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Kyle O'Brien

HTTPZealot | Deep Tech Investor

Paris, Île-de-France

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Chief of Staff | Director of Corporate Development

    2024

    Primary advisor to and proxy for the Founder & CEO. Helping to lead strategy and execution on startup acceleration, partnerships, growth, new ventures and special projects. Zama is an open source cryptography company building state-of-the-art FHE solutions for blockchain and AI.

  • Venture Capital | Managing Partner

    2023

    Unit Ventures is an angel fund in partnership with Rand Hindi, 2x Founder & Top #5 Angel Investor in France. We focus on early stage deep tech companies solving problems related to Next Generation Computing, Blockchain Infrastructure & Privacy, and Frontier Health. Portfolio: Fabric, Kakarot, Giza, Modulus Labs, BE Therapeutics, Twin Labs, Unisat, Glycanage, Brightside Privacy, Deciduous Therapeutics, Marathon Fusion, Corintis, Cornami, Tomorrow Bio, Chipiron, Gouach, Mindstate Design Labs, Gilgamesh, Terran Biosciences, C12, Interstellar, Deepset.

  • Founder

    2021

    Startup ROI is a project dedicated to writing, podcasting and bringing people together across technology and venture ecosystems in Europe.

2022 - 2023

  • Operating Partner

    2022 - 2023

    Leading media strategy, content creation & community efforts.

2018 - 2020

  • Head Of Product Marketing

    2020 - 2020

  • Head of Customer Success

    2018 - 2020

    Managing a team of 10 Customer Success specialists across Paris and New York. I am accountable for Technical Support, On-Boarding, and Long-Term Relationship management with our current install base (400 Customers & growing!). Alongside implementing process, developing strategy and thought leadership, and coaching the team, here are a few notable highlights thus far: - Initiating the Hivebrite User Group (HUG) program to gather customers in-person for a day of workshops, breakout sessions and training (held in 4 different geographies to date) - Creating and deploying our content strategy: webinars, white-papers, customer stories - Building cross-functional workflows, namely a weekly data extract with our developers to deliver key insights to customers and implement Salesforce to break down the silo between Sales & Customer Success

2017 - 2018

  • Sr. Solution Engineer - Community Cloud

    2017 - 2018

2016 - 2017

  • Sales Director

    2016 - 2017

    Combining optical microscopy, computational Super-resolution, artificial intelligence, and robotics, to bring the world’s most advanced microscope to every manufacturing sector. www.nanotronics.co

2013 - 2016

  • Solution Engineer, Healthcare & Life Sciences

    2016 - 2016

  • Associate Solution Engineer, Healthcare & Life Sciences

    2015 - 2016

  • Sales Development Representative

    2014 - 2015

  • Jr. Enterprise Business Representative

    2013 - 2014

2012 - 2013

  • Artist Relations Intern

    2012 - 2013

  • Summer Intern

    2011 - 2011