#16 Alexandre Hollocou, cofounder and CTO of Joko
FrenchNov 30, 2025
Alexandre Hollocou is cofounder and CTO of Joko, one of France's largest fintechs based on cashback, and one of France's rare profitable scale-ups. Joko first raised funding from Partech, one of France's leading venture funds. Joko app has over 5m users, and has analysed of 30b in transaction volume.
In this episode, Margaux Wehr and Louis Abraham talk to Alexandre Hollocou about:
1) How he started Joko straight out of engineering school at Ecole Polytechnique, scaling up the company to over 80 people, with offices in Paris and NYC, and becoming a profitable company.
2) What kind of data Joko analyses (customer data, store data, with over 30b in transaction volume analysed since the start of Joko). We also talk about image generate software
3) Alexandre's favourite scale-ups, such as Pimento and Mistral.