Hexa (company)
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Hexa, named eFounders until 2022, is a startup studio created in 2011 in Brussels and Paris, by Thibaud Elzière and Quentin Nickmans. The concept of the company, which initially specialized in software as a service (SaaS), is to start startups by partnering with founders and providing them, at project launch, with the idea, seed money and strategic advice.
Company type | Private |
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Industry | startup studio |
Founded | 2011 in France and Belgium |
Founder | Thibaud Elzière Quentin Nickmans Amaury Sepulchre |
Headquarters | |
Website | hexa |
Hexa's business model is based on identifying and solving specific problems encountered by the studio's founders or startups, from which it launches each new project with an average investment of 800,000 euros. The studio then recruits two co-founders, a CEO and a CTO, and sets up a team dedicated to initial product development.
The studio raises its first funds in 2015 and 2016, of five million euros each. In 2018, eFounders reaches a significant milestone with six of its startups raising a total of 100 million euros and proceeds with the sale of its first company, TextMaster. In 2022, eFounders launches a new studio, 3founders, dedicated to the Web3, and begins its restructuring. It then takes the name Hexa, while the eFounders brand is maintained for the historic SaaS studio. The studios thus become verticals dedicated to their own themes.
By the end of 2022, Hexa manages a portfolio of forty startups with a collective valuation of five billion dollars, having created around 2,800 for jobs and raised 700 million euros. In 2023, the studio announces a further fundraising round of 20 million euros, to support the launch of thirty new startups a year. In the same year, Hexa introduces Hexa Scale, a program designed to support mature startups in their development.