Career
In 2004 Thibaud Elziere founded in 2004 microstock photography company Fotolia just after graduating from Centrale Lyon, a French engineering school. In 2012, Fotolia raised $150m from buy-out firm KKR, and in December 2014, Adobe Systems announced it was buying Fotolia for $800 million, aiming at integrating it to its Creative Cloud solution. In 2008, Thibaud Elziere created Zilok, a peer to peer rental site.
In 2011, Thibaud Elziere launched eFounders together with Quentin Nickmans, a startup studio focusing on Saas companies, that has successfully created six independent startups:
Mailjet
Textmaster
Pressking
Mention
Front
Aircall
All together, eFounders’ startups have raised about $16 million in Europe and the United States. In June 2015, eFounders raised $6 million from private investor Oleg Tscheltzoff.
