Yoann Benhacoun
Founder of Upscalers
Yoann Benhacoun
Founder of Upscalers
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Work Experience
CEO & Co-founder
2022 - Current
Upscalers is the highly vetted community for top operators from leading tech companies. It's a member-only club for Founders, C-Levels, and VPs from scale-ups, unicorns, and tech listed companies. You join a safe and trusted environment to network, grow, and angel invest. To apply 👉 https://bit.ly/46PIwMw
Active Angel Investor
2021
Active angel investors in pre-seed / seed tech startups through Upscalers club Since 2021, investors in 15+ startups, investing on average in 1 deal a month. Portfolio includes 40% women founders: - Sosyncd, dating app, 🇬🇧, - Anthems, music app, 🇺🇸 - Flexa, HR tech, 🇬🇧 - Landscape, Saas for VC, 🇬🇧 - Trezy, fintech app, 🇫🇷 / 🇳🇱 - Genesis, agritech / fintech, 🇫🇷 - Heedjy, App ecosystem for Software, 🇫🇷 - Unravel, travel B2B2C app, 🇬🇧 - Dotfile, orchestration app, 🇫🇷 - Guud, menstrual health, 🇧🇪 - Cavale, exclusive bike brand, 🇫🇷 - Polls, Saas, organic acquisition B2B2C, 🇺🇸 - Goods, Inventory and delivery for big brands, 🇺🇸 - Eben Home, platform for interior architects, 🇫🇷 - Stackone, unified APIs standardizes data models for entire categories of products, 🇬🇧 - Marblism, generate software from a single prompt, 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 Are you a founder raising ➡️ https://bit.ly/3tpvvea Are you an angel ➡️ https://bit.ly/3PSWlD1
Country Manager France
2020 - 2022
Managing the French market, leading our strategy, growth and brand awareness with our partners and continue offering to our users the best mobility solution in France and worldwide Moovit (www.moovit.com) is a leading Mobility as a Service MaaS (maas.moovit.com) provider and the world’s #1 urban mobility app, making getting around town easier and more convenient. Cities, municipalities, transit operators and companies like Microsoft, Uber, and Lyft license Moovit’s products, and hundreds of millions of consumers use Moovit’s free app on Android, iOS and the web.
CEO
2018 - 2019
GettGuard is an uber-like for private security. It spreads the word for on-demand security guard for everybody, anytime, anywhere. Thanks to a mobile application and a website, professionals and individuals can now order security guards for all types of needs. Founded in 2016 by Patrick Senior, GettGuard is a daughter of BSL Sécurity group, a major player in private security in France for almost 30 years. The service is available in France and will be available in Brazil from March 2019.
Managing Director France
2017 - 2018
Startupbootcamp is one of the most famous startup accelerator worldwide. In charge of opening a Smart City and Living program in Paris
CEO & Founder (Sold)
2012 - 2017
MobyPark is the airbnb for parking in Europe. We launched from scratch and have achieved tremendous growth and expansion during 5 years: - Live in 8 countries - Offices in Paris and Amsterdam - Raised various funding round - Signed strategic partnerships with ACCOR, EUROPCAR, THALYS, ANWB - Manage a cosmopolite team with more than 8 different nationalities. - Create a trustable brand in Europe that people love to use. It was acquired in May 2017 and since then I left the company.
Alumni NFC & Contactless Program
2013 - 2014
StartupBootcamp is #1 accelerator in Europe. Mobypark was selected among the 10 startups for the fall 2013 program. What we learned: - Lean method - Structure your company - Hire the right people - Pitch - and much more
EQUITY DERIVATIVES BROKER
2010 - 2011
ASSISTANT SALES
2008 - 2008
I was involved with FX, interest rates and commodities strutured products for our clients
ASSISTANT BROKER
2006 - 2006