Romain Afflelou
Ceo of Cosmo Connected
Romain Afflelou
Ceo of Cosmo Connected
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2015 - Current
Cosmo Connected has developed a unique technology, combining hardware and software, which ensures visibility and security for the urban commuter in mobility. Our product ecosystem includes smart lights, augmented visualization systems and a set of connected services accessible from our application. In addition, Cosmo Connected makes its know-how available to micro-mobility players by integrating its technologies at the heart of personal mobility devices. Our goal is to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services to meet everyone's needs. Our vision is to put our technology at the service of the greatest number and to contribute to making roads safer while promoting the use of soft mobility commuter in mobility. Cosmo Connected aims to become the leader in connected safety in urban mobility, and to develop connected products and services that adapt to everyone's needs.
Investor
2021
Sorare has built a fantasty football (soccer) platform based on NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Each digital card is registered as a unique token on the Ethereum blockchain. Players can buy and sell cards from other players. Transactions are all recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. What makes Sorare unique is that it has partnered with 180 football organizations, including some of the most famous clubs in Europe, such as Real Madrid, Liverpool and Juventus. It creates a barrier to entry for other companies in the space.
Seed Investor
2021
Shares is creating a whole new investing app category where anyone, including new investors can start conversations, network and learn from friends and experts as a community – together in a one-stop shop with all their portfolio management needs. Shares aims to be a market-leading app with low barriers to entry, including access to invest from £1.00/around €1.1 – and no trade fees – across 1,500 US stocks. The Shares app will truly democratise investing with a serious finance platform that inspires confidence for any user to build their own successful portfolio. Designed to be social-first, Shares combines the functionality of a consumer investment app with the wisdom of online forums, where members can buy stocks, react to the market in real-time, start conversations with friends and access curated expert advice in one place. In addition to the Invest platform, Shares enables community and private Chat to network, learn, track friends and grow individual portfolios (as well as make Group stock indexes with Friends) from the app. Additionally, Shares’ curated market intelligence feed, Spotlight, allows Shares members to build their financial awareness and educate themselves about investing, the biggest industry trends and offer supportive guides on tax, regulation and compliance.
Private Investor
2021
Virtuo, a Paris-based startup that has built a very streamlined, all-digital approach for those who want to rent a car for a few days, or up to a few months, has picked up $96 million, money that it will be using to invest in its tech; to expand to more markets beyond France (12 cities including Paris), UK (London, Manchester and Edinburgh) and Spain (Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia); to add in a tier for business users; and to add more vehicles into the mix. The company currently has 150,000 active users, and grew 100% (2x) this last year, said co-founder Karim Kaddoura. It’s renting a car, but not like you know it. Seamlessly book and unlock a range of cars, all through your phone and the Virtuo digital key. Our app based service means no queues, hassle, or paperwork. It allows you to pick up your car and escape the city 24/7.
Investor
2016
Spendesk is an all-in-one corporate expense and spend management service. It lets you track expenses across your company, empower your employees with a clear approval process and simplify your bookkeeping. The service essentially works like Revolut or N26, but for corporate needs. After you sign up, you get your own Spendesk account with an IBAN. You can top up that account and define different sets of policies.
Private Investor
2020
Lydia is a P2P payment startup enabling users to get accounts, payment cards, loans, insurance, and gift cards. Lydia has extended its Series B round. Accel is leading the extension with all major existing shareholders also participating. Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. The startup is now raising another $86 million, which means that Lydia has raised $131 million in total as part of its Series B round. “Lydia isn’t a payment technology, it’s just a new payment processor like PayPal,” co-founder and CEO Cyril Chiche told me in a phone interview. “We use existing payment technologies, and, in particular, debit cards.” Sending and receiving money is absolutely free. First, you choose the payment card that you want to use. Then you enter the amount and your passcode. After that, you can send a payment notification via email or text message. And it’s done. All your friend has to do is open the app to accept the payment. Alternatively, after entering the amount, you can ask your friend to scan a QR code with the Lydia app to receive the payment immediately. If you don’t want to keep any money in the app, you can withdraw it to your bank account — it’s free. Lydia doesn’t have any incentive to keep your money because it can’t make the money work due to regulations.
Investor
2021
Mansa permet aux indépendants d'avoir accès à un prêt bancaire avec une inscription entièrement en ligne et vous guide pas à pas dans votre demande. Un crédit pensé pour vous et avec vous Rapide :Votre demande en 10 minutes, réponse finale en 48h Simple: Vos projets professionnels financés en un clin d'œil Personnalisé : Des financements sur-mesure basés sur votre vie d’indépendant A qui prêtons-nous ? Un aperçu de nos critères d'éligibilité Indépendants et TPE: Auto-entrepreneurs, professions libérales et sociétés commerciales (SARL, SAS, SASU, EURL) Chiffre d’affaires: Au minimum 1 800€ de revenus mensuels moyens Ancienneté: Au moins 12 mois d’existence, depuis la création du numéro SIREN
Investor
2017
La start-up française Luko personnalise son offre dès votre première connexion sur son site Internet. Il vous suffit d’indiquer votre adresse, et grâce aux images satellite et à leur analyse par intelligence artificielle, cette technologie peut déterminer l’âge de votre maison, l’inclinaison du toit, la présence d’arbres potentiellement dangereux à proximité, les risques liés à la piscine, etc. Un rapport des risques lié à votre habitation vous est fourni, il peut être d’ordre architectural, industriel ou climatique.
Investor
2017
Founded in January 2017 by Adrien Roose and Karim Slaoui, who both previously co-founded Take Eat Easy (an early Deliveroo competitor), and Tanguy Goretti, who previously co-founded ridesharing startup Djump, Cowboy set out to build and sell direct a better designed e-bike. This included making the Cowboy bike lighter in weight and more stylish than models from incumbents, and adding automatic motor assistance. The latter utilizes built-in sensor technology that measures speed and torque, and adjusts to pedaling style and force to deliver an added boost of motor-assisted speed at key moments, e.g. when you start pedaling, accelerate or go uphill. In addition, Cowboy’s “smart” features powered by the Cowboy app enables the device to be switched on and off, track location, provide “ride stats” and support remote troubleshooting and software updates. A theft detection feature is also promised soon.
Investor
2021
Aircall has raised a $120 million Series D round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached unicorn status, which means it has a valuation above $1 billion — this is the 16th French unicorn. The startup has been building a cloud-based phone system for call centers, support lines and sales teams. It integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Intercom and other popular CRM, support and communication systems. Aircall customers can create local numbers and set up an interactive voice response directory. The service manages the call queue for you and your agents can start answering inbound calls. Agents can transfer calls and put customers on hold. Admins can see analytics, monitor calls and see how everyone is doing.