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The >commit team

4people: three partners and a tech lead who together founded >commit inside the Red River West family.

  • Abel Samot — Partner (focus: Data · AI · Robotics). Abel is a founding partner at >commit. He started coding and building projects at a young age, before becoming an AI engineer deploying deep learning models (BERT, etc.) in large enterprises. He later spent six years at Red River West investing in infrastructure software, while building the data team and the firm's data platform. He holds engineering and business degrees. A music lover, pianist and DJ in his spare time, as well as a cooking and running enthusiast, his passion for new technologies is matched by a deep interest in history.
  • Olivier Huez — Partner (focus: Hardware · Cybersecurity · AI). Olivier is part of >commit's founding team. Spent a decade at Orange and then as CFO of two startups before crossing to venture, where he co-founded C4 Ventures and backed companies like Graphcore, Riskified and Via (the last two IPO'd on NYSE). General Partner at Red River West. Polytechnique Engineer who grabbed an accountancy degree along the way (confuses people at times). French and British, lived in Pretoria, Washington DC and London, now sharing his time between Geneva and Paris. Plays the saxophone in a band. Black belt in Judo, the dojo hasn't seen him in a while, world traveler.
  • Max Corbani — Partner (focus: DevTools · Infrastructure · AI). Max is part of >commit's founding team, after years on both sides of the table. He started Symolia, then Dashblock, a browser agent he took through Y Combinator (S19), before joining the VC world to back OSS and infra founders between Europe and the US. Graduated in civil engineering, though tech had him hooked long before the diploma did. He's lived in Brazil, the US, Hungary, and France. Climbs and plays handpan in theory. In practice, survives three kids.
  • Alessandro Ciffo — Tech Lead (focus: Data · AI · Infra). Alessandro leads tech at >commit, building the data and AI tools behind the fund data pillar. Started in research at Bocconi's data-science lab, detoured through Amazon and co-founded Casify, an ML platform for Italian real-estate investors. Italian in Paris. Produces music, reads, and does calisthenics. Bouldering and running semi marathons on the side.