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Ma nouvelle aventure : Galion.exe
Talks about Venture Capital, Capital Risque and Entrepreneuriat
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Willy Braun
Co Host at Capital Call
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Willy Braun is a co-founder of Galion.exe in Paris, Île-de-France, with a strong background in social media marketing, digital marketing, and startup development. He has worked with notable organizations such as France Digitale and Startup Weekend, demonstrating expertise in marketing strategy and business networking.
Braun has invested in companies like LETTRIA and Double, showcasing his ability to identify and support promising startups, while also leveraging his experience as a co-founder and operating partner to drive successful entrepreneurial ventures.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2021 - Current
We invest €500k to €2.5m in tech startups at the seed stage (€1-10m rounds) in IA Infrastructure, DevTools, Health & AI-driven SaaS. Our thesis: https://galion-exe.vc/our-way To send us your decks: https://airtable.com/appTHpPNQWAC6pcge/shrsF336LL48lqHuA AI Infra: 🇫🇷 2501: autonomous AI Agents for cloud, DevOps, cyber and more. 🇫🇷 Eden.ai: everything you need to build AI workflows. 🇫🇷 Exxa: enables the processing of AI tasks asynchronous. 🇫🇷 Lettria: AI-powered platform that transforms unstructured data into knowledge, using GraphRAG. 🇳🇱 Moya.ai: fine-tuning as a service. 🇩🇪 PriorLabs: foundation model for tabular data. 🇬🇧 Vaire: near-zero energy computing. Devtools 🇫🇷 Astran: continuity cloud service to keep businesses operational during major cyberattacks. 🇫🇷 Bump: service for centralising and communicating around API contracts. 🇫🇷 Opsima: automates AWS commitment management to save time and money. 🇫🇷 Plakar: effortless backup. 🇫🇷 Shipfox: empowering Developers with faster, cost-effective CI solutions. AI-driven SaaS 🇫🇷 Apiday: collects all ESG data in one place and automates ESG reporting using AI. 🇫🇷 Contrast: webinars for modern software companies, using AI for engagement and repurposing. 🇫🇷 FairJungle : travel solution platform for responsible businesses. 🇫🇷 Husprey: SQL notebooks for adhoc analysis & complex reporting. (Sold to Collibra). 🇫🇷 Jimini.ai: AI copilot for legal research, drafting and document analysis. 🇺🇸 Seldon: software design for the AI era. Health 🇺🇸 Dune: a network of primary care clinics in the US with top physicians & AI agents. 🇫🇷 Generare: natural molecule discovery, (re)industrialized. 🇫🇷 Raidium: foundation model for precision medicine in radiology. Co-author of the annual French AI Report - https://thefrenchreport.ai/
Co Host
2020
Each edition of this newsletter curate the most insightful resources around a specific theme in modern finance, with a consistent focus: how are tomorrow’s dominant companies being funded? We will explore emerging structures, cross-border innovations, regulatory shifts, and technological breakthroughs shaping capital formation. Our audience remains the venture capital community that has supported us from the beginning, but we now welcome a broader coalition: private equity professionals, investment bankers, asset managers, corporate finance leaders, and anyone navigating the intersection of technology and capital. https://www.capitalcall.co/about
Co-Founder
2025
We are building the home for tech founders, engineers and researchers. All episodes are available here: app.getcontrast.io/sota And the main SOTA hub lives at: sota.family
Co-founder
2025
Reg.exe is an invitation-only Discord community of 150+ tech-focused individuals worldwide, including but not limited to founders and CTOs. It's a safe and collaborative space where engagement matters more than titles.
Operating Partner
2020 - 2021
A growth investor for sustainable tech leaders.
co-fondateur
2015 - 2020
daphni is a venture capital fund investing in user-oriented, early-stage startups with the European DNA and strong international ambition. The company is supported by daphnipolis, a closely knit community of 200+ innovators, entrepreneurs, executives, academics, artists and advisors. This community has the full access of our dealflow and analyses thanks to an in-house digital platform that makes us more effective, collaborative & transparent. And since we believe in transparency, we tell what’s on our mind, both in our chronicles and our weekly newsletter. After having co-founded daphni with Mathieu Daix, Marie Ekeland, Pierre-Eric Leibovici and Pierre-Yves Meerschman, I chose to launch a new venture: Galion.exe My implication with the first fund stay the same. This fund ($200m) is composed of the following companies: Agricool, AnotherBrain, Antescofo, Backmarket, Beendhi, Butterfly, Comet, Double, Epigene Labs, Foxintelligence, Fretlink, Gabsee, Geev, Goshaba, Hemea, Heven, Holberton School, Keakr, Lifen, Swile, MargoBank, Pazzi, Reminiz, Shine, Trusk Zoe & Zoov. More infos: daphni.com
Editor
2010 - 2015
Brocooli is blog written in french about innovation in the widest sense. I've launched it with my brother, Brice Braun, engineer and project manager. The blog is open to guest posts. - monitoring for the latest discoveries and academic articles, - summarizing articles and videos, - translation in french, - covering events (TEDx, barcamps, e-business shows, etc.) Brocooli has 4 main topics : - the firm and its transformations (organisation, business models, fundings, etc.) - coaching (communication, psychology, medicine, nutrition, sleeping, etc.) - transformation in the society (about education, creativity, technology) - the last category gather the sources (academic articles, podcasts, etc.)
Director of eBusiness Studies
2013 - 2015
WebSchoolFactory is a business school to train managers of digital companies & BU. The pedagogy is built on 3 pillars: design, technology & ebusiness. I'm in charge of the program, teachers' recruitment for eBusiness. I also give several classes including venture capital, innovation marketing, business model, strategic influence and branding.
General Manager
2012 - 2015
France Digitale is the biggest European lobby gathering tech startups and investors, so that France becomes fertile ground for the creation of digital champions of international stature. 1500+ startups & funds belong to France Digitale, including Criteo, PriceMinister, Dailymotion, Withings, Vente Privee, etc. In concrete terms, France Digitale’s actions hinge on two main areas: 1. Ramping-up the tech scene in France: community building, a feeling of belonging, networking, knowledge transfers, exchanges of good practices, PR, and so on. 2. Lobbying French public institutions, major economic players, the media, and the European Commission. I'm no longer General Manager but I am still seating at the board of France Digitale.
Organizer
2010 - 2014
I've organized the first Startup Weekend away from Paris. You can find the teaser here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BZ_QFHKIk&feature=player_embedded I'm co-organizing the 2nd edition of Startup Weekend Toulouse. I'm also working for the french association. I'm an event facilitator for Lilles, Alger and Bordeaux. I'm also fundraising for France.