Co-founder, daphni

Willy Braun is the co-founder of daphni, a venture capital fund investing in user-oriented startups with European DNA and strong international ambition. daphni targets early stage startups all over Europe and is supported by a closely knit community of innovators, entrepreneurs, executives, academics, artists and advisors.
He is the former general manager of France Digitale, a lobby of startups and investors, that he managed until early 2015. He served as director of eBusiness studies in WebSchoolFactory, a business school dedicated to train the next managers of digital companies or departments. Willy Braun stills teaches marketing of innovation, content strategy, business model and design thinking in Toulouse Business School, IAE Toulouse, ESCP-EAP and WebSchoolFactory.
He has published one book (Internet Marketing, Eyrolles, 2013), which has been labeled triple favorite in FNAC (the biggest French retailer) and best selling book in Amazon France in its category.
In his spare time, he co-founded and developed the association Startup Weekend France where he was in charge of opening new cities, including Toulouse, Lille, Nantes, Nancy, Grenoble & Lyon. Willy Braun is a graduate of Toulouse Business School.

Articles from this author

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  Recommended / 2016-07-08

  The obsession for efficacy, and why it is dooming our companies

  Willy Braun / Co-founder, daphni

  There is not a single day when we don’t talk about innovation, digitalization and the competition between startups and big companies. We might miss the point when we do so, because the fundamental shift occurring is not digitalization by i…