Florent Poux
Co-founder and CTO of Obside
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Florent Poux is a French software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Obside, an AI-powered trading automation platform, alongside Thibaud Sultan and Benjamin Sultan. 2 He serves as the company's chief technology officer. 3 In April 2026, Poux joined the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc. in San Francisco. 9
Poux studied computer science at IUT Velizy, part of the Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, where he earned a Diplome universitaire de technologie (DUT) in 2018. 1 He then enrolled at ESILV (Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs Leonard de Vinci) in the Paris-La Defense area, graduating with an engineering degree specializing in fintech in 2021. 1
While completing his engineering degree, Poux worked as a full-stack developer at the Secretariat General de la Defense et de la Securite Nationale (SGDSN) in Paris from September 2017 to July 2021. 1 The SGDSN is a body under the French Prime Minister responsible for coordinating national defense and security policy, including cybersecurity and crisis response.
Obside was founded in 2018 in Laval, France, by Poux, Thibaud Sultan, and Benjamin Sultan. 2 The three co-founders shared an interest in both finance and technology and identified a gap in the market: despite advances in trading technology, automating actions on financial markets remained inaccessible to most individual investors. 2 Poux took the role of CTO, while Thibaud Sultan became CEO and Benjamin Sultan became CPO. 3
As CTO, Poux engineered the platform's core infrastructure, including a proprietary backtesting engine. 8 Obside's platform uses AI to convert plain-language instructions into executable trading logic, allowing users to describe a strategy in natural language rather than writing code. 5 The system supports assets including cryptocurrencies, stocks, forex, commodities, and ETFs, with broker integrations for Binance, Kraken, and Bybit as of early 2026. 4
In 2024, Obside won the Innovation Prize at the Paris Trading Expo and was recognized by Finance Innovation in its asset management category. 7 The company also received support through Microsoft for Startups. 7
In January 2026, Obside raised 515,000 euros in a seed round from business angels in France and abroad, at a valuation of 2.5 million euros. 2 At the time, the team consisted of six people. 2
In March 2026, Obside announced a partnership with Bitget, a cryptocurrency exchange. The collaboration brought Obside's AI Trading Arena to Bitget's copy trading platform, allowing users to follow and copy AI-driven trading strategies on Bitget Futures across Bitcoin, gold, and Nvidia. 6 Select AI traders in the Arena had delivered net performance exceeding 70 percent over multiple months at the time of the announcement. 6
Poux has discussed Obside's technology publicly, including in an appearance on the French trading podcast Les Insiders, where he and Benjamin Sultan explained the platform's multi-agent AI approach and its application to strategy automation. 11
In April 2026, Poux traveled to San Francisco with his two co-founders to participate in the Canopy Spring 2026 cohort at Founders, Inc., a five-week residency program based at Fort Mason. 9 In his daily posts from the program, Poux described the environment as intensely collaborative, noting that every founder he encountered was willing to share contacts, challenge pitches, and help other teams with their products. 10 He wrote that the program pushed the team to crystallize their execution plan and product vision from the first day. 12