Florian began his career in Europe as a fund manager for a global equity fund, investing in listed entrepreneurs & companies.
Drawn to Asia, he relocated to Singapore founding his first startup; which became Asia’s largest travel e-commerce marketplace and got acquired in 2014.
Since then, Florian has been an advisor & supporter of the startup ecosystem. He coded Map of the Money, a data-visualisation of investors, and hosted SaaS Business Asia, the first SaaS ecosystem conference in the region. Witnessing the challenges CEO’s faced, he developed a software to aggregate financial data from Xero to create better business modelling, financial projections, unit economics & executive dashboards.
Throughout this journey he has advised & worked with Asia’s fastest growing startups including Ticked Media/theAsianparent, TradeGecko, MoneySmart, Nugit, CtrlShift.
His purpose is to empower entrepreneurs to solve the global goals before 2030.
When not playing with data, Florian can be found hosting experiential dinners with deep conversations about the future, or in his garden rooftop designing hydroponics systems to prepare his family for Mars!
Specialties: finance, business operations, strategy.
Interests: data science, financial modelling, space, sustainability.
Public Speaking
Florian Cornu is a public speaker at numerous conferences, workshops and corporate training sessions. Get in touch to know more.
Future Flow’s CEO, Florian Cornu, speaking at HubSpot GROW
HubSpot held its first conference in Asia on Oct 18th, 2018, GROW with Hubspot, with more than 1,000 attendees and dozens of speakers. We are
When cars drive themselves, what do accountants do?
During the Finance & Accounting Show 2018, Florian presented his view on the future of accounting during his “Bookkeeping 2020” talk. He adapted the 6
Business Modelling Workshop at TechSauce Summit 2018
With more than 10,000 attendees, 200 speakers, 300 investors and 200 journalists coming from 30 countries, Techsauce Summit is an exciting event to attend in Bangkok, Thailand.
Coaching & Mentoring
Passionate about innovation, Florian is an active coach and mentor with several accelerators such as Antler, Accelerating Asia, Big Idea Ventures and She Loves Tech.
For such early stage companies Florian help the founders turn their vision into an executable plan: setting goals and defining resources needed to achieve them the most efficiently. He also guide them to operational excellence by putting in place the proper systems (such as those of the CFO Box) to have visibility into progress.
For coaching, Florian follows the Co-Active Coaching model, guiding individuals to understand themselves better and find the best solutions for them.