Thibaud Elziere
French businessman
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| Intro | French businessman | |
| Places | France | |
| is | Businessperson Entrepreneur | |
| Work field | Business | |
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| Birth | 1979, Aix-en-Provence, canton of Aix-en-Provence-Nord-Est, arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône | |
| Age | 46 years |
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Biography
Thibaud Elziere (born in 1979, Aix-en-Provence) is a French entrepreneur and investor.
Career
In 2004 Thibaud Elziere founded in 2004 microstock photography company Fotolia just after graduating from Centrale Lyon, a French engineering school. In 2012, Fotolia raised $150m from buy-out firm KKR, and in December 2014, Adobe Systems announced it was buying Fotolia for $800 million, aiming at integrating it to its Creative Cloud solution.
In 2008, Thibaud Elziere created Zilok, a peer to peer rental site.
In 2011, Thibaud Elziere launched eFounders together with Quentin Nickmans, a startup studio focusing on Saas companies, that has successfully created six independent startups:
- Mailjet
- Textmaster
- Pressking
- Mention
- Front
- Aircall
All together, eFounders’ startups have raised about $16 million in Europe and the US.
In June 2015, eFounders raised $6 million from private investor Oleg Tscheltzoff.