Renan Devillières

Co-founder & CEO of OSS Ventures — Paris

I'm the co-founder and CEO of OSS Ventures, a Paris-based startup studio that builds software companies for industrial operations. We started OSS Ventures in 2019, and it has since launched more than fifteen startups serving factories and manufacturers.

My work focuses on closing the technology gap in European industry — building software with and for the people who run operations. Before OSS Ventures I worked at McKinsey & Company on operational transformations, served as a factory director and in the COO office at Richemont, and founded Chance, which exited at Series B.

Currently

• OSS Ventures — co-building and scaling B2B software startups for factories and industrial operations.
• Writing — notes on AI in operations, venture building, and the future of European industry.
• Second Brain — a public map of the ideas, people, and fields I keep thinking about.

Recent writing

• If intelligence is electricity, then what is the heater?
• After the tech: AI transformation is a matter of will, agility and courage
• What if the incumbents still win ugly?
• A Standard for the Hands: what Anthropic's hardware move means for physical AI
• Nobody Knows What a Token Costs, so choose wisely your AI partners