--- title: "About Pipecorn: The Team Behind the Data · Pipecorn" description: "Pipecorn is a B2B data platform that finds verified work emails and mobiles through 100+ providers. Who builds it, what it costs, and how it compares." canonical: "https://pipecorn.com/about" --- # About Pipecorn: The Team Behind the Data > Pipecorn is a B2B data platform that finds verified work emails and mobiles through 100+ providers. Who builds it, what it costs, and how it compares. Source: https://pipecorn.com/about ## A word from the founders We are Mathieu and Nico, the two founders of Pipecorn. We met at a coding bootcamp, years before we started the company. Mathieu went on to build Settlesweet, a relocation-services startup, and cold-called for it for three years. Those calls showed him that the bigger problem was finding buyers before the competition did. So he sold Settlesweet and pitched Nico, who had spent five years building prospect lists by hand as a freelancer. We started Pipecorn in Paris in 2025, under the name ProntoHQ. Most data vendors sell access to their own database, and one database misses a lot of people in Europe and Asia. So Pipecorn sends each lookup to more than 100 providers and keeps the first verified match. You pay only for what it finds, and plans are billed month to month. We bootstrapped the company to $1 million in ARR and renamed it Pipecorn in 2026\. Today we are a team of six, backed by Station F as part of its Future 40 cohort, and we still run our own outbound on Pipecorn. Want to check our coverage first? Read the [lead sourcing benchmark by job title and region](https://pipecorn.com/lead-sourcing-benchmark). ## The founders ![Mathieu Brun-Picard](https://pipecorn.com/assets/mathieu-brun.jpg) ### Mathieu Brun-Picard Founder & CEO Mathieu grew up in a village in the South of France. He left a job in investment banking to learn to code, then built Settlesweet, a relocation-services startup, and sold it to start Pipecorn. He studied entrepreneurship and finance at ESSEC Business School, and mechanical engineering at Arts et Métiers. [Connect on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieu-brun-picard/) ![Nicolas Fernandez-Le Follic](https://pipecorn.com/assets/nico-fernandez.webp) ### Nicolas Fernandez-Le Follic Founder & CMO Nico spent five years as a freelance outbound consultant, building prospect lists by hand. He checked profiles line by line, then ran them through one data source after another to find the emails and phones they were missing. Nico now runs Pipecorn's marketing, from partnerships to the website and the community. [Connect on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasfernandezlefollic/) ## We like working with people who do outbound Outbound agencies, freelancers and GTM engineers use Pipecorn to run campaigns for their clients. If that sounds like you, come say hi. Partner directory ### Find an agency or a freelancer 57 outbound partners we have vetted, in the UK, the US, France and Armenia. [Browse partners ](https://pipecorn.com/partners) GTMhunt ### The GTM experts leaderboard GTM engineers and RevOps operators we handpicked, sorted by agency, freelance and in-house. [See the leaderboard ](https://pipecorn.com/gtm-hunt) Pipecorn University ### Learn the product in a minute 16 short videos. Each one shows a single job in the app, click by click. [Watch the tutorials ](https://pipecorn.com/pipeschool) Company news goes out on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pipecorn). To talk to us, email [contact@pipecorn.com](mailto:contact@pipecorn.com). ## Pipecorn at a glance Founded 2025 in Paris, as ProntoHQ. Renamed Pipecorn in 2026. Founders [Mathieu Brun-Picard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathieu-brun-picard/) (CEO) and [Nicolas Fernandez-Le Follic](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasfernandezlefollic/) (CMO) Funding Bootstrapped to $1M ARR. Part of Station F's Future 40. Team Six people. The legal entity is Pronto SAS. Offices 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France 1541 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA Pricing Free plan, then paid plans from $41/mo. Billed monthly with no annual contract. [See pricing](https://pipecorn.com/pricing). Support [contact@pipecorn.com](mailto:contact@pipecorn.com) or the in-app chat. We reply within 24 hours on working days. Security SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA. Reports are on the [trust centre](https://compliance.pipecorn.com/), and every customer can sign a [DPA](https://pipecorn.com/dpa). Last update: 28 October 2026 FAQ ## Questions about _Pipecorn_ What people ask us most about the company. Anything else, email contact@pipecorn.com and we reply within 24 hours. [Book a demo ](https://zcal.co/t/pipecorn/discovery) Pipecorn is a B2B go-to-market data platform. It searches 45.2 million companies and 553.6 million professional profiles, then finds a verified work email and mobile number for each contact through more than 100 data providers. There is a free plan with 500 exported leads and 150 credits a month, and no credit card is needed. On yearly billing, paid plans cost from $41/mo for Build, from $124/mo for Grow and from $583/mo for Scale. Billed monthly, Build starts at $49\. An email costs 3 credits and a mobile costs 30. No. Monthly plans are month-to-month and you can cancel before the next billing date. Yearly plans are optional and cost less per month. No. Credits are only spent on emails and mobiles that come back verified. Unused credits roll over for as long as your subscription is active. Those tools sell access to one database. Pipecorn queries more than 100 providers per lookup and keeps the first verified match, so coverage holds up in markets where any single vendor is thin. Cognism also sells annual contracts on quote, while Pipecorn publishes its prices and offers monthly billing. Yes. Pipecorn is GDPR and CCPA compliant and SOC 2 Type II audited, and the reports are on compliance.pipecorn.com. Any customer can sign our Data Processing Agreement, and anyone can ask us to remove their data. Source: [Pipecorn Trust Center](https://compliance.pipecorn.com/) Pipecorn is built by Pronto SAS, registered at 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France. The company was founded in 2025 and is part of the Station F Future 40 cohort. Yes. The company renamed from ProntoHQ to Pipecorn in 2026\. Every prontohq.com URL redirects to its Pipecorn equivalent. [SOC 2 Type II audited. GDPR and CCPA compliant.View our Trust Center ](https://compliance.pipecorn.com/) ## Try it on 50 of your own prospects The free plan needs no card. [Sign up for free](https://app.pipecorn.com/register)[Book a demo](https://zcal.co/t/pipecorn/discovery)