Mathias Monribot is an investment specialist in emerging sectors. After having created, at the age of 21, his first company pioneering 3D environments and sold 7 years later, he created Petit Poucet in 2002, a strategy consulting firm specialized in supporting student entrepreneurs. He then finances 40 startups (up to 500K€ per company) through 4 investment holdings. 3 companies out of 4 will reach 1M€ turnover before the 4th year of activity. 14 of them have already been sold (including Oxent in 2016, in which Mathias was the first to invest).

Alain Esnault graduated from Edhec Business School and Ecole Centrale Paris. He started his career by working at Crédit Lyonnais, as a private equity associate. He then proceeded to work as a CFO and M&A officer for several international companies (eg. Hewlett Packard) and entrepreneurial groups (eg. Groupe Roullier). Alain moved to being an entrepreneur himself in 2002 when he became the CEO of several SMEs in industry and business services, including Groupe SVP. He is currently the CEO of Apicap, an asset management company that specializes in both real estate and private equity – Apicap is the fund manager of Trust Esport Fund 1.

Axel Pittier graduated from both Sciences Po Paris and the University of St. Gall (Switzerland). He had early exposure of the public sector by working at the French National Assembly, before taking advantage of a gap year to discover entrepreneurship and the Esport industry at Oxent, audit at PwC and investment at Apicap – which he joined in early 2016. Axel’s passion for Esport and his Dota 2 skills ideally supplement his competence as an analyst for Trust Esport Fund.