Pierre-Olivier Barennes

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Co-founder and managing partner of Citizen Capital, Pierre-Olivier has an overall responsibility for investment strategy and team development. He has personally led Citizen Capital’s investments such as OpenClassooms, Deepki, CleverConnect, Make.org, Ipso Santé or Trace.

Pierre-Olivier is driven by the conviction that mission-driven companies and entrepreneurs have a fundamental role to contribute solving social and environmental challenges ahead of us and that adopting such vision is the compass and the backbone instrumental to their raison d’être and strategy.

Among his areas of interest: education, future of work, civic engagement, health and climate transition.

Prior to founding Citizen Capital, he was a director at European buyout fund Bridgepoint where he financed and supported development of larger companies. Pierre-Olivier started its career at Schneider Electric in Istanbul, Turkey.

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