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Clément Salaün

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Founder at Formance

Paris, Île-de-France, France

FoundedFormance · YCNumary

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About

Clément Salaün founded Formance, a company focused on payments workflows. He previously worked at Selency.

Founder at FormanceYC S21

Intro paths

YC

Clément went through Y Combinator (Summer 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Formance's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Formance's investors · 11

Axeleo CapitalLyon · $108K – $1.6M checks · since 2025FAST — by GETTYLABSan Francisco · $100K checksFrstParis · $2M checksHoxton VenturesLondon · $500K – $5M checks · since 2025Kima VenturesParis · $50K – $5M checksMAGIC FundLos Angeles · $50K – $5M checksManresa VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checksNotion CapitalLondon · $1M – $100M checksPayPal VenturesSan Jose · $1M – $10M checks · since 2025Portage VenturesMontreal · since 2025Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021

Experience

  1. Formance (YC S21)Co-Foundercurrent2021 — present
  2. SelencyInvestorcurrent2021 — present
  3. SelencyLead Software Engineer - Backend & Payments2018 — 2021
  4. SelencySoftware Engineer2016 — 2018
  5. ZIP Agence digitaleWeb Developer2014 — 2016
  6. Lareza SADéveloppeur Web - Stage2013

Skills & more

APIs9Payment SystemsGoContinuous Integration1Testing1Cloud Computing1Distributed systems1Programmation web4Laravel5PHP11MongoDB5ElasticSearch4
+11 moreGitLinuxSQLAmazon Web ServicesDockerCSSRedisCouchDBBackendRabbitMQNginx

Languages Anglais · Français

  • edX Honor Code Certificate for Introduction to Computer Science I — edX

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Clément Salaün?
Clément Salaün founded Formance, a company focused on payments workflows. He previously worked at Selency.
Where does Clément Salaün work?
Clément Salaün is Founder of Formance.
What companies did Clément Salaün found?
Clément Salaün founded Formance, Numary.
Where did Clément Salaün go to school?
Clément Salaün studied at Y Combinator; Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais – PSL.

Founder mafias

Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais – PSL mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Alban MalletMaster's degreeFounded Xtreee

Formance mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Anne-Sybille PradellesExecutive Officer, Director, PromoterFounded Numary

Numary mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Anne-Sybille PradellesCo-Founder & CEOFounded Formance

Selency mafia2

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Marco BertoneHead of GrowthFounded Syntetica

Same school

Also attended Ecole d'architecture Paris-Malaquais – PSL1

Alban MalletFounder at Xtreee

Shared employers