Olivier is a founding partner at >commit, the first transatlantic VC focused on investing on Commercial Open Source companies. He is also a GP at Red River West, an early growth fund that helps European startups growing in the US. Olivier spent a decade at Orange and then as CFO of two startups before crossing to venture, where he co-founded C4 Ventures and backed companies like Graphcore, Riskified and Via (the last two IPO'd on NYSE). General Partner at Red River West. Polytechnique Engineer who grabbed an accountancy degree along the way (confuses people at times). French and British, lived in Pretoria, Washington DC and London, now sharing his time between Geneva and Paris. Plays the saxophone in a band. Black belt in Judo, the dojo hasn't seen him in a while, world traveler.