Benoit Hediard
Founder at Kalent
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Top SchoolBenoit Hediard is a seasoned founder and technologist with 25+ years in tech, best known as co-founder and CTO who helped scale Agorapulse from zero to over $20M ARR and a 170-person team. He now builds Globetrotters.ai to tackle the emerging challenge of making travel brands visible and trusted inside AI agent ecosystems, reflecting his conviction that agentic AI is a structural shift in distribution. A bootstrapped builder at heart, he pairs hands-on product and engineering leadership with early-stage investing and advising across GenAI startups. His career traces back to the early social web with Affinitiz, giving him rare continuity across social, SaaS, and AI-driven discovery. Based in Nantes, he writes and speaks about entrepreneurship, SaaS growth, and product strategy, marrying practical scaling experience with a keen eye for platform shifts. Quietly, his track record shows an ability to pivot from social management to travel-first AI products while retaining a pragmatic, revenue-focused approach.
16 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Mecanical Engineering, Engineer Mecanical Engineering at Centrale Lyon ENISE
Stackoverflow
334reputation
26kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (88)
facebook-sdk10
sentry10
backend10
grails10
grails-plugin10
angular10
angular-app10
ngrx10
amazon-web-services10
nx-workspace9
ionic9
recurly9
realtime9
cfml9
newrelic9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
agorapulse/grails-aws-sdk-sqs
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
aws-sdksdkgrailsawsgrails-plugin
agorapulse/grails-coveralls
May 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
coverallsgrails-pluginplugingrails
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