Overview
Alexandre Demain is a co-founder of FirstMovers, which he started in April 2025, and is based in Brussels. Since March 2025 he has been the author of Osez Investir, and since April 2024 he has held a founder's associate role at Chift.
Earlier, he worked in venture capital at Seeder Fund from September 2023 to March 2024, and in investment banking at Natixis Partners Belgium during the first half of 2023. Between October 2021 and September 2022 he was a portfolio analyst at the LSM Investment Club.
Demain studied business administration in the trilingual programme at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, graduating in 2021, with an exchange at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business earlier that year. He then completed a master's degree in corporate finance at Louvain School of Management between September 2021 and January 2024, including an exchange at McGill University in management and sustainability during 2022 and 2023.
Career history
In the news
- Targeted 100+ Welcomed 250+ Brussels, you blew us away! Stop #4 of our Back-to-School Roadshow landed right in the beating heart of the capital at BeCentral, and the Drink ZYLA energy in the room was electric. With the Back-to-School Roadshow we aim to make the innovation and startup economy the #1 destination for top Belgian graduates launching their careers in entrepreneurship, tech, law, finance, public policy, … Our mission is reaching its ambition: building tangible bridges across our entire Belgian startup ecosystem. When
- He’s Founder Associate at Chift API They just raised in September 10M€ He’s co-founder of the FirstMovers Please send all your “likes” to Alexandre Demain who is joining our Back-to-School Roadshow. He’ll be part of the panel at BeCentral in Brussels on Wednesday Oct 14th (18-20h) At the Belgium Startup Ecosystem, everything starts with building bridges. Connecting fast-moving scaleups with the sharpest emerging minds isn’t just networking, it’s how we create real, lasting value for every stakeholder involved. When founders,
- He’s Founder Associate at Chift API They just raised in September 10M€ He’s co-founder of the FirstMovers Please send all your “likes” to Alexandre Demain who is joining our Back-to-School Roadshow. He’ll be part of the panel at BeCentral in Brussels on Wednesday Oct 14th (18-20h) At the Belgium Startup Ecosystem, everything starts with building bridges. Connecting fast-moving scaleups with the sharpest emerging minds isn’t just networking, it’s how we create real, lasting value for every stakeholder involved. When founders,
- Chift is selected as a Deloitte Rising Star finalist 🥳 🏅 This year, I pitched Chift API to the Deloitte Rising Stars jury. Gauthier was traveling, so it was on me. Context: Gauthier pitched two years ago. Didn't make it. I pitched last year. Didn't make it either. Same feeling leaving the room both times: our story wasn't landing. Too niche for people outside the industry to really picture the scale of what we're building. This year I changed the approach. Less about our angle, more about theirs. Aaaand ... we made it this time
- Chift is a Deloitte Rising Star 2026 💎 We just got the news and it's a strong recognition in Belgium. It's actually Belgium's most prestigious tech competition. The Rising Star category recognizes the fastest growing, most innovative companies under 4 years old. Being selected means something real in this ecosystem. But here's the part that makes me most proud Two years ago, I pitched Chift API to Deloitte. We didn't make the cut 😅 This year, it wasn't me on stage. It was Alexandre Demain, our Founder Associate and.... we
- I'll be in London this week for the Sifted Summit 🇬🇧 Looking forward to meeting journalists, founders, and investors. Last year, Chift API made it into the Sifted 250 ranking. We'll find out soon if we're on the list again 👀 Happy to chat if you're attending, drop me a DM!
- Pourquoi t’es pas encore entrepreneur ?” C’est la question que m’a posée Gauthier Henroz pendant notre premier entretien pour rentrer chez Chift API. À l’époque, je n’avais pas d’idée de startup et je pensais que la meilleure manière de commencer était de contribuer à en construire une. 2,5 ans plus tard, c’est ce que j’ai fait chez Chift, et c’est la meilleure décision de ma vie. Gauthier, lui, il a commencé dans un Big 4, a enchaîné dans une scale-up chez Easi puis s’est lancé dans le grand bain avec Chift (en lançant un club de
- Chift API raises one of the biggest Series A round in French-speaking Belgium 🥇 🚀 The official line: since our 2024 seed round, revenue grew 10x+, we onboarded 150 software clients, and connected +50,000 SMEs across 10+ countries. Here is how it actually happened from my pov: March 2024: Chift is raising one of the most exciting seed rounds of Belgium. Seeder Fund advises me to join. I know nothing about integrations. I say yes. April 2024: I join Chift as the 9th employee in a house in La Hulpe, looking more like a “kot” than an
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