Romain Lavault
General Partner at Partech
Romain Lavault
General Partner at Partech
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2013 - Current
Executive Committee member and directly supervising Partech Seed Funds ($400M) with a dedicated international Investment Team of 10 people. We back extraordinary Entrepreneurs on a mission to invent how people will live, work and consume tomorrow's products and services. Board member / active investor in: - Alan (France) - Full stack Healthcare Insurance - Blink (UK) - Super App for frontline employees - CollectivFood (UK) – B2B Food marketplace for groceries/restaurants/dark kitchens. - Commsignia (Hungary) - V2X infrastructure for autonomous cars and smart cities. - Enter (Germany) - Climate Tech platform for Home Energy Transition - E-Peas (Belgium) - Ultra low power / energy harvesting chips for IoT - FlexAI (France) - AI Infrastructure (full-stack hardware) - Greenlyte (Germany) - Climate Tech / CO2 Removal Systems (DAC) - Lun.energy (Denmark) - B2B Vertical SaaS for heat pump installers - Material Exchange (Sweden) – B2B Marketplace for sustainable fashion - Novicap (Spain) - SME Factoring and Supply Chain Finance platform - Ornikar (France) - Road Safety Platform - Education and Insurance - Peanut (UK) - Social Platform for Moms and Expecting Mothers - Pennylane (France) - Real-time Accounting SaaS for SMEs - Pydantic (UK) - Open-source Data Validation software for DevOps - Quibim (Spain) - AI-based Medical Image Processing - Resolution Games (Sweden) - Leading AR/VR Gaming Studio - Roger (Germany) - B2B Vertical SaaS for dentists - Seatti (Germany) - Hybrid Workforce Management SaaS - The Exploration Company (Germany) - SpaceTech - The Guarantors (US) - Proptech Insurance Platform - V7 Labs (UK) – Computer Vision / Data Labelling SaaS Past exits: AlephD (AOL Inc.), Alkemics (Salsify), PriceMatch (BOOKING.COM), TVShowTime (WHIPCLIP Inc.), MesDocteurs (VYV Group), Streamroot (CenturyLink), Cambridge Blockchain (BLOCKCHAIN LLC), Drover (Cazoo), Sketchfab (Epic Games), Foxintelligence (Nielsen).
Vice President, Strategic Development
2011 - 2013
Corporate Development
Vice President, Corporate Development
2009 - 2011
Led acquisition of Intercim-Pertinence by Dassault Systemes (DSY) in March 2011
Vice-President WW Sales & Business Development
2007 - 2009
Took the lead of the global business after the Pertinence-Intercim merger ($16M ARR SaaS Revenue)
Chief Operating Officer
2001 - 2007
Company founded in Sept 2001, based on Machine Learning algorithms invented at French CNRS (symbolic supervised learning with ability to ingest up to 50,000 variables simultaneously, in non-statistical situations) Raised a total of 8M€ from Partech (San Francisco, Paris) and Advent (London) Led Sales organization in France from 2002 to 2005, then in the US from 2005 to 2007 Merged Pertinence (50 people) with Intercim (70 people).
Sales Manager
2000 - 2001
STARSEM - was responsible for small GeoStationary spacecraft market (GTO < 2 tons) for North and South America - was responsible for market study and business plan of EADS Satellite Radio project
Project Manager
1999 - 2000
STARSEM - managed a 10M$ development program on Soyuz Launch Vehicle with cooperation of Russian Space Agency - designed launch vehicle specifications for Soyuz in Kourou
Project Manager
1997 - 1999
- developed new code for trajectory simulations of ballistic missiles and submarine launches