French serial entrepreneur and author
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Nationality | French |
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Occupations | - Serial entrepreneur
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Brice Le Blevennec is a French serial entrepreneur and author.[1][2][3][4][5]
Career
In 1991, Le Blevennec established Ex Machina, a graphic design and multimedia application development company. One of Ex Machina's initial projects was "Le mystère Magritte" in 1996, a compilation showcasing the artworks of René Magritte.[1] In 1998, Brice Le Blevennec, Patrick De Schutter, and Arnaud Huret founded ContactOffice, a private label cloud collaboration suite including messaging, collaboration and mobility technologies.[6][7] Emakina Group was founded in 2001 through the merger of Ex Machina and Emalaya.[8][3] Le Blevennec led Emakina Group as chairman and CEO until 2021. He transitioned from CEO to Chief Vision Officer (CVO) at Emakina Group in 2022.[9]
In 2007, Brice Le Blevennec, Gregoire de Streel, Jean Guillaume Zurstrassen, and other investors founded Tunz, an E-Money institution. Tunz was acquired by Ogone in 2012, which was then acquired by Ingenico in 2013.[10][11]
As a radio personality, he hosted a weekly radio show from 1996 to 2004. The show was so popular that it was adapted into a TV show called CyberCafé, which aired on RTBF.[12]
In 2007, Brice Le Blevennec, Michel Bauwens and James Burke founded the P2P Foundation. In 2011, he co-founded an online dating service Zin.gl, that raised $600,000 from angel investors.[13] Le Blevennec authored the book Visions of a better world, In 2021.[14] It dives into what the future might hold between 2021 and 2051, exploring 30 different themes in 30 articles..[4][15]
In 2023, Le Blevennec launched Zoetrope, a digital art frame that uses artificial intelligence.[16]
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