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About
Mathilde Collin co-founded Front in Paris in 2013 with Laurent Perrin, moved it to San Francisco through Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch, and built the customer-communications platform to a $1.7 billion valuation — at the time one of only about eleven billion-dollar software companies founded and led by a woman. An HEC Paris entrepreneurship graduate, she became one of the most candid voices in software leadership, publishing Front's internal metrics and culture experiments and writing openly about the discipline and mental health that sustaining a decade of growth actually requires. She handed the CEO role to Dan O'Connell in 2024 and serves as Executive Chair.
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Co-founded Front in Paris in 2013 with CTO Laurent Perrin, whom she met at the eFounders startup studio. Moved to San Francisco in 2014 and was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch.
- Communities
- Practises radical transparency, publishing Front's internal metrics and culture experiments — including a widely read post on twenty-five remote-culture changes.
- More
- Front's $65m Series D in 2022 valued it at $1.7bn, roughly doubling its prior mark and putting her among a handful of women to found and lead a billion-dollar software company. Stepped down as CEO in 2024, handing the role to Dan O'Connell and becoming Executive Chair, saying the intensity of the job had become hard to sustain. Writes publicly about the routines that sustain a decade of building — daily meditation, device-free days — and helped normalise founders talking about mental health.
Mentioned above: the Y Combinator mafia →
From collinmathilde.medium.com — common ground for a warm intro.
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Intro paths
Mathilde went through Y Combinator (Summer 2014) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
In turn, Mathilde can intro founders to Front's investors below.
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Co-founders at Front
Investments
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Per curated public sources.
Podcasts & interviews
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Investors connected to Mathilde in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Mathilde Collin?
- Mathilde Collin co-founded Front in Paris in 2013 with Laurent Perrin, moved it to San Francisco through Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch, and built the customer-communications platform to a $1.7 billion valuation — at the time one of only about eleven billion-dollar software companies founded and led by a woman. An HEC Paris entrepreneurship graduate, she became one of the most candid voices in software leadership, publishing Front's internal metrics and culture experiments and writing openly about the discipline and mental health that sustaining a decade of growth actually requires. She handed the CEO role to Dan O'Connell in 2024 and serves as Executive Chair.
- Where does Mathilde Collin work?
- Mathilde Collin is CEO of Front.
- What companies did Mathilde Collin found?
- Mathilde Collin founded Front.
- What companies has Mathilde Collin invested in?
- Investments tracked here include Adialante, Agency, Agentnoon, AICE, Amboras, AutoHub, Blaxel, Browser Use, Carbonfact, Cedar, Cherry, Convictional, and 33 more.
- What podcasts and interviews feature Mathilde Collin?
- Tracked appearances include "The Founder's Guide to Discipline", "Hard Lessons and Simple Routines".
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,635
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Concord mafia3
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
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