alban denoyel

French entrepreneur 🇫🇷, creator & investor. Co-founder of @Sketchfab (acquired by @EpicGames).

[alban denoyel @albn]

It took 6 years, but proud to say we’ve been able to partner with @google, @apple, @facebook, @amazon and @microsoft. Friends with everyone is a good way to do business.

[alban denoyel @albn]

@nikitabier any plans to fight obvious/bad scam ads? dozens a day...

[alban denoyel @albn]

@emmanuel_2m 🙏

[alban denoyel @albn]

"You click, and it turns" 😅

SKETCHFAB - A Startup Memoir 📘

Available soon 👀

[alban denoyel @albn]

So @airHQ doesn't just have light & dark mode,
they have Dawn · Day · Dusk · Night 😮

[Rerun @rerundotio]

Rerun 0.33.0 is out with more focused updates for ML/robotics data workflows.

Usability improvements on dataset review
Faster targeted extraction from large RRDs via push-down filtering
State timeline view now supports numbers/booleans, drag-drop, hover ranges, and gaps
New headless Viewer for automation + screenshots (!!!)

Check out the full release notes 👇

[Immature @ImmatureGamer]

🚨Fortnite’s first week back on the global Apple App Store was massive.

According to AppMagic estimates, cited by PocketGamer:
• +3.4 million iOS downloads in the first week
• Peak daily installs reached +674K
• Fortnite saw its biggest mobile week in 8 years

[Kenneth Schlenker @kschlenker]

Cool! and hello to my new followers. Let's create a new world.

[Greg Castle @gpcastle12]

Honored to be included in the 2026 Midas Seed List!
Our Anduril investment came at a time when defense was taboo, and required WORK to convince my LPAC that this company needed to exist. These indicators are what we look for with every new investment.
Grateful to @PalmerLuckey, @traestephens, @mttgrmm, @SchimpfBrian for allowing me to be along for the ride.
https://t.co/Fjri766Fvv

[alban denoyel @albn]

@plbiojout I like the forcing factor of getting reminded to go out and touch grass, though

[alban denoyel @albn]

"You can copy the look of a fashion brand, but not necessarily its instinct for proportion. You can copy a skincare claim, but not the sensoriality and performance of a truly great formulation. You can copy a hardware feature, but not the elegance of a deeply integrated experience. You can copy a software interface, but not the reliability that makes people trust it every day."

Well put by @2lr, also resonates with why ai can't just build or replicate things by itself and still needs humans for taste, judgment, trust, relationships...

[Jean de La Rochebrochard @2lr]

For years, consumer has probably been one of the most misunderstood, underrated categories in venture capital. Too emotional for some. Too trend-driven for others. Too risky. Too crowded. Too visible.

And yet, consumer creates a very particular kind of fascination.

https://t.co/SkDzx7mBbr

[Matt Rouif @matthieurouif]

Super excited to be launching Photoroom MCP!

Images are infrastructure. That's what we've believed at Photoroom since day one. And the next frontier is clear: ecommerce will have one customized image per customer. Per scene, per locale, per moment.

To make that real, you need two things. Image workflows that chain edits together while maintaining control and product fidelity. And the ability to pull live seller and customer data straight into those workflows.

Some of our users edit one image at a time on mobile. Others batch on the webapp. Depop, DoorDash, and the largest marketplaces in the world plug into our API to ship millions of images a day.

After batch, putting Photoroom inside the AI tools people already use was the obvious next step. Today we're launching the Photoroom MCP for Claude. Add it as a custom connector and use natural language to edit images, chain entire workflows, and pipe in the data that personalizes them. Congrats Alexander Ross Billington Eliot Elizabeth Brett Patricia

#Photoroom #MCP #AI #Ecommerce #Founders

[alban denoyel @albn]

It’s been amazing to follow @opalapp’s journey, one of the most impactful and inspiring companies of my portfolio. Congrats @kschlenker & team 🚀

[Kenneth Schlenker @kschlenker]

Today we're announcing the new Opal to build the operating system for attention.

1 million people already use Opal every single day. We raised $10M.

Personal AGI is coming.  The bottleneck won't be access to intelligence.

It will be attention.

[Kenneth Schlenker @kschlenker]

Today we're announcing the new Opal to build the operating system for attention.

1 million people already use Opal every single day. We raised $10M.

Personal AGI is coming.  The bottleneck won't be access to intelligence.

It will be attention.

[alban denoyel @albn]

@thesamparr Best hack is to find a sport you always look forward to practicing, and that is doable every day of the year. That’s pump foiling for me.

[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

The biggest hack I’ve seen for founders to close deals faster: just show up.

Get on a plane, fly to their office, meet in person, bond with the whole team.

Instantly replaces weeks of zoom calls.

[alban denoyel @albn]

@Bencera Congrats! Why raise?

[Fortnite @Fortnite]

Fortnite is back on the App Store around the world for iPhones and iPads! 🌍 Jump in and level up today to unlock the Yeddy outfit: https://t.co/Sv7ZD0iuKn

For more, see here: https://t.co/OTxMiBNtyS

[alban denoyel @albn]

@Jeanroudy @deel @alpic_ai bravo!

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Reachy mini rap battle at @aiDotEngineer Singapore!

[Binh Pham @pham_blnh]

whoever made the robot catch the mouse cursor on @rerundotio cooked