Benoist Grossmann

Benoist Grossmann is Senior Managing Partner Venture.

Before joining the Group, Benoist worked for several venture capital funds for over 10 years. He was a Partner at Viventures from 1998 to 2002 and worked as Investment Manager at La Financière de Brienne. He had previously spent over 10 years working in the industry as a laser systems specialist at EDF, NASA and Thomson-CSF Optronique, for whom he invented five patents and authored over twenty publications.

Since December 2019, Benoist has been President of France Digitale. At the same time, he is a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of CNES. Benoist is also a member of Meta France’s advisory board, a director of Swile and Withings, and a member of BPI France’s Innovation Committee. He currently sits on the board of Ogury, and previously on the boards of Criteo, Dailymotion, Deezer and Meetic, France Invest, Frichti and Molotov.

Benoist Grossmann has a PhD in Physics from the Université de Paris VI and an MBA from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.