Maxime Le Dantec

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Meet DeepIP: The AI platform that helps patent practitioners save half the time and raise the quality of every patent, from idea to enforcement. Trusted by hundreds of organizations across five continents, DeepIP augments every stage of the patent lifecycle with an integrated, secure, intuitive platform that works where you work. At DeepIP, we’re driven by a simple belief: IP professionals should spend their time on strategy and innovation—not administration. The IP landscape is changing fast, and the tools supporting it must evolve even faster. Our mission is to build the AI technology that streamlines IP work, elevates the practitioner, and unlocks a new standard of quality, speed, and impact across the entire patent lifecycle. By pairing cutting-edge AI with deep collaboration across the global IP community, we’re helping practitioners move beyond outdated processes and into a future where human expertise and AI work seamlessly together to protect and propel innovation.

Le nouvel outil des pros de la paie. Un logiciel de paie nouvelle génération conçu avec celles et ceux qui produisent la paie. Clair, fiable, lisible.

MatX designs hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models: We dedicate every transistor to maximizing performance for large models. For these models, we deliver 10× more computing power, enabling AI labs to make models an order of magnitude smarter and more useful. Our hardware would make it possible to train GPT-4 and run ChatGPT, but on the budget of a small startup. A world with more widely available intelligence is a happier and more prosperous world—picture people of all socioeconomic levels having access to an AI staff of specialist MDs, tutors, coaches, advisors, and assistants.

Revibe is a B2C marketplace for renewed electronics

We are building the Flagcat Colors - a new way of coloring characters - soon available in Private Beta. Our first series - Deadly Hour - is coming out on webtoon (FR) on August 27th and on Tapas (EN) in early October.

We believe that contracts are the starting points and that it should be a memorable experience. We unlock the full potential of businesses by empowering legal & business teams to move faster, smarter & safer. The preferred legal AI solution of 2,000+ companies for generating, negotiating, signing, and tracking their contracts.

Financial copilot for institutional investors (Chat GPT + Edgar)

Metomic protects sensitive data in SaaS applications.

Animaj is a next-generation media company that brings high-quality and inspiring brands to kids and families worldwide. We acquire and transform high-quality IPs into multi-platform franchises, using a digital-first and AI-driven approach. Our content, produced independently, aims to inspire children to dream, explore, and create.

Build high-quality datasets, fast. Enterprises trust us to streamline their data labeling ops and build the best datasets for their custom models, generative AI, and LLMs ___ Why Kili Technology? You might not know this, but: MNIST’s dataset has an error rate of 3.4% and is still cited by more than 38,000 papers. The ImageNet dataset, with its crowdsourced labels, has an error rate of 6%. This dataset arguably underpins the most popular image recognition systems developed by Google and Facebook. Systemic error in these datasets has real-world consequences. Models trained on error-containing data are forced to learn those errors, leading to false predictions or a need of retraining on ever-increasing amounts of data to “wash out” the errors. Every industry has begun to understand the transformative potential of AI and invest. But the revolution of ML transformers and relentless focus on ML model optimization is reaching the point of diminishing returns. What else is there? ______ The Company Kili began as an idea in 2018. Edouard d’Archimbaud, our co-founder and CTO, was working at BNP Paribas, where he built one of the most advanced AI Labs in Europe from scratch. François-Xavier Leduc, our co-founder and CEO, knew how to take a powerful insight and build a company around it.While all the AI hype was on the models, they focused on helping people understand what was truly important: the data. Together, they founded Kili Technology to ensure data was no longer a barrier to good AI.By July 2020, the Kili Technology platform was live and by the end of the year, the first customers had renewed their contract, and the pipeline was full. In 2021, Kili Technology raised over $30M from Serena, Headline and Balderton. Today Kili Technology continues its journey to enable businesses around the world to build trustworthy AI with high-quality data.

Numeral, a Mambu company, is a payment technology provider for fintechs and banks. We offer financial institutions a universal gateway to connect to partner banks and access schemes and a modern payments hub to automate payment processing. With Numeral, fintechs and banks can unlock growth by launching new products and expanding geographically faster, eliminating hidden payment complexity and making their payments future-proof and ever-compliant. Launched in 2021 and acquired by Mambu (www.mambu.com) in 2024 Numeral provides the payment infrastructure for the most innovative European banks and fintechs like WorldFirst, Argentex and Alma and partners with Europe’s leading banks, including BNP Paribas, Barclays, BPCE, HSBC and LHV.

