Bruno Delahaye

Bruno is a Partner at Cathay Innovation, based in Paris, where he leads the firm’s global Consumer practice. An entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, he brings 20 years of international experience founding and scaling startups — including two successful exits — alongside leadership roles at Fortune 10 companies.

Before Cathay, Bruno was among the early pioneers of AI in France and an early member of KXEN, an American machine learning startup. He built and led their EMEA operations before moving to Silicon Valley, where he initiated and led the company’s acquisition by SAP. At SAP, he went on to lead the predictive sales team across North America and Latin America.

He then became CEO of Reach Analytics in Redwood City, transforming it into a leading self-service platform for customer acquisition before its acquisition by a data-driven marketing company. Most recently, he was an early member of Walmart Connect — Walmart’s retail media division — where he built and scaled the Analytics practice from hundreds of millions to billions in revenue, supporting tens of thousands of advertisers.

Bruno holds an Executive MBA from HEC, an MSc in Economics and Applied Mathematics, and a business degree from Université Paris Dauphine.