“We are the proud owners of a French company,” says with a big smile Brijesh Tripathi, an Indian engineer who set up a start-up a few months ago with Dali Kilani, a Tunisian who was previously technical director of the start-up. up tricolor e-health Lifen.
The two men, who met at Nvidia more than fifteen years ago, chose to establish the headquarters of FlexAI in Paris, as did a few months ago the American and Dutch co-founders of Poolside, another gem of generative AI which raised $126 million last year. But FlexAI also has an office in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Brijesh Tripathi is based, and another in Bangalore. Some of the 40 employees are, for their part, spread across Europe.