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Fabien Martin

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1. Self-described current role: Co-founder and CTO of Trinket
2. Independent record: Speaker at Startup Grind Seoul, 25 May 2022; described as co-founder of Founders Lair
3. Studio: Founder of Ragondin Dev, a product and engineering studio
4. Previous startups (self-described): Founders Lair; Gradients.tech
5. Previous employer (self-described): Catcha Group, Kuala Lumpur, in venture capital
6. Apps published under Trinket Inc.: Astera (collectible cards); fan dance (two-minute video calls with creators)
7. State of incorporation: Trinket Inc., Delaware, USA
8. Trinket
9. Trinket is Trinket Inc., a Delaware company whose site is trinket.ai and which is the named seller of two apps: Astera, a collectible-card app, and fan dance, which sells short video calls with creators. The Google Play developer block lists Trinket Inc. at a Dover, Delaware address. The fan dance terms and conditions identify the operator as Trinket Inc. and state that the service is governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.
10. The App Store listing for Astera lists the seller as Trinket Inc., with developer name Trinket. The fan dance App Store listing names the same seller. According to his own site, Martin's consumer app fan.dance sells two-minute video calls between creators and their fans. The fan dance App Store description describes the service as booking live, one-to-one, two-minute video sessions with individual creators, with each session watermarked and verifiable.
11. The Astera App Store listing describes the app as turning moments from artists into limited, numbered collectible cards won on the gacha, each verified with a unique QR code and Astera ID. The Google Play listing for Astera records the app as updated on 12 July 2026.
12. Because Trinket is described only on Martin's own website, the explanation comes from him rather than any outside source: he portrays Trinket as a base level below physically authenticated collectibles that use NFC chips, AI-confirmed ownership transfers and a tamper-proof chain-of-custody log.
13. Ragondin Dev
14. According to its own site, Ragondin Dev is a small senior product and engineering studio run by Fabien Martin. The studio's site lists fan dance as a consumer app for verified two-minute video calls with artists, with numbered collectible cards from the call. It also lists Ragondin Code, described by the studio as an AI-assisted kanban for developers with a local daemon harness.
15. According to Ragondin Dev, Martin published a technical post titled "Shipping an on-device LLM in a consumer iPhone app" dated 29 August 2026. According to his own site, Martin published a post titled "Why I believe in local AI on phones" in August 2026.
16. Earlier work
17. Startup Grind's event listing for 25 May 2022 in Seoul, titled "Why China?", records Martin as a speaker and describes him as co-founder of Founders Lair. The same listing states he previously worked in artificial intelligence and in venture capital in Southeast Asia, and worked in countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Germany, Nepal and France. It also states he held the position of co-director of Startup Grind Chengdu for over two years and organised more than 20 China-related events. According to his own site, Martin organised 50 or more events as a Startup Grind chapter organiser in Chengdu and Paris between 2018 and 2020, including a Christmas party that won the Best Party Award at the Global Conference in Silicon Valley.
18. According to his Startup Grind member profile, Martin is listed as co-founder of Gradients.tech, based in Chengdu. According to his own site, Martin was a co-founder of Gradients.tech and previously co-founded Founders Lair. Startup Grind's 2022 listing describes Founders Lair as a Singapore/Beijing headquartered platform. According to his own site, Founders Lair is a cross-border innovation platform where investors, governments and startups run innovation programmes.
19. According to his own site, Martin was previously in venture capital at Catcha Group in Kuala Lumpur. According to his own site, Martin gave a keynote at the ZGC Forum in Beijing on Chinese science fiction going global, at the China Science Fiction Convention's VR forum, in April 2024. According to his own site, he spoke at Founders Lair Beijing in October 2022 in a piece titled "The VC model is dead, long live the VC model". According to his own site, Martin took part in an online round table on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia-Pacific with Tsinghua University and the University of Sydney in March 2021. According to his own site, Martin is starting a Founders Lair Dubai event series in 2026.
20. Per his own site, Martin lists further projects including Heart Homes, a data product converting every registered property sale in Dubai into pricing and trend information for advisors, and Kovata, a team-training platform with attention checks built around courses sourced from video, PDFs and SOPs. According to Fabien Martin, he also outlines Ragondin Assistant, a personal AI assistant that operates fully on-device with no cloud use or data harvesting, and Recall, a private meeting recorder for face-to-face conversations that transcribes locally, labels speakers and produces summaries. According to Fabien Martin, he additionally presents an educational robot — a twelve-servo companion designed for a creativity school, powered by an on-device bilingual AI system — together with the Zero Food Waste WeChat mini-program, which linked users with reduced-price restaurant food left after 8PM. His own site states that Martin writes on products, AI, events, innovation and financing.
21. Timeline
22. 2018-2020: Self-described Startup Grind chapter organiser in Chengdu and Paris, with 50+ events reported on his own site.
23. 2019-03-08: Startup Grind member profile created under the handle m2fxqq, listing him as co-founder of Gradients.tech in Chengdu.
24. 2021-03: Self-reported participation in an online round table on innovation and entrepreneurship in Asia-Pacific with Tsinghua University and the University of Sydney.
25. 2022-05-25: Speaker at Startup Grind Seoul, "Why China?", described as co-founder of Founders Lair.
26. 2022-10: Self-reported talk at Founders Lair Beijing, "The VC model is dead, long live the VC model".
27. 2024-04: Self-reported keynote at the ZGC Forum in Beijing on Chinese science fiction going global, at the China Science Fiction Convention's VR forum.
28. 2026: Self-reported start of a Founders Lair Dubai event series.
29. 2026-07-12: Google Play listing for Astera records an update on this date.
30. 2026-08: Self-published post "Why I believe in local AI on phones" on his own site.
31. 2026-08-29: Self-published technical post "Shipping an on-device LLM in a consumer iPhone app" on the Ragondin Dev site.

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