Pierre Chappaz (born April 12, 1959 in France) is probably most known for the sale of European shopping engine Kelkoo to Yahoo, for the tidy sum of 475m euro in 2004.
Chappaz launched Kelkoo in 1999, and left it in 2005, a year after the Yahoo purchase. In 2005, Chappaz joined investment company Index Ventures and launched news aggregator Wikio in French. Just a few days later he joined Netvibes’ board.
Chappaz has since then launched Wikio in German, Spanish, Italian and English. He continues his work in various companies via Index Ventures.