Imagination Machine

Entrepreneur with over 10 years' experience in B2B and B2C SaaS, Sarah is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Prolong.

Prolong is an after-sales orchestration and management platform helping fashion brands transform the post-purchase experience through the repair, maintenance and management of irreparable products.

With key roles at October, Wynd and LeCab, Sarah excels in Product Management, transforming user needs into concrete solutions. With Prolong, she combines innovation and sustainability to redefine the circular economy in fashion.

After 20 years in Silicon Valley, where Mark worked in tech companies such as Google and Yahoo, Mark also set up several startups which he later sold.

Recently arrived in France, Mark has joined Imagination Machine to develop Outgoing, a B2C social application that uses AI to suggest targeted activities to users around them.

Before co-founding Zest for Life, Alice worked in the startup ecosystem, where she held positions in Growth, Product and Marketing.

With Zest for Life, Alice and her partners, Elodie and Pierre, help companies to better support their employees' health challenges, in order to minimize the impact on the quality of life of those concerned and on workplace productivity.

David graduated from engineering school and immediately joined EDF as R&D project manager.

He created the opportunity to develop an intrapreneurial project: he co-founded and then managed Metroscope, now a subsidiary of EDF.

David joined Imagination Machine in early 2024, working on the theme of regenerative agriculture.

Emilie founded two startups before joining the HEC group, where she became head of the HEC Paris incubator and then executive director of the HEC Entrepreneurs program.

During this period, Emilie supported over 500 students and alumni, and nearly 200 startups.

Since 2018, she has been co-director of Imagination Machine. Emilie actively seeks out, recruits and supports talented entrepreneurs to drive the next positive-impact startups.

Rob Spiro is a serial entrepreneur from Silicon Valley who made his way to Nantes, France. Rob was previously the cofounder of Aardvark, a social search engine that was acquired by Google; a product manager at Google on Hangouts and other products; and he was the founder and CEO of Good Eggs, an online grocery store in the Bay Area focused on local food from high-integrity food producers.

He founded Imagination in 2017 to focus startups based on idealistic & big ideas.