Martin Chaperot-Merino Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Leading a team of 20 associates to invest into the best, most promising student founders in Quebec.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Front Row Ventures is Canada’s leading university-focused and student-run VC firm with a presence on 20+ university campuses across Quebec and Ontario. We are early-stage and industry-agnostic investors backing high impact student entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds and ambitious technology-enabled ideas, regardless of their field of work. Over the past 5 years, we have invested in 22 companies including Nomic Bio and Valence Discovery. Combined, our portfolio has gone on to raise over $50 million in follow-on funding from top tiers investors.Deals led:- Dynamo- SportBoost AI- Shadow AI

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

FVP is a data-driven, series A/B VC firm focusing on AI/FinTech-integrated SaaS with 300M AUM and 14 portfolio companies- Guided investment decisions by computing and presenting unit economics from balance sheets and other financial documents- Created a database management solution to accelerate the work of the deal team, increasing their dealflow by 2x- Launched an app for founders to quickly get quantitative benchmarking and insights to guide action: https://startups.framework.vc- Automated the process for external investors to quickly gain access to startup dealflow, saving our team 10h every month: https://investors.framework.vc

Remote

rubato is a modern 2D engine for game developement in python. Dynamic physics simulations, robust scene management, event listener system and more all come prepackaged. Built in Cython using SDL2, rubato offers great performance without compromising on the intuitive nature of python code.- Developed a complex, but optimized platform from the ground up with over 10000 lines of Python and C++- Built and led an organic growth and marketing strategy to achieve 300 downloads/month pre-launch- Fostered a growing open source community to over 100 members pre-launch, helping debug and test the engine

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

All-in-one owner relationship management (ORM) for growing NFT communities.- Improved/optimized key features- Built the beta of the ORM product- Built a smart contract for deploying cheap airdrops on Polygon.

Palo Alto, California, United States

- Taught middle schoolers to use the PyGame library to make a game in Python- Showed students different brainstorming and planning techniques for their project- Helped students draw inspiration from many different sources

San Francisco Bay Area

- Founded a tennis instruction business from the ground up- Grew my client base to teach a hundreds of students per year- Hired and managed other high school coaches to grow the business even more

Palo Alto, California, United States

- Created a visualization software to monitor farming robots live- Used a React frontend and a C++ backend- Allows farmers to monitor important data from their robots while they are out in the fields

San Francisco Bay Area

- Used Sisense/Tableau to visualize game data to gain important insight- Automated the conversion process between two databases- Automated the onboarding process of future employees

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Education record