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Jerome Stioui

Operating Partner at Serena

Paris, Île-de-France

Overview 

Jerome Stioui is an accomplished entrepreneur, operating partner, and board member with a strong background in mobile marketing, digital strategy, and entrepreneurship. Currently serving as an Operating Partner at Serena and holding board positions at Brevo, Silvr, and Libeo, he has demonstrated expertise in leading successful ventures such as Accengage and Ad4Screen, where he served as Co-founder and CEO, and CEO & Chairman respectively.

Work Experience 

  • Operating Partner

    2019 - Current

    Serena is a leading European venture capital firm (1 billion € AUM) We invest in bold tech entrepreneurs across Europe and support them with more than just capital. Our mission is to empower founders to build sustainable and category-defining companies by providing hands-on operational support, deep functional expertise, and access to a vibrant community of peers. At Serena, we back ambition with experience to turn visionary ideas into lasting impact. In charge of the following portfolio companies ⬇️

  • Co-founder

    2019

    Le Village des Enfants Extraordinaires is a non-profit and public-interest organization dedicated to children with multiple disabilities and special needs. Inspired by my daughter Alicia, we aim to build a more inclusive world where every child is empowered to thrive. Our mission is to design and promote innovative, personalized educational solutions that adapt to each child's unique way of learning and growing. We bring together families, educators, and professionals to create supportive environments that celebrate difference and unlock each child’s full potential. Because every child deserves more than just care — they deserve the chance to shine.

  • Angel Investor

    2024

    Jinko.care is a dedicated platform offering personalized support to individuals during and after cancer treatment. We provide tailored care plans to alleviate symptoms, enhance quality of life, and prevent recurrence. Our approach addresses various challenges such as emotional fragility, fatigue, pain, dietary difficulties, and cognitive disturbances. With a compassionate team of experienced practitioners, Jinko.care ensures comprehensive and empathetic care throughout your journey.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Revolt.eco is on a mission to accelerate the energy transition by empowering renewable energy professionals to grow their business. The company provides an all-in-one digital platform that streamlines the entire sales process for energy equipment installations — from lead generation to signed contracts. By centralizing workflows and automating key steps, Revolt.eco helps its clients cut sales management time by over 80% and boost conversion rates by more than 30%. Trusted by 200+ companies across the sector, Revolt.eco is becoming a key enabler of Europe's renewable energy ambitions. Proud to support this passionate team on their journey to scale impact.

  • Board Member

    2022

    Brevo is the only all-in-one digital marketing platform empowering B2B and B2C businesses, ecommerce sellers and agencies to build customer relationships through end to end digital marketing campaigns, transactional messaging, and marketing automation. Unlike other marketing solutions built for enterprise-level budgets and expertise, Brevo tailors its all-in-one suite to suit the marketing needs of growing SMBs in tough markets. Brevo was founded in 2012 with a mission to make the most effective marketing channels accessible to all businesses. Headquartered in Paris with offices in Seattle, Berlin, Noida, and Toronto, Brevo supports more than 300,000 active users across 160 countries.

  • Angel Investor

    2023

    Thynk.Cloud is a turnkey hospitality sales and operation solution. It is powered by SALESFORCE, the world’s leading CRM. Our customers leverage Thynk.Cloud to better service Guests and Customers throughout their lifecycle, and easily build higher profit personalised services they can sell direct. We help them manage their OPEX and optimise the go to market and cost of sales of experiences, packaged services, and new concepts. Thynk includes market, price, quote, plan, contract, schedule, deliver, invoice, and collect any service. We help them focus on Profit Per Space and share of wallet, on top of RevPAR and inventory.

  • Board Member

    2020

    Silvr reinvents the way entrepreneurs get funded. Financing businesses has not evolved over the last decades: banks prefer to fund assets, equity is not the best fit for all. At Silvr, we empower entrepreneurs by building a world where funding is easy to access, scalable, and equity-free. We leverage digital businesses data to predict future revenues and offer funding in 24 hours. Our first two verticals: - e-commerce: we fund their marketing spendings and get paid back later according to their sales - SaaS: we convert their monthly subscriptions into upfront cash

  • Board member

    2020 - 2023

    At Libeo, we aim to disrupt financial exchanges between companies. We are building a unique platform to collect, monitor and pay any supplier invoice. No bank account details needed. Only an email address and click. Libeo is a “French Tech” that received the Finance Innovation label and the “Start up of the year” a fromward WILCO and Société Générale. Libeo is a member of FranceFintech community and Platform58, the incubator of La Banque Postale. We also partner with the Order of Chartered Accountants of Ile-de-France, Rungis&Co and BNP Paribas.

  • Co-founder and CEO

    2011 - 2018

    Accengage is the #1 SaaS Mobile Engagement Technology, offering advertisers and publishers all the latest tools to accelerate mobile engagement, and boost sales conversion. At the core of the Accengage technology is its Mobile CRM capabilities, enabling our customers to create the most advanced mobile engagement scenarios possible to date, by broadcasting highly targeted, personalized and automated push notifications for apps, websites and facebook messenger. Thanks to over 100 staff members, 10M$ funding and 75 months of Research & Development, Accengage became a solid and renowned Mobile Engagement Solution, now powering a staggering 750 million apps installed worldwide. Over 300 international blue chip customers are now using Accengage to boost their apps’ performance: Disney, KLM, Nestlé, Carrefour, Orange, Century 21, Alibaba, Zalando, Vente-privee… As the CEO from 2014 to 2018, I was specifically in charge of Business Development Team, Marketing Team, Customer Success Team, Talent Management Team & Investor relations. Accengage has been acquired in January 2019 by the Global Leader in Digital Customer Engagement (Urban Airship)

  • CEO & Chairman

    2010 - 2017

    Ad4Screen is a marketing and advertising pioneer on Mobile Net (Smartphones, Tablets…). Founded in 2010 and funded by OTC Agregator, a big French Insurance Company (MMA/Covea Group) and Web Serial Entrepreneurs (Business Interactive, WCube, Betclic, Poweo... founders), Ad4Screen helps companies to set up performant Mobile advertising campaigns and to increase App User engagement, retention and conversion. Thanks to its operations Team’s expertise (+60 experts) and to 7M$ raised since its start, Ad4Screen matches Mobile CRM marketer’s goals on Smartphones and Tablets. Ad4Screen’s motto “providing high quality services” is one of the key to its success. Ad4Screen has been acquired in 2018 by Dzeta Conseil

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