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She burns out just months before the Rio Olympics… wins Koh Lanta 5 years later. 🥇 Introducing Maxine Eouzan, a junior acrobatic gymnastics French champion and a qualifier for the Rio Olympics in diving. In 2016, Maxine burns out and takes the tough decision to stop her athletic career. 5 years later, she wins exploration TV show Koh-Lanta captivating millions of TV spectators in France. 🔥 — Nothing predestined Charlotte Couallier to become an entrepreneur. Born into a working-class family in Brittany, Charlotte was the only one in her class to take a preparatory class. Then Engineering school: 7% women. After 15 years in leadership positions at major insurance groups, Charlotte took the plunge. She cofounded Dattak, to help VSEs AND SMEs cope with their biggest threat : cyber risk. In Episode 4, Maxine & Charlotte, two people who defied the odds, share their experience and lessons on resilience. The episode is out NOW 👇👇 #OneMindsetDifferentArenas #EntrepreneursAreOlympiansToo Big thank you again to Maxine & Charlotte who shared their stories and experiences front camera 🙏🙏

😱Stay tuned for episode 4 on RESILIENCE Featuring acrobatic gymnastics champion, diving qualifier at the Rio Olympics and winner of French TV show Koh Lanta, Maxine Eouzan • Journaliste Sport,Speaker,conférencière🎤 and entrepreneur Charlotte Couallier, cofounder of cyber insurance Dattak who defied the odds all along her carreer choices. Dropping tomorrow 🔥

We are thrilled to announce that apryl 🎉, one of our portfolio companies, has been acquired by Progyny, Inc.! 🚀 This marks a significant milestone in apryl’s journey, and we are proud to have supported their innovative approach to fertility and family planning benefits. Congratulations to the founders, Jenny Saft and Tobias Caterba, and all the apryl team, on this exciting new chapter! 👏✨

📸 Recapping an incredible offsite at Biarritz with our amazing Breegang! From brainstorming sessions to team-building activities, we made unforgettable memories. Here's to the shared experiences and the future successes they'll inspire! 🌟 Go check out our new Instagram @breega.vc_ for behind-the-scenes stories that you won't want to miss! 📲✨

“Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.” Serena Williams got it right! The same grit and discipline fueled serial entrepreneur Daniel Shellard and Olympic Swimmer David Carry. While Dan pulled all-nighters on his desk floor to build Qubit and Fiit from scratch, David clocked in endless hours in the pool and gym, to give his best performance and scale the podiums. 🚀 Dan co-founded Qubit, scaling it to 300 employees in 8 markets, exiting to Coveo in 2021. He then scaled FIIT, the UK’s top connected fitness app, boasting 2 million downloads and 15 million workouts. 🥇 David represented Great Britain in the Athens, Beijing & London Olympics, FINA world championships and the European championships and clinched two golds for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. For both, success was a marathon, not a sprint. Now, they’ve both turned to the other side of the table. Dan, Partner at Breega, invests in and propels tech founders. David built Track Record to bring elite sports strategies to the business world, coaching founders & leaders. Would they do it all again? Absolutely. 💯 🔥 Catch Episode 3: DISCIPLINE to learn more 👇 #EntrepreneursAreOlympiansToo Video powered by Track Record 🙏

Episode 3 🏃 DISCIPLINE - Coming Out on Tuesday will be featuring serial entrepreneur turned Breega Partner Daniel Shellard and Olympic Swimmer David Carry🔥🔥 🚀 Daniel Shellard cofounded Web Personalisation company Qubit, scaled to 300 employees in 8 markets and acquired by Coveo in 2021. Dan then shifted his focus to the BtoC space to build fitness tech company FIIT, the largest connected fitness player in the UK, backed by Breega in 2019 before joining Breega in 2023. 🥇 David Carry is a Scottish former competition swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and the European championships, and Scotland in the Commonwealth Games where he won two golds in the 400-metre freestyle and 400-metre individual medley. Now founder & CEO at TrackRecord.coach, David brings methodologies from the world of elite sports to coach business leaders & founders to create high performing and fulfilling work environments. Stay tuned - episode 3 releases next Tuesday 🔥 #OneMindsetDifferentArenas  #EntrepreneursAreOlympiansToo

3x World Champion in Vert Skating. X Games Winner. World Record Holder. VC-Backed Entrepreneur. Never been to school. Introducing Taig Khris His life is a testament to the ethos of this campaign: living proof that with extreme levels of dedication and hard work, anything is possible. Jumping from the Eiffel Tower to set a world record? Impossible. Raising VC funds without ever attending school? Unheard of. Yet, Taïg did both. The latest with Breega, prix backer of onoff Telecom since 2016. 🌻 Meet Ukrainian-born tech entrepreneur and founder of Zamna. Irra Ariella Khi In 2022, she set aside her career to raise £300,000 for Ukraine in just a few days, from the industry's biggest names and investors, including Breega. Since then, she has been leading both Zamna Technologies and Sunflower Relief simultaneously. What do Taïg and Irra share? An unwavering passion to achieve the unachieved. 💥💥Episode 2: PASSION is LIVE!💥💥

