Rachel Delacour

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Rachel is the General Manager and Co-Founder of BIME Analytics, a SaaS cloud Business Intelligence (BI) startup originally located in Montpellier, France. BIME Analytics was acquired by Zendesk in October 2015. As a young, female financial controller, Rachel saw a real business need for BI tools in the age of Big Data. This led her to found BIME in 2009. The company offers true cloud BI service and was the first front-end analytics partner of Google BigQuery. BIME Analytics became an international success story via Paris, Montpellier, and Kansas City. Rachel is a firm believer that today, a business can be built from anywhere, and that by using the Cloud to connect teams and reach global markets, geographical boundaries no longer exist in the world of startups. Rachel is also one of France Digitale’s board members, an association of startups and VCs lobbying for pro-startup legislation in France and beyond. Prior to BIME, Rachel held finance positions at Carrefour and FM Logistics Russia. She holds a Masterʼs degree in Finance from the Euromed Management Business School in Marseille.