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Alexandre Stora

Early Stage Investor

37 ans

Situation professionnelle

A l'écoute du marché

Souhait professionnel

Poste
Business Development Manager
Experience
De 6 à 10 ans
Rémuneration
Entre 55 k€ et 100 k€
Type de contrat
CDI, CDD
Mobilité
- Indifférent
Fonctions
- Directeur du marketing
- Consultant indépendant
- Responsable de zone export
Secteurs
- Internet, Multimédia
- Conseil / Gestion des entreprises
- Luxe

Résumé

Forging a path in complex project management, my journey began in the international arena, evolved through spearheading high-tech ventures, and culminated in co-founding a Future40 AI startup. Prior to launching Differs, I played a pivotal role in birthing 4 tech startups.

Expériences professionnelles

Entrepreneur in residence

Antler France

Depuis le 02 mars 2024

Co-founder

differs

De Février 2023 à Février 2024

Plug-and-play SaaS solutions that seamlessly unite the strengths of two worlds. Benefit from bespoke consulting, enriching features with personalization, while harnessing the prowess of SaaS for unmatched scale and seamless functionality. Our pioneering approach leverages cutting-edge AI techniques, refining them into an industrial force, fortified by robust software infrastructure that eliminates technical roadblocks, channeling focus solely on enhancing the customer journey.

Adjunct professor

ESCP Business School

De Janvier 2022 à Mars 2023

Part-time teacher of the 'Big Data Software' class of the Master in Big Data and Business Analytics. This course covers Data Science Workflows and Machine Learning.

Enterprise customer success manager

Dataiku

De Avril 2021 à Janvier 2023

Dataiku is the centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI.
My portfolio is made of major transport and industrial players where I help them to industrialize their use cases from k€ to several million €.

Board member - investor

MOON Health

De Août 2019 à Juillet 2021

Moon is a telemonitoring platform of chronic diseases that learns from patients and their physicians through Artificial Intelligence. Medtech launched in 2019 with the research laboratory CeeD.

Investment director

Quantmetry

De Janvier 2019 à Mars 2021

Anova is the venture builder of Quantmetry, our mission is to build artificial intelligence startups focusing on building skilled teams and scalable solutions to efficiently address corporate challenges..
Since 2016, we have been working with entrepreneurs to kick-start 4 startups:
- 2016: Pretto (pretto.fr), online real estate credit brokerage, 200+ FTEs, €40M+ raised.
- 2018: Citio (cit.io), Urban flow software, acquired by RATP, 30+ FTEs.
- 2019: Moon (moonhealth.ai), Telemonitoring platform, joint venture with an international diabetes research center (CeeD), 10 FTEs, €800K+ investment, IP acquired by Stēto in 2022.
- 2020: Veesual (www.veesual.ai), virtual try-on for e-commerce, 9 FTEs, confidential amount raised.

Directeur des investissements

Quantmetry , Paris - CDI

De Avril 2016 à Aujourd'hui

- Shaped the Startup Studio strategy: “Building upon Quantmetry’s Intellectual Property to create 10 startups in the next 3 years.”
- Raised funds from private investors
- Identified key pain points from corporate players and addressed them with a data-centric approach: fraud detection, predictivemaintenance, prescriptive marketing, HR analytics

Project lead

Quantmetry

De Avril 2016 à Décembre 2018

Quantmetry is a forerunner Artificial Intelligence consulting company based in Paris with more than 140 associates. In 2016, I joined Quantmetry to launch their startup studio: Anova.
- Conducted due diligence for venture capital firms Partech and AfricInvest.
- Lectured at INSEAD MBA, presenting the venture builder model as part of the 'AI Strategy for Startups and C-Suites' program.
- Awarded for intelligent street lighting project in the context of Data City Paris 2017 organized by Paris City Hall x NUMA.

Business development japan

Melijoe

De Septembre 2015 à Février 2016

Melijoe.com is an e-commerce in children's fashion, now part of a Swedish group. I kicked off from scratch the APAC market successively based in Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo.
- Reached +$6M per year in revenue (before <$100k), accounting for +25% of global net sales.
- Adapted the market offer including pricing policy, payment gateways, and customer service.
Implemented local marketing acquisition strategies.
- Managed an intercultural team: Japanese, Korean and Chinese

Asia business development manager

Melijoe.com , Tokyo

De Septembre 2015 à Aujourd'hui

- Defined a roadmap to increased turnover across Asia with a focus on Japan, Korea and China
- Managing an intercultural team: japanese, korean and chinese
- Analyzed site performance and initiated improvements, including technical projects and creative changes
- Identified and met new partners to grow local marketing activities in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong
- Internalized SEA programs (Yahoo, Google) and affiliate marketing programs in Tokyo office

Business development south korea

Melijoe

De Avril 2015 à Août 2015

Asia business development manager

Melijoe.com , Seoul - VIE

De Septembre 2014 à Décembre 2014

- Launched Korean market from Seoul with a local partner, strong focus on Naver SEM and PR
- Localized our offer: translation in Korean, payment gateways, customer service and price policy

Business development china

Melijoe

De Avril 2013 à Mars 2015

Volunteer for International Experience

Asia business development manager

Melijoe.com , Hong kong - VIE

De Avril 2013 à Août 2015

- Kicked-off Hong Kong market following a road map designed through a meticulous market research
- Performed an in-depth audit of the website to achieve a high conversion rate with a focus on price policy
- Built and leveraged a network to promote the brand: fashion show HK, Key Opinion Leader, advertorial campaign online/offline
- Improved the shopping experience e.g. with the opening of an APAC customer service based in Hong Kong

Junior consultant

TnP Consultants , Neuilly-sur-seine - Stage

De Juin 2011 à Décembre 2011

- IT services company: participated in the writing of a partneship contrat between Caagis (Group Crédit Agricole) and CSC (an IT services company) to guarantee a level of service
- Insurance sector: built a tool to visualize the impact of ressources allocations for Crédit Agricole Assurance
- Car manufacturer: took part in the organisation of a seminar sponsored by PSA’s CIO

Formations complémentaires

Master’s Degree Grande Ecole

NEOMA Business School - Operational and strategic IT, Corporate finance, Marketing Research

2009 à 2013

Thesis: Role of networks in the innovation race of French start-ups

Moscow International Higher Business School

Moscow International Higher Business School

2012 à 2012

Exchange semester

Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles

Sainte Croix De Neuilly

2007 à 2009

Business preparation classes for competitive entrance examinations (Equivalent to first two years of a bachelor program)

Parcours officiels

VIE – HONG KONG – 2015

Langues

Anglais - Courant

Français - Langue maternelle

Compétences

e-commerce
Affiliate Marketing
MS Office Suite
Management Consulting
google analytics
SEM
SEO
Microsoft Office
Business Development
Project Management
Management
Business strategy