Cyprien Halle
Founder of darwin
Cyprien Halle
Founder of darwin
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
For ESG players who need to design nature strategies, darwin is a B2B platform that automates data collection, nature interaction assessment, trajectory setting and reporting. Unlike scattered and siloed solutions, darwin allows end-to-end nature strategy design.
Investment Manager
2020 - 2024
Venture Capital Firm: Seed x B2B x SaaS x Europe --- We are a pan-European VC fund ($160m AUM) investing in businesses generating network effects at the early stage. French Portfolio includes: - Matera - Fintecture - BigBlue - Karmen - Allisone - Carbon Maps - Totem - Procsea - Sqwad (Exited) - Deepbelief (Exited) - FoodChéri (Exited) Initiatives: Internal InvestmentOps and DataOps.
Strategy Consultant
2018 - 2020
Strategy Consulting Firm: Private Equity and Corporate advisory --- Corporate and Business strategy advisory for corporate clients: - Strategy for the deployment of the second vintage of a Deeptech Fund - Electrification strategy for a global construction machinery manufacturer Strategic due diligences and target screenings for Corporates and Private equity funds to assess the relevance of M&A transactions, including hypothesis-driven market models on the following industries: - Energy - Pharmaceuticals - Fashion and Luxury - Entertainment - Advertising - Data & Analytics - Manufacturing - Construction
Strategy Consultant
2015 - 2016
Strategy and Organisation Consulting Firm: Corporate Advisory --- - Analysis and design of a restructuring plan for a large energy German company Results: Restored 3% forecasted growth within 5 years, reorganized the production mix - Go-to-market strategy and recommendations for an international pharmaceutical firm to launch a new cure in Europe Results: Distribution network designed to launch the cure in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Northern Europe within 2 years - Mobilisation workshop for a French industrial company wanting to improve its sales efficiency in France Results: 200 salespeople mobilized, new sales tool adopted, improvement of sales by 10%
Software & Product Engineer
2014 - 2015
IoT company: working with the automotive division --- Design and building of the prototype of an infotainment solution for the automotive industry: Parrot Simple Box, car radio 2.0 Working with an international team to deliver and maintain the prototype. Results: Product presented at CES of Las Vegas on Parrot’s stand Technologies: Java (Android FW and Parrot proprietary FW); Objective-C (iOS FW); Python (Linux scripts); Git (Versioning)
Co-founder and CPTO
2014 - 2015
Mobile Venture --- The first social game to celebrate time away from your mobile. In charge of product development.
Choriste
2000 - 2006
Opéras représentés à Bastille, au Théatre des Champs-Elysées, à l'Opéra Comique et à l'international en soliste et en choeur : Opéras : - Carmen, Georges Bizet (Opéra de Paris, Festival de Baalbeck au Liban) - La Flûte Enchantée, W.A. Mozart (Opéras de Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Colmar, Nancy, Festival du Rhin) - La Dame de Pique, Tchaïkovsky (Opéra de Paris) - La Khovantchina, Modest Moussorgski (Opéra de Paris) - Le Chevalier à la Rose, Richard Strauss (Opéra de Paris) - Tosca, Giacomo Puccini (Opéra de Paris) - La Bohême, Giacomo Puccini (Opéra de Paris, Opéras en plein air) - La Petite Renarde Rusée, Leos Janacek (Théatre des Champs-Élysées) - Le petit Ramoneur, Benjamin Britten (Théatre des Champs Eysées, Opéra Comique, Enregistrement CD) - Marco Polo et la princesse de Chine, Isabelle Aboulker (Opéras de Pékin, Nankin, Shanghai) Choeurs : - Requiem, W.A. Mozart (Opéra de Massy) - Requiem, R. Schumann (Opéra de Massy) - Les saisons de Haydn (Salle Pleyel) - Stabat Mater, Pergolese (Festival de Baalbeck au Liban, Sainte Chapelle) - Messe en Si, J.S. Bach (Opéra de Massy) - Gloria en ré, A. Vivaldi (Église Sainte Eustache à Paris) - BO du jeu Obscure (Enregistrement Studio)