Pauline Roux

Managing Partner

2014 - Current

Elaia Partners is an independent VC firm focused on Tech-intensive BtoB startups. Elaia Partners manages around $1bn, and invests in high-growth startups offering ground-breaking technologies, products and softwares. The fund focuses on early-stage investments (pre-seed to series B), from the initial financing rounds through to their emergence as global leaders. The investment team brings together decades of expertise in both VC and digital technologies and aims at playing an active role alongside entrepreneurs. Elaia's diversified portfolio includes companies such as Mirakl, Criteo, IbanFirst, FlexAI, Traefik Labs, Shift Technology, Vibe.co, Alice&Bob, SeqOne, Aqemia, SESAMm, The Hotels Network, Holded, etc. More information on https://www.elaia.com/

Member of the Board of Directors and Co-President of the VC & Growth Commission

2021

France Invest is a professional organisation bringing together nearly 400 French management companies and some 180 consulting firms. France Invest resolutely promotes their work in supporting unlisted companies and their central role in a vibrant economy. France Invest’s members enable institutional and private investors to support developing businesses or to finance infrastructure that improves the lives of French people. As a forum for discussion, reflection and the promotion of best practices within the financial ecosystem, France Invest especially supports the initiatives of its members and those of the businesses they assist in favour of job creation and the transition to more sustainable and fairer growth.

Member of the VC Council

2018

Invest Europe is the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors. It aims to make a constructive contribution to policy affecting private capital investment in Europe. Invest Europe guides the industry’s professional standards, demanding accountability, good governance and transparency from our members.

Investor and Board Member

2023

FlexAI unlocks the future of Machine Intelligence by rearchitecting the compute infrastructure. The company eliminates the challenges of running AI workloads seamlessly across diverse hardware architectures. This empowers developers of AI products and services to leverage a wider range of available computing power without needing to modify their code. Their workloads will simply run on the chosen hardware. By optimizing the utilization of all available computing resources, not just GPUs, FlexAI can maximize efficiency and minimize failures. This leads to more accurate predictions of workload completion times and a significant reduction in wasted energy due to failed processes.

Investor and Board Member

2023

SESAMm enables companies to extract critical insights from the internet with AI. We provide ESG, sentiment, and thematic analytics by analyzing over 20 billion articles and messages using natural language processing. Our clients are major private equity firms, asset managers, index providers and global corporations.

Investor and Board Member

2022

From big brands to small local businesses, Vibe.co empowers all marketers to advertise on TV with an easy-to-use, self-serve ad platform.

Investor and Board Member

2021

Investor & Board Member

2020

Investor & Board Member

2020

Investor & Board Member

2015

Europe's fastest growing recruitment platform for tech hire