The Modern Webinar Platform Every Webinar+ is an opportunity to grow both your audience and your revenue. 2x your pipeline by using Webinar+ today. Founded in early 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hubilo unlocks massive insights and value of webinars for the B2B marketer, proving ROI, accelerating pipeline, and generating revenue. Hubilo is trusted by a growing list of brands – United Nations, Roche, Informa Markets, Tech in Asia, Fortune, AWS, Siemens, Cognizant, Veritas Technologies, GITEX – and is a fast-growing SaaS company backed by Alkeon Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Balderton Capital, and several other renowned angel investors.

With over 1.5 million downloads and counting, the JUMBO app is quickly becoming the go-to first layer of privacy and security for both iOS and Android users. Led by CEO Pierre Valade, JUMBO’s mission is to make everyone safer online. Combining innovative technology with the personal touch of human customer service has resulted in a 4.8 star-rating on Trustpilot and a 4.6 rating on the iOS App Store. First launched in April 2019, JUMBO has been featured in TechCrunch, Washington Post, Business Insider, Fast Company, The New York Times and many more. The JUMBO team is backed by world class investors including venture capital funds Index Ventures (Dropbox, Notion, Datadog, etc.), Balderton Capital (Darktrace, Dashlane, Revolut, etc.), Thrive Capital (Instagram, DuckDuckGo, Github, etc.). JUMBO’s founder and CEO, Pierre Valade, is an experienced entrepreneur who previously founded Sunrise Calendar, a viral calendar app that Techcrunch called “the best calendar app ever”. Sunrise was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 and subsequently integrated into the Outlook mobile app’s calendar experience. Pierre was also named to MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” list in 2015.

***** We're hiring: building an outstanding tech team in Paris right now! Apply here: https://careers.gitguardian.com/ ***** GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes. GitGuardian helps developers, ops, security and compliance professionals secure software development, define and enforce policies consistently and globally across all their systems. GitGuardian solutions monitor public and private repositories in real-time, detect secrets and alert to allow investigation and quick remediation. GitGuardian is the number 1 security app on the GitHub Marketplace. Try it for free today: https://dashboard.gitguardian.com/

Cleo Ventures is a €30M pre-seed and seed fund backing exceptional humans in the era of abundant intelligence. We invest exclusively in AI-native companies. By dedicating all of our time to AI, we build deeper conviction, a stronger network, and deliver greater value to founders. We write €300K to €1M checks at pre-seed and seed, often before the first line of code or the first hire. As former founders ourselves, we know the journey isnt easy. We make decisions quickly and support founders through the ups and downs, from key hires to fundraising and strategic positioning. What sets us apart: - Built by founders. Weve founded and scaled companies ourselves, and we partner with founders from day one. - Cleo Trailblazers Club. A curated group of world-class AI founders and operators who hold carried interest in our fund and coach portfolio founders across go-to-market, product, research, and org building. - Backed by AI entrepreneurs. More than 40 AI entrepreneurs who have built companies from 0 to 1 are LPs in Cleo, acting as trusted allies to founders as they scale. Our portfolio and track record includes MatX, Fintool (acquired by Microsoft), Tomorro, DeepIP, Animaj, Lightdash, GitGuardian, Exotec, and Alice & Bob. We firmly believe today is one of the best moments in history to back generational founders building with AI. If thats you, lets talk.

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Meet DeepIP: The AI platform that helps patent practitioners save half the time and raise the quality of every patent, from idea to enforcement. Trusted by hundreds of organizations across five continents, DeepIP augments every stage of the patent lifecycle with an integrated, secure, intuitive platform that works where you work. At DeepIP, we’re driven by a simple belief: IP professionals should spend their time on strategy and innovation—not administration. The IP landscape is changing fast, and the tools supporting it must evolve even faster. Our mission is to build the AI technology that streamlines IP work, elevates the practitioner, and unlocks a new standard of quality, speed, and impact across the entire patent lifecycle. By pairing cutting-edge AI with deep collaboration across the global IP community, we’re helping practitioners move beyond outdated processes and into a future where human expertise and AI work seamlessly together to protect and propel innovation.

Le nouvel outil des pros de la paie. Un logiciel de paie nouvelle génération conçu avec celles et ceux qui produisent la paie. Clair, fiable, lisible.

MatX designs hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models: We dedicate every transistor to maximizing performance for large models. For these models, we deliver 10× more computing power, enabling AI labs to make models an order of magnitude smarter and more useful. Our hardware would make it possible to train GPT-4 and run ChatGPT, but on the budget of a small startup. A world with more widely available intelligence is a happier and more prosperous world—picture people of all socioeconomic levels having access to an AI staff of specialist MDs, tutors, coaches, advisors, and assistants.