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Odaptos

Techstars '24

Perols, FR · Founded 2020 · 8 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors

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Odaptos is a French company offering an AI-based platform for usability testing. Product and design teams use it to run tests and evaluate how users interact with their interfaces.

Founders & leadership

Odaptos was founded in 2020 by Felipe Restrepo and Maximilien Joannides.

FRFelipe Restrepo
Felipe RestrepoCEO - Co-Founder2020–2026Felipe Restrepo is founder of Odaptos, a French AI platform that analyzes user interactions and emotional signals to help product and design teams evaluate interface usability.
MJMaximilien Joannides
Maximilien JoannidesCo-Founder & CPO at Odaptos2020–2026Maximilien Joannides is the co-founder of Odaptos, an AI-powered platform for remote user testing that he led as Chief Product Officer from inception through two funding rounds and a Techstars NYC batch. He has experience leading cross-functional product, design, and engineering teams and worked with enterprise clients including PwC and Matmut.

Investors · 1

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Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Odaptos is a French enterprise software company that provides a SaaS platform for automated user testing. The platform applies artificial intelligence to analyse participant emotions, facial expressions and speech during test sessions, producing insights for product and design teams about how people interact with an interface.

The product sits at the application layer of the AI stack and spans several technical areas, including natural language processing, computer vision and sentiment or emotion analysis, alongside automated transcription of test sessions. Associated use cases include usability testing, UX and product research, qualitative research and UX analytics. The company was founded in 2020 and is reported to employ around ten people.

Business model

Odaptos operates a business-to-business model, selling access to its user-testing platform as software-as-a-service. Reported commercial structures include subscription SaaS, usage-based SaaS and freemium tiers.

Revenue is generated from subscription and usage-based SaaS plans, with a freemium entry tier.

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Market position

Odaptos is a privately held company in the AI, data and cloud infrastructure sector, with reported comparables in the UX research tooling space including Lightbulb.ai, Looppanel and UXtweak.

The platform is positioned around automated analysis of user emotion — combining facial-expression analysis, speech processing and sentiment detection — rather than manual review of recorded usability sessions.

Technology

The platform uses artificial intelligence to process test-session recordings, drawing on computer vision for facial-expression analysis, natural language processing and automated transcription for speech, and sentiment/emotion analysis (affective computing) to characterise user reactions.

Go-to-market

Businesses running user experience and product research, particularly product and design teams conducting usability testing.

Geography

The company is based in France.

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Key figures

latest reported
Employee countJan 202610 employees
HeadcountAug 20268
Monthly website visitorsJun 20261,100 visitors per month

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Sep 2021
Accelerator round with Techstars

Caplight lists an accelerator round dated September 1, 2021, with Techstars as the participating investor; a market signal on the same page references a $120K round led by Techstars.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Odaptos do?
French SaaS platform for automated user testing that uses AI to analyse user emotions, facial expressions and speech.
Who founded Odaptos?
Odaptos was founded by Felipe Restrepo, Maximilien Joannides in 2020.
Who are Odaptos's investors?
Odaptos's investors include Techstars.
Where is Odaptos headquartered?
Odaptos is headquartered in Perols, FR.