About Us

External collaboration for your business-critical documents & files

Effective collaboration on documents and files with your clients, partners—or any party—needs to be structured, secure, and transparent for everyone.

Despite its shortcomings, many still rely on email for collaboration, leading to chaotic threads and scattered attachments. This doesn't just affect you—it strains your relationships and disrupts workflows.We developed TakeTurns to bring order to the chaos.

TakeTurns is a turn-based collaboration app where two parties take turns to share, request or update files and documents. With TakeTurns, everyone knows whose turn it is to work, gets a full history of the collaboration, and keeps everything secure and confidential.

But more importantly, it integrates seamlessly with everyone’s workflow and favorite applications. Using TakeTurns, you’ll spend less time managing your inbox and more time doing meaningful work. Our hope is that TakeTurns restores that bit of sanity that’s been missing at work.

Meet our founders

Christophe Barriolade
Co-founder and CEO

Christophe was formerly co-founder and CEO of Orchestra Networks, an enterprise software vendor. For over 20 years, he led the company to become one of the market leaders in the data management space. Orchestra Networks was acquired in 2018 by TIBCO Software.

Mickael Chevalier
Co-founder and CTO

Mickael was Director of Product Management for data management products at TIBCO Software. Previously he held multiple technical positions, ranging from product engineering to professional services. He worked for over ten years with Christophe at Orchestra Networks and TIBCO Software.

Our investors

Elaia is a European top-tier VC firm with a strong tech DNA. We back tech disruptors with global ambition from early stage to growth development. For the past 20 years, our commitment has been to deliver high performance with values.

We are proud to have been an active partner in over 100 startups including success stories such as Criteo (Nasdaq : CRTO), Orchestra Networks (acquired by Tibco), Volterra (acquired by F5), Mirakl (valued $3.5B in Series E) and Shift Technology (valued $1B+ in Series D).

How we work

Are you interested in bringing back a bit of sanity and joy to the workplace?

We’re a young organization on a mission to build the best product for collaborating with the outside world. We're a distributed, highly collaborative team. We value simplicity, sharing, and above all, trust and respect. We put our users at the center of everything we do.

If that sounds exciting, please check out our positions in Europe and the United States.

Making an impact,
one turn at a time

giveaturn.org is a non-profit association founded and managed by TakeTurns employees. Our mission is to support children in need via concrete actions in our communities. And contribute to developing an environment in which all children can thrive.

As TakeTurns grows, so will giveaturn.org's ability to make a real impact on children's lives around the world.