Samir Bounab

CEO | Entrepreneur | B2B tech & manufacturing 🚀🇺🇸🇪🇺

📍 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor & board member
Jul 2017
AI-Powered Pricing Intelligence Brennus Analytics offers an AI-based pricing solution targeting B2B companies (manufacturing, B2B distribution, logistics) looking for a significant profit boost. Based on an exclusive AI technology, Brennus software is a glass-box dynamic pricing assistant which can handle an infinite quantity of optimisation criteria, variables and data sources. It offers a holistic and actionable optimization. Built as a modular SaaS solution, it translates a company's commercial strategy into optimal prices, helping Sales and Pricing on a daily basis.
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2026
Founder & CEO
Apr 2026
BlackOrbit is the coordination system for new product introduction. Complex manufacturers run NPI across spreadsheets, email, and an ERP that was never built to coordinate people. Milestones slip, and nobody sees why until its too late. On every program, that gap has a cost: the coordination tax. BlackOrbit closes it. Every signal captured, every action followed through, every status updated. An agentic engine drafts the status reports, flags the risks, and chases the open actions, so your engineers and program managers spend their time on the work only they can do. It sits on top of your existing stack (ERP, PLM, MES) instead of replacing any of it. The systems of record stay in place. BlackOrbit runs the program across them. What it is not: another ERP, another project management tool, another silo. Were early and building in the open with a small cohort of design partners across aerospace and defense, electronics, precision machining, and medical devices. If you run several NPI programs at once and know something is slipping through the cracks but cant see what, come build with us. See how it works at blackorbit.ai.
2025
Founder - new venture in custom plastics
Aug 2025
OSS Ventures is the startup studio building & investing in the future of operations. We ideate, test, build, invest in great ideas to change the future of the organizations who provide physical services to the world.
2024
Founder
Nov 2024
Hands-on fractional leadership for B2B tech companies in North America. ***How We Work*** - High-Impact Effort Ratio: Time is precious, we carefully prioritize actions, take shortcut, and use momentum to get more done. - Enjoying the Journey: Work doesn’t have to be a grind. We believe in bringing energy, positivity, and enjoyment to the process. - Building Together: Good teamwork is crucial in complex businesses. We foster a collaborative mindset with the founders/executives and their teams. - 1.01^(365) = 37.7: We steadily implement incremental changes, for big impacts on the long run ***What we do*** As a founder and/or CEO, you can benefit from the impact of a seasoned executive/entrepreneur at a fraction of the cost and a flexible engagement model. Our focus areas: - The Foundations of a successful go-to-market (value proposition, strategy, industry benchmark, business plan) - The Team (hiring, coaching, replacing) - The Sales and Marketing “factory” (tools, processes, enablement) - The Ecosystem (partners, distributors, top targets) Three service models: * Advisor: the brain to help you design the right thing, and tackle the loneliness of leadership. * Fractional CRO : the brain and the hands, operationalising at fast pace the go-to-market strategy. * Lean CRO: All CRO responsibilities except external representation, and internal overhead. ***Who we are*** The Fractional is a boutique shop, operated by @Samir Bounab, with the addition of a network of focused market experts: tech headhunters, tech marketing experts, and marketing agencies.
2023
Founder and CEO
Jan 2023
Off-the-shelf solutions to build, connect, test, and secure embedded Linux systems, in-house. The Embedded Kit comprises: - Welma production-ready Linux distro based on Yocto - Kamea IoT device management platform - Pluma automated embedded testing tool - CVE Scan vulnerability scanner Born from +20 years of experience in supporting device-makers, The Embedded Kit products: - Simplify software developments & long-term maintenance - Kick start embedded projects - Provide full flexibility & ownership - Help build industrial grade & secure devices (Cyber Resilience Act-ready)
2017
Investor & board member
Jul 2017
AI-Powered Pricing Intelligence Brennus Analytics offers an AI-based pricing solution targeting B2B companies (manufacturing, B2B distribution, logistics) looking for a significant profit boost. Based on an exclusive AI technology, Brennus software is a glass-box dynamic pricing assistant which can handle an infinite quantity of optimisation criteria, variables and data sources. It offers a holistic and actionable optimization. Built as a modular SaaS solution, it translates a company's commercial strategy into optimal prices, helping Sales and Pricing on a daily basis.
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