Arik Azoulay
26lights Founder & CEO
For over 15 years, Arik has partnered with more than 200 startups, scale-ups, and ambitious SMEs, guiding them to build sustainable and scalable businesses characterized by healthy growth and robust leadership.
Known for his pragmatic and hands-on approach, Arik acts as a strategic sparring partner to founders and leadership teams, helping them clarify their vision, design effective growth plans, optimize processes, and execute with discipline. His work is about turning complex challenges into clear, actionable plan that drive tangible progress.
Eleonore Zahlen
BOLD Avocats Partner
Eléonore Zahlen is a co-founder of Bold. A lawyer for more than 20 years, she specializes in IP and technology law, contracts, data, and artificial intelligence. She advises startups and fast-growing companies on the legal challenges linked to launching and scaling their business. She created and leads the firm’s AI Lab, which aims both to accelerate the internal adoption of AI tools and to build advanced expertise on European and French AI regulation to better support clients.
At Bold, she created and leads the firm’s AI Lab, which aims both to accelerate the internal adoption of AI tools and to build advanced expertise on European and French AI regulation to better support clients.
Thomas Peignier
BOLD Avocats Partner
With over 15 years of experience as a lawyer, he specializes in corporate law, private equity, and M&A. He acts as a trusted advisor to startups, high-growth businesses, and SMEs, guiding them through complex matters such as corporate structuring, shareholder relations and disputes, fundraising, and mergers and acquisitions.
He has a proven track record of advising prominent companies, including Lemlist, Dougs, Spacefill, RingOver, YZR, Garantme, HappyVore, Mindsay, Reach Five, Heetch, and Shine.
Romain Dehaussy
Cambon Partners’ Partner
Specialized in fundraising at Cambon, Romain is a primary advisor at key moments in the life of an entrepreneur with courage and vision.
Romain has a solid network and know-how to assist startups and scaleups in their growth and avoid traps. Over the last 4 years, he helped to raise 800m€.
Charles-Antoine Crosnier
Storen – Co-founder
Charles-Antoine is the co-founder of Storen and Managing Partner at ETA Ventures. Drawing on years of experience in corporate finance, banking, and venture investing, he advises entrepreneurs on structuring non-dilutive growth financing and building resilient financial foundations to support scale and exits.
Estelle Mar Gallier
Storen – Partner
Partner at Storen, with several years of experience in innovation financing and a strong expertise in non-dilutive funding mechanisms.
She specializes in identifying relevant funding opportunities and in preparing and structuring successful funding applications. She supports companies throughout their different stages of development, from early-stage startups to scale-ups and established SMEs, helping them leverage the right financing solutions to support their innovation and growth.
Céline Goldberg
26Lights – Product Expert
Céline is a creative, sharp product leader with 6 years of experience in B2B SaaS, notably as Head of Product at Sortlist. Driven by early-stage energy and ambitious projects, she excels at navigating major transformations, from business model shifts to go-to-market strategies and team structuring. Currently a Product Expert at 26lights, she aligns tech product strategy with business goals to build solutions that combine tech, human connection, and real impact.
Olivier Samyn
26lights Tech Lead
Olivier is a Senior Tech Executive at 26lights. A Civil Engineer in IT, he specializes in software development, databases, and digital infrastructure. He works closely with growing companies to turn strategic ambitions into reliable, scalable, and high-performing tech platforms designed for long-term growth.
Laurent Van Ausloos
26lights Creative Director
Laurent is Creative Director and Brand Marketing Lead at 26lights. Combining an artistic background with deep visual storytelling expertise, he helps startups and growing ventures build distinct brand identities, craft compelling narratives, and execute go-to-market strategies that turn complex ideas into engaging visual experiences.
