A lunch, an idea and a co-founder she trusted were all it took for Juliette Delanoe to leave her job at Thales to create Ubble, a (for now) French-focused, web-based identity verification startup. As with so many digital-first businesses, the past 12-18 months have been a boon; banks and financial institutions account for more than half the company’s clients. And if you’re wondering why “Ubble”, it’s a riff on the famous telescope that sees into the depths of space (in French, the H is silent!).