French Tech Podcast - London

Meet Clement Mauguet, co-founder and Chief of Global Expansion at Agicap, a leading cash-flow management software for SME’s founded in 2016 in Lyon, France together with Sébastien Beyet, CEO and Lucas Bertola, CTO. Following extensive conversations with many entrepreneurs, all 3 future founders realised that there was a huge gap in the market for a learn and real-time solution to monitor and anticipate cashflow for SME’s. They discovered that businesses across the board were mostly using Excel, which was a source of errors, stress and waste of time; so they set out to develop a solution and started Agicap. 6 years later, they operate across Europe in France, Germany & Austria, Spain, Italy, Netherlands & Belgium and most recently in UK & Ireland. They serve 5000+ customers, have grown the team to 500+, have raised $120m from leading investors and pride themselves with 4.6/5 CSAT. Agicap also created the free ‘Cash Academy’ providing invaluable insights and access to cash management learning and tools for entrepreneurs. https://agicap.com/fr/inscription-cash-academy/ So, Bye, Bye Excel…discover Agicap's success story… and enjoy the conversation between Clement Mauget, Gaelle Drory-Liaudet and Mathilde Bacholle. Looking for a new role in the UK - explore opportunities at https://career.agicap.com/#agicap-lever-widget Want to know more, check out https://agicap.com/en/about/ or contact [email protected]

Twio's intelligent donation plugin allows online stores to instantly add purpose to every purchase and do their bit for society and the environment. Cesar Faucheur co-founded TWIO with Barny Dillarstone. Together they joined the 12-month FrenchTech London mentoring program in June 2021. This episode was the opportunity to tell you more about their incredible project and where they're at and more importantly what their plans for the future are!  We hope you enjoy it! Early stage startups are invited to apply for the 2022 Program online. 

AZ MED offers a powerful computer-aided diagnosis tool that detects all types of fractures in radiography.  We interviewed Julien VIDAL, CEO who co-founder of AZ MED and Dr. Serge SINTZOFF, from IMAGERIVE. Julien launched AZ MED in August 2018 by Julien VIDAL, Elie Zerbib-Attaland Alexandre Attia, with the aim of optimising the workflow of doctors and improving their performance. They built RAYVOLVE, a software is capable of detecting fractures in standard X-rays. They have had incredible results so far, reducing processing time by 36% and errors by an astonishing 20%.  Julien is joined by Dr. Serge SINTZOFF, Medical Manager at IMAGERIVE, a Unilabs company which uses Rayvolve and agreed to share his experience and feedback on a technology which has proven to be a game changer for his pro-athletes and extreme sports lover patients. Hungry for more?  Order or read online ‘The Core’ by Aki Hintsa. Aki first joined McLaren back in the days of Mika Hakkinen & Kimi Raikkonen and grew particularly close to Lewis Hamilton. He worked on physical and mental preparation of FORMULA 1 champions. An inspiring book shared by Serge during our conversation. Looking for a job?  Check out open positions at AZ Med : https://bit.ly/33plt02

Yann LECHELLE, drives the development & growth of SCALEWAY a full stack and triple-play cloud infrastructure as a service provider alongside its founder Arnaud de BERMINGHAM. Scaleway is a pioneering cloud infrastructure provider growing its reputation around the world and currently serves business clients in over 160 countries. Scaleway has 4 data centers located in France, 1 in the Netherlands and 1 in Poland. Scaleway is a subsidiary of publicly traded Iliad Group (ILD.PA). As an entrepreneur, Yann has founded, co-founded or joined a number of startups, developing products that have reached hundreds of millions of end-users globally. Also back in the 90's he even been the dedicated interpreter to THE LA Lakers' Magic JOHNSON... yes... talk about cool!  Clearly you'll enjoy listening to his conversation with Raph CROUAN and Mathilde BACHOLLE.  Check out open positions at SCALEWAY here 

Raf KEUSTERMANS is the CEO of Sportlight Technology, an Oxford-based sports tech startup working closely with several elite football clubs. Sportlight is using unique, cutting edge, military-grade technology to provide unrivalled insights in the areas of load management, performance monitoring, talent development, technical and tactical analysis. Raf speaks about how LiDAR, 1st used by the UK military for automated guarding & threat analysis in war zone military bases; was opened to sports technology as officials looked into further expanding the use of such technology. Tune in and discover how Sportlight Technology creates access to more accurate & believable data sets as opposed to GPS generated metrics which can sometimes come with up to 40-60% errors. Raf is also an Advisor of StikiPixels and the Former co-founder & CEO of Plumbee, acquired by Sony's GSN Games in 2016. ------------------------------- Not familiar with Lidar? Lidar is an acronym for “light detection and ranging". It follows a simple principle — throw laser light at an object on the earth surface and calculate the time it takes to return to the LiDAR source (read more here) 

Pascal co-founded DNA Global Analytics in 2007 with Bilel CHERIF. DNA GA is working to change the world of marketing with the impetus of AI. They offer companies the possibility to adapt their communication and marketing strategy in relation to market evolutions thanks to the advanced knowledge of their customers. Captain of the French national Taekwondo team, double Olympic medallist and triple world champion Pascal enjoys immense popularity which he relentlessly puts at the service of others. One of the first sports ambassadors for peace he actively takes part in #WhiteCard and Peace and Sports, an international programme that uses sport as a vehicle to promote peace in the world in partnership with UNESCO & UNHCR. Pascal is also Vice-President of La French Tech Beijing and is in charge of International Relations for BEJOC, the consortium in charge of the venue construction for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. twitter: @gentilpascal1 visit: www.dna.ga.com  read: The art of War, an ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu, Pascal's must read for any entrepreneur thinking of expanding to China.

