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March 16, 2007
Puzzler Winners: Azhar and Bonjour
The answer to this week's Puzzler
Name the French entrepreneur-turned- VC who is now a General Partner at a German venture capital firm, following stints at Benchmark Capital in London and Atlas Venture.
As a lot of you know by the number of emails answers we received it's Eric Archambeau, GP, Wellington Partners. He is well-qualified to be a European VC. He worked in the semiconductor sector in Silicon Valley, later founded two Internet-related companies in the States, one of which was acquired by Ariba for a whopping multi-billion dollar sum during the last cycle. He then worked for Atlas Venture in Silicon Valley.
When Archambeau came back to Europe, he helped to start up Benchmark Captial Europe's operations. Left that firm, was hosted by Chausson Finance in Paris during the downturn, and then joined Wellington's Dutch and German General Partners in 2005.
He's now on the board as part of his Wellignton repsonsibilites of a couple of Euro tech companies, including Xing, the first social network in Europe to launch an IPO.
The number one spot this week was nabbed by Azeem Azhar, a regular a:c euro reader and an entrepreneurial kind of guy. He met Archambeau back in 1999. Azhar is currently Head of Innovation at Reuters Group PLC and a non-executive director, Inuk Networks in the UK.
Before that he was a tech correspondent at The Economist tech correspondent, CEO esouk.com (incubator), internet strategist at BBC, CMO at Albert-Inc (search), MD at 20six (blogs). In the above photo, he's the one on the right.
The 13th reader to write in with the correct answer was Dominique Bonjour, CFO of Oxxius in France. He hasn't met Archambeau, but Bonjour said that keeping tabs on VCs is the kind of background, semi-automatic tasks that are part of the job of being the CFO of a venture-financed laser company. Oxxius is backed by Sofinnova Partners, AXA Private Equity and Sofinnova Venture.
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