Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Food & Ag

WEBSITE

https://www.getclone.io

About the company

Clone is a Paris-based food tech company that helps restaurants earn extra revenue by running delivery-first virtual brands from existing kitchens, rather than building new locations. The company started as Not So Dark, then pivoted toward a “virtual franchise” model where partner restaurants produce and fulfill brands designed for delivery platforms. Public materials describe Clone as building both the brand layer (concepts, menus, marketing) and the operating layer (tooling, analytics, playbooks) to make the model repeatable across cities. Clone was co-founded by Clément Benoit (CEO) and Alexandre Haggai and launched in 2020.

Locations and presence

Clone is headquartered in Paris, with company pages listing Paris as the primary base. Public legal notices also list multiple Paris office addresses.

Palpable Score

49.3

/ 100

Clone offers a real early-career entry point through a paid internship or work-study-style Key Account Manager role with clear responsibilities and a fast process. The score drops on outcomes and stability because employee feedback repeatedly flags job insecurity, heavy reorganisations, and weak management signals, which matter most when someone is building their first 12–24 months.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

9.2

/ 20

The company has advertised a “Stage / Alternance” Key Account Manager role tagged “Premier emploi,” which is a genuine early-career on-ramp.
Clone does not run a visible, always-on public careers hub right now, and the most prominent external jobs link points to a page that no longer hosts the company profile.
The company’s public footprint suggests a larger organisation (hundreds of employees), but only a small number of clearly early-career-labelled roles are easy to verify from live listings.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company’s Key Account Manager internship listing sets out missions, KPIs, benefits, and monthly pay in plain language.
Clone describes a short recruitment path for that internship, with a single interview stage and then an offer, which removes guesswork for candidates.
The company has mixed candidate and employee sentiment signals on external platforms, so consistency of experience across teams is hard to trust from public evidence alone.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

9.3

/ 20

The company frames the internship as operational and “responsibilising,” with close work alongside Key Account Managers and ownership of a portfolio.
Clone has employee feedback claiming poor learning conditions in some commercial roles, including a culture of working alone and limited sharing.
The company also has employee feedback pointing to ownership and learning opportunities in some functions, but the support picture looks uneven rather than reliably coached.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

11.3

/ 20

The company publishes a concrete internship pay figure (around €1,000 to €1,200 per month) plus meal vouchers and partial transport reimbursement.
Clone has employee feedback stating base pay for sales roles can be relatively high with commission upside, which supports pay competitiveness for some tracks.
The company also has repeated public signals about job insecurity and hire-fire cycles, which weakens stability for early-career starters even when pay is decent.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

7.5

/ 20

The company has employee feedback explicitly warning about frequent hiring and firing and a lack of job security, which is a direct hit to early-career outcomes.
Clone has some positive outcome signals around flexible remote work and competitive pay, but these sit alongside a low recommendation rate and weak outlook scoring on review aggregations.
The company does not publish early-career progression data such as promotion timelines, retention over 12–24 months, or structured development outcomes, so external reviews carry too much weight.