Romain Dillet

Romain Dillet

Senior Writer

Romain Dillet is a Senior Writer at TechCrunch.

He has written over 2,500 articles on technology and tech startups and has established himself as an influential voice on the European tech scene. He has a deep background in startups, privacy, blockchain, security, fintech, mobile, social and media.

With eight years of experience at TechCrunch, he’s one of the familiar faces of the tech publication that obsessively covers Silicon Valley and the tech industry. In fact, his career started at TechCrunch when he was 21. Based in Paris, many people in the tech ecosystem consider him as the most knowledgeable tech journalist in town.

Romain likes to spot important startups before anyone else. He was the first person to cover N26, Revolut and DigitalOcean. He has written scoops on large acquisitions from Apple, Microsoft and Snap.

When he’s not writing, Romain is also a developer — he understands how the tech behind the tech works. He also has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. He knows how to connect the dots between innovations and the effect on the fabric of our society.

Romain graduated from Emlyon Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He has helped several non-profit organizations, such as StartHer, an organization that promotes education and empowerment of women in technology, and Techfugees, an organization that empowers displaced people with technology.

The Latest from Romain Dillet

Apple and Ireland win appeal against the European Commission’s $15 billion tax ruling

Romain Dillet
The General Court of the European Court of Justice has annulled an EU decision that involved Apple’s subsidiaries in Ireland. Four years ago, the European Commission said that Ireland had failed to

Revolut partners with Paxos to bring cryptocurrency trading to the US

Romain Dillet
Neobank Revolut launched in the U.S. a couple of months ago. The startup is slowly catching up with features that are available in the U.K. and Europe. This time, Revolut is adding cryptocurrency trad

Writing app Ulysses gets new document dashboard and advanced grammar and style check

Romain Dillet
Ulysses, a popular writing app for the Mac, iPhone and iPad, is receiving an update with some new features. The user interface has been slightly redesigned with a new right-hand column that acts as a

Emily Heyward will teach you how to make your brand awesome at TC Early Stage

Romain Dillet
If you’re currently building a startup, you know what product you want to build. But do you know if people are actually going to notice you? Emily Heyward from Red Antler can tell you how to get peo

iOS 14 gets rid of the app grid to help you find the app you’re looking for

Romain Dillet
Apple unveiled the next major version of iOS a few weeks ago. I’ve been playing around with beta versions of iOS 14 and here’s what you should expect when you update your iPhone to the final relea

Apple just released the first iOS 14 beta to everyone

Romain Dillet
This is your opportunity to get a glimpse of the future of iOS — and iPadOS. Apple just released the first public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, the next major version of the operating systems for th

Koyeb is a serverless startup that ingests, processes and stores data with multiple cloud providers

Romain Dillet
Meet Koyeb, a new French startup founded by Yann Léger, Édouard Bonlieu and Bastien Chatelard, who have previously worked at Scaleway for many years. Koyeb is a serverless startup that helps you man

Lydia expands credit offering in partnership with Younited Credit

Romain Dillet
French startup Lydia is announcing a new partnership with Younited Credit, which lets you borrow anything between €500 and €3,000 and pay back within six to 36 months. The feature will be released

A vulnerability in some bitcoin wallets leads to double spend attacks and inflated balance

Romain Dillet
ZenGo, a startup that is building a mobile cryptocurrency wallet, has discovered a vulnerability in some of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets, such as hardware wallet Ledger, BRD and Edge. Named

Point to launch new challenger bank with rewards on debit card purchases

Romain Dillet
Meet Point, a new challenger bank in the U.S. that has been available as a private beta for the past year. Today, the company is announcing new fundraising — later this month, the company is launchi

Portfolio companies of startup studio eFounders have raised $148M this year

Romain Dillet
European startup studio eFounders has looked back at the first half of 2020 to share some metrics about its portfolio companies. The startup studio that is focused on building Software as a Service en

Bolt launches electric bike-sharing service in Paris

Romain Dillet
Like other ride-hailing companies, Bolt has been suffering from the coronavirus-related lockdown and economic downturn around the world. But the company is trying to find another revenue stream by lau

Société Générale is acquiring freelancer challenger bank Shine

Romain Dillet
Société Générale is acquiring French startup Shine. Terms of the deal are undisclosed. According to a source, Shine is getting acquired for around €100 million in an all-cash deal (around $112.6

Banking platform solarisBank raises $67.5 million at $360 million valuation

Romain Dillet
Despite the Wirecard fallout, German fintech startup solarisBank has raised a Series C funding round of $67.5 million (€60 million). Following today’s funding round, solarisBank is now valued at $

Apple Maps to tell you to refine location by scanning the skyline

Romain Dillet
With iOS 14, Apple is going to update Apple Maps with some important new features, such as cycling directions, electric vehicle routing and curated guides. But the app is also going to learn one neat

Apple will let you port Google Chrome extensions to Safari

Romain Dillet
Apple unveiled macOS 11 Big Sur earlier this week and talked about some of the improvements for Safari. In addition to native extensions, Apple is adding support for web extensions. It’s going to ma

Privacy assistant Jumbo raises $8 million and releases major update

Romain Dillet
A year after its initial release, Jumbo has two important pieces of news to announce. First, the company has released a major update of its app that protects your privacy on online services. Second, t

Memo Bank unveils its business bank, credit license and $22.5 million in new funding

Romain Dillet
Memo Bank wasn’t always called Memo Bank . It started as Margo Bank and has been flying under the radar for a few years. The French startup is now about to launch publicly and shared more details ab

French contact-tracing app StopCovid has been activated 1.8 million times but only sent 14 notifications

Romain Dillet
France released StopCovid three weeks ago. The government is holding a press conference today to give an update on the app. In particular, this conference is a good opportunity to share some numbers.

Swile raises $78.7 million for its corporate lunch card and benefits app

Romain Dillet
French startup Swile, the startup formerly known as Lunchr, raised a $78.7 million (€70 million) Series C round a few months ago. The startup wants to manage all your corporate benefits and improve
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