EXCLUSIVE – This very energetic thirty-year-old, an engineer by training, embarked on the entrepreneurial adventure in 2019.
She’s a bit like the woman of the “firsts” in French Tech. The first female CEO of a French start-up to be included in the index of the 40 most successful French Tech companies, Éléonore Crespo is also the first co-founder and director to have raised so much funds so quickly – 163 million euros. in three years – for his company Pigment. Everything is going very fast for this very energetic 30-something, an engineer by training, who embarked on the entrepreneurial adventure in 2019 after meeting Romain Niccoli, one of the co-founders of Criteo. From her past experiences, in particular within a financial department of Google and in the investment fund Index Ventures, she had drawn an observation: 99% of business leaders make strategic decisions on the basis of incomplete financial forecasts or erroneous, compiled on Excel sheets.
A software that is certainly great, but which was not designed to work in real time within…