Gérald Karsenti

Former CEO or VP of several tech groups (SAP, HP, HPE, Capgemini, Oracle, IBM), affiliate professor HEC, coaching, author, cohost at Radio Classique, partner and senior advisor at Qualium Investissement

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2016
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Apr 2016
Leia Inc. designs, develops, and licenses Immersity, a technology platform that provides immersive experiences to virtually any device, allowing users to feel part of the scene. Immersive experiences are the foundation of Spatial Intelligence, the next generation of AI, where digital content blends naturally with the physical world. The Immersity platform comprises AI-powered software and a switchable-display hardware that either displays or projects immersive content, with only the push of a button. Immersity can seamlessly be embedded in any device, from phones to tablets to laptops to monitors. On standard devices, Motion adds depth through dynamic perspective shifts—making you feel closer to the scene. On Immersity devices, Holo projects true holographic depth, creating a lifelike 3D effect that makes you feel part of the scene—almost inside it. Immersity is available in the market, on devices from several major brands, with more coming soon. Leia Inc. was founded in 2014 by Dr. David Fattal, a world-renowned physicist from Stanford University. In 2023, Leia acquired Dimenco and Royal Philips’ 3D patent portfolio, bringing the patent portfolio to over 2000 patents, the largest in the industry. The company is based in Silicon Valley, with offices in the Netherlands and China, and employs over 200 associates globally.
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2023
Member of the board of directors
Jan 2023
Spécialiste de la location financière d’actifs technologiques, Realease capital est l’un 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲́𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗳 depuis 1986. Realease capital offre aux moyennes & grandes entreprises, ainsi qu’aux fabricants & revendeurs, des 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱’𝗲́𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗹𝘀, le tout sinscrivant dans une démarche déconomie circulaire. En mars 2023, une nouvelle page de l’histoire de Realease capital s’ouvre avec la reprise de la participation de WCP par Qualium Investissement, afin d’accélérer sa croissance sur de nouveaux secteurs, développer de nouveaux services et poursuivre la digitalisation de ses activités.  𝑁𝑜𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 : Informatique, solutions mobilité, audio-visuel, industrie, efficacité énergétique, santé, roulant, hôtellerie – restauration, distribution. Realease capital cest : 👥Une PME agile de plus de 100 collaborateurs toujours à votre écoute ! 📈 Un chiffre daffaires de 181M€ 💼 Plus dun demi-milliard d€ de gestion d’actifs 📑 Plus de 11 000 contrats 📍 Une présence nationale et en Belgique avec 9 agences pour plus de proximité et de réactivité : Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes, La Ciotat, Lille, Strasbourg, Tours et Bruxelles
2022
Member of the strategic commitee - Fund III SLP
Mar 2022
Qualium Investissement is a major historic and institutional player in private equity in France with €2.1bn invested in 70 French companies since its creation in 1998. Qualium invests equity and and partners with entrepreneurs and managers to provide companies in growth capital and/or buyout phase with customized, innovative and sustainable financial solutions.
2017
Managing Director Oracle France
Sep 2017
Oracle is a global leader in AI, delivering the cloud infrastructure, data, and applications that organizations across the world trust to successfully achieve business outcomes at scale. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides fast, flexible, scalable AI infrastructure. With superior compute performance and network design, a comprehensive choice of AI services for developing and orchestrating agentic AI workflows at scale, and unrivaled data control, security, privacy, and governance, OCI is designed for AI workloads. It also gives customers the flexibility to run their workloads wherever they need by supporting public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, sovereign, and on-premises deployments. The Oracle AI Database is the only database with AI natively built in everywhere. By bringing AI to where data lives, the Oracle AI Database delivers enterprise-grade AI securely, cost-effectively, and at scale. In-database machine learning and vector search enable AI models to run where data resides. Support for multi-modal data (structured, unstructured, graph, vector) enables richer AI use cases. The Oracle AI Data Platform enables organizations to build, deploy, and govern AI agents and applications on top of private, secure, and distributed enterprise data. This enables organizations to operationalize AI without compromising data security or control. Oracle Applications embed AI directly into business workflows and industry processes to ensure AI is delivered in context, where work happens. They include the only applications suite that brings AI to every aspect of a business, with AI-powered ERP, HCM, and CX applications, and the Oracle Health Suite which provides applications for managing the entire healthcare ecosystem. Oracle also provides industry-specific cloud application suites for more than two dozen industries and NetSuite, the world’s first cloud computing company. This LinkedIn page serves as Oracle’s official global company page.
2016
Investor
Apr 2016
Leia Inc. designs, develops, and licenses Immersity, a technology platform that provides immersive experiences to virtually any device, allowing users to feel part of the scene. Immersive experiences are the foundation of Spatial Intelligence, the next generation of AI, where digital content blends naturally with the physical world. The Immersity platform comprises AI-powered software and a switchable-display hardware that either displays or projects immersive content, with only the push of a button. Immersity can seamlessly be embedded in any device, from phones to tablets to laptops to monitors. On standard devices, Motion adds depth through dynamic perspective shifts—making you feel closer to the scene. On Immersity devices, Holo projects true holographic depth, creating a lifelike 3D effect that makes you feel part of the scene—almost inside it. Immersity is available in the market, on devices from several major brands, with more coming soon. Leia Inc. was founded in 2014 by Dr. David Fattal, a world-renowned physicist from Stanford University. In 2023, Leia acquired Dimenco and Royal Philips’ 3D patent portfolio, bringing the patent portfolio to over 2000 patents, the largest in the industry. The company is based in Silicon Valley, with offices in the Netherlands and China, and employs over 200 associates globally.