Suggested email -- from Florent to portfolio CEOs
Subject: You’re in: Eurazeo AI Hackathon, Paris -- July 10
Dear [First name],
On July 10 at the Google Bastille Auditorium in Paris, we’re bringing roughly twenty-five of our portfolio companies together for a twenty-four-hour AI hackathon. Your team is invited.
The ask is straightforward: send four to six people -- engineering, product, and business -- with a CEO-endorsed problem they already wish was solved. Over twenty-four hours, with on-site Google Cloud engineers, Gemini and GCP credits, and AI mentors in the room, your team builds a working prototype targeting that problem. They leave with a live demo, a go or no-go call on feasibility, and an MVP scope.
We chose this format because prototypes close decision loops that strategy memos leave open. And because the twenty-five of you in one room for a day builds a network that will pay off long after the build wraps.
You pick the problem. We handle venue, food, tools, mentors, and the thirty- and ninety-day follow-through that converts prototype to production.
Full details for your team -- what’s in it for them, what they bring, what they walk away with -- are at eurazeo-hackathon.pages.dev/portco.
Please confirm your team’s participation by Friday, May 15. Responses go to hackathon@eurazeo.com (or directly to me). Premium tier allocation -- which adds sixty and ninety-day milestone reviews -- is finalized by May 22.
Hotel guidance: the RAISE Summit is the same week, so Paris rooms tighten after early June. A short booking one-pager is linked below.
Looking forward to seeing your team in Paris.
-- Florent
Florent Melis
Principal, Portfolio Performance -- Eurazeo Elevate
Event page: eurazeo-hackathon.pages.dev
For your team (one-pager): eurazeo-hackathon.pages.dev/portco
Hotel booking notes: [attached one-pager]