INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
It’s been a long night at VivaTech
The building hosted a very special competition — the very first TechCrunch Hackathon in Paris.Hundreds of engineers and designers got
together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome
The only condition was that they only had 24 hours to work on their projects
Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regulars
Some of them slept on the floor in a corner, while others drank too much Red Bull.We could all feel the excitement in the air when the 64
teams took the stage to present a one-minute demo to impress fellow coders and our judges
But only one team could take home the grand prize and €5,000
So, without further ado, meet the TechCrunch Hackathon winner.Winner: CommerceDNARunner-Up #1: AIDRunner-Up #2: EV Range MeterJudgesNicolas
Bacca, CTO, LedgerNicolas worked on card systems for 5 years at Oberthur, a leader in embedded digital security, ultimately as RD Solution
He left Oberthur to launch his company, Ubinity, which was developing smartcard operating systems.He finally co-founded BT Chip to develop
an open standard, secure element based hardware wallet which eventually became the first version of the Ledger wallet.Charles Gorintin,
co-founder CTO, AlanCharles Gorintin is a French data science and engineering leader
He is a cofounder and CTO of Alan
Alan’s mission is to make it easy for people to be in great health.Prior to co-founding Alan, Charles Gorintin was a data science leader
at fast-growing social networks, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, where he worked on anti-fraud, growth, and social psychology.Gorintin
holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, a Master’s degree in Machine Learning from
ENS Paris-Saclay, and a Masters of Financial Engineering from UC Berkeley – Haas School of Business.Samantha Jérusalmy, Partner, Elaia
PartnersSamantha joined Elaia Partners in 2008
She began her career as a consultant at Eurogroup, a consulting firm specialized in organisation and strategy, within the Bank and Finance
She then joined Clipperton Finance, a corporate finance firm dedicated to high-tech growth companies, before moving to Elaia Partners in
She became an Investment Manager in 2011 then a Partner in 2014.Laure Némée, CTO, LeetchiLaure has spent her career in software
development in various startups since 2000 after an engineer’s degree in computer science
She joined Leetchi at the very beginning in 2010 and has been Leetchi Group CTO since
She now works mainly on MANGOPAY, the payment service for sharing economy sites that was created by Leetchi.Benjamin Netter, CTO,
LendixBenjamin is the CTO of Lendix, the leading SME lending platform in continental Europe
Learning to code at 8, he has been since then experimenting ways to rethink fashion, travel or finance using technology
In 2009, in parallel with his studies at EPITECH, he created one of the first French applications on Facebook (Questions entre amis), which
was used by more than half a million users
In 2011, he won the Foursquare Global Hackathon by reinventing the travel guide with Tripovore
In 2014, he launched Somewhere, an Instagram travel experiment acclaimed by the press
He is today reinventing with Lendix the way European companies get faster and simpler financing.And finally here were our hackmasters that
guided our hackers to success:Emily Atkinson, Software Engineer / MD, DevelopHer UKEmily is a Software Engineer at Condé Nast Britain, and
co-founder Managing Director of women in tech network DevelopHer UK
Her technical role involves back-end services, infrastructure ops and tooling, site reliability and back-end product
Entering tech as an MSc Computer Science grad, she spent six years at online print startup MOO – working across the platform, including
As an advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM digital in 2016 Atkinson launched DevelopHer, a volunteer-run non-profit community aimed
at increasing diversity in tech by empowering members to develop their career and skills through events, workshops, networking and
mentoring.Romain Dillet, Senior Writer, TechCrunchRomain attended EMLYON Business School, a leading French business school specialized in
He covers many things from mobile apps with great design to fashion, Apple, AI and complex tech achievements
He also speaks at major tech conferences
He likes pop culture more than anything in the world.
