# 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.

- **Role:** CEO and Founder at SightCall
- **Organizations:** SightCall, Niji, UUNET, MCI WorldCom, Bouygues Telecom
- **Nationality:** French
- **Education:** Master's in Computer Science, Telecom Lille 1, France
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled SightCall into a global AR-powered visual assistance platform serving customers across every continent., Raised approximately $58 million in total funding, including a $42 million Series B in 2021., Landed HP as an early flagship enterprise customer and later added names such as GE Healthcare and Whirlpool.

## Career timeline

- **late 1990s** — Led the Southern Europe engineering group at UUNET, then the world's largest ISP, working on early internet infrastructure.
- **2000s** — Continued in telecom through UUNET's acquisition by MCI WorldCom; also worked on projects associated with Bouygues Telecom.
- **2003-2008** — Helped grow Niji, a French software and consulting firm specializing in digital convergence, reportedly from around 40 to 450 employees and from roughly EUR 2m to EUR 40m in revenue.
- **2008** — Co-founded SightCall (originally Weemo) with Antoine Vervoort, prototyping the platform in a friend's basement.
- **2013** — Moved his family to the San Francisco Bay Area and pursued a Salesforce partnership that led to HP as an early flagship customer.
- **2015** — Raised a Series A of about $8.4 million; won the Dell Innovation Award.
- **2021** — Raised a $42 million Series B, bringing total funding to roughly $58 million.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled SightCall into a global AR-powered visual assistance platform serving customers across every continent.
- Raised approximately $58 million in total funding, including a $42 million Series B in 2021.
- Landed HP as an early flagship enterprise customer and later added names such as GE Healthcare and Whirlpool.
- 2015 Dell Innovation Award
- 2016 Comcast Innovation Award
- 2017 Amdocs Innovation in Practice Award
- 2017 Graham Bell Award
- 2018 NTT Data Open Innovation San Francisco Award
- Recognized as an early internet protocol expert who contributed to building modern internet infrastructure.

## Latest updates

- **2021-05** — Closed a $42 million Series B round to accelerate growth of the visual assistance platform.

## Links

- Website: https://sightcall.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tcottereau/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/thomascottereau
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SightCall

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