Jean-Christophe Leducq, an expert in software engineering and 3D image synthesis, founded Lumiscaphe in 2001. With Patchwork 3D, a photorealistic 3D rendering software for virtual reality, he revolutionized car configurators in 2007, generating a billion images a year for the automaker Renault. In 2021, he launched Digital Substrate, a startup addressing the challenges of software interoperability and digital sovereignty for software designers in the industrial sector.