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

• AI takes a new kind of founder
• Chocolate Covered Broccoli, or why most genAI entreprise transformations fail
• SAP Sapphire : cool slides, 4% drop in market cap. Autonomous entreprise will not be vendor-locked.
• Diffusion speed and the driveshaft : the only question that may matter about AI in operations (and the world economy, maybe)
• AI era field notes : leading through fog of war