It takes nerve to bet on simplicity in a world addicted to complexity. The Mobile-First Company just did that, raising $12M in Seed funding co-led by Base10 Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Emblem returning and a stacked lineup of angels from France to Latin America. Born in Paris and now heading to Miami, this startup isn’t chasing buzzwords; it’s building tools that small teams actually want to use.
Founded in 2023 by CEO Jérémy Goillot and CTO Franco Pinto, the company’s story reads like a masterclass in execution. Goillot was the 4th hire at Spendesk, scaling it from scrappy fintech to unicorn status and launching its U.S. ops out of San Francisco. Pinto joined during the pre-seed phase and has been the architect behind every sleek mobile experience since. Their mission came from Goillot’s travels across Africa & Latin America, where he watched entrepreneurs run full businesses off WhatsApp, Instagram, and personal bank accounts. The takeaway? The future of business software doesn’t start on desktops, it starts in your hand.
The Mobile-First Company builds mobile-first AI tools for the 65% of the global workforce that doesn’t sit behind a desk. Their flagship product, Allo, is an AI-native business phone system for small teams that hate missing calls or wasting time. The AI receptionist answers 24/7, blocks spam, books appointments, and even summarizes calls, powered by ElevenLabs’ conversational AI that responds faster (and sometimes smoother) than most humans. The result? 5K+ paying businesses, 50% MoM growth, and a broader app ecosystem, AMOA & ScanToSheets, now serving 100K+ small biz owners daily.
Investors saw the signal early. Base10’s Rexhi Dollaku and Lightspeed’s Antoine Moyroud recognized that SMBs aren’t a side market, they’re the market. Emblem’s Bénédicte de Raphélis Soissan and Guillaume Durao doubled down again, backing a company that’s quietly bridging global markets from Paris to Miami to Buenos Aires.
With $15.8M raised to date, the team’s next move is pure velocity: hiring 30+ people across Miami, Paris & Buenos Aires, and launching new AI apps like Due (invoicing) & Claim (expense mgmt). Instead of chasing the “all-in-one” trend, The Mobile-First Company is winning by breaking it down, one clean app, one real problem, one global movement at a time.
