Victor Lugger
Born1984
Strasbourg, France
Alma materHEC Paris
OccupationCo-founder of Big Mamma

Victor Lugger, born in 1984 in Strasbourg, is a French entrepreneur and businessman. He is the co-founder of the company Big Mamma.[1]

Biography

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After studying at HEC Paris, he became CFO of MyMajorCompany. With Tigrane Seydoux, a former HEC classmate whom he met again through Stéphane Courbit[2], he worked on a crepe chain project, before moving towards Italian restaurants, which they considered more universal.[3]

In 2015, Lugger and Seydoux created Big Mamma, a chain of Italian restaurants, with the help of several major French investors, including Stéphane Courbit, Xavier Niel, Frédéric Biousse, Elie Kouby, Sébastien Breteau, and Frédéric Jousset.[4]

In 2017, he and his partner were elected entrepreneur of the year by Gault et Millau.[5]

In 2021, with Tigrane Seydoux and Christine de Wendel, he founded the start-up Sunday (payment app) and raised $100 million.[6]

In July 2023, the group had 24 restaurants in five countries. 8 Lugger and Seydoux, along with seventeen historical investors, sold the majority of Big Mama's shares in 2023 to the English investment fund McWin, which became the majority shareholder; Lugger and Seydoux, who pocketed several million euros in the transaction, remained co-CEOs.[7]

Bibliography

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  • Victor Lugger, Tigrane Seydoux, Big mamma: Cuisine italienne, con molto amore, Marabout, 28 September 2016 (ISBN 978-2501115247)

References

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  1. ^ Achour, Adrien Schwyter;Habib (June 20, 2017). "Qui se cache derrière la success story Big Mamma?". Challenges.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Victor Lugger et Tigrane Seydoux".
  3. ^ "Le grain de sel de Victor Lugger et Tigrane Seydoux".
  4. ^ "Victor Lugger et Tigrane Seydoux, tandem à l'italienne". Le Figaro. May 22, 2017.
  5. ^ https://www.lamanchelibre.fr/actualite-414593-le-duo-gagnant-des-big-mamma-couronne-par-le-gault-et-millau Le duo gagnant des "Big Mamma" couronné par le Gault et Millau
  6. ^ Arnaud, Jean-François (September 22, 2021). "Sunday, l'appli de paiement par QR code des fondateurs de Big Mamma, lève 100 millions de dollars". Challenges.
  7. ^ "Restaurants : Big Mamma change de mains pour accélérer à l'international".