Wrapping up one very busy week! 🌍   💚💙 Thank you all for the support and warm messages.    In case you haven't caught up on the latest news, here are our top pieces to read this weekend. 👇 Sifted 👉 'The opportunities are infinite’: Paris-based Breega launches $75m African fund https://lnkd.in/ef5dU6dc Daphné Leprince-Ringuet 🙏 TechCrunch 👉 Paris-based VC Breega hits first close of $75M Africa fund to back pre-seed and seed startups https://lnkd.in/eWj28E6a Tage Kene-Okafor 🙏 TechCabal 👉 Paris-based Breega is the latest European VC to close an Africa-focused fund https://lnkd.in/d3kFNPKW Ngozi Chukwu 🙏 Africa Business Plus 👉Après l’Europe, Breega lance son premier fonds consacré aux start-up de la tech en Afrique https://lnkd.in/ei_YPQdi UKTN 👉 Anglo-French VC Breega launches Africa fund to back early-stage startups https://lnkd.in/eMg-Ua_r Robert Scammell 🙏 Maddyness 👉 Breega lance un fonds de 75 millions de dollars pour mettre un pied en Afrique https://lnkd.in/dPif-fsm Maxence Fabrion 🙏

🌍 By 2050, Africa's population is projected to reach close to 2.5 billion (vs 1.4B today). By 2050, 1 in 4 people on the planet will be African, and by 2100, this will soar to 40%! With such fast population growth, comes significant challenges for the continent. Technology has a pivotal role to address Africa’s current and future challenges. So we are thrilled to announce the launch of Breega’s very first African Fund !! 💥 Introducing Breega Africa SEED 1 🌍 our $75M pre-seed/seed fund set to be the catalyst for African Tech Entrepreneurs that are solving unique challenges in local African markets. At the forefront of this new fund are two emblematic figures in African entrepreneurship, leading Breega’s operations across the continent from Cape Town 🇿🇦 & Lagos 🇳🇬 !! 🎉 Melvyn Lubega: A visionary entrepreneur, co-founder of Go1 (the first South African unicorn 🦄), esteemed Business Angel, and Advisor to South Africa’s National Department of Science and Innovation. 🎉 Tosin Faniro-Dada, CPA : Former Managing Director at Endeavor Nigeria and powerhouse Tech Board Member (Flutterwave and more). Tosin has been a driving force in empowering African tech founders at all stages and has spearheaded transformative programs for entrepreneurs in Nigeria. OUR VISION for Breega Africa Seed 1 💰 Be the first institutional check investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups with tickets ranging from $100k to $2M 🚀 Back impactful businesses investing across sectors that can have a transformational impact : fintech, health tech, proptech, logistics…  🌍 Fuel talents across Africa with a pan African strategy, focusing on Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Kenya and several French-speaking African countries and being intentional about investing in untapped markets across the continent. We are convinced that investing in tech-innovators can solve some of the continent’s biggest challenges, not only focusing on Africa’s established tech hubs but being catalytic capital for change across the continent. This is just the beginning. 💙💚 Thank you to our LPS, founders and the entire Breega Team ! Thank you for this beautiful must-read piece https://lnkd.in/eWj28E6a Tage Kene-Okafor TechCrunch 🙏 Ben Marrel Melvyn Lubega Tosin Faniro-Dada, CPA Sebastien Boucraut Maximilien Bacot François Paulus Daniel Shellard Pauline Chau

Episode 1 THE DREAM is finally out 💥 #OneMindsetDifferentArenas One is one of the most promising French talent in international track and field, a Qualifier for the Paris Olympics, full of dreams, at the dawn of her athletic career hoping to break the French record in her discipline. One is at the helm of one of the most promising tech company in Europe, Exotec, crowned as the first industrial hardware unicorn, tracing it back to when he was a kid who just wanted to build things. 🥇 At just 22, Alessia Zarbo is already a double medalist at the Youth Olympics (gold & bronze), French champion in Albi 2020, French junior 5000m record-holder. 🌍 In 2015, Renaud co-founded Exotec, now an international leader in warehouse robotic solutions born in the North of France, serving industry-leading brands across the globe including Carrefour, Decathlon, Gap, and Uniqlo. For both, it all started with a dream that never stopped. #EntrepreneursareOlympiansToo