February 04, 2022
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
The next Start-up breakfast will be held on Tuesday, Feburary 15, 2022, at 9:00 AM via Microsoft Teams with Ms.Eden Lellouche-Banon and Dr. Emilia McLaughlin as guests.
Ms. Eden Lellouche-Banon is a Talent Manager of Entrepreneur First (EF) in France, and Dr. Emilia McLaughlin is the co-founder of Kyron.bio, recently created with the EF talent program.
EF is the world’s leading talent investor to support creating global technology companies by placing ambitious, talented people together. Through its platform running in 6 cities across 3 continents, EF invests in high-potential individuals to help them meet their co-founders, develop their ideas, and secure funding from leading investors in the shortest possible time. To date, EF has built over 500 companies from scratch; has over 3300 alumni worldwide, and has a portfolio valued at $6bn. EF companies include Tractable (Computer Vision, currently valued at $1bn as of June 2021), Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m), Represent (social commerce, acquired by CustomInk), BloomsburyAI (acquired by Facebook), Cleo (fintech), OpenCosmos (space), CloudNC (manufacturing), Transcelestial (satellite communications), etc. EF is backed by some of the world's best tech founders and investors, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind), and Taavet Hinrikus (Wise).
Eden got her master’s degree in International Management from Paris-Dauphine University in 2018. After her graduation, she worked in Business France in Chicago as a business development director for 1 year. In 2020, She joined the EF as associate and she is now working as a Talent.
Emilia is a former PhD student of the Institut Pasteur. She was selected and her start-up, Kyron.bio, was co-founded by the EF program in 2021. Recently, her company got £80 000 funding from the EF investment committee.
If you wish to learn about Entrepreneur First and share the live experience of the startup creation journey with EF from our former colleague, Emilia, please join the meeting.
To register, send a mail to the Startup Awareness office (suaw@pasteur.fr)