Géraldine Le Meur (born May 1972) is a French

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and

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. She studied at

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, graduated in 1995. In 2004, together with her former husband Loïc Le Meur, she founded LeWeb (initially called LesBlog) which developed into a popular series of Paris-based conferences for digital innovators and entrepreneurs. She is currently CEO of the French company Business Space, which in April 2015 reacquired LeWeb. Now based in New York after having lived 13 years in

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, Le Meur has held senior positions in several companies she and her husband founded. In 1997, she co-founded and was CEO for RapidSite France (later sold to

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) and she went on to manage the early blogging initiative Ublog which was merged with

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in 2004 while she was its marketing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (2003–07). More recently, she was the

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of LeWeb before it was bought by

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in 2012. In April 2015, Géraldine and Loïc Le Meur reacquired LeWeb through their Paris-based firm Business Space as Reed Exhibitions believed the market for exhibitions in the sector was becoming saturated. In November 2020, she joined FrenchFounders network as a partner. She heads LeFonds, an initiative that assists French-speaking entrepreneurs.

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