Co-founder and COO

Steve Anavi's role at Qonto

Steve Anavi is the operations co-founder of Qonto, the business bank he started with Alexandre Prot in 2016.

Steve Anavi holds an MSc from EPFL and an MBA from INSEAD. He worked at Deloitte, co-founded Smok.io and became director of operations at Groupon.

In 2016 he and Alexandre Prot started Qonto. The company was founded on 4 April 2016 and launched in France in 2017.

Qonto received its payment institution licence from the ACPR in 2018. It expanded to Spain, Germany and Italy in 2019.

In 2022 it raised €486 million at a €4.4 billion valuation. In 2025 it reported revenue of €495.4 million and net income of €92.8 million.

Steve Anavi holds an MSc from EPFL and an MBA from INSEAD.

Steve Anavi is a co-founder and COO of Qonto, the business banking company he started with Alexandre Prot on 4 April 2016.

Before Qonto, Anavi worked at Deloitte, co-founded Smok.io and was director of operations at Groupon.