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.
Yuma AI is a Boston-based AI customer support platform purpose-built for ecommerce brands. Founded in late 2022 by serial YC founder Guillaume Luccisano (Socialcam, Triplebyte), Yuma deploys autonomous AI agents that resolve 60–93% of customer support tickets end-to-end — handling returns, refunds, WISMO queries, and order changes — inside the helpdesks merchants already use (Gorgias, Zendesk, Kustomer and more). With 100+ paying Shopify merchants, over 5 million automated queries, and a $5M seed round backed by Google's Gradient Ventures, Yuma is building the AI customer experience layer for modern commerce.