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Pierre-edouard Sterin

Membre at Génération Bien Commun

Brussels Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Pierre-Edouard Sterin is an accomplished Investor and Entrepreneur based in the Brussels Metropolitan Area, with a strong background in founding and owning successful ventures such as Otium Capital and Smartbox Group. He has made significant investments in various sectors including Diagnostics, Entertainment & Sports, Payments, Cybersecurity, BioTech, and FinTech, with notable investments in companies like Ensol, Giftory, VSORA, Rzilient, and Stage11.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and Owner

    2009 - Current

    Otium is a private, evergreen investment holding company. We support entrepreneurs to unlock their value creation potential, placing people, boldness and innovation at the heart of our approach. Otium pursues a diversification strategy, as both minority and majority investor, mainly in the sectors of industry, leisure, real estate, healthcare, Consumer, and Tech. We invest more than €200m per year, with ticket sizes ranging from €2m to €30m per project. We have invested more than €500m in over 100 companies. If you are raising funds or wish to become a founder with us, and if you are very ambitious, contact us. www.otiumcapital.com

  • Founder and Owner

    2003

    Smartbox is the worldwide leader in gift experiences. Founded in 2003 with only 5 000 euros. Revenues 2023 of €423m. Team of 700+ talented people. We are in 11 european countries (France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Denmark...). We have 34 000 partners (hotels, restaurants, spas...) and 17 000 points of sales. www.smartbox.com

  • Co-founder

    2024

    Périclès is a liberal-conservative platform that creates and supports citizen initiatives to help France rise again. We deploy €15m per year in several types of projects: - Think tanks - Media - Technology tools - Training programs www.periclesfrance.org

  • Co-Founder

    2022

    The Fonds du Bien Commun is an ecosystem comprising different structures: - An endowment fund to support associations, - An investment fund for for-profit projects, - An incubator to help associative and other projects emerge. We invest €80m per year (donations, impact investing and real estate investment) to support the promoters of positive-impact projects as they scale up. Our priorities : - Solidarity - Integral education - Culture and heritage - Human and spiritual growth www.fondsdubiencommun.com

  • Owner and President of the Board

    2008 - 2014

    We have invested in LaFourchette and became the main shareholder of the company (80%). We bring operational expertise and hands-on support to the founders. We developed the company from 20 to 20 000 bookings a day. We recruited 200 talented people. We sold the company in 2014 to Trip Advisor.

  • Founder

    1999 - 2001

    Black Orange was the french leading software and video game retailer over the Internet. 3 M of sales in 2000 for our first year. Team of 40 talented people. I sold my shares in 2001.

  • Equity Analyst

    1998 - 1999

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