Stéphane HOUDET is a French wheelchair tennis player with an impressive track record and an amazing story.  He won all the greatest tournaments, winning 4 Grand Slams in Men's Singles and 18 in Men's Doubles, 2 Gold medals in Paralympic Men's Doubles in Beijing and Rio, as well as 1 Silver medal in Men's Singles and one Bronze medal in Men's Doubles in London. Stéphane was the first player to challenge the status quo when he changed paradigm and started working on his wheelchair, now perfectly adapted to his body, instead of working only on his tennis moves. Having started his career as a veterinarian he has a scientific background and strongly believes that data can help him improve. In this episode, we cover how Stéphane uses data to improve his moves, his wheelchair, and how changing paradigm can give you a competitive edge or how good coaching can make the difference. Watch him play and Follow Stéphane:  Twitter @HoudetStephane LinkedIn 

Not a cute, fragile, little thing. But a kickass, life-biter, adventurer human. It is part of Helene's life mission to make both women and men change their vision on what a "woman" is. She founded WILD.AI in San Francisco in 2017. The team includes female health legend Dr. Stacy Sims, the co-founder of Clue (leading Femtech, c. 20mn MAU), AI Ph.ds and Olympic coaches. Helene is also the co-founder of PeakAI.org, a community of AI researchers and Founders and is an active humanist, helping men reach equality. She falls nothing short of energy and love for extremes - in every sense of the word. She's done done 100km Ultra Trails, half ironman, is an ice swimmer and cross-continental swimmer. As she puts it: "I can't get enough of breathing nature in while sweating!" Listen to Helene and Xavier LOUIS, Co-founder of SHARP TX.LIFE and Peak - Brain Training, Board Member of La French Tech London discuss women performance, menstrual cycle monitoring and the future of #FemTech, the next big phenomenon to keep an eye on with market potential of $50 billion by 2025. This series would have been incomplete without Helene's kickass intervention.  Download the WILD.AI app

Dr Lutz GRAUMANN is the Team Doctor for the German Ice Hockey Federation, CEO of Quaduma and Ex-Military  QUADUMA is an elite digital health & performance consultancy and investment firm. It integrates sports and military medicine and cutting-edge technology to create movement, nutrition, recovery and mindset strategies for work and play. Lutz has been running performance enhancement programs around the globe since 2005. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, NATO Forces, Olympic Athletes, and business clubs such as EO and YPO.  From 1995 to 2005 Lutz has been working with Armed Forces and Pro Athletes. Extreme climate, physical and mental conditions are some of the challenges he had to deal with on a day to day basis. One of his career highlights was the implementation of the human performance enhancement program for the fighter pilots of the new Euro-fighter Typhoon - think Mach 2.0 speed here -  "Fighter Pilots were always a very special breed and the new weapon system Euro-fighter created a new challenge. For the first time in the history of the military the human was the weak link in a system worth more than €130 million per plane, and the solution for this problem was adapted from pro sports." Athletic trainers, Physios and Doctors were embedded in the squadron to create a perfect infrastructure for peak human performance. Dr Lutz was one of them. Tune in!  Visit La French Tech London

Dr Caroline MARTIN is a former tennis player and tennis coach, she holds a PhD in Biomechanics and works for the laboratory «Movement, Sport and health Sciences » (M2S) which focuses on exploring the effects of physical activity on human health and sport performance.  In 2012 Caroline was awarded a National fellowship by the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science foundation. She has been working with the French Federation of Tennis for 4 years and with Daniil MEDVEDEV, No. 2 on the ATP rankings as of March 2021 and a two-time Grand Slam finalist. Todd Ellenbecker, Director of Sports Medicine for the ATP tour says: "Dr Martin is one of the most prolific biomechanists in the field of tennis sport science. Her publications on the tennis serve have provided key insight into the biomechanical characteristics of the tennis serve in both healthy and injured elite players. She continues to publish critically important research in this area and has provided excellent presentations of her research world-wide to aid in its dissemination. Her contribution has been significant for both scientists and clinicians who work with tennis players at all levels." Together with La French Tech London she discusses Data Science, - Biomechanical analysis of tennis movements, - Performance optimisation and injury prevention of tennis players, - Fatigue influence in tennis matches and how to best prepare the players using Data and Science. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She is interviewed by Baptiste NAEGELEN and Mathilde BACHOLLE for La French Tech London  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curious to know more? Caroline has signed numerous articles and co-authored the book “Tennis optimisation de la performance” Visit her website: http://www.caromartin-tennis.com/