Kolet (Ody SaS)

Kolet est une startup dans le monde des télécommunications permettant aux voyageurs de souscrire à une eSIM et un plan data prépayé partout dans le monde, avec un service 4G/5G de qualité et des prix très intéressants.

We believe that connectivity plays a critical role in our everyday life. It can be a game changer for people and businesses to access connectivity and all the services around it in the most affordable, simple and flexible way.

Kolet is one of the first telecom player to have a user-centric vision where transparency is at the center of our customer experience. We are starting with the way travelers can get easy and affordable internet access when they travel abroad for holidays or business trips.

In order to serve more than 1.5 bn travelers around the world, we have built a powerful API that gives our travel partners the ability to offer affordable data to their customers when they purchase their flights and book their accommodation.

Ody has just completed a €5m first round of fundraising in December 2023 with Daphni and 9900 VCs and few prominent entrepreneurs (founders of Fotolia, Kapten, eFounders, Teads and many others) to offer its service around the world

Our leadership team

We‘re a tight-knit team of talented people initially started by 4 co-founders with diverse backgrounds:

• Eduardo Ronzano (CEO): he co-founded KelDoc in France in 2012 and exited in 2015 to NEHS group. He then became a Business Angel and VC General Partner investing all across Europe in companies like Spendesk, Paack, Livestorm, Lifen, Morpho Labs, Planity, Scibids, Memo Bank and many others.
• Anne-Carole Coen (CMO): she spent her last 5 years as Swile CMO and was prior to that CMO at Chauffeur-privé (exited to Freenow). She has also had an extensive experience in the telecom space with the launch of NRJ Mobile mobile back in 2003.
• Mehdi Chraibi (COO): he co-founded Spades in 2021 and exited to Qlub (a competitor backed by Rocket Internet) lately. He has 12 years experience in the telecom space with Orange in Europe, Millicom in Latin America & Africa, and du in the Middle East.
• Jérémy Gotteland (CTPO): he co-founded Cajoo in France as CTO in 2021 and exited in 2022 to Flink whilst remaining with Flink for 1 additional year. Previously, he was a lead engineer at Birdie in the UK

Our Culture

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships.”

Passion is contagious:
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do” - Steve Jobs

• We energize and inspire others
• We have an intense desire to change connectivity - we live and breathe the mission
• Fun at work is an absolute must

️Dare to care
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” Theodore

• We treat our customers as we would like to be treated
• We think about the impact of our actions towards others
• We do not compromise on our values
• We use our planet’s resources wisely
• We give radically candid feedback - we shoot straight with positive intent

Be brave and move mountains
“If there is no way, create one - we thrive in a changing environment”

• We fight bureaucracy and complexity: keep things simple, less is more*
• We encourage crazy / disruptive ideas and set ambitious goals
• Speed is of the essence - we don’t wait, we just get things done
• We aim to have as few employees as possible - the larger we are, the slower we move 

Always keep an owners’ mindset
“Try not. Do, or do not” - Yoda

• We take risks, accept failure, and learn from it
• Your job isn't done until the team’s job is done - if we don’t win as a team we don’t win at all
• We spend money as it’s yours and we hire responsible

Life at Kolet

We believe in building a diverse team with people coming from all around the world so that we can be representative of the 1.5bn travelers we aim to serve.
We are a hybrid organisation that allows both remote and office-based work. However, we do privilege having employees in our offices (so far in the heart of Paris) and even when we work in remote, we make sure we meet physically often so that we can create deep meaningful professional and personal relations