthur Querou is the co-founder and CEO of Vibe.co, a self-serve connected TV advertising platform that lets small and medium businesses run streaming ads with budgets starting at $50 a day. A Y Combinator alum mentored by Sam Altman and a serial entrepreneur with four prior exits, he raised a $50M Series B in September 2025 at a reported $410M valuation and pushed Vibe past a $100M revenue run rate in under two years.
Arnaud Plas
Arnaud Plas is the co-founder and CEO of Prose, the New York based beauty-tech company that makes custom haircare and skincare to order, one formula per person. A former L'Oreal digital and e-commerce executive, he left big CPG in 2017 to attack the one-size-fits-all model with AI-driven consultations and a software-run, make-after-you-buy factory. Under his watch Prose reached profitability in 2023, sold more than 10 million bespoke products, and pushed net sales past $140 million on its way to an estimated $160 million in 2024.
Dagobert Renouf
Dagobert Renouf is a French indie entrepreneur, self-taught developer, and the internet's unofficial 'Startup Meme King'. He co-founded Logology — an automated logo service for early-stage startups — with his wife Lucie, grew 100K+ Twitter followers by documenting the raw highs and lows of bootstrapping, and shut it all down after five years and $100K of their own savings. Then he sold ad space on his wedding suit to 26 indie startups, went globally viral, and landed a sales job at one of the sponsors. Now he runs LaunchDay (a Product Hunt alternative for indie makers) and works as an Account Executive at Comp AI from Lille, France.