Daniel Pilaud is a venture partner at Elaia who brings a CEO and operator background from leading multiple French technology companies, including C-Radar and ACTIYON, rather than a traditional financial or consulting path into venture capital. He started his career as an assistant professor at Grenoble Institut National Polytechnique, giving him deep connections to the French engineering research ecosystem that produces many deep-tech founders.
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Elaia is a venture capital fund that has built its strategy around a Delta triangle of Deep Tech, Early Stage, and Portfolio Management, backed by quantitative back-testing to create a refined portfolio construction model that reduces volatility rather than relying on single mega-winner outcomes. The firm positions itself as unusually math-native for a generalist tech VC, with co-founder Xavier Lazarus betting on an era where mathematicians rule the digital deep tech world, leveraging France's concentration of elite math talent as a structural advantage for deep-tech entrepreneurship.
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