Benoist Grossmann

Benoist Grossmann is a Managing Director of Idinvest Partners， he joined Idinvest Partners in 2002. He was appointed a board member in 2003 and operates mainly in the sectors of internet. Benoist is currently on the boards of Criteo， Viadeo， Dailymotion， 24h00 and is the president of Meetic audit committee.

Before joining Idinvest Partners， Benoist worked for several venture capital funds for over 10 years. He was a partner at Viventures from 1998 to 2002 and worked as Investment Manager at La Financière de Brienne. He had previously spent over 10 years working in the industry as a laser systems specialist at EDF， NASA and Thomson-CSF Optronique， for whom he invented five patents and authored over twenty publications.

Benoist has a doctorate in physics from the Université de Paris VI and an MBA from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.