Julie Leroy
Ecosystem Manager at EDHEC Business School
Julie Leroy
Ecosystem Manager at EDHEC Business School
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Work Experience
Ecosystem Manager
2024 - Current
- Fundraising project manager for the seed impact fund GENERATIONS powered by EDHEC in partnership with Ring Capital - Head of communities EDHEC Entrepreneurs
Guest Lecturer
2022 - 2024
Coached 4 classes of international and french students on corporate cases using Design Thinking and Lean Startup methodologies for leading brands (Groupe Rocher, Galeries Lafayette, Lactalis, and LVMH Fragrance Brand).
Co-Founder
2021 - 2024
- Developed an investment thesis focusing on student founders and young graduates from French schools & universities - Developed the brand (managed the Give Back podcast, newsletter and social media) - Designed a VC program (from scouting to supporting portfolio startups) for +100 students from 50 schools, in collaboration with 10 investment funds. - Organized events ( 20+ masterclasses, 5+ afterworks) - Built and managed the community - Developed relationships with schools, professors, entrepreneurial student associations, mentors, VCs and Business Angels
Co-Founder
2022 - 2023
📢 Launch of the "Wikipedia of entrepreneurship" Baby VC (1st community of young people around the Venture Capital industry in France) and Genius Global (1st federation of student entrepreneurial associations in France) are joining forces to launch Baby Genius 💛 Startups. This tool, designed as a real "Wikipedia of entrepreneurship", aims to 👉 Centralize in one place more than 1,000 resources related to the startup ecosystem that are freely available on the internet 👉 Collaborate by giving everyone the opportunity to suggest changes and additions You will find information on : 👉 Entrepreneurship: how to launch a business from A to Z, legal aspects, lists of tools, training, innovation studios, incubators, accelerators, information on corporate culture, recruitment 👉 Startup financing: the different financing levers that exist, lists of VC and BA funds 👉 Startup culture: podcasts to listen to, newsletters to read, media, books, films, TV series and shows, articles, reports and conferences
Investor
2021 - 2021
Time for the Planet creates and finances companies that fight global climate change. Its organisation rely on three axes: 💪 Identify ideas and technologies capable of fighting global warming on a global scale ; 🚀 Train teams of entrepreneurs to incubate and develop these businesses ; 💸 Find financial resources to initiate these projects. We are the last generation to be able to avoid a climate collapse. Let's act together!
Startup Manager
2019 - 2021
The Paris-Dauphine incubator supports start-ups founded by students and graduates of the University by offering premises, tailor-made mentoring, negotiated benefits and access to financing (up to €70K in seed money). The incubator's mission is to develop and support the entrepreneurial spirit of Dauphine students and graduates through a triple objective: raise awareness of entrepreneurship, support entrepreneurs, federate the ecosystem. - Animation of the Discover programme (raising awareness of entrepreneurship) - Management of the D-Start program (coaching student entrepreneurs) - Coordination and organization of events (workshops, conferences, Startup Challenge, Fail Night) - Launch of the Ambassadors Program
Vice-President
2019 - 2021
1st young entrepreneurship organization France since 2013 (16 Universities : Université Paris-Dauphine, Centrale Lille, Centrale Lyon, Centrale Supélec, Campus Eiffel, Em lyon, Neoma Reims, ESTP, IESEG, Ponts & Chaussées, Strate, UTC, UTT) 🚀 Building the next generation of entrepreneurs, makers, gamechangers 🌐 Website : https://geniusglobal.fr/ 🤝 Collaborate : julie.leroy@geniusglobal.fr
Co-Organizer / Hackathon BackToTheLivingRoom
2020 - 2020
🌎 #BackToTheLivingRoom is a worldwide #Hackathon co-organized with 42 and HackTheCrisis. Its objective is to find concrete and innovative solutions to help managers and their employees to face the current crisis and build the professional future of the "world". This event takes place (virtually) on May 6-8. 🚀 Offered to students of the 42 Network campuses, this hackathon is open to everyone. 🛹 Participate : https://airtable.com/shrazHvSqPfDdnfxW 🛹 More info : https://backtothelivingroom.tech
Co-founder & Country Lead Organizer
2020 - 2020
🌍 Hack the Crisis is a global movement born in Estonia, now present in 40+ countries. 🚀 Each country is putting together an online hackathon to offer solutions on how to use tech for crisis response and deal with the post-crisis era. The objective: moving from an idea to building a prototype in 48 hours, that will contribute to the common good. 🇫🇷 Our team (Les Etudiants de la Tech & Genius) hosted the French edition to take place (virtually) on April 17-19. ✚ More information : https://hackthecrisis.fr Figures about the Hackathon : 👨👩👧👧 1100 Members 👩💻 400 Participants 🧑🏫 150 Mentors 🚀 109 Projects launched 👩🔧 40% of women 🌍 30 countries represented
Business Developer
2018 - 2018
La Relève is a recruitment company that links companies that offer real responsibilities to its young talents and motivated and ambitious students/young graduates. - Prospecting - Qualification of prospects (Calling, e-mailing, Skype) - Physical meetings in companies - Creation of B2B / B2C marketing events (Wakatepe) - In charge of the ambassadors project throughout France
Assistante Commerciale Stagiaire
2017 - 2017
- B2B commercial prospecting with travel agencies - Search for commercial opportunities / Market study - Creation of commercial supports