Campus Lecture Steve Anavi - Co-Founder of Qonto, a Digital Financial Services Company for Professionals and Alumni Award 2025

Steve is the co-founder and President of Qonto, the leading European business finance management solution. Steve studied at EPFL in Microengineering, the University of Tokyo and INSEAD, and started his career at Deloitte and Groupon. In 2013, he founded Smok.io together with Alexandre Prot - acquired by a Fortune 500 company - and experienced the frustrations of business banking. They decided to join forces once again and launched Qonto in 2017 with one objective in mind: make everyday banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping, and spend management tools. Qonto has raised €622M from the world's largest investors, and is part of France’s Next40. In 2025, Qonto served 600,000 clients in 8 European markets with 1,600+ employees and 5 offices across Europe. That same year, Steve received the EPFL Alumni Award.

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