This month at Hexa…
Ft. four newly-launched companies across AI and climate 🚀
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📖 Chapter 1 of The 10x Method: becoming a 10x founder
The first chapter of Hexa’s book is now available online. It covers the 10 traits Hexa has identified across 100+ founders, from balancing conviction with adaptability, to keeping your ego out of decisions, to thinking global from day one. Each trait comes with concrete advice and quotes from founders like Mathilde Collin (Front), Olivier Pailhes (Aircall), and Christophe Pasquier (Slite). The core idea: the DNA of your company starts with you, and these are skills you can build.
🧗 How to get to €25M ARR without raising a euro
Hexa Start Partner Mat Vaxelaire sits down with Émeric Ernoult, cofounder of Agorapulse, now the #1 social media management tool in France, built entirely bootstrapped. The conversation covers 10 years of evenings and weekends before the product even existed, setting an ultimatum of 1,000 customers or quitting, rebuilding the entire tech stack mid-growth, and a cofounder relationship that required actual therapy to survive. Émeric is honest about all of it, including the one hiring mistake he repeated for 15 years.
🏞️ Why the era of vertical SaaS founders is now
Horizontal SaaS is showing its limits. Salesforce now has twelve “Industry Clouds,” essentially admitting that one-size-fits-all doesn’t work. Meanwhile, vertical players like Toast and Mews are posting real profitability by embedding payments and lending directly into their products. In this article, Hexa Scale Partner Augustin lays out why domain expertise has become the real moat, how fintech can multiply revenue per customer, and why the “too small” markets are now worth billions.
🔌 The CTO dominating the MCP market before it explodes
Frédéric Barthelet (cofounder of Alpic) talks with Louis Pinsard (cofounder of Dialog) about raising $6M to build the hosting and tooling layer for MCP, the protocol that lets AI models interact with external software. Less than a year after MCP’s creation, Alpic is positioning itself as the Vercel of this new ecosystem, complete with an open-source framework and a go-to-market that targets coding agents as much as developers.
Portfolio news
🧱 Enobase joins Hexa Sprint to rethink the ERP from scratch
Welcome to Enobase, the newest company in Hexa Sprint’s AI for Work vertical led by Thibaud Elzière. Basile Cassiers and Gauthier Rodaro founded Enobase after seeing the same pattern everywhere: operations held together by spreadsheets and workarounds that were never meant to last. Their bet is a platform that adapts to how a business actually runs, rather than forcing it into a rigid system. Learn more.
⚖️ Plato joins Hexa Start to build an AI copilot for litigation
Ben Lasseri and Alexandre de Boutray cofounded Plato alongside Partner Mat Vaxelaire to tackle the repetitive work that eats up litigators’ time - recalculating inflation, sorting medical documents, drafting claims from scratch. The goal: let lawyers focus on strategy and defending clients. Already 1,500 cases created, one of France’s largest insurers onboard, and dozens of lawyers using it daily. Learn more.
⚡ Revolty joins Hexa Sprint to rethink home energy storage
Revolty is the latest company to join Hexa Sprint’s Climate cohort, spotted by partner Maxime Brousse. Founded by Mathilde Janicot and Valentin Heuzé, the company repurposes Europe’s second-life lithium batteries into high-performance residential storage, closing the gap that keeps solar households from capturing the full value of the energy they produce. Already €2M in secured orders, with certification planned for 2026. Learn more.
🌹 Rose launches from Hexa’s SF House to rebuild inbound
The HubSpot-era inbound playbook no longer matches how B2B buyers actually behave. Johary Randria and Benoit Pothier cofounded Rose with Hexa Start partner Florent Quinti to fix that: a suite of AI agents that engage, nurture, and convert website visitors autonomously. Already 10,000+ conversations handled, up to 6% engagement rates, +20% conversion uplift, and companies like Pennylane, Skello, and AB Tasty onboard. Rose is also the first startup out of Hexa’s San Francisco batch. Learn more.
Hexa news
🚀 Raphaël Vullierme joins Hexa Start as Partner
Raphaël Vullierme — founder of Luko, repeat entrepreneur, Accel Scout — is joining Hexa to co-found and build at the frontier of AI and Defense. His conviction is that the most important customer of the next decade won’t be a human, but an AI. He’s already working from Hexa’s San Francisco House, pushing Hexa Start into what he calls “Ambient AI”, where technology becomes an active agent in the economy, not just a tool. Learn more.
🔎 Camille Goni joins Hexa as VP Talent & Ecosystem
Every year, thousands of entrepreneurs apply to Hexa, but only a handful build with us. Camille Goni joins to make sure the best ones keep coming. Previously leading the Talent team at Shine, her mission is to make Hexa the obvious choice for the most ambitious founders looking to build AI-native companies, and create the environment that multiplies their ambition. Learn more.
Jobs
Talent Acquisition Partner at Hexa
Founding Full-stack Engineer at Waniwani (HX26)
Head of Revenue/late cofounder at Filiz (HX25)
Founding Engineer at Panora (HX25)
Founding Engineer at Plato (HX26)
Legal Product Manager at Plato (HX26)
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The Hexa Team