Virgile Delporte
Testamento
Co-Founder & CEO
Virgile Delporte, Co-Founder & CEO of Testamento, describes how he is helping French people plan for the unexpected events that life throws our way.
What led to the creation of Testamento?
On the eve of leaving, together with my wife, for a two-week trek in the Amazon, I suddenly became worried: what would happen to my children, if unfortunately, we did not return from this trip? The information I found on the internet was so unclear I was no longer just worried but completely lost. As best I could, I wrote a will to protect my children and ensure my estate. When I returned from the trek, I decided to go see a notary. I then learned that the will I had drawn up had no legal value. My wishes would not have been respected.
From this experience came the idea of creating an estate planning platform to allow everyone to prepare their succession. We wanted to create the ability to understand in a few clicks who, in the absence of a will, are our heirs. And also, to be able to express our last wishes and be able to designate the people who will be in charge of enforcing them. And of course, being able to write a will. In 2013, I launched testamento.fr, a B2C platform. In 2018, we started to create innovative B2B digital tech solutions to enrich the commercial approaches and services of bancassurance players.
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