Renaud Visage

General Partner & Co-Founder

2023

We finance groundbreaking solutions that drive the energy and environmental transition forward.

Tech Investor

2014

Tech investor in 80+ startups, including 15 climate tech companies in SlateVC's Pre-Fund. SlateVC Pre-Fund - BlueLayer - Carbonfact - Climate X - Cloover - Emidat - Entocycle - Finres - Greenly - GreyParrot - La Vie - Marble - Opna - Sirona - Solarock Other Tech Investments - Aive - Algolia - Alkemics (merged with Salsify) - Back (acquired by Personio) - Bearer (acquired by Cycode) - Bricks - Builder - Cycle - Dattak - Djust - Finimize (acquired by Abrdn), - Fox Intellligence (acquired by Nielsen) - Garden.io (acquired by Incredibuild) - GitGuardian - Graneet - Heuritech (acquired) - Hinlab - Hofy (acquired by Deel) - Hokodo - Incident.io - Jitter - Jump - Lang.ai - Learnerbly - Localstack - LootLocker - Novos - Nuxt.js - PerkUp - Pigment (exited) - Playbook - Poolside - Ponicode (acquired by CircleCI) - Qatalog (acquired by ClickUp) - Samp - Savii (acquired by Tyme) - Scalefast (acquired by ESW) - Scoreplay - Sqreen (acquired by Datadog) - Stonly - Swan (exited) - Tomorro - Upflow - Yavin - Zaavy (acquired by Deel)

Non Executive Board Director

2022

Venture Partner

2018 - 2024

Co-Founder & CTO

2006 - 2021

Renaud Visage is the founding technical architect of Eventbrite. With engineering degrees from Cornell University (USA) and Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), Renaud started his career as an environmental consultant. Fascinated by the Internet, Renaud joined Internet photo-sharing pioneer, Zing Networks, as Director of Engineering in 2000. Zing was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and later acquired by Sony ImageStation. In 2006, he joined forces with Kevin & Julia Hartz to found Eventbrite. Renaud anticipated several fundamental shifts in the way we use the internet – including the arrival of social media, big data analysis, the shift to mobile devices as first screens and the ubiquity of APIs – and leveraged their disruptive power to Eventbrite’s advantage, fueling the company’s growth into the globally leading self-service ticketing platform it is today. In 2014, Renaud was included in Wired UK's Top 100 digital influencers in Europe. When Renaud is not writing code, he’s mentoring and investing in startups in several European countries. Or he is taking pictures somewhere around the world (see his portfolio at http://www.renaudvisage.com).

Venture Partner

2017 - 2017

As a venture partner, Renaud guides founders in realizing their global ambition and helps Index evaluate and support companies that are solving challenging technical problems. Working very closely with the Index teams in London and San Francisco, he is uniquely positioned to help our founders scale their technology, and operations on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in France, where Renaud was born and will continue to support that country’s notable tech boom.

Director of Engineering

2000 - 2001

Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Zing was a pioneer in photo sharing on the web when the best digital camera had 3 megapixel sensors (similar to Shutterfly). I joined the company in 2000 as a junior developer and ended up a year later as Director of Engineering.

Project Engineer

1996 - 2000

I started my career as an environmental engineer cleaning up polluted sites.