Discover STATION F’s selection board, a key element in the selection process for the Founders Program

Wondering how STATION F is selecting startups? We are not alone in the selection process. Actually, if you reached the second round of the Founders Program’s - STATION F’s in-house program - application process, the Selection Board members have seen your pitch! Now you obviously want to know what’s the selection board and who’s part of it. But let’s start with the Founders Program as a reminder.

The Founders Program is STATION F’s core in-house program with more than 200 startups and 2 batches per year. The program features numerous exclusive tools and resources, workshops with high-level entrepreneurs and more. Each resource provided in the Founders Program is tried, tested and recommended by other entrepreneurs. Why? Because this is the program’s philosophy and motto: “90% of an entrepreneur’s problem can be solved by another entrepreneur.”

This is also why we have gathered amazing entrepreneurs to help us pick who should join the Founders Program: the Selection Board. These entrepreneurs enter the game at the second round of the selection process, after a first selection from our team based on many criterias: strength of the team, market size, progress over the last 6 month, motivation to be an active member of the community…

These 100+ top entrepreneurs are from diverse countries all around the world. They either have raised a consequent amount or made an exit, or even an IPO for some of them. They have founded companies such as Leetchi, Aircall, Alan, GetYourGuide, Showroomprive, Drivy, Vinted, Devialet, Shopcade, onefinestay, La fourchette, Zendesk… Just that.

For each batch, we assign each member 10 projects to evaluate. It enables us to have great feedback from diverse entrepreneurs who all know the journey. It’s also a great way for us to ensure that evaluation is fair, in terms of genders, countries, skills, and knowledge of a certain field…

Let’s introduce some of them

Renaud Visage (Eventbrite, USA): Renaud is the co-founder of Eventbrite, the famous event management and ticketing website that went public in 2018.

Marie Barbe Girard (Shopcade, UK): Marie co-founded Shopvolution Ltd, a leading player in Media Commerce, the integration of editorial and shopping content, in 2010. After several rounds of funding, the company was acquired by Lagardère.

Nicolas Mondollot (Drivy, France): Nicolas co-founded the carsharing marketplace Drivy in 2011, acquired by Getaround in April 2019 after scaling to 2 million users in 6 countries.

Stéphane Ibos (Maestrano, Australia): after working at Thales, Stéphane co-founded Maestrano, a Data Management & Cloud integration platform and suite of applications, in 2013. After three rounds of funding December 2013, June 2014 and May 2016, Maestrano was listed on the London Stock Exchange in May 2018.

Duc Ha Duong (Officience, Vietnam): He co-founded Officience in 2006, a company pioneering in the Global Outsourcing Industry.

Anisha Singh (mydala, India): Anisha founded India's largest coupon provider, mydala.com in 2009. She also funded She Capital, an early-stage fund investing in women-led or women-centric ventures with high growth potential.

Sarah-Diane Eck (Sandblock, France): Sarah-Diane is a blockchain pioneer. She founded Sandblock in 2017, before becoming Lum Network. It’s an open source protocol that uses blockchain technologies to introduce the first decentralized protocol for businesses to build authentic trust with their customers.

Claire Bretton (daco.io, France): Claire co-founded daco.io, AI-based company, providing retailers & brands competitive data on offer, discount and prices, in 2016. The company was acquired by Veepee in July 2018.

Revital Hendler (Alljobs, BreezoMeter, Israel): AllJobs is the #1 job site in Israel. Since 2004, AllJobs, was revolutionizing the way job search was performed by collecting for the first time all the jobs in one easy to search place. She has led the company from a $300,000 investment to 18M$ exit after 3.5 years only, sold to "Head Hunter", a large international recruiting portal, owned by DST and Tiger Holdings.