2x founder
Raphaël Dabadie
Co-founder @ Foaster.ai (YC P26)
2026Co-founder· Foaster.ai (YC P26)
Founder · since 2025Company
Foaster.ai (YC P26)
Role
Co-founder & CEO
current
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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
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Experience
Career
2026Foaster.ai (YC P26)
Co-founderCo-founder & CEO · 2026 – Present
2025Répondia
Co-founderCo-founder · 2025 – Present
2021Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar
Rafa Nadal Academy agent · 2021 – Present
Bio
Raphaël is the co-founder and CEO of Foaster. At 11, he grew a tennis fan community to 400,000+ people. At 18, he joined Rafael Nadal's team as an agent. He later became a TEDx speaker at 23 and built a public audience around consulting, writing essays that accumulated hundreds of thousands of views. Before Foaster, Raphaël and his co-founder Alexandre ran their own AI consultancy. They recently co-authored two of 2025's most viral LLM benchmarks, reaching 12M+ views.