#15 Yann Lechelle, cofounder of probabl: (former CEO of Scaleway)
FrenchSep 18, 2025
Yann Lechelle is cofounder of probabl: (data-science scale-up, having raised €13m led by Serena Capital, and emanating from the top research lab Inria in France). Yann was previously CEO of Scaleaway, France's largest internet hosting company started by Xavier Niel.
In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk to Yann Lechelle about:
1) Yann's journey in tech through the years, in Silicon Valley and France, heading up Scaleaway where is he was CEO.
2) Yann's more recent startup probabl: , which spun out of Inria research lab. It is based on the sci-kit learn data science library.
Scikit learn has been downloaded over 2m times by data scientists across the world.
3) Yann's 3 favourite scale-ups