Jean-Blaise Pierrès

President - Founder, invisiblecofounder

Jean-Blaise Pierrès is a semiconductor executive with more than 20 years of experience across chip design, strategic partnerships, and market strategy. He is the founder and president of invisiblecofounder, which works alongside deeptech founders in semiconductors, photonics, quantum, and physical AI to turn breakthrough technologies into investable, scalable businesses.

He began his career as an engineer, designing analog and mixed-signal chips at Altran, Atmel, and Qorvo. At Qorvo, he spent nearly 15 years as a principal IC design engineer and design lead on mobile power management, envelope tracking, and SOI RF switches, and he holds patents in power management and multiplexer design. He later moved into strategy, advising on semiconductor investment and IP market intelligence.

Most recently, at Arteris, he led global ecosystem strategy for System IP and NoC solutions. He restructured a fragmented portfolio of 150+ partners, built the Design Service Providers partnership program, and defined a long-term strategy around IP-XACT standardization.

Jean-Blaise is passionate about mentoring startups. He is a mentor in the Next-Gen Computing stream at Creative Destruction Lab, a no-fee, no-equity program, and an expert and mentor for EuroCDP, the EU Chips Design Platform. He helps founders work through technology hurdles, partnerships, and go-to-market decisions as they scale in competitive markets. He holds an Executive MBA from HEC Paris.