Mathilde Collin
Mathilde Collin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 April 1989 |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | HEC Paris |
| Occupation | CEO of Front |
Mathilde Collin, born on April 20, 1989, is a French business leader, head of the Californian company Front, which she created in 2013 and which became a unicorn in 2022.
Biography
[change | change source]Family and education
[change | change source]Mathilde Marie Anne-Sophie Collin was born on April 20, 1989 in France. Her father is an engineer, her mother an executive assistant; her grandparents are farmers on the one hand and bricklayers on the other.[1]
After completing preparatory studies at the private college Notre-Dame-du-Grandchamp in Versailles, she was admitted to all the schools she applied to. She chose HEC Paris and specialized in entrepreneurship.[2] During a gap year, she discovered the startup Shopcade where she really liked the atmosphere and financial management of Bouygues, which she did not like.[3]
She married a fiction writer, is the mother of two children, the second born in January 2023. She plays tennis and football and enjoys climbing and cycling.[4]
Professional career
[change | change source]After graduating from HEC in 2012, she worked for 9 months at Concord, a contract management startup.[5]
In 2013, with the financial support and advice of entrepreneur Thibaud Elzière, she created Front in Paris with Laurent Perrin, who is in charge of the technology. Front markets a SaaS software that brings together in a single folder all the messages sent/received by a correspondent, regardless of the transmission method (email, SMS, WhatsApp, etc.). The product interacts with different messaging tools such as Slack, Asana or Salesforce. The boss presents it first as a new email software and then as "a customer communication platform".[6]
The company had five employees when Mathilde Collin decided to move it to San Francisco to take advantage of Y Combinator. After raising a Series D fund in 2022, it is valued at $1.7 billion, giving it unicorn status.[7]
She seeks to achieve a good working environment in her company, which is ranked by Fortune as the 13th best place to work in a mid-size company in 2022. On this topic, she even says that the pursuit of employee happiness motivated her to create a company.[8]
She is involved in the financing of other startups, including Loom, Inc. in 2020.[9]
Awards
[change | change source]- Inspiring Fifty France (2016)
- Forbes 30 Under 30
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Comment Mathilde, la bonne élève de banlieue, a monté une start-up à plus d’un milliard d’euros
- ↑ Front, la nouvelle licorne française HEC Paris
- ↑ La Française Mathilde Collin, coqueluche des Américains
- ↑ Dans les pas de Mathilde Collin, CEO de Front, la «licorne» française qui invente le futur de l'e-mail
- ↑ Mathilde Collin, la Française qui bouscule la Silicon Valley
- ↑ «Il y a des choses plus importantes dans la vie que mon entreprise»
- ↑ Front devient une licorne et part à la chasse de plus gros clients
- ↑ Mathilde Collin, la PDG qui veut être à la pointe de l'équilibre entre travail et vie privée
- ↑ Who is the CEO of Front? Mathilde Collin’s Bio