Fabrice Grinda

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Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice Grinda at LeWeb in 2011
Born Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Occupation Serial Entrepreneur
Website
"Musings of an Entrepreneur"

Fabrice Grinda is a French entrepreneur and investor.

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Fabrice spent his early childhood in New York. His family migrated back to France and he attended high school in Paris and Nice. In 1992 Fabrice returned to the US attending college at Princeton University where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and was awarded the Halbert White prize for Economics.

Entrepreneur

Fabrice worked at McKinsey & Co until 1998 where he left to start Aucland SA, an online auction house in the style of eBay, it was one of the top 3 Auction sites in the EU region.

Leveraging his investment in Aucland, which was acquired by Eremite in Latin America, Fabrice founded Zingy, a mobile media company. Zingy was sold in May 2004 for $80m. At its peak, it was one of the largest mobile media companies in the Americas.

Fabrice is currently Co-CEO and Co-Founder of OLX,[1] a free online classifieds site used in over 91 countries in 39 languages, founded in March 2006 and is privately held.

Investments

One of Fabrice's portfolio companies, LabPixies, was acquired by Google in April, 2010.[2] Some of his other portfolio companies include BrandsClub, PeoplePerHour, AssuredLabor, Brightroll, and Roomorama .

References

  1. ↑ "About the OLX Founders". ahllc. Retrieved 2009-04-27. 
  2. ↑ "Google Believed To Pay Up To $25 Million For LabPixies To Flood The Web With Apps". techcrunch. Retrieved 2010-04-27. 

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