Full Name

Julien Codorniou

Job Title

General Partner

Company

20vc

Speaker Bio

Julien Codorniou is a General Partner at 20VC, where he co-leads seed-stage investments. Before joining the world of venture in 2022, Julien spent more than 17 years as a tech operator at Microsoft and Facebook/Meta. At Facebook , Julien headed the global platform partnerships team and later became Vice President of Workplace. During his tenure, Workplace expanded from 0 to over 10 million paid subscribers, with clients such as Walmart, McDonald’s, Nestlé, and Spotify. From 2005 to 2011, he worked at Microsoft as Director of Business Development, where he created and launched the global BizSpark program for startups. Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde since 2012 and is an advisory board member of the ATP Tour since 2018. He is the co-author of The Kelkoo.com Success Story (Pearson, 2005) which chronicles the rise of one of Europe’s early internet pioneers. Julien was an early angel investor in companies like TripleDot Studios, Pigment, Nabla, Statsig, Lifen, Pieces.app, Bereal and Linktree.