Renaud Visage
Founder of Eventbrite
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2023 - Current
Angel Investor
2014
Angel investor in 80+ startups including: Aive, AgroLeague, Algolia, Alkemics (merged with Salsify), Altis, Artifakt, Awtomatic, Back (acquired by Personio), Bearer (acquired by Cycode), BlueLayer, Bricks.co, Builder.ai, Carbonfact, Climate X, Cloover, Cloudthread, Cubzh, Cycle, Dattak, Djust, Elyos Energy, Emidat, Entocycle, Finimize (acquired by Abrdn), Finres, Fox Intellligence (acquired by Nielsen), Futurz, Garden.io, GitGuardian, Graneet, Greenly, GreyParrot, Heuritech, Hinlab, Hofy (acquired by Deel), Hokodo, Incident.io, Jadu, Jitter, Jump, Lang.ai, La Vie, Learnerbly, Localstack, LootLocker, Marble, Meero, Metagood, Mobius Motors, Multis, Nomio, Novos, Nuxt.js, Opna, PerkUp, Pigment, Playbook, Playhouse, Pollen, Poolside, Ponicode (acquired by CircleCI), Qatalog, Samp, Savii (acquired by Tyme), Scalefast (acquired by ESW), Scoreplay, Selfr, Silvr, Sirona, Solarock, Sqreen (acquired by Datadog), Stonly, Swan, Tomorro, Tribe XR, Upflow, Uploan, Pollen, Yavin, Zaavy (acquired by Deel)
Founding Member
2024
Strategic Advisory Board Member
2022
CDL's mission is to enhance the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind. In 2022, CDL admitted approximately 650 startups (from 75 different countries) into the CDL program that operates across 10 sites.
Non Executive Board Director
2022
Non Executive Chairman
2022 - 2024
Venture Partner
2018 - 2024
Non Executive Board Director
2021 - 2024
Bearer enables security teams to manage product and application security and privacy risks in their source code.
Raised $7,635,557.00 from Kima Ventures, Alven, Point Nine, Partech and Point Nine.
Co-Founder
2018 - 2021
Co-Founder & CTO
2006 - 2018
Renaud Visage is the founding technical architect of Eventbrite. With engineering degrees from Cornell University (USA) and Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), Renaud started his career as an environmental consultant. Fascinated by the Internet, Renaud joined Internet photo-sharing pioneer, Zing Networks, as Director of Engineering in 2000. Zing was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and later acquired by Sony ImageStation. In 2006, he joined forces with Kevin & Julia Hartz to found Eventbrite. Renaud anticipated several fundamental shifts in the way we use the internet – including the arrival of social media, big data analysis, the shift to mobile devices as first screens and the ubiquity of APIs – and leveraged their disruptive power to Eventbrite’s advantage, fueling the company’s growth into the globally leading self-service ticketing platform it is today. In 2014, Renaud was included in Wired UK's Top 100 digital influencers in Europe. When Renaud is not writing code, he’s mentoring and investing in startups in several European countries. Or he is taking pictures somewhere around the world (see his portfolio at http://www.renaudvisage.com).
Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Raised $557,250,000.00 from Francisco Partners.
Venture Partner
2017 - 2017
As a venture partner, Renaud guides founders in realizing their global ambition and helps Index evaluate and support companies that are solving challenging technical problems. Working very closely with the Index teams in London and San Francisco, he is uniquely positioned to help our founders scale their technology, and operations on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in France, where Renaud was born and will continue to support that country’s notable tech boom.
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.