Henri Deshays

Fellowship

Fellow

Class

Current Firm

Newfund

Location

United States

Education

Henri is a graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds a master's in corporate finance and international capital markets from Sciences-Po (France) and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Université Paris IX-Dauphine (France).

Henri is a mentor and jury member at organizations promoting French entrepreneurship, including UBI.io, The Refiners, NETVA, and The Family.

Professional

Henri started his career in investment banking at Natixis. He then moved to the US to pursue a MBA at Stanford, where he founded ModeWalk, acquired in 2014 by Moda Operandi.

Prior to joining NewFund, Henri was an angel investor and VP Strategy at StartX, Stanford's accelerator.

Fellowship

Henri served his fellowship at StartX as a member of Class 21. His mentors were Niko Bonatsos, Partner at General Catalyst, and Cameron Teitelman (Class 16), CEO of StartX.