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Serge Faguet
Founder of Multiomic Health
San Francisco, California
Overview
Serge Faguet is currently building a new AI company in California, with a background as the founder of Emerging Travel Group, a B2B company with a $2 billion turnover. He is a Stanford and Y Combinator alum with expertise in areas such as fundraising, business strategy, and entrepreneurship.
Faguet's notable career achievements include founding and leading successful companies like Emerging Travel Group and Mirror AI Inc, demonstrating a track record of building and scaling ventures.
Work Experience
Non-Exec Co-founder
2021 - 2022
Multiomic Health is an AI + bio company using ultra-deep-omics data to identify high-dimensional clusters of patients in diabetic kidney disease. Multiomic is a candidate to be the first personalized treatment developer in metabolic disease (world's largest disease by death rate and market size) and is funded by multiple leading investors. I was the first investor and co-founded the company with biotech exec Robert Thong and deep tech VC Alasdair Thong. This came out of my lifelong passion for life extension – metabolic disease is intimately related to the leading mechanisms of aging, and given its multifactorial nature only AI will be able to make a significant impact here.
Founder, CEO, Board member
2010 - 2021
ETG today is one of the world's largest B2B online travel companies with ~$2bn in annual turnover, 2000 employees, and significant positive EBITDA. We help >40,000 B2B customers in >40 countries easily book B2B hotel rates from >170 suppliers while dealing with local compliance and nuances. I founded the company and led it as CEO over its first 7 years; then recruited the current CEO and guided the company at board level. I remain a major shareholder. I led raising >$50m from top investors; hired >500 people (and fired >200); built an exceptional exec team + CEO who run the business; personally designed much of the core technology that drives our advantage in pricing and margin; and created the culture that drives our success. Under my leadership the company survived many near-death crises to become the #1 global player in our B2B hotel booking niche. We also own Ostrovok, the #1 B2C online travel company in Russia. We are hiring >100 positions in 34 different cities: https://www.emergingtravel.com/career/
Emerging Travel is an online travel group that helps customers book accommodation and other travel-related services in 220+ countries.
Raised $78,703,598.00 from LVL1 Group.
Co-Founder & CEO
2017 - 2019
AI-driven B2C mobile application. As founder/CEO I raised ~$5m from leading investors (YCombinator, Greylock, SV Angel, one of Peter Thiel's funds and others) + designed a team that built a highly-rated app with >20m downloads. Left after hiring successor CEO because the company was not a fit for my long-term interests + we failed to make the tech work prior to the start of the generative AI revolution
Mirror uses a single selfie to instantly create hundreds of emoji that look like you and your friends.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Y Combinator, Ataria, Streamlined Ventures, Z Nation Lab, Peter Diamandis, Bold Capital Partners, Jared Morgenstern, Lee Linden, Charles Moldow and SV Angel.
Founder & CEO
2007 - 2008
I was founder/CEO of TokBox as a 22-year-old Stanford dropout; under my leadership the company raised a seed round from top angels and a Series A from Sequoia and launched the first simple web-based one-click video chat product in history. Acquired by Telefonica/Vonage.
TokBox is a PaaS company that offers hosted infrastructure, APIs, and tools.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and DAG Ventures.
Strategy/Business Development Analyst
2006 - 2006
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Education
MBA
2006 - 2007
BA
2003 - 2006
High School
2000 - 2003