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MISSION
Accelerating the development of AI while guaranteeing
sovereignty
cost control
trust
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Sovereignty
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Confidence
Sovereignty
Sovereignty
cost control
Confidence
Sovereignty
As a pioneer in trusted AI and industrialization, our tools enable all companies to exploit the full potential of AI by moving, at last, into production. What's more, we're contributing to the emergence of AI that's trustworthy, explainable, secure, reliable and energy-efficient.
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HISTORY
A pioneering company in trusted AI
2015
Craft AI's mission is to make artificial intelligence accessible, explainable, and trustworthy. From the start, we developed understandable and auditable AI models, embodied by our white-box logo, in contrast to black-box systems.
2015-2023
Our vision has broadened to include trusted AI, focused on transparency, reliability and data security. We have supported numerous companies in defining AI uses, developing models and putting them into production.
2023
We launched an MLOps platform, enabling our customers to deploy their AI models quickly, easily and securely.This platform aims to solve one of the major problems faced by companies: the difficulty of industrializing AI on a large scale.
Today
Craft AI is recognized as a leader in trusted AI, transforming the way companies manage their AI projects, from pre-production to production.
NEWS
What's new at Craft AI?
Our research laboratory
For 8 years, Craft AI has been advancing scientific research in the field of AI through its research laboratory. Our R&D engineers publish scientific articles at major Machine Learning conferences. Our main field of research is trusted AI based on confidentiality, causality, explainability, and frugality.
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TEAM
Management team
Homéric de Sarthe
François Pellissier
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and ENS Telecom Paris (MS), François Pellissier has been technical director of Craft AI since spring 2020. Since 2014, he has been an independent consultant and acts as a technical advisor in numerous start-ups. He worked: in 1995 for Sendit AB (bought by Microsoft) as a software engineer, in 1997 for Symah Vision (Lagardère group) as an R&D manager, in 2005 for Kewego (sold to Kit Digital in 2011) as CTO, in 2013 for Viadeo as VP Mobile Engineering, in 2013 for Viadeo as VP Mobile Engineering, and since 2015 for Entourage (NPO) as CTO pro bono.
Since 2014, he has worked for VCs on due diligence and technical audits of fast-growing start-ups and is a technical advisor for innovative start-ups to help them with technical challenges (technological choices, organization, processes, recruitment, R&D) in all sectors (video, mobile, SaaS, R&D) in all sectors (video, mobile, SaaS, SaaS, AI, AI, e-commerce, ad-tech, ed-tech, fintech, e-gaming...) in all sectors (video, mobile, SaaS, SaaS, AI, AI, e-commerce, ad-tech, ed-tech, fintech, e-gaming...).
Elven Swinburne
Elven Swinburne has more than 20 years of experience in various Sales and Marketing functions, he worked in particular through a subsidiary of the Eriksson group and then Devoteam before joining the Gartner Group where he created and developed the largest French sales department for major accounts in the Public Sector & Utilities. He then worked for various VCs as an Operating Partner specialized in Programmatic Execution before joining Craft AI as VP Sales & Marketing in 2024.
Xavier Trigano
A graduate of Centrale and ESSEC, Xavier joined Craft AI in 2020 to structure the Product and Marketing team. Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Xavier has nearly 9 years of experience in the strategic development of startups in the AI and big data sector.
In particular, he worked in the FinTech team at BNP Paribas between 2016 and 2018 on the launch of new innovative payment methods and at the publisher RetailTech Vectaury between 2018 and 2020 on the launch of a new product range. He is also in charge of the protection of personal data used in AI projects as the company's DPO.
Matthieu Boussard
Matthieu Boussard obtained his doctorate at the University of Caen in 2008 after working on AI in a situation of uncertainty. He then went to Japan to the Toyohashi University of Technology, where he conducted experimental research on the behavior of mobile robots for three years. Back in France, he decided to switch from robots to the AI of video games and joined MASA Life in 2014. Matthieu was part of the team that created Craft AI in 2015 and oversees the company's R&D.
He is in charge of research projects, such as the ANR Schopper project, on the use of Machine Learning in archaeology, or the JUMO project on the generation of synthetic data. He supervises two doctoral students in INRIA laboratories and has written numerous articles in international journals (ICML, AAMAS, IROS). He is also Vice President of the Paris Deep Tech AI Cluster Systematic.
The Craft AI team
Yannis Marecaux
Ludovic Rocroy
Louise Labatie
Sorelle Methafe
Meriam Cherif
Hugues Jonquères
Lucas Adell
Othman Mhaouty
Tom de Rocker
Yassine Said
Julien Nonin
Raphaël Françoise
Gaëtan Duchaussois
Alexis Cangelosi
Charlotte Rucet
Alexandre Germain
Christophe Macabiau
Clément Pierquin
Louis Hernandez
Bastien Zimmermann
Magalie Veyrat
Our scientific committee
Chahram Becharat
Diplômé de l’École Polytechnique et titulaire d’un MBA de l’Université de Harvard, Chahram Becharat débute sa carrière chez Morgan Stanley à Londres. Il rejoint ensuite Bernard Arnault et prend la tête du groupe Europ@Web. Il réalise à ses côtés plus de cinq milliards d’euros d’investissements dans des entreprises du secteur technologique, du luxe et de la distribution.
Chahram est reconnu comme l’un des pionniers de l’Internet et du e-commerce en Europe en ayant dès la fin des années 1990, fondé et investi plus d’une dizaine de licornes dont Betfair (Flutter), Submarino (B2W Digital), Webhelp et Sitel (Acticall) ou encore Netflix. Les entreprises que Chahram a fondées représentent encore aujourd’hui plusieurs dizaines de milliards de dollars de valorisation.
Vibhu Mittal
Vibhu Mittal est conseiller scientifique et stratégique de Craft AI depuis 2020. Il est actuellement CTO de Inflection AI, un des principaux concurrents de ChatGPT aux États-Unis avec son assistant virtuel Pi, capable de détecter les émotions et de proposer une expérience plus personnalisée. Il était auparavant CEO de Edmodo, l'une des plus grandes plateformes d'éducation au monde, dont la mission est de connecter chaque apprenant aux ressources nécessaires pour qu'il atteigne son plein potentiel. Il est également le cofondateur et l'ancien PDG de Root-One, une startup dans le domaine de l'éducation, qui travaille sur des problèmes d'alphabétisation linguistique.
Il a précédemment occupé des postes chez Google Research, Xerox PARC, Stanford/CSLI, CMU/LTI et TIFR Bombay. Il est titulaire d'un doctorat en informatique de l'université de Californie du Sud, d'un master en informatique de l'université d'État de l'Ohio et d'une licence en informatique de l'IIT Mumbai.
VALUES
What motivates us every day at Craft AI
Pioneering spirit
Ambition and humility
Ethics
Trust
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