Summary
Nicolas Lesconnec is a strategic partnerships leader with 12 years of experience building ecosystems and driving IoT adoption across startups, enterprises and academia. He has led partnership and developer programs at Sigfox and Soracom, contributing to multi-million dollar revenue growth, 7M+ connected devices at Soracom customers, and rapid customer acquisition in 60+ countries. At Lacroix City he pivoted smart-city offerings toward services and solutions, and now leads partnerships growth at Balena, blending product, developer relations and go-to-market strategy. He is equally comfortable bridging technical and commercial worlds—running developer outreach, university programs and China device ecosystem efforts—and has a history as a hands-on engineering lead from early web and IoT startups. Colleagues describe him as a connector who turns technical evangelism into measurable commercial outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate degree Software Engineering, Undergraduate degree Software Engineering at IUT de Nantes
Bachelor's degree Informatique, Bachelor's degree Informatique at Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam
English, French