Summary
Nicolas Dupont is a founder and advisor with nine years of hands-on experience scaling B2B SaaS businesses, best known as co-founder and CPTO of Akeneo where he grew product, engineering, data and design teams to serve 1,000+ enterprise customers and tens of millions of API calls daily. He combines deep technical roots—early career software development and data/analytics work—with strategic leadership, having built a 160-person product organization across Europe, the US and Australia. Now advising and founding startups from Greater Nantes, he focuses on scaling go-to-market engineering, data-driven product practices and organizational design. A mentor to tech and product leaders, he’s comfortable shifting teams from prototype code to robust, production SaaS platforms while keeping a pragmatic eye on customer outcomes. Notably, his background spans both low-level engineering and high-level category creation, giving him rare fluency across code, product and board-level strategy.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique, DUT Informatique at Université de Caen Normandie
Master GIIPS, Master GIIPS at Université du Maine-Le Mans-Laval
French, English