Eric Frances

(Fractional) Sales Leader / Enabler - AI startups

📍 Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, France🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 France
2
Total investments
1
Early stage
1
Mid stage
0
Late stage
10y
Years active

Portfolio

2 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Investor
Jan 2018
We are a startup specialized in the matching between projects and engineers. We catalyze opportunities and talents to accelerate innovation. We are convinced that thinking engineer centric will let us accomplish major challenges of today and tomorrow. We believe that giving them the choice is giving them the opportunity to accomplish themselves and to accomplish great things. Ready to join us?
Board Member and shareholder
Jan 2016
MyPRM is an all-in-one partner relationship management platform that helps you make the most out of your partner program and increase channel sales.
Experience · 5 entries
All (5)
Investments (2)
Founder (1)
Board (1)
2026
Principal Sales & Patnerships (contractor)
Aug 2026
For industries where a wrong answer isnt an option, AI needs an expert harness. Manufacturing, life sciences, energy and telecom teams run Iris.ai on their own complex technical documentation and systems. This is the discipline of AI Harnessing: controlling what an AI system is given and verifying what it produces. It spans data, context, orchestration and evaluation, so expert knowledge yields deterministic, auditable answers instead of plausible guesses. Iris.ai is a Norwegian AI company, founded in Oslo in 2015 as the countrys first AI startup. The second person we hired was a researcher, and we have run a research team for 11 years since. That research became our key: → Axion™ enables the harness. It reads the documents no system can read: schematics, tables, scans, 68 languages, and structures them once for every agent that follows. → Neuralith™ applies the harness. Multi-agent workflows on the models you choose, in your cloud or on premise. The same question over the same source returns the same answer. → LLM Evaluation closes the harness. 23+ mechanistic metrics read the models internals during inference. Not LLM-as-a-judge. In production today: 97% accuracy where the hyperscaler baseline scored 82%. Every pilot to date has converted to production. Backed by the European Innovation Council, scaling with AWS. Bring us your hardest material: www.iris.ai
2018
Investor
Jan 2018
We are a startup specialized in the matching between projects and engineers. We catalyze opportunities and talents to accelerate innovation. We are convinced that thinking engineer centric will let us accomplish major challenges of today and tomorrow. We believe that giving them the choice is giving them the opportunity to accomplish themselves and to accomplish great things. Ready to join us?
2017
Founder & Sparring Partner
Jun 2017
Sparring partners of early stage startups & SaaS players - we help entrepreneurs to find quick turnarounds or pragmatic solutions to any of the hurdles they can find on their way from Product positioning & marketing, growth strategies, GTM, Pricing strategy, business planning, fund raising, team recruitment, specific expertise sourcing ... with one objective in mind - get to the next stage of the project !
2016
Managing Director
Mar 2016
MyPRM is an all-in-one partner relationship management platform that helps you make the most out of your partner program and increase channel sales.
Board Member and shareholder
Jan 2016
MyPRM is an all-in-one partner relationship management platform that helps you make the most out of your partner program and increase channel sales.