Sebastien co-founded Shift4Good in 2021 to exclusively invest in sustainable mobility start-ups.

He started his career in the automotive industry and in 2000 joined his first start-up, a Paris-based e-commerce company as CFO and COO.

From 2002 to 2009, he worked as group CFO and then group CEO at Welcome Real-time (now part of Collison Group), a fast-growing fintech software start-up with clients in over 30 countries. He grew the company from 20 to 130 people, from $1m to $20m revenue and from heavy losses to $3m Ebitda, before selling the company to one of the largest European private equity firms for $50m.

In 2010, Sebastien founded Soft Venture – an advisory firm helping technology companies to accelerate in Asia, before co-founding Hera Capital, a Singapore-based VC in 2012. At Hera Capital, the team raised around $50m of capital, invested in 14 companies (from Seed to Series D rounds), supported various management teams, and led numerous fund-raising and full exit processes for portfolio companies.