ABOUT
Entrepreneurs and operators. Since 2015.
Founded and run by entrepreneurs who have built, grown and taken companies international. We put that experience to work with your teams.
10+
YEARS OF PROGRAMS
50+
CORPORATES
150+
STARTUPS SUPPORTED
300+
EXPERTS & OPERATORS
THE FOUNDERS · REPEAT ENTREPRENEURS, NOT CONSULTANTS
Two co-founders, three regions.
Fabrice Tranier
Co-founder & Group CEO · Europe & Americas sales
- 0 → 1 · Kappa Valor : a first startup, from tech to product, through the dot-com crash.
- 1 → 10 · Kwanko : a local ad tech platform turned into B2B infrastructure at scale.
- 10 → 100 · Dukan : COO & CTO, board member, from €5M to €40M in revenue, 21 countries in 18 months.
- 100 → 500 · Digital Virgo : COO & CTO, board member, €350M in revenue across 30+ countries, post-M&A integration and pre-IPO trajectory.
- Operating missions with portfolio companies of Bpifrance, Entrepreneur Venture and MBO Partners.
Sofian Meguellati
Co-founder & CEO · Asia & Middle East
Co-founded Le Sentier with Fabrice, then Hack40. Hack40’s lead in Asia, between Seoul, Tokyo and Singapore: programs with the region’s public agencies and accelerator-investors, and corporate innovation cases across Asia.
THE NETWORK
300+ entrepreneurs and operators, brought in for each mission.
Domain experts and active entrepreneurs, with program managers, market analysts, creatives, and product and tech profiles.
Europe
Franck de Visme (COO Blue Frog Robotics), Guillaume Eymar (Partner, Cambon Partners), Julien de Sousa (Head of PRISM Incubator), Philippe Mascaras (CEO Kantum), Arnaud Bonhomme (CEO aBria)…
Asia
Akshita Joshi (Strategy & BizOps, Airbnb APAC), Christophe Bacon (MD OmniStrada), Julien Condamines (Co-Creation Lab), CJ Yoon (Forward KR), Gregory Roustel (GRG K.K., Japan)…
Americas
Scale operator partners in New York and Los Angeles.
GLOBAL OPERATIONS
Our bases. Your markets.
Teams on the ground in every hub, and a network of operators to go wherever your markets take you.
Paris
GLOBAL HQ
Europe, Americas & Middle East hub
Singapore
REGIONAL HQ
South Asia & Oceania hub
Seoul · Tokyo
OFFICES
North Asia hub
New York · Los Angeles
OFFICES
Americas hub
OUR STORY
Our roots: startup accelerators.
2012 – 2018
NUMA, Paris
Fabrice, lead mentor, co-designs Rise, France’s first startup acceleration program.
2013 – 2015
Le Sentier
Fabrice and Sofian co-found Le Sentier: smart city and open innovation in Paris’s Sentier district.
2015
Hack40
Startup culture and methods enter corporates, carried by entrepreneurs.
2018 – 2025
Paris & Singapore
AvantGarde, French Tech Singapore, Enterprise Singapore: programs from Seoul to Tokyo, from Shanghai to Shenzhen.
Today
Operating partner
Fabrice runs Europe and the Americas from Paris, Sofian runs Asia. Corporates, funds, agencies and startups.
Video · Welcome to the Jungle
How Hack40 started, told by its co-founder.
Sofian Meguellati, co-founder, on the early days of Hack40 and its work with corporates. In French.
IN THE ECOSYSTEM
Mentor, jury, ambassador: building bridges since 2012.
Lead mentor, jury · 2012 – 2018
NUMA Paris
Co-designed Rise, France’s first startup acceleration program.
Co-founder · 2013 – 2015
Le Sentier
Smart city and open innovation program in Paris’s Sentier district.
Lead mentor, jury · 2015 – 2018
Ticket for Change
Co-designed the Ticket for Action acceleration program.
Lead mentor, jury · 2015 – 2018
Schoolab
Acceleration program for student startups.
Ambassador · 2017 – 2020
La French Tech
Diversity and entrepreneurship in the French Tech ecosystem.
Steering committee · 2018 – 2021
French Tech Singapore
Building the French Tech ecosystem in Southeast Asia.
Accredited partner mentor · 2019 – 2025
Enterprise Singapore
Supporting early-stage startups for the government agency.
Accredited partner mentor · 2019 – 2021
Hanyang University
Startup Support Foundation, Europe and Asia.
Mentor · 2019 – 2022
Techstars
Science and technology mentoring program.
THE HACK40 TOOLKIT
The acceleration framework, tool by tool.
Lean startup, design thinking and growth hacking, adapted to large organizations since 2015 and battle-tested in every program.
Build → measure → learn loop: we iterate until there’s proof
01Frame
From strategic goal to problem to solve.
- Solution canvas: reframe the “pillars” as pains
- Lean canvas: the business plan as hypotheses
- Learning areas: what we want to learn
02Engage
Cross-functional teams facing market trends.
- Masterclasses and entrepreneur use cases
- 6-step ideation, vote on 3 projects
- Persona card, value proposition canvas
- Customer journey map
03Experiment
Get out of the building, test in the field.
- MVP and rapid prototyping
- Empathy interviews, feedback capture grid
- A/B tests, pop-ups, field tests
- Growth hacking and tester communities
04Prove
Measure, decide, lock in a first win.
- KPIs: acquisition, activation, retention, referral, revenue
- Scale, iterate, pivot matrix
- Jury grid and sponsor role
- Pitch: 5 minutes, 10 slides
05Scale
A playbook other teams can run.
- Playbook and governance
- Mentoring: mentor session canvas, progress sheets
- Internal community
- Transformation dashboard