Managing Partner @ Entropia Capital. Experimenting and building in public. Running ultras.
Corporate life @ VINCI, BNP Paribas, EDF, Orano. Venture building @ Sangha, AM2.
Policy + research @ French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NUS, Berkeley, PSL University.
MS & PhD in mechanical engineering, applied maths, and operations research.


Tech venturing on Southeast Asia’s terms

Southeast Asian countries should stop importing blueprints from Silicon Valley or China and rather develop a homegrown strategy that can transform the region’s constraints into advantages and help build innovation systems suited to its economic and cultural realities. Its fragmentation allows startups to design for diversity, build for complexity, and scale through modularity. Read on Forbes (May 2025, 🇬🇧).


Why startup studios are the ultimate builders of deep-tech ventures

Studios offer early access to key partnerships. The path to market in deep tech requires collaboration with tier 1 players in manufacturing, supply chains and regulatory bodies. Without these connections, startups face bottlenecks in prototyping and production scaling. Studios pre-negotiate industry partnerships, ensuring portfolio companies can integrate into existing value chains. Read on Forbes (Mar 2025, 🇬🇧).


Switzerland: A deep tech beacon in Europe

Despite being a small country, Switzerland has built a global reputation over the last two decades as a hub for deep tech. Its competitive edge lies in its highly educated workforce, world-class research institutions, and strategic position at the crossroads of European markets. The country’s ability to connect its industrial strategy with skill requirements has been a defining factor in its success. Read on Forbes (Feb 2025, 🇬🇧).


Unlocking capital for deep tech startups

Despite their transformative promise, securing funding for deep tech ventures remains an uphill battle. This comes from a fundamental misalignment in the venture capital ecosystem: Investors naturally gravitate toward sectors where experimentation is low-cost and rewards are immediate rather than to areas with the most critical need for innovation. Read on Forbes (Dec 2024, 🇬🇧).


Rethinking corporate innovation strategies from the ground up

The real key to corporate innovation lies in embracing uncertainty and focusing on a portfolio approach rather than following rigid methodologies or betting on a single project. Ideally, corporations should embrace serendipity, allowing ideas to flourish from unexpected places, even if these ideas initially seem too risky or unaligned with the company’s core strategy. Read on Forbes (Nov 2024, 🇬🇧).


A deep tech-driven public policy engine: the case of Southeast Asia

Governments worldwide, including the US, France, and Singapore, are increasingly implementing policies to encourage entrepreneurship as a key driver of economic development and job creation. This proactive stance is evident in both established and emerging startup ecosystems, where regions and cities are focused on nurturing small businesses and promoting innovation. Read on Forbes (Sept 2024, 🇬🇧).


Navigate the complexities of scaling deep tech startups across borders

Considering the scarcity of deep tech resources in many ecosystems, young ventures often focus on developing abroad early on. But framing an international strategy isn't just driven by market sizing, timing, and scalability. The deep tech journey requires short- and medium-term efforts to build trust with industrial players looking for an entry ticket to the adequate spot on the value chain. Read on Forbes (August 2024, 🇬🇧).


The power of role models in deep tech

The rise of entrepreneurial intention –the individual drive to start a new venture– is strongly influenced by personal and environmental factors, among which entrepreneurship education and the presence of role models stand out. Does the current starification smother the emergence of a new generation of glocal, rather than global, frontier tech role models?
Read on Forbes (July 2024, 🇬🇧).


Why science startups need strategic planning more than ever

The roadmap of a science startup should, from the start, take the form of a list of master plans and priority challenges. Few deep tech entrepreneurs evaluate their activities and their key success factors in a holistic manner. Wrongly. The growth rate of a start-up depends on the consistency between its stage of development and the structural characteristics of its organization. Read on The Conversation (May 2024, 🇫🇷)


Frontier SG tech: what’s next?

With a unique economic development model—an open economy framework combined with a decisive state intervention—Singapore has demonstrated remarkable economic success. With its highly developed costs, the country now needs to compete close to the frontier of the global knowledge economy, as opposed to the earlier, more straightforward task of technological catch-up. Read on Medium (September 2023, 🇬🇧)


Opening possibilities with frontier tech: we want you!

The Gen Z is attracted by careers and companies that they feel are working in society’s best interest or in alignment with their own moral code. From the Great Resignation in 2020–22 to the current Great Layoff in the tech industry, they are part of the thousands of talents choosing to strengthen the ranks of frontier tech early-stage startups and global champions. They are much needed. Read on Medium (March 2023, 🇬🇧).


Fundraising: frontier tech or frontier finance?

Fundraising for frontier tech entrepreneurs is still incredibly challenging. Investors naturally gravitate to sectors where the cost of experimentation is low, independent of the sectors with the greatest need for innovation, or even where the supply of innovative ideas is the greatest. Most financiers’ struggle to balance the potential of frontier tech with the complexity of execution. Read on Medium (February 2023, 🇬🇧).


Eureka! Hard(tech) lessons from corporate and academic ventures

Corporate and academic environments demonstrate strengths and weaknesses when it comes to producing frontier tech innovation. Unsurprisingly, instead of one-off ventures, both sides have become much more interested in forging long-term, collaborative relationships, and frontier tech venturing — in the form of startups, and programs — has been growingly used to do so. Read on Medium (August 2022, 🇬🇧).


