Frog Valley DrinkEntrepreneurs with Daniel Benamran, UK Manager at BlaBlaCar
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Dear entrepreneurs,
We hope you are all enjoying a nice, sunny summer.
Frog Valley is not taking a break so we can continue to offer you some great events. We are thrilled to announce August event that will take place on Tuesday the 16th of August from 7pm at Capco.
We feel very privileged to have Daniel Benamran from BlaBlaCar (http://www.blablacar.co.uk) as our special guest on that evening. Daniel will be talking through his experience as General Manager UK at BlaBlacar, share the various challenges he faced to build the team in the UK and the lessons learned. BlaBlaCar is an extremely sucessful startup, one of the only few French "unicorns" with a valuation at over $1bn.
More about BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is a trusted community marketplace that connects drivers with empty seats to passengers looking for a ride. More than 10 million people use BlaBlaCar every quarter creating an entirely new, people powered, transport network. With a dedicated customer service, a state of the art web and mobile platform, and a fast-growing community of users, BlaBlaCar is making travel social, money-saving and more efficient for millions of members.
BlaBlaCar has raised $200 million in its latest Series D round, bringing its total funding to date to over $300 million. With a fresh $1.6 billion (1.4 billion euro) valuation, the nine-year-old startup has joined the ever-expanding list of billion-dollar startups and stands out as one of the most well-funded young tech companies in Europe.
More about Daniel Benamran
Daniel Benamran is General Manager UK at BlaBlaCar, the global ride sharing community that connects drivers who have empty seats with people travelling the same way.
Shortly after joining the Marketing team in the Paris headquarters, Daniel moved to London to open the UK office and support the international expansion of the fast-growing company.
Daniel holds a Masters in Management from EM Lyon, gained after studies in Lyon and Shanghai. He started his career in private equity, and before joining BlaBlaCar he participated in the early stages of the leading French crowdfunding platform.
His experiences bring him a global vision of the challenges inherent to scaling collaborative consumption models.
He tweets @danbenam.