Nicolas Dessaigne

Managing Partner

Works at Y Combinator

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About

Managing Partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, Nicolas Dessaigne invests in Pre-Seed and Seed with check sizes of €0.5M. Co-founder and former CEO of Algolia (2012-2020), a search API-first company that he led for eight years before joining the board, he also sits on the board of Artifakt. Prior to Algolia, he held CTO positions at Arisem-Thales and VP of R&D at Exalead. He holds a PhD in Computer Sciences from Nantes Université.

Profile

Role
Managing Partner
Fund
Y Combinator
Nationality
French

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