Nicolas co-founded with Stéphane Valorge Clipperton in 2003 and has been involved in over 200 transactions of the company’s transactions since the creation of the company. Nicolas’ focus verticals are proptech and foodtech/agritech.
Notable deals include: Braincube raising €83m with Scottish Equity Partners and Bpifrance to consolidate its international leadership in industrial AI; Capital Croissance selling its majority stake in Equativ to Bridgepoint Development Capital; Gandi, the leading French web and email hosting service, joining forces with Pan-European champion Total Webhosting Solutions; Groupe BPCE and combine Swile and Bimpli; Ecovadis receiving a $500m investment from Astorg, General Atlantic (BeyondNetZero) and GIC and becoming a unicorn; Ardian Expansion successfully acquiring Artefact SA, a global leader in data science and data transformation solutions.
Nicolas is an HEC alumnus and post-graduated in Finance and Economy at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) / Paris School of Economics, where he focused on R&D issues.