Fellowship
Fellow
Class
28
Current Firm
Quantonation Ventures
Location
France

Olivier Tonneau

Fellowship
Fellow
Class
28
Current Firm
Quantonation Ventures
Location
France
Education

Graduate from ESSEC business school, French Ivy League MBA Prep school to competitive exam for Ivy League business school (Institut des Chartreux in Lyon) High school in French High School of Bangkok, Thailand

Professional

Partner at Quantonation, VC fund dedicated to Quantum Technologies. Previous experiences include 10 years as management consultant at Kearney, working on growth strategy, strategic due diligences, in industries that are in the process of deregulating (energy, postal services, transportation,…). I joined French entrepreneur Charles Beigbeder as deputy CEO at his holding company Gravitation in 2007. At Gravitation we invested in over 30 early stage companies. I founded Quantonation alongside Charles Beigbeder and Christophe Jurczak (cofounder and PhD in quantum Physics) in 2018. We have raised over 100 M€ and invested in 25 companies in the last four years, becoming the leading firm in quantum technologies worldwide. I am a board member at Multiverse Computing, Qnami, KETS Quantum Security, EvolutionQ, QC Design, KipuQuantum & Cryptonext Security. I am still involved as an alumni of my business school as I taught a strategy course at ESSEC Business School for 8 years, and belong to the school VC endowment fund jury.

Fellowship