Gaetan Brillaud.

Profile

Gaetan Brillaud is a corporate finance professional who has worked on both sides of a financing. He spent 9 years in financial audit and transaction services at EY and Deloitte, first in Paris, then in Montréal, running buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence on deals up to €1bn for private equity firms, institutional investors and corporates in Europe and North America.

He then moved to the investor side, as a venture capital principal at Investissement Québec, and to tech lending, as a director in tech financing at Desjardins. In December 2023 he founded Fractal, where he acts as a fractional CFO for seed to Series A tech startups and runs financial due diligence for the investors who fund them.

Fractal

Founder and managing partner · since December 2023 · Montréal

Fractal is a fractional CFO and financial due diligence firm for tech startups. Gaetan has worked with 50+ startups on fundraising, financial modelling, valuation and investor readiness, and supported capital raises totalling over CAD 10M, closed with venture capital funds and angel investors. The work covers financial models, cap tables, data rooms, board reporting, legal coordination and investor negotiations.

QV Studio

Corporate finance advisor · since October 2024

QV Studio is a venture studio that incubates early-stage quantum startups. Gaetan works with 2 of its pre-seed companies, SilQ Connect and Quminex: financing strategy, round design, investor targeting, financial dashboards and budget models, and reporting to the studio's board.

Jony

Technical advisor · since December 2025

Gaetan designs and builds Jony, software that helps transaction services teams run a financial due diligence from data room to draft report, with specialised AI agents and a connection to the AI assistant the team already uses.

Finance for Quantum

Contributor · since July 2025

Finance for Quantum is a free, independent directory of investors active in quantum technologies.

Desjardins

Director, tech financing · April 2025 to July 2026 · Montréal

Financing for early-stage and growth-stage tech companies in software, digital infrastructure and deep tech: term loans, revolving credit facilities, R&D tax credit financing and venture debt, from $250K to $100M+. Credit assessments built on transaction-level data, cohort analysis and SaaS metrics (ARR, net dollar retention, LTV/CAC).

Electro Carbon

Fractional CFO · February 2024 to June 2025 · Montréal

Fractional CFO of this cleantech startup, reporting to the CEO. Led an equity fundraising round from investor outreach to closing, built the financial model from scratch, and reported to the CEO and the board.

Investissement Québec

Principal, venture capital · September 2022 to December 2023 · Montréal

Innovation and impact investments from an evergreen fund: Series A to C, tickets of $3M to $30M, as lead, co-lead or follower. Sectors: climate tech, cleantech, AI, deep tech, fintech, mobility and aerospace. Wrote investment memos for the committee, built pro forma cap tables and waterfall analyses, and supported portfolio companies after investment.

Deloitte Canada

Senior manager, M&A transaction services · September 2019 to September 2022 · Montréal

Buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence in technology, healthcare, retail, media and professional services, often cross-border between Canada, the US and Europe, for private equity firms, institutional investors and strategic acquirers. Quality of earnings, normalized net working capital, net debt, SPA review and purchase price commentary. Led teams of 3 to 6 consultants per engagement.

Deloitte France

Manager, M&A transaction services · January 2017 to July 2019 · Paris

Buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence, including cross-border engagements across Europe. Managed Q&A sessions with targets and coordinated multi-country workstreams.

T&G

Co-founder and COO · September 2018 to September 2019 · Paris

Hands-on training company for the hospitality industry. Acquired by a competitor in September 2019.

EY

Senior associate, transaction services and financial audit · October 2013 to December 2016 · Paris

Financial due diligence in financial services (BNP Paribas, Banque Populaire). Financial audit of Société Générale and UBS Private Bank: consolidation, equity movements and coordination of 200+ reporting packages worldwide.

Early career

Exane, equity derivatives research and sales, analyst intern (2012). Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), analyst intern (2012). Both in Paris.

At Deloitte, Canada and France

• Dialogue Health Technologies, acquisition of Tictrac (buy-side, Europe and Canada)
• Coveo, acquisition of Qubit (buy-side, cross-border)
• Sequoia Capital, minority investment in SSENSE (buy-side)
• Altas Partners, investment in CCRM Fertility (buy-side, Canada and US)
• GardaWorld, investment in Vosker (buy-side)
• Synex, several acquisitions (buy-side)
• Webhelp, then owned by KKR, acquisition of Sellbytel (buy-side)
• Arkema, carve-out and sale of its PMMA business, Plexiglas and Altuglas, €1bn (sell-side)
• Finance Active (sell-side) and BVA Group (buy-side)

Mentoring

Gaetan mentors startups in accelerator and incubator programs: Plug and Play, Next AI, OVHcloud, Acet and HEC Montréal. One-on-one sessions and workshops on financial strategy, cash management, investor readiness and fundraising.

Education

• ESCP Business School, master's degree in finance, Paris and London (2011 to 2013)
• Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, master's degree in economics (2008 to 2011)
• ESJ Paris, master's degree in journalism (2007 to 2011)

Languages

French and English (native or bilingual), Spanish (limited working proficiency).