Nationality French Residence Brussels, Belgium | Name Thibaud Elziere Occupation Internet entrepreneur | |
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Born September 13, 1979 (age 45) ( 1979-09-13 ) Aix-en-Provence, France Known for Co-founder of Fotolia, co-founder of eFounders Education Technical University of Berlin People also search for Oleg Tscheltzoff, Gary Cige, Patrick Chassany | ||
Organizations founded Fotolia, EFounders | ||
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Thibaud Elziere (born in 1979, Aix-en-Provence) is a French entrepreneur and investor.
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Career
In 2004 Thibaud Elziere founded in 2004 microstock photography company Fotolia just after graduating from Centrale Lyon, a French engineering school. In 2012, Fotolia raised $150m from buy-out firm KKR, and in December 2014, Adobe Systems announced it was buying Fotolia for $800 million, aiming at integrating it to its Creative Cloud solution.
In 2008, Thibaud Elziere created Zilok, a peer to peer rental site.
In 2011, Thibaud Elziere launched eFounders together with Quentin Nickmans, a startup studio focusing on Saas companies, that has successfully created six independent startups:
All together, eFounders’ startups have raised about $16 million in Europe and the US.
In June 2015, eFounders raised $6 million from private investor Oleg Tscheltzoff.