Stephane Gantchev is Partner at LAUNCHub, a 9M Seed Venture Capital Fund, based in Sofia, Bulgaria supporting the most promising entrepreneurs and digital startups in the South Eastern Europe. With 40+ investments over the last 2 years LAUNCHub is one of the most active early stage funds in that region.

Prior to Launchub, Stephane started his career in France, initially in the largest IT service provider company Atos Origin, moving later to Orange (France Telecom) where he was heading the Innovation program for Orange France Mobile entity, discovering and trialing start-up in the mobile/telecom space.

Stephane has been very active in the Bulgarian startup and entrepreneur ecosystem contributing its grow, involved and co-founded/co-organized various events, among them the local chapter of SiliconDrinkabout; more recently he co-organized DigitalK 2014, one of the largest digital conferences in the region.