Repeat founder · CTO · Paris

Cédric Carbone

From garage startup to unicorn, Nasdaq IPO and M&A — I build deep-tech products and engineering teams, and help founders scale globally.

Journey

2024 — today

Co-founder · HymalaiaCurrent

Enterprise AI agent platform: advanced RAG over a company's real data, 40+ integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Teams…) and MCP-powered actions — turning LLMs into trustworthy business copilots, at scale.

2021 — 2025

Founding CTO · Zoī

Preventive-health deep tech combining medical check-ups, data and behavioral science. Raised a €20M seed round led by Stéphane Bancel (Moderna), with investors including Xavier Niel and Rodolphe Saadé.

TechCrunch — $23M seed Les Echos

2018 — 2021

CTPO · Ogury

Adtech specialized in mobile branding advertising and consent management — ~400 employees, ~$140M annual revenue. Led product, engineering and operations globally, after 3 years as board member and tech advisor.

bdaily.co.uk Interview AiThority interview

2015 — 2018

Founding CTO · InfluansAcquired

MarTech startup — from data to sales with AI-driven, highly targeted CRM campaigns. GA rollout in the US and Europe in 2018, then sold to Ogury in November 2018.

Les Echos — Ogury rachète Influans FrenchWeb

2006 — 2015

Founding CTO · TalendNasdaq IPO

Open-source data integration leader. Built the engineering organization from scratch to 250 engineers across Europe, the US and Asia, and helped prepare the company for its successful Nasdaq IPO (July 2016) — a French unicorn.

Community & speaking

Open source & data community

Co-founder of HUG France (Hadoop User Group) and the Paris Spark Meetup — regular meetups since 2012 with 300+ attendees and 3,000+ members. Former board member of the Eclipse Foundation.

International speaker

Speaker and track chair since 2006 across the US (Interop Las Vegas, MongoDB World NYC, Cloud Expo, EDW San Jose), Europe (Hadoop Summit, EclipseCon, Big Data Paris, Adopt AI Summit) and China (Open Source Week, Beijing).

Startup advisor

I advise founders on scaling engineering and product from first prototype to global rollout — drawing on two exits, one IPO and twenty years of building data & AI platforms.

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