Catherine de Vulpillières

Catherine de Vulpillières is Co-founder, General Manager and Chief Innovation Officer of EvidenceB, an EdTech company that develops AI-powered adaptive learning solutions to help K–12 students master the fundamentals of language and mathematics. Since 2017, she has led its research and development strategy, bringing together cognitive science and artificial intelligence in close collaboration with research laboratories and universities.

Her role draws on experience in academic research and education. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and an agrégée in modern literature, she conducted doctoral research at Paris-Sorbonne under Michel Delon and has published on the 18th-century libertine novel.

She has taught at every level of the French school system, including literary and scientific preparatory classes for the Grandes Écoles. She has also written textbooks and served on national teacher recruitment panels.

As an entrepreneur, she has championed women in entrepreneurship. She served on the Board of Directors of Willa, an incubator dedicated to women founders, and has been active in the community of women tech entrepreneurs. She won the Amplify/Girls in Tech France–Singapore award in 2018 and was a global finalist in She Loves Tech in Beijing in 2019.