Sébastien Caron
CEO at Mapstr
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolSébastien Caron is a seasoned entrepreneur and product-focused CEO with 11 years of experience building consumer mobile products from idea to award-winning scale. He founded and leads Mapstr, a widely praised app for saving and discovering favorite places—hailed by Vanity Fair, GQ and others—and has a track record of turning simple concepts into highly used, sticky experiences. Prior to Mapstr he led startups and held senior advisory and investor roles (Zellno, YZR, The Galion Project, Melba), combining product leadership with early-stage investing. His background in rigorous business modeling and valuation from Accuracy and Kroll, plus studies at École Polytechnique and HEC Paris, gives him a rare blend of technical rigor, strategic finance skills and consumer product instincts. Notably, he leverages deep user-centric design to make complex location data feel effortless and social.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at École PolytechniqueBachelor of Science (BS) Entrepreneur, Bachelor of Science (BS) Entrepreneur at HEC Paris
Github Skills (126)
spark-sql10
parser10
dashboard10
postgresql10
expressjs10
athena10
python10
testing10
redash10
rest-api10
backend10
relay10
graphql-api10
javascript10
mbaas10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
seb999/CryptowatcherR
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
A React / Dotnet core project for Cryptocurrency AI prediction
Contributions:41 commits in 3 months
reactdotnetpredictioncryptocurrencycore-project
hulab/POLocalizedString
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
Gettext for iOS/OS X/watchOS/tvOS
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 4 tags in 4 years 2 months
appletvtvosswiftiosgettext
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