Dominique Vidal
{{Infobox person
| name = Dominique Vidal
| caption = Partner at Index Ventures
| occupation = Venture capitalist and investor, partner at Index Ventures
| alma_mater = Supelec
| nationality = French
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|9|25}}
| birth_place = Narbonne, Southern France
| spouse = Isabelle Vidal
| children = 3
}}
Dominique Vidal is a partner at Index Ventures, a global venture capital firm with offices in London, Geneva and San Francisco. He was formerly managing director of Yahoo! Europe.{{cite news |title= Index Ventures raises $584M growth fund.|url=https://venturebeat.com/2008/01/22/index-ventures-raises-400m-growth-fund/ |work= Venture Beat |date= January 22, 2008}}
Early life and education
Vidal was born in Narbonne, in southern France, raised primarily in Toulouse, in southwestern France, and schooled in Paris. He received a master's degree{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralesupelec.fr/|title=CentraleSupelec ||website=www.centralesupelec.fr}} from Supelec, the French engineering school.{{cite web | title=Dominique Vidal, Index Ventures | website=Bloomberg | url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=426683&privcapId=91996&previousCapId=26878420&previous | access-date=2020-07-10}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Career
Vidal began his career at Schlumberger, where he worked for ten years in product marketing and business development roles in the telecom and smart card industries in France, the United States and Asia.{{cite news |title= The Vidal Spark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/businessnews/story/0,1265,-1499124,00.html |work= The Guardian |date= June 4, 2005}}
Next, Vidal became a partner at Banexi Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in Paris, where he led investments in a number of companies including Kelkoo, a European shopping search engine, as well as Algety and In Fusio.
Vidal then segued into a role as managing director at Kelkoo until its acquisition by Yahoo! in March 2004, at which point he assumed the role of Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe({{NASDAQ|YHOO}}) until 2007.
In 2007 Vidal joined the London office of Index Ventures as partner. At Index, he has been involved with a number of different portfolio companies, including ASOS ({{LSE|ASOS}}).{{cite news |title= Index closes €400m later-stage fund |url=http://realdeals.eu.com/article/785 |work= Real Deals |date= January 22, 2008}}
Vidal currently sits on the board of directors of a number of companies, including Adconion, Be2, Criteo({{NASDAQ|CRTO}}), Metapack, Navabi, Outbrain, and Squarespace, and is a non-executive director at Techmedia.
References
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External links
- [http://www.indexventures.com Index Ventures website]
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