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Pierre Valade

CEO of WorkflowAI

New York, New York

Overview 

Pierre Valade is the CEO at WorkflowAI, having previously served as the CEO of Sunrise, which was successfully acquired by Microsoft for $100M, and as the CEO of Jumbo, acquired by Coalition. He has also made significant investments in companies like Front, Alan, Truebill, Aircall, Frichti, and Jour. Valade was recognized as an MIT Innovator Under 35 and holds a Master's degree from Stanford University and a Master of Engineering from École nationale des ponts et chaussées.

Work Experience 

  • CEO

    2024 - Current

    - https://workflowai.com

  • Investor

    2017

    - Invested in Series A - Invested in Series B - Front raised $59M in January, 2020.

Front is a communication hub for building strong customer relationships on digital channels.

Raised $203,600,000.00 from boldstart ventures, Battery Ventures, Threshold, Jennifer Tejada, Vine Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Uncork Capital.

  • Investor

    2016

    - Invested in Alan in Series Seed. - Alan raised $220M at $1.6B valuation in April, 2021.

  • Investor

    2015

    - Invested in Series A. - Aircall raised $120M above $1B valuation in June, 2021.

Aircall is a cloud-based call center software that integrates with CRM, productivity, and helpdesk tools.

Raised $237,550,000.00 from eFounders, NextWorld Capital, 8i Ventures, DTCP, Molten Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Adams Street Partners and NextWorld Capital.

  • CEO

    2019 - 2023

    Acquired by Coalition. Thank you to our users who trusted us, our wonderful team I had the pleasure to work with, our investors who supported us during this journey, the amazing advisors who are now my friends.

  • Investor & Advisor

    2019 - 2021

    - Jour was acquired by Alan.

Jour is a guided journaling app that helps teens and adults with battling mental illness and commit mindfulness.

Raised $1,800,000.00 from Secocha Ventures and True Ventures.

  • Design Director

    2015 - 2018

    - Integrated Sunrise talent into Outlook mobile team

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • CEO & Founder

    2013 - 2015

    - Acquired by Microsoft (MSFT) for $100M. - Raised $8M from Balderton, NextView Ventures, Resolute. - Scaled MAU to 500K in 2 years. - Won multiple awards as "best calendar app" - Hired 11 people across Product, Engineering and Marketing.

  • User Experience Designer

    2011 - 2012

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