Jonathan Rat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Archy, an AI-powered all-in-one dental practice management platform based in San Jose, California. A French-born software engineer with a master's in computer science, he spent a decade building payments infrastructure at Facebook, SurveyMonkey, and Uber before co-founding Archy in 2021 alongside former Uber colleagues Ben Kolin and Nimish Sheth. His motivation: watching his wife, Dr. Christine Liu, struggle daily with outdated, fragmented dental software. Archy has since raised $47 million in total funding, serves 2.5 million patients across 45 states, and processes over $100 million in annual payments.
Romain Lapeyre is the Co-founder and CEO of Gorgias, the AI-powered customer experience platform built for ecommerce brands. Founded in Paris in 2015 with co-founder Alex Plugaru and later relocated to San Francisco, Gorgias has grown to serve 16,400+ merchants including Glossier, Steve Madden, and Dollar Shave Club, reaching $80M ARR with roughly 520 employees and $103M+ in total funding. Lapeyre studied at HEC Paris and has built Gorgias using a data-driven, partner-led growth model - scaling to 10,000+ customers without traditional cold calling.
Thibault Louis-Lucas, known as Tibo (@tibo_maker), is a French serial founder and SaaS studio builder who went from bankruptcy to crossing $1M/month in portfolio revenue by March 2026. After selling Tweet Hunter and Taplio to Lempire for $10M+, he built TMAKER - a bootstrapped SaaS studio running multiple profitable products including Revid.ai ($600K MRR), Outrank.so ($300K MRR), and a suite of growth tools. He documents everything publicly.