Thibaud Elziere

Thibaud Elziere (born in 1979, Aix-en-Provence) is a French entrepreneur. In 2004 he founded in 2004 microstock photography company Fotolia just after graduating from Centrale Lyon, a French engineering school.[1] In 2012, Fotolia raised $150m from buy-out firm KKR,[2] and in December 2014, Adobe Systems announced it was buying Fotolia for $800 million, aiming at integrating it to its Creative Cloud solution.[3] In 2008, Thibaud Elziere created Zilok, a peer to peer rental site.[4]

In 2011, Thibaud Elziere launched eFounders together with Quentin Nickmans,[5] a startup studio focusing on Saas companies, that has successfully created six independent startups:

All together, eFounders’ startups have raised about $10m in Europe and the US.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Interview With Fotolia´s CEO Thibaud Elziere
  2. ↑ European stock photography site Fotolia grabs $150M by VentureBeat
  3. ↑ Adobe acquires stock company Fotolia to boost Creative Cloud asset supply by The Next Web
  4. ↑ Elevator Pitch: Zilok wants to be the eBay of renting by The Guardian
  5. ↑ Wrapping my head around the eFounders ‘Company Builder’ model by RudeBaguette
  6. ↑ Scrappy Cloud-Hosted Emailer Mailjet Raises $3.3 Million by TechCrunch
  7. ↑ TextMaster Raises Further €1M To Crowdsource Translation, Copywriting And Proofreading by TechCrunch
  8. ↑ mention.net raised $800K to reinvent Google Alerts by EU Startups
  9. ↑ Team email startup Front raises $3.1M for 'multi-player version of Gmail' by VentureBeat