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6th percentile
Founder of En Marche and President of France shaping European tech policy
Credibility
Operator · 4th percentile
- Founded the En Marche political movement (now Renaissance) in 2016.
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Founder score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Founded the En Marche political movement (now Renaissance) in 2016.
What you likely need
Your Festival value isn't in pitching or writing checks — it's in shaping the table itself. The events that move the needle for you are high-trust roundtables where sovereign capital, frontier AI labs, and defence-tech operators collide, because your lever is policy architecture and ecosystem design at scale. Prioritise gatherings where a single conversation can translate into a Choose France commitment, a retained French AI founder, or a Euronext-listed scale-up.
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- tacticalA closed dinner with Mistral AI, Poolside, and Kyutai leadership alongside Andreessen Horowitz and Accel partners to pressure-test how the €109B AI Action Summit compute and talent commitments get converted into Mistral-class European champions rather than US acqui-hires
- hiringA roundtable with French-born AI/ML founders who relocated post-Series A to the Bay Area — including alumni of Station F's Founders Program — to stress-test which specific tax treaty changes and French Tech Visa fast-tracks would have kept them in Paris
- tacticalA tactical working dinner with Euronext Paris leadership, BpiFrance deal teams, and CFOs of late-stage French scale-ups like Contentsquare and Pennylane to identify the two or three rule changes that would reverse France's five-year exit low and make a Paris listing genuinely competitive with Nasdaq
- positioningA sovereign defence-tech dinner with the founders of Helsing, Preligens, and Exail alongside NATO innovation leads and European Defence Fund allocators to position France's 148% defence-tech funding surge as the anchor of a pan-European dual-use hardware and AI stack
- introsA Choose France summit pre-pipeline happy hour with the EMEA heads of Cargill, Imerys, and three shortlisted Fortune 500 industrial players to warm the relationships that convert into signed investment commitments before the next Versailles summit cycle
- positioningA comparative ecosystem dinner with the leads of Innovate UK, DARPA's tech transition office, and top-quartile US growth funds — including General Catalyst's European team — to benchmark France 2030 deployment velocity against US and UK public-private co-investment structures and identify the single biggest structural gap to close
- hiringAn intimate office-hours session with the heads of people at Hugging Face, Nabla, and Dust — all Paris-founded, US-expanded AI companies — to co-design a French Tech Visa and BSPCE reform package that makes staying in France post-Series A the default rather than the exception
- tacticalA BpiFrance and Euronext co-hosted roundtable with M&A counsel from Latham and Watkins and the CFOs of OVHcloud and Believe to map the specific AMF regulatory friction points blocking clean scale-up acquisitions and design a fast-track M&A framework for French tech exits above €500M