Michel Sassano

Partner & Tech Lead

2020 - Current

Associate and Tech Lead

2018 - 2020

Founder

2017 - 2018

Software Development

Associate

2013 - 2016

Xavier Niel’s Seed investment fund. One to Two investments of $150k per week all over the world. $45m fund, portfolio of 350 startups in 26 countries - As part of a three-person team: - Dealflow management: Reviewed around 100 projects per day, met the founders, evaluated their project, wrote investment memorandums and recommendations. Researched and developed intelligence on emerging trends. - Closing of deals: Negotiated the terms of the investments and reviewed the legal documentation before the closing. - Portfolio management: Analysed and synthesised founders reports, managed post-investment tasks, advised our founders and connected them to entrepreneurs and later stage funds. - Applications and tools development: Full stack design, development and deployment of applications and tools (CRM, Widgets, Accounting modules, Robots) to optimise the efficiency of the team, the management of the fund and the monitoring of the market. - Accounting reporting: Updated and reported in real time the performance of the 350 startups portfolio. I was the main contact of the accounting firm.

Orange Graduate Program : IaaS Architect

2012 - 2013

- As part of the engineering team, I worked closely with the operational teams (network, server, supervision, virtualization, database, storage, backup) to validate the compliance and efficiency of projects made by the teams in charge of designing Orange’s internal applications. - As part of a multi-datacenter relocation project, I had to plan and orchestrate the relocation of several applications at the infrastructure, hardware and software level. - Analysis of constraints, elaboration of rules and guidelines to exploit Big Data solutions (Hadoop).

Product Manager & Marketing Intern

2012 - 2012

- Diamond Dash team : Research and development of new concepts. Worked with the technical and design teams to improve virality, retention and monetization of the Diamond Dash social game (4,2M Daily Active Users on mobile and Facebook). - Marketing team : Gathered interests about our players from the Facebook Graph using Python. Helped the marketing and product teams to discover new places to advertise, detect unofficial Facebook pages and introduce new targeted features and in-game content.

Investment evaluations

2011 - 2012

Met the founders, provided analysis and recommendations to the investment committee.

CEO, Product Manager et Développeur

2009 - 2011

Project management, product design and software development (four-person team). Developed applications and games on the iOS platform for startups, companies and celebrities. - QRCode scanner marketing iPhone application - Multiplayer futuristic themed Tetris game on iPhone - Tramway network navigation tool iPhone application - Eric et Ramzy community iPhone application - SMS and Email tools

R&D Engineer in apprenticeship scheme

2008 - 2011

- Development of an «Applications store» concept on VOIP phones for traders Defined features with the marketing team. Defined technology architecture with the R&D team. Managed project development with our partner and created applications using Web technologies. - Development of a Java tool to help field technicians Created a tool with a graphical interface to remotely configure a server. Helped in Improving the efficiency. - Defined the questions and deployed a survey platform to collect users feedbacks during a beta test using PHP, HTML, CSS and SQL. - Software tests on the VOIP platform

Technician in apprenticeship scheme

2007 - 2008

Local loop deployment project planning, management and on-site review.