Céline Georgeon

Creation of a startup studio dedicated to the launch and development of high-growth potential tech startups.

Clients: entrepreneurs and VCs.

Responsibilities: ideation, recruitment, legal structure, and governance.

Missions:

- Storytelling, DNA, design thinking, pitching.

- Drafting of statutes and shareholder agreements.

Advising companies seeking financing for their growth.

Clients: startups, young SMEs in the digital and biotechnology sectors.

Responsibilities: client relations, drafting mission proposals, producing deliverables, knowledge capitalization.

Missions:

- Development strategy: market research, offer positioning, business model definition, and partnerships.

- Business plan drafting: strategic analysis, forecasts, operational and financial resource assessment.

- Fundraising (seed to pre-IPO): selection and presentation to investment funds, valuation, negotiation.

Examples of achievements:

- Development of the business plan (general and operational strategy, forecasts, and financing plan), presentation to selected funds, and company valuation: €2.5M (2nd round of funding for an e-commerce site), €0.6M (music creation software).

- Drafting of a stock market analysis note (historical performance, 5-year plan, and comparative valuation) for a €1.5M capital increase for a software publisher in view of an IPO.

- Market research and business model definition before full fundraising support: €0.5M (digital radio), €0.2M (Convergence Telephony Computer).

Strategic diagnosis, financial analysis, change management, and restructuring.

Clients: industrial groups (automotive, mechanical, chemical sectors), distribution, and highway concessions.

Responsibilities: client portfolio management, drafting and signing mission proposals, selection and management of intervention teams, content responsibility and deadline adherence for deliverables, knowledge capitalization and transfer.

Missions:

- Support for transformations (technological, mergers/acquisitions, restructurings, collective proceedings).

- Drafting of sector and economic outlook notes, competitive intelligence.

- Development of automotive and distribution client divisions: team and network management.

- Management of multidisciplinary teams and business development.

Examples of achievements:

- Commercial, operational, and financial optimization at a European level for a leading automotive supplier (implementation of central services, deployment and adaptation of group operational best practices, local R&D development, creation of a low-cost subsidiary, restructuring of the French scope).

- Search for a buyer for a trailer manufacturer in receivership (redesign of the value chain around a new innovative product, recovery plan).

- Optimization of support functions during the post-merger integration of two chemical groups (diagnosis of the existing situation, quantitative and qualitative analysis of levers and potential gains, definition of the action plan to achieve target results).

- Simplification and harmonization of the pricing strategy for a specialized distribution player (new approach based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, creation of a steering committee, tests and validation on a pilot store before deployment).