Laurent Parmentier

Laurent is a Partner at Stratos leading Investment Research, Sourcing Strategy, Portfolio Support and Operations.
Before Stratos, Laurent spent 6 years as a Partner at SignalFire, a data-driven venture capital firm based in San Francisco.
He led many functions across the organization, similar to his current role at Stratos.
During his time at SignalFire, he built a lot of the systems and processes that enabled the firm to scale from $50M in AUM to >$2B, and from 10 portfolio companies to >200.
Laurent began his career at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) advising CEOs and executive teams of leading companies across a wide range of industries.
He worked in Europe, did long-term assignments in Asia, Africa and Australia, and then spent the last few years in New York where he was a core member of the Retail, Strategy and Operations practices.
Throughout his career at BCG, he was promoted fast-track and ultimately left in 2016 as one of the youngest Principals at BCG.
Laurent graduated with a BEng in Engineering with Business Finance from University College London (jointly with the London School of Economics) and also with a MS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.