Romain Lenoir
Strategy, GTM and product. Ex-VC, founder
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
1) As an ex-VC, I help founders on their early-stage fundraising efforts. - Evaluation of the readiness to raise funds with VC firms/business angels. Review of elements : GTM, product, team - Analysis and refining of documents : Pitch decks, Dataroom - Fundraising strategy. Selection of funds. Term sheet preparation and negociation
Work experience
BGV
Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 9 months
VC Associate
Oct 2021 - Dec 2023
2 years 3 months
Working hand in hand with BGV's investment team, Romain led investment due diligences in various industries : climate, future of work, HR, supply chain & logistics, insurance, agriculture/food .. He also took responsibility for the development of the climate tech thesis Internally, he crafted a portfolio analytics and visualisation tool and supported portfolio companies with the creation of BGV ESG program.
Analyst
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
7 months
BGV is a cross-border VC platform with international offices in Menlo Park, Paris, Bangalore, Tel Aviv, which focuses in Enterprise 4.0 (AI vertical solutions, Cloud, Cyber security) startups, from seed to IPO Romain is based in Paris and is covering especially the European scene, focusing on Seed and Series A startups that have the ambition to be change makers
1st Sales Operations & Strategy
Epsor
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
5 months
Paris, France
Stopped because of Covid
Venture Capital & Private Equity Analyst
StartupFarmersFreelance
Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
6 months
Paris Area, France
Romain worked alongside the CEO of StartupFarmers, an advisory firm to VC and PE in the agritech sector, and worked on a range of topics especially : - The development of an investment thesis on precision agriculture and the study of investment opportunities for a VC - The identification of targets for a LBO in the agrifood sector for a PE fund
Co-Founder
Dropix
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
11 months
Paris Area, France
Dropix has been a tech company is the e-commerce industry, helping e-merchants and online wholesalers distribute their product automatically on every marketplaces in France and in Europe, with a focus on dynamic pricing and simplified management. Romain was especially focused on product and strategy
Consultant
Sopra Steria Consulting
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
1 year 6 months
Paris Area, France
Romain had experience through consulting services and was part of Sopra Steria's energy practice, focused on helping large energy enterprises on a range of topics, especially : - Product design, management and change management for an application of 90000 users in the retail industry. - Product strategy and management in a sensible web app at a finance department in the energy industry
Assistant project manager
Actemium
May 2016 - Jul 2016
3 months
Gloucester, UK
Romain did a round overview of project management in a Business Unit selling control panels for the energy industry, such as : - Engineering and design of control panels - Assistance through the commercial phases: costs analysis, quoting, purchasing, commercial terms
Education
CentraleSupélec
Mastère Spécialisé ® Centrale-ESSEC Entrepreneurs (ENTREP)
2018 - 2019
1 year 1 month
ESSEC Business School
Mastère Spécialisé ® Centrale-ESSEC Entrepreneurs (ENTREP)
2018 - 2019
1 year 1 month
Grenoble INP - Phelma
Engineer’s Degree
2014 - 2017
3 years 1 month
Lycée Pasteur
Classes Préparatoires
2012 - 2014
2 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Issued: Jun 2017
Toefl 101
Issued: Jan 2017
Baccalauréat Scientifique mention "Très bien"
Issued: May 2012