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Alain is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Expon Capital.
Alain is a senior Venture Capitalist, an entrepreneur and a former technical leader in global corporations. He spent the first eight years of his career in technical positions, leveraging his studies in mathematics, electrical engineering and computer science. He understood in 1995 that Internet Technologies would revolutionize the entire IT industry and decided to be part of this revolution by joining the startup ecosystem.
He became a Partner at Sofinnova in 1999, a leading pan-european venture capital firm with a diversified early-stage Life Science / IT strategy. He experienced the dotcom boom and burst, and the tough years that followed, for both startups and VCs. In this context, he managed to secure successes in Europe and the US (Emailvision, Maximiles, Atomz and Wyplay).
He left Sofinnova in 2009 to start his own venture investments vehicle after 12 years of VC experience, 7 IPOs and having been through bear and bull cycles. Arenatis Capital was dedicated to pre-seed investments in Internet Services and Drug Development, his preferred sectors. The portfolio includes Geneanet, Welovewords, Sirdata, and Orphalan.
His current areas of interest include AI driven Consumer and Business Services but also Space Technologies. He is attracted by business models and technologies disrupting legacy markets.
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