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Exclusive Events for Founders Featuring a Curated Selection of Top Experts

Our event series offers business owners a unique opportunity to take part in private webinars and workshops tailored to their context. Guided by hands-on experts in business, tech, legal, funding and marketing, each session is designed to address real challenges and foster meaningful connections with like-minded entrepreneurs.

Grow to sell. It starts with operational excellence. Wednesday, November 4th, 14:00 – 19:00, Paris

In-person sessions (Paris)

These private 1-to-1 workshops focus on strengthening the operational foundations of your company. Through tailored, hands-on sessions with carefully selected experts, we help you identify bottlenecks, sharpen decision-making, and implement practical improvements that drive sustainable growth. Whether your objective is scaling efficiently, preparing for resale, or simply gaining clarity and control, each workshop is built around your real challenges.

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Preparing the Road to a Successful Exit. Thursday, November 5th, 14:00 – 19:00, Brussels

In-person sessions (Brussels)

These private 1-to-1 workshops focus on strengthening the operational foundations of your company. Through tailored, hands-on sessions with carefully selected experts, we help you identify bottlenecks, sharpen decision-making, and implement practical improvements that drive sustainable growth. Whether your objective is scaling efficiently, preparing for resale, or simply gaining clarity and control, each workshop is built around your real challenges.

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Webinar with BOLD and 26lights: Preparing a business for acquisition / exit. Coming soon.

Online event

This webinar dives into what it truly takes to get a business acquisition-ready. Anchored by a concrete case study and featuring the testimonial of Sarah Daum (CEO of Corset Daum), this session covers how to navigate key operational, financial, and legal stakes ahead of time to maximize deal outcomes. Led by M&A Lawyer Elhame Hmaimid and Business Coach Arik Azoulay, it’s an essential session for entrepreneurs and executives looking to navigate their future sale with confidence and strategic foresight.

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A getaway designed around your company

After the talks, all guests are free to book 30-minute, one-to-one conversations with Tech, Business or Marketing experts to tackle the surface of their challenges, and receive actionable insights they can put to use right away!

Arik Azoulay

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.

Thomas Peignier

Thomas Peignier

BOLD Avocats Founder & Partner

Thomas supports founders in capital investment and business development operations. He has recently advised companies such as Spacefill, RingOver, YZR, Garantme, Demand Side Instruments, Brigad, Carlili, Swile, Les Nouveaux Fermiers, Mindsay, Prévision.io, Reach Five, Heetch, and Shine.

Romain Dehaussy

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€.

Louis Sautet

Louis Sautet

Founders Future Partner

Louis spent six years at French Partners, where he contributed to the development of a portfolio of more than 50 companies in 12 countries, including notable successes such as Greenly, Infracommerce, Scalefast, Yassir or Eyewa.

Pierre-Alexis Lénoard

Pierre-Alexis Lénoard

dups CEO

Over the past decade, he has built deep expertise in protecting the interests of founders and minority stakeholders, often stepping in when the balance of power is uneven. He thrives in high-stakes negotiations, helping entrepreneurs secure fair and sustainable agreements.

Benjamin Bitton

Benjamin Bitton

2CFinance Managing Partner

A graduate of KEDGE Business School in audit and corporate finance, Benjamin has extensive expertise in the operational management of accounting and financial teams. He assists companies with a variety of transition management issues. He leads and accompanies numerous investment funds and companies in their acquisition audits and due diligences.

Renaud Lenne

Renaud Lenne

26lights’ Tech Lead

Renaud and Olivier have been with 26lights since the beginning and have been working as tech lead and architects behind many tech projects. They are specialized in infrastructure, data science, and algorithms.

Olivier Samyn

Olivier Samyn

26lights’ Tech Lead

Renaud and Olivier have been with 26lights since the beginning and have been working as tech lead and architects behind many tech projects. They are specialized in infrastructure, data science, and algorithms.

Eleonore Zahlen

Eleonore Zahlen

BOLD Avocats Founder & Partner

She contributed to developing one of the first legal offerings dedicated to startups and supports entrepreneurs on issues such as intellectual property, new technologies, data protection, media law, and contract negotiation. She advises companies like La Ruche Qui dit Oui!, Heetch, and Datagemme, and regularly mentors and leads workshops for projects at the Willa incubator.

Thomas Guedj

Thomas Guedj

iii financements Partner

Driven by the startup ecosystem and the entrepreneurial world, he decided to join III Financements to support entrepreneurs in navigating funding challenges.

Gabriel Goldberg

Gabriel Goldberg

Hakacia Partner

Gabriel helps founders to redefine a course, prioritize and better exploit their data. Passionate about driving growth and innovation, he specialized in Digital Strategy, Marketing, Sales, People Management, and Senior/Corporate Management.

Louis Vanheurck de Tornaco

Louis Vanheurck de Tornaco

dups COO

Louis started as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and then moved in a startup as chief of staff where he was jack of all trades. He has been advising many early stage ventures in their fundraising at dups and is also a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the Solvay Brussels School.

Elhame Hmaimid

Elhame Hmaimid

BOLD Avocats – Avocate M&A

Elhame started her legal career specializing in corporate law and M&A at Lerins Jobard Chemla Avocats before bringing her expertise to Bold Avocats. She has been advising founders and growing companies on complex legal stakes, from early-stage fundraising to strategic acquisitions, ensuring their operations are legally optimized for a successful transaction.

Frédéric Markiewicz

Frédéric Markiewicz

Guardiola Capital – Managing Director

Frédéric holds a Master’s from HEC Paris and brings nearly a decade of international M&A and private equity experience across New York and Brussels. As Managing Director at Guardiola Capital, he leverages a pragmatic, execution-focused mindset to help business leaders navigate complex transactions and strategic deals.

Charles-Antoine Crosnier

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.

Nicolas Debray

Nicolas Debray

Business Angel Investor

Nicolas started his career in the corporate world, spending over 15 years in global leadership roles at L’Oréal where he managed large-scale operations across multiple continents. He later transitioned into the entrepreneurial ecosystem and now acts as a strategic advisor, investor, and board member. Today, he leverages his executive experience to help founders achieve operational excellence, scale their ventures, and successfully navigate complex growth phases.

Estelle Mar Gallier

Estelle Mar Gallier

Storen – Partner

Estelle is a former startup operator and strategy lead who built her experience driving operational efficiency in fast-scaling tech companies like Alan. Now as a venture builder and founder, she leverages her deep hands-on background to help leaders optimize their core processes, scale their organizational models, and build sustainable business foundations.

“A nice moment during which we were able to dig into topics that keep us up at night.”
Eugène Perret – Tulyp.io
“A very interesting format that allows entrepreneurs to address the questions they ask themselves all year long.”
Christian Gomes – Fitology
“A great opportunity to connect with the ecosystem in Paris”
Natalie Casey – Koolboks
Offices in Paris and Brussels

15 years, 200+ startups helped.

The 26lights team in a lounge, five people sitting on a striped sofa

Over the years, we had the opportunity to work on a lot of exciting startups that have grown into household names, such as Sharingbox, Sortlist, Ringtwice or Cowboy. During that time we’ve assembled a team that possesses all the necessary skills to build successful and beautiful companies.

We still share the same passion today, and this is why we decided to invite a small group of promising startups to help them get their growth to the next level.

Every guest will get the chance to meet with experts in various fields, and get actionable advice they can put to use right away.

This event is not an afterwork, nor a conference, but an opportunity to meet like-minded entrepreneurs who may be sharing the same business challenges but also to start working on your priorities with experts that have been working with startups for over 20 years.

Alicia Dahan, General Manager Belgium, 26lights

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