The team

Stéphane led Yahoo’s business development and strategic partnerships in Europe from 2002 to 2017, where he built the Yahoo Search and Display Ad-Network and developed Yahoo’s content acquisition strategy. Based in Paris, he also spent 4 years in Switzerland and 4 years in London. These main partners were Eurosport, TF1, Vevo, YouTube, Orange, BT, M6, Dailymotion, AOL, The Team, AFP, Perform, … He was previously Product Manager for interactive TV Noos (Numéricable).

In 1999, Geoffroy founded Fivia, publisher of AdFront, one of the leading order management systems for digital advertising, acquired by WideOrbit Inc. in 2014. In particular, Geoffroy has successfully launched Fivia Inc. in the United States from New York. Fivia’s main customers in 30 countries included operators and broadcasters such as TF1, M6, Canal +, ITV, Five, Channel 4, Viacom, Gannett, Orange, Telecom Italia, …

Laurent Etienne is one of the best Hbbtv and middleware experts for Set Top Box. He spent 17 years as HTTV’s CTO and held various positions at Open TV and Canal +. He developed some of the first software solutions for TV operators and Set Top Box for TV services: VOD, catch-up TV, Live OTT, custom mosaic, electronic program guides, interactive TV.

Henri Binsztok is a technology expert with deep knowledge of software development, including cloud architecture, programming language semantics, applied cryptography and artificial intelligence. He created ML-State, acquired by Wallix in 2016, where he holds the position of Director of Innovation. Henri holds a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning specialty, from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6).

Jérôme Rayet created Toutapprendre.com in 2000, one of the first E-learning sites in France, which he sold in 2018. He now manages the investment fund High Flyers Capital (HFC) specialized in Food Tech and Ad tech.

Julien is president and founder of VOD Factory, the French leader of independent VoD publishers and publishes on behalf of its customers’ VoD and SVoD customized, multi-screen and turnkey offerings. Julien was previously director of content at SFR, Neuf Cegetel, Director of Programming and Marketing at Canalsat. He also worked at Arthur D. Little and Noos as TV Marketing Manager.

Dominique Vidal is a Partner at Index Ventures. Before that he was MD of Kelkoo and Yahoo Europe. In addition to investing in Viznet, other key Index Ventures investments include BlaBlaCar, Criteo and Outbrain.