Alexandre Auriac

Venture builder and scaler | F&B to Deep Tech | Co-founder @ Boltkraft, a hardware engineering studio & fablab | Built Big Fernand into a 50+ location food brand across 4 countries | Bilingual FR/EN

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I build and scale ventures, from F&B to deep I co-founded Big Fernand and grew it into a 50+ location gourmet food brand across 4 countries before a majority exit to BlueGem Capital Partners in 2017.

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I then moved into foodtech robotics with Pazzi and Cook-e. After spending two years helping European startups expand into the US, I co-founded Boltkraft, a hardware engineering studio and fablab built on one promise: more product for your money, in less time. The cheapest and shortest path from idea to The thread across all of it is simple: take an idea and turn it into something real, built, and in the What I bring to a project:A project fueler. I bring energy and momentum, and I am usually the one who turns a stalled plan back into motion and keeps a team moving toward the A door opener. Across Big Fernand, Pazzi and Cook-e, I brought major groups like Accor, Sodexo, Disneyland Paris, SNCF, Total Energies and the French Army onto projects, often when we had more vision than product to show. Getting a large organization to commit to a perspective rather than a finished thing is its own skill, and it is one of A clarity bringer. I turn messy, fast moving situations into clear choices for the people who have to decide. Years of reporting to a board and to investors taught me to cut through the noise and put what matters in front of the right person at the right A Swiss Army knife. Founders wear every hat, and I have worn most of them: strategy, operations, sales, hiring, fundraising (€15M+ raised), partnerships, and the calm hand when something breaks. I am comfortable in ambiguity and I default to On the human side, I lead by energizing people rather than pulling rank. I communicate naturally across two languages and two cultures, I stay steady under pressure, and I am at my best building something hard with a team that cares about the Bicultural French-American, Green Card holder, based in New York. Always happy to talk food, ventures, and turning bold ideas into things that ship.