Speaker Bio
Pauline is Managing Partner at Elaia, leading pan-European Tech & Deep Tech VC fund.
For the past 20 years, Elaia has invested in over 120 companies, backing in the early days great successes such as Mirakl, Shift Technology, H Company, FlexAI, Alice & Bob, Mablink, Aqemia, Volterra, Ibanfirst or Vibe.co. Through its investment platform, Elaia manages €800m distributed around 3 strategies: Early Deep Tech, Tech Venture, and Tech Growth & BuyOut (the latter in partnership With Lazard), and can invest from pre-seed to IPO in Europe and Israel.
Pauline sits - amongst others - at the board of FlexAI (GenAI), Mitiga (Climate), SESAMm (ESG), Agriconomie (AgTech), Vibe (MarTech), The Hotels Network (TravelTech). Pauline serves at Venture Council of Invest Europe, is Board Member of France Invest and Co-President of the VC and Growth Commission at France Invest.
Prior to joining Elaia, Pauline worked in investment banking, as Tech M&A banker at Bryan, Garnier & Co. She began her career as an Equity Research Analyst at Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux and Genesta Finance, covering European tech listed Small and Mid caps.
Pauline graduated from EMLyon business school.