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How & Why Box acquired Martin Destagnol’s Folders pre-launch and What is coming next

May 23, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Allow me to introduce you French startup Reedian, run by and owned solely by Martin Destagnol, founder and former CEO of Plyce. Reedian is a software company which has one flagship app, Folders. The unlaunched product calls itself “the most elegant client for your cloud storage,” which included a PDF…

DragonBox continues its mathematics learning revolution with Dragonbox...

International game leaders take stage at SNJV’s Webgame Conferen...

Uber B2B, bringing together the best of Europe’s B2B ecosystem i...

Pinterest isn’t just looking for a Country Manager in France, th...

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Announcing the Paris Founders Event – June 25th – Get your tickets now!

May 22, 2013 by LiamBoogar

After last week’s very successful first edition, we are excited to announce the next Paris Founders Event, which will take place Tuesday June 25th at 7:30PM at Delaville Café. The event, a founders-only networking event with an open bar and open buffet of food, is brought to you with great…

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Rude VC: The sun is rising again

May 21, 2013 by Mark Bivens

As I have crowed many times in this space before, Japan is demonstrating renewed energy and enthusiasm in the tech sector. Mobile gaming giants like Gree and DeNA, explosive social networks like Line, and e-commerce leaders like Rakuten, are inspiring success stories for France which recently began venturing abroad. Now...

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Grenoble startup Bonitasoft raises another $13M proving that there is a market for Open Source

May 21, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Grenoble-based Bonitasoft announced last week that it has raised $13M from FSN PME, Ventech, Auriga Partners, and Serena Capital in order to continue the growth of its Open Source Business Process Management (BPM) solution for enterprises. As TechCrunch reports, the company has offices in Paris as well as San Francsico...

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IDInvest drops another $3 Million into Weemo for their WebRTC API – do they see something I don’t?

May 21, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Founded by Thomas Cottereau, video collaboration solution for businesses Weemo has raised $3 Million from IDInvest, according to Venturebeat. Founded in 2007, Weemo allows businesses to plug video conferencing directly into their applications with a few lines of code, and thus is pitting itself directly against competitors like Vidyo, Avaya, Cisco...

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Government-backed Numergy finally launching its Cloud Offer aimed at startups and developers

May 20, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Numergy, one of the two “French Cloud” providers that came out of Andromede, is finally launching a standard, direct-to-customer cloud offer. After having focused until now on custom offers available only via select partners/distributors, this new offer will be self-service, available directly on their site. The primary target for this...

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Web2Day allures Parisians with countryside prices and LeWeb-worthy speakers

May 20, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Last Week, all of France headed to the city of Nantes for Web2Day, a two-day conference organized by Atlantic 2.0, the Nantes-arm of LeCamping parent association Silicon Sentier. During two days, business Angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, developers, and the Nantes web community gathered on the city’s “Machine Island” where abandoned factories...

[eCommerce][TravelTech]

HotelTonight expanding in France and across Europe

May 17, 2013 by Trista Bridges

Started in 2011, HotelTonight is a app that allows users to reserve in seconds hotel rooms at the last minute. They differentiate themselves from other last minute reservation services such as Last Minute and Late Rooms as well as direct competitors such as VeryLastRoom by their high-quality hotel and low...

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Connected objects may be Web 3.0, but I still can’t control my home from my smartphone

May 16, 2013 by LiamBoogar

Today at Web2Day, I had the pleasure to talk about the world of connected objects with Thomas Nicholls of Sigfox, Benoit Guennec of Connected Object, and Frédéric Boisdron of Planète Robots. Talking about connected hardware (homes, cars, etc.), quantified self, and the future of smart objects is always exciting in France,...

[eCommerce][The Sharing Economy]

With the Sharing Economy booming in France, La Belle Assiette brings professional cooks to your kitchen

May 16, 2013 by Trista Bridges

The sharing economy has been on the top of the tech agenda in recent years. With sharing giants such as Airbnb, ZipCar, Blablacar, etc as well as various events centered on it, including Le Web London in June and the recent Ouisharefest.com, this continues to be a growing area that’s...

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