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Dimittri Choudhury Keeps Changing the Problem - and Keeping the Co-founder
At 19, he traded a French engineering-school track for a $50 Tenderloin room, an unreliable Wi-Fi connection and a Y Combinator interview. Three products later, the constant is less glamorous: Alexandre Klobb is still beside him, and each pivot begins with a problem they have felt up close.
Mathieu Perez Took AI Off Zoom and Sent It Knocking on Doors
After eight YC rejections and several startup detours, the former goalkeeper returned to a problem he had met at 18: the invisible gap between an average field rep and a closer.
The Founder Who Learned to Stop Carrying the Company
Yannick Namia spent years making companies depend on him. Then he discovered the more useful founder skill: building teams that can think, decide, and recover without waiting for permission.
Matt Lhoumeau
Matt Lhoumeau is the cofounder and CEO of Concord, a contract lifecycle management platform used by over 100,000 companies. A French entrepreneur who founded his first company at 17, wrote speeches for Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 campaign, and once spent six months manually renegotiating 500 contracts for a French telecom giant, Lhoumeau built Concord to make contract management as ordinary as sending an email.
Bruno Lecoq
Bruno Lecoq is the French-born co-founder, CEO and Chief Information Security Officer of BEMO, a Redmond, Washington cybersecurity and compliance company built for small and mid-sized businesses living inside the Microsoft cloud. After roughly two decades at Microsoft - working across MS-DOS, Windows, Exchange, Office and the hardware supply chain before becoming a director of business processes - he left to fix a gap he kept seeing: real, affordable security for companies too small for an enterprise security team. Since 2010 BEMO has grown into a Microsoft Direct CSP and US Partner of the Year, a back-to-back Inc 5000 honoree, and the maker of a SaaS platform that automates Microsoft 365 security and compliance for over a thousand businesses.
Jonathan Rat
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
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.
Hubert Thieblot
Hubert Thieblot is a French-born entrepreneur and General Partner at Founders, Inc. (f.inc), a San Francisco-based venture fund and community campus occupying 42,000 sq ft at Fort Mason. He built Curse, Inc. - a gaming media empire with 30M+ monthly visitors - from a World of Warcraft fan site he started as a teenager in Paris, grew it into an Inc. 500 company, and sold it to Twitch (Amazon) in 2016. After serving as VP of Emerging Markets and Mobile at Twitch, he joined Founders, Inc. to back early-stage founders tackling hard problems in AI/ML, hardware, web3, AR/VR, and other frontier tech sectors.
Tibo
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.