Company founded: 2021
Founders: Aymeric Boëlle (Berkeley Law, LLM, 2011), Florent Robert
I founded Ondorse in 2021, with the mission to modernize how companies onboard and verify their clients, unifying compliance, efficiency, and user experience. The Paris-based company's innovative, all-in-one, AI-driven platform is designed to ensure financial and other institutions can efficiently assess the level of fraud and money laundering risk associated with a particular customer and meet regulatory challenges while reducing operational costs.
The launch of Ondorse is deeply rooted in my academic and professional journey, and in particular in the formative experience I had at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where I graduated with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 2021. Boalt Hall offered far more than a world-class legal education, it provided an environment that actively fostered innovation, critical thinking, and entrepreneurial ambition.
During my time at UC Berkeley, I had the opportunity to take courses on entrepreneurship and the venture capital ecosystem. These classes were a revelation: they introduced me to the mechanics of building and scaling companies, the interplay between founders and investors, and the broader dynamics of Silicon Valley’s tech-driven economy. More importantly, they helped me develop an entrepreneurial mindset, encouraging me to see legal training not only as a professional qualification, but as a powerful lens to identify opportunities and design solutions.
After UC Berkeley, I spent a decade as a lawyer in financial regulation and enforcement at Skadden, Arps, where I advised leading institutions on complex corporate and financial matters. The advanced legal knowledge I refined there - combined with the entrepreneurial spark ignited at Berkeley - equipped me to bridge two worlds: rigorous legal risk management on the one hand, and fast-moving technological innovation on the other.
This synthesis became the foundation for Ondorse. I saw an opportunity to replace outdated, complex, manual processes for verifying customers and assessing risk with smart, user-friendly technology that helps companies meet the growing challenge of reducing financial crime. The confidence to take this leap, to move from advising organizations to building a platform that could transform the industry, can be traced back directly to my time at Berkeley Law. The school not only gave me the tools to understand law at the highest level, but also the vision to apply that knowledge creatively in the service of entrepreneurship.
Published September 2025
