We didn't start with a product idea. We started with a problem we knew too well.

Our founders spent years inside the bid grind: reading 200-page RFPs, filling Excel response grids, chasing the right expert at 11pm for an answer that had already been written three times, in a folder nobody could find.

Outcome

€1.45B

in tenders managed by Tenderbolt customers

Automation

85%

of a questionnaire answered automatically from your knowledge base, measured across 1,000+ tenders

Speed

4 hours

to respond to an RFP, used to take 3 days

Outcome

€1.45B

in tenders managed by Tenderbolt customers

Automation

85%

of a questionnaire answered automatically from your knowledge base, measured across 1,000+ tenders

Speed

4 hours

to respond to an RFP, used to take 3 days

The industry needed something built by people who'd actually lived it.

200-page RFPs
Read cover to cover. Every time.
Excel response grids
Built from scratch. Every bid.
11pm expert chases
For answers that already existed somewhere.

A conviction

“The knowledge was there. The expertise was there. What was missing was a system worthy of it. So we built it.”

The four beliefs that came before the code. They still guide us today.

Expertise first

We built a system that puts human expertise to work. Not one that replaces it.

No black boxes

Every answer traceable. Every source visible. If we don't know, we say so.

Built for adoption

Works on day one, for everyone. Capability means nothing if teams don't use it.

Your data, yours

EU-hosted. Strictly siloed. Never used to train shared models. Never.

Three founders. A decade in the bid grind.

A foundation based on Veolia, EDF & Safran expertise, combined with a PhD in AI and senior engineering expertise

Maxime Nannan

CPO & Co-founder

CentraleSupélec engineer and the product mind behind Tenderbolt. Purpose-built models that understand the real complexity of tenders. Not just text generation. The reason the product feels like it was built by someone who actually knows the bid world.

Hugues Facchetti

CEO & Co-founder

10 years scaling Peopulse to €5M ARR, winning bids at Veolia, EDF, and Safran. He didn't just watch the problem. He lived it. Tenderbolt is the product he always wished existed.

Paul Lagrée

CTO & Co-founder

Telecom Paris engineer and the technical architect behind the software. Every AI layer, every line of infrastructure that keeps client data in Europe and out of shared models.

DCF Awards 2025: Best Start-up
BFM Business
Station F Founders Program
WILCO Accelerator
DCF Awards 2025: Best Start-up
BFM Business
Station F Founders Program
WILCO Accelerator

DCF Awards 2025: Best Start-up

BFM Business

Station F Founders Program

WILCO Accelerator

We're building something rare.

A team where everyone is at the top of their field, and everyone's here because the problem is worth solving.

Founding & buildingGrowth & recognitionPresent & future

Founded

Jan 2024

A decade of bid management experience. One conviction: the industry needed something better. Tenderbolt is born. The first AI software built specifically for the full tender response process.

First MVP & first paying customers

Jun 2024

The product launches. Real teams, real bids, real results. 100K€ ARR in less than a year.

Knowledge base launched

Sep 2024

Institutional memory, finally. Every past response searchable, deployable, improving over time.

100th customer

Sep 2025

From first sale to a hundred. 18 months, zero shortcuts.

Proposal module launched

Nov 2025

Tenderbolt grows beyond questionnaires. Full technical proposals, structured from your knowledge base and tailored to each client's evaluation criteria. The complete bid response solution.