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Mission
Our mission is to secure the production launch of AI models,
by guaranteeing
sovereignty
cost control
trust
sovereignty
la souveraineté
la maitrise des coûts
la confiance
la souveraineté
Our tools enable all companies to exploit AI’s full potential by moving into production and contributing to the emergence of trusted, secure, reliable, energy-efficient and sovereign AI.
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History
A pioneering company in trusted AI
Founded in 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.
Over the years
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.
In 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?
Recognized scientific expertise in AI
For the past 8 years, Craft AI has been advancing scientific research in the field of AI through its research laboratory. Our R&D engineers publish scientific papers in leading Machine Learning conferences. Our main field of research is Trusted AI, which we believe is based on the following 4 pillars:
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Team
Management team
Chahram Becharat
A graduate of École Polytechnique and holder of an MBA from Harvard University, Chahram Becharat began his career at Morgan Stanley in London. He then joined Bernard Arnault and became the head of the Europ @Web group. Together with him, he has invested more than five billion euros in companies in the technology, luxury and retail sectors.
Chahram is recognized as one of the pioneers of Internet and e-commerce in Europe by having founded and invested more than ten unicorns at the end of the 1990s, including Betfair (Flutter), Submarino (B2W Digital), Webhelp and Sitel (Acticall) or Netflix. The companies that Chahram founded still represent several tens of billions of dollars in valuation today.
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.
Julien Gooris
Julien holds a doctorate in economics and statistics (from the Université Libre de Bruxelles) and has been VP Data Science at Craft AI since 2020. He started his career with research activities between Brussels and the United States (Duke University - Fuqua Bus). Sch.) and France at INSEAD on statistical modeling of international trade. He continued his academic and consulting activities within the Prime Minister's Office - CEPII on international trade using Big Data models, and published his work in leading academic journals.
He started in the private sector as a Data Scientist applied to competition analysis and intellectual property protection at Microeconomix (acquired by Deloitte Consulting). He then joined a startup, TheGreenData, at the time of its creation and up to the main fundraisers where he led the development of AI solutions applied to food, banking and supply chain. He continued his career in the field of AI at Ween.AI, a startup specializing in predictive solutions for the environment. He finally joined Craft AI as head of the Data Science team and in this capacity leads the company's customer projects.
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
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Pierre Menard
Yannis Marecaux
Alexandre Delaunay
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Thomas Chabrouty
Ludovic Rocroy
Louise Labatie
Matteo Lhommeau
Sorelle Methafe
Meriam Cherif
Hugo Philipp
Lucas Adell
Othman Mhaouty
Tom de Rocker
Yassine Said
Julien Nonin
Raphaël Françoise
Gaëtan Duchaussois
Charlotte Rucet
Alexandre Germain
Christophe Macabiau
Clément Pierquin
Louis Hernandez
Bastien Zimmermann
Magalie Veyrat
Our scientific committee
Vibhu Mittal has been the scientific and strategic advisor to Craft AI since 2020. He is currently the CEO of Edmodo, one of the largest education platforms in the world, whose mission is to connect every learner with the resources they need to reach their full potential. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Root-One, an education startup that works on language literacy issues.
He previously held positions at Google Research, Xerox PARC, Stanford/CSLI, CMU/LTI, and TIFR Bombay. He has a doctorate in computer science from the University of Southern California, a master's degree in computer science from Ohio State University, and a bachelor's degree in computer science from IIT Mumbai.
Values
What motivates us every day at Craft AI
Pioneering spirit
Ambition and humility
Ethics
Trust
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