The enthusiastic team behind a project
that is making a difference

Julie

Co-founder

The most energetic, she loves taking on challenges. At Yuka, she leads communication, the scientific team, and U.S. development. Passionate about writing, she authored Yuka’s book The Guide to Healthy Eating. She’s also a big fan of cheese (her favorite is smoked cheese) and Latin music, which she discovered during a year in Peru.

François

Co-founder

The team’s party enthusiast, and not a morning person. An entrepreneur at heart, he ran a web agency for six years before Yuka. A skilled developer, he loves writing lines of code. Passionate about design, he spends hours on details no one notices. When not coding (or partying), he enjoys camping with his tent and portable stove.

Benoît

Co-founder

The most versatile, he spent 10 years in procurement before learning coding and developing Yuka for Android. Today, he also handles Yuka’s legal and financial matters. An Excel pro, he masters spreadsheets like no one else. Passionate about Mexico, his wife’s homeland, his favorite region is Yucatán, which inspired Yuka’s name.

Zoé

Toxicologist

The most artistic of the team, she loves painting landscapes inspired by her travels. Her role at Yuka is to decipher different published works and studies to identify the risk level of ingredients and additives. Zoe is also a former roller derby player: she even participated in the 2017 French championships under the pseudonym « Valkyrie »!

Gabriela

Food Nutrition Engineer

The most athletic, she runs four times a week. A nutritionist with a degree in Food Nutrition Engineering, she oversees scientific monitoring of additives and creates nutritional content for the blog and social media. She loves cooking with unique spices—her favorite? Chimichurri mix, which she adds to everything!

Anthony

Registered Dietitian

Anthony Berthou is the nutritionist who works with us. He co-wrote Yuka’s book titled "The Healthy Eating Guide". A college instructor who also teaches health and sports professionals, Anthony revises and approves all our blog articles. He's also an avid athlete and a former member of the French junior triathlon team.

Louise

Legal counsel

The dreamiest of all, she likes to escape reality by reading poetry. Before joining Yuka, she worked for 6 years as a civil and commercial litigation lawyer, defending numerous players in the social economy. Being a Libra, Louise is always asking herself 1,000 different questions and tends to be the last one to decide what to order at restaurants!

Caroline

Customer Service Manager

Our chatty Cathy, she always has funny stories to share with us. At Yuka, she manages customer service with Marie, taking care of all our users. Caroline is a fan of nail art and often surprises us with her creations, which include watermelon-patterned, SpongeBob, and glow-in-the-dark nails!

Marie

Customer Service Manager

The most sensible one of the bunch, you certainly won’t catch her getting into any kind of trouble! At Yuka, she leads the customer service team with Caroline, ensuring that every message received gets a response. She loves baking cakes with her two daughters, crafting piñatas, and inventing treasure hunts for them.

Léna

Communication

The most cheerful, she brightens up the team with her good mood. She works on various communications projects, especially newsletters and social media, with a keen graphic eye. Sunset Lover, her camera roll is 80% sunsets. She also has a (not-so-secret-anymore) passion for TV series about drug cartels.

Gabriella

US Country Manager

The fashionista, she loves browsing vintage shops in search of unique treasures. Franco-American, she’s fluent in “Franglish”! Based in New York, she leads Yuka’s development in the United States alongside Julie. A true social media expert, she brilliantly combines trend mastery with an analytical eye.

Samuel

Android Developer

The geekiest one of us, he loves all tech gadgets and dreams about owning a drone with a virtual reality headset. He takes care of developing Yuka for Android and ensuring it is bug-free. He loves discovering atypical events and restaurants around Paris and has even developed his own mobile app to list them!

Valentin

Customer service

The most tattooed one of the bunch, he has illustrated 15 of the most important moments in his life on his skin. Joining us from the hospitality industry as well he always has a smile on his face and is a true people person as well as being highly adaptable. He is a huge Harry Styles fan and a tea lover (his favorite one answers to the sweet name of Blue Mountain).

Aymé

iOS Developer

The movie buff, he goes to the cinema at least once a week. Lost in Translation tops his list of favorite films. As an iOS developer, he’s responsible for continually improving the iPhone app and launching new features. He’s also passionate about rock climbing, with the Calanques of Marseille as his favorite playground.

Elizabeth

Customer service

The music lover, Liz adores attending indie pop, folk, and rock concerts. Originally from Iowa with a degree in dietetics from the United States, Liz handles Yuka’s customer service for the USA. When she’s not at a concert, she enjoys recharging with long forest hikes, always accompanied by Bob Dylan in her ears.

Ileana

Customer service

The most multicultural, Ileana balances her American and Venezuelan roots. Responsible for customer service for the USA at Yuka, she skillfully responds in English, Spanish, and French. She listens to music all day and is also an excellent singer. A former figure skater, she dreams of returning to the ice someday.

Sylvain

Back-end Developer

The most artistic team member, he loves to make music. His favorite genre? Techno! At Yuka, Sylvain is responsible for the backend, or the database containing the thousands of products. He spends at least as much time making jokes as he does writing code.

Alice

Customer service

The polyglot of the bunch, she speaks 4 languages fluently and takes great pleasure in the nuances between words. Italian herself, she takes care of our Italian users' inquiries as well as translating all of Yuka’s content into Italian. She loves running, yoga and dreams of having her own vegetable garden where she can grow her own carrots!

The story

Benoît, one of the co-founders and a father of three, decided he wanted to buy better food for his family. He found it overwhelming to read all the labels for a vast array of food products and thought it would be nice if there were a tool that could automatically analyze the ingredients in each item.

He shared his idea with his brother François and a friend, Julie. Both were immediately won over by the concept. In February 2016, the three of them presented the idea during a startup competition called the "Food Hackathon". After a weekend spent hammering out their concept, the trio took home the top prize! Realizing that their idea fulfilled a real need, they jumped wholeheartedly into the project.

In the beginning, they hadn't imagined an app, but rather a magnetic, carrot-shaped smart device that would stick to the refrigerator. After a few months however, they started to grasp the limitations of such a device, including its price, which would not make the analysis of products accessible to all. They therefore decided to opt for a mobile app instead.

In the beginning, they didn't imagine an app, but a magnetic, carrot-shaped smart device that would stick to the refrigerator. But after a few months, they started to grasp the limitations of such a device, including its price, which would not make the analysis of products accessible to all. They therefore decided to go with a mobile app instead.

The enthusiastic team behind a project that is making a difference

The enthusiastic team behind a project
that is making a difference