Team

Xavier Niel

Co-founder

Xavier Niel is the majority shareholder and the historic leader of the Iliad Group.

A self‐taught entrepreneur,  player in the telematics, Internet and telecommunications industries since the late 1980s. After creating 3617 ANNU, he launched Free, the first free access provider in France in 1999. In 2002, Xavier Niel created the Freebox, the first multi‐service set‐top box providing access to « triple play »  at home. Free is currently deploying the fourth mobile phone network in France, and will offer its own mobile service in early 2012. Since 2010, Xavier Niel is the controlling shareholder of the newspaper Le Monde, along with Pierre Bergé and Matthieu Pigasse.

At the same time, Xavier Niel has also been investing significantly for years in internet start‐ups creating in March 2010 his own investment fund, Kima Ventures, which invests in 50‐100 start‐ups per year, worldwide.

Xavier Niel is based in Paris, France

Follow him on Twitter @Xavier75

Jérémie Berrebi

Co-founder

Editor for ZDNet France in 1996, Jeremie co-founded one of the first french internet success story in 1997 sold to TNS Group (UK) in 2004: Net2one (a Google News ancestor).

He co-founded, and was at the head of another company  in 2006 called Zlio.com.

In 2010, he co-founded Kima Ventures with Xavier Niel, even though he was already a shareholder in more than 20 startups all around the world before Kima was created.

Jeremie is based in Bnei Brak, Israel

More info on angel.co/jberrebi

Follow him on Twitter @jberrebi.