Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Jerome Lecat is a serial entrepreneur and business angel with 15 years of internet start-up experience. You can find him on Twitter: @jlecat.
From 2003 to 2010, Jerome led Bizanga, the leading email MTA for service providers, which he founded with Olivier Lemarie, Marc Sheldon and Giorgio Regni. Bizanga achieved major market penetration worldwide with customers such as Comcast, Cox Communications, Telefonica and United Internet (1&1). Bizanga was successfully sold to Cloudmark in February 2010.

In 2001, Jerome became Chairman of the Board of Data Center Technology (DCT), a Belgium based start-up which developed a unique Content Addressable Storage (CAS) technology, especially for the backup market. After signing over 70 customers, DCT was sold to Veritas in 2005 with significant profit for its investors.

In 1994, Jerome founded with Olivier Dauchot and Olivier Lemaria Internet-Way, the fourth ISP for enterprises to open in France. As CEO, he built the company from a garage start-up to the second largest ISP in France. In 1997, after the company had reached profitability, he sold the company to UUNET where he served as vice president of products for EMEA.

Jerome has also been active as a Business Angel and Board Member in several leading technology companies, including Vision Objects, the world leader in handwriting recognition, which was sold to DoubleDay in 2009.
Jerome holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses, a research masters degree on Cognitive Science from Universitae Paris VII. Jerome attended the AMD program at INSEAD. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Anna and son Nathan.