Didier Kuhn (EDHEC 1992) : nominee for the EDHEC Entrepreneur award 2017

Having gained experience in micro-project financing in Rwanda, before working for Société Générale in New York and later on a Telco project in London, Didier Kuhn co-founded ScreenTonic in 2001 with the aim of making mobile services an advertising platform, albeit with highly questionable timing: the Internet bubble had just burst and online prospects seemed to have no future, there was no available financing for start-ups, and mobile services belonged to the world of science fiction.

Seven years, two fundraising campaigns (€6.5 M) and many errors later, ScreenTonic established itself as a pioneer and the market leader in Europe for “mobile advertising”, employing more than 50 people in 4 different countries. Microsoft Corp bought the company in 2007 with a view to developing its business on a worldwide scale.

Since 2010, Didier has invested in more than 25 start-ups at an early stage (e.g. BlaBlaCar in 2010, Drivy in 2012, Bankin in 2013) as a hands-on business angel and is also active in the underlying ecosystem: founding member of the incubator 50Partners and Galion Project, investor in the entrepreneurial funds ISAI and Network Finances, and co-founder of Chais d’œuvre (www.chaisdoeuvre.fr) in 2012, a club for wine initiations and purchases. Didier’s interests include the mountains, kite surfing and wine.

To find out more about : www.chaisdoeuvre.fr

The award

The EDHEC Entrepreneur of the Year prize is awarded to an Edhec entrepreneur who has decided to take a leap into the unknown and has contributed to EDHEC’s image as a creator of talent by their taste for risk and adventure.
Their daring and sense of innovation will have impacted on the winner’s sector or region, or on the vision others have of the sector. .

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