Shaping Singapore’s attractiveness in frontier tech

Science-driven venturing can be painful for founders. It comes with a range of structural, intellectual, and financial barriers that make the maturation and go-to-market complex. The problem is acute all over SE Asia but resonates in a singular manner in Singapore. A combination of targeted efforts could leverage the nation’s strengths, and address some of its shortcomings. Read on Medium (May 2022, 🇬🇧).


The role of corporate pathfinders and activators in frontier tech

Corporate pathfinders help frontier tech entrepreneurs find a way through the industrialization maze, co-drafting a roadmap to market, and challenging the possible paths. When a joint opportunity is validated, they are expected to morph into a different type of players: corporate activators, showcasing brands and products internally and externally with a range of selected partners. Read on Medium (April 2022, 🇬🇧).


Can Southeast Asian VCs nurture frontier tech unicorns?

In frontier tech, market fundamentals, playbooks, and growth metrics are specific to the field, and meteoric growth (and valuation increases) is very rarely seen during the maturation stage. Most Southeast Asian investors still hesitate to embrace these new investment models, wary of technology risk, their unfamiliarity with the required execution, as well as the expected time to exit. Read on Medium (Jan 2022, 🇬🇧).


The power of platforms in advanced materials

New kinds of deep tech platforms are driving the market from bespoke craftsmanship in nanotechnologies to industrialized advanced materials integration and development. They are built around powerful breakthrough technologies such as nano-engineering and artificial intelligence, amplifying the efficiency of both modelling and engineering solutions. Read on Medium (Dec 2021, 🇬🇧).


A glimpse at sustainability-driven innovations in advanced materials

The world has entered a new era in technical innovation dedicated to the design of advanced (i.e. new, intelligent, functional, greener) materials. They are critical in our collective journey, already becoming an indispensable part across industries and all sectors of the economy, from systems engineering to energy harvesting or biomedicine. Read on Medium (Oct 2021, 🇬🇧).


Generative venture studios, building frontier tech startups from the ground up

The venture studio model capitalizes on emerging transformational technologies and their capacity to serve as generative mechanisms for disruptive innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities. They reproduce innovation success better than individual entrepreneurial stories, capitalizing on collective best practices, learnings and networks. Read on Medium (Oct 2021, 🇬🇧).


Frontier tech: learning to dance with corporate investors

In the case of frontier tech, partnering with –and getting investments from– corporates can be a massive opportunity for a startup as long as the relationship is healthy, reviewed and adapted over time. Complex technological innovation happens close to customers and in the environment of professionals who are experiencing problems unique to their industrial context. Read on Medium (Aug 2021, 🇬🇧).


Frontier tech and competitiveness: a public policy nexus

From Israel to France, Chile or Singapore, from established to aspiring “startup hubs”, many countries have taken the mandate to stimulate the emergence of frontier tech. In order to prevent ‘dual ecosystems’ to emerge locally. Singapore articulates a response to promote inclusiveness, aggregation of players, knowledge sharing and new internationalization playbooks. Read on Medium (July 2021, 🇬🇧).


The challenges of strategizing over hard tech teams

In Singapore, a positive entrepreneurial culture is massively supported in research institutions. More and more academics initiate, shape and support the relay-race that ignite the venturing process, employing a mix of resource-seeking and interpersonal attraction formation strategies: they simply do so in distinctive and systematically varying ways. Read on Medium (May 2021, 🇬🇧).


The deeptech war for talents

More high-level C-level executives and seasoned entrepreneurs will be key to have the deeptech ecosystem thrive in Singapore. Bringing a solid experience in deep science prototyping, pre-industrialisation and early industrialisation, those will be responsible for steering new ventures in the right direction, connecting projects with global B2B networks. Read on Medium (April 2021, 🇬🇧).


Singapore, from digital hub to deeptech beacon

Politics of exponential growth does not embrace politics of technology when it comes to deeptech. While hard technologies offer society the opportunity to solve grand societal challenges, the road to market is a high-risk venture that requires new investment channels, innovative vehicles and hybrid entrepreneurial lenses. Singapore seizes the moment. Read on Medium (April 2021, 🇬🇧).


Régulation des stablecoins, l’Europe comme compétiteur stratégique ?

Cet article examine le contexte technico-financier, l’écosystème d’innovation et les politiques monétaires qui informent l’émergence des crypto-actifs, revenant sur la publication récente du premier cadre régulatoire européen sur le sujet. Article original publié par la Revue Cyber & Conformité, co-écrit avec Cédric Barrier, co-fondateur d’Entropia Ventures. Read on Medium (Mars 2021, 🇫🇷).


Temporalités étagées : le capital-investissement à l’épreuve du Covid-19

La période de la crise sanitaire bouleverse la vie des entreprises. Incidemment, elle fait ressortir une diversité de logiques d’action des dirigeants des fonds de capital-investissement, tant au niveau de la gestion des participations qu’en interrogeant les thèses d’investissement actuelles. Le Covid-19 amorce une longue série de travaux d’autocritique et de réflexion dans l’industrie du VC. Lire sur Medium (Avril 2020, 🇫🇷).