Ben Cichostepski-Lesage

Startup and VC, Tech Growth, and Tech M&A attorney. Tech addict. Founder @Orrick Paris Tech Studio

[Ben Cichostepski-Lesage @bcichostepski]

For the 4th year in a row, @Orrick French Tech Companies Group (aka Orrick Paris Tech Studio) has been ranked by PitchBook as the #1 most active Venture/Tech Growth legal practice in France in 2024, in what was a challenging year for venture globally, and for French venture backed companies in particular.

Thanks to all our clients - founders and companies, their GC, CFO, Chief of Staff, and all these investors who have clearly given true meaning to “venture capital” over the past year  - for their trust and for partnering with us to help them navigate many bumpy roads only to emerge stronger. Together, we continue to reinvent the venture capital of tomorrow.

[Hugo Mercier @hugomercierooo]

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝗻 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿.
No setup. Secure. Infinitely scalable.

We just raised a $𝟭𝟬𝗠 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗱.
After a beta with 𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬+ 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱, we’re now opening to everyone.

RT and comment “Twin” — first agents on us. 👇

[Arthur Mensch @arthurmensch]

We're back to school! Very proud of our team accomplishments, and honored to partner with @ASMLcompany in our next phase. We're very excited to push frontier AI capabilities in science and technology, with exciting releases ahead.

[Raycast @raycast]

E.T.
Just one of the amazing things in @amoamoamo's office

[Ben Cichostepski-Lesage @bcichostepski]

@Orrick Paris Tech Studio has been ranked by @CFNEWStweet as the #1 most active legal player in French VC & Tech Growth for the 3rd consecutive year, confirming our #1 ranking by @PitchBook earlier this month.

[Bump app @bumpbyamo]

Introducing: Now Playing 🎶

Tune in with your friends on the map to see what they’re listening to right now.

Works with @AppleMusic & @spotify!

[Sophia Yang, Ph.D. @sophiamyang]

🤣

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

In the Amo office in Paris and the office is full at 8PM.

The idea that Europe doesn’t work is BS.

Unbelievable energy and vibe.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

En France on croit en l’IA !

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Nous doublons nos investissements en France en 2025 avec un focus sur l’open-source, la robotics et les applications (comme démontré par le lancement de notre AI App Store).

Allez la France 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[Arthur Mensch @arthurmensch]

The team is fast! It's been super exciting to see le Chat more and more widely adopted. It's an early product, and we can't wait to show you what's coming next.

https://t.co/aPgxioB27d

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

We need more open-source AI from Europe too. Congrats @MistralAI!

Base model: https://t.co/490rKb6bfj
Instruct: https://t.co/GJTJKBQpAH

All Apache 2.0 for the whole world to enjoy!

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

EU open source AI is BACK

go go go @MistralAI

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Introducing Small 3, our most efficient and versatile model yet! Pre-trained and instructed version, Apache 2.0, 24B, 81% MMLU, 150 tok/s. No synthetic data so great base for anything reasoning - happy building!

https://t.co/8WfgzuuwRk

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

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[Eiso Kant @eisokant]

Why can’t the world just accept that the DeepSeek team has worked hard for years, and on their 3rd model generation released great work that has benefited from compounding research and efforts to improve compute efficiency (training & inference) and data.

A focused team that sweats the details has done a great job! Congratulations DeepSeek 👏👏

Now I’m going back to making sure we kick your ass 😉

[Ben Cichostepski-Lesage @bcichostepski]

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[Bump app @bumpbyamo]

Official statement [for immediate release]

In a bid to win back our former zenly userbase in Japan — for the record 1 in 4 gen z in the country — Bump will be sponsoring famous TV show Takeshi's Castle.

@an21m will be competing against the CEOs of all competitor apps.

[Bump app @bumpbyamo]

Making fan edits of voice notes that our users send us 💙💙💙

(sound on, ofc)

[Steeve Morin @steeve]

Should’ve seen Zenly then