Jean-Francois Drweski

Startups & Venture Capital

2022 - Current

Managing Business Development on the French perimeter. In charge of : > Developing strategic relationships with Tier 1 VC Investment Funds (portfolio support, dealflow, due diligence) > Providing support to CxOs of high potential startups (funding, technical support, cost optimization, go to market)

Venture Partner

2023

> GENERATIONS is a seed impact fund operated by Ring Capital and powered by EDHEC. Objective is to fund high potential entrepreneurs building a better future and tacking 4 topics : empowerment & inclusion (reinventing a more inclusive future through people empowerment to reach their full potential), healthy living (building a new health system to ensure a more sustainable lifestyle for people), environmental transition (designing fair agriculture, energy transition, and carbon neutrality solutions), conscious consumption (innovating to foster responsible consumption models and create a more sustainable future) Missions as a Venture Partner : 2020-2023 : set up the fund from a clean sheet to its launch : investment thesis with with Edhec Business School Executives, structuration, value proposition, presentation to the Board (go/no go) and selection of a asset management company to operate the fund 2023 and onwards : provides Ring Investment Team with advice and support on investment opportunities screening, due diligence and last step validation before investment committee

Managing Partner / Head of Finance, HR & Operations

2018 - 2022

50 Partners is a French Investment Firm in Venture Capital (VC) and an Accelerator founded by 50 successful entrepreneurs dedicated to support the most promising realy-stages Startups in the digital, impact and healthcare area. More specifically in charge of : > Implementing finance & performance monitoring processes (analytics, cash-flow, budget) > Optimizing business operations (from dealflow generation to porfolio follow-up) > Defining and setting-up full HR policy (recruitment, on-boarding, assessment, HR follow-up.) > Structuring the legal function (portfolio, contract and equity follow-up) and leading the AMF agreement enabling 50 Partners to become an asset management company > Leading 20 investments (4,5M€) over 3 years (Evina, Brigad, BirdOffice, Julaya, YZR, LittleWorker...), member of the Investment Committee > Supervising back and middle office processing (risk control, valuation, reporting to the LPs) 50 Partners Capital portfolio : Datadome, Brigad, The Guarantors, Selency, Evina, Bird Office, Pandascore, Supermood, Sqreen (exited), Julaya, BirdOffice, LittleWorker, ProcessOut (exited), Qopius (exited)

Non Executive Board Member

2021 - 2022

Member Of The Supervisory Board

2020 - 2022

Board Of Advisors

2020 - 2022

Temporary Teacher

2016 - 2018

Teaching the course "Funding Innovation" in the frame of the Master in Project Management & Funding

CEO & Co-Founder at Truster.fr (sold to BobDesk, backed by Vinci Group)

2013 - 2018

Truster.fr is a facility management digital solution dedicated to enterprises. Following a global 350K€ funding in 2014, Truster aimed at helping companies managing physical premises to solve any maintenance issue by providing transparent and fast access to preset services performed by highly selected maintenance companies. Truster generated a 3,5M€ gross yearly volume in 2018 and sold its customer portfolio to a Bobdesk, a competitor owned by Vinci group. > Defined and supervised product development > Managed Human Resources (co-founders, 5 FTE, interns, apprentices), Legal (contracts & fundraising), Finance > Took over business development in 2015 with a focus on B to B customers and developed new acquisition channels (content, social media, partnerships) - Signed 70 B to B customers (2016 – 2018) to reach 2,5M€ GMV (EBIT >0) > Managed the sales of the customer asset to a competitor funded by Vinci Ventures in 2018

Co-founder - Funding Strategy & Finance Management for start-ups & SMBs

2015 - 2018

> Supported 10 start-ups in their Seed & Serie A fundraising (12M€ raised) : Nestor, Cleanio, Airmont, Basecamp, Tallano > Performed outsourced finance tasks for innovative SME (pre-funding audits, data rooms, financial monitoring, reporting, general secretary) > Mentored start-ups for incubators (Numa, The Family, La Ruche)

Group Internal Audit Manager - Finance & Operations

2010 - 2012

> Led a team of 11 people : team animation, recruitment, planning, assessments > Led more than 20 assignments on the worldwide perimeter > Direct reporting to the Group CFO and yearly report to the group Executive Committee