Breega

It started with a dream, It took passion, dedication, and resilience. It took a village. At the end of it, only one question remains: What’s next? THE AFTERMATH. Our final episode tells the incredible stories of tennis champ Mario Ancic and Breega’s founder François Paulus. 🎾 From Wimbledon to Wall Street, Mario was one of the youngest players in the ATP Top 10. By 22, he had reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, won an Olympic bronze medal with Ivan Ljubičić in 2004, and won the Davis Cup the year after. Then in 2011, career ending health issues forced him to stop. 👉 His next chapter: graduated from Law School at Columbia University, worked in investment banking on Wall Street before becoming a private equity investor at One Equity Partners. 🔥 From serial entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist, François Paulus opened up like never before about his exit story back in 2007, when he decided to leave Neuf Cegetel only months before it was acquired by SFR in an 8 billion Euro deal. 👉 His next chapter: angel investing, advising and mentoring entrepreneurs—until one day, he received a call from Maximilien Bacot and Ben Marrel “Are you free for lunch?” --- One chose when it would end, one did not.  One is a serial entrepreneur, one is a world athlete. Both are now dedicated to backing technology entrepreneurs across the globe. 🌍 #OneMindsetDifferentArenas : we've come full circle.  #EntrepreneursareOlympiansToo Now passing on the torch for the 2024 Paris Olympics kicking off tomorrow 🔥

Because every great chapter comes to an end... our very last episode will explore the ATFERMATH ! 👉 What happens after ? After we put an end to a sports career ? After we sell a company we’ve been building and sweating for for years ? 🎾 Featuring Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis champ - by 22, he was one of the youngest in the ATP Top 10, a Wimbledon semi-finalist, Olympic bronze medalist, and Davis Cup winner. Health issues forced him to retire far too early. Mario now backs technology entrepreneurs as a Private Equity investor at One Equity Partners in NYC. 🚀 Featuring Breega's very own François Paulus, multi exited entrepreneur, as he shares his own exit story from Neuf Cegetel, only months before its major acquisition by SFR. Get ready for the very last episode this Thursday 🔥 #onemindsetdifferentarenas #entrepreneursareolympianstoo

« You don’t know what you don’t know. » Blind spots. ⚖️ In this enlightening conversation with Katherine Ready and Patrick Asdaghi, we explored a fundamental difference between athletes and entrepreneurs. Both evolve in a high-pressure, high performance environments. Athletes, however, benefit from a comprehensive Olympic infrastructure. 🏃♂️ For years, Katherine led a team of 15 professionals—spanning from psychologists, therapists, coaches, to physiotherapists—all dedicated to optimizing athletes for success. This team pushed athletes beyond their limits, enhancing their resilience to stress and pressure, and instilling the confidence to perform at their best on game day. Katherine calls it « the team behind the team. » 👉 Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, don’t have this built-in support. They must create it themselves. As Patrick highlights, significant progress has been made in this area and being an entrepreneur today looks nothing like it was 10 years ago, as we increasingly see support-infrastructures being built. This episode is a call to entrepreneurs to be more deliberate in establishing a rock-solid support system. 🤜🤛 #OneMindsetDifferentArenas #EntrepreneursAreOlympiansToo Video powered by Track Record, led by Katherine Ready & David Carry. Born from elite sport, Track Record unlocks the power of organisations through executive coaching for leaders and their teams.

Introducing Breega Watch🔥 Your Monthly Insider's Guide to Top Tech Verticals. 👉 What vertical are we looking into right now ?  👉 Why now ?  👉 Why is it a hot VC topic ? Kicking our series off with a look into Pet insurance & Care. Congrats to all contributors Paul Mussillon Benjamin Deplus, Daniel Shellard, Nuan Zhang, Lucile Beaume, Kyra Fantou, Ben Marrel... Check out the full report here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eupW5fmt

It takes a village. Litterally. Episode 5 SUPPORT SYSTEM drops next Tuesday 🔥 Featuring serial entrepreneur, founder of FoodChéri, Seazon, Carbon Maps & business Angel Patrick Asdaghi and executive coach Katherine Ready, who spent 15 years optimising athletes and Olympians for success as physio first, then as Head of Sports & Medecine for a UK Olympic Team. 🥇

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 🙏