Antoine Michon

Antoine Michon is a French engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and COO of Spiko, a Paris-based MiFID investment firm that builds tokenized money market funds and was licensed and supervised by the ACPR and AMF. He won a bronze medal for France at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2011, was ranked second in the École Polytechnique 2013 entrance examination (X2013) and is an ingénieur du Corps des Mines. His career spans a mathematics teaching assistantship at Orsay, a market-operations analysis internship at the European Central Bank (2015) and a quant research internship at Bloomberg LP in New York (2016), followed by roles at Flowbird, Palantir Technologies, the French Prime Minister's digital directorate and as tech advisor to the Minister of Public Sector Transformation, before founding Spiko in 2023.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Antoine Michon's LinkedIn profile (via enrichment index) lists an actual internship as 'Quant Research Intern at Bloomberg LP' in New York City in 2016, and the caller-supplied lead dates it March-July 2016. Bloomberg LP is a financial-data, software and news company that operates a quantitative research function (Bloomberg Quant Research), so the role is a genuine quantitative-finance internship, not a student program or insight day. Identity is supported: the same LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/antoine-michon) carries his École Polytechnique/Corps des Mines education and the IMO 2011 bronze medal, tying the Olympiad identity to the Spiko founder. Caveat: this role rests on LinkedIn-profile-derived (index) evidence and was not independently corroborated by a second primary source such as a Bloomberg page. His second finance-adjacent internship, 'Market operations analysis intern' at the European Central Bank (Frankfurt, 2015), is likewise index/LinkedIn-derived; the ECB is a central bank rather than a trading firm, and the role is market-operations analysis, not quantitative trading.2016
• Career timeline (LinkedIn/index-derived): teaching assistant in mathematics at Paris-Sud/Orsay 2014-2016; ECB market-operations analysis intern, Frankfurt, 2015; Bloomberg LP quant research intern, New York, 2016; project manager at Flowbird Group, Paris, 2016-2017; deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies (London, Rome, Amsterdam) 2017-2018; project manager at the French Prime Minister's digital directorate (DINUM), Paris, 2019-2020; tech advisor to the Minister of Public Sector Transformation, 2020-2022; co-founder Spiko, 2023-present. He was also a paramedic lieutenant in the Paris Fire Brigade 2013-2016.2026
• Co-founded Spiko in June 2023 with Paul-Adrien Hyppolite; the company is a Paris-based MiFID investment firm licensed and supervised by the ACPR and AMF, and built Europe's first tokenized money market funds. He serves as Co-Founder and COO.Jun 2023
• The identity links the Olympiad record to the Spiko founder: the LinkedIn profile returned by enrichment (linkedin.com/in/antoine-michon) carries both the École Polytechnique/Corps des Mines education and the IMO 2011 bronze, and the Polytechnique 2013 intake ranking independently places an Antoine Michon at #2 the year after the IMO — a consistent single-person chain from Olympiad to elite engineering school to fintech founder.2026
• Spiko raised €4M pre-seed (announced 2024) and a €18.9M / $22M Series A in July 2025 led by Index Ventures; by then it had processed over $900m of working capital with AUM projected near $1bn, positioning Michon at the centre of the European tokenized-treasury market.Jul 2025
• Bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2011 representing France, scoring 18 points (7 on problem 1, 2 on problem 6, 0 on the rest); his IMO contestant id is 20900.Jul 2011
• Ranked 2nd overall in the Polytechnique 2013 entrance examination, MP option informatique, and is described as 'major de la promotion 2013' (X2013), placing him at the top of the elite French engineering intake the year after his IMO appearance.2013
• Namesake caution: several public 'Antoine Michon' pages belong to different people — a French diplomat (born 1973, ambassador to Haiti, author on foreign-policy sites) and unrelated professionals — and were excluded from this profile to avoid conflation.2026
• Index Ventures' funding note states Spiko's founders 'previously worked at the French Treasury, the office of the Transformation Minister, and Palantir' — consistent with his Palantir and ministerial-advisor roles and indicating the cofounder pair combined public-finance and private-sector experience.Jul 2025
• Is an ingénieur du Corps des Mines, the elite French state technical corps; his education is École Polytechnique (MSc applied maths and economics) and Corps des Mines (public and business administration).2025
• In an Animath interview he recounts that he began serious olympiad mathematics only in his penultimate school year, after placing 3rd in the académie de Lyon Olympiades and being drawn into Bodo Lass's ENS Lyon math club and the Grésillon training camp; he entered the IMO squad through that route.2011
• Registry record gives his date of birth as 01/1994 (French nationality) and lists him as 'directeur général' of Spiko (since 20/06/2023), Spiko Finance, Spiko SICAV and Chambeyron Ventures — the birth year is consistent with sitting the IMO in 2011 (age 17) and entering Polytechnique in 2013.2026