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Team Excellence
Trusting
Our Pillars
Together these four pillars form the operating system that powers how OSS creates, grows, and delivers value across the entire ecosystem.
Build
Product leads the way. We create the right product for the market and its value-creation model, supported by our product, tech, and design teams who work hands-on with founders.
network
Our networker team is the centerpiece of the ecosystem, connecting startups, manufacturers, and partners, and dedicating its effort to maintaining and forging high-value relationships.
scale
We don’t just create startups; we invest in them. OSS operates the fund, driving scale through capital, growth, and global expansion
transform
The transformation team owns partner success. They represent the partners’ voice inside OSS and ensure our work translates into tangible, measurable value for them.
Team
Renan Devillieres
Ksénya Borzov
Aude Delépine
Baptiste Gaultier
Caroline Goujon
Ashok Azhagarasan
Elise Lalique
Guillaume Prigent
Jean-Philippe Lorinquer
Léopold Lambert
Maroussia Houimli
Pierre Lavaux
Geneviève Métayer
Our Values
Values is how we behave and what we believe in. When in doubt about a situation, we use those as guidelines on what to do.
Human judgement. Machine speed.
We trust human judgement and think human connections are important.
When we execute, we leverage all machines possible and strive to make the machine execute aligned with the humans.
PLAY WORLD CLASS.
We play a game at the world elite level and strive to always keep up with the evolutions of the game.
We consider each team member as a world class player and hold ourselves to high standards—so we train like athletes to be at our best during the game.
Trustful relationships. Performing partnerships.
We consider relationships as an important part of performance, and we build the trust necessary to have high-performing relationships.
We work with people we trust, assume good intent from our relations, and act in good faith with all our partners.
we eat what we kill.
Skin in the game. We eat last, hate asymmetry, and only reward results—not busywork.
We win when our companies sell. Founders get real equity. The team shares upside. No room for high-certainty seekers.
compound the system.
The system is the star. Few people, disproportionate impact. We automate everything, fire ourselves from low-value work, and only hire when unavoidable. Data first. AI first. Shared systems over individual ownership. Ego takes a backseat.
build something the world needs.
We’re Builders, not talkers. We define new standards, not follow existing ones. We want impact we're proud of—on portfolio, products, and the world. 100K+ people use what we've built. Financial reward follows impact.
