Kerala

After launching his first company in 2000 (released in 2002), Antoine joined the Travelocity / Lastminute group as Sales Director and then COO. At that time, he directly managed 200 employees, including 50 salespeople.

In 2009, he co-founded with Pierre-Edouard Sterin, founder of Smartbox, the “Startup Studio” Otium. Antoine built the founding team, hired Stanislas Niox-Château and Philippe de Chanville (5 years later, Stan founded Doctolib and Philippe ManoMano). As CEO of Otium, Antoine led the acquisition of LaFourchette in 2009, headed the board of directors of Lafourchette for 6 years (the start-up went from 3 to 250 salaries in 4 markets) and led the exit process to TripAdvisor in May 2014.

Antoine has co-founded a total of 6 “Otium” start-ups, including Balinea, the leading beauty salon booking platform, and Weekendesk, a weekend OTA generating over €100 million in volume transactions in 5 countries. Antoine is a graduate of HEC Paris.

Marc started his career as an investor at Alven Capital. In 2014, he joined Otium Capital as an Associate and was in charge of the La Fourchette disposal process. Antoine has been an investor in VC since 2008 (La Fourchette, Balinea, Weekendesk…), after a first successfull experience as a founder from 2000 to 2003. He also has management experience as Sales Director then COO of Travelocity / Lastminute. He co-founded Otium Capital before embarking on the Kerala adventure with Marc.